Massive Bank and High Profile Resignations Across the World [Archive] - Page 13

Sabrina

17th May 2014, 05:21

A. It seems to be getting harder to keep the lid on corruption across the world B. 'The people' are getting more vocal in their demonstrations. C. The arrests will come :)

Brazil Hit by New Wave of Widespread Protests

From Al-Jazeera – May 15, 2014 –

http://tinyurl.com/q7kze94

A wave of protests in several cities raises fears of chaos, with four weeks to go before the World Cup kickoff.
Brazilian officials are bracing themselves for a wave of anti-government demonstrations in several cities, many in protest at the high spending on next month’s World Cup.

Authorities said there were about 15 separate protests in Sao Paulo on Thursday. Most were gatherings of a few hundred people, although about 5000 demonstrators gathered near the Itaquerao soccer stadium in Sao Paulo, which is set to host the opening match of the World Cup.

People waved red banners and Brazilian flags as black smoke rose from burning tyres, spoiling the view of the stadium. Dozens of riot police blocked the main entrance next to a construction zone where cranes and other machines were lined up to carry materials still needed to finish the arena.

Groups also planned anti-government demonstrations in other cities hosting World Cup games. Some were called by two big unions that are demanding better wages and working conditions.

The demonstrations are being viewed as a test of the government’s ability to contain protests ahead of football’s flagship event.

Massive anti-government protests across Brazil last year overshadowed the Confederations Cup, a warm-up tournament to the World Cup, with more than a million people taking to the streets on a single night.

Many of the demonstrations turned violent. At least six people were killed in connection with the protests, most being run over by cars as rallies packed busy streets.

Brazilians are angry at the billions spent to host the World Cup, much of it on 12 ornate football stadiums, one-third of which critics say will see little use after the big event. Those who have taken to the streets want the government to focus on improving the country’s health, education, security and infrastructure.

The government hopes that the World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio will put Brazil in the global spotlight, showing advances the country has made in the past decade in improving its economy and pulling tens of millions of people out of poverty.

From AlJazeera – May 13, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/prggkvr

The cost of building Brasilia’s World Cup stadium has nearly tripled to $900m in public funds, largely due to allegedly fraudulent billing, government auditors have said.

After the dramatic increase in costs, it is now the world’s second-most expensive football arena, even though the city has no major professional team.

Analysis of data from Brazil’s top electoral court by the AP news agency shows skyrocketing campaign contributions by companies that have won the most World Cup projects.

The lead builder of Brasilia’s stadium increased its political donations 500-fold in the most recent election.

The links between construction firms and politicians add to suspicions that preparations for football’s premier event are marred by corruption.

They also raise questions about how politicians who benefit from construction firms’ largesse can be effective watchdogs over billion-dollar World Cup contracts.

“These donations are making corruption in this country even worse and making it increasingly difficult to fight,” said Renato Rainha, an arbiter at Brasilia’s Audit Court, which is investigating the Brasilia stadium spending.
“These politicians are working for those who financed campaigns.”

With only three-fourths of the $900m stadium project examined by auditors, $275m hve already been found in alleged price-gouging.

Federal prosecutors say as yet no individuals or companies face corruption charges related to World Cup works. There are at least a dozen separate federal investigations into World Cup spending.

Claudio Monteiro, the head of the government’s World Cup committee in Brasilia responsible for oversight, said the audit court’s allegations were simply wrong and that all the spending would be justified.

“This report comes out just 100 days before the Cup? That’s why I say they’re trying to spoil the party,” Monteiro said from his office outside the stadium. “We’re going to show how this report is off base.”

Political contributions
Funding for Brasilia’s stadium relies solely on financing from the federal district’s coffers, meaning every cent comes from taxpayers.

The auditors’ report found instances of what appears to be flagrant overpricing.

For instance, it says the transportation of pre-fabricated grandstands was supposed to cost just $4,700, but the construction consortium billed the government $1.5m.

The consortium is made up of Andrade Gutierrez, a construction conglomerate, and Via Engenharia, an engineering firm.
The steel to build the arena represented one-fifth of total expenses, and auditors say wasteful cutting practices or poor planning added $28m in costs, the single biggest overrun.

The audit questions why the consortium had to discard 12 percent of its steel in Brasilia when Andrade Gutierrez, using the same cutting methods, lost just five percent of steel at another stadium in Manaus, and virtually none at a Cup arena in the city of Cuiaba.

Andrade Gutierrez did not respond to an AP request for comment on the accusations of cost overruns. It noted its political donations were legal.

Andrade Gutierrez, which was awarded stakes in contracts totaling nearly one-fourth of the World Cup’s total price tag, contributed $73,180 in 2008 municipal elections.

Four years later, after it was known which cities were hosting tournament matches, and thus which political parties controlled the local governments that awarded and are overseeing cup projects, the company’s political contributions totaled $37.1m.

Widespread protests
While those campaign contributions were legal, they are likely to soon be banned by Brazil’s Supreme Court.
A majority of justices voted last month to end corporate donations, citing corruption concerns. A single justice demanded to delay a final vote, meaning the reform will not take effect for months, after the World Cup is over.

Suspicions abound in Brazil, where in a poll last year three-fourths of respondents said the World Cup construction has been infused with corruption.

That helped fuel widespread, often violent, anti-government protests last June that sent more than a million Brazilians onto the streets. Many protesters railed against the billions spent to host the tournament.

The overall price of the 12 stadiums, four of which critics say will become white elephants after the tournament because they are in cities that cannot support them, has jumped to $4.2bn in nominal terms, nearly four times the estimate in a 2007 FIFA document published just days before Brazil was awarded the tournament.

At the time, leaders also promised the stadiums would be privately funded.

Sabrina

17th May 2014, 05:29

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/westminster-council-and-the-paedophile-connection/

Westminster Council and the paedophile connection

17 May UK

If you thought for one minute that Westminster City Council is really as it appears to be, you’re very sadly mistaken.

Beneath the polished veneer of a prestigious, wealthy and thriving flagship local authority, lies a core so rotten, vile and despicable it literally beggars belief.

You see, hard as it is to believe, Westminster Council is actually a pivotal player in the Britain’s murderous VIP paedophile network.

Over 5 years ago, we were given a tip-off that the Council’s finance department was operating in a less-than-kosher way.

After investigations, we found that multiple payments were being made into false accounts and many millions of pounds were being syphoned off fraudulently.

The Audit Commission has not signed-off WC’s accounts for years and the department operates in total chaos.

Of course, at the time, we had no idea that these financial shenanigans were linked to a huge child-abuse ring, with tentacles reaching throughout the whole of the British Establishment.

full story at the link

Sabrina

17th May 2014, 05:34

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/16/eon-ordered-refund-customer-12m-misselling

16 May UK

E.ON ordered to refund customers £12m for mis-selling

Energy giant apologises for 'unacceptable failings' and ends cold-calling sales after Ofgem imposes largest-ever
penalty

The energy group E.ON has been ordered to pay £12m to its customers after an investigation into mis-selling found "extensive poor practices". It is the largest-ever penalty levied by the energy regulator, Ofgem.

More than 333,000 customers who receive the Warm Home Discount Scheme, which is targeted at older people and those on low incomes, will automatically receive a payment of about £35. E.ON said the payments would be made "within a matter of weeks".

But the final bill for E.ON could be up to £20m. The energy company is expected to pay between £3m and £8m in compensation to 465,000 customers who were mis-sold energy between June 2010 and December 2013. These customers are in line for an average payment of £67.

more at the link

Sabrina

17th May 2014, 05:37

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/16/michael-steinberg-sac-capital-sentenced-prison

16 May US

Michael Steinberg of SAC Capital sentenced to prison for insider trading

• Former portfolio manager sentenced to 3 1/2 years
• Steinberg also fined $2m for role in trading on illegal tips

Michael Steinberg, a portfolio manager at Steven A Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund, was sentenced on Friday to 3-1/2 years in prison for insider trading.

The sentence was imposed by US district judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan, five months after a federal jury convicted Steinberg on securities fraud and conspiracy charges, in a case stemming from a broad crackdown on insider trading on Wall Street.

Steinberg's lawyers had asked for a two-year prison sentence, while prosecutors had argued for up to 6-1/2 years.

Sullivan also ordered Steinberg to pay a $2m fine and forfeit $365,142. The latter amount represents the total the government says was paid to Steinberg and his analyst from profits earned on the insider trading. Steinberg is expected to appeal the conviction, and was granted bail.

Prosecutors accused Steinberg of trading on illegal tips about Dell Inc and Nvidia Corp passed to him by an SAC analyst, who admitted to swapping confidential information among a group of analysts at other hedge funds. Dell is no longer publicly traded.

Steinberg, 42, is one of eight current or former SAC Capital employees to be convicted on insider trading charges, and only one of two to go to trial.

SAC pleaded guilty to fraud charges and has agreed to pay $1.8bn in criminal and civil settlements.

The Stamford, Connecticut-based firm has rebranded itself Point72 Asset Management as it shifts to being a family office managing Cohen's fortune. Cohen has not been criminally charged.

Sullivan said at Friday's hearing that he received many letters supporting leniency for Steinberg.

"If it were only based on the character of this man, it would be easy, because I do think this is a good man," he said. "But I do have to consider the crime here."

The appeal is expected to focus on Sullivan's not having required the government to prove that Steinberg knew the insider who originally disclosed non-public information had received a benefit for making the disclosure.

Todd Newman, a former portfolio manager at Diamondback Capital Management, and Anthony Chiasson, co-founder of Level Global Investors, are appealing their conviction

Sabrina

17th May 2014, 05:47

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/uk-bitcoin-foundation-resignations-idUKKBN0DW06120140516

16 May

Bitcoin Foundation hit by resignations over new director

Reuters) - As the most prominent trade group pushing adoption of the electronic currency Bitcoin begins its annual conference on Friday, it is being roiled by controversy.

At least 10 members of the nonprofit Bitcoin Foundation have resigned over last week’s election of onetime Disney child star and current Bitcoin entrepreneur and financier Brock Pierce as a new director, officials at the group said.

Some of the members cited Pierce’s troubled past. That includes allegations in lawsuits from three employees of Pierce’s first company, bankrupt web video business Digital Entertainment Network, that he provided drugs and pressured them for sex when they were minors.

Pierce has denied the accusations, which first surfaced in 2000.

“The allegations against me are not true, and I have never had intimate or sexual contact with any of the people who made those allegations,” Pierce told Reuters via email.

Court records show 33-year-old Pierce, who played the title role in Disney’s “First Kid,” paid more than $21,000 to settle one employee suit, and he said others dropped their claims without money changing hands.

While Bitcoin Foundation officials played down the defections, several members who resigned from the Foundation assailed its governance track record.

“The track record of prominent Bitcoin Foundation members has been abysmal,” said Patrick Alexander, a resigning Foundation member in a post on its discussion pages. “I no longer want to be associated with these people.” Attempts to reach him for additional comment were unsuccessful.

Though it is highly volatile, the value of the electronic currency in existence has skyrocketed into the billions of dollars as the number of businesses accepting it has increased and investors have sought to create new ways for it to be used.

More than 1,000 Bitcoin investors, business people and enthusiasts are expected to attend the conference in Amsterdam.

The programming effort that governs how Bitcoin works is led by Gavin Andresen, who is chief scientist at the Foundation and gets a salary from it. The Foundation also plays an important role for Bitcoin in lobbying on its behalf in various jurisdiction as authorities grapple with how to police the semi-anonymous currency.

CALL TO VET CANDIDATES

Other members who resigned called on the board to more carefully vet future candidates as well as remove Pierce from the board.

Bitcoin Foundation General Counsel Patrick Murck said that his group had more than 1,500 members and would bounce back from the latest controversy.

“Democracy is messy sometimes,” Murck said. “If in the future members decide they want to have a vetting process, that’s great.”

Some Bitcoin Foundation members say they weren’t aware of Pierce’s past until after the election, when others circulated media accounts concerning the allegations.

Pierce was voted in by the Foundation’s industry members, who pay higher dues, to fill one of two spots vacated by others who had resigned: Mark Karpeles, chief executive of the bankrupt top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, and Charlie Shrem, who has been charged with conspiring to launder money for users of the shuttered Silk Road underground drug bazaar.

Pierce has made a splash in the insular Bitcoin world by backing more than a dozen startups, speaking frequently at conferences, and leading a bid to buy Mt. Gox for one Bitcoin, currently worth less than $500.

Bitcoin startups have attracted investment from some venture capital firms and from individuals through "crowdfunding," in which many amateurs support projects, often with small investments and without the due diligence typically conducted by professional investors. Pierce has been a major beneficiary of the trend, garnering pledges of more than $700,000 for his investment syndicate on the crowdfunding site AngelList.

Cyan Banister, a startup CEO who made a nonbinding pledge of $5,000 to Pierce’s investing syndicate, after learning of the allegations said she would withdraw from his group.

Phil Sanderson, an IDG Ventures investor in San Francisco who follows Bitcoin, said that the currency’s growth was being hindered by the lack of effective public faces. “Bitcoin hasn’t really had a strong, vocal leader with a great background,” he said.

Sabrina

20th May 2014, 07:23

http://www.philosophicalanthropology.net/2014/05/shouting-matches-every-day-in-white.html

Benjamin Fulford's lastest at the link

20 May

Shouting matches every day in the White House as US corporate government implosion continues

These are not happy times for the internationally isolated bankrupt pariah Nazi/Zionist government in Washington D.C. There are now daily shouting matches inside the White House between various cabal bosses arguing about what to do and who to blame, according to CIA sources. The hardline faction of Nazi cabalists led by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is planning new mass murder attacks, including a massive takedown of the US electric grid, the sources say.
story at link

Sabrina

20th May 2014, 07:40

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5251/ex-cabinet-minister-raped-me-when-i-was-19-woman-tells-met

UK

Police stand accused of bowing to political sensitivities to avoid questioning a former Conservative cabinet minister about a claim that he raped a teenage woman.

The alleged victim says that in 1967 the ex-minister, before he became an MP, tricked her into his flat, locked her in, then raped her. She was a 19-year-old student at the time.

In extensive interviews with Exaro the woman, and her long-term partner accuse police of looking for excuses to shelve the investigation into her allegations against the ex-minster.

She told Exaro “I am concerned people may be protecting him.”If you compare the handling of this case with some of the ‘celebrity’ investigations, there appears to be an inconsistency. Celebrities were quickly interviewed by police, and yet the allegations are similar.”

Exaro News 17 May

full story at link

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Millions to March Against Monsanto and GMO – Saturday, May 24, 2014

By Brandon Baker, EcoWatch http://tinyurl.com/lsfepsv

Regardless where you live, May 24 marks the annual opportunity to March Against Monsanto.

The event protesting the GMO (genetically modified organisms) giant will simultaneously take place in more than 400 cities in 52 countries that span six continents. That’s up from 286 cities in 36 countries last year. Among the marches is one in St. Louis, MO, which is home to Monsanto’s headquarters.

“Historically, Monsanto has brought us DDT [(dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane], PCBs [polychlorinated biphenyl], Agent Orange and dioxin,” reads a Facebook invitation to the St. Louis march. “Monsanto’s reckless use of chemicals calls into question their testing standards, lack of scientific rigor, disregard for the precautionary principle and disregard for human life and the ecosystem.

“Currently, we’re faced with Monsanto’s seed patenting and subsequent extortion in demanding pay for seeds from future crops, the proliferation of genetically modified foods (GMOs), use of dangerous pesticides, and their efforts to control the food supply. Monsanto leaves damaged farms, people, animals and entire ecosystems in their wake.”

The event aims to highlight the various modes of distress Monsanto has created for people around the planet. For example, more than 250,000 impoverished farmers in India have committed suicide as a result of Monsanto’s Bt cotton seeds not performing as anticipated. Sterility, infant mortality, birth defects and increased cancer risks are among the health risks associated with Monsanto chemicals and seeds.

“We will not allow this ‘Garden of Eden’ to be compromised by the destructive practices of multinational corporations like Monsanto,” Josh Castro, organizer for Quito, Ecuador’s march, said in a statement for the global march. “Biotechnology is not the solution to world hunger. Agroecology is. Monsanto’s harmful practices are causing soil infertility, mono-cropping, loss of biodiversity, habitat destruction and contributing to beehive collapse. GMO crops cross pollenate with traditional crops, risking peasant farmers’ livelihood.”

Local March Against Monsanto events will take place in 47 of 50 states in the U.S.

“Monsanto’s predatory business and corporate agricultural practices threatens their generation’s health, fertility and longevity,” said Tami Monroe Canal, the founder of March Against Monsanto who began the event to protect her children from GMOs. “MAM supports a sustainable food production system.

“We must act now to stop GMOs and harmful pesticides.”

List of events:

http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/p/blog-page_5.html

Sabrina

20th May 2014, 07:45

Turkish Mine Disaster: 25 Mining Company Executives Arrested; Three Charged with Manslaughter

rom ABConline – – http://tinyurl.com/nz2zxen

Turkish police have so far charged three of the 25 people they have arrested as part of an investigation into last week’s mine disaster.

Those arrested include executives from the mining company that ran the mine in the western Turkish town of Soma.

The rescue operation at the mine ended on Saturday after the bodies of the last two workers were carried out, bringing the death toll to 301.

Prosecutor Bekir Sahiner told reporters 25 people had been detained on a provisional charge of “causing multiple deaths” and three had been charged with manslaughter.

Among those detained was Akin Celik, general director of mine operator Soma Komur, local television channel NTV reported.

“We have all worked very hard. I have not seen such an incident in 20 years,” Mr Celik said on Friday.
Soma Komur has denied any negligence.

Turkey’s labour ministry also denied culpability, saying the mine had been inspected every six months.

A preliminary expert report on the accident obtained by the Milliyet newspaper pointed to several safety violations in the mine, including a shortage of carbon monoxide detectors and ceilings made of wood instead of metal.

A total of 787 people were inside the mine when the blast hit, according to energy minister Taner Yildiz.
Mr Yildiz said most of the victims died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

“I was very sad when I came here and I am still very sad,” he said on Sunday.

Mourners cried and prayed beside a line of recently filled graves as one of the miners was buried in Soma on Sunday (local time).

Holding their palms open to the sky, about 1,000 people said “amen” in unison as a white-bearded imam recited verses.

“My only wish and battle will be to make sure Soma is not forgotten,” said a written note, signed “your brother”, which was left on one grave along with some flowers.

Ramazan, a worker from a mine near the one where the accident occurred, was among those paying his respects.
“My friend lost half of his family. And for what? To make a living,” he said. “Accidents can happen of course, but it’s an accident when one person, two people die. When 300 people die, it’s not an accident anymore.”

The disaster has added to the huge political pressure on Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, whose Islamic-rooted party emerged triumphant from March 30 local elections despite a corruption scandal implicating key allies and last year’s mass protests.

The accident occurred on Tuesday when a fire sent deadly carbon monoxide coursing through the mine.

The accident has triggered protests across Turkey, aimed at mine owners accused of ignoring safety for profit, and at Mr Erdogan’s government, seen as too close to industry bosses and insensitive in its response.

Police put the town of Soma on virtual lockdown on Saturday, setting up checkpoints and detaining dozens of people to enforce a ban on protests. Security in the town remained tight on Sunday.

19 May

ThePythonicCow

21st May 2014, 12:44

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-21/petrodollar-alert-isolated-west-putin-prepares-announce-holy-grail-gas-deal-china

Petrodollar Alert: Putin Prepares To Announce "Holy Grail" Gas Deal With China

Tyler Durden on 03/21/2014

If it was the intent of the West to bring Russia and China together - one a natural resource (if "somewhat" corrupt) superpower and the other a fixed capital / labor output (if "somewhat" capital misallocating and credit bubbleicious) powerhouse - in the process marginalizing the dollar and encouraging Ruble and Renminbi bilateral trade, then things are surely "going according to plan."
This Holy Grail natural gas deal between Russia and China has now been signed.

From ZeroHedge (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-21/russia-and-china-finally-sign-400-billion-holy-grail-gas-deal):

Russia And China Finally Sign Historic $400 Billion "Holy Grail" Gas Deal

There was some trepidation yesterday when after the first day of Putin's visit to China the two countries did not announce the completion of the long-awaited "holy grail" gas dead, and fears that it may get scuttled over price negotiations. It wasn't: moments ago Russia's Gazprom and China's CNPC announced, that after a decade of negotiations, the two nations signed a 30 year gas contract amounting to around $400 billion. And with the west doing all it can to alienate Russia and to force it into China's embrace, this is merely the beginning of what will be a far closer commercial (and political) relationship between China and Russia.

So far there have been no public pricing details on the deal which accrording to Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller is a "commercial secret", and which is believed to involve Russia supplying 38 billion cubic metres of gas per year to China via a new eastern pipeline linking the countries.

According to Itar-Tass, the compromise between Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom and Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) on Russian gas price is estimated at $75 billion, citing the Deputy Head of the National Energy Security Fund Alexei Grivach. The differences on the price for 38 and 60 billion cubic meters supplies a year were $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion, he added, so the subject of the negotiations is quite a significant one.

Gazprom expected a base price of $400 for 1,000 cubic meters, an expert of the Eurasian Development Research Center of the Chinese State Council said in April, whereas the CNPC’s proposal was $350-360 for 1,000 cubic meters.

There is more at Russia And China Finally Sign Historic $400 Billion "Holy Grail" Gas Deal (ZeroHedge) (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-21/russia-and-china-finally-sign-400-billion-holy-grail-gas-deal)

Sabrina

22nd May 2014, 07:07

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27512652

21 May US

McDonald's vacates headquarters due to worker protests

Thousands of protesters marched on a McDonald's campus that houses its Hamburger University training facility, demanding higher wages for workers.

The site of the planned protest was changed after McDonald's vacated its headquarters in the US state of Illinois after consulting with police.

Protesters want the fast food giant pay a minimum wage of $15 (£9) per hour, double the US federal minimum wage.

The company's annual shareholder meeting is scheduled for Thursday.

The closure affected one of five McDonald's corporate buildings and about 3,000 employees.

Ongoing effort
Protesters - which included a few hundred McDonald's workers - said they were seeking to highlight how low wages have exacerbated income inequality in the US.

The protest was planned before the annual shareholder meeting, where a vote is expected on executive pay.

Last year, chief executive Don Thompson was paid $9.5m.

Shareholders in Mexican fast-food chain Chipotle recently rejected an executive pay plan for the firm's co-chief executives, Steve Ells and Monty Moran, who earned $25.1m and $24.4m, respectively, last year.

Fast-food workers and labour organisers have been protesting since 2012 in an effort to boost wages and win worker rights, such as paid sick leave.

Last week, they organised a global walk out in more than 250 cities to highlight what they say are the difficulties facing low-paid restaurant employees.

US President Barack Obama has pushed Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour from $7.25, however he has faced stiff opposition from Republicans.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fast-food workers in the US earn about $8.83 per hour, or $18,400 per year if they are working a full 40-hour work week.

Sabrina

23rd May 2014, 15:28

http://www.fca.org.uk/news/barclays-fined-26m-for-failings-surrounding-the-london-gold-fixing

23 May UK Press Release FCA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Barclays Bank Plc (Barclays) £26,033,500 for failing to adequately manage conflicts of interest between itself and its customers as well as systems and controls failings, in relation to the Gold Fixing. These failures continued from 2004 to 2013.

On 28 June 2012, former Barclays trader Daniel James Plunkett exploited the weaknesses in Barclays’ systems and controls to seek to influence that day’s 3:00 p.m. Gold Fixing and thereby profited at a customer’s expense.

As a result of Plunkett’s actions, Barclays was not obligated to make a US$3.9m payment to its customer, although it later compensated the customer in full. Plunkett’s actions boosted his own trading book by US$1.75m (excluding hedging).

The FCA has fined Plunkett £95,600 and banned him from performing any function in relation to any regulated activity.

Tracey McDermott, the FCA's director of enforcement and financial crime, said:

"A firm’s lack of controls and a trader's disregard for a customer's interests have allowed the financial services industry’s reputation to be sullied again. Plunkett has paid a heavy price for putting his own interests above the integrity of the market and Barclays’ customer. Traders who might be tempted to exploit their clients for a quick buck should be in no doubt - such behaviour will cost you your reputation and your livelihood.

"Barclays' failure to identify and manage the risks in its business was extremely disappointing. Plunkett's actions came the day after the publication of our LIBOR and EURIBOR action against Barclays. The investigation and outcomes in that case meant that the firm, and Plunkett, were clearly on notice of the potential for conflicts of interests around benchmarks.

"We expect all firms to look hard at their reference rate and benchmark operations to ensure this type of behaviour isn’t being replicated. Firms should be in no doubt that the spotlight will remain on wholesale conduct and we will hold them to account if they fail to meet our standards."

Since joining the Gold Fixing on 7 June 2004, Barclays has contributed to setting the price of gold in the Gold Fixing. The Gold Fixing is an important price-setting mechanism which provides market users with the opportunity to buy and sell gold at a single quoted price.

Plunkett
Plunkett was a Director on the Precious Metals Desk at Barclays and was responsible for pricing products linked to the price of precious metals and managing Barclays' risk exposure to those products.

Plunkett was responsible for pricing and managing Barclays' risk on a digital exotic options contract (the Digital) that referenced the price of gold during the 3:00 p.m. Gold Fixing on 28 June 2012. If the price fixed above US$1,558.96 (the Barrier) during the 3:00 p.m. Gold Fixing on 28 June 2012, then Barclays would be required to make a payment to its customer. But if the price fixed below the Barrier, Barclays would not have to make that payment.

During the 3:00 p.m. Gold Fixing on 28 June 2012, Plunkett placed certain orders with the intent of increasing the likelihood that the price of gold would fix below the Barrier, which it eventually did. As a result, Barclays was not obligated to make the US$3.9m payment to its customer, and Plunkett’s book profited by US$1.75m (excluding hedging), which was in addition to an initial profit that his book had received upon the sale of the Digital.

Very shortly after the conclusion of the 3:00 p.m. Gold Fixing on 28 June 2012, the customer became aware that the price had fixed just below the Barrier and sought an explanation from Barclays as to what happened in the Gold Fixing. When Barclays relayed the customer’s concerns to Plunkett on 28 and 29 June 2012, he failed to disclose that he had placed orders and traded during the Gold Fixing. Further, Plunkett misled both Barclays and the FCA by providing an account of events that was untruthful.

Plunkett’s misconduct is particularly serious because he preferred his interests over those of a customer and his actions had the potential to have an adverse effect on the Gold Fixing and the UK and international financial markets.

Barclays
The FCA has fined Barclays because it breached Principles 3 and 8 of the FCA's Principles for Businesses, in relation to the Gold Fixing. Between 7 June 2004 and 21 March 2013, Barclays breached Principle 3 by failing to take reasonable care to organise and control its affairs responsibly and effectively, with adequate risk management systems. In particular, Barclays failed to:

create or implement adequate policies or procedures to properly manage the way in which Barclays’ traders participated in the Gold Fixing;
provide adequate specific training to precious metals desk staff in relation to their participation in the Gold Fixing; and
create systems and reports that allowed for adequate monitoring of traders’ activity in connection with the Gold Fixing.

Barclays also breached Principle 8 by failing to adequately manage certain conflicts of interest between itself and its customers. In particular, Barclays failed to adequately manage the inherent conflict of interest that existed from Barclays participating in the Gold Fixing and contributing to the price fixed during the Gold Fixing, while at the same time also selling to customers options products that referenced, and were dependent on, the price of gold fixed in the Gold Fixing.

These failings led to an increased risk of inappropriate conduct by Barclays' traders participating in the Gold Fixing.

The FCA is engaging with UK benchmark administrators, including The London Gold Market Fixing Limited, regarding their plans to assess compliance with IOSCO principles.

Barclays and Plunkett agreed to settle at an early stage, qualifying for a 30% discount to their respective fines. Without this, Barclays’ fine would have been £37,190,800 and Plunkett's fine would have been £136,600.

Sabrina

24th May 2014, 06:31

More coming to the surface, to push towards the war crimes tribunals one day….

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/20/too-classified-to-publish-bush-nuclear-piracy-exposed/

Too Classified to Publish: Bush Nuclear Piracy Exposed

Russia Opens Files on Nuclear 9/11 and Israeli Proliferation
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…by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
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The report below is taken from an intelligence dump by Russian sources. As the origin is from an intelligence agency in the form of a “leak,” there are always questions. Thus far, we have found not only is the majority of the material confirmed but several solutions to serious problems involving 9/11 are included.

I have redacted little here. However, this arrived with vast supporting documentation which can, in the future, be uploaded on SCRIBD for access. One key area is that the US had supplied Israel with surplus nuclear weapons. (Editor’s note: We are advised that some of the documentation can never be uploaded or distributed for reasons that will be obvious.)

We have a very solid confirmation on this. Back during the 1980s, Israel showed her inventory of Davy Crockett tactical nuclear warheads to one of our editors, who at the time was a senior NATO intelligence official. These early “micro-nukes” were taken out of US inventory in 1978 and “disappeared.”

This highly classified report is being published unaltered except for bad machine translation errors being repaired. My personal opinion is that this is NOT a disinformation piece but rather represents a significant breakthrough. I believe that this is a rare glimpse behind the curtain.

I am publishing this for the use of those qualified to understand how little of this is really new. Those things that are new are groundbreaking. For those who find this all a bit over their heads, there is little I can do other than to let you know that this is the world “your elders” really live in and that you finally have a chance to look in mom and dads top dresser drawer.

Too Classified to Publish

According to a retired FXX agent specializing in Israeli counter intel: The type of nuclear devices used on 911 were a modified version of the W-54 nuclear artillery shells that were covertly provided to the Israelis between 1988 and 1998 from US surplus stockpiles illegally exported during the Bush/Clinton era.

Chemical analysis done by DOE Sandi was able to identify the chemical/radiation footprint or fingerprint of the warheads based on samples taken after 911 of the fallout at ground zero. (Editor’s note: Nuclear weapon use at ground zero is confirmed from multiple sources)

All plutonium based warheads have a chemical fingerprint that can identify the type of design and where the PU was made and how old it is. This was the 911 blackmail on Bush 1 and 2, the illegal transfer of surplus US nuclear weapons to the Israelis and why the continued cover up, along with the stolen gold and stock fraud that was going on Wall Street etc. According to file ENW57.pdf on page 66. (Editor’s note: Document received and confirmed)
Only a 2 kiloton device was needed to drop the buildings. A 2 kiloton device will produce a fireball of apx 150 to 200 feet in diameter at over 4000 degrees Centigrade. Just large enough to melt the I beams of the central core of the building and drop them in place. The light flash would last less than 1 second and primarily be in the UV light range. Overpressure would only be at 60PSI max and directed upwards with the blast. See underground effect.

Fallout would be minimal and located to within ground zero range only. Radiation would drop to acceptable levels within 72 hrs. after the blast. Most fall out was trapped in the cement dust thus causing all of the recent cancer deaths that we are now seeing in NYC amongst first responders. (Editor’s note: Consistent with site data)

full story at the link

Sabrina

24th May 2014, 06:34

The fight back for the Earth...

http://rt.com/usa/160316-santa-cruz-ban-fracking/

US

Santa Cruz becomes first California county to ban fracking

Santa Cruz County has become the first county in California to implement a “permanent” ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in addition to all other onshore oil and gas development.

The county’s Board of Supervisors voted 5 to 0 on Tuesday to pre-emptively outlaw fracking in the county.

“Some would say this is a symbolic gesture,” said Supervisor Bruce McPherson, according to KQED. “But I think it’s a message that needs to be sent out and listened to, especially on our quality of life and particularly about the impact it might have on our water supply, whether it occurs inside this county or in adjacent counties.”

The fracking process entails blasting fissures in rocks thousands of meters under the earth with water and sand to release trapped deposits of oil and gas. Injection wells used to dispose of highly-toxic fracking wastewater have contributed to heightened earthquake activity across the nation. The wastewater - riddled with hazardous and often undisclosed chemicals and contaminants - has been linked to a host of human and environmental health concerns.

A recent study found that some of the most drought-ravaged areas of the US are also heavily targeted for oil and gas development using fracking, which exacerbates water shortages. In California, 96 percent of new fracking wells were found to be located in areas where competition for water is high.

A drought emergency for the entire state - which has traditionally dealt with water-sharing and access problems - was declared in January. The city of Santa Cruz instituted mandatory water rationing for residents last month.

The Santa Cruz County Board originally voted to enact a 10-month moratorium on fracking and oil and gas development last September.

While Santa Cruz is the state’s first county to ban fracking, the counties of Butte, Mendocino, Monterey, Santa Barbara, San Benito, and Orange are all considering their own bans or moratoria, according to Food and Water Watch.

Many California cities have acted to prohibit the practice. Beverly Hills recently became the first city in the state to pass an outright ban, while Los Angeles and Culver City may soon follow suit.

Meanwhile, a California state bill that would ban fracking – until there is more scientific consensus on its safety – is in limbo, as the legislation was moved on Monday to the Appropriations Committee suspense file.

In May 2013, New Mexico's Mora County became the first county in the nation to ban fracking.

According to Food and Water Watch, a total of 419 local measures against fracking have been passed in the US.

21 May

Sabrina

24th May 2014, 07:37

More fight backs:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/metgascos-bentley-gas-drilling-suspended-referred-to-icac-20140515-zrd2w.html

Australia

Metgasco's Bentley gas drilling suspended, referred to ICAC

Resources company Metgasco's plans to drill for gas at Bentley on the NSW north coast are in disarray after state energy minister Anthony Roberts referred the project to the Independent Commission Against Corruption and announced its licence would be suspended due to insufficient community consultation.

Mr Roberts announced the decision on Thursday morning, just days before police were due to be called in to break up a long-standing protest on the site at Bentley, near Lismore.

Up to 800 police were due to enter the protest camp as early as Monday to disperse thousands of people who have been blockading the site for several weeks.

more at the link

Sabrina

24th May 2014, 07:55

Lightning hitting the Shard building in London this week - similar to the Vatican hit last year. What is the universe telling us? Or them? :)

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Sabrina

26th May 2014, 20:42

http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2014/05/kevin-annett-vatican-rumors-pope-francis-healthresignation-to-avoid-satanic-murder-evidence-black-pope-resigns-2559866.html

There's threads on this on Avalon, but just for the record, one rumoured resignation of the Pope and one resignation of the 'Black Pope'…Annett says there are two sources from within the Vatican giving evidence at the Brussels trial.

Kevin Annett: Vatican rumors Pope Francis health/resignation to avoid Satanic murder evidence. Black Pope resigns.

Posted on May 24, 2014

Kevin Annett interview: Vatican circulates rumours concerning Pope Bergoglio’s bad health to avoid Satanic 9th circle murder evidence – May 23, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCX_oujvuMg&feature=youtu.be

VANCOUVER, BC – In a wide-ranging Exopolitics TV interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, Kevin Annett, Field Secretary of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State, revealed Vatican infighting and rumours of Pope Francis “bad health” as divserions from the evidence of Satanic child sacrifice in the Papal 9th Circle rituals. Evidence of these rituals has been recorded from eye witnesses at the Brussels trial of Pope Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Superior General of the Jesuits and others for child trafficking and genocide. The trial, now in its 3rd session, is expected to continue for as long as a year.

In the course of the interview, Kevin Annett discussed the support of Belgian MP Laurent Louis for the ITCCS.ORG Brussels trial. He also discussed the ongoing Common Law Sheriff and Enforcement Officer training for ITCCS and the International Common Law Court of Justice and its expansion in the U.S. In Canada, Common Law Sheriffs are being trained and deployed to prevent a reported 9th Circle Child Sacrifice Ritual planned at the Montreal Cathedral Marie Reine du Monde for August 15, 2014.

Transcript of witness evidence

In his interview, Kevin Annett read from a sample transcript of evidence given in the Brussels trial that connects child sacrifice, genocide and torture committed during the 1950s in programs involving former German SS officers stationed at the Lincoln Park Air Force base in Calgary, Alberta, and elsewhere in Canada. The SS officers, who had been supplied with new identities by the Canadian Armed forces, were connected to the Knights of Darkness, a Satanic child sacrifice organization of which Pope Joseph Ratzinger was a member. Both the Government of Canada and Pope Ratzinger were defendants and found guilty of child genocide in a previous trial before the International Common Law Court of Justice.

London, UK & Rome: Enforcement Action June 29 – July 2, 2014

Kevin Annett reiterated that during June 29 – July 2, 2014 a Common Law Court Enforcement Action will take place in London UK and Rome Italy.

Kevin Annett will be leading an ITCCS enforcement delegation accompanied by Common Law Sheriffs and supporters to the UK and to Rome to enforce Court arrest warrants against Elizabeth Windsor and against Pope Joseph Ratzinger and others already convicted by the Common Law Court of Justice for crimes against humanity. These enforcement actions will be broadcast via live media.

Individuals who live in the UK and in Rome and who want to support the Common Law Court of Justice actions by accompanying the ITCCS delegation and videoing the proceedings on their smartphones, etc. are encouraged to contact Kevin Annett athiddenfromhistory1@gmail.com or The Central Office of The International Common Law Court of Justice, Brussels itccscentral@gmail.com

www.itccs.org

www.iclcj.com

Kevin Annett: Vatican rumors Pope Bergoglio’s bad health and resignation to avoid Satanic 9th circle murder evidence

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2014/05/kevin-annett-vatican-rumors-pope-bergoglios-bad-health-and-resignation-to-avoid-satanic-9th-circle-murder-evidence.html

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Nina Sidorova < nikasid108@mail.ru> wrote:
MEXICO CITY (approved) -. The Spanish religious Adolfo Nicolas Pachon, the “Black Pope”, as known to the head of the Society of Jesus, resigned Tuesday 20.

This day, the Society said that later this year will convene a General Congregation in 2016, will meet to choose a kind of conclave's successor Nicolas Pachon.

The order of the Jesuits for the first time in history that managed one of their own became maximum hierarch of the Catholic Church, Pope Francisco, besides having universities worldwide.

The Jesuits administered the Iberoamericana University and the Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESO) in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Father Nicholas, 78, said in a letter that his decision to retire has the blessing of Pope Francisco. The General of the Jesuits is the sole responsibility of the Church, together with the Roman Pontiff, is for life.

For office and his black cassock with the general of the Jesuits are colloquially termed as “black popes”. However, the internal regulations of the order provide for the possibility that general Fathers of the Society of Jesus may resign.

Nicholas's predecessor as superior of the Jesuits, Dutch Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, resigned in 2008 to nearly 80 years and after almost a quarter century of wielding the helm of that order. Benedict XVI, then Pope, authorized retirement.

Indeed, the decision to resign as Nicholas “Black Pope” has fueled rumors that point to the possibility that, someday, the first Jesuit Francisco-pope in history-can also resign Roman pontiff and Carry and the path opened by Benedict XVI and general priests of the Society of Jesus.

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Sabrina

26th May 2014, 20:59

(story 3018) Further to London's Shard Tower being strike by lightning on 22 May, here's America's Freedom Tower being struck on 23 May, two days after it opened!! Think the universe is trying to tell us or 'them' something….

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And David Wilcock's comment on his latest dreams on Benjamin Fulford's latest blog here:

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/david-wilcock-comment-on-ben-fulfords-5-27-14-article-dreams-continue-to-point-to-major-changes/

I had another major dream yesterday morning comparing the Cabal to a broken-down, derelict house that was about to collapse. I realized that simply leaning against a doorway could be enough to bring the whole building down. The house was creepy, looked like it was haunted, and the doorway was made of trees structured similar to the “two pillars” of Boaz and Jakin that are seen in many Masonic illustrations.

“Given how accurate these dreams have been for the last 21 years, I’m inclined to think we really are going to see some major changes.

“Negative spiritual influences also seem to be at an all-time high, suggesting that on the metaphysical level the negative is seeing a major defeat ahead and is doing everything it possibly can to stop this from happening.

“I have been going full-steam ahead on setting up the ability to produce videos in-house on an as-needed basis, as I think this will ultimately have far more influence and reach than anything I can write.

- David”

Sabrina

26th May 2014, 21:09

Dark Money Documentary Exposes Koch Brothers’ Spending Secrets

US

By Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – May 20, 2014 - http://tinyurl.com/p9eq9sj

Just two years after Brave New Films released Koch Brothers Exposed, the company returns with a 2014 edition of the documentary. While the Kochs’ political spending habits haven’t changed much since then, they’re all the more emboldened by the Supreme Court’s historic McCutcheon v. FEC ruling.

With individual donors no longer facing a cap on political contributions, the dark money floodgates are entirely open.

That puts a new spin on Brave New Films’ hour-long examination of Charles and Dave Koch, who coincidentally happen to be tied fourth place on the Forbes 400 list.

“Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition delves even deeper into where their money is going, who their money is hurting and how much they are making during this whole process leading up to the 2014 elections,” Brave New Films writes on its website.

Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films premiered the film last week in conjunction with a Congressional press briefing featuring U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

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As the above trailer points out, the Koch’s wealth and clout aren’t the issue. It’s how they use those tools.

The Kochs have long supported many of the legislators who introduce and push through legislation that keeps fossil fuels alive despite their damaging effects on the environment.

Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia have been seen at Koch-sponsored events. Attorney Ted Olson, who represented Citizens United in the 2010 spending decision that helped the GOP claim the House majority, is now the Kochs’ legal representation.

“The Kochs use the law they helped to write to spend millions more in their efforts to buy the public policies they want,” says a narrator in another trailer for the documentary.

The end of that trailer ends with Reid asking a question that should make any environmental advocate pause.

“Looks like the Koch Brothers already bought the House. They should buy the Senate,” the Nevada senator said. “And what’s next? They gonna buy a president?”

Here’s a preview the film-makers prepared for the Press:

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Sabrina

27th May 2014, 07:45

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/head-of-the-imf-christine-lagarde-in-court-charged-with-embezzlement-and-fraud-8628670.html

Head of the IMF Christine Lagarde in court charged with embezzlement and fraud

23 May 2013 France

The head of the International Monetary Fund arrived in the dock of a Paris courtroom today as she braced herself to be formally charged with embezzlement and fraud.

Christine Lagarde’s humiliation is not only a massive personal blow which could lead to her resignation, but one which will plunge the world’s banking system into further ignominy.

The clearly nervous 57-year-old said nothing to reporters as she entered the Court of Justice of the Republic, a special tribunal set up to judge the conduct of France’s government ministers, shortly after 8.30am.

Lagarde faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail if found guilty of the very serious charges.

It was when she was President Nicolas Sarkozy’s finance minister that she is said to have authorised a 270 million pounds payout to one of his prominent supporters, so abusing her government position.

The money went to Bernard Tapie, a convicted football match fixer and tax dodger who supported Lagarde and Sarkozy’s UMP party.

It came after Dominque Strauss-Kahn, another senior French politician, was sacked as IMF chief following allegations that he attempted to rape a chambermaid in a New York hotel.

Ms Lagarde began campaigning to succeed Mr Strauss-Kahn soon after his arrest for the alleged crime.

But now it is Ms Lagarde, a lawyer and retired synchronised swimming star, who is facing a long court process of her own, as well as a possible jail sentence.

The scandal will not only pile further shame on France’s political class, but worry politicians and bankers desperately trying to resolve the global financial crisis.

Mr Tapie, the former head of adidas in France, claims he was cheated out of millions by Credit Lyonnais bank when the sports kit empire was sold in 1993.

In 2007, Ms Largarde ended the epic dispute by ordering a panel of judges to arbitrate and, in turn, they awarded Tapie the damages.

Opposition MPs were furious, with former presidential candidate Francois Bayrou accusing Ms Lagarde of ‘dipping into the taxpayers’ pocket for a private beneficiary.’

Mr Strauss-Kahn’s Socialist Party also accused Ms Lagarde of improper conduct, pointing to the fact that Mr Tapie was a vocal supporter of Sarkozy.

Ms Lagarde’s lawyer, Yves Repiquet, said the inquiry was ‘in no way incompatible’ with her new job, and expected the case to be dismissed.

Ms Lagarde denies any wrongdoing, saying before today’s court appearance: ‘If it’s decided to continue with this inquiry it won’t be particularly surprising. Personally, it doesn’t worry me at all – I didn’t benefit personally’.

But it has been widely reported in the French media that investigators intend to charge her with fraud and embezzlement.

Le Monde said that magistrates had already written to Mrs Lagarde to tell her that she should not expect any special treatment because of her high-profile international job.

Sabrina

30th May 2014, 07:39

http://order-order.com/2014/05/29/bilderberg-guest-list-2014/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+guidofawkes+%28Guy+Fawkes%27+blog+of+parliamentary+plots%2C+rumours+and+conspir acy%29&utm_content=FeedBurner+user+view

Bilderberg Guest List 2014 via Guido Fawkes political blog (UK)

29 May

Assorted politicians, monarchs, bankers, arms dealers, spooks, CEOs, media execs and lizard-people meet in Copenhagen today for the annual Bilderberg conference. Here is a selected guest list:

Marcus Agius - Non-Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group; former Group Chairman, Barclays
Keith Alexander - Former Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Former Director, National Security Agency
Roger Altman - Executive Chairman, Evercore
Edward Balls - Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Ben van Beurden - CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
Philip Breedlove - Four star US general; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Benoit Coeuré - Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
Sherard Cowper-Coles - Senior Adviser to the Group Chairman and Group CEO, HSBC Holdings plc
Mathias Döpfner - CEO, Axel Springer SE
Robert Dudley- Group Chief Executive, BP plc
Thomas Enders - CEO, Airbus Group
Douglas Flint - Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
Justine Greening - Secretary of State for International Development
Kenneth Jacobs - Chairman and CEO, Lazard
Henry Kissinger - Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Christine Lagarde - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Peter Mandelson - Chairman, Global Counsel LLP
John Micklethwait - Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands
George Osborne - George Chancellor of the Exchequer
John Sawers - Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
Eric Schmidt - Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
H.M. the Queen of Spain
Martin Wolf - Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
Robert Zoellick - Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group

What could the head of MI6, the former director of the NSA, the boss of Google and Justine Greening be talking about?

full list here:

http://disinfo.com/2014/05/bilderberg-2014-guest-list/

The Bilderberg 2014 Guest List

by Majestic on May 27, 2014 in News
Perhaps preempting the usual criticism of secrecy by the likes of Alex Jones and others who picket Bilderberg Group meeting places and try to identify the arrival of notable guests, the organization has released the invited guest list for its annual meeting, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 29 May to 1 June 2014. Of course no doubt there will be those who claim that there will be attendees of the meetings who are not on this list, so they’ll still be outside looking into the limousines.

