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good order, ah, a ah, the offshore assets of hundreds of the world's most powerful and richest people are revealed in the biggest ever league of such a data called the pandora papers. and while it confirmed us as a top global tax haven, no well known american people or firms are mentioned by president biden pledge to plant down on tax evasion. also at least 12 people are reportedly killed and more than 30 wounded in a blast at cobbles. and the 2nd biggest mosque to tell them says it has to take 3 people allegedly responsible plus in our review of the week. and it was an
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extraordinary disaster. if we didn't have a president that was so adult, you all would be fired. i don't think anyone control anything is president says about up against us. lawmakers lambaste president biden, and his top brass over what summon congress called, washington humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we ask though, whether the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just to pull out itself. and a bombshell report, alleges the cia planned to abduct or assassinate with leaks founder juliana sanchez, with former agency tooth like palm pale at the center of the plot. ah, are customized to recommend studios in moscow. recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program, this is our t internet. now there are fresh revelations on the hidden tax haven assets of
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global billionaires world leaders and public officials in the largest ever leak of offshore data called the pandora papers. earlier, my colleague collin bray discussed the expos a with correspondent don quarter clean. no, all 12000000 documents and won't go good news for you. yeah, but you'd expect them to open with a blog post, a move. anything explosive in it? right. well, people definitely were anticipating something as big as what happened in 2016 when the panama papers were released. but actually, this one hasn't made as much noise. the guardian sure had a click body picture of vladimir putin's face right at the front of its article. even though in the pandora papers vladimir putin was not even named. so that's a bit a bit interesting. but the investigation primarily deals with more or less obscure people. i mean, we have some examples being the king of jordan. so offshore properties, personal properties. the purchase of several theaters by the general director of russia's channel one he was said to have been
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a silent partner in this operation. but he's already commented publicly that he hasn't concealed anything about his business dealings in connection to this. one higher profile mentioned though, the ukranian president vladimir zalinski in 2019 he was elected and most in large part on his platform of promising to rid the country of corruption. and ukraine is notoriously, hasn't a problem with corruption. and according to this investigation, he actually transferred 25 percent of his stake in a foreign at an offshore company to his personal friend who is now the top presidential advisor. so, so far he hasn't commented on that seems a little bit shady, but no confirmations. usually when we think of tax havens right, i mean, you think of maybe a financial center like hong kong or some sort of obscure caribbean island. but the pandora papers actually paint a very different picture. they're showing that they, they actually revealed that south dakota has become the new hot spot for tens of millions of dollars that used to be in offshore accounts in the caribbean and
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europe. and this is despite of jo biden's promise to no combat corruption earlier this year. to day, i'm issued a national security study memorandum of the fight against corruption to establish come and corruption as a core us national security interest. the united states will lead by example and in partnership with allies, civil society and in the private sector. to far this courage of corruption and in fact, delaware, were mister biden, hales from i've got some pretty good tax breaks for companies, them they. so if his big platform is to deal with tax evasion, as many leaders do, where are the americans on this list? well, it's a good question, they're basically not there. i mean, we hear report after report, obviously about like a lot of american businessman and big corporate corporate owners evade avoiding. busy taxes, and yet this report for some reason only mentions a couple of very obscure american billionaires that i personally never heard of. and so yeah, the, the big question is, you know, where are all the big american names?
