{"id":3879,"date":"2011-01-17T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:12:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:12:47","slug":"wikileaks-the-next-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/wikileaks-the-next-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: The Next Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

We need WikiLeaks and organizations like it, because they provide access to information that the main stream media would otherwise hide, even though the release of that information threatens neither individuals’ safety nor national security.  In a short time, expect to learn how the only people the Republican Party represents, millionaires, billionaires, and criminal corporate executives hide the vile profits they have accumulated by cheating the rest of us.  A Swiss banker found his conscience and leaked the data.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"17wikileaks\"A former Swiss bank executive said on Monday that he had given the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, details of more than 2,000 prominent individuals and companies that he contends engaged in tax evasion and other possible criminal activity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rudolf M. Elmer, the former head of the Cayman Islands office of the prominent Swiss bank Julius Baer, refused to identify any of the individuals or companies, but told reporters at a press conference that about 40 politicians and \u201cpillars of society\u201d worldwide are among them<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

He told The Observer newspaper over the weekend that those named in the documents come from \u201cthe U.S., Britain, Germany, Austria and Asia \u2014 from all over,\u201d and include \u201cbusiness people, politicians, people who have made their living in the arts and multinational conglomerates<\/strong> \u2014 from both sides of the Atlantic.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mr. Assange said that WikiLeaks would verify and release the information, including the names, in as little as two weeks. He suggested possible partnerships with financial news organizations and said he would consider turning the information over to Britain\u2019s Serious Fraud Office, a government agency that investigates financial corruption. <\/p>\n

Mr. Elmer said he had turned to WikiLeaks to educate society about what he considers an unfair system designed to serve the rich and aid money launderers after his offers to provide the data to universities and governments were spurned and, in his opinion, the Swiss media failed to cover the substance of his allegations<\/strong>. \u201cThe man in the street needs to know how this system works,\u201d he said, referring to the offshore trusts that many \u201chigh net worth individuals\u201d across the world use to evade taxes\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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We need WikiLeaks and organizations like it, because they provide access to information that the main stream media would otherwise hide, even though the release of that information threatens neither individuals’ safety nor national security.  In a short time, expect to learn how the only people the Republican Party represents, millionaires, billionaires, and criminal corporate […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}