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The key topics for discussion this year include:
Is the economic recovery sustainable?
Who will pay for the demographics?
Does privacy exist?
How special is the relationship in intelligence sharing?
Big shifts in technology and jobs
The future of democracy and the middle class trap
China’s political and economic outlook
The new architecture of the Middle East
Ukraine
What next for Europe?
Current events
Here are the confirmed attendees as of 26 May 2014:

Participants

Bilderberg Meetings
Copenhagen, Denmark 29 May – 1 June 2014

Current list of Participants
Status 26 May 2014

Chairman
FRA Castries, Henri de Chairman and CEO, AXA Group

DEU Achleitner, Paul M. Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG
DEU Ackermann, Josef Former CEO, Deutsche Bank AG
GBR Agius, Marcus Non-Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group
FIN Alahuhta, Matti Member of the Board, KONE; Chairman, Aalto University Foundation
GBR Alexander, Helen Chairman, UBM plc
USA Alexander, Keith B. Former Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Former Director, National Security Agency
USA Altman, Roger C. Executive Chairman, Evercore
FIN Apunen, Matti Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
DEU Asmussen, Jörg State Secretary of Labour and Social Affairs
HUN Bajnai, Gordon Former Prime Minister; Party Leader, Together 2014
GBR Balls, Edward M. Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
PRT Balsemão, Francisco Pinto Chairman, Impresa SGPS
FRA Baroin, François Member of Parliament (UMP); Mayor of Troyes
FRA Baverez, Nicolas Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
USA Berggruen, Nicolas Chairman, Berggruen Institute on Governance
ITA Bernabè, Franco Chairman, FB Group SRL
DNK Besenbacher, Flemming Chairman, The Carlsberg Group
NLD Beurden, Ben van CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc
SWE Bildt, Carl Minister for Foreign Affairs
NOR Brandtzæg, Svein Richard President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
INT Breedlove, Philip M. Supreme Allied Commander Europe
AUT Bronner, Oscar Publisher, Der STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H.
SWE Buskhe, Håkan President and CEO, Saab AB
TUR Çandar, Cengiz Senior Columnist, Al Monitor and Radikal
ESP Cebrián, Juan Luis Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA
FRA Chalendar, Pierre-André de Chairman and CEO, Saint-Gobain
CAN Clark, W. Edmund Group President and CEO, TD Bank Group
INT Coeuré, Benoît Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
IRL Coveney, Simon Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
GBR Cowper-Coles, Sherard Senior Adviser to the Group Chairman and Group CEO, HSBC Holdings plc
BEL Davignon, Etienne Minister of State
USA Donilon, Thomas E. Senior Partner, O’Melveny and Myers; Former U.S. National Security Advisor
DEU Döpfner, Mathias CEO, Axel Springer SE
GBR Dudley, Robert Group Chief Executive, BP plc
FIN Ehrnrooth, Henrik Chairman, Caverion Corporation, Otava and Pöyry PLC
ITA Elkann, John Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
DEU Enders, Thomas CEO, Airbus Group
DNK Federspiel, Ulrik Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S
USA Feldstein, Martin S. Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President Emeritus, NBER
CAN Ferguson, Brian President and CEO, Cenovus Energy Inc.
GBR Flint, Douglas J. Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
ESP García-Margallo, José Manuel Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
USA Gfoeller, Michael Independent Consultant
TUR Göle, Nilüfer Professor of Sociology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
USA Greenberg, Evan G. Chairman and CEO, ACE Group
GBR Greening, Justine Secretary of State for International Development
NLD Halberstadt, Victor Professor of Economics, Leiden University
USA Hockfield, Susan President Emerita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NOR Høegh, Leif O. Chairman, Höegh Autoliners AS
NOR Høegh, Westye Senior Advisor, Höegh Autoliners AS
USA Hoffman, Reid Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
CHN Huang, Yiping Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University
USA Jackson, Shirley Ann President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
USA Jacobs, Kenneth M. Chairman and CEO, Lazard
USA Johnson, James A. Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners
USA Karp, Alex CEO, Palantir Technologies
USA Katz, Bruce J. Vice President and Co-Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution
CAN Kenney, Jason T. Minister of Employment and Social Development
GBR Kerr, John Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power
USA Kissinger, Henry A. Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
USA Kleinfeld, Klaus Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
TUR Koç, Mustafa Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
DNK Kragh, Steffen President and CEO, Egmont
USA Kravis, Henry R. Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
USA Kravis, Marie-Josée Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute
CHE Kudelski, André Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group
INT Lagarde, Christine Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
BEL Leysen, Thomas Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group
USA Li, Cheng Director, John L.Thornton China Center,The Brookings Institution
SWE Lifvendahl, Tove Political Editor in Chief, Svenska Dagbladet
CHN Liu, He Minister, Office of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs
PRT Macedo, Paulo Minister of Health
FRA Macron, Emmanuel Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency
ITA Maggioni, Monica Editor-in-Chief, Rainews24, RAI TV
GBR Mandelson, Peter Chairman, Global Counsel LLP
USA McAfee, Andrew Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PRT Medeiros, Inês de Member of Parliament, Socialist Party
GBR Micklethwait, John Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
GRC Mitsotaki, Alexandra Chair, ActionAid Hellas
ITA Monti, Mario Senator-for-life; President, Bocconi University
USA Mundie, Craig J. Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Corporation
CAN Munroe-Blum, Heather Professor of Medicine and Principal (President) Emerita, McGill University
USA Murray, Charles A. W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
NLD Netherlands, H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of the
ESP Nin Génova, Juan María Deputy Chairman and CEO, CaixaBank
FRA Nougayrède, Natalie Director and Executive Editor, Le Monde
DNK Olesen, Søren-Peter Professor; Member of the Board of Directors, The Carlsberg Foundation
FIN Ollila, Jorma Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc; Chairman, Outokumpu Plc
TUR Oran, Umut Deputy Chairman, Republican People’s Party (CHP)
GBR Osborne, George Chancellor of the Exchequer
FRA Pellerin, Fleur State Secretary for Foreign Trade
USA Perle, Richard N. Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
USA Petraeus, David H. Chairman, KKR Global Institute
CAN Poloz, Stephen S. Governor, Bank of Canada
INT Rasmussen, Anders Fogh Secretary General, NATO
DNK Rasmussen, Jørgen Huno Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Lundbeck Foundation
INT Reding, Viviane Vice President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, European Commission
USA Reed, Kasim Mayor of Atlanta
CAN Reisman, Heather M. Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
NOR Reiten, Eivind Chairman, Klaveness Marine Holding AS
DEU Röttgen, Norbert Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, German Bundestag
USA Rubin, Robert E. Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
USA Rumer, Eugene Senior Associate and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
NOR Rynning-Tønnesen, Christian President and CEO, Statkraft AS
NLD Samsom, Diederik M. Parliamentary Leader PvdA (Labour Party)
GBR Sawers, John Chief, Secret Intelligence Service
NLD Scheffer, Paul J. Author; Professor of European Studies, Tilburg University
NLD Schippers, Edith Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
USA Schmidt, Eric E. Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
AUT Scholten, Rudolf CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
USA Shih, Clara CEO and Founder, Hearsay Social
FIN Siilasmaa, Risto K. Chairman of the Board of Directors and Interim CEO, Nokia Corporation
ESP Spain, H.M. the Queen of
USA Spence, A. Michael Professor of Economics, New York University
FIN Stadigh, Kari President and CEO, Sampo plc
USA Summers, Lawrence H. Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
IRL Sutherland, Peter D. Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; UN Special Representative for Migration
SWE Svanberg, Carl-Henric Chairman, Volvo AB and BP plc
TUR Taftalı, A. Ümit Member of the Board, Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation
USA Thiel, Peter A. President, Thiel Capital
DNK Topsøe, Henrik Chairman, Haldor Topsøe A/S
GRC Tsoukalis, Loukas President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
NOR Ulltveit-Moe, Jens Founder and CEO, Umoe AS
INT Üzümcü, Ahmet Director-General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
CHE Vasella, Daniel L. Honorary Chairman, Novartis International
FIN Wahlroos, Björn Chairman, Sampo plc
SWE Wallenberg, Jacob Chairman, Investor AB
SWE Wallenberg, Marcus Chairman of the Board of Directors, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
USA Warsh, Kevin M. Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Lecturer, Stanford University
GBR Wolf, Martin H. Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
USA Wolfensohn, James D. Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company
NLD Zalm, Gerrit Chairman of the Managing Board, ABN-AMRO Bank N.V.
GRC Zanias, George Chairman of the Board, National Bank of Greece
USA Zoellick, Robert B. Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group

and

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/is-it-the-bilderberg-conference--or-conspiracy-9449477.html

Is it the Bilderberg conference – or conspiracy?

Conspiracy theorists may chuckle when they learn a debate entitled “Does Privacy Exist?” is to feature at this year’s Bilderberg conference, the notoriously secretive gathering of the world’s most powerful bankers, politicians and business people.

There may be a further shaking of heads when they discover one of the participants at the heavily fortified, five-star Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark, will be Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), which was embarrassed by the mass-surveillance revelations leaked by Edward Snowden. In fairness to the Bilderberg, the organisers of this year’s conference – which starts on Thursday – have made efforts to be more transparent by publishing a list of all the prime ministers, chief executives and military chiefs in attendance, as well as the topics up for discussion.

Chancellor George Osborne and his Labour counterpart, Ed Balls, are among the hand-picked group of British politicians who will visit Copenhagen to hob-nob with the global elite behind closed doors.

Other guests from the political sphere include the former “Third Man” of New Labour, Lord Mandelson, the current International Development Secretary, Justine Greening, and the veteran American foreign policy expert, Henry Kissinger.

Billionaire captains of industry who landed invitations include the heads of Shell, BP, Airbus, HSBC, Saab, AXA, Google, and Linkedin. They will sit alongside key global powerbrokers such as Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, and senior officials from the European Central Bank.

The chairmen from Goldman Sachs and Lazards will perhaps reflect on how their investment banks “advised” Whitehall over the controversial flotation of Royal Mail, which left the UK taxpayer £1bn out of pocket.

Keeping a discreet eye over the exchanges will be the intelligence chiefs such as Mr Alexander from the United States and Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, who was pictured on Facebook in his swimming trunks in 2009.

Items on the agenda include “The future of democracy and the middle-class trap”, “The new architecture of the Middle East” and the major geopolitical crisis of the moment: “Ukraine”. The secretive nature of the Bilderberg Conference has triggered suspicions that the event is used to shape global policy at the expense of democratic oversight. The idea of the euro was said to have been spawned at one meeting in the Nineties.

Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West, asked a series of parliamentary questions about Bilderberg last year when the conference was held at a five-star hotel near Watford. He told The Independent: “I don’t regard the Bilderberg as a great threat but we would all like to know what is going on with these things. Secrecy inspires concern.”

Despite its new efforts at transparency, the conference is still acutely sensitive about radical infiltration. On Tuesday night, three journalists – self-styled “InfoWarriors” – were arrested by Danish police after they tried to ambush the organisers outside the Marriott.

Unfortunately for Hannah Borno, a British freelance journalist staying in the hotel, she was spotted exchanging words with the “InfoWarriors” earlier in the day, which caused her stay to be prematurely cut short. She said: “As my husband and I prepared to go to bed we were confronted by a hotel member of staff and a member of security. They said we had been seen talking to some people earlier who had been asked to leave, and for the safety of the staff they had been advised to ask us to leave.”

28 May

Sabrina

30th May 2014, 07:59

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642888/Breakthrough-Iraq-War-Inquiry-Blairs-official-reaches-deal-hand-letters-former-PM-George-Bush.html

Most definitely whitewash, but this one isn't going to go away as it's so transparently a travesty. War crimes lawyers continue to sharpen their knives in the background. The great majority of politicians (apart from Robin Cook who inconveniently had a sudden heart attack on a mountain) and media were compliant in the call for war, and they know it. Arrests on day...

29 May

Iraq war whitewash: Grieving families' fury as Cabinet Secretary cooks up shabby deal to keep letters and calls between Blair and Bush secret

Agreement reached to publish 'gist and quotes' of notes between leaders

Material includes 25 notes and more than 130 records of conversations

Chilcot report could now be published in the run up to next year's election

Father of soldier killed in Iraq said 'it will be open wound until the day I die'

The Iraq War inquiry was condemned as a whitewash last night after more than 150 crucial messages from Tony Blair to George W Bush were censored.

Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has vetoed the release of the letters and phone calls in the run-up to the 2003 conflict, officials revealed.

In them, Mr Blair is said to have promised the US President: 'You know, George, whatever you decide to do, I'm with you.'

The decision raises the possibility that the long-delayed findings of the £10million inquiry will be published before the general election.

The official reason for the censorship is that publication would deter prime ministers from speaking freely in private.

But critics said it was a shabby compromise that could fatally undermine public confidence in the findings.

Families of some of the 179 British soldiers killed in the conflict 11 years ago said last night they felt betrayed by the decision.

They believe the letters would reveal the real reason why Mr Blair dragged Britain into the catastrophic war to topple Saddam Hussein...........

The move follows two and a half years of wrangling between the Iraq inquiry and Whitehall officials over the publication of 25 letters sent by Mr Blair to President Bush and the transcripts of 130 phone calls between the two men.

In a letter yesterday, inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot confirmed his long-awaited report would publish only ‘the gist’ of Mr Blair’s messages to Mr Bush.

The US president’s replies will not be published in any form.

Mr Blair was consulted over what to make public as were the US authorities, who objected to the release of confidential conversations involving the former president.

The deal stands in stark contrast to other major inquiries, including the recent phone-hacking inquiry, when private messages were subject to the full glare of public scrutiny.

Government sources last night defended the decision, saying that releasing the Blair/Bush messages would limit the ability of future prime ministers to speak freely with world leaders for fear of their discussions being made public.

One source close to the talks said the US government had also blocked any hope of full publication.

‘It’s as simple as the Americans saying no,’ the source said.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell called the decision an ‘unsatisfactory compromise’, and warned that the deal on what can be published could be ‘subject to a whole variety of interpretations’ by the civil service.

Former Labour MP Andrew MacKinlay described the inquiry as a ‘sham’.

Mr MacKinlay, a member of the Common foreign affairs committee at the time of the war, said: ‘I am not surprised that Chilcot has surrendered. It is a bad, bad day for democracy and justice.

‘The Establishment of this country and the security and intelligence services have won again. Truth has lost out. We were lied to as a country time and time again on Iraq. The lies endure.’

Labour MP John McDonnell said: ‘This confirms all the suspicions people had that the inquiry will be a whitewash. Unless there’s full and open transparency the credibility of this inquiry will be completely undermined.’

more at the link

and

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/gone-missing-tony-blair-s-i-ll-back-the-iraq-war-whatever-letter-to-george-bush#.U4g5sV6y-Zh

Gone missing: Tony Blair's "I'll back the Iraq war whatever" letter to George Bush

Adam Withnall 18 May 2014.

The Chilcot Iraq inquiry farce continues with Tony Blair blocking the publication of letters that confirm what everyone knows: he lied and thousands of Iraqis died.

A letter sent by Tony Blair to George Bush that is “critical” to the Iraq Inquiry has gone missing from official White House records, it has been reported.

The publication of secret correspondence between the UK and US administrations in the build-up to the Iraq War has become a major stumbling block for Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into the 2003 invasion.

While the Cabinet Office has said privately that it wants to release as many of the Blair-Bush communications as possible, there is one letter which lawyers at the White House say they have “not been able to locate”.

The letter, which was quoted from directly in Andrew Rawnsley’s book The End of the Party following interviews with David Manning, Blair’s foreign policy advisor, and Sir Christopher Meyer, then Britain’s ambassador to the US, predates the March 2003 Commons vote on whether Britain was to go to war.

In its opening sentence, Mr Blair is said to have told the US President: “You know, George, whatever you decide to do, I'm with you.” The letter was reportedly hand-delivered by Manning to Bush’s national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Yet according to reports in the Mail on Sunday, a British source involved in the ongoing efforts to get the Bush-Blair records released said: “The lawyers are taking months to evaluate the letters and decide whether to release them.

“However, they claim not to have been able to locate the ‘with you whatever’ letter.”

Though Mr Blair said after 9/11 that Britain stood “shoulder to shoulder” with the US, and in 2011 he told Chilcot that he had been quite open about his support for Bush in dealing with Saddam Hussein, he denied the “with you whatever” wording.

And more than three years after the inquiry completed its public hearings, the letter has been described as “absolutely critical” among all the correspondence in determining whether or not Mr Blair gave Mr Bush a “blank cheque” on Britain’s cooperation.

more at link

araucaria

30th May 2014, 08:36

Ms Lagarde denies any wrongdoing, saying before today’s court appearance: ‘If it’s decided to continue with this inquiry it won’t be particularly surprising. Personally, it doesn’t worry me at all – I didn’t benefit personally’.

No, she probably didn't benefit personally; she was acting as a minister under Sarkozy, who did benefit, Tapie being a campaign funder for one thing, or allegedly so, the details get a bit hard to follow. But Lagarde should still be worried; she may well go to jail as the fall guy. And Sarkozy should be worried too; he may well go to jail as the main perpetrator.

Sabrina

30th May 2014, 08:41

http://www.globalresearch.ca/bilderberg-agenda-revealed-elite-desperate-to-rescue-unipolar-world/5384291?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bilderberg-agenda-revealed-elite-desperate-to-rescue-unipolar-world

More on the Bilderberg circus or speculation on it....

Bilderberg Agenda Revealed: Elite Desperate to Rescue Unipolar World

Anti-EU revolution, Ukraine crisis threaten to derail global government

The 2014 Bilderberg meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark is taking place amidst a climate of panic for many of the 120 globalists set to attend the secretive confab, with Russia’s intransigence on the crisis in Ukraine and the anti-EU revolution sweeping Europe posing a serious threat to the unipolar world order Bilderberg spent over 60 years helping to build.

Inside sources confirm to Infowars that the elite conference, which will take place from Thursday onwards at the five star Marriott Hotel, will center around how to derail a global political awakening that threatens to hinder Bilderberg’s long standing agenda to centralize power into a one world political federation, a goal set to be advanced with the passage of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which will undoubtedly be a central topic of discussion at this year’s meeting.

The TTIP represents an integral component of Bilderberg’s attempt to rescue the unipolar world by creating a “world company,” initially a free trade area, which would connect the United States with Europe. Just as the European Union started as a mere free trade area and was eventually transformed into a political federation which controls upwards of 50 per cent of its member states’ laws and regulations with total contempt for national sovereignty and democracy, TTIP is designed to accomplish the same goal, only on a bigger scale.

The deal is being spearheaded by Obama’s U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, a Wall Street insider and a CFR member, Bilderberg’s sister organization. Froman is simultaneously helping to build another block of this global government, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is a similar project involving Asian countries.

Given that Bilderberg schemed to create the Euro single currency as far back as 1955 (Bilderberg chairman Étienne Davignon bragged about how the Euro single currency was a brainchild of the Bilderberg in 2009 interview), the results of the European elections are sure to have stirred outright alarm amongst Bilderberg globalists who are aghast that their planned EU superstate is being eroded as a result of a populist resistance mainly centered around animosity towards uncontrolled immigration policies.

In Denmark itself, the buzz is centered around Morten Messerschmidt and the Danish People’s party, which won 27% of the vote in the Euro elections and doubled its number of MEPs. Although some are wary of Messerschmidt’s far right inclinations, his success reflects a general resentment not only in Denmark but across Europe towards immigration and the welfare state, concerns that the EU has only exasperated.

Meanwhile in France, Marine Le Pen is carving out a role as the face of a conservative movement that threatens “to break up one united Europe,” with her European election win being described as an “earthquake” that has rattled the political heart of Europe.

Voters in the United Kingdom also delivered a thumping rejection of the EU and in turn Bilderberg with the success of Nigel Farage and UKIP, a Euroskeptic triumph some are labeling the “most extraordinary” election result for 100 years.

As well as TTIP and the fallout from the European election disaster, Bilderberg will be tackling a number of other key issues, most of which will revolve around the continued effort to centralize economic power under several different guises, including a carbon tax paid directly to the United Nations, with the financial hit being taken by individuals as big companies are granted special “waivers” that will allow them to continue to pollute.

The rumbling crisis in Ukraine and the relationship between Russia and NATO will also be a focal point of Bilderberg 2014. Globalists now consider Vladimir Putin to have ostracized Russia from the new world order because he dared to “challenge the international system,” as John Kerry put it.

Bilderberg will discuss fears that Putin is intent on constructing an alternative world order based around the BRICS countries, a “multi-polar” system that would devastate the dollar as the world reserve currency and also heavily dilute the current US-EU-NATO power axis.

Infowars reporters will be on the ground all this week to cover the 2014 Bilderberg Group conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor at large of Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.

Sabrina

1st June 2014, 23:45

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/31/911-israeli-apartheid-the-kiss-of-death-for-world-zionism/

23 May

9/11 & Israeli Apartheid, The Kiss of Death for World Zionism
… by Preston James

Full article and videos at the link, and a few extracts below. More shifts in power on the horizon?

“The turning of the tide and a change in the “prevailing winds” in America has been caused by the realization inside the US Military High Command and loyal segments of American Intel that 9/11 was a Gladio-style, inside-job, stand-down, false-flag attack done by the World Zionists.

“This realization inside the US Military High Command by America-firsters and those loyal to America only has triggered a major lane change of US Policy towards Israel and an aversion to fighting any new wars on behalf of the WZs and Israel.

“A wooden stake is now being driven through the vampire heart of the world’s largest parasite, the demonic WZ/IZCS.

“Due to some recent “changes” in the high command of the US Military and American Intel, you will soon see more and more effects of a wooden stake being driven through the heart of the WZ/IZCS vampire and a near complete or complete disempowering of the WZ/IZCS espionage fronts inside America as well as the disempowering and perhaps demise of the WZ controlled NSA.”

"Payback is always a bitch and this time it’s going to be a super-bitch.

It was the abject arrogance of the WZs and their belief that their control was so total over American institutions of Government that they could never be exposed or challenged. They drastically underestimated the American human spirit and innate intelligence of many Americans and will eventually pay a very big price for all they have done murdering Americans and for using American Soldiers as cannon-fodder in their Proxy Wars for profit and acquisition. Payback is now on its way and it will be a real bitch for these WZ/IZCS international criminals and anti-human scum.

Are the Intel Cowboys back at it, and are they going at the true source of all major world conflicts this time instead of attacking the symptoms such as Nazi fascism, Japanese Imperialism, or Communism, etc.?

As you ponder these important issues just ask yourself if the recent European attention focused to the blatant, extreme injustices of Israeli Apartheid against Palestinians was just a coincidence. Just maybe it was the covert handiwork of the Intel Cowboys who are now doing the impossible to take the hell caused by 9/11 back to the originators of it all. Maybe someday, sooner than later as secrecy ends and everything becomes known, you will find out for sure. Could it be that the grip of the World Zionists has been so complete, so total that the only way to get at them is through covert means? And are we seeing that in progress now as their whole system is starting to unravel worldwide."

Sabrina

1st June 2014, 23:48

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/publish-the-chilcot-inquiry-results-now

UK

PUBLISH THE IRAQ WAR INQUIRY RESULTS NOW petition

Dear Sir John Chilcot,

Please publish the results of your report without delay and name those who have so far been obstructing its publication.
Why is this important?

We now have the answer to the second part above and therein is the reason for the delay:-

"Cabinet boss must not decide on Iraq papers", says Owen:
David Owen, former Foreign Secretary demands Sir Jeremy Heywood is stripped of responsibility because he worked closely with Tony Blair

Inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot said last week that his probe has stalled indefinitely because Sir Jeremy is blocking the release of correspondence

Sir Jeremy was Principal Private Secretary to Tony Blair between 1999-2003

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CHILCOT WILL RELEASE THE ‘GIST’
It’s just another way of saying “we will withhold important information”
It would obviously be much better for us to see all of the documentation between Blair and Bush in the run-up to the invasion but the most important document we need, if it exists, is the one where Blair agreed to assist Bush in the attack come what may. That information is absolutely no threat to security but of course if it is a threat to Blair we may never see it.

If an 'independent' committee has sight of documents that clearly show that a Prime Minister or any minister for that matter, for their own reasons, committed our country to a course of action that had not been fully approved or discussed and which resulted in a massive loss of life for hundreds of thousands of innocent people, without question that information should be released. Why should those documents be for the eyes of the committee only and not for the rest of us when in that situation the minister in question has clearly acted incorrectly?. It means that they are above the law and can transgress with impunity, we are supposed to be a democracy!

The excuse that the documents cannot be released for either security or confidentiality reasons is totally spurious. The conversations between Blair and Bush are about a specific and unique situation. They were not conversations about the price of fish, they were conversations that resulted in Britain engaging in and waging a war of aggression against a country that was absolutely no imminent threat to us - a war crime.

Many believe the British people were lied to over the reasons for taking the country to war and those in power at the time know it and so do the families here and in Iraq whose relatives were killed as a result.

We must have a full and complete report describing how and why our Government decided to invade another sovereign country in our name. It has been deliberately stalled for far too long, we need it NOW

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In February of 2011, after more than a year of investigation, the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the invasion of Iraq concluded. It is outrageous that today, more than three years after the end of the inquiry, the public has still not been given the conclusion. What is equally reprehensible is, apart from the occasional meek entreatment to Chilcot by some politicians to get on with it, hardly any body of influence seems to be pressing for the results to be finalised and published.

The day Britain began its attack on Iraq was one of the blackest days in the history of our nation because, despite massive public opposition, our Government, with the full support of the parliamentary opposition, went ahead with the invasion, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent men women and children and a major increase in terrorism.

To their eternal disgrace, there are many in the 'establishment' and in political circles who supported the attack and in whose interest it is to keep kicking the report into the long grass.

Consequently, the only group who can try and bring about publication of the report is us. I would therefore like 38 Degrees, through its members, to campaign and pressurise Chilcot into releasing the report immediately. We must show that we will not be treated as inconsequential bystanders and be ignored and humoured as though we are simply an annoyance. We must force those we elect and nominate, to do the job we pay them to do and not simply make up their own forever changing timetable.

The British public were treated with contempt when the Government and the parliamentary opposition chose to ignore us and take us into an unprovoked war of aggression, the worst type of war crime. We must not let the Inquiry into that disgraceful episode also treat us with contempt.

Sabrina

2nd June 2014, 20:47

http://hipknowsys.blogspot.com.br/2014/06/benjamin-fulford-june-2-2014-pope.html

2 Junw

The latest Benjamin Fulford at the link...

Benjamin Fulford - June 2, 2014: Pope Francis pushes for one world religion as Western elite hits the panic button
During his recent trip to the Middle East, Pope Francis was able to get agreement from Muslim and Jewish authorities for a unified monotheism but was unable to convince the Orthodox Christians, according to P2 Freemason sources.

As the Pope visited the Middle East, the head of the Italian P2 Freemason lodge was in the Philippines where he tried to cash six bonds, including the one pictured here:

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/shock-as-king-juan-carlos-of-spain-abdicates.html

2 June Spain

Shock As King Juan Carlos of Spain Abdicates

Battered by a scandal surrounding his daughter, the Spanish monarchy makes the ultimate gamble as the once-popular King Juan Carlos abdicates

King Juan Carlos of Spain has abdicated, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has announced.

Photographs of the king signing the official papers, together with a letter announcing his decison, were released by the royal family on Twitter.

The surprise announcement comes after a dramatic decline in the popularity of King Juan Carlos, 76, who has ruled since 1975.

First, the King was discovered to have traveled to Africa on a big-game hunting expedition, shooting elephant in private game reserves, and the past year has seen wave after wave of negative publicity as his daughter, the Infanta Cristina, and her husband have been the focus of a long-running corruption investigation.

Juan Carlos's son Prince Felipe, 45, will take over the throne.

Juan Carlos’s resignation as King marks an extraordinary gamble on the part of the Spanish monarchy.

Despite the recent scandals, the Spanish retain a huge affection for their King as it was he who bloodlessly delivered the country from the nightmare of the Franco dictatorship, which ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975.

Toward the end of his life, Franco handed over power to Juan Carlos, the hereditary king, which he thought would be a way of maintaining an absolute, non-democratic state.

However, Juan Carlos effectively tricked him. During his lifetime he espoused pro-Franco views, but was secretly meeting with the liberal opposition and political dissenters, and two days after Franco’s death he announced far reaching democratic reforms.

“His majesty, King Juan Carlos, has just communicated to me his will to give up the throne—I’m convinced this is the best moment for change,” Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said this morning.

Juan Carlos is the second European monarch to abdicate in just over a year. In April last year, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands handed the throne to her son Prince Willem-Alexander after 33 years.

We assume Prince Charles is currently glued to the news feed.

The abdication has caught most observers by surprise, but it was predicted by Lars Hovbakke Sørensen, a lecturer in European royalty at the University of Copenhagen, when he spoke to the Daily Beast’s Nico Hines earlier this year.

“Cristina is seen as being close to the king; her problems are the king’s problems,” he told The Daily Beast. “I wouldn’t be surprised if King Juan Carlos chooses to resign in the coming months, and hands over the throne to Crown Prince Felipe in an attempt to save the monarchy.”

Camilo

3rd June 2014, 14:38

Comment by dwilcock on June 3, 2014 @ 2:23 am

It’s quite a challenge to stay focused and positive in the midst of all these sweeping changes. There are so many stories intersecting at the same time that it’s difficult to track them all.

In case you didn’t see this yet there was a major revelation about the government being able to drive your car by remote control if it was made in 2008 or after. They didn’t get into technical details of when this started, but remote-control car hacking was demonstrated in a Motherboard video that went viral on the front page of Digg.com:

http://www.divinecosmos.com/index.php/start-here/davids-blog/1163-white-hats-car-hacking

There’s much more that needs to be / should be covered. It appeared the US was going to be forced to sign a massive deal to reform the global financial system as of April 10-11th but they refused. The problem, then, was that there was no means to immediately force them to change their minds. Instead, the response is taking more time. Perhaps the Alliance didn’t expect such a blatant move.

Now it appears that the massive equity in the Collateral Accounts is going to be used to create an alternative financial system that will dwarf the IMF and World Bank in size, with the full backing of BRICS and other allies. This will be a gold and commodity-backed currency. Once people start using this for international trade instead of the dollar, it’s curtains for the FRN.

Also, perhaps the single biggest reason we haven’t seen arrests yet is the Cabal will destroy the financial system and thus take the planet down with them. There has been an urgent need all along to figure out “how to pay for it” once the hammer comes down. That’s why this new bank is so significant. The Cabal knows they’re out of time.

It is not clear how this will all manifest and time estimates are inherently risky — but it does appear that the alliance intends to have the bank launched by some time next month. I have other sources independently saying Germany will be a part of it as well as potentially France, right from the start.

It also appears the US is in position to make a switch from Federal Reserve notes to Treasury notes. The new money keeps getting counterfeited by the Iranians almost as soon as they design it, and apparently fully eight different designs have been made and printed only to have to start over yet again — just in the last 2-3 years. This means 1s, 5s, 10s, 20s, 50s and 100s have been made on eight completely different occasions with different designs for each, only to be shredded and to start over yet again.

There was talk that a one-time devaluation of US currency would occur, where if you were stashing cash (and only by amounts up to 10K per day), you could trade in FRNs for TNs if you did it within a week, and not lose any value. The gossip was that after a week the FRNs would be worth 35% less and then after 6 or 8 months they would drop by another 35%.

All money actually held in the bank would just convert from FRNs to TNs with no devaluation whatsoever. This move would convert the “black cash” held by criminals, drug dealers, et cetera into worthless paper and also eliminate what is apparently a massive problem with Iranian counterfeit, of very high quality. Apparently 2/3rds of all 100s in circulation are Iranian counterfeit bills and it’s a huge problem.

The latest gossip I’ve heard is that the FRN to TN conversion will not involve any devaluation — at least for those with their money in the bank. I am not sure about any of this — it’s only what various credible sources are reporting.

The US signing this deal on April 10th and 11th would have been a nice, neat, organized story, and instead what we have is a lot messier — a financial war reaching critical mass, where we really don’t know precisely what will happen or when it will happen. However, I do believe we will see the dam break and a great deal of suppressed knowledge will come out all at once.

It was just revealed that FOX only has 177,000 people watching in the key 25-54 advertising demographic. MSNBC is only getting 103,000 and CNN is down to 99,000.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/05/may-cable-news-ratings-spare-no-one-189393.html?hp=r13

Literally, some of the articles and videos we are doing in this community are actually surpassing corporate media in terms of visibility. And yet, FOX is still routinely discussed in mainstream media as if it were significant. 177,000 people is such a small number I was gob-smacked.

The “left versus right” paradigm is ridiculous, and was a corporate manipulation from the beginning. As I’ve said before it’s basically Town vs. Country — an archetype that is very ancient and undoubtedly plays out in many societies all throughout time and space.

People in the Town are exposed to a variety of cultures, ideas and philosophies. They see different races routinely, are less likely to have prejudice, and are more likely to depend upon others for a variety of their basic needs.

People in the Country typically live on a private farm, are extremely self-sufficient, and are much more apt to adhere to traditional, old-fashioned beliefs.

Essentially what has happened in America, in the simplest terms, is the coasts have become Town (other than below the Mason-Dixon Line on the EC) and the middle has become Country.

However, it is safe to say that truth journalists like Alex Jones are now being seen by far more people in the Country than Fox. They are waking up very quickly. This is a truly exciting time — if you can handle it!

- David

Sabrina

5th June 2014, 12:31

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/05/serious-fraud-office-currency-markets-manipulation-claims

5 June UK

Serious Fraud Office looking into currency market manipulation claims

UK agency says it has yet to decide whether to follow US justice department and launch criminal investigation into allegations

The Serious Fraud Office is examining information related to a global investigation into the possible manipulation of currency markets, although it has yet to open a criminal investigation.

"The SFO is receiving and examining complex data on this topic. If and when we open a criminal investigation, that decision will be announced in the usual way," the head of the agency, David Green, said on Thursday.

Authorities around the world are already investigating allegations of manipulation in the $5tn a day foreign exchange market. Among those looking into the claims is the US justice department, which launched a criminal investigation last October.

Globally, about 35 people in the currency markets have been suspended, placed on leave or fired by financial institutions, which are also investigating allegations of wrongdoing internally.

None have yet been charged with any wrongdoing.

The investigations, which are being run in parallel with an inquiry into alleged fixing of benchmark interest rates, show banks are still struggling to control some trader behaviour despite tighter regulatory scrutiny following the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

Authorities in the US, Britain, Switzerland, Germany and Singapore are examining whether traders from different banks worked together to influence currency prices, and also whether they traded ahead of their own customers or failed to accurately represent to customers how they were determining the prices.

Sabrina

5th June 2014, 12:40

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/05/uk-britain-shard-fire-idUKKBN0EG17E20140605?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

Well if the Shard building in London is a dastardly cabal edifice - as some say - it's not doing very well. It got struck by lightning dramatically in the last few weeks (like the Vatican), and now has a fire. :)

5 June UK

London's tallest building, the Shard, evacuated due to smoke

(Reuters) - London's tallest building, the Shard, was evacuated on Thursday morning after smoke started billowing from the basement of the 87-storey skyscraper, a fire brigade spokesman said.

The alarm was raised about 1030 BST and about 900 people were evacuated from the multi-purpose landmark tower. By 1100 the fire brigade said the smoke appeared to be dissipating.

"We are investigating the source of smoke coming from the basement. There is no suggestion at this time that it is an actual fire but the building has been evacuated as a caution," the brigade spokesman said, adding that seven fire engines were at the scene.

A police spokesman said there were no reports of any injuries or arrests.

The Shard, Western Europe's tallest skyscraper at about 310 metres (1,016 feet), was funded by Qatar's royal family and opened in 2012. Its office space is about 50 percent occupied.

The distinctive elongated glass-clad pyramid was designed by architect Renzo Piano and has 72 habitable storeys housing six companies including Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera and the world's largest hospital group, Hospital Corporation of America.

New York-based investment bank Duff & Phelps, an intellectual property law firm, a venture capital group and an energy company are among the other tenants of the landmark tower that is situated near to the London Bridge train station.

Restaurants Oblix, Aqua Shard and Hutong moved into the tower last summer, and its top floors have become a tourist attraction in the capital, reserved for visitors who pay up to 30 pounds to get the highest view of London.

The Shard competes for business with other notable London skyscrapers such as the "Walkie Talkie" and the "Cheese Grater", nicknamed for the silhouettes they cast on the skyline.

and

http://illuminatiwatcher.com/catching-fire-tower-and-londons-shard-tower-illuminati-symbolism/

‘Catching Fire’ Tower and London’s Shard Tower Illuminati symbolism

Posted By IlluminatiWatcher on Mar 7, 2013 (see pix and videos at link)

The poster for Hunger Games: Catching Fire shows Katniss and Peeta in front of the Capitol’s Hunger Games Tower. I can’t help but draw comparison between this tower and London’s Shard Tower. They look very similar:

The Shard is the tallest building in the EU and has a shape of a pyramid. It resembles an Egyptian obelisk which was believed to harness male phallic energy to those around it (hence the phallic shape). The Washington memorial was built with Freemasons and is the world’s tallest obelisk.

The architect for the London Shard was quoted as saying the building will be like:

“a shard of glass through the heart of historic London”

…effectively giving it the name of “The Shard.”

There are videos on Youtube claiming that the 72 floors of the building correspond to the 72 demons of the Kabbalah, which has magical and satanic connections:

more at link

Sabrina

5th June 2014, 12:46

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645870/Mass-grave-contains-bodies-800-babies-site-Irish-home-unmarried-mothers.html

More horrors coming out from children's homes - this time in Ireland, run by nuns...

Ireland

Mass septic tank grave 'containing the skeletons of 800 babies' at site of Irish home for unmarried mothers

Hundreds of babies and toddlers believed to be buried in Tuam, Co Galway

The site lies next to a former home for single mothers and their children

The children's home was run by Bon Secours nuns between 1925 and 1961

Children were malnourished and neglected, which caused many of deaths

They also died of TB, pneumonia, measles, convulsions and gastroenteritis

Relative of one missing child has filed complaint with local police, the gardai

The bodies of nearly 800 babies are believed to have been interred in a concrete tank beside a former home for unmarried mothers.

The dead babies are thought to have been secretly buried beside a home for single mothers and their children in County Galway, Ireland, over a period of 36 years.

It is suspected that 796 children were interred on unconsecrated ground without headstones or coffins next to the home run by the Bon Secours nuns in Tuam between 1925 and 1961.

Newly unearthed reports show that they suffered malnutrition and neglect, which caused the deaths of many, while others died of measles, convulsions, TB, gastroenteritis and pneumonia.

full story at link

Sabrina

5th June 2014, 12:50

Cross Party Support For National Inquiry. (UK)

Former children’s minister Tim Loughton and Conservative backbencher Zac Goldsmith are calling for a national inquiry into historical cases of child sex abuse.

Goldsmith has co-ordinated a high-powered, cross-party group of MPs to sign a joint letter to Theresa May, home secretary, urging her to set up an independent panel to investigate repeated failures by police and other authorities in a wide variety of cases.

The seven MPs in the group also want the inquiry to investigate why crucial files, surveillance videos and other material has gone missing in relation to allegations against prominent people.

The MPs also include Tom Watson and Simon Danczuk, from Labour; Tessa Munt and John Hemming, Liberal Democrat; and the Green Party’s Caroline Lucas.

The seven want an investigation similar to the independent inquiry into Hillsborough, the football disaster of 1989. That inquiry was seen to have uncovered the truth about an episode that was mired in controversy and reflected especially badly on police.

Several inquiries have been set up in the wake of the exposure in 2012 of Jimmy Savile, the late BBC star, as a paedophile, but there has long been concern that these are too disparate.

Exaro News http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5274/mps-call-on-theresa-may-to-set-up-inquiry-into-child-sex-abuse#.U42vcCXYoPo.twitter

3 June

Sabrina

5th June 2014, 12:54

A Year Ago Today: NSA Leaks – Top 8 Political Scandals Sparked by Edward Snowden’s Revelations

From RT.com - June 03, 2014- http://tinyurl.com/m9yrpp5

June 5th marks the 1 year anniversary since the first trove of Snowden leaks was realeased.

The Snowden revelations hit like a bomb, sending out shrapnel which risked severing US ties with friendly and not-so-friendly states alike.

Here are the top eight bilateral debacles sparked by NSA spying, whose fallout could be felt for years to come.

story at link

Sabrina

5th June 2014, 12:58

From BRICSPost – June 4, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/luknu3j

No Returning to G8: Russia

Russia said Wednesday that it was open for cooperation with major Western powers, but ruled out a return to the Group of Eight (G8), made up of the seven most industrialized nations, known as G7, and Russia.

“Such a format does not exist for now,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told a Russian radio station.

Russia would, however, continue to participate in the Group of 20, which includes the most developed and major developing countries of the world, Peskov said.

Leaders of G7 declared in March that they would boycott the G8 summit in Sochi, where they were scheduled to have met with Russia this week. Instead, they gathered in Brussels for a two-day G7 summit.

The expulsion of Russia from the G8 came three days after Crimea accession to Russia.

Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin will not have a bilateral meeting with US President Barack Obama even though both leaders are attending the 70th anniversary of D-Day Landings in France’s Normandy on Friday.

“We are not making such preparations … Participants of war memorial events will stay together, in one group,” Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying.

He, however, did not rule out possible brief talks between Putin and Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko.

The Kremlin earlier confirmed that Putin, on his first visit to a Western country since the start of the Ukraine crisis, would have separate meetings with British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Normandy.
The US and EU have imposed travel bans and asset freezes on dozens of Russians over what they called Russia’s “meddling” in Ukraine’s affairs.

The European Union, however, would be troubled by Russia’s attempts to veer away from gas exports to the bloc by moving towards energy-hungry China.

Russia has had some success in diverting attention away from the troubling sanctions with the successful negotiations that led to the inking of a massive $400 billion gas deal with China last month and also the signing of the treaty to form the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, a combined $2.7 trillion economy and vast energy resources.

Rocky_Shorz

6th June 2014, 00:38

Sabrina

6th June 2014, 08:44

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/05/world/africa/libya-uk-lockerbie-al-megrahi/index.html?eref=edition

Was this a massively wrong arrest at the time?

5 June

Lockerbie bomber's family asks for review of his conviction in Scotland

CNN) -- The family of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi has applied for a review of his conviction in a Scottish court for the 1988 bombing of PanAm Flight 103.

Al Megrahi was found guilty in 2001 of the murders of the 259 passengers and crew on board the flight from London to New York, as well as those of 11 residents of the Scottish town of Lockerbie. He died in 2012 in Libya, having been released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds because he had terminal cancer.

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission confirmed in a statement Thursday that it had received an application to review his conviction in the case.

Dr. Jim Swire, whose 23-year-old daughter Fiona was killed in the bombing, attended court to file the application on behalf of the al Megrahi family, the Commission said. He is also one of the applicants.

Swire does not believe al Megrahi was responsible for the bombing and is among a number of relatives of the victims who have been fighting for the evidence in the case to be re-examined in court.

Al Megrahi previously applied to the commission for a review of his conviction in 2003, and his case was referred to the High Court for a new appeal in 2007, the statement said. However, he subsequently dropped his appeal in 2009.

The commission, a body set up to investigate potential miscarriages of justice, will now look at the new application in order to make a decision about whether to accept it or not, a process that could take months.

If accepted, the application would then go through a review process in order to be sent either to the High Court or back to the applicant, who can then submit further representation.

Chief executive Gerard Sinclair said, "As it does in every case the Commission will now give careful consideration to this new application.

"I previously indicated last month that there are several important matters which will affect the timescale within which the Commission will be able to deal with this fresh application and subsequently, if there is to be a further review of this conviction, any such review will take some time to complete."

Sabrina

6th June 2014, 08:52

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/06/vodafone-reveals-secret-wires-allowing-state-surveillance

6 June

Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance

Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'

Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile phone groups, has revealed the existence of secret wires that allow government agencies to listen to all conversations on its networks, saying they are widely used in some of the 29 countries in which it operates in Europe and beyond.

The company has broken its silence on government surveillance in order to push back against the increasingly widespread use of phone and broadband networks to spy on citizens, and will publish its first Law Enforcement Disclosure Report on Friday . At 40,000 words, it is the most comprehensive survey yet of how governments monitor the conversations and whereabouts of their people.

The company said wires had been connected directly to its network and those of other telecoms groups, allowing agencies to listen to or record live conversations and, in certain cases, track the whereabouts of a customer. Privacy campaigners said the revelations were a "nightmare scenario" that confirmed their worst fears on the extent of snooping.

In Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Malta, Qatar, Romania, South Africa and Turkey, it is unlawful to disclose any information related to wiretapping or interception of the content of phone calls and messages including whether such capabilities exist.

"For governments to access phone calls at the flick of a switch is unprecedented and terrifying," said the Liberty director, Shami Chakrabarti. "[Edward] Snowden revealed the internet was already treated as fair game. Bluster that all is well is wearing pretty thin – our analogue laws need a digital overhaul."

In about six of the countries in which Vodafone operates, the law either obliges telecoms operators to install direct access pipes, or allows governments to do so. The company, which owns mobile and fixed broadband networks, including the former Cable & Wireless business, has not named the countries involved because certain regimes could retaliate by imprisoning its staff.

more at the link

Sabrina

6th June 2014, 09:04

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-05/stress-test-reviewed-tim-geithner-grifter-petty-con-artist

"Stress Test" Reviewed: Tim Geithner Is "A Grifter, A Petty Con Artist"

Tyler Durden on 06/05/2014

via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Geithner is at heart a grifter, a petty con artist with the right manners and breeding to lie at the top echelons of American finance at a moment when the government and financial services industry needed someone to be the face of their multi-trillion dollar three card monte.

He’s going to make his money, now that he’s done living his life of fantastic power after his upbringing of remarkable mysterious privilege. After reading this book and documenting lie after lie after lie, I’m convinced that there’s more here than just a self-serving corrupt official. There’s an entire culture, of figures at Treasury, the Federal Reserve, in the entire Democratic Party elite structure, and in the world of journalism, a culture in which Geithner is seen as some sort of role model.

- From Matt Stoller’s fantastic article published yesterday, The Con-Artist Wing of the Democratic Party

Timothy Geithner is likely to go down in American history as one of the most dangerous, destructive cronies to have ever wielded government power. The man is so completely and totally full of **** it’s almost impossible not to notice. :)

The last thing I’d ever want to do in my free time is read a lengthy book filled with Geithner lies and propaganda, so I owe a large debt of gratitude to former Congressional staffer Matt Stoller for doing it for me. Stoller simply tears Geither apart limb from limb, detailing obvious lies about the financial crisis, and even more interestingly, Geithner’s bizarre bio, replete with mysterious and inexplicable promotions into positions of power.

So without further ado, here are some excerpts from this excellent article. From Vice:

article at link - well worth a read.

and snippets here:

I find it beyond coincidental that Tim Geithner’s father and Barack Obama’s mother both worked at the Ford Foundation in Indonesia at the same time.....

Ultimately, Geithner was a hit man for American democracy—and the middle class that sustained it. Geithner has acknowledged substantial fraud in the crisis, but he won’t even deign to answer why the administration did nothing about the individuals who perpetrated it. He doesn’t discuss distributional questions from the bailout. He sneers at the notion of justice. He argues for “anti-democratic” measures in a financial crisis, including emergency powers for the president similar to those the president has for national security..............

As a result, the liberal faction in the Democratic Party is beginning to grapple with what it means to have grifters setting the course for economic strategy. There is now a debate about whether and how to purge this toxic culture. Geithner probably wishes there weren’t, which is one reason he wrote the book. He actually has to try and justify the horror show he put on. Believe it or not, that’s progress. Next time there’s a crisis, if reformers learn anything from this book, it’s to make sure that there are no Geithner types anywhere near the levers of power.

Sabrina

6th June 2014, 09:12

we are watching some major power struggles going on now.