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i mean, what about the richest man in the world? jeff bezos, his company, amazon paid 0 dollars and 0 cents and federal income tax. not just in 2020, but also in 20182017. you'll on must page also 0 dollars and 0 cents. and federal income tax. in 2018 donald trump paid $750.00 back in 2017. so it seems a bit fishy. that there, there might be nothing important or a value to mention about these offshore assets. now we also did hear from whistleblower, edward snowden. he let out a tweet today about this this, these are the report on this leak. so let's take a listen. the humor side of this very serious story is that even after 2 apocalyptic offshore finance law firm leaks, those industries are still compiling vast databases of ruin and still secure them with a posted note mark, do not leak hats off to the source. this is just the beginning of these sir reports, and these leaks about these pandora papers. more of them are promised for the
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coming weeks. so we're gonna have to keep an eye out for them. economist and author, richard wolf says that many of those promising to get rid of corruption are actually deeply involved in it. there's a lot of hand wringing there's a lot of promises. but one thing you can take away even from these early documents, is that many of the political leaders oh, come in the office, promising to do away with corruption, are themselves la knee deep in that kind of corruption. look, you don't have to hide your wealth. if there's nothing to be hidden out of the 20 top places in the world to hide wealth, the united states accounts for 17, out of the 20 states rewriting their laws so that you can legally move the money in and out, and thereby hide it because they pass
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a law which denies other countries the right to find out about this information. the very thing that the united states criticized switzerland in the past poor it is now doing. the real lesson here is, if you will allow the distribution of wealth and income to be as an equal, as it now is in the world today. you create the incentive and the means for those that the top to continue to accumulate from one generation to another. on to have to understand now where the death toll from a blast at a major mosque has risen to 12 more than 30 others were wounded in the incident in the capital couple or cheese a corresponding with august if caught the explosion and reports now from the city we had the blast clot, clearly, even though the distance for kilometers,
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though it gar mosque where the explosion took place and it was evidently a powerful blast by the, by the sound that it made even, even at that distance. also, it is not surprising that the number of casualties is being revised upwards. that is the patent to these things. usually, the 1st count that we hear is on the low side of things. 3 people, the taliban says have been arrested in connection with this blas. it is unclear but organization they belong to or what their role in this explosion must. but according to our unconfirmed reports at the time of the blas those a funeral underway at the most, the funeral of the mother recently deceased mother of the taliban se spokespersons a beulah mage, a head. so perhaps it may have been isis. it's usually eas, them who, who claim responsibility in these latest attacks that have been happening all over
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all over afghanistan, especially here in couple of we regularly here and read about fire fights, raids carried out by the taliban. them trying to track down crackdown and isis k cells here. and i've got to saw the 2 organizations have been at war for years now . and the taliban is evidently trying to solidify it control over of got to start. there was also another attack yesterday that has been attributed by locals to isis k, whereby they say that of the terrorists drove by, ah taliban taliban members and began firing at them in a drive by attacking the in a vehicle attack were where 4 people were killed and another attack, another part of, of canister, and attacking a taliban convoy, which has also been attributed to isis at 17 people was said to have been killed in that so suddenly violence, the spot, the end of the afghan war,
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the pull out of american and allied troops at the violence here in afghanistan hasn't abated. all right, and winding it back just a bit. the week saw tough talks in the u. s. congress, as lawmakers lashed out at joe biden, and his military commanders over the afghanistan withdraw. humiliating is just one of the ways the plot has been described. the president said, none of his commanders said that he should keep troops in afghanistan. was that a false statement by the president? i said, remember, you do not have a duty to cover for the president when he's not telling the truth, i've given you my judgment on it. now we think we all know it was a false thing. i have been frustrated by the lack of someone in charge on the biggest national security fiasco in a generation. there has been 0 accountability, no responsibility from anybody. we have poured cache and blood and credibility into a ghani government. that was a mirage. it fell immediately. we were buying into the big lot,
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the big law that this, that this was ever going to be successful new year. here's the thing. there's only 3 possibilities here. either the president lie to the american people, or he legitimately cannot remember the counsel of his top military advisors in winding down the longest war and american history or you have not been fully accurate. underwrote. we didn't have a president that was so adult. you all would be fired, but it's not just the pull out that has been attacked. the entire afghan campaign is now coming in for increasing criticism. as archie's kellum up and comments. a testimony before congress was dancing. not only was the pull out of afghanistan fiasco, but the campaign failed to achieve its primary aim. it was an extraordinary disaster . it will go down in history, is one of the greatest failures of american leadership. we have 0 presence in afghanistan. it could be as little as 12 months before our kato will use afghanistan as a base conduct as a base to conduct airstrikes or strikes against united states. frankly,
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after this debacle of withdrawal, i don't think any one can trust anything this president says about afghanistan. we need to consider some uncomfortable truths that we did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership in nursing. your ranks that we did not grasp the damaging effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders and that we failed to fully grasp what there was only so much for which and for home. many of the afghan forces would fight. so after an entire war aimed to eliminate a terrorist threat to america, that threat could now be worse to real possibility in the not too distant future, 612182436 months that time the time frame for re constitutional kite are isis terrorist organizations seek ungoverned spaces so that they can train and equip and thrive. and there is clearly a possibility that that can happen. here are going forward. afghanistan in effect
