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Anyone remember the Panama papers?
It's crazy how much corruption is on full display. I guess that's one of the only positive things about the internet lately. We can see the whole world is going through it. All the time.
The internet has also made a suziable part of the population billionaire defenders.
We just need to hope that when the time comes, ALL the pawns turn around.
That journalist in Malta does.
Or she would have, had she not been murdered with a car bomb.
https://www.wired.com/story/he-blew-the-whistle-on-doge-then-his-brakes-were-cut/
Makes you think.
Putin was all over those. But we went straight into a Russian Reset under Obama, regardless.
Almost as though corruption is a feature, not a bug