You're right Rocky Shorz! :)

jerry

8th June 2014, 22:16

What about the suicides that began late last year of all the bankers, I want to say its up to over 30 or more

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the ones that are resigning I feel are hoping to avoid arrests

Sabrina

9th June 2014, 05:42

It seems to have gone quiet on this Jerry. Not sure if anyone has really got the correct figure. They've been listed on this thread before, and Zerohedge covered a lot. Below are some of them, but he hasn't listed all of them - including shooting rather than suicide in Liechenstein. Suicides were always very questionable to many - as in so many unexplained deaths.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/suicide-omen-or-political-murder-2014-banker-death-count-reaches-double-digits/

Suicide, Omen or Political Murder: 2014 Banker Death Count Reaches Double Digits

Another banker death was reported last week, this one in Paris, and when lumped together with the demise of at least a dozen others recently, it certainly appears there might be a conspiracy afoot whose masterminds are targeting them for death.

From the consumer side of the equation it’s not hard to imagine someone might want to kill a banker, or have one killed. A few years ago I hit a financial sinkhole, where the money coming in was far less than the amount of money needing to go out. As a result, I over drafted my bank account by one dollar and some change. This triggered an over-draft fee $35 to be assessed to the account. Rather than settling the account immediately, I opted to pay a few bills, buy some food and let it ride until the next check came in. When I finally put some cash back in the account, I found out it was in the hole by more than $300.

Apparently after so many days with my account in the hole, it triggered another set of fees. This time, it was daily fees of $35 for every day that passed without settling the account. So my mistake of over drafting the account by an amount one no greater than what one might find in change lying underneath the driver’s seat of the car, became a bill equaling more than a minimum wage worker in the US makes in a 40-hour work week.

Practices like these are infuriating, especially when you think about the interest payments that are given to bank customers with healthy accounts. The healthier the account, the more more interest, aka free money, the bank gives you. The more unhealthy the account, the more hard-earned money bank takes from you.

This doesn’t even take into account the banking industry’s culpability in US housing market collapses and other more global economic struggles they have been credited with causing.

So it’s surprising to find an angry mob of consumers aren’t the culprits most often placed at the center of conspiracy theories around the recent deaths. Instead, the predominant conspiracy theories surrounding the deaths claim they are being orchestrated by big shots from the administrative side of the banking industry — government.

A banker, known only as Lydia, leaped from her office window Tuesday, April 22, at Bred-Banque-Populaire in France and fell to her death. She is the tenth banker, and possibly even the 33rd depending on the source, to be killed, or to have committed suicide, in 2014.

A few of the others commonly cited are:

William Broeksmit, a retired risk manager for Deutsche Bank, who was found hanging in his residence Jan. 26.

Karl Slym, managing director of India’s Tata Motors Ltd, who fell to his death from the window of a Bangkok hotel Jan. 26.

Gabriel Magee, a senior IT programmer at JP Morgan’s European headquarters, jumped to his death from Canary Wharf tower in London Jan. 29.

Mike Dueker, chief economist at Russell Investments, fell to his death after going over a fence beside the highway and falling down an embankment near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State Jan. 29.

Richard Talley, founder and CEO of American Title Services, allegedly shot himself at least eight times with a nail gun at his Colorado home Feb. 4 (It should be noted he was being actively investigated by Colorado state insurance regulators for undisclosed reasons).

Tim Dickenson, a communications director for Swiss Re AG in London, was found dead the week of Jan. 20. Details of his death still haven’t been released.

Ryan Henry Crane, a JP Morgan employee, was found dead in his Stamford, Connecticut home Feb. 3. An official cause of death hasn’t been released, but it reportedly hinges upon toxicology test results.

Li Junjie, a junior-level trader working for JP Morgan in Hong Kong, leaped off the JP Morgan building to his death Feb. 18.

Kenneth Bellando, an investment banker with Levy Capital Partners in New York, and former JP Morgan employee, jumped from the roof of his apartment building March 12

James Stuart Jr, a former National Bank of Commerce CEO, who died Feb. 19, is often included in this list, but he was 57 and his cause of death, or whether it was suspected to be suicide, has not been publicly released that I can find, so it might have been one of natural causes.

Either times are tough in the banking industry, or there is something more nefarious at work here.

full story at link (1 May)

Sabrina

9th June 2014, 05:47

Interesting to see what will happen on this one. And no sign of Murdoch in the dock.:(

British phone-hacking trial nears conclusion

8 June

(Reuters) - The jury in the seven-month trial of two ex-Rupert Murdoch editors, one the media mogul's head of British newspapers and the other a close aide to the prime minister, is expected to retire to consider its verdict this week.

Judge John Saunders is likely to finish his summing up of the high-profile case on either Monday or Tuesday, leaving the eight women and three men of the jury to decide the fates of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and five others.

The two were both editors of Murdoch's brash News of the World Sunday tabloid which was shut three years ago as the hacking scandal engulfed his company.

Three former senior news editors from the paper have pleaded guilty to phone-hacking, and the jury at London's historic Old Bailey court will have to decide whether Brooks and Coulson were complicit in the activity.

The case has been one of the country's most high profile in years.

Saunders told the jury at the start of the process the matter of British justice itself was on trial, due to the close relationships that existed between the media elite and members of government and the police.

Brooks and Coulson are on trial for conspiring to hack into voicemails to generate exclusive news and for paying public officials.

Brooks, once one of the most influential women in Britain, faces a separate charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice with her husband and staff.

The issue of voicemail interception at the 168-year-old Murdoch paper first broke into the public conscience in 2007 when its royal editor Clive Goodman and a private detective went to jail for tapping into the messages of aides to the British royal family.

News International, the British newspaper arm of Murdoch's media empire, insisted the practice was limited to a single "rogue reporter".

But due to the severity of the matter, Coulson quit as editor although he said he had not known about the crime at the time.

FACING JAIL

He went on to become the communications director for David Cameron, first in opposition and then in Downing Street when Cameron became prime minister. He was forced to stand down in January 2011 as the scandal intensified.

Brooks, who edited the News of the World from 2000 to 2003, also edited its daily sister paper the Sun before she was promoted to run News International in 2009. She too left the company in 2011 and was arrested shortly afterwards.

Brooks' husband Charlie, a friend of the prime minister, her personal assistant and head of security are also on trial for trying to hinder the police investigation, while Stuart Kuttner, the paper's ex-managing editor, is on trial for conspiring to hack into phones.

Goodman, the former royal editor, is on trial for authorising illegal payments to the police.

All seven defendants deny the charges. If found guilty Brooks and Coulson are likely to face jail.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/08/uk-britain-hacking-idUKKBN0EJ0XN20140608?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

Sabrina

9th June 2014, 06:09

Fortune 500 Companies Store Billions in Offshore Tax Havens

By Wilson Dizard – June 5, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/qaka547

Study finds that at least 362 of America’s biggest corporations use loopholes to avoid paying US taxes
The majority of Fortune 500 companies stash their cash away from the reach of United States authorities in tax havens around the world, keeping $90 billion out of the country’s coffers and placing an extra burden on American citizens, according to a new report released on Thursday.

In 2013, Apple, GE, Microsoft, Pfizer and Merck rounded out the top five in the amount of profit held offshore in subsidiary shell companies, often just post office boxes, located in countries with corporate tax rates far lower than those in the United States, according to the study, conducted by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and the Center for Tax Justice.

Under current U.S. tax code, these companies can defer paying taxes on the offshore money indefinitely since corporations do not have to pay income tax on their overseas profits until that money is brought into the U.S.
Experts say the tax rules that allow this were put in place due to lobbying by the companies that reap the benefits.
“Congress has left loopholes in our tax code that allow this tax avoidance,” the report said.

“Every dollar in taxes that corporations avoid by using tax havens must be balanced by higher taxes on individuals, cuts to public investments and public services, or increased federal debt.”

The companies sometimes spread their profits across hundreds of tax haven subsidiaries. All told, the report identified 7,827 tax havens, and the “30 companies with the most money officially booked offshore for tax purposes collectively operate 1,357 tax haven subsidiaries.”

The Netherlands, Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands are the top five most common places to store profits, the report found. Ireland, in seventh place, is a popular place for subsidiaries of Apple Inc. and Google.
According to the report, Apple, with $111.3 billion offshore, is holding the most money in tax havens, and would owe $36.4 billion in U.S. taxes if the money were taxable.

For at least part of 2013, two of Apple’s subsidiaries in Ireland didn’t pay taxes to any government, according to a Senate investigation cited by the study.

In a 2013 testimony before Congress, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said the company does not use tax gimmicks, Reuters reported. The company declined media requests for comment on the new report.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., called it the “holy grail of tax avoidance,” Reuters reported. Sen. Ron Wyden, the Senate finance committee chairman, has called for repeal of the deferral laws, which he last month called “a rotten carcass that the special interests feast on.”

Bank of America maintains the highest number of tax havens, at 264, while investment firm Morgan Stanley has 226, tied for second place with AES, an energy firm. Coming in third is KKR, a private equity firm, with 157.

These four top a long list of 362 corporations, many of them manufacturers of staples of American life like Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co. or big time technology players, like Google and Cisco systems, which sells networking machines key to Internet infrastructure.

“It’s likely that many more have such subsidiaries and simply don’t disclose them,” said Matt Gardner, executive director of the Institute on Tax and Economic Policy, which provided data for the study.

“The simplest and best solution would be to end deferrals, to stop letting U.S. multinationals defer tax indefinitely on the profits allegedly earned by their foreign subsidiaries,” Gardner added.

But not everyone agrees that ending deferrals will compel companies to bring their profits to the United States. Some say corporate taxes themselves are at the root of tax avoidance.

Kyle E. Pomerleau, an economist with the Tax Foundation, a more fiscally conservative think tank than the Center for Tax Justice or consumer advocate US PIRG, said the tax rates companies would pay in the U.S. are too high for corporations to keep their cash in the U.S.

Pomerleau contends that U.S. tax rates discourage companies from keeping their profits in the country.

“Corporations only have the incentive to reduce their tax bill because the U.S. taxes them at a rate of 35 percent, a rate 10 percentage points higher than what corporations in other industrialized nations face,” he said.

Pomerleau suggested reducing the corporate income tax or moving to a “territorial system,” which would eliminate domestic taxes on foreign profits entirely, to discourage companies from holding money offshore.

In this case, deferrals wouldn’t be an issue, since business friendly tax policies would give U.S. corporations an incentive to hold their profits at home.

Doing away with deferrals, Pomerlaeu said, would make the problem worse, pushing taxable corporate income even farther away from the U.S.

“Ending deferral would create the incentive for corporations to completely relocate overseas, rather than just reduce tax burdens using tax planning,” Pomerleau said.

And Julian Block, a tax attorney in Larchmont, N.Y., says that publicaly traded companies have a responsibility to their shareholders to keep costs low and profits high.

“If these companies failed to take advantage of the tax breaks that are available to them, these companies would be faulted by their shareholders,” Block told Al Jazeera.

Block said political donations and lobbying money from the same companies that benefit from tax loopholes are keeping that status quo in place.

“The government has shown itself willing to do that which will not displease groups that make significant political contributions,” Block told Al Jazeera.

Apple, Inc. spent more than $3.3 million lobbying in 2013, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Block said that eliminating loopholes is within the power of politicians.

“It’s not an impossible task for Congress to do so,” he added. “It’s a matter of the willingness of Congress to do so.”

Sabrina

9th June 2014, 06:13

Pope Francis Overhauls Vatican Financial Watchdog

By Liam Moloney, WSJ – June 6, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/pnmpzej

ROME— Pope Francis took another step in his drive to clean up finances at the Holy See after years of scandals by naming international experts to the board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency, replacing an all-Italian panel.

The Vatican said the pope, the first non-European pontiff in about 1,400 years, named the four experts to the board of the Financial Information Authority, or AIF, which is the regulator overseeing the Holy See’s financial institutions. Their term lasts for five years.

The four new board members, which for the first time includes a woman, are from Italy, Singapore and the U.S., as well as Franco-German national. They replaced an all-Italian board made up of five members that had been named by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011. The old board was associated with the financial establishment tied to Pope Francis’ predecessor.
Pope Francis, who was elected pontiff just over one year ago after the historic resignation of Pope Benedict, says he is determined to bring an end to the financial scandals that have embarrassed the Catholic Church in past years.

“The key is trying to avoid that there are more of them [financial scandals],” Pope Francis told reporters on a flight to Rome from Israel at the end of May. “Economic administration calls for honesty and transparency.”

Thursday’s decision to replace the AIF board is an indication of the strong support René Brülhart, who is the director of the Vatican’s internal regulatory watchdog, has with the pope and his entourage.

Mr. Brülhart, a Swiss who was Liechtenstein’s previous anti-money-laundering regulator, was named director at AIF in 2012, two years after the watchdog was set up to bring Vatican finances in line with international standards for transparency and the prevention of laundering.

Last month, Mr. Brülhart, while presenting AIF’s work in 2013, said the Vatican had made considerable progress in putting up measures to combat financial crimes, but that more was needed.

AIF registered 202 suspicious financial transactions in 2013, a jump from the six reported the year before. Most of these were regarding the Vatican bank or, as it is formally called, the Institute for the Works of Religion, or IOR. Five of the 202 transactions were sent to the Vatican prosecutors for further investigation, up from one in 2012.

Pope Francis decided in April to keep IOR open, ending speculation about whether he would shut it down following years of scandals. Chairman Ernst von Freyberg, a German who was appointed in February 2013 by Pope Benedict, has spearheaded IOR’s efforts to bring the bank in line with international anti-money-laundering standards.

Pope Francis said onboard the papal plane last month that about 1,600 IOR accounts had been closed so far of people deemed not to have a reason for having one.

The new board gives the AIF a clearly more international profile. It includes Juan Carlos Zarate, a lecturer at Harvard Law School and a former head at the U.S. Treasury combating terrorist financing and financial crimes.

The other new board members are Marc Odendall, who has French and German nationalities, and who has worked for Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Chase in the past before going into philanthropy; Joseph Yuvaraj Pillay, an adviser to the president of Singapore; and Maria Bianca Farina, an Italian specialized in insurance.

The new board “goes in the direction of an internationalizing” the board, said Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Holy See spokesman.

The Vatican also said that jurist Tommaso Di Ruzza, who already worked there, was named interim deputy director of AIF.

According to the Vatican statement, Pope Francis thanked the former members of the board for their work.

Sabrina

9th June 2014, 06:26

Just after the Irish story of 800 plus bodies of young children/babies found in a septic tank grave in home for unmarried mothers run by nuns. Looking forward to investigations and arrests on those in authority compliant and involved in all of this - and the real truth behind it. Meanwhile, as some say, millions are spent on reinvestigating just one child - Madeline MCann - who went missing in a Portuguese holiday resort (and all the question marks with that case).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2651980/Britains-missing-babies-How-Thousands-children-disappeared-council-care-two-years-one-infant-found.html

8 June UK

Britain's missing babies: How thousands of children have disappeared from council care in the last two years – and one infant still can't be found

Almost 5,000 children - including babies - disappeared from council care

19 babies have vanished for months at a time, the figures reveal

The statistics, unveiled under FOI, have been called 'alarming' by NSPCC

Almost 5,000 children - including babies - have disappeared from council care in the past two years, new figures have revealed.

Nineteen babies have vanished for months at a time, and one infant - just a few months old - has still not been found two years later.

The figures have been unveiled under a freedom of information request.

They show that 4,852 looked-after children were reported missing between January 2012 and December 2013, the Sunday Times reports.

There were 24,320 cases logged - as many disappeared more than once. The large majority were teenagers but dozens of those who disappeared were between four and nine years old.

The number includes a one-year-old girl missing since July 2013.

full story at link

aviators

9th June 2014, 12:16

What about the suicides that began late last year of all the bankers, I want to say its up to over 30 or more[COLOR="red"]

Another potential suspicious crash.
Billionaire Lewis Katz and six others die as his private jet crashes and catches fire on the runway - just days after he won bitter battle for control of Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645161/Private-plane-seven-people-board-crashes-runway-taking-Atlantic-City.html

Sabrina

9th June 2014, 21:54

http://hipknowsys.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/benjamin-fulford-june-9-2014-emergency.html?m=1

Monday, June 9, 2014

Benjamin Fulford - June 9, 2014: Emergency meetings of Western elite fail to break financial deadlock, US implosion now
looms

The emergency G7 plus Russia (but not G8) meeting last week has left the corporate government of the United States isolated from Europe and on the brink of bankruptcy. This French Government video of US corporate lackey Barack Obama meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly shows Obama asking for something and being denied.

https://vine.co/v/MD5Lu5LKvrT

It now clear to everybody who is paying attention that the United States is bankrupt and is being kept on life support by fraud (eg. tiny Belgium buying all those Treasuries) and by the ongoing rape of Japan. This situation is untenable and the formal declaration of the bankruptcy of the United States of America Corporation is coming soon, according to Japanese government sources.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia last week suddenly cancelled long planned meetings with US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, IMF head Christine Lagarde and World Bank head Jim Yong Kim, even though Australia is scheduled to host the G20 summit in November. Does Abbot think these US corporate government institutions will not last until then?

The declaration of bankruptcy of the US corporate government would also mark the end of a 2000 year project by the Roman Empire to create a worldwide fascist dictatorship or New World Order, multiple sources agree.

The Nazi/Zionist response to their looming defeat is to threaten to unleash over 10,000 “blonde Al Qaeda,” terrorists on Europe and the US.

http://www.debka.com/article/23969/Thousands-of-al-Qaeda-terrorists-are-on-the-loose-in-US-and-Europe-%E2%80%93-under-the-radar-of-Western-intelligence

The ongoing mercenary attacks in the Ukraine and the recently manufactured China/Vietnam crisis are other snarls of this dying Nazi Zionist beast.

There is also obviously something very unusual going on with the IMF, with Director Christine Lagarde asking in public if she has to “get on her knees and beg.” Ostensibly, the begging is about mistaken IMF predictions for the UK economy but, the real reason is that the IMF is bankrupt, MI5 sources say.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2652019/Do-I-knees-IMF-chief-Lagarde-faces-calls-apologise-Osborne-getting-wrong-UK-growth.html

That is also why Lagarde talked publicly last week about moving the IMF to China. The IMF may be shopping for a new sugar daddy but, China has better options than to finance an institution with as dismal a track record as that of the IMF.

Last week was also notable in that the hitherto secretive Bilderberg Group publicly came out and said they wanted to overthrow the current two party system of government in the United States.

William Van Duyn, a person who managed to stay under the radar until now, has now made public the opening speech he made at the recent Bilderberg meeting in Denmark.

http://pentracks.com/blog/2014/05/william-c-van-duyns-opening-remarks-bilderberg-mtg-2014/

In this speech, Van Duyn says it was his ancestors who “made sure the Eye is on the [U.S.] dollar bill.” This is the eye that has NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM or New World Order written under it. He also said “No president, no king, no dictator, nor prime minister dares to criticize my name nor the Bilderbergers, and they know they are the puppets of the powerful Illuminati working from behind the scenes.” This was followed later by “The subject of this Bilderberg meeting is the One World Government.”

Van Duyn concluded that from now own Bilderberg would rule in public and “control every movement within any government…create the rules…decide about nations policy.”

What he does not seem to realize is that secrecy was needed for them to rule and without it, they will lose power. Rule by murder, bribery and brainwashing needs secrecy or else it will invite rebellion.

The very fact they have gone public shows we are seeing the sort of rare information that only comes out at moments of regime change. For example, around the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, insiders revealed such things as the plans to turn the EU into the new Soviet Union, while ordinary Russians learned bad things they had never heard about their heroes Stalin, Lenin etc.

Another sign that it is not business as usual is that the European Central Bank has decided to start using negative interest rates. This means that if you keep money in the bank, it will start to vanish. The idea is to stimulate the economy by forcing people to spend their money instead of keeping in the bank. Also, to prevent people from just hoarding cash instead having their money in automatically shrinking accounts, the banks have begun to limit how much cash people can remove from their bank accounts. This unprecedented move is a public admission of economic desperation in the EU.

In the meantime, indications the Europeans are trying to overthrow the US Nazi regime have become visible on many levels. Most notably, the governments of Europe have now stopped using the US dollar to pay for their Russian or Middle Eastern gas and oil imports. If the largest economic bloc in the world is moving away from the petro-dollar, then the Federal Reserve Board petro-dollar is doomed.

It was also painfully obvious that nobody was going along anymore with Nazi/Zionist lies that Putin had invaded the Ukraine. Instead, the Germans and French have been working with the Russians to put down the Nazionist mercenary armies fighting in the Ukraine.

The Nazionist forces are not going down without a fight. They have compelled their Japanese slave colony to send troops into the Ukraine, according to Japanese Defense Ministry sources. There is also an article in the Japanese language version of the Russian Government Ria Novosti News Service confirming this claim.

http://japanese.ruvr.ru/news/2014_06_07/nihon-ukuraina

The Japanese troops were sent there to put pressure on Russia to agree to a G7 plan for a new financial system, according to a Japan based CIA source.

The Russians are pushing instead to strengthen the BRICS mechanism and say technical preparation for a BRICS bank are well under way. The fact that Argentina is now talking about joining the BRICS alliance is very interesting because this is where Pope Francis hails from, meaning the Vatican could be switching to the BRICS side.

full story at link

and

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/david-wilcock-comments-on-the-latest-ben-fulford-post/

David Wilcock Comment(s) on the latest Ben Fulford post…

“There are other things in this update that are very interesting and corroborate what I am hearing. Regarding the impending bankruptcy announcement of the USG, the main thing we are surprised about is why it hasn’t already happened.

“The plan for a major new financial agreement is already in place and moving forward. The progress is not always apparent but the mass clean-up of the Vatican financial system this past week [link] is another sign that they are buckling down. And as I said last week, Soros liquidating his Federal Reserve Bank stocks completely is a huge sign.”

Comment by dwilcock on June 10, 2014 @ 2:42 am

I had been reading the previous article, hit Refresh and bam — up comes the picture of charred corpses. Good thing this was before breakfast. I was trying to figure out what I was looking at when it first came up.

Now that I’ve said that, I will go back and read this and give my thoughts. Supposedly the BRICS bank is coming online as of the first of next month. We may very well see some major developments after that happens.

- David

Comment by dwilcock on June 10, 2014 @ 3:02 am

OK… the alleged Van Duyn speech.

I just read it and we have to be careful with this, because to me it sounds like a “straw man”, written by someone on the inside, so that it sounds good to people like us who read about this stuff but can then be disproven.

I highly doubt that this speech took place the way it is written. It is possible, but it would be quite a surprise for an opening speech like this to have openly referred to their group as “the Illuminati” repeatedly. Not everyone who goes to Bilderberg meetings is aware of what is really going on… it’s just another layer within layers. If a term like the Illuminati was openly aired as if everyone was on the same page, it could trigger laughter or potentially even some walkouts.

There are other things in this update that are very interesting and corroborate what I am hearing. Regarding the impending bankruptcy announcement of the USG, the main thing we are surprised about is why it hasn’t already happened.

The plan for a major new financial agreement is already in place and moving forward. The progress is not always apparent but the mass clean-up of the Vatican financial system this past week [link] is another sign that they are buckling down. And as I said last week, Soros liquidating his Federal Reserve Bank stocks completely is a huge sign.

- David

Sabrina

10th June 2014, 07:05

Some pretty loud signals here from Lagarde ..

Beijing-Based IMF? Christine Lagarde Ponders China Gaining on US Economy

By Sandrine Rastello, Business Week – June 6, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/kkvw6ar

The International Monetary Fund’s headquarters may one day shift to Beijing from Washington, aligning with China’s growing influence in the world economy, the fund’s managing director said.

Christine Lagarde, speaking late today in London, said IMF rules require the main office be located in the country that is the biggest shareholder, which the U.S. has been since the fund was formed 70 years ago.

The IMF founding members “decided that the institution would be headquartered in the country which had the biggest share of the quota, which chipped in the biggest amount and contributed most. And that is still today the United States,” she said in response to questions at the London School of Economics.

“But the way things are going, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these days the IMF was headquartered in Beijing for instance,” she said. “It would be the articles of the IMF that would dictate it.”

Lagarde said the IMF has a good relationship with China, the world’s second largest economy and she praised the government’s commitment to fighting corruption.

She had less kind things to say about the U.S., which remains the “outlier” among Group of 20 countries to approve an overhaul of the ownership of the 188-member organization. The plan would give emerging markets more influence and would elevate China to the third-largest member nation.

Lagarde said there is “frustration by countries like China, like Brazil, like India, with the lack of progress in reforming the IMF by adopting the quota reform that would give emerging-market economies a bigger voice, a bigger vote, a bigger share in the institution and I share that frustration immensely.”

“The credibility of the institution, its relevance in the world in conducting the mission that it was assigned 70 years ago is highly correlated with its good representation of the membership,” she said. “We cannot have a good representation of the membership when China has a teeny tiny share of quota, share of voice when it has grown to where it has grown.”

Sabrina

11th June 2014, 06:57

More political upheaval - this time the other side of the pond from the Euro elections.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-na-pn-cantor-loses-to-tea-party-challenger-20140610-story.html

10 June US

Washington reels as House's Eric Cantor loses to tea party challenger

In a shocking political defeat guaranteed to upend Republican Party politics, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia lost his primary election Tuesday to a tea party newcomer who hammered the No. 2 leader on immigration reform. It was the first downfall of a congressional leader in a generation......

"This is the political version of the San Francisco earthquake," said Stuart Rothenberg, who publishes the Rothenberg Political Report, a nonpartisan analysis of elections. "It came out of nowhere."

Sabrina

11th June 2014, 07:01

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/09/us/oldest-man-dies/index.html?eref=edition

9 June

New York (CNN) -- A 111-year-old New Yorker who had been certified as the oldest man in the world has died.

and

Number 111 symbolizes the principles of spiritual awakening and enlightenment, high energy, inspiration and intuition, self-expression and sensitivity.

wake up world :) (well the people I mean... and many seem to be doing just that)...

Sabrina

11th June 2014, 07:17

World cup fiasco on a number of levels - much corruption being uncovered in the spiralling costs of the event in Brasil and many demonstrations happening now, plus the Qatar story. Blatter may have a resignation party against his wishes at some stage perhaps ....

http://news.sky.com/story/1279758/blatter-row-intensifies-on-eve-of-world-cup

11 June

Blatter Row Intensifies On Eve Of World Cup

On the eve of the global sporting spectacle, Fifa's under-fire president is likely to announce he will stand for re-election.

Under-fire Sepp Blatter is expected to ignore calls for him to step aside as Fifa president by confirming he will stand for re-election on the eve of the World Cup.

The head of football's world governing body has come in for fierce criticism, particularly in Britain, over allegations of corruption surrounding the 2022 tournament in Qatar..........

The row over Mr Blatter's future, coupled with claims Qatar used its political connections and natural gas wealth to help win the right to host the World Cup four years ago, have overshadowed the build-up to this year's tournament, which gets under way in Brazil on Thursday.

Organisers have faced a race against time to finish the country's 12 host stadiums, where eight construction workers have been killed.

The cost of infrastructure improvements has spiralled, with many projects falling way behind schedule, not least in Sao Paulo, where a key monorail link will not be finished on time......

A strike by subway staff in Sao Paulo, where Brazil face Croatia in the opening match, has further hampered preparations.

Workers, who have clashed with police in the city centre, have threatened to walk out again on the day the World Cup starts.

The cost of the staging the event has sparked further protests, with a recent poll suggesting two in five Brazilians think vital funds have been diverted from essential services like hospitals and schools.

Sabrina

11th June 2014, 07:40

Following on from story 3047, it's now been uncovered that that orphans were involved in illegal medial trials...

From RT.com – June 9, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/neoylal

New Catholic Church Child Abuse Vaccine Revelation: Thousands of Irish Orphans Were Used as ‘Drug Guinea Pigs’

Over 2,000 care-home kids were secretly vaccinated against diphtheria in the 1930s in medical trials undertaken by international drugs giant Burroughs Wellcome, Irish media reveal. Among the testing sites was a recently discovered mass grave.

The medical records cited by the Irish Daily Mail show that some 2,051 children and babies across several Irish care homes may have been subjected to the practice.

Michael Dwyer, of Cork University’s School of History, found the data after foraging through tens of thousands of archive files and old medical journals. What he did not find is whether any consent was gained for these alleged illegal drug trials or any records of the effects on the infants involved.

Dwyer discovered that the tests were carried out shortly before the drugs were made readily available in the UK. The homes involved included Bessborough, County Cork, and Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, County Tipperary.

“What I have found is just the tip of a very large and submerged iceberg,” Dwyer told the paper. “The fact that reports of these trials were published in the most prestigious medical journals suggests that this type of human experimentation was largely accepted by medical practitioners and facilitated by authorities in charge of children’s residential institutions.”

more at link

Sabrina

14th June 2014, 20:43

http://itccs.org/2014/06/11/breaking-news-from-the-trial-of-pope-francis-issued-by-the-citizen-prosecutors-office-brussels-wednesday-june-11-2014-public-information-bulletin-no-5/

More from the ITCCS, including info. on the irish children's home bodies as above.

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http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/24156-supreme-court-orders-bp-to-pay-up

On BP

Supreme Court Orders BP to Pay Up

By Lindsay Abrams, Salon
10 June 14

The company must continue to pay all claims until its appeal is heard, the court said

P’s proven that it can and will continue to fight to keep from paying settlement fees to businesses that lack definitive proof that they’ve suffered economic losses from the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill. In January, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision to approve a multibillion dollar settlement, ruling that the terms of the deal required BP to pay up regardless of whether or not the claims were legitimate.

But while the company waits for the Supreme Court to hear its appeal, the justices announced Monday, it must continue to pay all claims, even the ones it’s contesting. The AP reports:

Steve Herman and Jim Roy, lead attorneys for businesses and individuals who have filed claims against BP, said in a one-sentence statement that the order “will allow businesses to continue to receive the compensation they’re rightly entitled to according to the objective, transparent formulas agreed to by BP.”

BP will ask the high court to review whether it must pay claims without any apparent connection to the spill, company spokesman Geoff Morrell said in an emailed statement.

“The company continues to believe that the lifting of the injunction suspending the payment of business economic loss claims will allow hundreds of millions of dollars to be irretrievably scattered to claimants whose losses were not plausibly caused by the Deepwater Horizon accident,” he wrote.
BP’s already paid out about $12 billion in claims, and faces more penalties when it again stands trial, next January, for Clean Water Act violations. But it looks like this is one battle it’s not going to win. Here’s the AP again:

The order indicates that the high court is unlikely to hear BP’s appeal, said Loyola University law professor Blaine LeCesne, who is not involved in the case. BP contends that that the claims administrator is misinterpreting its agreement with many businesses.

“It’s obviously a major victory for the plaintiffs, who can now proceed with processing these business economic loss claims,” he said. “Given the several months interim before the Supreme Court rules on the appeal, likely many of these claims will have been processed and paid.”

Sabrina

15th June 2014, 23:25

Rockefeller Heir Killed in Small Plane Crash Near New York City

By Curtis Skinner, Reuters – June 13, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/nqx2els

(Reuters) – The great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller was killed on Friday when his small plane crashed in fog and rain shortly after taking off from a suburban New York airport, a family spokesman and the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Dr. Richard Rockefeller, 64, of Falmouth, Maine, was piloting the Piper PA-46 aircraft when it went down about 10 minutes after takeoff from Westchester County Airport in Purchase, 23 miles (37 km) north of New York City, family spokesman Fraser Seitel and the FAA said.

He was the only person on board, according to an FAA statement.

Rockefeller flew to New York on Thursday to have dinner with his father, banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, who was celebrating his 99th birthday, and was returning home to Maine, Seitel said.

Conditions at the airport on Friday morning were poor, and visibility was low, said Peter Scherrer, the airport’s manager, at a news conference.

“There were foggy conditions outside. You can only see about a quarter mile down the runway,” he said. “Those are extreme conditions for the airport.”

Several flights had taken off but many others had been canceled, he said.

“Richard was an experienced pilot, who had flown for many years,” Seitel said.

The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.

Rockefeller took off at 8:08 a.m., but his single-engine plane soon disappeared from radar, the airport manager said.

It crashed into trees on a horse farm about a half mile away in Purchase, New York, 23 miles (37 km) north of New York City, local police said. It broke into many pieces, and debris was spread about 100 feet (30 meters), police said.

The plane narrowly missed a house that was occupied, officials said.

Rockefeller was one of six children of David Rockefeller, a former chairman of Chase Manhattan Corporation and grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller.

He practiced and taught medicine in Portland, Maine, until 2000, has served on the advisory board to Doctors Without Borders and was a former chairman of the Rockefeller Family Fund, according to his biography on the fund’s website.

Rockefeller frequently flew in and out of the small suburban airport, where about 400 planes take off and land each day, the manager said.

He was married and had two grown children, his biography said.

14 June

Sabrina

15th June 2014, 23:29

Sunday, 15 June 2014

Pope Francis Warns The Global Economy Is Near Collapse - "an economy built on money-worship and war cannot survive" -

The global economic system is near collapse, according to Pope Francis.

An economy built on money-worship and war and scarred by yawning inequality and youth unemployment cannot survive, the 77-year-old Roman Catholic leader suggested in a newly published interview.

“We are excluding an entire generation to sustain a system that is not good,” he told La Vanguardia’s Vatican reporter, Henrique Cymerman. (Read an English translation here -http://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicnews/2014/06/pope-francis-interview-with-la-vanguardia-full-text/#ixzz34XQikRFJ ) “Our global economic system can’t take any more.”

The pontiff said he was especially concerned about youth unemployment, which hit 13.1 percent last year, according to a report by the International Labor Organization.

"The rate of unemployment is very worrisome to me, which in some countries is over 50 percent," he said. "Someone told me that 75 million young Europeans under 25 years of age are unemployed. That is an atrocity."

That 75 million is actually the total for the whole world, according to the ILO, but that is still too much youth unemployment.

Pope Francis denounced the influence of war and the military on the global economy in particular:

“We discard a whole generation to maintain an economic system that no longer endures, a system that to survive has to make war, as the big empires have always done,” he said.

"But since we cannot wage the Third World War, we make regional wars," he added. "And what does that mean? That we make and sell arms. And with that the balance sheets of the idolatrous economies -- the big world economies that sacrifice man at the feet of the idol of money -- are obviously cleaned up."

Pope Francis is gaining a reputation for pointed comments on the global economy. In April, amid feverish media coverage of French economist Thomas Piketty's bombshell book on income inequality, he made clear his stance on the widening wealth gap with a tweet saying: "Inequality is the root of social evil."

Read more -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/pope-francis-economy_n_5491831.html?utm_hp_ref=business

Sabrina

17th June 2014, 07:23

http://hipknowsys.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/benjamin-fulford-june-16-2014-are-all.html

Benjamin Fulford's latest at link here, and comments on Dr Richard Rockefeller's recent death in a plane crash from the piece here (as covered in story 3056 above):

Which brings us to note it is unlikely to be a coincidence that on Friday the 13th, on the day of a full moon closest to the Summer Solstice, a day of extreme occult symbolism, Richard Rockefeller, son of David Rockefeller, died in a plane crash.

This is what MI5 had to say about this crash: “the Piper crashed about 10 minutes after take-off which means that it could have reached pressurization altitude. Any problem with this process may have caused the pilot oxygen starvation. Alongside fuel cut-off and explosion, this is a trusted method of aviation sabotage.”

The WDS was not involved in this incident in any way and extends its condolences to David Rockefeller and his family.

However, a CIA source, for his part, says that all senior cabal members are targets.

and reader's comment on this here:

Advocatus DeiJune 16, 2014 at 5:06 PM
Friday the 13 th David Rockerfeller's son died in a freak accident reminds us that on Friday the 13 th Pierre Trudeau's son - Michel - died in a freak accident.

Both deaths appear to use the symbolism of Friday the 13 th. that traces its history to the day the Knights Templar were rounded up by the Pope and the King of France

more at http://www.waterwarcrimes.com

and comments from David Wilcock on Benjamin F's piece here:

http://benjaminfulford.net/2014/06/16/are-all-of-these-emergency-meetings-of-world-leaders-leading-to-some-big-announcement/#comment-271343

Comment by dwilcock on June 17, 2014 @ 3:09 am

OK… it seems like everyone here agrees that the intel about the ISIS invasion being a positive thing is incorrect.

Infowars has already done a great deal of work to show that this is more Cabal stuff.

Furthermore, isn’t it interesting that this invasion by a group with the Cabal-friendly name ISIS happened after the Neocons suffered a stunning defeat last week, where they lost the House Majority Leader to an unknown.

This occurred after Drudge Report had nothing but a wall of headlines about illegal immigration for two days. The scariest thing for the Cabal is that Drudge probably was the main reason why Brat won out over Cantor.

In case you haven’t tracked this story, here’s a big “reveal”: (story 3051 above on this thread- Sabrina)

Republican House Majority Leader Loses to Unknown Tea Party Challenger

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-10/with-eric-cantors-loss-the-republican-civil-war-is-about-to-explode

If you don’t follow politics closely, suffice it to say that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s upset loss to a gadfly challenger in Tuesday’s GOP primary is the equivalent of a No. 16 seed beating a No. 1 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament. No sitting majority leader had ever lost in a primary. And this wasn’t a buzzer-beater. Randolph-Macon College economics professor David Brat, a Tea Party activist, beat Cantor handily, 56 percent to 44 percent. Nooooooobody saw this coming.

This is a big deal on a number of levels. First, it eliminates what little chance remained that the House would pass some sort of immigration reform legislation this year. Cantor was hardly an outspoken advocate for reform. But he was a known sympathizer, which earned him the enmity of many conservatives. His loss probably also diminishes the likelihood that House Republicans will pass legislation next year, too, for reasons I’ll get to in a minute.

Second, Cantor’s loss blows a hole in the House GOP leadership team, where he was second-in-command and thought to be the Speaker-in-waiting when John Boehner retires—an event that quite a few people thought might occur at the end of this Congress….

Third, Cantor’s loss will greatly exacerbate the ongoing civil war within the Republican Party, both at the congressional and presidential level….

[End quote]

The Neocons do represent one faction of the Cabal that is more heavily tied to Israel and the Rockefellers. There has always been a direct parallel between the needs of Israel and the moves of the Neocons.

I actually love the Jewish people and I am not in any way racist. My best friend in HS was Jewish, several of my best college buddies were Jewish and one of my ex-girlfriends is Jewish — so please don’t hit me with that accusation.

It is simply a fact that we have a government in Israel that learned the Cabal “bag of tricks” and then turned against them and created their own faction, because they didn’t want to be the sacrificial lamb for the New World Order plan.

The Neocons have been bribed, blackmailed, threatened and utterly terrified by this very small group within the top echelons of Israel for quite some time. This group is utterly dependent upon oil money for its survival, and losing the House majority voting rights to the Tea Party — which is NOT on the inside — is a critical kick in the crotch. Very, very bad. They now cannot pass ANY legislation and have been effectively destroyed.

They have been behind Syria, Ukraine and now this. It’s all a mad dash to try to create a war, to bump up the price of oil, and to create opportune chaos.

If you read the comments sections in various articles about this, NO ONE wants to go back into Iraq. There are so many other areas with horrific conflicts and we’re still nursing the Iraq hangover with icepacks rubber-banded to both sides of our head and an economy that is significantly worse than GDI (that’s Great Depression I as opposed to GDII, which started in 2008 and still hasn’t resolved.)

I do believe this is all leading to a positive outcome, and I also believe this Iraq move is poorly planned, ill-advised and doomed to fail. It literally appears they took the same “dirty tricks crew” that tried to start trouble in Syria and just drove them over to Iraq.

Nothing seems to be working out for these guys right now and as they get weaker and weaker, they make bad mistakes. This is another example. They followed occult protocol by using the female aspect of Lucifer’s name, Isis, as the name of the invasion. That’s part of their religion.

Anyway, Ben obviously has people passing him disinformation. A simple reverse image search on Google could have revealed that the charred bodies photo already existed, and yet the MI5 guy passed it to him as being something else. Intel people are smart, and this was not an accident. The intel Ben got on Iraq also seems to be disinformation.

Nonetheless, the BRICS move to defeat the Cabal is real. The change is inevitable. What is up for question, still, is whether this will all culminate in some sort of mega-event and political announcement or whether it will occur in an ongoing series of unfolding events over time.

It is hard to know the answer to that. The resources are certainly in place for a mega-event, and the only thing they needed was to have an alternative financial system in place. That is now happening. So while it may seem like the ultimate pipe dream, I still do not rule out that we may get a “Moment of Truth.”

I do intend to finish up a pending article on this stuff in the coming week at divinecosmos.com.

- David

Sabrina

17th June 2014, 07:31

http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/6172014-alert-isis-execution-photos-faked-photoshop-mistake-and-wardrobe-malfunction/

More untruths being revealed and picked up by main stream media. Pix are at Dutchsinse's link:

6/17/2014 — ALERT! “ISIS” EXECUTION PHOTOS FAKED… PHOTOSHOP MISTAKE, AND WARDROBE “MALFUNCTION”

JUNE 16, 2014 MICHAEL JANITCH

Breaking news 8hours after posting this, June 16 2014.. 11am CT !!!

Main stream media now asking ‘are the Isis photos fake’…….

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-crisis-are-isis-execution-photos-fake-1452833

“Isis captioned the photos with the claim that “hundreds have been liquidated”, and boasted on a militant website that the horrific images provide evidence that 1,700 Iraqi government soldiers have been killed by Sunni fighters. Meanwhile Iraq’s chief military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, confirmed the photos’ authenticity.

Moussawi also told AP that an analysis of the images by military experts showed that about 170 soldiers were executed by militants after their capture.

However Erin Evers, Human Rights Watch researcher in Iraq said: “We’re trying to verify the pics, and I am not convinced they are authentic.”

Original post below:

Main stream media is running the “Isis mass execution” story. All the reports reference a series of videos and pictures released by “Isis”.

However, it would appear that someone who did the photos from “Isis” forgot to add a new layer in photoshop when adding “dead” bodies .

Look at the men in the grey and black striped shirts… look at the mans belt for the blue brush error, look at the shirts photo cut and paste mismatch… blue added multiple times in other picture as well.

Whoops! Propaganda caught red handed. Meaning the bodies (at least at the bottom) are added in or altered .. meaning fakery is at work here ….

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Shirt color bleedover, and a cut off color by a photoshop layer mistake, hair color on man in green shirt has been fully altered / added. Mistake tinge of blue on the grey striped mans belt! Referee sports jersey in the middle…
Photoshop color error, and blue brush error… same blue showing up added to other images…

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And, any observant person would notice the other obvious sign of a scripted event…. whats with all the different new soccer jerseys and blue pants on many different men.

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Jihadist photoshop fakery… omg obvious!! Isis … must have hired a n00b to do the propaganda…
Look at these photoshop edges around our jihadist cutouts… or is it even more low tech…. cardboard cutouts???

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Green coming off the top of the cab of the truck…. the camo has been ADDED into the image… the brown camo behind the guy pointing his finger goes AROUND his cutout!!!!!!!!! Lolololol
Look at the truck bedliner!!! Lolololol.. er… no bedliner I mean..

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Here is tatoott’s video on the subject:

Iraq Crisis: Are Isis Execution Photos Fake?

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http://pamelageller.com/2014/06/al-graphic-jihad-group-isis-releases-photos-mass-execution.html/

Different shots , all showing the same common thread…… many more images can be found by doing the search here… these particular images come DIRECTLY from the Isis “program”…. er… “production”.

https://www.google.com/search?q=isis+execution&client=firefox-a&hs=MF9&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=A6meU-ueOcK3yASw9oHwCw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1920&bih=920

unedited originals below:

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Sabrina

23rd June 2014, 19:04

133 G77 Nations Vow to Destroy America’s New World Order

http://americanoutrage.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=757

June 17, 2014. Bolivia. The American and European media are doing everything they can to black this news out. But it’s not going to stay a secret for long. As of this weekend, there’s a new New World Order on Earth and its enemy is the United States, the EU, the UN Security Council and the world’s shadow government led by the IMF and WTO. This new alliance of poor countries wouldn’t be much of a threat, except it includes two-thirds of the world’s nations including China and India.

It’s a sad day for the American people when their government and state-sponsored news industry blacks out such an important news story. Americans actually have to rely on outlets like the Havana Times in Cuba, The Times of India, and United Nations press releases. There’s a reason this news is being censored across the West. And it’s only the latest global news story over the past two weeks on this subject blacked out from the American people. Read on to find out why.

End of the New World Order

When the richest and most powerful nations on Earth formed the G7, G8, G20 and the like, they united to combine their dominance over the remaining 175 countries that make up humanity. And for decades, the wealthiest 20 countries led by the US have gotten exponentially more wealthy at the expense of the poorest 175 nations, who in turn have gotten even poorer. That’s been the result of the West’s ‘New World Order’, led mainly by self-appointed global governments like the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization.

133 of those 175 countries have had enough of the New World Order’s rigged global financial system based in New York and London. They’ve seen their economies destroyed by corrupt corporations and global governments that create a cycle of never-ending dependence and poverty. They’ve seen their nations’ vast resources stolen by multinational corporations. Their agriculture landscape has been poisoned. Their citizens bankrupted by the IMF and Wall Street. And their democratically elected leaders overthrown by foreign agents from countries like the US.

They’ve had enough of the New World Order. And an alliance of 133 countries, two-thirds of the nations on Earth, signed an agreement this weekend to end the West’s New World Order and replace it with a fair, honest and legitimate World Order - one that lets everyone participate and benefit, not just the super rich.

The Next World Order

The organization is officially called the ‘Group of 77 and China’, but the alliance actually includes 133 nations. Showing just how much influence they have, their meeting this weekend in Bolivia was opened with a keynote speech by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In the audience were over 30 heads of state from around the world and official representatives from over 100 more governments. Also illustrating the organization’s growing influence, China isn’t even a member of the G77, but insisted on participating anyway in a show of unity with the globe’s Next World Order.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro participated, telling the gathered nations they had to unite to, “fight for fair and sustainable economic growth and for a new world economic order.” Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa went one step further, telling the gathered national leaders and representatives, “Only when we are united across Latin America and united around the world will we be able to make our voice heard and change an international order that is not just unfair, it is immoral.”

A report from AFP on Yahoo News, about the only report found in Western media, describes how Cuban President Raul Castro also participated, but reserved his comments for a call to help their top ally Venezuela. Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and a number of South American countries have insisted they are currently under attack by the United States and the CIA, who they insist are desperately trying to orchestrate coups to overthrow their democratically elected, pro-socialist governments the same way they are accused of doing in the Ukraine recently.

Iran and the UN

An announcement published by the United Nations this weekend touts UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s enthusiastic participation in the G77 meeting. It discusses how important this massive alliance is to the goals of the UN, particularly with regard to reversing the world’s growing economic inequality among nations. Moon and the UN are also sponsoring a separate but related meeting of nations in September to draft new climate resolutions to be enacted in 2015.

The announcement describes a private meeting between the UN Secretary General and Iran’s Vice President, ‘On the margins of today's summit, Mr. Ban met with the First Vice President of Iran, Eshaq Jahangiri, to discuss development issues, as well as the potential role that Iran could play in restoring stability in Iraq and Syria. The Secretary-General added that he looked forward to Iran's positive involvement on climate change and said he very much hoped that President Hassan Rouhani would attend the climate summit this September.’ The report also says the two leaders discussed Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the coming July deadline for compliance with past mandates.