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now has become an entire terrorist state taliban, even though they may think that they're trying to govern that place itself to slit and already we're seen isis attacking caliber and there's no guarantee then that taliban can ensure that attacks will not be planned. and launched from that from afghanistan, thought there were more revelations in the testimony, apparently behind closed doors. the biden administration was more divided on afghanistan. i think a while we is conceivable that you could stay there. my view was that you would have had to deploy more forces in order to protect ourselves and accomplish any mission that we would have been assign. it appears that the department of defense was not fully on board with pulling out of afghanistan. and they are arguing for maintaining some presence in the country. my view was that we needed to maintain
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about 2500. and that we also needed to work with our coalition partners. we had about 6000 troops and their nato and other core countries that would, that would remain there. this flies in the face of the biden administration's claim that pulling out was the unanimous decision. it's unclear what would really change if the united states stayed in the country. it has been 20 years after all, and the security situation in afghanistan has not improved. so maybe the mistake wasn't pulling out in 2021, but rather going in in 2001. now that's a discussion you won't hear on capitol hill, but it's probably taking place in many american minds for officials on capitol hill to attribute that. so way to the somewhat chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan is completely absurd. if the u. s. officials had dealt with these crime on september the 11th as what they were and found out who was responsible and
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brought them to justice. and, you know, this would have been, you know, at this point something that just something that happened 20 years ago. that was dealt with instead, they used september the 11th as a pretext for 20 years of war. what the so called war on terror was doing was hugely tech terrorism. and the gist of armed resistance in country after country the united states has, has actually increased risk of terrorism. meanwhile, human rights groups are fuming over a decision by the international criminal court to resume a probe into war crimes in afghanistan, but to no longer look at allegations of american atrocities. there instead, the focus will be exclusively on the taliban and isis k. i have therefore decided to focus my offices investigations, enough. galveston on crimes allegedly committed by the taliban and the islamic
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state correson province onto d. prioritize other aspects of this investigation. the prosecutors telling war criminals around the world that the u. s. playbook of delay and intimidation works . it also validates one of the cool criticisms of the i see, see that it only takes action against politically weaker individuals or nations while giving western powers a pass by d. prioritizing investigating us and for the afghan national security forces, the i c. c prosecutor. it's shamefully hunting and get out of jail free card. the tribunal was set up in 2002 as a court that could only intervene if the perpetrators of war crimes could not be brought to justice by countries. authorities is spent more than a decade investigating more crimes by all sides in afghanistan. but the u. s imposed sanctions on 2 officials from the court after it started a probe into alleged us atrocities the i. c. c decision is part to,
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kimberly disturbing for rights organizations as it comes in the wake of august's disastrous drone strike by the pentagon on cobble which killed 10 civilians including 7 children that oh. busy busy ringback mm. busy last month, a pentagon probe admitted the drone attack was a tragic mistake and offered an apology. it back tracked on the target. it had initially claimed was linked to isis case, saying it was unlikely. it actually posed any threats to washington's pull out from afghanistan. relatives of the victim, save with us officials responsible for that attack must be brought to justice. pass
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my canadian is lost. i will keep demanding the each person who has committed a crime here must be convicted and punished with the due process of law. it's unfair if a person commits a crime and then a different person is brought to court to answer, the criminal must be punished, no scapegoats. if americans committed a crime, they must be brought to justice. they should be held to account. americans attacked our house, not the taliban. how the taliban will answer for this attack is a logical echo. has been revealed that the cia plotted to abduct or assassinate wiki leagues founder julian assange when he was in the ecuadorian embassy in london a while back. now the u. s. media report was based on statements from 30 former u. s. officials and centered on mike pompei while he was the c i a's director during trumps of presidency. pompei denies the accusations, and indeed want action taken against the people who made those claims or they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the central
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intelligence agency. maybe they didn't, maybe as the cap just made it up. but you should, i take seriously, my responsibility is to protect that information. this can be seen as pompoms confirmation of the assange kit, not or kill story. why else would you want to prosecute those sources? speaking about classified activity, kidnap ariel man, hunt and shootout with russian spies in central london. a new james bond movie. not exactly. in fact, these are the highlights from a reported cia secret plan to silence the journalist already revealed american for dirty secrets. location london, the year 20. 17 starting. julian. a sorry man of interest. hiding the ecuadorian embassy. mike compared then c. i a chief. evil mastermind behind the operation. the russkies. the essential ingredient for any good spice dory.
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doubtless ya would break every possible law to silence independent journalist. stay to the upcoming details. may surprise you. we are recording chapter one, assassination. my compared wanted the cia to be create instructors, subordinates, not to self sense of themselves. when it comes to dealing with unix. sometimes, oh tricks, work best they might have thought and came up with a good old assassination plot. detailed sketches options on how to murder sounds, reportedly with disgust in the whiteness, that the highest possible level. why would a cia achieve plots of the killing of an independent journalist? well, it was an act of personal vendetta. back in march 2017, the newly appointed cia chief found himself in a very difficult position when wikileaks released top secrets yay papers. they were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about vault 7.