Threats of America’s “second Vietnam”

Many of the government leaders in attendance took the opportunity to strike a blow against what they consider to be the biggest enemy of world peace, democracy and economic freedom - the United States. One leader even went as far as calling out President Obama by name and threatening the United States with a second Vietnam.

As reported by the Times of India, the G77 conference’s host this weekend - Bolivian President Evo Morales - threatened the United States and the American President telling the gathered heads of state, “If Mr. Obama keeps assailing the people of Venezuela, I am convinced that, faced with provocation and aggression, Venezuela and Latin America will be a second Vietnam for the United States. Let us defend democracy, natural resources, our sovereignty and our dignity.”

Cuba’s President Raul Castro was possibly the most pointed and focused in his remarks regarding the agenda of the participating countries. As reported by the Havana Times, Castro told the alliance of 133 nations, “It is necessary to demand a new international financial and monetary order and fair commercial conditions for producers and importers from the guardians of capital, centered in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and from the defenders of neoliberalism grouped in the World Trade Organization, which are attempting to divide us. Only unity will allow us to make our ample majority prevail.”

UN Civil War - dissolving the UN Security Council

One of the more ambitious goals of the G77 and its 133 participating countries is the elimination of the United Nations Security Council. World leaders insist it is little more than a five-nation tyranny over the full UN body. With five permanent members of the UN Security Council having veto power over the rest, UN policies and actions have been dictated by those five countries - US, UK, Russia, France and China. Members of the G77 want the Security Council eliminated so the UN can go back to being a purely democratic body.

The Cuban leader went on to describe a global economic system run by American hypocrisy and financial corruption, “The principles of International Law and the postulates of the New International Economic Order are brazenly violated, concepts that attempt to legalize meddling are imposed, force is used and threats of force are made with impunity, the media are used to promote division.”

Dominoes beginning to fall

This is just the latest organized attack on a global financial system rigged by corrupt governments and the multinational corporations that control them. Just last month, Russia and China signed a long term trade alliance that represents the first major crack in the US Dollar bubble. The two countries agreed to stop using US Dollars in their transactions and instead use their own two currencies. The two largest banks from both countries immediately announced they would be dumping the US Dollar as well.

On top of that, the world’s ‘BRIC’ countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - have publicly declared their goal of replacing the corrupted US Dollar with some other global default currency. Now that Russia and China have finally taken actual steps to do that, the remaining two-thirds of the world will most likely begin making preparations to stop using the US Dollar as well. It was only this weekend that 133 of them pledged to do just that.

The scary part for Americans is that both Washington and Wall Street have promised this would never happen, because if it did, it would destroy the US economic system and possibly the US itself. Read the Whiteout Press article, ‘Russia-China Deals move US Dollar closer to Collapse’ for more information.http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/2014/q2/russia-china-deals-move-us-dollar-closer-collapse/

To view a full list of the 133 nations that make up the G77, visit the Group of 77 website.http://www.g77.org/doc/members.html

Courtesy of Whiteout Press

Sabrina

23rd June 2014, 19:07

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/06/22/the-open-source-revolution-is-coming-and-it-will-conquer-the-1-per-cent-ex-cia-spy/

The ‘Open Source’ Revolution is Coming and It Will Conquer the 1 Per Cent – Ex-CIA Spy

19 June

By Nafeez Ahmed, Earth Insight – June 19, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/l5zkdpc

Robert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity, is a man on a mission. But it’s a mission that frightens the US intelligence establishment to its core. With 18 years experience working across the US intelligence community, followed by 20 more years in commercial intelligence and training, Steele’s exemplary career has spanned almost all areas of both the clandestine world.
Steele started off as a Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer. After four years on active duty, he joined the CIA for about a decade before co-founding the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, where he was deputy director. Widely recognised as the leader of the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) paradigm, Steele went on to write the handbooks on OSINT for NATO, the US Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Special Operations Forces. In passing, he personally trained 7,500 officers from over 66 countries.

In 1992, despite opposition from the CIA, he obtained Marine Corps permission to organise a landmark international conference on open source intelligence – the paradigm of deriving information to support policy decisions not through secret activities, but from open public sources available to all. The conference was such a success it brought in over 620 attendees from the intelligence world.

But the CIA wasn’t happy, and ensured that Steele was prohibited from running a second conference. The clash prompted him to resign from his position as second-ranking civilian in Marine Corps intelligence, and pursue the open source paradigm elsewhere. He went on to found and head up the Open Source Solutions Network Inc. and later the non-profit Earth Intelligence Network which runs the Public Intelligence Blog.

I first came across Steele when I discovered his Amazon review of my third book, The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism. A voracious reader, Steele is the number 1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction across 98 categories. He also reviewed my latest book, A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization, but told me I’d overlooked an important early work – ‘A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, Report of the UN High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change.’

Last month, Steele presented a startling paper at the Libtech conference in New York, sponsored by the Internet Society and Reclaim. Drawing on principles set out in his latest book, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth and Trust, he told the audience that all the major preconditions for revolution – set out in his 1976 graduate thesis – were now present in the United States and Britain.

Steele’s book is a must-read, a powerful yet still pragmatic roadmap to a new civilisational paradigm that simultaneously offers a trenchant, unrelenting critique of the prevailing global order. His interdisciplinary ‘whole systems’ approach dramatically connects up the increasing corruption, inefficiency and unaccountability of the intelligence system and its political and financial masters with escalating inequalities and environmental crises. But he also offers a comprehensive vision of hope that activist networks like Reclaim are implementing today.

full article at link

Sabrina

23rd June 2014, 19:11

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/06/23/alien-agenda-iv-alien-ultimatum-or-final-warning/ Well I like this one :)

23 June

Alien Agenda IV: Alien Ultimatum or Final Warning ?

by Preston James

Has a Final Warning been delivered by a benevolent Alien ET group that the Super-elite Oligarchs running Planet Earth must quickly clean house or suffer a Final Judgment/Cosmic Reset?

Several top inside sources, including Veterans Today Senior Editor Gordon Duff have claimed that a very serious message was delivered to Super-elite Oligarchs on behalf of a certain Alien ET group.

As the reports go, a somber military style briefing was delivered during a recent meeting of a certain top group of Super-elite Oligarchs, not the CFR or Trilats, but perhaps a group something like the Pilgrim Society.

It could be expected to be exceedingly difficult to get accurate information about such a sensitive meeting and what goes on behind closed doors with high security in place but Gordon Duff has provided confirmation that this briefing did occur.

Indications suggest that the briefer, allegedly a very high ranking official in the UN, communicated a very somber message to this group of Super-elite Oligarchs on behalf of this certain group of Alien ETs.

The actual description of the details of the message that was delivered by this briefer has not yet been disclosed. It appears the basic idea was that unless these Super-elites cleaned up the massive corruption and evil in the world, a very powerful Cosmic Entity was going to deliver a massive worldwide Final Judgement, perhaps best described as a Complete Cosmic Reset for Planet earth.

This briefer may have told this group of super-elite Oligarchs that this particular Alien ET groups wanted these Super-elites to understand unequivocally that unless they abated the high levels of corruption they have perhaps allowed and/or produced, 90% in the room would not be there in two years.

It is unknown at this time if this certain Alien ET group that insisted that this message be delivered to Super-elites will be the ones delivering this judgment or not. However, based on what we do know, it is unlikely that they would be the ones. It is likely that the Military Briefer was delivering this warning about another Alien ET group that is very old, has an evil history operating as a major Earth Parasite. mass-murderer of humans. this is the same Alien ET entity which has been the origin of most evil in the world and will continue to do so unless human consent is withdrawn at every level.

Note: This article is written for well informed active Military, Veterans, Intel or retired Intel, USG Policy Makers, and Members of Congress. If you do not have some knowledge of Secret Space War issues, reading this article is probably a waste of your valuable time.

What particular Entity would be delivering a Final Judgment or “Cosmic Reset” to Planet Earth?

I cannot provide you with information as to what the means of Judgment to be delivered to the world would be or what the actual reasons will be. We can only make an educated guess at that. Perhaps it will be a provoked Civil War, or induced urban rioting and the burning of large urban areas. or the inducement of a major worldwide nuclear WW3. Or perhaps and induced major worldwide economic crash.

Or perhaps a direct geophysical attack on planet earth using advanced Cosmic Space War weapons systems or major induced worldwide weather or environmental disasters. Or perhaps and induced large meteor strike. Or perhaps a direct invasion by an evil, parasitical, cannibalistic Alien ET group known as the Dracos, the reptilian “Order of the Snake”. Perhaps this Judgment will be a massive worldwide flood, a world wide massive alien attack using super weapons unknown to most, such as a powerful worldwide EMP or some other static generating interference or force-filed that would stop all electronics cold. Perhaps a climate catastrophe or numerous, repetitive disasters. Perhaps the sudden spontaneous detonation of all nuclear material.

Are the Dracos Cosmic parasites who have been attacking Planet Earth for many centuries going back at least to Ancient Babylonia?

Some insiders have referred to this exceedingly evil Cosmic Parasite group the Dracos as the evil reptilian Luciferians, with Mars the War God as their leader also known to some as Marduke. Marduke is believed to have lived many years and was previously driven from Planet Earth when human consent was withdrawn.

Marduke or “Mars the God of War” appears on several military awards such as the Congressional medal of Honor and allegedly has a statute on top of the US Capitol Building, some also refer to as Persephone, Goddess of the Underworld and Minerals. Others say this statute represent both in true Masonic duplicity and sexual dualism.
Some believe he is back for another try and this time may succeed him his Alien Agenda which allegedly is to inculcate a worldwide occult Luciferian network of his own super-elite Oligarchs to rule on his behalf. In return he provides all the wealth, power and status these folks can imagine but is using them to take the world to destruction, depopulation while creating massive human suffering to feed his parasitical negative energy needs.
It has now been established beyond any reasonable doubt to anyone who examines all available evidence already publicly disclosed that Alien ETs exists; crashed Alien ET anti-gravity vehicles have been recovered and back-engineered; that Alien ETs have frequently visited the earth; have entered into treaties with the leaders of more than one government; have exchanged ultra high tech alien technology for access to human and animal DNA, have established secret underground and underwater bases for themselves; and have established secret bases with various nations as joint efforts for android development, trans-humanism development, and advanced cloning, hybridization and chimera experimentation.

It has also now pretty clear to some who have access to top insider information that there is a complex Cosmic Space War which is ongoing at this time. This space war involves certain alien ET groups against each other, against human groups, and human groups using alien ET anti-gravity craft against each other.

Soon the reality of Alien ET’s and their Anti-gravity Craft (AGCs) will be revealed publicly to the World.
thulsa-doomIt is now known beyond any reasonable doubt that the USG knows Alien ET Anti-gravity Craft exist and that the USG has deep black secret Space Fleet of their own Anti-gravity Craft (AGCs).

Regardless of the typical party line of lies and coverups typically and serially presented by the Controlled major mass media (CMMM), UFOs have crashed and been recovered, have been identified and back-engineered and the USG has had a Secret Space Fleet of Anti-gravity craft for over twenty years.

By the way, the brief video clip by Richard Dolan is not easy to discount. He is very highly respected, always conservative in his conclusions and has become the confident of numerous insiders that know the truth abiout Alien ETs, Anti-gravity Craft (AGCs), USG back-engineering of AGCs, the USG Secret Space Program, and off-planet colonization and “Break-away Societies.”

full article and videos at the link...

Sabrina

23rd June 2014, 19:36

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG10920746/Shopper-finds-label-detailing-exploitative-labour-in-Primark-dress.html

23 June UK

Shopper finds label detailing exploitative labour in Primark dress

A shopper at Primark's Sawnsea store found a hand-sewn label inside her £10 dress that read 'Forced to work exhausting hours'

Rebecca Gallagher, of Gowerton, Wales, was looking for the garment's washing instructions when she came across the hand-sewn note on a label.

"I was amazed when I checked for the washing instructions and spotted this label," she told the South Wales Evening Post. "It was stitched by hand to say 'Forced to work exhausting hours' and sewn in with the other normal labels… I dread to think that my summer top may be made by some exhausted person toiling away for hours in some sweatshop abroad."

more at link

Sabrina

26th June 2014, 08:25

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/06/25/supreme-court-upholds-cellphone-privacy-directing-police-obtain-warrant-first/3o9sdhvHpds6chINP8DqWL/story.html

26 June US

Supreme Court bans warrantless cellphone searches

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, offering a sweeping endorsement of Americans’ right to digital privacy, unanimously declared Wednesday that police must obtain a warrant before searching a suspect’s cellphone.

The justices, in a ruling that has its roots in a case from South Boston, said the constitutional protections against undue search and seizure must keep pace with the technology that now allows thousands of details about citizens’ lives to be stuffed onto a ubiquitous device no bigger than a wallet.

“Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cellphone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple — get a warrant,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in the main opinion for eight of the nine justices.

more at link

Sabrina

26th June 2014, 08:28

http://news.sky.com/story/1289441/jimmy-savile-hospitals-sex-abuse-report-due

26 June UK

Jimmy Savile Hospitals Sex Abuse Report Due

Reports by 28 hospitals into their involvement with the disgraced entertainer and fundraiser Jimmy Savile will be published this morning.

The investigations were announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt last year after the hospitals were identified by the Metropolitan Police.

It is thought Savile, who died in October 2011, abused hundreds of patients in hospitals, principally at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital in Berkshire, Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, and Leeds General Infirmary.

Only last month the NSPCC said its research showed Savile had abused at least 500 girls and boys, one just two years old, making him one of the UK's most prolific sex offenders.

He had a bedroom at Broadmoor and was eventually put in charge of management there.

He also had an office and staff at Stoke Mandeville hospital where he raised millions of pounds to build a spinal injuries unit, and an office at Leeds General infirmary.

Although conducted by the health trusts concerned, the hospital reports have been overseen by barrister Kate Lampard and some are expected to include criticism of staff and officials who failed to act on allegations of abuse.

But according to Liz Dux, a lawyer for Slater and Gordon representing 176 victims of Savile, the reports will not lead to prosecutions.

"What is so disturbing is that those who were complicit in the abuse, those who failed to act upon the reports that were being given to them by children, cannot be prosecuted today.

"We have to ensure that the Government introduces a law of mandatory reporting whereby those in regulatory authorities such as hospitals who are aware of reports of abuse are under a duty now to pass those reports on to the authorities."

Terry Pratt, a night porter at Leeds General Infirmary in the early 1990s, told Sky News Savile could do what he wanted and staff felt unable to challenge him.

"You can see what would have happened if we'd have reported him, we'd have got sacked," he said.

The report into his abuse at Stoke Mandeville Hospital has been delayed to allow new evidence to be gathered, with the hospital saying last week that investigators wanted to question further witnesses.

Sabrina

26th June 2014, 08:31

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/26/barclays-investigated-dark-pool-new-york-trading

26 June UK/US

Barclays investigated in US over 'dark pool' activities

New York attorney general alleges systematic fraud and that private trading system at bank 'invited predators'

Barclays is facing a fresh blow to its reputation after receiving a lawsuit over its "dark pool", the specialist trading system publicised by the author Michael Lewis in his latest book about Wall Street.

In the latest setback for the bank as it battles to restore its reputation following the Libor-rigging scandal, the New York attorney general accused Barclays of misrepresenting the safety of its dark pool, a trading system under which trades can be conducted in private.

Eric Schneiderman accused Barclays of "a systematic pattern of fraud and deceit" by operating its dark pool to favour high-frequency traders – firms that use complex computer systems to buy and sell huge volumes of stocks in milliseconds to take advantage of often tiny movements in share prices.

Schneiderman is conducting a sweeping investigation into these trading systems at a time when some experts calculate high-frequency trading accounts for the majority of US stock market trading.

Scrutiny of the practice intensified following the March release of Lewis's book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, which argues that high-frequency traders have rigged the stock market by taking advantage of systems unavailable to others.

Dark pools are a type of private market through which investors can deal without revealing their identities. Barclays' dark pool, LX, is one of the biggest. Recent data shows that in one week in June it traded more than 282m shares.

Barclays said it took the allegations seriously and had been co-operating with the attorney general and other regulators. "The integrity of the markets is a top priority for Barclays," the bank said.

Schneiderman said: "The facts alleged in our complaint show that Barclays demonstrated a disturbing disregard for its investors in a systematic pattern of fraud and deceit." He added: "Barclays grew its dark pool by telling investors they were diving into safe waters. According to the lawsuit, Barclays' dark pool was full of predators – there at Barclays' invitation."

The action by the US attorney general comes as Barclays attempts to clean up its public image after the June 2012 fine for Libor rigging which forced out the then chief executive Bob Diamond and led to Antony Jenkins being promoted to replace him.

But Jenkins's attempts to show that the culture of the bank is changing have been impeded by a number of issues, including a £26m fine last month for failings relating to the way the price of gold is "fixed".

Like others, Barclays is part of a global investigation into the way currencies are priced. It also fighting a £50m fine from the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, over information it disclosed during a fundraising in 2008 that allowed it to avoid a taxpayer bailout.

The FCA says the bank "acted recklessly" but Barclays is contesting the findings, which are also subject to investigations by the Serious Fraud Office.

Schneiderman alleged Barclays made false claims about the extent and type of high-frequency trading in its dark pool. In one example he said the bank removed the name of a high-frequency trading firm, then the fund's largest participant, from its marketing material. The attorney general claimed the bank knew the trader engaged in predatory behaviour. In response to the change, Schneiderman claimed, one employee stated: "I had always liked the idea that we were being transparent, but happy to take liberties if we can all agree."

Schneiderman's office said in a statement: "Barclays heavily promoted a service called Liquidity Profiling, which Barclays claimed was a 'surveillance' system that tracked every trade in Barclays' dark pool in order to identify predatory traders, rate them based on the objective characteristics of their trading behaviour, and hold them accountable for engaging in predatory practices."

The latest accusations by the attorney general allege that:

• Barclays never prohibited any trader from participating in its dark pool, no matter how predatory its activity was determined to be.

• Barclays did not regularly update the ratings of high-frequency trading firms monitored by Liquidity Profiling.

• Barclays "overrode" certain Liquidity Profiling ratings – including for some of its own internal trading desks that engaged in high-frequency trading – by assigning safe ratings to traders that were otherwise determined to be toxic.

Schneiderman alleged Barclays operated its dark pool to favour high-frequency traders and gave them systematic advantages over others trading in the pool in order to attract them.

He said the investigation was aided "significantly" by a number of former Barclays employees.

Bloomberg quoted Lewis's book: "Why would anyone pay for access to customers' orders inside a Wall Street bank's dark pool? The straight answer was that a customer's stock market order, inside a dark pool, was fat and juicy prey."

Sabrina

26th June 2014, 08:47

http://online.wsj.com/articles/uk-jury-finds-coulson-guilty-of-conspiracy-to-intercept-phone-messages-1403608287

(surprised Brooks got off..) And what if News International/Corporation where using other government or allied services technology to hack ? Technology highlighted by the NSA stories? I once read something about them using Echelon - and completely lost the source :)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Different Fates for Ex-Editors in U.K. Hacking Trial
Rebekah Brooks Acquitted, Andy Coulson Found Guilty

(24 June UK)

LONDON—A British jury delivered a dramatic split decision in the long-running phone-hacking case here—convicting one high-profile former News Corp editor while clearing another.

Jurors acquitted Rebekah Brooks, once a lieutenant to Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch, on all charges, including phone hacking, bribery and two counts of obstruction of justice. But they found Andy Coulson, another former News Corp editor who went on to serve as British Prime Minister David Cameron's top media aide, guilty of illegally intercepting voice-mail messages.

The verdicts cap one of News Corp's biggest reputational challenges and could present a fresh political headache for Mr. Cameron. Ms. Brooks's acquittal also marks a big setback for prosecutors in the case. They had secured a number of guilty pleas from defendants in recent years related to a wide-ranging probe of phone hacking. But the just-ended trial—which lasted eight months—was the show piece of their efforts so far.

In addition to Ms. Brooks, 46 years old, the jury found four other defendants not guilty of all charges filed against them. Jurors continue to deliberate on two other counts facing Mr. Coulson, 46, and another defendant.

While prosecutors relied on emails in which Mr. Coulson appeared to discuss and approve phone hacking, they didn't have such evidence related to Ms. Brooks. Instead, their case against her was based largely on the premise that because Ms. Brooks was such a hands-on manager, she must have known about the hacking. They also painted a close relationship between the two—disclosing a love letter that Ms. Brooks wrote to Mr. Coulson.

The trial captivated the British public with revelations about the private lives of celebrities, politicians, the royal family and Ms. Brooks and Mr. Coulson themselves—two of the most powerful journalists in the U.K. in their heyday. As the senior News Corp executive charged in the trial, Ms. Brooks became the focal point of the proceedings—her face and long, red hair appearing often on the front pages of the British press as the trial unfolded.

The not-guilty verdicts Tuesday provide some closure to one chapter of a corporate scandal that had significantly dented Mr. Murdoch's reputation and posed one of the biggest threats to his media empire. But News Corp continues to face a number of daunting legal and public-relations hurdles in the months to come. On Tuesday, News Corp declined to comment on an article in the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper that said London's Metropolitan Police are seeking to interview Mr. Murdoch as a suspect as part of their investigation into allegations of wrongdoing at News Corp's U.K. newspapers. A spokesperson for the police also declined to comment.

The political firestorm surrounding the scandal derailed the company's strategic ambitions in Britain and led to the collapse of its multibillion-dollar bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting Group BSY.LN -0.39% PLC. In addition, it prompted Mr. Murdoch to give in to years of shareholder pressure and split News Corp into two companies. The split carved off News Corp's lucrative film and television businesses from its lower-growth publishing business.

It has also cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. The company said it has already racked up $454 million in expenses related to phone-hacking issues, not including costs indemnified by Mr. Murdoch's new, more profitable TV and film company, 21st Century Fox. FOX +2.16% News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal, posted $48 million in net income in its latest quarter.

As of this month, News Corp has settled 718 civil claims alleging voice-mail interception, according to a person familiar with the matter. There are 20 more claims pending.

It is unclear how much the government has spent investigating and prosecuting the case. The prosecutors' office declined to comment on the case, citing the two, still-undecided verdicts. London's Metropolitan Police said it would make a statement after all the verdicts had been announced.

News Corp still faces a flurry of legal challenges in both criminal and civil court. Some of the testimony in the just-ended trial may now be used in two other criminal trials related to the long-running police probe, or in any fresh proceedings. In testimony, Mr. Coulson said he told an executive at News Corp's U.K. newspaper unit about material the paper had related to a story sourced from hacking. He also said he discussed the voice-mail messages with a lawyer at the company. U.K. reporting restrictions prohibit naming the two individuals.

Jurors on Tuesday also found Ms. Brooks's husband, her personal assistant, a security director at News Corp's U.K. division and a former managing editor at the News of the World all not guilty of single counts each faced.

News Corp closed the News of the World tabloid in 2011 amid a public uproar following disclosures that journalists at the paper back in 2002, had hacked the phone of British teenager Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered.

The incident revived a police investigation of tabloid-newspaper tactics, including not only allegations of phone hacking but also bribing officials in the pursuit of scoops. Ms. Brooks was the tabloid's top editor at the time of the Dowler hacking. Mr. Coulson was her deputy, and eventually succeeded her.

Both have denied knowledge of the hacking at the time.

On Tuesday, News Corp's U.K. business released a statement saying, "We said long ago, and repeat today, that wrongdoing occurred, and we apologized for it. We have been paying compensation to those affected and have cooperated with investigations. We made changes in the way we do business to help ensure wrongdoing like this does not occur again." The company said it had no further comment at this time, citing future legal proceedings.

The conviction of Mr. Coulson is a political embarrassment for Mr. Cameron, who has come under heavy criticism for his judgment in hiring Mr. Coulson as his top media aide in 2007. The hire came just months after he stepped down from his role as editor at the News of the World, amid separate convictions of two others involved in phone hacking at the paper at the time.

His conviction puts a fresh spotlight on that decision, just ahead of elections in the U.K. next year. On Tuesday, Mr. Cameron repeated that he was sorry he had hired Mr. Coulson and said that Mr. Coulson had misled him about the phone hacking allegations at the time. A representative of Mr. Coulson declined to comment.

Opposition politicians used the court decision to sharpen their attack on Mr. Cameron. "This is not some small or accidental mistake," said Ed Miliband, the leader of the opposition Labor party. Mr. Coulson faces two other charges that jurors continue to deliberate, related to alleged conspiracy to pay public officials for story tips. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges.

Testimony at the trial at times titillated the British public, where defendants and witnesses revealed on the stand the close ties between Ms. Brooks and top politicians, such as Mr. Cameron and Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Britain.

During the trial, it emerged that Mr. Blair offered to act as an unofficial adviser to Ms. Brooks amid the scandal. Ms. Brooks herself has previously described in a media-ethics inquiry a close relationship between herself and Mr. Cameron that included expressions of support when she was under fire and frequent text messages, which Mr. Cameron sometimes signed "LOL," for "lots of love," until she told him the abbreviation actually meant "laughing out loud."

Allegations of phone hacking at News of the World first surfaced in 2005, when Prince William's staff alerted authorities to the possibility that the News of the World had hacked phones connected to the prince. The revelations sparked a police inquiry. This resulted in the 2007 jailing of the paper's royal-family correspondent, Clive Goodman, and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator hired by the tabloid.

At the time, News Corp claimed the practice was limited to a single rogue reporter jailed for phone hacking. But the Dowler phone-hacking disclosure in 2011 caused widespread public revulsion.

The scandal resulted in a lengthy parliamentary inquiry into British press ethics, and pressured tabloid newspapers to rein in controversial practices criticized as privacy invasion. The scandal also prompted scores of politicians and celebrities, such as actor Hugh Grant, to come forward with their own stories about having been hacked.

It prompted News Corp to abruptly shut the 168-year-old News of the World tabloid, once the best-selling Sunday paper in Britain. Mr. Murdoch apologized to the Dowler family. News Corp's U.K. newspaper arm in 2011 agreed to paid the Dowler family £2 million ($3.3 million) and Mr. Murdoch donated £1 million personally to charities chosen by the Dowler family.

Mr. Murdoch called the scandal "a major black eye" for the company and said the tabloid was a serious blot on his reputation.

and

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hacking-trial-judge-criticises-camerons-public-apology-after-coulson-guilty-verdict-9562523.html

26 June

Hacking trial: Judge criticises Cameron's public apology after Coulson guilty verdict

The phone hacking trial judge has criticised the Prime Minister after he issued a hasty apology yesterday for employing Andy Coulson, when the former Number 10 spin doctor was found guilty of conspiring to hack phones at the News of the World.

Mr Justice Saunders said he was "very concerned" about the comments, saying David Cameron led the way in what he described as "open season" by immediately offering a public apology for hiring Coulson in 2007 while the jury were still deliberating charges of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.

(the judge actually questioned whether Cameron did this deliberately or not!)...

more at link

Sabrina

28th June 2014, 08:25

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/23/tony-blair-middle-east-envoy-quartet-sacked

Tony Blair should be sacked as Middle East envoy, say former ambassadors

Former UK prime minister is tainted by Iraq war and his achievements for quartet are negligible, signatories of letter say

A group of former British ambassadors have joined a campaign calling for Tony Blair to be removed from his role as Middle East envoy after his recent attempt to "absolve himself" of responsibility for the crisis in Iraq.

The letter, organised by the makers of George Galloway's film The Killing of Tony Blair, says the 2003 invasion of Iraq was to blame for the rise of "fundamentalist terrorism in a land where none existed previously".

The signatories, led by Blair's former ambassador to Iran Sir Richard Dalton, describe the former prime minister's achievements as Middle East envoy as "negligible".

Other former diplomats to sign the letter are Oliver Miles, who was ambassador to Libya when diplomatic relations were severed in 1984 after the killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, and Christopher Long, ambassador to Egypt between 1992-95.

Other signatories include former London mayor Ken Livingstone, the human rights barrister Michael Mansfield QC, the former Liberal Democrat peer Lady Tonge – who resigned her party's whip in 2012 after declaring that Israel would not last forever – the former Tory prisons minister Crispin Blunt, George Galloway, the Green MP Caroline Lucas and the Daily Telegraph columnist Peter Oborne.

A spokesperson for Blair dismissed the letter on the grounds that it had been drawn up by an "alliance of hard-right and hard-left" whose members are "viscerally opposed" to the former prime minister.

The letter, written before Friday's seventh anniversary of Blair's appointment as the representative of the "quartet" on the Middle East, says the former prime minister's achievement as Middle East envoy are "negligible" and he is guilty of seeking to please the Israelis. The quartet consists of the UN, the EU, Russia and the US.

The letter says: "We, like many, are appalled by Iraq's descent into a sectarian conflict that threatens its very existence as a nation, as well as the security of its neighbours. We are also dismayed, however, at Tony Blair's recent attempts to absolve himself of any responsibility for the current crisis by isolating it from the legacy of the Iraq war.

"In reality, the invasion and occupation of Iraq had been a disaster long before the recent gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis). The sectarian conflict responsible for much of the war's reprehensible human cost was caused in part by the occupying forces' division of the country's political system along sectarian lines."

It added: "In order to justify the invasion, Tony Blair misled the British people by claiming that Saddam had links to al-Qaida. In the wake of recent events it is a cruel irony for the people of Iraq that perhaps the invasion's most enduring legacy has been the rise of fundamentalist terrorism in a land where none existed previously. We believe that Mr Blair, as a vociferous advocate of the invasion, must accept a degree of responsibility for its consequences."

The signatories say that Blair has failed to achieve any breakthrough as the quartet's representative, though they acknowledge his limited mandate that involves building the governance of the Palestinian Authority.

The letter says: "It is our view that, after seven years, Mr Blair's achievements as Envoy are negligible, even within his narrow mandate of promoting Palestinian economic development. Furthermore, the impression of activity created by his high-profile appointment has hindered genuine progress towards a lasting peace.

"Seven years on there are still over 500 checkpoints and roadblocks in the West Bank. The Gaza Strip, severely damaged by Israel's 2009 bombing, remains in a humanitarian crisis, with 80% of its population reliant on foreign aid for survival. Israel continues to build settlements that are illegal under international law. According to the Palestinian Authority's former Chief Negotiator, Nabil Shaath, Tony Blair has "achieved so very little because of his gross efforts to please the Israelis".

The letter is also critical of Blair's business interests. "Tony Blair's conduct in his private pursuits also calls into question his suitability for the role. Mr Blair has been widely criticised for a lack of transparency in the way he organises his business dealings and personal finances, and for blurring the lines between his public position as Envoy and his private roles at Tony Blair Associates and the investment bank JPMorgan Chase."

The letter is addressed to John Kerry, the US secretary of state; Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister; Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general; and Cathy Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief.

The retired ambassador Oliver Miles, who noted in 2009 that two members of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war "are Jewish", said: "Tony Blair is the wrong man in the wrong job. The wrong man because he is identified with the war in Iraq; criticism has concentrated on his misreading of intelligence and his lies, but equally important was his failure to plan for the peace, with the result we see today. The wrong job because patching up the Palestine economy sounds good but avoids the real issue, the repression and misery of the occupation; that is what the quartet should tackle. Seven years on it's time to blow the whistle."

Crispin Blunt said: "It's time to end Tony Blair's personal calvary as quartet envoy following his disastrous statesmanship in office on the Middle East. His role as envoy was neutered politically almost as soon as it began, and is now a distraction from the increasingly desperate need for a comprehensive peace deal."

George Galloway said: "I have begun the process of parliamentary impeachment of Tony Blair. The House of Commons will vote on that later this year. His position is collapsing along with the state of Iraq he helped destroy. His tenure as Quartet envoy is now untenable"

A spokesperson for Blair said: "These are all people viscerally opposed to Tony Blair with absolutely no credibility in relation to him whatsoever. Their attack is neither surprising nor newsworthy. They include the alliance of hard right and hard left views which he has fought against all his political life. Of course he completely disagrees with them over the Middle East. He believes passionately in the two state solution but also believes that can only be achieved by a negotiation with Israel."

The spokeperson said of Blair's role as the Middle East envoy: "The truth, and anybody who knows anything about the situation in respect of Palestine knows this, is that transformational change is impossible unless it goes hand in hand with a political process. There was hope that this could progress with the recent US led talks which were underpinned by a hugely ambitious economic plan spearheaded by Mr Blair."

The spokesperson said of the criticisms of Blair's business interests: "Mr Blair has done no work for JP Morgan in the Middle East – he is the chair of their International Advisory Council – where he provides advice on global political issues." (23 June)

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Sack Blair as Middle East peace envoy petition:

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/ban-ki-moon-sack-tony-blair-as-the-middle-east-peace-envoy

Sabrina

28th June 2014, 08:35

Shifts in economic power...

http://thebricspost.com/south-american-leaders-to-attend-6th-brics-summit/#.U659lxay-Zj

South American leaders to attend 6th BRICS Summit

The Brazilian cities of Fortaleza and Brasilia will host the 6th BRICS Summit on the 14th, 15th, and 16th July, an event that will showcase the growing economic clout of the five countries.

The 2014 Summit’s debates will focus on the theme “BRICS – inclusive growth: sustainable solutions”.

As part of a BRICS outreach strategy to emerging economies, a working session will be held on 16th July between the heads of states of BRICS and their counterparts from the governments of South American nations. Argentina had expressed interest in joining the powerful bloc, although BRICS have ruled out expansion of the group for now.

BRICS Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, Trade Ministers meeting, Development Bank Presidents meeting, Business Forum and a session of the BRICS Business Council will be held on 14th July in Fortaleza.

The $100 billion Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) will be launched at this year’s Summit and final details of the New Development Bank (NBD) will also be unveiled.

In the Durban Summit last year, leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa had approved a $100 billion fund to combat currency crises.

“The establishment of a self-managed contingent reserve arrangement would have a positive precautionary effect, help BRICS countries forestall short-term liquidity pressures, provide mutual support and further strengthen financial stability,” South African President Jacob Zuma said after the five BRICS leaders met in Durban in March.

BRICS have 43 per cent of the world’s population and total foreign-currency reserves of $4.4 trillion.

Brazilian Ambassador José Alfredo Graça Lima addressing a press conference in Brasilia on Tuesday said the keenly awaited BRICS Bank will finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects.

Developing nations have long complained that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are failing to address underdevelopment and Western nations have too much say over the management of these institutions.

The BRICS Bank’s start-up capital of $50 billion would eventually be built up to $100 billion. Russia has proposed that each member contributes an equal, 20 per cent share. All the members of BRICS except Brazil has proposed to host the Bank.

Social inclusion and sustainable development will be in focus during this year’s summit.

The 6th Summit will inaugurate the second cycle of BRICS, with each member country hosting one summit each.

The African Union attended last year’s Summit as observers even as BRICS countries try to increase bilateral trade with the continent. Meanwhile, the invitation this year to Latin American heads of states comes as the region tries to match the inspiring growth rates of above 4.3 per cent of 2004-11.

Meanwhile, South American nations are also jointly exploring the creation of a communications system to curtail US spying in the region.

Latin American countries raised a storm of protest after, according to US NSA leaks by former contractor Edward Snowden, the agency spied on an array of nations in the region, including Brazil.

The meet in Brasilia with a congregation of BRICS and South American leaders in attendance could call for an end to mass surveillance like the one carried out the US intelligence agency and gross invasions of privacy.

(11 June)

Comment from David Wilcock on Benjamin Fulford post:

“Once the BRICS bank goes fully online…, the final stages are in place for mass arrests to occur. I do think the Cabal knows this, and this is why we are seeing these frantic last-minute moves to try to change the game… “

Sabrina

28th June 2014, 08:48

China Finds US$15 Billion of Loans Backed by Fake Gold Trades

27 June

By Bloomberg News – June 26, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/o9kp7ch

China’s chief auditor discovered 94.4 billion yuan ($15.2 billion) of loans backed by falsified gold transactions, adding to signs of possible fraud in commodities financing deals.

Twenty-five bullion processors in China, the biggest producer and consumer of gold, made a combined profit of more than 900 million yuan from the loans, according to a report on the National Audit Office’s website.

Public security authorities are also probing alleged fraud at Qingdao Port, where copper and aluminum stockpiles may have been pledged multiple times as collateral for loans.

Steps by the Chinese government to rein in credit by raising borrowing costs in recent years created a surge in commodities financing deals that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates to be worth as much as $160 billion.

“This is the first official confirmation of what many people have suspected for a long time — that gold is widely used in Chinese commodity financing deals,” said Liu Xu, a senior analyst at Capital Futures Co. in Beijing. “Any scaling back by banks of gold-backed financing deals might lead to a short-term reduction in Chinese imports and also spur some sales by companies looking to repay lenders.”

As much as 1,000 metric tons of gold may have been used in lending and leasing deals in China, where commodities including metals and agricultural products are used to get credit amid lending restrictions, according to World Gold Council estimates.

Gold Price
Gold declined for the first time this week in London on concern that an advance to a two-month high is curbing physical buying and as investors weigh the outlook for the U.S. economy.

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http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/bricspost-6-24-14-new-internet-law-in-effect-in-brazil/

New internet law in effect in Brazil

The Brazilian government’s new legislation aimed at protecting internet privacy and guaranteeing open access to the web came into effect on Monday in a bid to tighten security after the espionage scandal exposed by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

The ‘Marco Civil da Internet’ bill was signed into law in April by President Dilma Rousseff, and defines the duties and rights of Internet users and providers.

“The internet you want is only possible in an environment of respect for human rights, especially privacy and freedom of expression,” Rousseff said in a statement on her website after signing the law in April.

Internet security generated a lot of heated debate in late 2013 after reports that the US government had spied on Brazil’s private communications, including e-mails and phone calls of President Rousseff.

The reports also said other government officials, and Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil and gas company, were targeted.

The new law includes a net neutrality provision that bars internet access providers from restricting content and from charging more for data-heavy services. According to official data, the IT sector in Brazil grew by 15 per cent in 2013, above the 4.8 per cent world average.

To ensure users’ privacy on the web, the new law has limited the metadata that can be collected on Brazilian users by access providers. Companies are also forbidden from selling people’s personal data and global internet firms will be subject to Brazilian law in cases involving domestic users.

In a move to ensure freedom of expression, companies cannot remove content posted by users without a court order, unless the content is related to, for example, pedophilia or pornographic images or videos.

Meanwhile, Brazil is pushing ahead with plans to boost its Internet security by developing an undersea fibre-optics communications cable that would reroute its online traffic directly to Europe, bypassing the United States.

State-owned telecom provider Telebras recently announced that it was entering into a joint venture with Spain’s IslaLink Submarine Cables to build a link between the northeastern city of Fortaleza and the Iberian Peninsula.

The undersea cable is budgeted at $185 million and construction is scheduled to begin in July.

(24 June)

Sabrina

28th June 2014, 08:52

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-27/my-fellow-filthy-rich-americans-wake-people-pitchforks-are-coming

"To My Fellow Filthy Rich Americans: Wake Up, People. The Pitchforks Are Coming"

Excerpted from Nick Hanauer's OpEd in Politico (read more here),

Memo: From Nick Hanauer

To: My Fellow Zillionaires

You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries—from itsy-bitsy ones like the night club I started in my 20s to giant ones like Amazon.com, for which I was the first nonfamily investor.

I tell you all this to demonstrate that in many ways I’m no different from you. Like you, I have a broad perspective on business and capitalism. And also like you, I have been rewarded obscenely for my success, with a life that the other 99.99 percent of Americans can’t even imagine.

...

But let’s speak frankly to each other. I’m not the smartest guy you’ve ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I’m not technical at all—I can’t write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship. And what do I see in our future now?

I see pitchforks.

At the same time that people like you and me are thriving beyond the dreams of any plutocrats in history, the rest of the country—the 99.99 percent—is lagging far behind. The divide between the haves and have-nots is getting worse really, really fast. In 1980, the top 1 percent controlled about 8 percent of U.S. national income. The bottom 50 percent shared about 18 percent. Today the top 1 percent share about 20 percent; the bottom 50 percent, just 12 percent.

But the problem isn’t that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.

And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.

If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.

Many of us think we’re special because “this is America.” We think we’re immune to the same forces that started the Arab Spring—or the French and Russian revolutions, for that matter. I know you fellow .01%ers tend to dismiss this kind of argument; I’ve had many of you tell me to my face I’m completely bonkers. And yes, I know there are many of you who are convinced that because you saw a poor kid with an iPhone that one time, inequality is a fiction.

Here’s what I say to you: You’re living in a dream world. What everyone wants to believe is that when things reach a tipping point and go from being merely crappy for the masses to dangerous and socially destabilizing, that we’re somehow going to know about that shift ahead of time. Any student of history knows that’s not the way it happens. Revolutions, like bankruptcies, come gradually, and then suddenly. One day, somebody sets himself on fire, then thousands of people are in the streets, and before you know it, the country is burning. And then there’s no time for us to get to the airport and jump on our Gulfstream Vs and fly to New Zealand. That’s the way it always happens. If inequality keeps rising as it has been, eventually it will happen. We will not be able to predict when, and it will be terrible—for everybody. But especially for us.

Sabrina

29th June 2014, 07:11

Vatican Defrocks Top Archbishop for Child Sex

28 June

From AlJazeera – June 27, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/pryhq2g

The Vatican’s former ambassador to the Dominican Republic has been convicted by a Roman Catholic Church tribunal of sex abuse and has been defrocked in the first such sentence handed down against a top papal representative.

The Vatican said on Friday that Monsignor Jozef Wesolowski was found guilty by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in recent days, and sentenced to the harshest penalty possible against a cleric: laicisation, meaning he can no longer perform priestly duties or present himself as a priest.

Wesolowski has two months to appeal. He also faces other charges by the criminal tribunal of Vatican City, since as a papal diplomat he is a citizen of the tiny city state.

The Holy See recalled the Polish-born Wesolowski on August 21, 2013, and relieved him of his job after the archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez, told Pope Francis about rumours that Wesolowski had sexually abused teenage boys in the Dominican Republic.

Dominican authorities subsequently opened an investigation, but have not charged him. Poland, too, opened an investigation into Wesolowski and a friend and fellow Polish priest.

Wesolowski is the highest-ranking Vatican official to be investigated for alleged sex abuse, and his case raised questions about whether the Vatican, by removing him from Dominican jurisdiction, was protecting him and placing its own investigations ahead of that of authorities in the Caribbean nation.

The Vatican has never said how Wesolowski responded to the charges and hasn’t provided any contact information for his lawyer.

The case is particularly problematic for the Vatican since Wesolowski was a representative of the pope, accused of grave crimes that the Holy See has previously sought to distance itself from by blaming the worldwide sex abuse scandal on wayward priests and their bishops who failed to discipline them, not Vatican officials.

The case has also been delicate because Wesolowski was both ordained a priest and bishop by his Polish countryman and former pope, St John Paul II.

Sabrina

30th June 2014, 06:48

Let's see what happens on this one.

Important Notice from ITCCS Central and the Common Law Court – Direct Action Teams move into action on verge of Pope's resignation

www.iclcj.com

June 29, 2014 - Brussels

As the Vatican prepares today for the imminent removal of Jorge Bergoglio, “Pope Francis”, from his office, two Direct Action Units (DAU's) of trained security personnel have been dispatched by the Court to Rome and London. Their purpose will be to assist in the apprehending of known child killers associated with the Ninth Circle sacrificial cult, including Bergoglio himself.

“We are relying on local common law activists and the public to assist us in stopping these killers before they can harm any more children” announced a DAU commander attached to the Court.

“We have a list of nineteen top catholic and anglican church officers, including three Jesuits, who have participated in these ritual murders during the past year. Our orders are to stop them by any means necessary.”

The London DAU will take measures to halt upcoming sacrificial killings at Carnarvon castle in Wales and Balmoral castle in Scotland involving “royal family” members.

In Canada, DAU members are preparing for a similar action at Marie Reine du Monde cathedral in Montreal, where a major Ninth Circle conclave will be held on August 15.

This action will be accompanied by the proclamation of a sovereign Republic in Canada this autumn by patriots in Winnipeg. The Republic will provide the constitutional basis for the common law courts that are convening across Canada to convict child killers in both church and state.

“Crown and canon law are fraudulent and criminal systems, and so they are inoperative now in our country. We need the rule of law restored” said Colin Sullivan, a member of the Provisional Council for the Republic of Kanata.
“So we remind every cop, politician and judge in Canada that their oath to that convicted child killer, Queen Elizabeth, is officially null and void, and so they must stand down from their offices. Now they, and every true patriot, can be part of a genuine and lawful nation.”

Groups in eight Canadian provinces and in five indigenous nations are electing delegates to attend the Republic's founding Convention, in Winnipeg from October 27-31, 2014. Information can be sought at republicofkanata@gmail.com .

A global broadcast of these and other historic developments, including the DAU actions in Rome and London, will be posted on July 10 (Jubilee Day) at www.itccs.org .

Issued by ITCCS Central
29 June, 2014

Sabrina

1st July 2014, 06:27

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/30/rolf-harris-conviction-vindication-operation-yewtree

30 June UK

The Rolf Harris conviction is a vindication of Operation Yewtree

The police investigation into historic sexual abuse was labelled a witch-hunt. But now, thankfully, the message is clear: no one is above the law

It would have been unthinkable just two years ago. That lovable TV personality Rolf Harris, epitome of the amiable Aussie entertainer, exposed as a serial sex offender? Yet that has just happened at Southwark crown court, where Harris has been convicted on 12 counts of indecent assault. During his trial, the 84-year-old was described by the prosecutor as a "sinister pervert" who targeted his own daughter's best friend. Harris will now join two other public figures, the TV presenter Stuart Hall and the publicist Max Clifford, in prison.

The Clifford and Harris verdicts are a vindication of Operation Yewtree, the Metropolitan police inquiry launched in October 2012 when the crimes of Jimmy Savile came to light. The trials and convictions of Hall, 84, were not part of Yewtree although one of his victims decided to contact a journalist after she read about Savile's attacks on girls. Only last week, a damning series of reports revealed the extent of Savile's predation on vulnerable people in hospitals.

Savile's criminal career emerged in an ITV documentary in 2012, just under a year after his death at the age of 84. He never had to face his accusers in court but the scale of his abuse – the final Yewtree report on Savile identified 450 victims – has had a seismic effect on the way victims, senior police officers and prosecutors think about sexual violence. Across the country, rape crisis centres and refuges report big increases in the number of calls from women and girls who have experienced sexual assault or rape. And while the rape conviction rate dropped last year after showing a steady increase for five years, it is striking that senior police officers and prosecutors are now prepared to go after men like Clifford, 71, who previously considered themselves untouchable.

Senior officers talk privately about the impact of interviewing hundreds of Savile's victims, which has challenged many of their pre-existing ideas about sexual violence. Hundreds of women (and some men) who didn't know each other told remarkably similar stories of abuse by the TV presenter, exposing the way in which a confident criminal was able to operate virtually in plain sight. They came forward not to see their abuser in court, given that Savile was dead, but because they wanted to tell their stories and be believed. Senior officers say these are lessons they have taken to heart, pointing to a 19% rise in rape prosecutions in London last year.

Operation Yewtree is still carrying out inquiries. To date, 17 people have been arrested in all; five have been charged; several are on police bail; and the rest will face no further action. Another former Radio 1 DJ, Dave Lee Travis, 68, was cleared of 12 charges of indecent assault in February, while the jury was unable to agree on two more; he has since been charged with another count of indecent assault and faces a second trial later this year.

These developments have not been universally popular. When Yewtree was set up, there was an immediate attempt to characterise it as a witch-hunt of elderly celebrities. First out of the traps was Clifford, who claimed he was getting anxious phone calls from men who feared their reputations would be damaged merely because they knew Savile in the 1960s. Clifford insisted that the entertainers in question were innocent but he then indulged in a classic piece of victim-blaming, talking about teenage girls bursting into stars' dressing rooms. "It was the girls who were coming on to them," he insisted.

The witch-hunt accusation was also levelled at Yewtree by the film-maker Terry Gilliam, the TV presenter Chris Tarrant (who have never been suspects) and the comedian Freddie Starr. Starr, 71, who was arrested four times in relation to historical allegations before being told he would face no further action, raged against police and prosecutors and vowed to bring Operation Yewtree "down on its knees".

Although not directly connected, the Yewtree arrests have been linked in the public mind with the trials of two Coronation Street stars, Michael Le Vell and William Roache, who were both cleared of sexual offences. For a time, it looked as if public opinion, initially outraged by the Savile revelations, was swinging in the opposite direction.

Prosecuting offences which are alleged to have taken place 30 or 40 years ago is not easy. These are cases where there is no physical evidence, while memories of dates and times are bound to be imperfect in some instances. The risks associated with charging men such as Clifford were always apparent, even if his hubris – mocking a TV journalist who was reporting on the case outside the court – worked against him. So did the fact that the prosecution in each case was able to show a pattern of behaviour, turning the defendants' modus operandi against them.

When Clifford was sent to prison for eight years, the judge said he had groomed and degraded his victims, aged 15 to 19; he observed that some of the offences were so serious that they would be charged as rape if they happened today. Harris's victims were even younger, with two counts relating to girls aged 14 and either seven or eight at the time they were assaulted. The Clifford verdict sent shockwaves through the ranks of his famous clients, not to mention the tabloid journalists who had used him as a source of celebrity gossip for many years. Harris's conviction is just as startling, but it is also a reminder that Yewtree is not just a fishing expedition. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, has warned perpetrators that they should not consider themselves beyond the reach of the criminal justice system: "Nobody is immune, nobody is above the law and it doesn't matter when things happened, we will prosecute when we have the evidence to do so."

The Harris conviction is undeniably a blow against impunity for sex offenders, no matter how famous or elderly they happen to be. But the furore over Operation Yewtree suggests that the criminal justice system may be ahead of public opinion on the question of sexual abuse and rape

Sabrina

1st July 2014, 06:36

From the criminal prosecution service (CPS) on the Rolf Harris conviction:

Jenny Hopkins, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for the CPS in London, said:

“Rolf Harris used his status and position as a world famous children’s entertainer to sexually assault young girls over a period spanning 18 years.

“The victims in this case have suffered in silence for many years and have only recently found the courage to come forward. I would like to pay tribute to the bravery they displayed in coming to court and giving evidence. That bravery and determination has seen Rolf Harris brought to justice and held to account.

“Each victim, unknown to the others, described a similar pattern of behaviour; that of a man acting without fear of the consequences.

“The prosecution of sexual offences is often difficult and complex, perhaps even more so when the allegations are from some years ago. We will continue to consider cases and wherever there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest, we will work with police and victims to build strong cases which can be put before a court.

“I hope today’s verdict provides other victims with the courage and confidence to come forward no matter who is alleged to have carried out the abuse and when.”

and starting to connect some of the dots.... Savile and Harris both honoured by the Queen (Harris painted her portrait), Savile with extraordinary access to politicians and royalty.... politicians giving him unlimited access to Broadmoor.... ah watch it all unravel - and credit to the police operation on this (threatened repeatedly themselves it's reported)...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2675875/Sick-Broadmoor-visits-Savile-Harris-Pair-birds-feather-watched-female-patients-undress.html

1 July

Sick Broadmoor visits of Savile and Harris: Pair were 'birds of a feather' who 'watched female patients undress'

Savile victim says pair arrived on ward as patients prepared to strip for bed

Ex-patient Steven George described to duo as 'birds of a feather'

Harris's 1973 hospital visit mentioned in last week's report on Savile's abuse

One of Savile’s victims said Harris watched patients undress at Broadmoor hospital where the former DJ abused scores of vulnerable patients.

Alison Pink remembered the pair suddenly turning up on a women’s ward just as patients were preparing to strip in the corridor.
story at link...

Sabrina

3rd July 2014, 08:53

Earthjustice's on Facebook

2 July US

A big cheer for this one!! :)

HUGE NEWS! In a resounding victory that will ripple across the nation, New York’s highest court has just upheld the right of towns to ban fracking within their borders! Our attorneys represented the small town of Dryden, NY in a furious legal battle with the oil and gas industry, and in the end justice prevailed! http://ow.ly/ysvk3

Dryden’s defiant stance in the war against fracking has already inspired hundreds of communities across the country – from Texas to California – to enact their own fracking bans. The movement is catching fire but the oil and gas industry has tried time and time again to extinguish the people’s will. We hope this huge court victory in New York will embolden even more communities across America to stand up to fracking even when their federal and state officials refuse to!

Sabrina

3rd July 2014, 20:41

We talk about the shift in power with the BRICS countries, but this needs addressing... people can't be kept under any more...

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Sabrina

4th July 2014, 19:42

4 July UK

Wonderful news, we’ve protected our bees! Yesterday Syngenta withdrew their controversial application to allow their banned bee-killer pesticides back on UK fields. [1]

Owen Paterson, the environment minister, sided with Syngenta. But the decision was deemed so toxic that it was brought all the way up to the Prime Minister and his cabinet to discuss.

The day before the big meeting, the huge people-powered petition signed by over 200,000 of us was delivered to the PM’s desk. [2] And on the morning of the meeting, hundreds of us swarmed on Downing St to confront the ministers as they arrived. [3]

Dressed as bee-keepers, bees and pesticides, and with a host of other campaign organisations we chanted at the top of our voices and left the ministers in no doubt that we expected them to put our bees before Syngenta’s profits. [4] And it worked! The government stalled and didn’t announce a decision, forcing Syngenta to back down. [5]

38 Degrees members have a great history of protecting our countryside and wildlife. From campaigning for the European ban in the first place, through to stopping our forests from being sold off, we have shown we’re prepared to organise both online and in person to make change happen.

NOTES:
[1] Farmers Guardian - Syngenta withdraws neonicotinoid emergency use application:
http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/arable/syngenta-withdraws-neonicotinoid-emergency-use-application/65807.article
BBC News - Widespread impacts of neonicotinoids 'impossible to deny' :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27980344
[2] The massive people powered petition:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/david-cameron-uphold-the-european-ban#petition
[3] 38 Degrees blog - Hundreds swarm on Downing Street:
http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2014/07/01/bees-swarm-on-downing-street/
[4] Alongside 38 Degrees members, a huge range of campaign organisations came along. Buglife, Client Earth, Environmental Justice Foundation, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Natural Beekeeping Trust, Pesticide Action Network and the Soil Association all joined the campaign.
[5] Syngenta had said that unless a decision was made by the beginning of July, it would be too late to use the pesticides this year.

Sabrina

4th July 2014, 19:58

http://news.sky.com/story/1295317/pm-orders-probe-into-paedophile-dossier

4 July UK

PM Orders Probe Into Paedophile Dossier

David Cameron steps into the row over the files, which contained allegations of paedophile activity at Westminster in the 1980s.

The Prime Minister has ordered an investigation into what happened to a dossier containing explosive allegations about paedophile activity by powerful and famous figures in the 1980s.

David Cameron said he wants Mark Sedwill, the permanent secretary to the Home Office, to do "everything he can" to get to the truth.

The Government has been under pressure to act after claims that a list of names of suspected child abusers, including high-profile men in the establishment, was passed by the MP Geoffrey Dickens to the then-home secretary.

Lord Brittan admitted he received the dossier and passed it on to officials - but no action was ever taken.

"I quite understand people's concerns about these events that were referred to over 30 years ago," Mr Cameron said.

"And that is why I've asked the permanent secretary at the Home Office to do everything he can to find answers to all of these questions and make sure we can reassure people about these events."

Mr Cameron warned that nothing must be done to "prejudice or prevent proper action by the police" but urged anyone with information of "criminal wrongdoing" to come forward.

The move comes after an investigation by the Home Office in 2013 into what happened - which was not fully published - concluded that the "credible" parts of the dossier were passed on to prosecutors while other parts were "not retained or destroyed".

Mr Dickens' son, Barry, said he was dismayed by the lack of action over the files which his father had warned would "blow everything apart". He told Sky News that he wanted to see the Prime Minister take action.

Many of the questions focused on the Elm Guest House in Barnes, southwest London, where there have been allegations that senior members of the establishment abused children.

One figure who was said to go there was the former Lib Dem MP, Cyril Smith, about whom allegations of serial child abuse have emerged since his death in 2010.

One 16-year-old claimed he was abused by Smith at the Barnes institution. The allegations were contained in a book co-authored by Labour MP Simon Danscuk.

Barry Dickens told Sky News that an investigation by Mr Sedwill was inadequate.

"I’m not convinced the Home Office can investigate its own failings," he said.

Many are now calling for a full public inquiry into the allegations, although the Prime Minister and others have warned that it was right for the police to take the lead.

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/islamists-and-pedophile-rings-run-by.html

Friday, 4 July 2014

ISLAMISTS AND PEDOPHILE RINGS - 'RUN BY THE GOVERNMENT'

The UK government runs the Islamist groups and the pedophile rings, reportedly.

The BBC reports that the UK government planned to train a 100,000-strong Islamist-terrorist army to fight alongside al Qaeda in Syria.

The secret plan to wage war on Syria's elected government was drawn up by Lord Richards, Chief of the UK Defence Staff.

The plan was revealed on the BBC's Newsnight programme.

Syria conflict: UK planned to train and equip 100000 rebels / Syria conflict: Britain 'planned to train 100000-strong rebel army to take on Assad'

It is believed that the ISIS terrorists currently attacking Iraq are run by the CIA and NATO.

ISIS works for the US, France and Saudi Arabia.

According to the Daily Telegraph, a Conservative politician was found by a customs officer to be in possession of hard-core child pornography videos but got off scot-free.

Tory MP allegedly found with child porn in 1980s faced no charges ...

One of the porn videos reportedly features a top Conservative government minister, a man once responsible for the police and MI5.

The top Conservative is also believed to have been a visitor to the boy brothel called Elm Guest House, which was reportedly run by MI5.

Ex-Tory minister 'pictured in child sex abuse video' confiscated by customs

The videos and paperwork relating to the seizure have gone missing.

"There are examples of police covering up for paedophiles, either because THEY themselves are paedophiles, or they are friends of those who are."

Paedophiles in Parliament and Institutional Child Sexual Abuse

"There is also some evidence to suggest that the abuse may be Satanic or Ritual Abuse based.

(The CIA and its friends reportedly use Satanism as part of their mind control operations)

"This article in The Mirror, 19 January 2013 reports that MP Cyril Smith had connections with a Satanist by the name of Michael Horgan.

"Cyril Smith has also been linked with the Elm Guest House, according to this article in The Independent, 27 January 2013.

"Since the Jimmy Savile story broke, there have been several newspaper articles and a blog linking him to a Satanic paedophile ring.

"Interestingly there are similar tales of Garda in Ireland covering up paedophiles and Satanic abuse. See this newspaper front page from the Irish Daily Mirror."

The top politician is said to be part of a very powerful child sex ring linked to child murders in more than one country.

It is believed that a cabal of Zionists, Nazis, Robber Barons and Mafias secretly controls the UK government, UK military and UK criminal justice system.

This cabal makes use of pedophile rings and child brothels existing throughout the UK and abroad.

more at link

and

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10944652/Tory-MP-allegedly-found-with-child-porn-in-1980s-faced-no-charges-police-told.html

4 July UK

Tory MP allegedly found with child porn in 1980s faced no charges, police told

Senior Conservative politician allegedly caught with child pornography videos in the 1980s faced no further action, it has been claimed

A senior Tory politician said to be part of a child sex ring was allegedly stopped by a customs officer with child pornography videos but got off scot-free, police have been told.

The former MP was driving back to the UK via Dover when a customs officer pulled him over because he was “acting suspiciously”. The border guard, who is now retired, has told detectives that when he searched the MP’s car he found videotapes of children “clearly under the age of 12” taking part in sex acts.

He passed the material on to his superiors, but the MP was never arrested or charged.
And, like a dossier of evidence compiled by the late Geoffrey Dickens MP, the videotapes and paperwork relating to the seizure have since gone missing.

The latest disclosure will increase accusations of a cover-up, as no action was taken against the MP at the time the videos were seized. The same MP is understood to have been named in the Dickens dossier, which was handed to the then Home Secretary Lord Brittan but has since been lost or destroyed.

The customs officer who stopped the MP in the 1980s has spoken to detectives from Operation Fernbridge, the Metropolitan Police investigation into allegations of child abuse by Cyril Smith and others at Elm Guest House in Barnes, south London, which has since closed down.

A senior Tory politician has been accused of abusing a young boy at the guest house, but police are understood to have insufficient evidence to take any action.

A source close to the investigation said that the customs officer was originally approached over claims that a known paedophile had been stopped with a videotape showing the MP at a sex party with underage boys. The customs officer said the report was false, but told police he had stopped the MP in question and seized child pornography videos from him.

The source said: “He viewed the tapes on a video recorder at the border control, and found them to contain pornography involving both underage girls and boys together. He said the children were clearly under the age of 12.

“Unfortunately he can’t remember the exact date when it happened, but he had no doubt about the identity of the MP because he checked his passport. He said he had passed the details of the seizure up the chain of command and had no knowledge of what happened after that.

“The officers on the case have not been able to find the videotapes or any paperwork to corroborate his account.”

Lord Brittan, now 74, has faced questions over his handling of a bundle of papers handed to him by the late Mr Dickens, which contained allegations against the same MP, and against a number of other prominent figures, some of whom were part of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which campaigned for the lowering of the age of consent. The Labour MP Simon Danczuk has suggested the dossier was “destroyed to protect the people whose names were in it”.

Meanwhile The Daily Telegraph has learnt that four more cases of historic sex abuse have been referred to the police by Home Office officials in recent months.

An internal review of hundreds of thousands of Home Office files found 13 previously undisclosed “items of alleged child abuse” last year.
The Home Office said nine of the 13 cases had previously been reported to the police – including four which involved the department’s officials.

However, the remaining four were overlooked by civil servants – and have now been reported to the Metropolitan Police.
The cases were unearthed by an internal review ordered in February last year. Mr Danczuk questioned why the Home Office had not passed on the cases to the police earlier.

He said: “It’s never the job of the Home Office to try and determine what constituted potential evidence, that's the job of the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.

“The public will think that people in the Home Office were withholding information from the police which could have led to the successful prosecution of child sex abusers.”

A Home Office spokesman said: "The review concluded the Home Office acted appropriately, referring information received during this period to the relevant authorities.”

Tom Watson, the Labour MP who was the first to raise questions about paedophiles within Westminster, last night called on Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, to examine the evidence relating to the former MP.

He said: "I sincerely hope the DPP has been made aware of these allegations and will be considering it as part of her examination of other allegations."

Sabrina

5th July 2014, 05:40

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/04/bp-deepwater-horizon-class-action-texas

4 July

BP faces Deepwater Horizon lawsuit by investors including London councils

Shell also among shareholders bringing class action in Texas over disastrous 2010 oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

Pension funds from London borough councils and even Shell are among a new group of shareholders suing BP in Texas over the Deepwater Horizon accident.

The lawsuit, which could potentially be extremely costly for the oil group, follows recent US court rulings opening the way to challenges from those who bought financial stakes in BP outside the country.

The US courts are famously generous in their financial awards compared with their British counterparts. In the past only investors who bought their BP stakes on the New York stock exchange or other US markets could file for compensation payments.

A class action specialist, Pomerantz Law, has rounded up 32 major investors seeking financial compensation for the losses they incurred on their shares. The New York-based law firm is taking the case on a no-win, no-fee basis and is hoping that other European investors will join the suit.

The royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea plus City of Westminster council, Cumbria county council and Shell Pension Trust have all put in for claims.

A BP spokesman in London said on Friday night: "All of the plaintiffs' securities claims relating to the Deepwater Horizon accident are meritless and we will continue to vigorously dispute them."

The Deepwater Horizon offshore rig blew up and sank while it was drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010.

Miles of beaches on the southern coast of the US were coated in oil causing widespread damage to tourism and fisheries. The US government estimated that nearly 5m barrels of oil were spilled in the five months it took to get the well under control.

BP, as operator of the well, was castigated by the US public and politicians.

The group has made payouts of over $30bn (£17bn) already.

BP is still waiting to hear a ruling on whether it has been guilty of gross negligence over the well blowout in which 11 oil workers died. The Department of Justice has claimed that the company acted irresponsibly. A gross negligence ruling would open potentially BP up to $20bn worth of new fines under the Clean Water Act.

A Pomerantz lawyer, Jennifer Patiti, told the Evening Standard that the latest court rulings in the US had changed the game for British litigants.

"The fact that UK pension funds who bought stock on the London Stock Exchange can now participate in bringing claims in the US raises the prospect of recoveries where significant losses have been incurred."

The price of BP shares plunged by more than half from over 650p in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. And it has taken a long time to recover to its current level of less than 520p.

In the meantime BP has cast overboard its chief executive, Tony Hayward, who was pilloried by the media for saying in the middle of the tragedy that he wanted his life back.

Hayward has largely been exonerated by his peers and was recently made chairman of the mining conglomerate Glencore Xstrata.

His BP role was taken on by Bob Dudley, a US citizen who has nonetheless struggled to persuade the US court system to treat the oil group more leniently.

BP has recently failed in its bid to stop what it deemed to be unfair compensation payments being handed out by a scheme it set up.

Criminal charges involving BP have already been settled as have a variety of civil claims.

Dudley has also struggled to find a major new strategy for the company beyond slimming down to concentrate on its key strengths.

Some of the asset sales have been forced on it in an attempt to raise funds to pay for prior legal claims against it.

BP has also found itself in a difficult situation over Russia due to the political tension between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine.

BP is a 20% shareholder in Rosneft, which remains largely owned by the Kremlin. The London-based oil company was effectively forced to take the Rosneft holding when the Russian state pushed for the breakup and sale to Rosneft of a previous private-sector joint venture, TNK-BP.

In the US, BP only recently had a ban lifted on applying for new oil licences but still made first-quarter global profits of almost £2bn.

Sabrina

5th July 2014, 05:45

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/04/uk-britain-cybercrime-idUKKBN0F90RH20140704?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

PM's ex-media chief Coulson jailed for Murdoch tabloid hacking

4 July UK

Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief Andy Coulson was jailed for 18 months on Friday for encouraging widespread phone-hacking by journalists to obtain scoops at the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid he edited.

Coulson, editor of the now defunct News of the World newspaper from 2003-2007, was convicted last week of conspiracy to intercept voicemails on mobile phones following a high-profile eight-month trial at London's Old Bailey court.

"What this says is that it's right that justice should be done and that no one is above the law," said Cameron, who has apologised for having hired Coulson.

Opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband has criticised Cameron for bringing a "criminal into the heart of Downing Street".

The maximum sentence the 46-year-old Coulson could have faced was two years but the judge said he had taken into account signs of good character outside his career.

Coulson showed no emotion as the sentence was read out in a packed Court 12 at London's Old Bailey court.

"Mr Coulson ... has to take the major blame for the phone hacking at the News of the World," judge John Saunders said. "He knew about it and encouraged it when he should have stopped it."

The sentence was passed exactly three years to the day that the Guardian newspaper published revelations that staff on the paper had hacked into the voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

That sparked widespread outrage across the country and prompted Murdoch to close the 168-year-old tabloid just days later. It emerged that the newspaper had listened into messages of thousands of targets - from movie stars to crime victims to government ministers - to obtain information for scoops.

The judge said Coulson must have known about the failure of the paper to immediately tell police about Dowler's voicemails, an act he described as "unforgivable".

Coulson, found guilty of conspiracy to illegally intercept voicemails on mobile phones, was the only one of seven defendants to be convicted following a long-running trial, one of the most expensive of its kind in British legal history.

Rebekah Brooks, his predecessor as News of the World editor who later ran News Corp.'s British newspaper arm, was among those found not guilty of phone-hacking and other allegations. The two had been lovers for part of the time they worked together, according to testimony that emerged during the trial.

Three ex-senior journalists from the paper who pleaded guilty before the trial began were also sentenced on Friday.

Assistant Editor Greg Miskiw and Chief Reporter Neville Thurlbeck were given six months in jail, while one-time News Editor James Weatherup received a four month suspended prison sentence.

Glenn Mulcaire, a former private investigator who had already gone to jail for earlier hacking offences on behalf of the paper, was given a six month suspended sentence after admitting further crimes including tapping Dowler's phone.

"ROGUE REPORTER"

Phone-hacking became public knowledge in 2006 when the tabloid's former royal editor Clive Goodman and Mulcaire admitted they had hacked the phones of royal aides. The paper said at the time Goodman was a rogue reporter acting alone.

Coulson quit the paper after they were jailed, denying that he had knowledge of their illegal activity. Within months he began working for Cameron in opposition and joined him in Downing Street after the 2010 election.

Coulson resigned after revelations in 2011 that the hacking at his former newspaper had been much more expansive than the paper had previously admitted.

Former staff who worked on the paper have told Reuters hacking was carried out in a haphazard fashion, targeting whoever happened to be in the headlines at the time.

Coulson's trial heard how a woman called Laura Rooney was hacked simply because she had the same surname as the England soccer player Wayne Rooney.

The criminal action against Coulson is still not over. He faces a re-trial after the jury failed to reach a verdict over allegations he authorised Goodman to make illegal payments to police officers to obtain the telephone directories of Britain's royal family.

Prosecutors are also considering whether to instigate corporate charges against News Corp.'s British paper business. It has said it has changed the way it operates and has apologised to hacking victims.

Sabrina

6th July 2014, 07:17

http://news.sky.com/story/1295899/leon-brittan-questioned-over-rape-claim

Leon Brittan 'Questioned Over Rape Claim'

Tory peer Lord Brittan is reported to have been interviewed by police under caution last month, but he was not arrested.

6 July UK

Former home secretary Leon Brittan was questioned by police last month over a historical allegation of rape, according to reports.

The Independent on Sunday said the 74-year-old Conservative peer was interviewed by detectives under caution about the claim but was not arrested.

Lord Brittan is understood to have strongly denied the claims.

At the time of the alleged incident, Lord Brittan was not an MP after unsuccessfully contesting the North Kensington seat in 1966.

Last night, a Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed an allegation of rape had been made against a man in his seventies over an incident in 1967.

He said: "In late 2012, a woman alleged to the Metropolitan Police Service that she was raped by a man in 1967 at an address in London.

"The woman was over the age of 18 at the time of the incident.

"The allegation is being investigated by officers from the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command.

"In June 2014, a man aged in his 70s was interviewed under caution by appointment at a central London location in connection with the allegation.

"He was not arrested. Enquiries continue."

Lord Brittan was home secretary in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government between 1983 and 1985.

The police interview is said to have taken place at the London offices of law firm Mishcon de Reya.

AND

and FRONT PAGE SUNDAY TIMES TODAY - POLICE QUIZZ BRITTAN OVER RAPE CLAIM

and FRONT PAGE INDEPENDNT ON SUNDAY - EXCLUSIVE - POLICE QUESTION BRITTAN OVER RAPE ALLEGATION

Sabrina

6th July 2014, 07:26

http://news.sky.com/story/1295878/westminster-abuse-claims-probe-114-files-lost

6 July UK

Westminster Abuse Claims Probe: 114 Files Lost

More than 100 potentially crucial files to the investigation of historic child sex abuse claims in Westminster have gone missing.

The Home Office has admitted that more than 100 official files relating to allegations of historical child abuse by politicians have been lost or destroyed.

The department's permanent secretary, Mark Sedwill, said the documents - which related to a 20-year period between 1979 and 1999 - were "presumed destroyed, missing or not found".

The disclosure came as Mr Sedwill said he will appoint a senior legal figure to assess the Home Office's handling of a dossier alleging historical child abuse involving powerful and famous figures at Westminster in the 1980s.

Shamed children's entertainer Jimmy Savile and disgraced MP Cyril Smith are two names which are said to be contained in the dossier, which the Home Office says is also missing.

It follows the Prime Minister's call for him to establish what happened to the file which was handed to the then home secretary Leon (now Lord) Brittan by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983.

Lord Brittan admitted he had received the dossier and passed it on to officials, but no action was ever taken.

In a letter to the chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, Mr Sedwill revealed that while the original review had identified 527 potentially relevant files which had been retained, there were a further 114 files which could not be located.

The Prime Minister is under pressure to launch a full public inquiry
He said that the investigation had not found a single dossier from Mr Dickens, but several sets of correspondence over a number of years to a number of home secretaries containing claims of sexual offences.

However he said that the review had found no record of specific allegations by Mr Dickens of child sex abuse by senior figures.

"Like any other citizen, I am horrified by what we have learnt in the past couple of years about the systematic abuse of children and vulnerable adults by prominent public figures, and the state's failure to protect them," he wrote.

"Some have been brought to justice and I hope that the police investigations now under way across the country are equally successful. The Home Office has and will co-operate fully with any police inquiry."

Earlier, David Cameron faced criticism for an "inadequate" investigation into what happened to the dossier.

Labour MP Simon Danczuk, whose campaign raised the issue of what happened to the Dickens' file at a Commons Home Affairs Committee hearing, said there needed to be a public inquiry.

He told Sky News: "The public are very clearly concerned and they won't be satisfied with another review by Home Office officials.

"Reviews like this often prove to be whitewashes.

"The Prime Minister should establish an over-arching review led by child protection experts to draw together the results from all these different case, investigations and institutional inquiries."

AND

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/leon-brittan-nick-clegg-malcolm-rifkind-william-hague-dolphin-square-missing-dossiers-and-the-vip-child-abuse-connection/

Leon Brittan, Nick Clegg, Malcolm Rifkind, William Hague, Dolphin Square, Missing Dossiers and the VIP Child-Abuse connection

Former Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, has confirmed that he was handed a dossier of evidence about child-abuse by brave MP Geoffrey Dickens.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10940180/Leon-Brittan-confirms-he-was-handed-a-bundle-of-papers-said-to-contain-allegations-about-high-profile-paedophiles.html

Leon previously claimed he had no knowledge of the dossier but when pressed by Simon Danczuk, who investigated child-rapist Cyril Smith, his memory was miraculously restored.

You see, Leon, as with most things on this septic isle of ours, may not be quite the man he first appears to be.

In fact he appears to be up to his neck in filth of the highest order.

Some claim there’s a vile paedophile blackmail ring operating in this country in which Mi5 and Mossad work together to entrap MPs and force them to do their masters bidding.

Children are snatched from loving parents and thrown into care homes where they are preyed on by VIP filth.

The demented hag in charge of this travesty is none other than Margaret Oppenheimer-Hodge.

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/greville-janner-tony-blair-madeline-mccann-margaret-hodge-and-the-vip-child-abuse-connection/

By a strange coincidence, Leon’s cousin is Malcolm Rifkind.

The TruthNews website, recently reported:

” Sir Malcolm Rifkind known as “Malcolm the poof” is chairman of the British parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which oversees MI5, MI6 and GCHQ – the most important position in the UK intelligence community. The ISC reports first to the prime minister, who retains – and uses – the right to censor material in ISC reports before parliament views them”.

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/mossads-links-to-filthy-britain/

In December 2013, we wrote a post detailing Leon’s links to Nick Clegg and Tory filth, Derek Laud.

For some unknown reason the article can no longer be found via Google search.

Have shadowy forces been at work trying to suppress important information?

Most definitely, yes.

So in the interest of fairness we’re reprinting the post below and that way Leon can’t be accused of mislaying the evidence yet again.

And on a final note, should the police need any further information about VIP paedophile rings, they can always start by calling Leon and Malcolm in for an informal chat.

We’re sure they’d be only too delighted to help.

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/the-curious-case-of-nick-clegg-leon-brittan-william-hague-derek-laud-cyril-smith-david-cameron-and-the-vip-child-abuse-connection/

The Curious Case of Nick Clegg…

more at link (2 July)

and

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/senior-tory-was-regularly-picking-up-rent-boys/

Senior Tory Was Regularly Picking Up ‘Rent Boys’

I have been told by a reliable source that a senior Conservative politician was alleged to regularly pick up underage ‘rent boys’ in London during the 1980s.

It is unclear at this stage whether this information was included in the dossier presented to the former Home Secretary Leon Brittan by campaigning Member of Parliament Geoffrey Dickens which has apparently gone missing but this new information will certainly increase the distrust within the general public that anything other than a full independent public inquiry into historic child abuse has any chance of exposing the truth about powerful establishment paedophiles within the UK.

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/deep-state-child-abuse-hayman-fashanu.html

DEEP STATE CHILD ABUSE; HAYMAN, FASHANU, SPEED

The organisers of the 'Deep State', the people who secretly control governments, know that, when it comes to sexual tastes, most people are like the Bonobo chimps......

Sir Peter Hayman (above) is believed to have been a top officer in the UK security service MI6.

"The former Rifle Brigade officer had been a Home and Foreign Office mandarin, working closely with the intelligence services at the height of the Cold War: it has even been suggested he was a senior figure in MI6."

How the Establishment hid the monster.

Sir Peter may have been a Kim Philby type of character working for some hidden deep state; the KGB spy Philby was close to Lord Ted Rothschild.

Sir Peter Hayman was a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) an organisation which is believed to have been used by the security services to control certain top people.

Blackmailing spooks funded paedophile group.

n the UK parliament, Conservative Member of Parliament Geoffrey Dickens (above) raised issue of Sir Peter Hayman's child abuse activity.

Geoffrey Dickens died in strange circumstances.

Sir Peter Hayman lived with his wife in South Oxfordshire where he was deputy chairman of the Conservative Association and where he was a churchwarden's assistant.

Sir Peter's correspondence with fellow paedophiles was sent to a flat at 95 Linden Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, in London.

This London flat, used for sexual liaisons, was almost across the road from the Soviet embassy.

During the cold war, Sir Peter had been deputy commandant of the British zone in Berlin.

How the Establishment hid the monster.

y mistake, Sir Peter left paedophile material in an envelope on a London bus.

The envelope was addressed to a Mr Peter Henderson (aka Sir Peter Hayman) at 95 Linden Gardens.

Soon afterwards, in November 1978, the police raided the Linden Gardens flat and found extreme child porn.

They also found diaries in which Sir Peter had recorded his sexual experiences with children.

The police also found letters to fellow child abusers.

Two of the letter writers had an interest in the extreme sexual torture and murder of children.

The notorious Director of Public Prosecutions let Sir Peter off with a caution.

Sir Peter, who faced a charge of gross indecency but was let off with a caution

Peter McKelvie, a retired child protection team manager, says that up to 40 members of parliament knew about or took part in child abuse around the 1980s.

"More than 10 current and former politicians are on a list of alleged child abusers held by police investigating claims of a Westminster paedophile ring.

"MPs or peers from all three main political parties are on the list, which includes former ministers and household names."

In 1983, Conservative Member of Parliament Geoffrey Dickens handed over a dossier containing the names of top child abusers to Leon Brittan, the government minister responsible for MI5 and the police.

Lord Brittan says that he passed the documents on to Whitehall officials. But no action was taken and the Dickens dossier was subsequently destroyed.

David Steel, while leader of the notorious Liberal Party, spoke out in Parliament against Dickens.

A top Liberal Party member of Parliament, Sir Cyril Smith, was a visitor to the boy brothel called Elm Guest House.

The corrupt elite took their revenge on the whistleblowers.

Barry Dickens, the son of Geoffrey Dickens, said he was disgusted by the treatment of his father.

Geoffrey Dickens died mysteriously in 1995.

According to the Daily Mail:

1. Despite extensive inquiries over the past 20 months, no record of the Dickens dossier being passed to the Police in the mid-Eighties, let alone investigated, has been found by detectives.

2. Operation Fairbank, which is investigating PIE, Elm Guest House and a children’s home in South-West London in the Seventies, has been staffed by just seven detectives since it was launched in November 2012.

This compares with 200 or so detectives probing alleged media crime.

more at the link and readers' comments... deeper down the rabbit hole...

Sabrina

6th July 2014, 07:41

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/untouchable-members-of-kosher-nostra.html

Sunday, 6 July 2014

UNTOUCHABLE MEMBERS OF THE KOSHER NOSTRA?

A top UK politician has NOT been arrested or questioned in connection with sex attacks on twelve children over several decades.

Police have confirmed the politician has not been arrested or questioned about the allegations.

They refused to comment on the age of the victims when the abuse took place.

Labour Lords' sex attacks on12 children - Horrific allegations include rape sexual-assaults

A source close to the investigation said: "These are some of the most horrific child abuse allegations you can imagine.

The top politician is a top member of the Kosher Nostra and is probably untouchable.

GREVILLE JANNER

Another top member of the Kosher Nostra, Leon Brittan, has been questioned by police over claims he raped a teenager in 1967.

He has NOT been arrested.

Brittan was once the government minister responsible for the police and MI5.

Leon Brittan quizzed on teen-rape

It would appear that MI5 and its friends have been very busy.

More than 100 files on UK government child abuse have been destroyed, or are lost or missing.

Dutroux (or his double) was eventually put in jail, but all the top people got away with it. (Belgium)

Reportedly it is the CIA, Mossad, MI5 and their friends who run the pedophile rings and child brothels around the world.

WHAT LINKS MICHAEL JACKSON, JIMMY SAVILE... / MARK REGEV ON LEON BRITTAN /
LEON BRITTAN - THE BIGGER PICTURE / SPARTACUS BOYS AND THE CIA / DEEP STATE CHILD ABUSE; HAYMAN, FASHANU, SPEED

A proper investigation of child abuse in high places would mean taking on the might of the CIA and its friends.

Sabrina

6th July 2014, 08:33

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5311/dear-zac-no-csa-inquiry-yet-maybe-later-yours-theresa-may

The UK Home Secretary answers a letter from a cross party section of MPs demanding an investigation into historic cases of child sex abuse. The article says the letter sets off a ticking time bomb that could shake Westminster. About time. See stories above. And the letter is from campaigner Zac Goldsmith... see at link, can't copy article.

This will take time, but they will get there imo...

141 MPs are now supporting this.

Sabrina

6th July 2014, 08:45

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-05/ceo-one-worlds-largest-energy-major-sees-no-reason-petrodollar

CEO Of One Of The World's Largest Energy Majors "Sees No Reason For Petrodollar"

Tyler Durden on 07/05/2014

The USA is fast running out of friends to support its 'exorbitant privelege'. Having alienated the Germans over NSA-eavesdropping, 'boomerang'd the Russians into de-dollarization, tariffed and quantitatively eased China into diversification, and finally 'punished' France into discussing the dollar's demise; it appears no lessor person than the CEO of Total (the world's 13th biggest oil producer and Europe's 2nd largest), believes "There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars." Clearly, based on Christophe de Margerie's comments, that we have passed peak Petrodollar.

As Reuters reports,

Oil major Total's chief executive said on Saturday the euro should have a bigger role in international trade although it was not possible to do without the U.S. dollar.

Christophe de Margerie was responding to questions about calls by French policymakers to find ways at EU level to bolster the use of the euro in international business following a record U.S. fine for BNP.

...

"There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars," he said. He said the fact that oil prices are quoted in dollars per barrel did not mean that payments actually had to be made in that currency.

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Thursday that euro zone finance ministers would discuss ways of boosting use of the euro in international trade in their next monthly meeting on Monday.

"It would be a way to protect businesses when, outside of U.S. territory, they carry out transactions that are perfectly legal in the country they belong to," he said.

So even a major beneficiary of the status quo appears to see the end in sight for the Petrodollar.

As we showed only yesterday...(and have ever since 2010)... nothing lasts forever (graph at link)

Meanwhile, somewhere Putin is still laughing.

As Brandon Smith concluded previously with regard the 'anything but random' nature of th emore frequent discussion of the dollar as resever currency:

The dollar is no more invincible than any other fiat currency in history. In some ways, it is actually far weaker than any that came before. The dollar is entirely reliant on its own world reserve status in order to hold its value on the global market. As is evident, countries like China are already dumping the greenback in trade with particular nations. It is utterly foolish to assume this trend is somehow “random” rather than deliberate. Foreign countries would not be initiating the process of a dollar dump today if they did not mean to follow through with it tomorrow. All that is left is for a cover crisis to be conjured. Existing tensions in the Mideast signal a pervasive crisis, most likely an energy crisis, in the near term.

It appears that making friends and influencing people is the opposite of what America is achieving...at a time when it needs them the most.

Sabrina

7th July 2014, 05:53

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/06/mining-lawsuits-us-government-environment-montana-colorado

6 July US

Mining companies face lawsuits as US government rallies to their defence

Environmental group alleges lax oversight means allows Colorado, New Mexico and Montana to produce massive pollution

Coal industry representatives say lawsuits against mines in three western states could have consequences across the US as environmentalists seek changes in how mining is approved on federally owned reserves.

In civil cases unfolding in Colorado, New Mexico and Montana, the group WildEarth Guardians asserts coal companies benefited from lax oversight by federal regulators.

The group says the US Department of Interior approved mining plans without enough public involvement, and gave little heed to the pollution caused by digging, shipping and burning coal. The group asked the courts to stop mining until the plans are re-done.

The cases involve the San Juan coal mine in New Mexico, the Colowyo and Trapper mines in Colorado, and the Spring Creek mine in Montana. Combined, they employed about 1,200 workers and produced 27m tons of coal last year, according to federal records.

Attorneys for the federal government denied the environmentalists' claims and have asked the courts to dismiss the cases. More detailed briefs from the government are due in coming weeks. A fourth case involving several mines in Wyoming was voluntarily dismissed.

New Mexico-based WildEarth Guardians has a lengthy record of litigation against the coal industry. Just in the past five years its attorneys have filed dozens of lawsuits and legal petitions against agencies that regulate mining on federal lands.

Yet all sides in the three lawsuits over the mining plans agree the consequences in those cases could be particularly far-reaching. Coal mines nationwide have gone through the same approval process that's being challenged, according to a National Mining Association attorney. If the government's defense is unsuccessful, mines across the US would be threatened, the group said.

"If WildEarth's request for relief is granted … the result would be devastating economic harm to coal miners, operators and the entire industry that services coal production," mining association attorney Stephen Bell wrote in a recent court brief.

The Washington DC-based mining association, representing hundreds of companies, has intervened in the Montana case on behalf of Spring Creek operator Cloud Peak Energy, of Wyoming.

Montana's attorney general, Tim Fox, also has intervened on the side of the defendants. His office says impeding mining at Spring Creek would deprive Montana of millions of dollars in coal production royalties, state and local taxes and other payments.

Jeremy Nichols with WildEarth Guardians said that while mining has its benefits, the government can't ignore the costs of producing and burning large volumes of coal.

"This problem is not just limited to one mine in one state. It's happening frequently," he said.

Sabrina

7th July 2014, 06:01

The main stream media are now getting behind this story, previously relegated to the 'alternative' blogs. And they no doubt know some of the politicians involved (background stories above). This is opening a very big can of worms at last....I suspect.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10950138/Westminster-paedophile-ring-allegations-Scotland-Yard-detectives-trace-victim.html

6 July UK

Westminster paedophile ring allegations: Scotland Yard detectives trace 'victim'

Alleged victim of paedophile sex abuse interviewed in United States at request of Scotland Yard as Theresa May, the Home Secretary, prepares to make first official statement on growing sex scandal claims

Scotland Yard has tracked down a child at the centre of an alleged 1980s Westminster paedophile ring who has implicated a senior political figure, The Telegraph can disclose.

The man - now in his 40s, whose identity is known to this newspaper - is a successful entrepreneur based in the United States and has given a detailed account of how he was assaulted by the politician.

However, the alleged victim - who was initially willing to co-operate - has so far refused to make a formal statement to British detectives.

Police have traced a copy of a statement he gave more than 30 years ago as a child when he was rescued from horrific sexual assault. His version of events is understood to be corroborated by a detective who conducted the official interview with the child at the time.

Downing Street has confirmed Theresa May, the Home Secretary, will make a statement on the Government’s handling of the wider allegations later.

more at link

and

reader's comment on Needleblog on this story

Wow. That is a big story, if it’s what (who) I think it is

Reply
gojam
July 7, 2014 at 12:03 am
Hi James,

I’m confident that you know who that story refers to and yes it is very significant.

and

http://news.sky.com/story/1296277/may-to-give-statement-on-child-abuse-claims

May To Give Statement On Child Abuse Claims

Labour are calling for a full inquiry into alleged paedophile activity at Westminster as pressure over missing files intensifies.

Home Secretary Theresa May is to make a statement to the House of Commons today on alleged child abuse at Westminster in the 1980s following claims there "may well have been" a political cover-up.

She will brief MPs on the Home Office's investigation into the allegations after her department admitted more than 100 official files relating to claims of child abuse by politicians have been lost or destroyed.

These files are in addition to a dossier alleging child abuse involving powerful and famous figures at Westminster in the 1980s that is also missing.

The allegations include claims of abuse by the late Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith and alleged paedophile activity at parties attended by politicians at the Elm Guest House in Barnes, southwest London.

Sky News understands Mrs May will announce some form of investigation when she makes her statement this afternoon.

It is likely to focus on whether public bodies failed in their duty of care towards children.

more at link

and

http://news.sky.com/story/1296261/westminster-abuse-claims-cover-up-possible

Westminster Abuse Claims: 'Cover-Up Possible'

Former Cabinet minister Lord Tebbit says there could have been a political cover-up of historic child abuse involving Westminster.

story at link

and

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/did-norman-tebbit-know-that-sir-peter-morrison-was-a-pederast/

Did Norman Tebbit Know That Sir Peter Morrison Was A ‘Pederast’ ?
Well, according to Edwina Currie he did, which no doubt makes him an ideal person to ask on news programs about Establishment Paedophile Cover-Ups.

I expect that Norman Tebbit ‘unconsciously’ forgot to pass the information about Sir Peter Morrison liking underage boys to the police.

Edwina Currie's book entry at link

Sabrina

7th July 2014, 06:15

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2681827/Labour-Lords-sex-attacks-12-children-Horrific-allegations-include-rape-sexual-assaults.html#ixzz36fTOVUbn

7 July UK

Labour Lord's 'sex attacks on 12 children': 'Horrific' allegations include rape and serious sexual assaults MoS reveals

It is understood the alleged abuse took place over several decades

The Mail on Sunday has chosen not to name the peer being investigated

File containing accusations has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service

Police confirmed the peer has not been arrested or questioned

A Labour peer is being investigated by police after 12 men made allegations of historical child abuse against him, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Sources close to the investigation last night said that the ‘horrific’ allegations include rape and serious sexual assault.

It is understood the alleged abuse took place over several decades. The Mail on Sunday has chosen not to name the peer being investigated.

A police spokesman said last night: ‘The inquiry has had a number of individuals who have come forward and made complaints.

'We are thoroughly investigating their allegations and providing them with professional support.

It is understood that a file containing the accusations has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Police also last night confirmed the peer has not been arrested or questioned about the allegations.

They refused to comment on the age of the victims when the abuse took place.

A source close to the investigation said: ‘These are some of the most horrific child abuse allegations you can imagine.’

Another source said: ‘The sexual abuse that the peer has been accused of is extremely worrying. The allegations are harrowing and must have affected the vulnerable boys significantly in later life.

‘It is becoming clear there is a problem with historic sex abuse in Parliament and the police have to be allowed access to all the information needed to investigate these allegations.

'It is beginning to look like Westminster is above the law. It is important that these allegations are investigated thoroughly.’

The shocking development comes as the Home Office last night said that it would appoint a senior legal figure to carry out a fresh review into how a dossier alleging paedophile activity at Westminster in the 1980s was handled by the department.

The Prime Minister last week ordered further investigation after it was revealed the Home Office lost or destroyed a potentially explosive dossier given to Home Secretary Sir Leon Brittan by the late campaigning Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens.

The investigation into the peer comes in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal and shocking revelations concerning Cyril Smith, the disgraced Liberal Democrat MP, and Labour links to the Paedophile Information Exchange group, which wanted to legalise sex with children.

Sabrina

7th July 2014, 06:38

6 July Australia via US Uncut Facebook

85,000 people from across Australia marched against austerity on Sunday in the nation's largest economic protest in 30 years, but the media refuses to cover them. SHARE to break corporate media's blackout of this historic uprising.

Prime Minister Tony Abott's budget includes cuts to schools, disability care, unemployment benefits, and also raises the pension age. Demonstrators want to stop him from transforming Australia's economy into the US model with record high corporate profits, repressed wages, and rampant inequality. ‪#‎bustthebudget‬

http://bit.ly/1td3GiS

Sabrina

8th July 2014, 14:45

http://news.sky.com/story/1296987/ten-politicians-named-in-calls-to-abuse-line
8 July UK

'Ten Politicians Named' In Calls To Abuse Line

The names of more powerful people will emerge as the Government launches a child sex abuse inquiry, a top charity official warns.

At least 10 well-known serving or former politicians are facing accusations of abuse, a child protection official has said

Dr Jon Bird, of the National Association for People Abused In Childhood, told Sky News a string of names, including those of some who are now dead, had been given by callers to the charity's help line "again and again".

He also warned there would be more to follow.

It comes as the senior civil servant at the Home Office, Mark Sedwill, prepares for a grilling by the Home Affairs Select Committee about how his department handled child abuse claims made over a 20-year period.

Dr Bird said: "The names of people in very high places - politicians, senior police officers and even some judges - have been going around as alleged abusers for a very long time.

"Since the Jimmy Savile revelations, there's been a sea change in the way police and the CPS respond to these sort of complaints and now, at last, it looks like these people are going to be investigated."
more at link

and

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2684262/Powerful-elite-20-establishment-figures-paedophile-ring-abused-children-decades.html

'Powerful elite' of at least 20 establishment figures may have been part of paedophile ring that abused children for decades

Former child protection manager claims abusers operated for 65 years

Peter McKelvie first raised alarm about paedophile politicians in the 1980s

Says abusers may also include judges and people linked to Royal Family

McKelvie says victims may finally get justice after decades of being ignored

Lord Warner says 'children's homes were a supply line' for paedophiles

story at the link

Sabrina

8th July 2014, 15:08

US Set To Alienate Angry Germany Next, As Crackdown Shifts From BNP To Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank

Tyler Durden on 07/08/2014

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-08/us-set-alienate-angry-germany-next-crackdown-shifts-bnp-commerzbank-deutsche-bank

As we reported over the weekend in "By "Punishing" France, The US Just Accelerated The Demise Of The Dollar", following the record $9 billion fine against French BNP, the outcry has been fast and furious, with virtually everyone in the local chain of command, from Total CEO to the head of the Bank of France (and ECB member) Christian Noyer, all saying that the US is now clearly abusing the reserve power of the dollar and it is time to move away from a dollar-based reserve currency (how that jives with concurrent French demands for a lower EUR is a different, incomprehensible matter entirely).