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they were seen blood chapter to kidnapping. but somebody in the white house might have thought tape, no killings where a civilized nation kidnapped this journalist and sentenced him to death by american law. the plan was simply break into the embassy drag assange out and bring him to where we want one small issue. the u. s. justice department failed to keep up with cia fantasies. they were still processing the case and didn't filed charges against the wikileaks founda. so the cia was going to kidnap a foreign citizen from the capital of washington's closest ally with no legal basis tool. a perfect master black deed. you could possibly spoil the fun russians of course, chapter 3, fighting russians. what if vladimir putin intelligence gets there 1st,
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a dunce assange, and then flies him to moscow? that's a possibility. the paranoid ca offices thought brace yourself. the plan to counts of russians may just blow your mind. the cia left nothing to chance. assange gets into the car with the russian operatives. a cia initiates a car crash with the russian diplomatic vehicle. god knows how many other londoners collateral damage is. they say, assange gets on the plane. the cia blocks it on the runway by shooting its tires, as well as anything. and anybody else's way the plane takes off with a flat tire. the cia hub is a helicopter over, it still manages to leave the ground. they demand that the european countries close their recipes. we are still talking about catching julian, sarge, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross the american government's path, the cia,
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it's pretty much the same thing. the rule of law may not look like you but for now, joanna sons' remains in a maximum security prison in the u. k. despite a british judge ruling against the expedition to the united states over fears for his mental health, he faces 175 years in prison in america, if he is convicted of hacking and espionage charges in 2019, the song was forcibly removed by police from the ecuadorian embassy in london after the country terminated his 7 year asylum status. they're now following the recent developments we heard from a former c i a analyst and whistle blower and also from wiki leaks, current editor in chief but he is so stunning. revelation is quite shocking. concealing this was being conquered in the states. so kit, not being them, possibly killing. if julian is expedited to to the other states, it will be in the hands of the seo his faith on you as ground. it would be in the
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hands of those who were planning to kill him. when these discussions were going on, there was no indictment out against julia. he hadn't been charged with anything. so if there was any bell to put the political nature of the indictment and the creation of the day when the entire case, it is now on for him to be so it is of political persecution and nothing else the world to understand that the united states is trying to criminalize journalism. they refused to accept the fact that julian assigned is a journalist that the american people own this information and they have the right to know what it is. and that the government behind their backs, the backs of the american people, is trying to assassinate someone who has not been kid victim of a crime. in one of the things that we learned in this article was that the british intelligence service, the external intelligence service,
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and my 6 was apparently involved, you know, where they were talking about, shoot out the potential pursued outs in front of the ecuadorian embassy. that was the british that were supposed to be doing this shooting when they talk about shooting out the, the tires of a russian plane that might have been taking jillian assigned to, to russia. that was the british that were supposed to be doing the shooting. so i would certainly hope that the british courts finally say enough is enough. there's no way that julian his sons should or could be extradited to the united states, and he should be free to go. the upcoming book by donald trump's former press secretary is making headlines, as it paints a deeply unflattering picture of the 40 that president calling him man with a terrifying temper. stephanie grisham accuses trump of inappropriate behavior towards female staff, as well as being vain, volatile and insecure. the book also dishes out criticism of trump's daughter, vanka, and son in law. jared christner,
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who both worked in the white house at the time. grisham claims that the former president frequently said nonsensical things and even the hired a man to sing him songs to cool his temper. and the media just can't get enough of that. they have been discussing it the whole week as they should, staffer nicknamed the music man, played that song from cats, the sued, the president of the united states, into me of all the alarming revelations of this book. to me, that's the most disturbing and andrew lloyd webber road cats. he never thought the soundtrack could be used to save the world from arm again. it cuts his own hair with a giant pair of scissors, which is by far the li, shocking revelation of all turns out this from characters a real nut. trump has rejected the book as a hatchet job, financed by the radical left to quote, say, bad and untrue things about him and his family. former 1st ladies team has slammed it as grisham attempted to redeem herself after poor job performance and
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unprofessional behavior in the white house commentator chadwick more thinks that the media is deliberately shifting attention away from more important tissues. we do have a new president. i and he's been in august for 9 months. cnn might not realize that . and the country is kind of going to hell in a handbasket. there were plenty of scandals. they could be focusing on with the current man in charge. and instead, they are just still obsessed with donald trump, to just go through a laundry list of everything that's gone to hell. since joe biden is, these are the things people should be tearing about going to the president. and what he's doing now, he's kind of had a little childish attacks about, you know, he's a man or he says weird things, which is basically all this book really has on the president. and it might. 1 not even be true and you and instead of doing what journalism is supposed to do, and that's holding true to power and, and, you know, being a port the states and discussing the people who are in power right now. they're
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