It appears that having pushed France forcefully into the Russia-China Eurasian, and anti-US camp, the US will now do the same with Germany. Because after infuriating the German population by first refusing to return their gold contained (the legend goes) at the New York Fed, and then with scandal after spying scandal, most recently involving the CIA directly soliciting a German double agent, now the time has come to "punish" Germany's largest banks for the same kind of money laundering that BNP was engaged in. As the NYT and Reuters report, the time has come to shift away from the BNP scandal and focus on what will soon be the Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank fallout.

According to the NYT, the money laundering crackdown is "bound for another European financial center: Germany. State and federal authorities have begun settlement talks with Commerzbank, Germany’s second-largest lender, over the bank’s dealings with Iran and other countries blacklisted by the United States, according to people briefed on the matter. The bank, which is suspected of transferring money through its American operations on behalf of companies in Iran and Sudan, could strike a settlement deal with the state and federal authorities as soon as this summer, said the people briefed on the matter, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The contours of a settlement, which the authorities have only begun to sketch out, are expected to include at least $500 million in penalties for Commerzbank, the people added. Although prosecutors were still weighing punishments, the people briefed on the matter said that the bank would most likely face a so-called deferred prosecution agreement, which would suspend criminal charges in exchange for the financial penalty and other concessions.

It's not just Commerzbank - a settlement with the smaller bank will merely pave the way for the punishment of the biggest bank of all (in terms of groiss derivative notional held): Deutsche Bank.

A potential deal with Commerzbank — which is expected to pave the way for a separate settlement with Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank — would pale in comparison to the case announced last week against France’s biggest bank, BNP Paribas. The French bank agreed to pay a record $8.9 billion penalty and plead guilty to criminal charges for processing transactions on behalf of Sudan and other countries that America has hit with sanctions, a rare criminal action against a financial giant.

As NYT adds, correctly, "The Commerzbank investigation features an added twist: The bank is 17 percent owned by the German government. It is unclear whether — as in the BNP case, which led French authorities to intervene on the bank’s behalf — the settlement talks could inflame diplomatic tensions between Washington and Berlin."

Of course, since this is the ridiculous "scorched earth" diplomatic policy, if one may call it that, of the Obama administration, nobody is surprised any more that the US president is alienating one former ally after another.

As we first observed a few weeks ago when we revealed JPM's involvement in all of this money laundering, "some critics have questioned why American authorities have set their eye on European banks. The answer, authorities say, is that American banks by and large avoided processing transactions for Iran and Sudan. But American banks are not immune from touching dirty money. Citigroup’s Banamex unit is under investigation for processing money linked to a drug cartel. And in January, JPMorgan Chase reached a roughly $2 billion deal with the authorities over ignoring signs of the Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard L. Madoff, who held accounts at the bank for over two decades."

Not only that but as we wrote over the weekend, the bank that was instrumental in facilitating BNP's money laundering for nearly a decade was none other than JPM. One wonders if JPM also "unwittingly" was the bank that made German money laundering around the globe possible. Did we mention unwittingly?

Still, while one can debate the idiocy of US foreign policy, eager to push European allies into the willing hands of Russia and China at the worst possible moment, when regional and civil wars and conflicts are suddenly breaking out across all key geopolitical hotspots, one wonders: in the case of BNP, the "fine" was as a result of French unwillingness to halt the Russian amphibious warship deal despite US demands. So it would be curious just what the US blackmail against German banks is for: one really does wonder just what punishment Angela Merkel deserves behind the scenes in the eyes of John Kerry et clueless al, to punish her and Germany so blatantly for the entire world to see.

One thing is clear: if the US thinks that Germany will continue to consider America its BFF and make zero contingency plans for when the alliance with the US finally crashes and burns, it will be truly surprised when the Eurasian alliance of Russia and China finally announces its final, all

and

http://rt.com/business/170864-france-balance-dollar-bnp/

France lashes out against US dollar, calls for ‘rebalancing’ of world currencies

July 07, 2014

The French government wants to break the monopoly the dollar has on international transactions after the country’s largest bank, BNP Paribas, was slapped with a record $9 billion fine and a 1-year dollar trading ban.

Michel Sapin, the French finance minister, called for a “rebalancing” of the currencies used for global payments, saying the BNP Paribas case should “make us realize the necessity of using a variety of currencies” the Financial Times reports.

“We [Europeans] are selling to ourselves in dollars, for instance when we sell planes. Is that necessary? I don’t think so. I think a rebalancing is possible and necessary, not just regarding the euro, but also for the big currencies of the emerging countries, which account for more and more of global trade,” the finance minister told the FT at a conference over the weekend.

France wants to bring the euro to greater prominence in international trade. Sapin said he would raise the idea on Monday when he meets in Brussels with eurozone finance ministers.

BNP was punished for helping counties like Iran, Sudan, and Cuba process $30 billion in transactions which are illegal under US law, since they violate US sanctions. Starting on January 1, 2015, the bank will not be able to carry out dollar-based transactions for one year.

The French government has called the fine and 1-year ban unreasonable and unfair, as it blocks the country’s largest bank from handling dollars, which is the dominant currency in global trade. Nearly 90 percent of all deals in the $5 trillion a day foreign exchange market includes the US dollar.

Heavy-handed sanctions from the US and Europe have forced countries to also look towards other currency options. Russia, for example, is actively working to de-dollarize, and is starting to use the Chinese yuan and other Asian currencies in trading.

Dollars dominate most oil and gas pricing, another cycle France hopes to break.

Christophe de Margerie, the CEO of Total, France’s largest company, says other currencies can be used in oil purchases, even if the benchmark is left in dollars.

“The price of a barrel of oil is quoted in dollars,” de Margerie said. “A refinery can take that price and using the euro-dollar exchange rate on any given day, agree to make the payment in euro.”

The US and OPEC countries have traded oil exclusively in US dollars since 1971.

Sabrina

8th July 2014, 15:14

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/07/07/israel-benjamin-netanyahus-future-in-doubt/#more-223020

Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Future in Doubt

By Robert Tait, The Telegraph - July 7, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/pkws93t

Benjamin Netanyahu faced an urgent threat to his political future on Monday after his most powerful ally announced he was ending their political partnership over a row on how to respond to rocket attacks from Gaza.

Avigdor Lieberman, the combative Israeli foreign minister, decided to dissolve the pact that had existed between his own Yisrael Beiteinu party and the prime minister’s Likud party for the past two years, local media reported.

The decision followed an angry confrontation between the pair at Sunday’s cabinet meeting at which the prime minister accused Mr Lieberman and others of branding him as soft on Gaza “for political ends”.

At a news conference on Monday, Mr Lieberman saie he and his party would remain in the coalition but that he had “fundamental disagreements” with Mr Netanyahu.

more at link

Sabrina

8th July 2014, 20:29

http://hipknowsys.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/benjamin-fulford-july-7-2014-some-kind.html?m=1

An action pack report from Benjamin Fulford here:

Benjamin Fulford - July 7, 2014: Some kind of major show-down is looming this month as new BRICS bank set to launch

There are many signs the ongoing financial war for the future of the planet is heading for a major inflection point as the BRICS heads of state meet July 14-16 to formally set up their alternative to the cabal controlled IMF and World Bank. The cabal has already signaled its displeasure by blowing up a bridge in Brazil, according to CIA sources.

The cabalists are also trying to make their own move to pre-empt the BRICS, by using the Abe slave government in Japan. World Bank lawyer (apparently she never quit) Karen Hudes was in Tokyo recently where she sent messages to over 70 governments falsely claiming Japan would provide the gold needed to back a new financial system, according to CIA sources in Asia who monitored her activities. Hudes did not respond to an e-mail asking for her reply to these allegations. In any case, Japan does not have the requisite gold, according to Bank of Japan sources.

The Abe government works according to a script written in part by Nazi drug smuggler and murderer Richard Armitage and Mossad scum bag liar Michael Green. Green lied to Asian gangsters that this writer was a “speed addict who beat women,” in an attempt to get them to agree to carry out a murder contract on me. Message to Green and Armitage: you are going to jail.

The plot written by these criminals for Abe also mentions the 311 nuclear and tsunami mass murder and terror incident as a great opportunity for the Japanese and US military to work together. The report can be seen here:

http://csis.org/files/publication/120810_Armitage_USJapanAlliance_Web.pdf

In any case, the attempt to use Abe to fool the world about non-existent Japanese gold may be connected to the cryptic occult numerology press conference by IMF head Christine Lagarde,

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more at the link

Sabrina

9th July 2014, 06:57

As with everything else, discernment as always...

Karen Hudes - Gold from the Global Debt Facility to Replace Paper Currency 7.8.14

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Sabrina

9th July 2014, 07:18

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28221671

Vatican bank chief to step down amid restructure

9 July

The president and four non-executive members of the governing board of the Vatican bank are due to step down, the BBC has learned.

The move, part of a restructure of the Catholic Church's central government, will be announced on Wednesday. (the day Kevin Arnett of ITCCS said there would be moves against the Vatican and Queen of England ?)

Pope Francis has sought to stamp out corruption and other abuses at the bank, which handles the Church's funds.

The news comes after the bank said its profit fell to 2.9m euros (£2.3m) in 2013, down from 86.6m euros in 2012.

Attempts to create a more transparent banking system for the Catholic Church, begun by Pope Benedict after allegations were made that the Vatican bank had been used by money launderers, will continue under new management.

Balance sheet woes
The Vatican's precarious financial situation was revealed by the simultaneous publication in Rome of balance sheets for 2013 of the Holy See, of the Vatican City state, a separate entity, and of the Vatican bank, known officially as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR).

The IOR moves money around the world to finance Catholic missions and provides banking services for the pope, clergy and religious orders.

Alongside the bank's massive drop in profits, the Holy See, the administrative headquarters of the Church, ran up a deficit of 24.2m euros (£19.2m) last year.

However Vatican City state, the tiny sovereign enclave in the heart of Rome, which derives a large part of its income from tickets to the Vatican museums, reported a profit of 32.3m euros (£25.7m).

The bank's losses were attributed in part to writedowns of investments made before the bank's reform programme started and when less vigilance was exercised.

The cost of bringing in American anti-money laundering experts to comb through and vet some 18,000 individual accounts at the Vatican amounted to 7.3m euros (£5.8m).

As a result of this year-long operation, Pope Francis has called to Rome the former head of the Catholic Church in Australia, Cardinal George Pell.

He will head a new economic affairs department at the Vatican, with oversight of all the Vatican's financial dealings and will report directly to the Pope.

Vatican bank president Ernst von Freyberg, appointed by former Pope Benedict just before his retirement in February 2013, will be replaced by a French businessman, Jean Baptiste Franssu.

more at link

and

http://itccs.org/2014/06/29/important-notice-from-itccs-central-and-the-common-law-court-direct-action-teams-move-into-action-on-verge-of-popes-resignation/

Special “take down” units move into action on verge of Pope’s resignation

Posted on June 29, 2014

Important Notice from ITCCS Central and the Common Law Court – June 29, 2014 – Brussels

As the Vatican prepares today for the imminent removal of Jorge Bergoglio, “Pope Francis”, from his office, two Direct Action Units (DAU’s) of trained security personnel have been dispatched by the Court to Rome and London. Their purpose will be to assist in the apprehending of known child killers associated with the Ninth Circle sacrificial cult, including Bergoglio himself.

story at link and

A global broadcast of these and other historic developments, including the DAU actions in Rome and London, will be posted on July 10 (Jubilee Day) at www.itccs.org .

Sabrina

9th July 2014, 07:37

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=50

8 July UK

'COVER-UP MERCHANT' CHOSEN FOR CHILD ABUSE INQUIRY?

The UK government has chosen Lady Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, aged 80, to chair the new inquiry into the handling of child abuse allegations by various UK institutions.

1. The News of the World had an article about Elizabeth Butler-Sloss's husband 'associating' with prostitutes.

2. Elizabeth Butler-Sloss is the daughter of Sir Cecil Havers and is very much part of the Establishment.

3. Until June 2007, she chaired the inquest into the death of Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, and appeared to be part of a cover-up.

4. In 1987, 121 children from the county of Cleveland were taken into temporary local authority care on suspicion of having been sexually abused.

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss chaired the Cleveland child abuse inquiry, which some people saw as being part of a cover-up.

5. Lady Butler-Sloss granted life-long anonymity to the killers of toddler James Bulger

6. Lady Butler-Sloss is the sister of the late Sir Michael Havers, who was Lord Chancellor (top legal man) at the time of the Kincora Boys Home child abuse cover-up.

Havers reportedly tried to silence 'the child abuse whistleblower' Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens.

I was warned off asking Brittan what he knew.

Havers opposed the prosecution of child abuser Sir Peter Hayman.

and

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/malcolm-rifkind-leon-brittan-theresa-may-tony-blair-chilcot-fake-inquiries-airport-checks-77-mossad-dirty-tricks-and-the-vip-paedophile-connection/

8 July

Malcolm Rifkind, Leon Brittan, Theresa May, Tony Blair, Chilcot, Fake Inquiries, Airport Checks, 7/7, Mossad Dirty Tricks and the VIP paedophile connection

Tory slapper, Theresa May, has announced plans for a fake inquiry into the missing VIP-paedophile dossier which was mislaid by Leon Brittan.

The whole thing will be a stage-managed cover-up of the highest order.

Leon, who appears to have a memory like a sieve, was handed an explosive dossier by the late MP, Geoffrey Dickens, but doesn’t know where he put it.

His cousin is all-round weirdo, Malcolm Rifkind who was recently described thus:

” Sir Malcolm Rifkind known as “Malcolm the poof” is chairman of the British parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), which oversees MI5, MI6 and GCHQ – the most important position in the UK intelligence community. The ISC reports first to the prime minister, who retains – and uses – the right to censor material in ISC reports before parliament views them”.

Malcolm works for sly Israeli spy agency, Mossad, and is a key player in many of the dirty tricks perpetrated by them on British soil.

By a strange coincidence, Leon and Malcolm have another cousin, this time bully-boy Guinness fraudster, Gerald Ronson.
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What many people don’t realise is that Leon Brittan has been named as a visitor to boy-brothel, the Elm Guest House.

full story at link :).. if not so depressing...

Sabrina

9th July 2014, 07:59

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THE SHIFT Movie Trailer 2014

Reasons to be cheerful :)...

Sabrina

10th July 2014, 19:45

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-government-expels-americas-mostsenior-intelligence-official-in-berlin-over-espionage-row-9598689.html

10 July Germany

German government expels America's most-senior intelligence official in Berlin over espionage row

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government ordered the most-senior American intelligence official in Berlin to leave the country today, in a direct response to a deepening transatlantic espionage scandal in which two German state employees are suspected of having spied for the US.

The unprecedented move against a Nato ally was announced by Clemens Binninger, the chairman of the Berlin parliamentary committee overseeing the intelligence services, less than 24 hours after prosecutors revealed the existence of the second suspected US spy in Germany.

Der Spiegel magazine described the official request as an “earthquake” and said Germany usually reserved such draconian diplomatic measures “for pariah states like Iran or North Korea”. But it noted that asking to leave was not the same as an “expulsion”.

Mr Binninger told reporters Berlin “had asked the representative of the US intelligence services in Germany to leave the country”. He said the decision was a reaction to the “ongoing failure to help resolve the various allegations” that started last year with disclosures about widespread US espionage in Germany and culminated in two new spying cases over the past week. Ms Merkel let it be known that she was “not amused” by the continuing allegations of US spying in Germany.

The charges first emerged last October when the American whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the US National Security Agency had bugged her mobile phone. Since then, German government officials have been exasperated by Washington’s failure to clarify the spying issue or provide any explanation.

There was no immediate response from the US embassy in Berlin to the expulsion order, which almost certainly concerns the CIA’s top representative or “chief of station” in Germany. Earlier, Ms Merkel’s Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, gave vent to his government’s frustration with the affair. A former Interior Minister responsible for the intelligence services, Mr Schäuble said that while Germany relied on US intelligence to fight terrorism, “it doesn’t mean that the Americans are allowed to recruit third-rate people here”. He said if the allegations against the US spy suspects proved true, “it is so stupid that one can only cry at the foolishness of it”. But Mr Schäuble dismissed claims that the information the two alleged spies had passed on to the US was significant. “If the situation remains what we know now, the information reaped by this suspected espionage is laughable,” he said.

On Wednesday, Germany was rocked by fresh revelations that state prosecutors had searched the home and offices of an unnamed defence ministry staffer on suspicion of spying for the US – the second such case in a week.

The search followed the arrest of a German intelligence service employee who is alleged to have worked as a US double agent for more than two years. He is reported to have received €30,000 (£24,000) in cash in exchange for 218 secret German documents he downloaded on to computer memory sticks. He was said to have met his US spymasters at secret locations in Austria.

Der Spiegel described the second US suspect as a potentially “ideal informant” because, as a defence ministry employee, he had access to Berlin’s Nato strategy and secret plans for military co-operation with other countries.

He was said to have worked as a foreign country specialist in the ministry’s political department. Der Spiegel said he was an “ideal informant” for any intelligence service and would have had “extensive access to the ministry’s political planning” and documents containing the details of political negotiations with other countries. Prosecutors are still investigating the suspect and no arrest has been made.

Sabrina

10th July 2014, 19:57

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-bank-executive-who-moved-to-us-shot-his-wife-dead-before-killing-himself-9596515.html

Another banker 'suicide' sadly (also a thread on Avalon on this).
10 July

JP Morgan bank executive from London shot his wife dead before killing himself in the US

A bank executive from London shot his wife dead before turning the gun on himself.

Julian Knott, 45, an executive director for J P Morgan, shot 47-year-old Alita repeatedly, police said.

The father-of-three was found dead alongside her in their home in Jefferson Township, New Jersey, on Sunday. He had worked in the City for almost 20 years before moving to the US in December 2012.

In a tribute posted online soon after the bodies were found, their daughter Kayleigh said that the couple were: “now stress-free”.

The university student wrote on her Instagram page: “Although I am heartbroken that they will never see me graduate college ... get married or to be grandparents for my children, I can still have inner peace knowing that they are now stress-free in a much better place.”

Referring to her two teenage brothers, Tom and Luke, she wrote: “We will be just fine with our angels watching over us. Rest in peace mummy and daddy, stay close.”

Today Mr Knott’s relatives in Britain said they were still waiting for information about the tragedy.

Police said they were called to the couple’s home at 1.12am on Sunday and found the bodies. Initial investigations showed the deaths were a result of murder-suicide. The couple met in London 20 years, ago when Philippines-born Mrs Knott was a personal assistant to a Bahraini sheik. They married and settling in Southwick, West Sussex, where Mrs Knott opened nursery school Quayside Tots.

Mr Knott joined J P Morgan as a network services manager in 2001. He moved to New Jersey when he was promoted to be executive director of the global network operations centre. In a biography posted online, Mrs Knott wrote: “After meeting my husband while working in London, I married, had three children and started my own pre-school nursery business, which I still own.”

Alongside a 2012 photo of Mr Knott carrying his wife on a beach, she wrote: “Been married for almost 18 years and love him more now. He is not just my husband, he is my best friend who understands the scatty Filipina I am.”

In a statement, police said: “Preliminary investigation has revealed that the two adults died as a result of gunshot wounds and the incident has been determined to be a murder/suicide. Julian Knott, age 45, shot his wife Alita Knott, age 47, multiple times and then took his own life with the same weapon.”

On Facebook, friend of the couple Reyes Cham Ortega wrote: “I worked with him for only two years but that was enough to know a lot about him and his family. I am still shocked and cannot believe it.”

J P Morgan declined to comment.

and

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-10/banker-suicides-return-jpmorgan-executive-blasts-wife-kills-self-shotgun

10 July

Banker Suicides Return: JPMorgan Executive "Blasts Wife, Kills Self" With Shotgun

With Russia and China having briefly taken over the hub of global executive suicides, the sad trend has returned back to America. In what appears to the 15th financial services executive suicide this year, yet another JPMorgan Director took his own life. As IBTimes reports, Jefferson Township (New Jersey) police report that the Global Network Operations Center Executive Director, "Julian Knott, age 45, shot his wife Alita Knott, age 47, multiple times and then took his own life with the same weapon." They are survived by 3 teenage children...

As IB Times reports,

JP Morgan executive director Julian Knott blasted his wife Alita to death with a shotgun before turning the gun on himself.

The 45-year-old, who worked for the investment bank in London until July 2010, shot his 47-year-old wife multiple times before committing suicide with the same weapon.

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Julian moved to the United States from London in 2010 and was working at JP Morgan's Global Network Operations Center in Whippany, New Jersey, at the time of the tragedy.

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Jefferson Township police, in New Jersey, confirmed on Sunday they had found two unconscious bodies at the Knotts' large suburban home at 1.12am.

A statement released on Tuesday added: "Through an extensive investigation conducted by the Jefferson Township Police Department, the Morris County Prosecutors Office and the Morris County Medical Examiner's Office the preliminary investigation has revealed that the two adults died as a result of gunshot wounds and the incident has been determined to be a murder/suicide.

"This preliminary investigation revealed that Julian Knott, age 45, shot his wife Alita Knott, age 47, multiple times and then took his own life with the same weapon."
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Photos of the couple painted a picture of a content family life. Beneath the 2012 photo of Julian carrying his wife on the beach, a friend commented, "Always acting like newlyweds."

College student daughter Kayleigh, who along with her two teenage brothers survive their parents, used social media site Instagram to pay tribute to her mum and dad.

"Although I am heartbroken that they will never see me graduate college, will never be there to see me get married or to be grandparents for my children, I can still have my inner peace knowing that they are now stress-free in a much better place," she wrote.
"You never know what life is going to throw at you, but it is all part of a plan that is bigger than us all."
"So hug your families a little tighter tonight and count every little blessing because you never know what tomorrow will bring. Life is so incredibly beautiful and I can't wait to see what the world has in store for me. Rest in Peace Mummy and Daddy, stay close," she added.
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This is the 15th financial services exective death in recent months...

1 - William Broeksmit, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.

2 - Karl Slym, 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.

3 - Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.

4 - Mike Dueker, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.

5 - Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.

6 - Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.

7 - Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago. No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.

8 - Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.

9 - James Stuart Jr, Former National Bank of Commerce CEO, found dead in Scottsdale, Ariz., the morning of Feb. 19. A family spokesman did not say whatcaused the death

10 - Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, 47, a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, commited suicide by jumping in front of LIRR train

11 - Kenneth Bellando, 28, a trader at Levy Capital, formerly investment banking analyst at JPMorgan, jumped to his death from his 6th floor East Side apartment.

12 - Jan Peter Schmittmann, 57, the former CEO of Dutch bank ABN Amro found dead at home near Amsterdam with wife and daughter.

13 - Li Jianhua, 49, the director of China's Banking Regulatory Commission died of a sudden heart attack

14 - Lydia _____, 52 - jumped to her suicide from the 14th floor of Bred-Banque Populaire in Paris

15 - Julian Knott, 45 - killed wife and self with a shotgun in Jefferson Township, New Jersey

Sabrina

12th July 2014, 07:24

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2689465/Hundreds-pro-Palestinian-demonstrators-bring-London-traffic-standstill-protest-outside-Israeli-embassy.html

Hundreds of anti-Israeli demonstrators bring London traffic to a standstill after scaling a double decker bus as they protest outside embassy over Gaza strikes

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged protest outside Israeli Embassy

Crowds blocked the road in Kensington High Street, west London today

At least 17 protesters climbed on top of double-decker bus during demo

Some waved placards saying: 'Gaza: End the Siege' and 'Freedom for Palestine'

story at link

Sabrina

12th July 2014, 07:30

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/11/business/opinion-bnp-paribas-yves-smith/index.html?eref=edition

11 July

Opinion: Punish bankers not banks for crimes

CNN) -- French officials exploded in outrage after BNP Paribas agreed to plea guilty to criminal charges, pay nearly $9 billion in fines, and have access to dollar clearing suspended for a year for its persistent violations of US economic sanctions against Iran, Cuba and Sudan.

The international bank fell under US jurisdiction by virtue of facilitating transactions in dollars which passed through the US.
Most financial commentators had little sympathy with the French position, since the giant bank's conduct was egregious. It included ongoing records-doctoring to hide the true identity of customers and stymieing the US investigation.

But the French argument was essentially political: that the US had no right to impose its will on a foreign bank, and these transactions were legal under European law.

Yet this is far from the first time the US has used its position as issuer of the world's reserve currency to advance its foreign policy agenda.

more at link

and

http://americankabuki.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/us-set-to-alienate-angry-germany-next.html

US Set To Alienate Angry Germany Next, As Crackdown Shifts From BNP To Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/08/2014 08:04 -0400

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-08/us-set-alienate-angry-germany-next-crackdown-shifts-bnp-commerzbank-deutsche-bank

As we reported over the weekend in "By "Punishing" France, The US Just Accelerated The Demise Of The Dollar", following the record $9 billion fine against French BNP, the outcry has been fast and furious, with virtually everyone in the local chain of command, from Total CEO to the head of the Bank of France (and ECB member) Christian Noyer, all saying that the US is now clearly abusing the reserve power of the dollar and it is time to move away from a dollar-based reserve currency (how that jives with concurrent French demands for a lower EUR is a different, incomprehensible matter entirely).

It appears that having pushed France forcefully into the Russia-China Eurasian, and anti-US camp, the US will now do the same with Germany. Because after infuriating the German population by first refusing to return their gold contained (the legend goes) at the New York Fed, and then with scandal after spying scandal, most recently involving the CIA directly soliciting a German double agent, now the time has come to "punish" Germany's largest banks for the same kind of money laundering that BNP was engaged in. As the NYT and Reuters report, the time has come to shift away from the BNP scandal and focus on what will soon be the Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank fallout.

According to the NYT, the money laundering crackdown is "bound for another European financial center: Germany. State and federal authorities have begun settlement talks with Commerzbank, Germany’s second-largest lender, over the bank’s dealings with Iran and other countries blacklisted by the United States, according to people briefed on the matter. The bank, which is suspected of transferring money through its American operations on behalf of companies in Iran and Sudan, could strike a settlement deal with the state and federal authorities as soon as this summer, said the people briefed on the matter, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The contours of a settlement, which the authorities have only begun to sketch out, are expected to include at least $500 million in penalties for Commerzbank, the people added. Although prosecutors were still weighing punishments, the people briefed on the matter said that the bank would most likely face a so-called deferred prosecution agreement, which would suspend criminal charges in exchange for the financial penalty and other concessions.

It's not just Commerzbank - a settlement with the smaller bank will merely pave the way for the punishment of the biggest bank of all (in terms of groiss derivative notional held): Deutsche Bank.

A potential deal with Commerzbank — which is expected to pave the way for a separate settlement with Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank — would pale in comparison to the case announced last week against France’s biggest bank, BNP Paribas. The French bank agreed to pay a record $8.9 billion penalty and plead guilty to criminal charges for processing transactions on behalf of Sudan and other countries that America has hit with sanctions, a rare criminal action against a financial giant.

As NYT adds, correctly, "The Commerzbank investigation features an added twist: The bank is 17 percent owned by the German government. It is unclear whether — as in the BNP case, which led French authorities to intervene on the bank’s behalf — the settlement talks could inflame diplomatic tensions between Washington and Berlin."

Of course, since this is the ridiculous "scorched earth" diplomatic policy, if one may call it that, of the Obama administration, nobody is surprised any more that the US president is alienating one former ally after another.

As we first observed a few weeks ago when we revealed JPM's involvement in all of this money laundering, "some critics have questioned why American authorities have set their eye on European banks. The answer, authorities say, is that American banks by and large avoided processing transactions for Iran and Sudan. But American banks are not immune from touching dirty money. Citigroup’s Banamex unit is under investigation for processing money linked to a drug cartel. And in January, JPMorgan Chase reached a roughly $2 billion deal with the authorities over ignoring signs of the Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard L. Madoff, who held accounts at the bank for over two decades."

Not only that but as we wrote over the weekend, the bank that was instrumental in facilitating BNP's money laundering for nearly a decade was none other than JPM. One wonders if JPM also "unwittingly" was the bank that made German money laundering around the globe possible. Did we mention unwittingly?

Still, while one can debate the idiocy of US foreign policy, eager to push European allies into the willing hands of Russia and China at the worst possible moment, when regional and civil wars and conflicts are suddenly breaking out across all key geopolitical hotspots, one wonders: in the case of BNP, the "fine" was as a result of French unwillingness to halt the Russian amphibious warship deal despite US demands. So it would be curious just what the US blackmail against German banks is for: one really does wonder just what punishment Angela Merkel deserves behind the scenes in the eyes of John Kerry et clueless al, to punish her and Germany so blatantly for the entire world to see.

One thing is clear: if the US thinks that Germany will continue to consider America its BFF and make zero contingency plans for when the alliance with the US finally crashes and burns, it will be truly surprised when the Eurasian alliance of Russia and China finally announces its final, all

Sabrina

12th July 2014, 07:41

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/kincora-uk-child-abuse-inquiry-must-look-at-belfast-boys-home-says-amnesty-international-30413075.html

More on the UK enquiry into historic child abuse, with pushes to include the Irish cases (opening an even larger can of worms)

Kincora: UK child abuse inquiry must look at Belfast boys' home, says Amnesty International

Amnesty International has said Kincora Boys' Home in Northern Ireland should be included in the new UK child abuse inquiry announced by Home Secretary Theresa May.

Three senior care staff from the notorious children's home in east Belfast were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys, but allegations have persisted that the paedophile ring was linked to the intelligence services. It is feared that there are many more victims and abusers during the period between 1960 and 1980.

One convicted child abuser, William McGrath, was an MI5 agent and alleged two police probes were obstructed by the British establishment.

Kincora is the subject of an ongoing public inquiry launched into historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.

Amnesty's Northern Ireland director Patrick Corrigan pointed out the inquiry has limited powers and cannot compel the release of files from either Whitehall or the secret services "where any secrets are likely to lie buried".

The new Hillsborough-style inquiry announced by the Home Secretary does have the power to demand access to secret files.

"Nothing less than the inclusion of the Kincora home in the new inquiry is liable to see the truth finally arrived at, and justice finally delivered," he said.

"Allegations have persisted that paedophilia at Kincora was linked to British intelligence services, with claims that visitors to the home included members of the military, politicians and civil servants, and that police investigations into abuse at Kincora were blocked by the Ministry of Defence and MI5."

Former Labour Party MP Ken Livingstone said: "MI5 weren't just aware of child abuse at Kincora Boys' Home – they were monitoring it. They were getting pictures of a judge in one case, politicians, a lot of the Establishment of Northern Ireland going in and abusing these boys."

East Belfast MP Naomi Long said: "We haven't really dispelled the rumours surrounding the Kincora scandal. There are victims still around and they deserve justice."

She said that given the remit of the Westminster inquiry, it was perhaps "a better vehicle," for Kincora.

Information about the Kincora scandal and a possible link with one of Northern Ireland's most infamous murders was revealed in files declassified by the Public Record Office last year.

Possible links between the murder of 10-year-old Brian McDermott in Belfast in 1973 and Kincora were discussed during a meeting in 1982 between Secretary of State Jim Prior and the Lord Chancellor and Attorney General, the files revealed.

The east Belfast schoolboy's mutilated and burnt body was found in a sack in the River Lagan.

State papers: perjury that allowed suspect preacher to walk

Last year it was revealed the UK's most senior legal figure was told that a former religious preacher involved in loyalist circles, who was a suspect in the Kincora abuse scandal, walked free because of perjured evidence.

In a private meeting, Attorney General Michael Havers and senior Government officials were briefed on the man's links to the children's home – and how a file on his case had been destroyed.

Update: Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, sister of the former Tory attorney general Sir Michael Havers, to lead UK child abuse inquiry (main stream media are even starting to question her suitability to lead this inquiry...)

Three senior staff – William McGrath, Raymond Semple and Joseph Mains – were jailed in 1981 for the abuse, but there have been suggestions of a mass cover-up by the Secret Service, which was rumoured to be protecting high-ranking paedophiles in the military, Civil Service and politics.

The scandal was referred to in several files released by the Public Record Office under the 30-year rule. However, the files have been redacted with key papers removed – while one file couldn't be found.

One file contains a note of the private meeting in February 1982 attended by senior members of the political and legal establishment, including the Attorney General, Secretary of State Jim Prior, the Lord Chancellor Quintin Hogg and Sir William Bourne, a barrister and senior civil servant.

Just before the meeting, Mr Havers had spoken to the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland.

According to the memo, Mr Havers learned that the RUC was investigating three separate aspects of the Kincora affair.

"The first concerned a man... who in 1972 was falsely acquitted on the basis of perjured evidence; the file on his case has subsequently been destroyed by a bomb," the memo reports.

Mr Havers was also told how the man may have withheld information on a notorious murder which took place nine years earlier.

The body of 10-year-old Brian McDermott was discovered in a sack in the River Lagan in September, 1973. No one was ever convicted of the killing. The meeting was told that the information provided "conflicted with what the RUC had previously told ministers and officials".

The Kincora scandal first emerged in January 1980.

It was later claimed the RUC had been informed of the abuse at the home years earlier but did nothing. McGrath, who was leader of an obscure loyalist paramilitary group called Tara, was said to be on the payroll of MI5 and MI6.

A confidential Government note in the files said: "It is claimed that influence was brought to bear on the police not to pursue their enquiries."

It added: "There are persistent rumours that 'guilty men' in high places have not been brought to justice." The note concluded that it was unlikely the "vague rumours" would be substantiated.

UK independent inquiry

Yesterday it was announced that claims that sex abuse victims were betrayed by all sections of society – including the police, courts, the health service, schools and the BBC – are to be examined by a Hillsborough-style independent inquiry.

An expert panel will also have the power to scrutinise the behaviour of political parties, the security services and private companies amid allegations that paedophile networks operated with impunity in the 1970s and 1980s.

It is expected to receive a flood of new claims of an establishment cover-up of child abuse during those decades.

The panel will report on its interim findings ahead of the General Election next May in a move to reassure critics that the issue will not be pushed aside and forgotten. The moves were announced after David Cameron promised to "leave no stone unturned" to track down the abusers and find out how they went undetected for so long.

Details of the investigation were announced by Home Secretary Theresa May, who raised the possibility of converting it into a full public inquiry and giving the panel authority to subpoena witnesses.

One of the MPs who had pressed for an overarching inquiry has revealed she was the victim of sex abuse. Tessa Munt, the MP for Wells, told Radio 4's PM programme: "I'm a survivor. This isn't about me, it's about the victims who are not in a position to be able to speak up and say for themselves that I've got my life back together, because some of these people will have been suffering for 50, 60, 70 years and we absolutely have to deal with this stuff.

"I had a period in my life which was not happy. I was the victim of sexual abuse but with the support of my family and friends I have dealt with that."

Ms May promised the inquiry team would have the fullest access to Government papers, including classified documents where they did not affect national security.

The Home Secretary also made plain that political parties would be within the inquiry's remit and said the panel's composition and terms of reference would be set out shortly. She also announced a separate review into the Home Office's handling of sex abuse allegations between 1979 and 1999.

More at link:

Editor's Viewpoint: We must know truth of Kincora

Kincora: Time we knew full truth of Belfast's house of horrors

MI5 'blocked exposure of Kincora sex abuse scandal'

Kincora Boy's Home scandal: South African intelligence 'secretly backed loyalist paramilitary group Tara'

Kincora Boys' Home scandal: journalist Peter McKenna dies

State papers: The perjury that allowed Kincora suspect preacher to walk

8 July

and

from the Telegraph UK 12 July

Baroness Butler-Sloss hid claims of bishop's sex abuse

The former judge appointed to investigate allegations of an establishment cover-up of child sex abuse kept allegations about a bishop out of the public domain because the 'press would love a bishop'

Sabrina

12th July 2014, 07:49

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/urgent-appeal-nottinghamshire-child-abuse-witness-taken-by-police-now-missing/

11 July UK

Just one single case of possible witness intimidation in current UK child abuse allegations... there's a huge amount of bravery in coming forward on this, and for some of the politicians and police trying to open it all up.

Urgent Appeal: Nottinghamshire Child Abuse Witness Taken By Police, Now Missing

The UK Column website has reported on the disturbing disappearance of a victim of child-abuse at Beechwood children’s home who was taken by Nottinghamshire police and is now missing.

According to their report:

” A key whistleblowing witness and victim of child abuse at Nottingham Beechwood Children’s Home is effectively missing after sending a text to the UK Column starting…”pls ring urgent, something has happened n I don’t trust the police and I may be locked up tomorrow…” Sent at 21:22 on Wednesday 9th July 2014 the UK Column has been trying to locate the witness ever since.

This witness has reported to us rape, intimidation, beatings, physical and emotional threats as just some of the abuses suffered by vulnerable young children at Beechwood, but some youngsters were also witnesses to ‘suicides’ – children ‘falling’ from upper windows. Other witnesses report that children’s bodies were hidden on the site.

Fearful for the physical safety of this highly vulnerable witness, who already alleges a police cover-up and is fearful of the police, we contacted Nottinghamshire Police via their 101 phone line.

After speaking to the civilian telephone operator and expressing grave concerns for the safety of the witness, Nottingham police were asked if the witness had been arrested and if they were safe. In a short return call the operator said that a police officer had said that the witness was safe. Unconvinced by the vague reply, we asked the name of the police officer and a shoulder number. The operator said they were unsure. They were also unsure as to whether the witness had been judged ‘safe’ at home, had been arrested and was ‘safe’ in custody, or was in a psychiatric facility.

The UK Column duly asked for clarification from a named police officer with their personal number and was promised a call from such an officer. No such call was received overnight. Our worst fear remains that the witness has been sectioned and held in a psychiatric unit in order to silence them.

Early this morning Friday, 11th July 2014 the UK Column again made contact with Nottingham police via their media team. Again requesting information as to the whereabouts and safety of the witness, Richard from the media team would only confirm that the witness was safe, but would not give their location, state if they had been arrested nor give details of the police officer or their official number. He also appeared unsure as to why the police refusal to give full and proper details about the location and safety of a vulnerable child abuse witness would be in the public interest.

The UK Column has also expressed concerns for the safety of this individual to Bassetlaw Nottingham Labour MP John Mann. Mr Mann has recently spoken out about child abuse in Westminster stating that ”there was a cover-up with regard to child abuse investigations in Nottingham.” He also reported on his Twitter post:

“On Monday Nottm court Beechwood children’s home abuse. No prosecutions for 100 victims. County Council denying liability.”

more at link

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 07:17

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-personally-covered-up-3848836

12 July UK The very large can of worms is opening up...

Margaret Thatcher 'personally covered up' child abuse allegations against senior ministers

The Tory Prime Minister is said to have held a meeting with a rising star, who was tipped for promotion, and told him: “You have to clean up your sexual act”

Margaret Thatcher personally covered up child abuse allegations made against one of her senior ministers, according to explosive new claims.

The Sunday People reports Tory Prime Minister is said to have held a high-powered meeting with the rising star, who was being tipped for promotion, and told him: “You have to clean up your sexual act.”

It followed an allegation that the minister had sexually abused young boys at the home of one of his political allies in 1982.

However the minister apparently ignored the warnings.

It is claimed that four years later he was spotted by police seeking young boys for sex at Victoria railway station in London.

But no action was taken.

The extraordinary claims – made to the Sunday People by a source with inside knowledge of Scotland Yard in the early 1980s – are now expected to be put before the Westminster child abuse inquiry announced last week by the Prime Minister.

They go to the very heart of claims that there was an Establishment cover-up to protect politicians , judges and police officers involved in a sick paedophile network.

David Cameron has already agreed to a full-scale investigation into historical allegations of child abuse.

He has appointed Lady Butler-Sloss, a retired senior judge who chaired the Cleveland child abuse inquiry in the late 1980s, to head the investigation.

And although the probe is in its infancy, its findings could be explosive – particularly if evidence emerges that a former Prime Minister knew about the allegations.

Labour MP Tom Watson said: “If true, these extraordinary revelations reveal a remarkable state of affairs – so much so that they’re almost impossible to imagine.

“Yet that is what people said about Jimmy Savile and look what happened with him.

“These claims should be investigated by the new child-abuse inquiry.”

According to the source, the minister’s alleged interest in abusing young boys first came to light after he stayed at the home of a constituency agent.

The agent, responsible for securing local election success for the Tory MP, is believed to have alerted authorities.

A high-level meeting involving then Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher, Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw, a senior policeman and an MI5 officer was held to discuss his alleged behaviour.

The minister, according to the source, was then summoned to 10 Downing Street.

But, instead of being disciplined or sacked, the minister was warned about his future behaviour and the matter was swept under the carpet.

Four years later, fresh allegations surfaced.

In 1986, the politician was alleged to have been found seeking rent boys in the men’s toilets at Victoria railway station in central London.

The toilets were the target of an undercover sting by Scotland Yard detectives.

Officers approached the minister and warned him about his behaviour. It is believed a report was filed by a CID officer.

Our source says this information was relayed personally to him at the time by Alec Marnoch, a highly respected police officer and Operations Commander of the Yard’s No 8 Area which covers Westminster and the West End.

Mr Marnoch, who died aged 58 in 1999 soon after his retirement, also intimated to the source that police working in Piccadilly Circus had got a report of the same politician importuning at one of London’s most notorious rent-boy haunts – the “chicken rack”.

The “chicken rack” was a set of metal railings close to Piccadilly underground station which was a vice hotspot in the 1980s.

Boys as young as 13 waited there to be picked up by men for sex – often VIPs such as politicians, TV stars or even policemen.

Scotland Yard was unable to confirm whether the politician had been named in connection with either the “chicken rack” or Victoria Station.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “We will fully co-operate with the panel chaired by Baroness Butler-Sloss and provide detail of relevant information.

“While these and live police investigations are ongoing it would be inappropriate to comment further.”

The Sunday People has been leading the way since Mr Watson first stunned Parliament and PM David Cameron in October 2012 with claims of a high-profile paedophile network with links to 10 Downing Street.

Since breaking the story, we have produced a string of exclusives about the alleged VIP paedophile ring and reveal how far it reached.

We first revealed the existence of the “Dickens dossier” which was handed to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan.

Its disappearance has prompted the Butler-Sloss inquiry.

The dossier, compiled by now-dead MP Geoffrey Dickens , contained information that would blow the lid off a secret VIP paedophile network, according to Mr Dickens’s son Barry.

He says that in the weeks after his father submitted the dossier, the family’s home was twice “professionally” burgled.

The Home Office admits there is no trace of the dossier and that 114 “potentially relevant files” have been destroyed or lost.

The Home Office was forced to defend Baroness Butler-Sloss, 80, after it was claimed she buried allegations about a bishop from a child-abuse review in 2011.

She reportedly told a victim she did not want to include the allegations in a review of how the Church of England dealt with two paedophile priests because she “cared about the Church” and “the Press would love a bishop”.

A Home Office spokesman said: “The integrity of Baroness Butler-Sloss is beyond reproach and we stand by her appointment unreservedly.”

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/whistleblower-names-thatcher-cabinet.html

WHISTLEBLOWER NAMES THATCHER CABINET MINISTERS

A UK Conservative Party whistleblower says: 'I supplied underage rent boys for Margaret Thatcher's cabinet ministers'

The whistleblower, Anthony Gilberthorpe, says he provided child prostitutes for a sex and drugs party with top politicians.

The whistleblower Anthony Gilberthorpe refers to top government ministers Keith Joseph, Rhodes Boyson and Michael Havers among others. (Havers is brother is Lady Butler-Sloss heading the current UK historic child abuse inquiry...)

Gilberthorpe says he told Margaret Thatcher 25 years ago that he saw top Conservative party cabinet ministers having sex with young boys.

more at link

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 07:20

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5322/dolphin-square-mps-threw-parties-for-sexual-abuse-of-children

12 July

Dolphin Square: MPs held parties for sexual abuse of children - witnesses come forward - police did not pursue investigations at the time when high profile names came up in surveillance..

story at the link

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 07:26

Bonfire of the vanities... :)...

Fire at New York's Rockefeller Center observation deck injures 6

New York (CNN) -- Six people suffered minor burns after a fire broke out in the observation deck at New York City's Rockefeller Center Sunday night, a fire official said.

A camera on an elevated part of the observation deck caught fire, sending embers falling onto people below, New York City Fire Department spokesman Khalid Baylor said.

Five adults were injured but refused treatment at the scene, and one child was transported to New York Presbyterian Hospital with minor injuries, Baylor said. The blaze was extinguished before firefighters arrived, he said.

The fire took place at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, which houses the headquarters of NBC and the Top of the Rock Observation Deck, a popular tourist attraction.

Vatican struck by lightning last year and the Shard in London this year (plus a fire there).. and now this... ha ha.. what are the good 'they' trying to tell us :).

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 07:34

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/13/uk-barclays-investigation-idUKKBN0FI0KR20140713?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

13 July

Dark pool probe builds pressure on Barclays boss

(Reuters) - Barclays boss Antony Jenkins faces one of the biggest tests of his leadership this month when he decides whether the bank, Britain’s third largest, should fight accusations it deceived and defrauded customers in the United States.

If Jenkins accepts the allegations, made in a lawsuit filed by New York’s Attorney General, he will face a dilemma arising from his pledge to jettison any business that does not fit into the bank’s new, squeaky-clean image.

But the U.S. trading desk at the centre of the allegations is part of Barclays’ equities business, an area it had planned to keep largely intact while shrinking its investment bank.

It comes at a time of mounting discontent among investors. Some say that after almost two years in the CEO hotseat Jenkins is failing to turn around both culture and performance.

Barclays' shares are down around 9 percent, close to two-year lows, since the lawsuit was filed, compared with a 3.5 percent fall in European bank stocks in the same period. They have also underperformed their European peers since Jenkins was appointed in 2012.

"We are concerned about some of the revenue and cost trends and the pace of management implementation," said Colin McLean, managing director of SVM Asset Management, which owns Barclays stock. "There's a gap between the promises and the actual delivery, particularly on costs and bonuses," he said.

RISKY BUSINESS

Fighting the allegations from the New York attorney general would be a high-risk gamble, as other banks have found when they have taken on the authorities. If the allegations are proven to be even partially true, Jenkins's credibility as the man to lead Barclays out of its scandal-scarred past would be in tatters.

Investment banks’ in-house platforms for buying and selling shares, known as dark pools, are under investigation by authorities in the United States and Europe amid allegations they have been used to rip off some investors.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in his lawsuit he had evidence that Barclays staff falsified marketing material and misled big institutional clients in an effort to grow its dark pool to increase revenues and bonuses.

He said that occurred from 2011 to as recently as April, some 20 months after Jenkins took the helm, unlike other conduct issues the bank has faced, which occurred before he became CEO.

Barclays has hired external lawyers to help it investigate the allegations, including Matthew Martens, formerly the chief litigator at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The bank has until around July 25 to decide whether or not to fight the charges.

Dark pools let institutional investors trade shares anonymously and only make trading data available afterwards, reducing the chance of information leaking about their trade orders.

Trading at the venues, rather than on formal stock exchanges, has swelled since 2007, and it is estimated that more than 40 percent of all U.S. equities trades are executed in one of the several dozen dark pools in operation.

Barclays’ dark pool, known as LX, is the second most active alternative trading system in the United States after Credit Suisse's, according to regulatory data. Other banks with big dark pools include UBS, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.

LIQUIDITY PROFILING

Potentially most damaging in Schneiderman's complaint is that Barclays lied to core institutional clients, such as pension funds and insurance companies.

U.S. asset manager Alliance Bernstein said it suspended activity with the LX dark pool after the lawsuit was filed, and more clients have pulled out, industry sources said.

Barclays has said it is conducting a full internal investigation into the allegations and had brought in outside help, but declined further comment.

Barclays grew its dark pool business aggressively from 2011, helped by a service called 'Liquidity Profiling'.

Liquidity profiling allowed Barclays to group its clients in the dark pool depending on their trading behaviour, ranging from safe and passive trading long-term investors to aggressive high-frequency traders trying to exploit tiny price changes.

Some high-frequency traders try to get an edge from speed and technology to detect large orders coming in and trading ahead of them. As a result, the big institutional investors often want to avoid trading with them and Barclays' liquidity profiling offered them that option.

But Schneiderman said Barclays did not exclude the aggressive traders from the pool, despite telling clients it would. It also excluded information about some high-frequency trading firms using LX in its marketing material and gave sensitive information to major high-frequency trading firms to increase their activity, Schneiderman said in his complaint.

"SAINT ANTONY"

Barclays LX had its origins at Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that collapsed in September 2008. Barclays' purchase of Lehman's U.S. arm was its platform to build an equities business, led by many former Lehman employees, including Bill White, its head of electronic equities trading.

White has been taken off his day-to-day role and is helping with the bank's internal investigation, people familiar with the matter said. White declined to comment via a Barclays spokesman.

Jenkins, a retail banker, was propelled to CEO in August 2012 with a pledge to overhaul the hard-charging investment banking culture that had dominated Barclays under his predecessor Bob Diamond, after an interest rate rigging scandal cost the bank $450 million.

Barclays, like many banks, faces other regulatory probes into past wrongdoing, with an investigation into foreign exchange trading potentially most damaging. Michael Helsby, analyst at Bank of America, estimates Barclays faces possible litigation costs of 7.5 billion pounds in the next three years.

There are also concerns around the bank's operating performance, analysts and investors said.

When Jenkins presented his first strategic plan in February 2013 he estimated income from the investment bank would hold steady at about 12 billion pounds by 2015, but analysts now forecast it will be less than 7 billion.

Equities brought in 2.7 billion pounds in revenues last year, up by almost a third from 2010 and lifting its share of the investment bank revenue to 25 percent from 15 percent.

The electronic equities business was likely to have brought in about $180-200 million a year, and had about 80-100 staff, mostly in the United States, one of the former staff said. Schneiderman's complaint cited internal Barclays documents valuing the growth opportunity from pushing more orders into LX at between $37 million and $50 million per year.

The problem for Jenkins, given his pledge to cast off areas where conduct falls short, is that shutting electronic equities would be near impossible without damaging the rest of the equities operation, which is a low-margin business based on huge order flow, industry sources said.

Attempts to downsize it could also exacerbate tensions between former Lehman Brothers staff who dominate Barclays’ investment banking division in New York and their colleagues in London, and accelerate an exodus of U.S. investment bankers.

and

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-13/us-offers-immunity-junior-fx-manipulators-exchange-ratting-out-their-seniors

13 July

US Offers Immunity To Junior FX Manipulators In Exchange For Ratting Out Their Seniors

In another indication that the ongoing FX probe is picking up steam, or at least preparing for primetime public PR consumption, the FT reports that US prosecutors are offering immunity deals to junior traders in London. The quo for this particular quid: rat our the senior staff involved in what has previously been reported to be years of currency manipulation (recall "How Wall Street Manipulates Everything: The Infographics"). And continuing the tradition of the DOJ only focusing on European banks, because apparently nobody in the US ever engaged in manipulation of anything, ever, the "US Department of Justice staff have flown to the UK in recent weeks to interview foreign exchange traders, who have been offered partial immunity in exchange for volunteering information about superiors, people familiar with the situation said."

Previously such a blanket immunity agreement was used by UBS to rat out its peers in the Libor manipulation probe to avoid prosecution. And so piggybacking on bankers' eagerness to expose their former best friends, regulators are going bank to bank and focusing on those most with the most to lose, and most liable to spill the goods: the junior-most traders.

From the FT:

Such “proffer agreements” allow individuals to give authorities information about crimes with some assurances they will be protected against prosecution, as long as they do not lie.

The move marks another step in the global investigation into collusion and market-rigging in the $5.3tn a day currency market by at least 15 regulators and prosecutors. They are investigating allegations that bank traders and sales staff used chat rooms and other means of communication to share client information and manipulate daily currency benchmarks.

Most authorities initially gave banks free rein to conduct their own probes, prompting the suspension, placing on leave or firing of so far almost three dozen staff at 10 banks and the Bank of England, where one official has been suspended.

One senior lawyer said the DoJ probe was well-advanced. The DoJ declined to comment. Referring to general criminal activity, Leslie Caldwell, its criminal division chief since May, told the FT last week that the authority would be “appropriately aggressive” and seek to bring “timely” cases against financial institutions.
On the other hand, showing just how little information, and thus leverage, the DOJ actually has, most such offers have so far been rejected: "while the DoJ had offered immunity deals to a number of traders, most had so far declined as they did not have “killer evidence” to trade against leniency."

Senior bankers, in the meantime, are not waiting to see who folds under pressure first, and as we have reported in the past year, have been leaving their former employers in droves, either heading to hedge funds or leaving the industry entirely. However, since participants of such FX manipulation venues as the "bandits" chat room likely had dozens if not hundreds of participants working in the FX desks at all major banks, all it will take is finding the weakest link and going from there all the way to the top. Unless, of course, the DOJ finds that some of its targets also happen to be major sources of lobby funding, in which case expect the probe to quietly disappear.

Complicating any attempts at covering up impropriety would be disclosures by Germany’s financial regulator and Switzerland’s competition commission which both confirmed publicly in recent months that they have found evidence of wrongdoing.

And then there are the pleas from those at the very top, such as Barclays Chairman Sir David Walker, whose peculiar request we described in "Caught Rigging Gold And Dark Pools, Barclays Begs To At Least Keep FX Manipulation." Yes, really.

One thing is certain: no matter how far any probe goes, those most culpable of FX manipulation, central bankers and the countless HFT algos which have taken over day-to-day FX rigging, will be left untouched. After all, this latest theatrical escapade is just yet another attempt to appease the public by throwing a few pieces of junior trader meat in prison for 2 to 4. Remember that in the case of Barclays gold manipulation, the buck apparently stopped with a very junior trader. Clearly nobody else was involved. The same will happen here.

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 07:47

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-11/isis-–-not-hamas-–-claims-credit-attacks-against-israel

This is one where war crime arrests, including anyone involved in the nonsensical ISIS spin, need to come one day...

Israel Is Bombing Gaza Back to the Stone Age to Get Hamas ... But ISIS – NOT HAMAS – Claims Credit for Attacks Against Israel

story at link

11 July

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 08:01

http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/fifa-partner-ceo-arrested-for-world-cup-ticket-scalping/

Brazil

FIFA Partner CEO Arrested for World Cup Ticket Scheme

Break up of international multi-million dollar scalping operation claims high-profile World Cup official, and implicates members of FIFA and Brazilian Seleção.

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On Monday afternoon (July 7th), civil police in Rio de Janeiro arrested the director of hospitality company Match, who have an exclusive partnership with FIFA, on suspicion of involvement in an international ticket-scalping network. British executive Ray Whelan is the twelfth person arrested on suspicion of involvement in the network.

The group have reportedly operated at four World Cups and could render R$200 million per tournament, selling up to 1,000 tickets per game. Whelan is believed to be the head of the gang, and those arrested could face charges of money laundering and criminal association, as well as illegally selling tickets.

The arrest fosters suspicion, voiced publicly by police and prosecutors investigating the case, of illicit involvement by FIFA and partners in the scheme. Match have an exclusive relationship with FIFA and are allowed to sell hospitality tickets.

The three-month police investigation showed that members of the network – most notably Franco-Algerian Lamine Fofana, among those arrested – “had free access to restricted FIFA areas”, allowing them large quantities of tickets, according to the principal officer in the investigation, Fábio Barucke.

Match is in fact controlled by Infront, whose shareholder Phillip Blatter is nephew of FIFA president Sepp Blatter. Adding to suspicions of internal involvement was the recovery of tickets in the name of Humberto Mario Grondona, son of FIFA vice-president Julio Grondona. He admitted to selling extra tickets to friends “in good faith” but denied involvement in scalping.

[The involvement of someone] from FIFA is almost certain,” said prosecutor Marcos Kac. FIFA responded that they were looking into the matter and anyone caught selling tickets would be dealt with. “FIFA is very tough. If someone violated a rule, they will be punished, but we cannot jump to conclusions,” responded spokesperson Delia Fischer.

Further embarrassment for FIFA and the Brazilian delegation comes through evidence potentially implicating the Brazilian Seleção (national team) in the scheme. Each member of the delegation – including players – receives as many as fifty tickets per game, which may have been passed onto the ticket-scalping network. According to Agência Brasil, police may speak to a relative of a current member in the Seleção, former players, and even former manager Dunga.

In a recording made by civil police and featured in Sunday’s edition of Fantástico, Antônio Henrique de Paula Jorge – among those arrested – spoke to an unidentified man who claimed to have access to the delegation’s tickets.

“This person said he had easy access to the Brazilian Seleção, through knowing a player, and would go to Granja [their training base] to get the courtesy tickets which the Seleção had received from FIFA or the CBF,” explained Barucke. “These tickets would be collected and given to the gang to sell to the public.”

Much of the attention has focused on the figure of Lamine Fofana, whose recovered notebook demonstrated the extent of the network’s operation. His notes revealed having sold at least 112 VIP tickets for a total of R$912,000, and that he had 25 tickets for next Sunday’s final, each one costing R$51,000.

and

Poor man, not much alternative here, although politicians seem to have much thicker skins..

Luiz Felipe Scolari: Brazil coach 'resigns' after World Cup 2014

Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has resigned after his country's failure to win the 2014 World Cup, reports Brazilian broadcaster Globo TV.

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 08:11

hmm very interesting these church leaders are coming out with all of this now as all the stories are uncovered...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/07/13/pope_francis_interview_on_pedophilia_and_celibacy_in_church.html

Pope Francis Says “About 2 Percent” of Catholic Clergy Are Pedophiles

Pope Francis touched on particularly thorny issues confronting the Catholic Church during an interview with Italy’s La Repubblica published on Sunday. The Pope—known for extemporaneous remarks that at times simultaneously delight and confound his followers—addressed the lingering questions of sexual abuse in the church, saying about “2 percent” of the church’s clergy are pedophiles and pledged to "confront it with the severity it demands." “Among the 2% who are paedophiles are priests, bishops and cardinals. Others, more numerous, know but keep quiet. They punish without giving the reason," the Pope was quoted saying by La Repubblica. "I find this state of affairs intolerable."

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28283480

UK 13 July

Fresh allegations of child sex abuse against the Church of England (CofE) are likely to surface, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned.

The Most Rev Justin Welby said he was braced for an abuse inquiry to reveal "bad stories" about the Church.

He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that he dealt with the issue daily and that the Church needed to be transparent.

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 12:28

Good - and in some part down to the 'alternative' media, and stories then taken up by the main stream lot. Facebook has its uses!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/westminster-child-abuse-inquiry-judge-in-charge-of-investigation-bows-to-conflict-of-interest-claims-and-quits-role-9604655.html

14 July UK

Westminster child abuse inquiry: Judge in charge of investigation bows to conflict of interest claims and quits role

Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss has stood down as chairman of the government-ordered inquiry into allegations of child abuse involving senior public figures in the 1980s.

Her surprise decision came after she was put under growing pressure to step aside because her brother, the late Sir Michael Havers, served as Attorney General from 1979 to 1987.

Her panel would have had to investigate whether Sir Michael failed to act on allegations of child abuse involving senior establishment figures. He reportedly tried to prevent the late Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens from using parliamentary privilege to name diplomat Sir Peter Hayman as a paedophile.

Baroness Butler-Sloss said it had become apparent that there was “a widespread perception, particularly among victim and survivor groups, that I am not the right person to chair the inquiry”.

She added: “It has also become clear to me that I did not sufficiently consider whether my background and the fact my brother had been Attorney General would cause difficulties.

"This is a victim-orientated inquiry and those who wish to be heard must have confidence that the members of the panel will pay proper regard to their concerns and give appropriate advice to Government.”

Downing Street said Baroness Butler-Sloss reached her decision over the weekend, when she discussed the matter with Theresa May, the Home Secretary. David Cameron was not involved in the talks.

Mrs May said: “I am deeply saddened by Baroness Butler-Sloss’s decision to withdraw but understand and respect her reasons. Baroness Butler-Sloss is a woman of the highest integrity and compassion and continues to have an enormous contribution to make to public life.

“As she has said herself, the work of this inquiry is more important than any individual and an announcement will be made on who will take over the chairmanship and membership of the panel as soon as possible so this important work can move forward.”

Although the withdrawal of the 80-year-old peer is a severe embarrassment for the Government, the Prime Minister’s spokesman insisted she had been chosen for the right reasons and that no one had questioned her expertise or integrity after she headed an inquiry into child abuse in Cleveland in the 1980s.

READ MORE: WELBY WARNS OF MORE REVELATIONS OF ABUSE BY CLERGY
BUTLER-SLOSS ACCUSED OF HIDING BISHOP PAEDOPHILE CLAIMS

It is unclear whether the present government recalled her connection with Lord Havers when she was appointed.

Pressure grew over the weekend amid claims that the retired judge kept allegations about a bishop out of a review of how the Church of England dealt with two priests allegedly involved in paedophilia. Baroness Butler-Sloss reportedly told a victim that she did not want to name the bishop because “the press would love a bishop”. Bishop Peter Ball, the former bishop of Lewes and of Gloucester was later charged with indecent assault and misconduct in a public office.

Baroness Butler-Sloss has said she has "never put the reputation of any institution, including the Church of England, above the pursuit of justice for victims" in response to these claims.

Alison Millar, a lawyer who is representing some of the alleged abuse victims, had compared the appointment to asking a relative of the head of South Yorkshire police to take charge of the Hillsborough inquiry.

She said after the announcement Baroness Butler-Sloss was stepping down: “We are relieved that Lady Butler-Sloss has taken this decision to stand down. This was the only sensible decision to ensure that survivors and the public could feel confident that the inquiry was not going to be jeopardised by accusations of bias.

"The issue was never the integrity of Lady Butler-Sloss or what she knew of her brother’s actions as the chief legal adviser to the Government, it was always the fact that she would ultimately have to judge those actions.

"This would never have been acceptable for an inquiry which requires not only to be transparent but to be seen as such by those who have in the past been failed by the establishment.”

Baroness Butler-Sloss announced her decision to quit hours after the former attorney-general, Vera Baird, urged her to stand down as the chair of the inquiry.

Ms Baird told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “If she were in a court case presiding over it and her brother were mentioned as someone she may have to investigate, she would of course withdraw due to a conflict of interest.

“The conflict of interest is even bigger here where we have a vulnerable community of people who say that they have been not allowed to get justice.

“It is her task to look into it. It has got to be done by somebody who is an outsider to this, who is completely independent. Without wanting to descend totally to cliche, justice must not only be done but it has to be seen to be done.”

Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, had refused to endorse the appointment. Ms Cooper said: “I think she is an extremely experienced person who will be very good to do this job, but… she needs the Home Office to take action to make sure they can address these concerns.”

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 20:49

http://hipknowsys.blogspot.com.br/2014/07/benjamin-fulford-july-14-2014-nazionist.html
Benjy Fulford 14 July

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 20:58

This is doing the round selectively and mentioned by Benjamin Fulford today. The official story doesn't ring true. Sort of thought Charles and Camilla were fond of each other. Suspect Charles had an odd upbringing. Spin is Camilla was a drunk, but don't imagine that's usually a problem with the Royals - who cared in the past? She doesn't immediately look like one. Hope she keeps safe. Has she uncovered something she can't keep quiet about?

http://www.royal-fans.com/prince-charles-camilla-parker-bowles-divorce-news-4-decade-long-love-affair-may-ugly-ending-photos/

Prince Charles-Camilla Parker Bowles Divorce News: 4-Decade Long Love Affair May Have Ugly Ending [PHOTOS]
A love affair, which is more than four decades long, may have an ugly ending soon as Prince Charles, the current heir to the British throne, and wife Camilla Parker Bowles are reportedly heading for a divorce, ending nine years of marriage.

Camilla invited the wrath of Queen Elizabeth II by threatening the Royal Family to agree on a $350 million divorce settlement, insisting she would reveal the secrets of the family otherwise, according to Celeb Dirty Laundry (via Globe magazine).

The report adds that the Queen took up the matter seriously, rather than giving in to Camilla’s demands, and has told Prince Charles to go ahead with the divorce.

Charles, the Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall arrive for the second day of the Royal Ascot horse racing festival at Ascot, southern EnglandReuters
Also, the Queen reportedly called the Duchess to the palace and told her that she’s a “complete disgrace”.

It is understood that all is not well between Queen Elizabeth and the Duchess of Cornwall, with the former taking a dislike for the latter’s alleged drunkenness. Several reports have also claimed that the Queen might pass on the throne to Prince Charles’ eldest son Prince William, when her reign ends.

The 88-year-old Queen is reportedly worried if Prince Charles’ issues with Camilla would harm the reputation of the family, and wants Prince William and wife Kate Middleton to take the lead as they have a relatively good public image.
7 July
more at the link

Sabrina

14th July 2014, 22:12

http://order-order.com/2014/07/14/the-reshuffle-all-the-sackings-as-they-happen/

UK 14 July well some things seem to be a changing'.....

THE RESHUFFLE: All the Sackings as They Happen

22.52: You read it all here first:

A Downing Street spokesperson said:

The Prime Minister has accepted the resignations of the following Ministers:

- The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP (Minister without Portfolio)
- The Rt Hon David Willetts MP (Minister of State, BIS)
- The Rt Hon Alan Duncan MP (Minister of State, DFID)
- The Rt Hon Hugh Robertson MP (Minister of State, FCO)
- The Rt Hon Sir George Young Bt MP, (Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury)
- The Rt Hon Andrew Robathan MP (Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office)
- The Rt Hon Gregory Barker MP (Minister of State, DECC)

10.15pm: Phillip Hammond will take over at FCO. Eurosceptic.

10:00pm: William Hague out as Foreign Secretary, he becomes Leader of the House and will stand down from parliament at the election.

10:00pm: Andrew Lansley sacked.

9:58pm: Stephen Crabb is the new Welsh Secretary.

9:28pm: Owen Paterson sacked as Environment Secretary.

9:07pm: Solicitor General Oliver Heald also leaving.

9.03pm: Greg Barker out of DECC and will quit parliament next year.

8:34pm: Attorney General Dominic Grieve leaves the government.

8:16pm: Transport minister Stephen Hammond out.

8:07pm: Police minister Damian Green sacked.

7:30pm: David Willetts quits, will leave parliament next year.

7:27pm: Nick Hurd stands down as Minister for Civil Society.

7:18pm: Northern Ireland Minister Andrew Robathan quits.

7:17pm: Development Minister Alan Duncan quits “at his own request”.

5:36pm: Ken Clarke quits as Minister Without Portfolio.

5:29pm: David Jones sacked as Welsh Secretary.

Sabrina

15th July 2014, 08:03

Via Benjamin Fulford - a rumour that George Bush senior is dead - ???

http://benjaminfulford.net/2014/07/15/nazionist-mafia-circles-the-wagons-as-investigations-zero-in-on-bushnetanyahu/#comment-274629

via Patricia

Looking like the Bush is dead rumor is right?

Here is an e-mail that Ben just sent me and asked me to post:

Hi XXX,
Could you please post this for the readers:

“Bush Sr passed away on Friday apparently from food poisoning, I hear bad fish. This has been confirmed via his personal security. It should hit the news sometime this week.”

The source works for a major charitable foundation and has been reliable in the past but I have yet to confirm this independently.

Benjamin Fulford 古歩道ベンジャミン

Sabrina

15th July 2014, 20:43

Three New JPMorgan IT Deaths Include Alleged Murder-Suicide

Posted at: http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/07/three-new-jpmorgan-it-deaths-include-alleged-murder-suicide/

By Russ Martens and Pam Martens: July 14, 2014

Since December of last year, JPMorgan Chase has been experiencing tragic, sudden deaths of workers on a scale which sets it alarmingly apart from other Wall Street mega banks. Adding to the concern generated by the deaths is the recent revelation that JPMorgan has an estimated $180 billion of life insurance in force on its current and former workers.

Making worldwide news last week was the violent deaths of JPMorgan technology executive Julian Knott and his wife, Alita, ages 45 and 47, respectively, in Jefferson Township, New Jersey. However, two other recent, sudden deaths of technology workers at JPMorgan have gone unreported by the media.

The bodies of the Knott couple, who have a teenage daughter and two teenage sons, were discovered by police on July 6, 2014 at approximately 1:12 a.m. According to a press release issued by the Morris County Prosecutor’s office, Jefferson Township Police Officers Tim Hecht and Dave Wroblewski responded to the Knott home located in the Lake Hopatcong section following a “report of two unconscious adults.”

Who made the call to police and whether the children were home at the time has not been announced by the police or the prosecutor’s office. After a preliminary investigation, the police announced on July 8 that they believe Julian Knott shot his wife repeatedly and then took his own life with the same gun.

Friends and colleagues say Julian Knott was a kind and thoughtful individual. The idea that he would orphan his three teenage children, leaving them with the memory of the brutal murder of their mother at the hands of a father they loved and trusted, is causing shock and disbelief among relatives and friends in the U.K.

The Morris County Prosecutor’s office has said the “investigation is ongoing” and anyone with information is asked to contact First Assistant Morris County Prosecutor Thomas Zelante at 973-285-6252 or by email to tzelante@co.morris.nj.us

Knott had worked on JPMorgan computer networks in London since 2001, initially on behalf of Computer Science Corporation and, later, IBM, according to his LinkedIn profile. In January 2006, Knott formally joined JPMorgan Chase in London and worked there until July 2010. At that time, Knott transferred to JPMorgan’s sprawling operations in Columbus, Ohio and eventually rose to the rank of Technical Director of the Global Tier 3 Network Operations. Knott relocated again in September 2012 in order to work at the high tech Global Network Operations Center of JPMorgan in Whippany, New Jersey. He received a promotion in January 2014 to Executive Director.

Knott’s years at JPMorgan in London overlapped with those of Gabriel Magee, a JPMorgan Vice President who worked in computer infrastructure. Magee, aged 39, is alleged to have leaped from the rooftop of the 33-story JPMorgan London headquarters at 25 Bank Street on the evening of January 27, 2014 or the morning of January 28, 2014. Despite initial London newspaper reports that the jump was observed by “thousands of commuters” and JPMorgan colleagues, the coroner’s inquest on May 20 of this year revealed that not one eyewitness actually saw Magee leap from the building. Nonetheless, based on evidence produced internally by JPMorgan, the coroner ruled that Magee’s death was a suicide.

Six weeks before Magee’s tragic death, another sudden death of a technology worker at JPMorgan Chase occurred in Pearland, Texas. Jason Alan Salais, age 34, was standing outside a Walgreens on the evening of December 15 and died of a sudden heart attack according to a family member. Prior to joining JPMorgan in 2008, Salais had worked as a Client Software Technician at SunGard and a UNIX Systems Analyst at Logix Communications. Wall Street On Parade previously reported on the death of Salais.

Just 13 days before Julian and Alita Knott were found dead in their home, another highly skilled technology worker at JPMorgan died suddenly. This death has not previously been reported by the media. Richard Gravino, age 49, was an Application Development Team Lead for JPMorgan in Tampa, Florida. His death occurred on June 24, 2014 at his home in Riverview, Florida. The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s office said the cause of death is “pending” with toxicology tests not expected back for 8 to 12 weeks.

Gravino had an extensive and accomplished career in the computer technology field. Previous employers included Motorola and HSBC bank where he was a Senior Technical Consultant.

In the month prior to Gravino’s death, on May 7, 2014, Thomas James Schenkman, age 42, died suddenly in Connecticut. (Schenkman’s death has not previously been reported by major media.) Schenkman held the high rank of Managing Director of Global Infrastructure Engineering for JPMorgan Chase and had a highly marketable resume. Schenkman began his technology career with Microsoft, where he worked for 11 years. He moved on to Goldman Sachs in 2000 and worked there for six years. In 2006, Schenkman moved to Bear Stearns and was there at the time of its collapse in March 2008. Schenkman had been with JPMorgan for the past six years.

According to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Connecticut, which only gets involved in an investigation if the death is “sudden, unexpected, or violent,” the initial cause of Schenkman’s death was listed as “pending.” It has since been amended to read: “atherosclerotic coronary artery disease.”

This Chief Medical Examiner’s office is the same one that investigated the death of JPMorgan Executive Director, Ryan Crane, age 37, who died suddenly at his home in Stamford, Connecticut on February 3, 2014. The Medical Examiner did not release the cause of death for approximately three months, finally assigning it to ethanol toxicity/accident. Crane was not directly engaged in computer technology but his work in algorithmic trading may have led him to interact with various technology teams at JPMorgan.

The Justice Department, the FBI, Congressional committees and the New York State Attorney General’s office are currently investigating if the stock and futures markets have been rigged by some Wall Street firms using high speed computer technology in conjunction with algorithms deploying artificial intelligence. The investigations gained momentum after bestselling author, Michael Lewis, brought details of the allegations to light in his new book, Flash Boys, and shared the allegations with millions of Americans in a March 30 appearance on Sixty Minutes.

The sheer quantity and persistence of the sudden and/or violent deaths related to JPMorgan is raising eyebrows both in mainstream media and the internet. In addition to Magee, a JPMorgan employee in Hong Kong, 33-year old Dennis Li (Junjie) is alleged to have leaped to this death on February 18, 2014 from the 30-story Chater House office building where JPMorgan occupies the top floors. Days went by with no clarification from JPMorgan as to Li’s job function at the firm.

The South China Morning Post published three articles calling the man an “investment banker.” The Standard newspaper in Hong Kong said Dennis Li was an accounting major who worked in the finance office at JPMorgan. The China Times called Li a “Forex trader.” Despite multiple requests from Wall Street On Parade, JPMorgan has declined to clear up the confusion.

Then, on March 12, 2014, there was another alleged leap from a building – this time in Manhattan. Kenneth Bellando, age 28, was found dead outside his six story apartment building. The young Bellando had previously worked for JPMorgan Chase as an analyst and was the brother of JPMorgan employee John Bellando, who was referenced in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ report on how JPMorgan had hid losses and lied to regulators in the London Whale derivatives trading debacle that resulted in depositor losses of at least $6.2 billion in the commercial bank of JPMorgan Chase.

During the full year of 2008, the period of an epic financial collapse and tens of thousands of job terminations on Wall Street, the New York City Department of Health reported only 93 deaths resulting from leaps from buildings in Manhattan and boroughs. The 93 deaths represented just .000011625 of the City’s population of 8 million. JPMorgan’s global workforce population is 260,000, including full time and part time employees. And yet, two of its current workers and one former worker allegedly leaped from rooftops in January, February and March.

JPMorgan’s peer banks, like Citigroup, Bank of America Merrill, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley have not reported any suicides resulting from leaps from buildings in 2014 nor have they had an alleged brutal murder-suicide by a long-tenured technology executive.

JPMorgan’s corporate profit center that revolves around taking life insurance policies on the lives of tens of thousands of its workers (which pay to the corporation, not the family, upon death) naturally draws speculation about these unusual workers deaths at such young ages. When young workers die, it can shorten by decades the amount of premiums the corporation has to pay out before collecting the death benefit. Both the death benefit and the build up in the cash value of the policies are reported as tax free income to JPMorgan to fatten its profits.

On March 31, 2010, the holding company for JPMorgan Chase held $15,981,000,000 in cash value for these Bank Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) policies. That amount has grown to $18,044,000,000 as of March 31, 2014 according to JPMorgan’s financial filings with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) – an increase of over $2 billion. The cash value of life insurance influences the dollar amount of life insurance in force. Experts estimate, based on JPMorgan’s cash value reports, that it may hold as much as $180 billion of life insurance on the lives of its current and former workers.

For months now, Wall Street On Parade has filed public record requests (and appeals) attempting to learn how many lives JPMorgan has insured; the job titles of the employees it is insuring; the total dollar amount in life insurance proceeds it has collected each year since 2008; the annual number of deaths it has collected on since 2008; and peer review studies showing how these numbers compare with other mega banks which hold Bank Owned Life Insurance on their workers.

Thus far, only one regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal regulator of national banks, had admitted to having any relevant information. Last month the OCC informed us that it has 450 pages of relevant data but it was privileged and would not be released. The OCC wrote:

“The OCC has no responsive records pertaining to the number of employees insured by JPMC under BOLI policies, the face amount of the policies, the rank of employees who are insured, or the number of deceased who have generated death benefits under the policies. The OCC does have documents provided by the bank to OCC examiners during examinations that are responsive to the aspects of your request dealing with revenues and peer data…As previously stated, all of this responsive information is properly exempt pursuant to FOIA exemptions 4 and 8.”

Our most recent response came from the Ohio Department of Insurance. Rather than a signed and dated letter, we received the following unsigned, one sentence answer via email on July 2, 2014: “The Department has no way knowing (sic) what products are purched (sic) by a bank, consequently the Department has no public records responsive to your request.”

Ohio is home to the headquarters of JPMorgan’s largest commercial bank, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. As of March 31, 2014, that bank held $1.3 trillion (with a “t”) in deposits, representing the life savings of average folks across America who wander into the bank’s 5900 branches spread across the country, unaware that part of the bank’s profits are derived from the untimely deaths of workers.

The bank’s Ohio headquarters are located at 1111 Polaris Parkway in Columbus, a facility described in a 2011 article in the Columbus Dispatch as a 2 million square foot “city unto itself.” And clearly, the Ohio Department of Insurance has no idea what’s going on inside this “city unto itself.”

One bedrock of insurance law dating back to the 19th Century is that a party must have an insurable interest in the life of another person in order to take out an insurance policy. The U.S. Supreme Court held in Warnock v. Davis in 1881 that “in all cases there must be a reasonable ground, founded upon the relations of the parties to each other, either pecuniary or of blood or affinity, to expect some benefit or advantage from the continuance of the life of the assured. Otherwise the contract is a mere wager, by which the party taking the policy is directly interested in the early death of the assured. Such policies have a tendency to create a desire for the event. They are, therefore, independently of any statute on the subject, condemned, as being against public policy.”

The state of Ohio has a statute, 3911.091, which specifically allows corporations to insure their workers and collect the death benefit, providing that the corporation obtains “the prior written consent of the prospective insured.” The statute notes further: “At the time the employer or trust seeks the consent of the prospective insured, the employer or trust shall disclose in writing to the prospective insured that the employer or trust may maintain the proposed life insurance in force after the insured’s employment terminates or the insured’s retirement benefits expire.”

Who else but the Ohio Department of Insurance would be responsible for policing corporations inside its borders to see if employees are actually being advised of their right to consent to or decline the insurance. (Not to mention the absurdity of suggesting that a new hire who has been unemployed for months would jeopardize his new job by refusing to agree to a corporate longevity bet on his life.) By disclaiming any knowledge of this product being purchased within JPMorgan, the Ohio Department of Insurance is also disclaiming any obligation to police a statute on its books.

Some banks are also profiting by collecting management fees on the insurance assets by keeping them under their roof rather than paying the premiums to an outside insurance company. JPMorgan is the assignee for Patent number 5,806,042 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, titled “System for Designing and Implementing Bank Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) With a Reinsurance Option.”

The terms of the patent suggest that a bank:

“…may take out a death benefit policy in the amount which is a multiple of 8-10 times the annual compensation of that employee”;

May reinsure “the BOLI plan by a captive insurance subsidiary of the parent bank or holding company,” allowing “the bank to augment the cash value gains of the BOLI plan by providing cash revenue sources from fee income associated with investment and trust management”;

“the administrative support subsystem performs periodic sweeps of social security records to identify death claims for covered employees who have terminated or retired…”

We know that as of the first quarter of 2012, JPMorgan had not turned over a big chunk of its bank owned life insurance assets to an outside insurance company. We know this because Ina Drew, former head of JPMorgan’s Chief Investment Office (CIO), which blew a $6.2 billion hole through bank deposits in a wild derivatives bet in London, raised her right hand and testified before the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on March 15, 2013 that the CIO, in addition to managing the company’s $350 billion investment securities portfolio (courtesy of bank depositors), was also managing $9 billion of corporate owned life insurance assets as of the time she was still employed at the bank in the first quarter of 2012.

Through the magic of lobbying and regulatory capture, BOLI assets have been carved out of the Volcker Rule, which was ostensibly to stop the practice of Wall Street mega banks gambling for the house while running the risk of blowing up Main Street — again.

KiwiElf

16th July 2014, 01:51

BRICS Announce $100 Billion Reserve To Bypass Fed, Developed World Central Banks

- Jerry has announced this on a separate thread here:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?73011-BRICS-Announce-100-Billion-Reserve-To-Bypass-Fed-Developed-World-Central-Banks

... and it briefly featured on our local MSM News web pages (but no mention on any MSM TV channels) - Here is the separate version which featured on NZ MSM:

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Emerging nations plan their own World Bank, IMF
BRICS bank: 5 emerging economic powers to announce alternatives to IMF, World Bank
Associated PressBy Paul Wiseman, AP Economics Writer
Associated Press – 17 hours ago

https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/emerging-nations-plan-own-world-191407045.html

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, from left, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff gestures to then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, China's President Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma, as they gather for a group photo after a BRICS leaders' meeting at the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. In another sign of the shifting balance of power in the world economy, emerging market powers Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are launching a $100 billion development bank to challenge the U.S.-dominated World Bank and help finance $4.5 trillion worth of infrastructure projects. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, Pool, File)View Photo

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fed up with U.S. dominance of the global financial system, five emerging market powers this week will launch their own versions of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa —the so-called BRICS countries — are seeking "alternatives to the existing world order," said Harold Trinkunas, director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution.

At a summit Tuesday through Thursday in Brazil, the five countries will unveil a $100 billion fund to fight financial crises, their version of the IMF. They will also launch a World Bank alternative, a new bank that will make loans for infrastructure projects across the developing world.

The five countries will invest equally in the lender, tentatively called the New Development Bank. Other countries may join later.

The BRICS powers are still jousting over the location of the bank's headquarters — Shanghai, Moscow, New Delhi or Johannesburg. The headquarters skirmish is part of a larger struggle to keep China, the world's second-biggest economy, from dominating the new bank the way the United States has dominated the World Bank.

The bloc comprises countries with vastly different economies, foreign policy aims and political systems — from India's raucous democracy to China's one-party state.

Whatever their differences, the BRICS countries have a shared desire for a bigger voice in global economic policy. Each has had painful experiences with Western financial dominance: They've contended with economic sanctions imposed by Western powers. Or they've been forced to make painful budget cuts and meet other strict conditions to qualify for emergency IMF loans.

Now, says Thomas Wright, a fellow at Brookings' Project on International Order and Strategy, "they want a safety net if they fall out with the West."

Developing countries have also been frustrated because the U.S. Congress has refused to approve legislation providing extra money to help the IMF make more loans to countries in trouble. The money is part of a broader reform program that would give China and other developing countries more voting power at the IMF.

Uri Dadush, an economist with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sees no problem with the BRICS countries' development bank and financial crisis fund. But he worries that the five countries' decision to go outside of existing institutions provides more evidence of the "fracturing of the postwar (economic) system that gave us so much peace and prosperity. The system has not been able to adapt to the new reality, the rise of the new powers."

The IMF and the World Bank seem to be taking the new challengers in stride.

"All initiatives that seek to strengthen the network of multilateral lending institutions and increase the available financing for development and infrastructure are welcome," said IMF spokeswoman Conny Lotze. "What is important is that any new institutions complement the existing ones."

Answering a question about the BRICS development bank earlier this month, World Bank President Jim Kim said: "We welcome any new organizations ... We think that the need for new investments in infrastructure is massive, and we think that we can work very well and cooperatively with any of these new banks once they become a reality."

jerry

16th July 2014, 02:17

jerry

16th July 2014, 02:22

I remember a site Harveys Organ that use to post daily, the failing banks as they were driven out of business buy the global mobsters.

amor

16th July 2014, 03:14

He is a Snake!

Sabrina

16th July 2014, 08:36

I started a thread today and was directed to this one....I missed ... my thanks to KiwiElf
The link in this post is an article that shows the need for these nations to go their own way and drop the dollar
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/07/7-billion-citigroup-settlement-about-those-25-million-missing-documents/

Thanks Jerry! Here's the story:

$7 Billion Citigroup Settlement: About Those 25 Million Missing Documents

By Pam Martens: July 15, 2014

U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, Announcing the $7 Billion Settlement With Citigroup on July 14, 2014

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced its long anticipated $7 billion settlement with Wall Street mega bank, Citigroup, over its sale of toxic mortgage-backed bonds to investors, which included pensions, charities, cities, states, hospitals and FDIC-insured banks and others. The Justice Department informed us that it had collected “nearly 25 million documents” for this one investigation.

The material facts the Department of Justice released to the public in its skimpy 9-page Statement of Facts (SOF) set a new low for bare bones disclosures. Instead of Appendix 1 being filled with incriminating emails or whistleblower letters proving Citigroup’s intent to defraud, it was instead a meaningless listing of deal names which tell the public absolutely nothing. Why would a serious law enforcement agency release such a worthless document to the public?

To grasp exactly what is going on here, one need look no further than the evidentiary record produced for public benefit by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in the matter of JPMorgan’s London Whale derivative bets gone bad with depositors’ money. The public was presented with a 306-page report, 98 pages of meaningful exhibits including internal emails with names, and two volumes of testimony under oath.

Adding further insult to public sensibilities, the Justice Department correctly summed up the impact of the wrongdoing by Citigroup, writing: “…our teams found that the misconduct in Citigroup’s deals devastated the nation and the world’s economies, touching everyone.”

And yet, all the devastated nation gets from those 25 million documents is one snippet from one internal email with no name included. The Justice Department writes:

“In one instance, a Citigroup trader stated in an internal email that he ‘went through the Diligence Reports and think[s] [they] should start praying . . . [he] would not be surprised if half of these loans went down. . . It’s amazing that some of these loans were closed at all.’ Citigroup nevertheless securitized the loan pools containing defective loans and sold the resulting RMBS to investors for billions of dollars. This conduct, along with similar conduct by other banks that bundled defective and toxic loans into securities and misled investors who purchased those securities, contributed to the financial crisis…”

By keeping all of the employees’ names and all the internal emails hush-hush, the public remains in the dark about where the culpability lies for these crimes against a devastated nation.

We know that one red-hot, smoking gun memo exists because the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report talks about an internal whistleblower, Richard Bowen, taking his findings on toxic mortgages all the way to Robert Rubin, the former Treasury Secretary who sat on the Executive Committee of Citigroup and collected a whopping $115 million in compensation over a decade of watching the hubris pile up. The FCIC Report tells us:

“At Citigroup, meanwhile, Richard Bowen, a veteran banker in the consumer lending group, received a promotion in early 2006 when he was named business chief underwriter. He would go on to oversee loan quality for over $90 billion a year of mortgages underwritten and purchased by CitiFinancial. These mortgages were sold to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and others. In June 2006, Bowen discovered that as much as 60% of the loans that Citi was buying were defective. They did not meet Citigroup’s loan guidelines and thus endangered the company—if the borrowers were to default on their loans, the investors could force Citi to buy them back. Bowen told the Commission that he tried to alert top managers at the firm by ‘email, weekly reports, committee presentations, and discussions’; but though they expressed concern, it ‘never translated into any action.’ Instead, he said, ‘there was a considerable push to build volumes, to increase market share.’ Indeed, Bowen recalled, Citi began to loosen its own standards during these years up to2005: specifically, it started to purchase stated-income loans. ‘So we joined the other lemmings headed for the cliff,’ he said in an interview with the FCIC.

“He finally took his warnings to the highest level he could reach—Robert Rubin, the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors and a former U.S. treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, and three other bank officials. He sent Rubin and the others a memo with the words ‘URGENT—READ IMMEDIATELY’ in the subject line. Sharing his concerns, he stressed to top managers that Citi faced billions of dollars in losses if investors were to demand that Citi repurchase the defective loans.

“Rubin told the Commission in a public hearing in April 2010 that Citibank handled the Bowen matter promptly and effectively. ‘I do recollect this and that either I or somebody else, and I truly do not remember who, but either I or somebody else sent it to the appropriate people, and I do know factually that that was acted on promptly and actions were taken in response to it.’

“According to Citigroup, the bank undertook an investigation in response to Bowen’s claims and the system of underwriting reviews was revised.

“Bowen told the Commission that after he alerted management by sending emails, he went from supervising 220 people to supervising only 2, his bonus was reduced, and he was downgraded in his performance review.”

Bowen provided even more detail in a December 4, 2011 interview on 60 Minutes, ironically titled: “Prosecuting Wall Street.” Bowen tells viewers that after bringing his findings to higher ups, his duties were reassigned and he was told to remain off the premises.

By late 2008, Citigroup’s serial hubris, mismanagement, hiding tens of billions of dollars of debt off its balance sheet had turned it into a financial basket case. No other Wall Street bank received the amount of life support from the U.S. taxpayer that was received by Citigroup: $45 billion in TARP funds, over $300 billion in asset guarantees, and more than $2 trillion in below-market rate loans from the New York Fed.

Citigroup has dressed up its disastrous financial history by conducting a 1-for-10 reverse stock split, meaning that investors who previously owned 100 shares now own 10. That allows its stock, which closed yesterday at $48.42, to shake off the stigma of trading at its actual, pre-reverse split price of $4.84.

The majority of Americans were against the Wall Street bailouts but Congress defied the will of the people. The very least the U.S. Department of Justice can do at this point, having failed to criminally prosecute a single CEO or CFO of a major Wall Street bank, is give the public names and facts and internal documents so that the public has the ammunition to push for prosecutions and meaningful legislative overhaul.

Sabrina

16th July 2014, 08:44

Further to KiwiELF's post on last page on BRICS, here's a BRICS website http://thebricspost.com

Now I'm not sure whose behind this as it's Brics Media International with a registered address in London .... but the subtle and not so subtle shifts in power at the moment across the world feel a bit like the ship floor on the sinking Titanic...and the main stream media are waking up to report some of it... and the others are like the orchestra playing on the Titanic as it goes under :)...

Sabrina

16th July 2014, 08:53

http://news.sky.com/story/1301735/westminster-child-abuse-call-for-cop-amnesty

16 July UK

Westminster Child Abuse: Call For Cop Amnesty

A former Special Branch officer says colleagues need protection to speak out about claims of a powerful 1980s paedophile network.

A former Special Branch police officer has called for an amnesty to help retired colleagues share what they knew of the paedophile network operating in Westminster in the 1980s.

Chris Hobbs, who had a 32-year career with the Metropolitan Police, told Sky News many former officers would be carefully considering the implications of revealing what they knew about the allegations.

Mr Hobbs said: "It is clear that quite a few police officers probably from commissioner, chief constable rank right the way down to detective constables will know something."

"I think the only way that you will get all police officers to come forward is to offer them some sort of protection, some sort of amnesty.

"It would help set officers' minds at rest ... that they weren't suddenly going to subject to the criminal investigations for just possibly doing what they were told.

"I certainly heard nothing in the 80s other than Cyril Smith - and every police officer in London had heard the rumours about Cyril Smith."

The late Rochdale MP is one of the named abusers of young boys, but the current allegations also concern political figures who are still alive.

Mr Hobbs added that the Metropolitan Police's track record in dealing with whistleblowers is another reason why former officers may be reluctant to step forward.

He said: "They will be thinking to themselves, 'shall I come forward, dare I risk it or if I keep my head down will the storm pass me by?'."

Peter Garsden, president of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers, said any amnesty would need to be carefully put together.

He told Sky News: "It depends what they are being given an amnesty against - if it is an intention to pervert the course of justice then that is fine. However, if they are part of a paedophile ring that involves the MPs then one does not want to let them off a criminal prosecution."

The Metropolitan Police could not comment on whether any amnesty scheme has been considered in relation to their current investigations.

and

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/victim-to-sue-over-human-rights-breach-and-the-case-for-jerseys-inclusion-in-inquiry/

15 July UK

Victim To Sue Over Human Rights Breach And The Case For Jersey’s Inclusion In Inquiry.

story at link

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-28322413#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

16 July Mexico

'Abused children' rescued in Mexico

Mexico police have rescued more than 450 children they believe were abused at a children's home in Zamora in the western state of Michoacan.

They were allegedly subject to sexual abuse and forced to beg on the streets.

The owner, Rosa del Carmen Verduzco, and eight employees at the House of the Big Family have been arrested.

Correspondents say it is one of Mexico's worst incidents of alleged child abuse at a children's institution in many years.

more at link

Sabrina

16th July 2014, 09:19

15 July more on BRICS

RT Video 7-15-14… “BRICS establish $100bn Development Bank to cut out Western dominance”

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skamandar

16th July 2014, 11:56

What On Earth Is Going On In Bulgaria?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2014/06/30/what-on-earth-is-going-on-in-bulgaria/

Sabrina

16th July 2014, 19:23

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/16/regulator-report-banks-speculation-competition-inquiry-competition-markets-authority

16 July UK

Regulator's report on banks prompts speculation about competition inquiry

Decision expected on Friday after Competition and Markets Authority's study of consumer and small business banking

The new competition watchdog will release the outcome of an initial study into the banking sector on Friday, prompting speculation about a full-blown investigation into the industry.

The Competition and Markets Authority has been conducting two studies in banking in recent months during a heightened political focus on the 80% market share of the big four – Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC.

Since April the CMA, which was created in April, has been scrutinising competition for personal current accounts and the market for small business banking. A provisional decision on whether to conduct an investigation is expected on Friday, though a final decision is not due until the autumn.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has pledged a competition investigation into the banking industry having earlier turned the political focus on the energy companies, which last month were referred to the CMA by the energy watchdog Ofgem.

The banks have already given "undertakings" about their approach to small business customers following a review of the industry in 2002. In the personal current account market, the big banks are hoping a new switching service, promising to move accounts in seven days, will demonstrate competition is improving.

The switching service was set up on the recommendation of Sir John Vickers through his 2011 independent commission on banking. Vickers also recommended a competition investigation in 2015.

The payments council, which is overseeing the switching service, said on Wednesday there had been a 16% year-on-year rise in switching between banks with nearly 600,000 customers moving accounts.

Adrian Kamellard, chief executive of the Payments Council, said: "Competition is growing as existing providers are upping their offerings and challenger banks are competing to attract new customers."

But Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer body Which?, said the switching service did not go far enough and called for the CMA to investigate. "Poor products, high complaint numbers and low switching levels show the unhealthy dominance of our big banks, and unless we see a greater injection of competition this stranglehold will go on. It's time for the Competition and Markets Authority to take a closer look at banking."

Sabrina

16th July 2014, 19:32

This seems to have taken people by surprise - there is a serious amount of things going on across the world!!!

http://news.sky.com/story/1301933/more-than-600-paedophile-suspects-arrested

16 July UK

More Than 600 Paedophile Suspects Arrested

Doctors, teachers, former police officers and foster carers are among the people arrested in an undercover UK-wide operation.

An operation by the National Crime Agency involving 45 police forces has seen 660 suspected paedophiles arrested across the UK.

Thirty-nine of the 660 were registered sex offenders but the vast majority had not come to the authorities' attention before. More than 800 properties were searched.

One arrested man had access to 17 grandchildren - two of them had already made allegations against him.

Two men, one of whom is a doctor, had between them more than a million indecent images of children on their phones and computers.

Care workers and former police officers were also among the hundreds arrested.

As a result of the six-month investigation across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - which has only now been revealed - more than 400 children have been safeguarded, the NCA said.

A total of 431 children now under official protection had been in the "care, custody or control" of suspects, 127 of those children were considered to be at immediate risk of harm, the agency revealed.

None of those arrested is a serving or former MP or member of the Government, it said.

Charging decisions are still due in most cases because of continuing inquiries, but charges brought so far range from possessing indecent images of children to serious sexual assault.

The NCA's deputy director general, Phil Gormley, said: "This is the first time the UK has had the capability to coordinate a single targeted operation of this nature.

"Over the past six months we have seen unprecedented levels of cooperation to deliver this result.

"Our aim was to protect children who were victims of, or might be at risk of, sexual exploitation. A child is victimised not only when they are abused and an image is taken. They are re-victimised every time that image is viewed by someone.

"Some of the people who start by accessing indecent images online go on to abuse children directly. So the operation is not only about catching people who have already offended - it is about influencing potential offenders before they cross that line.

"We want those offenders to know that the internet is not a safe anonymous space for accessing indecent images, that they leave a digital footprint, and that law enforcement will find it."

Mr Gormley said he was "profoundly disappointed" at the scale of the problem and the number of arrests police were forced to make.

It was necessary, he said, to take a harder look at the amount of people looking at child abuse images on the internet.

"The alternative," he said, "is not to look under the stone, and we cannot afford not to look under this stone."

Claire Lilley, Head of Online Safety at the NSPCC said: "This is an important two-pronged operation which has rescued children from abuse and also identified many previously unknown sex offenders.

"Direct action like this sends a strong message to those who subject children to harrowing sexual assaults that they can and will be traced and prosecuted."

and from the National Crime Agency

http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/news-listings/411-uk-wide-operation-snares-660-suspected-paedophiles

UK-wide operation snares 660 suspected paedophiles

An unprecedented six-month operation coordinated by the NCA and involving 45 police forces across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland has led to the arrest of 660 suspected paedophiles.

More than 400 children across the UK have been safeguarded.

Some of those arrested had unsupervised access to children in the course of their work. They include doctors, teachers, scout leaders, care workers and former police officers.

Of the 660, 39 people were Registered Sex Offenders but the majority of those arrested had not previously come to law enforcement’s attention.

The operation targeted people accessing indecent images of children online. It has stayed covert till today in order to protect children, identify offenders and secure evidence. The NCA and its partners are not revealing the methods they used to track down suspects so that they can use the same tactics again in the future.

Charging decisions are awaited in most cases because of ongoing enquiries but so far charges brought range from possessing indecent images of children to serious sexual assault.

NCA Deputy Director General Phil Gormley said:

“This is the first time the UK has had the capability to coordinate a single targeted operation of this nature. Over the past six months we have seen unprecedented levels of cooperation to deliver this result.

“Our aim was to protect children who were victims of, or might be at risk of, sexual exploitation. A child is victimised not only when they are abused and an image is taken. They are re-victimised every time that image is viewed by someone.

“Some of the people who start by accessing indecent images online go on to abuse children directly. So the operation is not only about catching people who have already offended – it is about influencing potential offenders before they cross that line

“We want those offenders to know that the internet is not a safe anonymous space for accessing indecent images, that they leave a digital footprint, and that law enforcement will find it”.

Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the National Policing Lead for Child Protection and Abuse Investigations, said:

“Sexual abuse is a complex crime taking many forms. The vast majority of forces around England and Wales are dealing with an unprecedented increase in the number of reports of sexual abuse of children. Forces are investigating exploitation of children and young people by groups and gangs, non-recent abuse including large scale investigations into abuse in institutions over many years and sexual abuse by parents and family members.

“During this operation, we’ve targeted offenders accessing child abuse images. Police must continue to use a range of investigative techniques targeting all forms of abuse if we going to protect children and bring offenders to justice. Chief officers are committed using all the tools available to them because nothing is more important in policing than protecting vulnerable people”.

John Carr, Secretary, UK Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety:

“This huge operation provides another distressing illustration of the scale of online offending against children but perhaps more importantly it also sends out a very clear warning to paedophiles and collectors of indecent images everywhere that the internet is increasingly becoming a very hostile environment for them. Police forces all over the world are co-operating on an unprecedented scale in pursuit of online child sex offenders and they are deploying technical tools to track them down with ever greater effectiveness.

Claire Lilley, Head of Online Safety at the NSPCC:

“This is an important two-pronged operation which has rescued children from abuse and also identified many previously unknown sex offenders. Direct action like this sends a strong message to those who subject children to harrowing sexual assaults that they can and will be traced and prosecuted.

“But law enforcement agencies alone cannot deal with the vast problem of illegal images which continue to flood the market. Industry has to find inventive ways of blocking the flow of such horrendous pictures which are only produced through the suffering of defenceless children – many of who are not even old enough to go to school.

“So while this operation must be rightly applauded we should view it as yet another warning sign that far more needs to be done if we are to stem the sordid trade in these images, which are often used by those who go on to abuse children.”

NCA

Sabrina

16th July 2014, 19:38

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/barbara-castles-dossier-on-top-child.html

15 July UK

In the 1980s, the UK cabinet minister Barbara Castle (above) drew up a dossier on child abuse by the top people.

The dossier listed the names of child abusing Members of Parliament, police chiefs, headteachers and clergy.

Barbara Castle handed her dossier to a local newspaper.

The dossier was immediately confiscated by the notorious police Special Branch.

Now it's revealed Barbara Castle drew up dossier on VIP ....http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2693635/Now-revealed-Barbara-Castle-drew-dossier-VIP-paedophiles-File-seized-Special-Branch-heavy-mob.html

(Now it’s revealed Barbara Castle drew up dossier on VIP paedophiles: File seized by Special Branch 'heavy mob'
Paedophile dossier naming VIP figures was drawn up by Barbara Castle
But it was confiscated by 'national security' officers in 1980s, it is claimed
Files listed 16 MPS, senior policemen, headteachers and clergy, it was said
Baroness Castle handed files to editor of her local Bury Messenger paper
But he claims a 'heavy mob' of Special Branch officers took them away)

Special Branch has links to MI5, the CIA and Mossad, the people who allegedly run the top pedophile rings in many countries.

MI5, the CIA and Mossad are more powerful than a cabinet minister.

In some parts of the world the police are involved in kidnapping children. DUTROUX, SAVILE, CHENEY, MADELEINE ...

The editor of Barabara Castle's local newspaper, Don Hale, says of the police raid:

"They came at 8am, before most people had arrived for work, and showed me warrant cards and a D-notice and something signed by a judge.

"They threatened me with five to ten years in prison and took away my notebooks and all the papers Barbara had given me.

"It was a threat to national security, and not in the public interest, they told me.

"If I had said no, I would have been arrested. I had to give them assurances I had given them everything. They told me not to tell anyone, and the whole thing was over within half an hour."

Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll (above) was moved from his post when he revealed plans to investigate top people involved in child abuse.

Sabrina

17th July 2014, 05:44

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/the-hawaiian-kingdom-series-part-15-corruption-a-statement-from-king-edmund-k-silva-jr/

The “Hawai’ian Kingdom” series, Part 15: “’Corruption’… a Statement from King Edmund K. Silva, Jr.”

There's a lot going on in Hawaii at the moment. I don't know much about this, but Kauliapele has been following it on his blog. Info. at link and history on this, and some of the statement from the King here:

“Corruption is the misuse of entrusted power (by heritage, education, marriage, election, appointment or whatever else) for private gain. This broader definition covers not only the politician and the public servant, but also the CEO and CFO of a company, the notary public, the team leader at a workplace, etcetera.

“From around the Archipelago of the Kingdom of Hawai’i and abroad, I am receiving numerous reports from reliable sources about gross misconduct on the part of The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), along with The Kana’iolowalu Hawaiian Roll Commission and others… Therefore, I have instructed HM Attorney General the Honorable Judge Naidu to investigate these allegations and to report them to me for further processing.

“It has been reported that OHA, Kana`iolowalu and those associated with them are in a desperate panic to hide their ill-gotten assets by destroying documents linking them to padding the books to paying for personal expenses for themselves and family not associated with the job they were elected to perform. Sources report they know their time in power has almost run its course and that those accused of malversation are feathering their personal nests and doing their best to sell out our nation to the occupying force before they are justifiably forced out of office. Apparently, they feel that they can cause havoc without consequences. And that they are above the Law, bereft of accountability and responsibility…

Their allies in the media are attempting to elevate the few, who have spoken in favor of the dissolution of the Kingdom and the creation of a Hawaiian tribe on a reservation. A copy of one such article accompanies this message.

“OHA is apparently not prepared to similarly terminate its pursuit of Kingdom destruction. On the OHA Agenda for Tuesday, July 15 is “Approval and Appointments to the Ad Hoc Committee on Nation Building Public Education and Information.” As each OHA creation loses its legitimacy, OHA manufactures another one.

“…the process now underway is creating more division within the people. Divide and conquer can be an effective and conspiratorial political strategy, not just a slogan, when dealing with an un-awakened and uninformed population. However, as the island community meetings with the DOI should have made clear to you, these islands and their people are now very awake, and very informed. What is truly needed is an honest acknowledgment of the true history and a coming together of well meaning people to address the implications of that history.

“…I have directed my Legal Branch to investigate the affairs of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kana’iolowalu, and those associated with them, for corruption, racketeering and fraud. Once this investigation has progressed to a point to where irrefutable evidence of corruption has been found, I will direct His Majesty’s Royal Police Force, duly badged and sworn to uphold our Constitution, to make lawful arrests of the suspects, and to try them before the Kingdom of Hawai’i Court of Law.”

full statement here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/234198018/140715-Corruption-A-Statement-from-HM-Edmund-K-Silva-Jr-Updated-1720-HST

Sabrina

17th July 2014, 06:07

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Published on Jul 15, 2014 UK
BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester early morning Breakfast programme with hosts Howard Bentham and Toni McDonald discussing high level paedophile claims from former head of social services for Hereford and Worcester, David Tombs, and Dr Liz Davies (ex social worker, whistleblower, now at London Met. University).

David Tombs was warned off by a senior civil servant decades ago re: his special social services investigation of child abuse. He got the indication there were too many people in position of power involved in this - 'there are too many of them over there' (in government/Whitehall). A member of his team has come out to say members of social services, the clergy, politicians etc. have all been found to be involved from past investigations.

Dr Davies was trying to expose the abuse of children in Islington, London and beyond, and liaised with the obscene publications squad. She gave volumes of information to Scotland Yard in the 1990s which wasn't investigated. She says there's still people in children's services in high places who ignored abuse claims, and the many high profile names have been known for years. There are a murders of children she'd like investigated now and has information on, and is glad the police have now been given increased man power for their investigations.

Sabrina

17th July 2014, 06:25

http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/did-the-other-shoe-just-drop-big-banks-hit-with-monster-250-billion-lawsuit-in-housing-crisis/

16 July US

:) :) :) Did the Other Shoe Just Drop? Big Banks Hit with Monster $250 Billion Lawsuit in Housing Crisis

Source; Max Kaiser

For years, homeowners have been battling Wall Street in an attempt to recover some portion of their massive losses from the housing Ponzi scheme. But progress has been slow, as they have been outgunned and out-spent by the banking titans.

In June, however, the banks may have met their match, as some equally powerful titans strode onto the stage. Investors led by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, and PIMCO, the world’s largest bond-fund manager, have sued some of the world’s largest banks for breach of fiduciary duty as trustees of their investment funds. The investors are seeking damages for losses surpassing $250 billion. That is the equivalent of one million homeowners with $250,000 in damages suing at one time.

The defendants are the so-called trust banks that oversee payments and enforce terms on more than $2 trillion in residential mortgage securities. They include units of Deutsche Bank AG, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, HSBC Holdings PLC, and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. Six nearly identical complaints charge the trust banks with breach of their duty to force lenders and sponsors of the mortgage-backed securities to repurchase defective loans.

Why the investors are only now suing is complicated, but it involves a recent court decision on the statute of limitations.

Why the trust banks failed to sue the lenders evidently involves the cozy relationship between lenders and trustees. The trustees also securitized loans in pools where they were not trustees. If they had started filing suit demanding repurchases, they might wind up suedon other deals in retaliation. Better to ignore the repurchase provisions of the pooling and servicing agreements and let the investors take the losses—better, at least, until they sued.

Beyond the legal issues are the implications for the solvency of the banking system itself. Can even the largest banks withstand a $250 billion iceberg? The sum is more than 40 times the $6 billion “London Whale” that shook JPMorganChase to its foundations.

Who Will Pay – the Banks or the Depositors?

The world’s largest banks are considered “too big to fail” for a reason. The fractional reserve banking scheme is a form of shell game, which depends on “liquidity” borrowed at very low interest from other banks or the money market. When Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in 2008, triggering a run on the money market, the whole interconnected shadow banking system nearly went down with it.

Congress then came to the rescue with a taxpayer bailout, and the Federal Reserve followed with its quantitative easing fire hose. But in 2010, the Dodd Frank Act said there would be no more government bailouts. Instead, the banks were to save themselves with “bail ins,” meaning they were to recapitalize themselves by confiscating a portion of the funds of their creditors – including not only their shareholders and bondholders but the largest class of creditor of any bank, their depositors.

Theoretically, deposits under $250,000 are protected by FDIC deposit insurance. But the FDIC fund contains only about $47 billion – a mere 20% of the Black Rock/PIMCO damage claims. Before 2010, the FDIC could borrow from the Treasury if it ran short of money. But since the Dodd Frank Act eliminates government bailouts, the availability of Treasury funds for that purpose is now in doubt.

When depositors open their online accounts and see that their balances have shrunk or disappeared, a run on the banks is likely. And since banks rely on each other for liquidity, the banking system as we know it could collapse. The result could be drastic deleveraging, erasing trillions of dollars in national wealth.

Phoenix Rising

Some pundits say the global economy would then come crashing down. But in a thought-provoking March 2014 article called “American Delusionalism, or Why History Matters,” John Michael Greer disagrees. He notes that historically, governments have responded by modifying their financial systems:

Massive credit collapses that erase very large sums of notional wealth and impact the global economy are hardly a new phenomenon . . . but one thing that has never happened as a result of any of them is the sort of self-feeding, irrevocable plunge into the abyss that current fast-crash theories require.

The reason for this is that credit is merely one way by which a society manages the distribution of goods and services. . . . A credit collapse . . . doesn’t make the energy, raw materials, and labor vanish into some fiscal equivalent of a black hole; they’re all still there, in whatever quantities they were before the credit collapse, and all that’s needed is some new way to allocate them to the production of goods and services.

This, in turn, governments promptly provide. In 1933, for example, faced with the most severe credit collapse in American history, Franklin Roosevelt temporarily nationalized the entire US banking system, seized nearly all the privately held gold in the country, unilaterally changed the national debt from “payable in gold” to “payable in Federal Reserve notes” (which amounted to a technical default), and launched a series of other emergency measures. The credit collapse came to a screeching halt, famously, in less than a hundred days. Other nations facing the same crisis took equally drastic measures, with similar results. . . .

Faced with a severe crisis, governments can slap on wage and price controls, freeze currency exchanges, impose rationing, raise trade barriers, default on their debts, nationalize whole industries, issue new currencies, allocate goods and services by fiat, and impose martial law to make sure the new economic rules are followed to the letter, if necessary, at gunpoint. Again, these aren’t theoretical possibilities; every one of them has actually been used by more than one government faced by a major economic crisis in the last century and a half.

That historical review is grounds for optimism, but confiscation of assets and enforcement at gunpoint are still not the most desirable outcomes. Better would be to have an alternative system in place and ready to implement before the boom drops.

more at the link

Sabrina

18th July 2014, 07:23

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk/ex-aide-to-pm-in-court-over-images-1.476245

17 July UK Press Association

Ex-aide to PM in court over images

A former Downing Street aide to David Cameron charged with child indecency offences will have his case heard at the crown court today.

Patrick Rock, a one-time adviser to the Prime Minister in Downing Street, has been charged with three counts of making indecent photographs of children, and one count of possessing indecent images of children.

The charges relate to more than 60 images, all described as category C - the lowest on the scale.

The case is due before Southwark Crown Court for a preliminary hearing today.

The 63-year-old, of Fulham in south-west London but who had been living in the United States until recently, entered no plea when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court earlier this month.

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-28338402

17 July UK

Cyril Smith: Detective claims three probes were stopped

A former detective has said three investigations into Cyril Smith sex abuse allegations were stopped.

Retired Det Sgt Jack Tasker, who served with Lancashire Police, carried out the third investigation, following two by the former Rochdale Borough force.

He claimed senior officers ordered him to hand over notes and warned he would be "in serious trouble" if he continued the investigation.

He believes someone "high up" made sure the case never got to court.

Mr Tasker said he was asked in 1969 to investigate the allegations by officers from Rochdale, whose own inquiries into abuse at the privately-run Cambridge House care home in the town had been halted.

more at link

Sabrina

18th July 2014, 07:32

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/07/17/false-flag-yet-again-another-malaysian-airlines-flight-disaster-as-plane-shot-down-three-non-mainstream-views/#more-224114

Three non main stream views on the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner here. There's threads on the forum about this, but for the record, this is another to be added to the list deserving arrests one day when the real truth comes out.

Bix Weir's view here and full stories at the link (including Gordon Duff at Veteran's Today):

1) Malaysian Air involved AGAIN after their “lost plane” false flag event a few months back.
2) The markets were looking for an excuse to hit the collapse button
3) Gold and Silver have been rumored to be “allowed” to run up very soon.
4) European banks are in deep, deep trouble and need an excuse.
5) Ukrainian gov’t came out immediately after the news hit with a story that they know that the Russians shot the plane down.
6) Obama and the EU have just laid new sanctions on Russia and are looking for support from the world.

and look at the markets:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/blog/2014/jul/18/global-stock-markets-tumble-after-malaysia-airlines-crash-live

18 July

Global stock markets tumble after Malaysia Airlines crash – live
LIVE
Russian stock market opens 1.9% lower after airliner downed over Ukraine

Markets also unsettled by Israel's assault on Gaza

Oil prices head for their first weekly gain in four weeks

Sabrina

18th July 2014, 07:39

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/07/17/35-disney-employees-caught-in-child-sex-abuse-stings/#more-224059

Not sure on the spin on the alleged innocence of the employee trying to save the girl courtesy of CNN... Wonder when they'll get to the employees higher up the Disney food chain...

35 Disney Employees Caught in Child Sex Abuse Stings

By CNN Wire, July 14, 2014 - http://tinyurl.com/lf9y4tr

CLERMONT, Fla. — Just days after getting arrested in a child sex sting, Robert Kingsolver is a long way from his beloved job at Walt Disney World.

Inside his rented house in a suburban Orlando neighborhood filled with children, he sits in a folding chair in a nearly empty room, wires dangling in the corner where his computer used to be connected. Now, he can’t be online or near children.
“My life is ruined,” he said. “My family’s life is ruined. My kids’ life is ruined. I’ve devastated my parents because of bad judgment.”

Kingsolver, 49, is one of at least 35 Disney employees arrested since 2006 and accused of sex crimes involving children, trying to meet a minor for sex, or for possession of child pornography, according to an investigation that examined police and court records, and interviewed law enforcement officials and some of the men who have been arrested.

Five Universal Studios employees and two employees from SeaWorld have also been arrested.

So far, a total of 32 have been convicted, with the remaining cases pending.

Two cases, which were for possession of child pornography, occurred on Disney property, according to police reports.

None of the cases involved children or teenagers visiting the parks.

Kingsolver, a service manager who oversaw ride repairs at the Magic Kingdom, has pleaded not guilty to soliciting a child for sexual acts and traveling to meet a minor for unlawful sexual activity.

He said he thought he was going to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex at a house set up by detectives from the Lake County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office, according to police records. Instead, when he showed up at the house, he was met by detectives.
Kingsolver said he was just trying to protect the girl, and planned to call authorities when he showed up at the house. He said his family is standing by him.

“They love me,” Kingsolver said. “My kids know me, and they know how much I care for kids. They know that their dad is not somebody that will go out and hurt a young child. They know their dad is somebody that would go out and protect a young child at any cost.”

Other Disney employees caught up in the police stings and child porn cases include security guards, a costumer, a VIP tour guide in training, a gift shop employee and maintenance workers, according to police and court records.

“Wherever you find children, you’ll find sexual predators that want to be there,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.

In the latest sting that ended in July, two Disney employees and an employee at Universal Studios were among those arrested by Polk County Sheriff’s detectives. One of those arrested was 40-year-old Allen Treaster, a concierge at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge who used to work at Disney’s popular Toy Story ride. The police report said he advertised himself online as “Big Teddy Bear for younger chaser.”

more at the link

Sabrina

18th July 2014, 07:45

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/cia-kills-off-sandy-hook-witnesses.html

17 July US

CIA KILLS OFF SANDY HOOK WITNESSES?

String of Sandy Hook witnesses deaths.

story at link

Sabrina

18th July 2014, 08:02

http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2014/07/germany-proposes-seven-year-fracking-ban

16 July

Germany Proposes Seven-Year Fracking Ban

Environmentalists in Germany have more to celebrate this week than a World Cup championship title.

German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks, in conjunction with Sigmar Gabriel, Vice Chancellor and Minister for Economic Affairs, plan to propose a partial moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for the next seven years.

"Protecting drinking water and health has the highest value for us," said Henricks, according to a news article in the Wall Street Journal about the announcement.

Hendricks acted in response to a public outcry stirred up by Gabriel, who expressed interest in allowing fracking some distance from underground water resources. Because hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is an extraction technique that injects chemicals, sand and water into underground shale gas deposits to impel oil and gas to the surface, it carries a risk that improperly handled wastewater could pollute ground water and underground fresh water.

The parliament could adopt the partial ban as early as next year.

According to Germany’s Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, the nation has up to 2.3 trillion cubic meters of shale gas deposits, enough to meet domestic demand for up to 100 years.

At present, Germany imports 90 percent of its oil and all of its natural gas, most of which flows through pipelines from Russia. As Russia flexes its muscles in Ukraine and threatens to hike oil and gas export prices, many European nations are turning to fracking to diversify their energy options.

The Hendricks-Gabriel proposal would permit shale gas extraction to take place only at depths greater than 3,000 meters and would impose other precautions to prevent fracking where drinking water might be contaminated. The trade-off: Germans would have to accept higher Russian oil and gas prices until the government can put into place regulations to ensure the protection of fresh water supplies. If enacted, the moratorium would prove Germany’s commitment to asking the tough questions first before drilling.

Sabrina

20th July 2014, 06:35

Via ITCCS.ORG (The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State).

http://itccs.org/2014/07/19/guilty-pope-jesuits-convicted-in-historic-case/

GUILTY: Pope, Jesuits convicted in historic case

Posted on July 19, 2014

In the Matter of The People v. Bergoglio et al (Case Docket No. 18072014-002)

The Judgement of the Magistrates of the Court, including the majority decision with with one dissenting opinion

Issued in Chambers Friday, 18 July, 2014

The unanimous Judgement of the Court is that the three primary defendants Jorge BERGOGLIO, Adolfo PACHON and Justin WELBY have been convicted and are guilty as charged of aiding and abetting Crimes against Humanity, including murder and human trafficking, and of personal involvement in those crimes. Their guilt has been ably presented and proven beyond any reasonable doubt by the Prosecution.

The refusal of the Defendants to respond to a lawful Summons, to deny or refute the charges against them, or to present a counter case in their own defense, compelled the Court to consider their silence as a de facto pro confesso plea in which their guilt was established by their refusal to enter a plea. Precedent has established that pro confesso – which is the refusal of a defendant to plea in a case of profound importance – provides the basis for the lawful conviction and deposing of rulers and responsible heads of church and state. (The People in Parliament v. Charles Stuart, January 3, 1649)

In this precedent, the High Court established by the Parliament of England ruled that the silence of heads of church and state when accused of crimes against their own people amounts to a confession by the accused of all of the charges made against them (January 22, 1649).

One of our colleagues offers a dissenting opinion.

While concurring with the judgement that all three Defendants are guilty as charged, the dissenting Magistrate argues that pro confesso applies only when no other means exist to prevent such rulers from perpetrating tyranny and wars of aggression on their own people and their liberties, as was so in the historical case cited.

The dissenting colleague argues that by convicting the Defendants primarily under a pro confesso precedent, their actual guilt for the crimes cited can be construed to have been established according to a legal technicality. To quote our colleague’s statement,

“The overwhelming guilt of these leaders for unspeakable crimes demands that we convict them not simply on the basis of a technicality but according to the evidence alone, so that their guilt is crystal clear to the world and to posterity.”

The Court has taken into account this dissenting opinion in formulating its final judgement.

Accordingly, it is the unanimous judgement of the Court that:

1. The Defendants Jorge BERGOGLIO, Adolfo PACHON and Justin WELBY are guilty as charged on two counts: of organizing, aiding and abetting Crimes against Humanity, including murder and human trafficking, and of personally participating in the routine and ritual rape, torture and murder of children.

2. The Defendants are sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or pardon, and to the forfeiture of their assets, property and authority.

3. The sworn Sheriffs of the Court and their affiliated Direct Action Units, established by the Court on June 1, 2014, are ordered to immediately arrest and imprison the Defendants at facilities provided by the Court, and to seize their property and assets. The public is asked to assist the Sheriffs in this task. An open ended International Citizens’ Arrest Warrant will be issued by the Court against the convicted persons within 48 hours of this judgement.

4. The Court will produce a full public statement making it clear that the basis for its conviction of the Defendants lay entirely in the hard evidence of their guilt, and that their refusal to plea, and hence the pro confesso judgement, was a contributing factor but not the basis of the guilty sentence.

5. In addition, to emphasize that this conviction is not a limited one aimed only at the top figureheads of murderous regimes, as of September 1, 2014, the Court will establish an ongoing Permanent Inquiry to investigate and prosecute others involved in the crimes proven in this case and contained in the permanent Court record. This Inquiry shall be entitled The Permanent Commission into Child Trafficking and Ritual Sacrifice and will have the power to subpoena and arrest, and adjudicate cases before the Court. The Commission will be international in scope, have no time restriction, and will seek cooperation from governments, international agencies and police forces with the aim of prosecuting and stopping forever the trafficking, ritual torture and murder of children.

6. To protect this Commission, its witnesses, officers and evidence, the Court record from the case of The People v. Bergoglio et all will remain sealed for now, along with the identity of the witnesses and Court officers, with the exception of that permitted by the special and unanimous authorization of the Court. The Jury members who were involved in proceedings thus far are relieved of their duties and thanked for their efforts.

7. This concludes the case of The People v. Bergoglio et al.

Issued by the Judicial Council of The International Common Law Court of Justice, Brussels
19 July, 2014

Sabrina

20th July 2014, 16:20

Well, well, some of the UK main stream media are getting on the case at last...

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/389922/Tragic-Jill-Dando-probed-BBC-PAEDO-ring

20 July UK

EXCLUSIVE: Tragic Jill Dando probed BBC PAEDO ring

MURDERED TV presenter Jill Dando tried to expose a paedophile ring involving “big-name” BBC stars, a former colleague has claimed.

According to the retired BBC worker, the Crimewatch host was told that DJs, stars and corporation staff were involved in organised abuse.

But when she tried to get bosses to investigate the alleged ring and other abuse complaints inside the BBC “no one wanted to know”, the former friend said.

Undeterred, Jill is said to have then raised the claims with senior management in the mid-1990s but no investigation took place.

The TV host was shot dead a few years later on the doorstep of her London home. The 37-year-old’s murder remains unsolved.

Her ex-colleague, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I don’t recall the names of all the stars now and don’t really want to implicate anyone but Jill said they were surprisingly big names.

“I think she was quite shocked when told about images of children and that information on how to join this horrible paedophile ring was freely available.

“Jill said others had complained to her about sexual matters and that some fellow female workmates also claimed they had been groped or assaulted.

“Nothing had been done and there seemed to be a policy of turning a blind eye.”

“There seemed to be a policy of turning a blind eye”
Source
The source told how female colleagues went to Jill, who was then one of the best-known faces on TV.

She said: “I think it was in the mid 1990s, Jill was working on almost everything then including Crimewatch and Holiday.

“She was seen as the face of the BBC and a magnet for women with problems.

“She compiled a file of complaints but she was not really an investigative journalist, just a presenter.

“She passed the information to someone else and they gave it back. No one wanted to know.

“I do remember that she gave a file to senior management. I don’t think she heard any more.

“Other women who complained told Jill they didn’t want to risk their careers by making official statements against individuals as they would lose their jobs and that bosses seemed to ignore it.

“We all decided the best way was to keep our heads down and to always try to go somewhere with a colleague.”

The BBC said it would look into the allegations but added: “We have not seen anything to substantiate these claims.” Presenters Liz Kershaw and Miriam O’Reilly have both made allegations of sexual harassment at the BBC.

After Jimmy Savile was exposed as a paedophile and serial sex attacker in 2012, fellow BBC presenter Sally Jones spoke of how he had tried to grope her in a lift.

She confi ded in Jill after the attack, adding that the Crimewatch host said “she had had to fend off plenty of unwelcome advances herself”.

Sally said Jill told her Savile was “just a dirty old perv”.

Jill was shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham in 1999.

Barry George was found guilty of her murder in 2001 but his conviction was quashed in 2008.

Jill joined a campaign to help children spot paedophiles the year before she died.

and

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698139/Police-investigating-claim-Labour-peer-Viscount-Tonypandy-raped-nine-year-old-boy-four-decades-ago.html

19 July

Police investigating claim that peer Viscount Tonypandy raped a nine-year-old boy four decades ago

Alleged victim claims he was abused in his Cardiff home in the late 1960s

Viscount Tonypandy was friends with his Labour-supporting foster parents

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is also investigating

Police are investigating claims that the late peer Viscount Tonypandy raped a boy, and the Independent Police Complaints Commission is looking into what took them so long to launch an inquiry.

The alleged victim, now believed to be 55-years-old, claims he was abused in his Cardiff home in the late-1960s and early-1970s by the politician, then still known as George Thomas and was a Labour MP before his elevation to the peerage as a cross-bencher.

The former Speaker, who died in 1997, was friends with the alleged victim's Labour Party supporting foster parents.

more at the link

and

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/former-rent-boy-i-abused-3885690

19 July

Former rent boy: 'I was abused by top Tories then blackmailed to keep quiet'

The victim says sinister pimps warned his family would have an “accident” if he refused sex with their powerful clients

A former rent boy caught up in the Westminster sex ring scandal today reveals he was blackmailed into being abused by top Tories.

He tells how he was snared by two sinister pimps who threatened to send graphic pictures of him to his parents if he tried to flee their clutches.

He was even warned his family back home in troubled Northern Ireland would have an “accident” if he refused to have sex with their powerful clients.

Now 59, the victim has come forward after reading our exclusive story last Sunday on the Tory activist who supplied boys to ministers in Margaret Thatcher’s government.

In an emotional interview, the man – who we will call David – said: “I sobbed uncontrollably after reading that story. I turned to my wife, who knew nothing of this, and said, ‘I was part of this. I was raped’.

“I had locked the matter deep in a vault inside my head. But seeing the article blew it open. All the fear, pain and anguish came flooding back.”

David agreed to talk to us at a hotel near his home in a small town in Northern Ireland. He is considering giving a statement to the Government inquiry into the scandal.

A respectable father-of-four, he told how as a young man he was plied with booze by MP Charles Irving before the Tory later forced him to have sex in exchange for £30.

He also had to perform oral sex on a married senior Lord in a car – and was “rewarded” with a fountain pen.

And he attended a sordid house party where two Tories celebrated their first year as MPs by having sex with boys as young as 12.

David also rubbed shoulders at 1970s parties with top Conservatives including Sir Keith Joseph, Sir Rhodes Boyson and Sir Michael Havers.

All were named in the Sunday Mirror last week as being present at similar parties in the 1980s.

David arrived in London in February, 1975, as a wide-eyed 20-year-old fleeing the troubles in his home country in which one of his best friends had been shot dead.

He got a bed in a Catholic-run hostel and landed a job at a shop. But his life changed for ever days later.

more at link

and

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-child-abuse-whistleblower-margaret-3849172

13 July

Tory child abuse whistleblower: 'Margaret Thatcher knew all about underage sex ring among ministers'

story at link

and

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698634/Esther-Rantzen-My-shock-MP-lovers-links-Elm-House-paedophile-ring.html

Esther Rantzen: My shock over my MP lover's links to Elm House paedophile ring
Esther Rantzen had affair with politician Sir Nicholas Fairbairn in the 1960s
Suggestions he may have visited guest house where children were allegedly assaulted by high-profile visitors
Ms Rantzen speaks of her revulsion over his links to child abuse scandal
She distances herself from the late Conservative MP who died at 61 in 1995

story at link

Rantzen was rather a good friend of Jimmy Savile...

and more on Rantzen

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/bbcs-esther-rantzen-linked-to-elm-guest.html

20 July

BBC'S ESTHER RANTZEN LINKED TO ELM GUEST HOUSE

The BBC's Esther Rantzen had an affair with the top UK politician Sir Nicholas Fairbairn.

Sir Nicholas Fairbairn reportedly had affairs with young boys at the Elm Guest house boy brothel.

Esther Rantzen has worked for a certain 'child protection' charity which is linked to child abuser Sir Jimmy Savile and to Peter Mandelson.

more at link

and

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/donal-macintyre-s-crime-cafe/uk-ex-minister-supported-paedo-child-fostering-application#cxrecs_sThe

UK ex-Minister supported 'Paedo' child fostering application as sex abuse inquiry engulfs Westministers bubble

Tuesday 15th July 2014

A former UK Minister, recommended that a convicted paedophile be allowed to foster children, the Sunday World has learned, as the child sex abuse scandal gets closer to the seat of Power at Westminster.

The high profile ex-minister recommended that a convicted paedophile be allowed to foster two children and voiced objections when a London Borough refused him permission.

The ex-Minister is now a suspect in separate child abuse investigations and is believed to have been interviewed by London Detectives, investigating historical child sex abuse allegations in the 70’s and 80’s but his name has not been released by the London Metropolitan Police.

In a saga reminicent of Rolf Harris, when he was arrested on abuse charges but his name was not released for several months, the release of this ex-minister’s name will shock the political establishment in the UK to the core.

“The UK is fast facing its Belgium moment”, one Met insider said, referring to the links between Paedophile rings and political circles which has scandalized that country for nearly two decades.

The sheer number of child victims and the suspected involvement of senior government ministers over the decades in the abuse means that it could even dwarf ‘Watergate’ in terms of modern political scandals.

It is understood that an investigation involving the ex-minister was mothballed over 15 years ago and the Police officer leading the case, was sidelined and then disciplined as a result of his inquiries.

The file in relation to that case has now disappeared but new victims are coming forward all the time and the weight of public opinion after the convictions of Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile mean that powerful paedophile do not have the protection they once had.

Many of the officers who were involved at a senior level in those original investigations are now senior officers in other UK forces and will be called to account over their previous failures to investigate the allegations.

The fallout from this new investigation and growing row, took on its first scalp as Baroness Butler-Sloss who was due to commence an inquiry into these wider allegations resigned because of links to her late brother who was Attorney General and who himself had come under attack for an alleged cover up of sexual abuse crimes in high society, as a member of the Thatcher Government

The resignations come after a former conservative party figure says that he gave Margaret Thatcher a dossier about senior ministers’ involvement in a child sex ring.

Anthony Giberthorpe, said that he supplied boys to drug fuelled parties for politicians as a young Tory hopeful but others have discredited his claims.

The allegations are mounting and the reverberations around the Westminster Village are making some very senior civil servants and political figures, very nervous indeed.

and

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/tony-blair-britains-missing-children-and-the-vip-paedophile-connection/

Tony Blair, BBC, Britain’s missing children and the VIP paedophile connection

BY THECOLEMANEXPERIENCE JULY 19, 2014

story at link

Sabrina

22nd July 2014, 06:30

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/21/foreign-exchange-trading-criminal-investigation-serious-fraud-office

21 July

Foreign exchange trading faces SFO criminal investigation

Traders allegedly used chatrooms to collude in fixing benchmark prices, used for trillions of dollars of investment and trade

The Serious Fraud Office has launched a criminal investigation into alleged rigging of the £3tn-a-day foreign exchange markets.

The move comes after around 15 authorities around the world said they were investigating allegations of collusion and price manipulation in the largely unregulated currency market – which the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has suggested could prove to be a bigger scandal than the manipulation of Libor, which has cost investment banks billions of pounds in fines imposed by regulators.

In a statement on Monday, the UK's anti-corruption agency confirmed: "The director of the Serious Fraud Office has today opened a criminal investigation into allegations of fraudulent conduct in the foreign exchange market."

The allegations, which have yet to be proved, are thought to centre around traders from rival banks using internet chat rooms to collude in the fixing of benchmark prices, which are used as reference rates for trillions of dollars of investment and trade globally.

Attention has focused on the benchmark price established at 4pm – ironically called the "fix" or the "fixing" – which is the price many clients request is used when they conduct foreign exchange trades, chiefly because it is considered to be transparent.

Mark Taylor, the dean of Warwick Business School who was once a foreign exchange trader and senior economist at the Bank of England, said: "The manipulation of the 'London 4pm Fix' doesn't just affect banks and traders, but the man in the street as well, as it is our pension and insurance funds that could be swindled out of millions of pounds by this.

"If some of the big players in the market got together and put through some very large trades - billions of dollars each - then that could affect the market, so they can charge their clients a higher rate before covering it a few minutes later to make a healthy profit. You only have to move the market a small amount for a short period, and that could be worth millions of dollars for the banks".

Unlike in the Libor-rigging scandal, where a few banks manipulated benchmark interest rates, foreign exchange traders cannot easily guarantee prices move in their favour as the market is so huge. However, currency experts say that the market is heavily biased towards the professionals sitting on trading desks, who gain an edge by automatically receiving information far superior to that used by outsiders, and then trade using that advantage. Their advantage would theoretically be much greater if any of them colluded to share their information, or timed orders to suit their needs.

Iain Coke, head of financial services at the accounting trade body ICAEW, said: "Any allegation of the manipulation of foreign exchange rates further undermines confidence in banks and financial markets. Collusion and price fixing are a form of fraud ... Financial crime must be taken just as seriously as any other form of crime. It is also right that this is being investigated under criminal law, which sends a strong message that banks, bankers and market participants are not immune."

The US department of justice and the UK's Financial Conduct Authority are among the numerous regulators from around the world that are investgating whether currency traders have rigged markets.

More than 20 individuals have either been suspended or fired from financial institutions as international regulators investigate allegations of rigging in the currency markets, while in March the Bank of England suspended a member of staff in connection with its own review of the currency trading market. Much of the focus has centred on individuals in London, which accounts for a large part of the world's foreign exchange trade.

Marshall Bailey, president of the financial markets trade organisation ACI International, suggested that if any crimes are found to have been committed, they should be blamed on rogue individuals rather than on the internal culture at any City institution.

He said: "Individuals who participate in so-called 'rigging' and commit fraud have no place in financial markets and should be identified and punished accordingly. However, the actions of a small unrepresentative minority should not be seen to reflect the broader health of the industry, or trigger wider structural reform to what remains a highly efficient foreign exchange market. The goal of any probe should be to root out wrongdoers on an individual basis, rather than vilify banks".

Sabrina

22nd July 2014, 06:34

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/21/barclays-deutsche-bank-tax-rules-report

21 July US

Hedge funds used 'dubious' means to bypass tax rules, senators say

Senate report says hedge funds had 'unfair tax advantage over ordinary citizens' with so-called 'basket options' and calls for IRS audit

More than a dozen hedge funds, with assistance of Barclays and Deutsche Bank, used “dubious” financial products to claim billions in unjustified tax savings and circumvent rules meant to limit risky bets, a Senate subcommittee investigation has found.

The Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations (PSI) released a report on its investigations on Monday, before a hearing on Tuesday. The PSI has been investigating a series of tax avoidance schemes by companies including Apple and Caterpillar.

The PSI called on the Treasury Department to clamp down on the practices its investigation uncovered and for the Internal Revenue Service to audit Barclays and Deutsche Bank.

The 93-page report released by senators Carl Levin and John McCain centers on the use of financial products known as basket options that were sold to hedge funds and used to help reduce taxes on short-term capital gains.

“Over the years, this subcommittee has focused significant time and attention on two important issues: tax avoidance by profitable companies and wealthy individuals, and reckless behavior that threatens the stability of the financial system,” said Levin.

“This investigation brings those two themes together. These banks and hedge funds used dubious structured financial products in a giant game of ‘let’s pretend', costing the Treasury billions and bypassing safeguards that protect the economy from excessive bank lending for stock speculation."

McCain said: “Americans are tired of large financial institutions playing by a different set of rules when it comes to paying taxes. The banks and hedge funds involved in this case used the basket options structure to change the tax treatment of their short-term stock trades, something the average American investor cannot do. Hedge funds cannot be allowed to have an unfair tax advantage over ordinary citizens.”

more at link

Sabrina

22nd July 2014, 06:41

The death role (or toll) of bankers continues:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2700515/Goldman-Sachs-managing-director-Nicholas-Valtz-39-dead-kiteboarding-outing.html

21 July US

Goldman Sachs managing director, 39, found dead after kiteboarding accident

Nicholas Valtz's body found in Napeague Harbor, Long Island, on Sunday

The Brooklyn man's family called police when he didn't return home

Kiteboarding combines windsurfing and paragliding

He leaves behind a wife and two children

A Goldman Sachs managing director has died following an apparent kiteboarding accident, police said.
The body of 39-year-old Nicholas Valtz was found floating off Lazy Point in Napeague Harbor, Long Island, on Sunday.
The amateur kiteboarder was still attached to his kite, while his gear was scattered in a grassy area of the harbor.

The East Hampton Star reported the Brooklyn resident went kiteboarding early in the morning.
When he failed to return by 2pm, relatives he was staying with at a Bridgehampton home called police.

'We’re deeply saddened by this tragedy and our thoughts are with Nick’s family,' Goldman Sachs spokesman Michael DuVally told Bloomberg.

Police are still investigating the death and an autopsy will be undertaken.

Valtz joined the firm in 2000 and was promoted to managing director in 2010.

The cross-asset sales executive helped manage orders for trading clients and pitch them products from different types of securities, according to Bloomberg.

Mr Valtz graduated from Harvard in 1996 and fenced for three years as an undergraduate.

His wife Sashi Valtz, also works at Goldman Sachs, also went to Harvard and has over 15 years of banking experience.

The couple live in a 3,000-foot condo in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn with their two toddlers, a boy and girl.

Mr Valtz is bald in several photos online as he has previously shaved his head to raise money for cancer.

Sabrina

23rd July 2014, 07:12

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/22/landmark-california-meeting-to-halt-covert-climate-geoengineering/

22 July US

Landmark California Meeting to Halt Covert Climate Geoengineering

On July 15th, 2014, citizens from Northern California rallied to create the largest attendance ever at the Shasta County Supervisors chambers.

Board chariman, Les Baugh confirmed a landmark record attendance of citizens who filled all the seats with many standing outside to comply with maximum capacity regulations issued by the fire marshal.

Expert witnesses and citizens presented information to demonstrate dire heavy metal contamination and UV radiation issues across Shasta County that extends across North and South American to every continent on the planet.

A list of 10 experts presented data and lab analyses to the board confirming the legitimacy of these concerns.

At the end of the three hour meeting, the board voted unanimously to have designated Shasta county staff investigate the contamination and passed resolutions accordingly.

The video below documents the events of this landmark day in the fight to expose the covert crime of global geoengineering – a program that is destroying the ozone layer to produce a votex of climate chaos.

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Sabrina

23rd July 2014, 07:21

By Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian, July 21, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/o96vlkr

Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the “direct involvement” of government agents or informants, a new report says.

Some of the controversial “sting” operations “were proposed or led by informants”, bordering on entrapment by law enforcement. Yet the courtroom obstacles to proving entrapment are significant, one of the reasons the stings persist.

The lengthy report, released on Monday by Human Rights Watch, raises questions about the US criminal justice system’s ability to respect civil rights and due process in post-9/11 terrorism cases. It portrays a system that features not just the sting operations but secret evidence, anonymous juries, extensive pretrial detentions and convictions significantly removed from actual plots.

“In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act,” the report alleges.

Out of the 494 cases related to terrorism the US has tried since 9/11, the plurality of convictions – 18% overall – are not for thwarted plots but for “material support” charges, a broad category expanded further by the 2001 Patriot Act that permits prosecutors to pursue charges with tenuous connections to a terrorist act or group.

In one such incident, the initial basis for a material-support case alleging a man provided “military gear” to al-Qaida turned out to be waterproof socks in his luggage.

Several cases featured years-long solitary confinement for accused terrorists before their trials. Some defendants displayed signs of mental incapacity. Jurors for the 2007 plot to attack the Fort Dix army base, itself influenced by government informants, were anonymous, limiting defense counsel’s ability to screen out bias.

Human Rights Watch’s findings call into question the post-9/11 shift taken by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies toward stopping terrorist plots before they occur. While the vast majority of counterterrorism tactics involved are legally authorized, particularly after Congress and successive administrations relaxed restrictions on law enforcement and intelligence agencies for counterterrorism, they suggest that the government’s zeal to protect Americans has in some cases morphed into manufacturing threats.

The report focuses primarily on 27 cases and accordingly stops short of drawing systemic conclusions. It also finds several trials and convictions for “deliberate attempts at terrorism or terrorism financing” that it does not challenge.

The four high-profile domestic plots it found free of government involvement were the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; Najibullah Zazi’s 2009 plot to bomb the New York subway; the attempted Times Square carbombing of 2010; and the 2002 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport’s El Al counter.

But the report is a rare attempt at a critical overview of a system often touted by the Obama administration and civil libertarian groups as a rigorous, capable and just alternative to the military tribunals and indefinite detention advocated by conservative critics. It comes as new pressure mounts on a variety of counterterrorism practices, from the courtroom use of warrantless surveillance to the no-fly list and law enforcement’s “suspicious activity reports” database.

In particular, Human Rights Watch examines the extent and impact of law enforcement’s use of terrorism informants, who can both steer people into attempted acts of violence and chill religious or civic behaviour in the communities they penetrate.

Linda Sarsour, the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, a social services agency, told the Guardian she almost has a “radar for informants” sent to infiltrate her Brooklyn community.

While the FBI has long relied on confidential informants to alert them to criminal activity, for terrorism cases informants insert themselves into Muslim mosques, businesses and community gatherings and can cajole people toward a plot “who perhaps would never have participated in a terrorist act on their own initiative”, the study found.

Many trade information for cash. The FBI in 2008 estimated it had 15,000 paid informants. About 30% of post-9/11 terrorism cases are considered sting operations in which informants played an “active role” in incubating plots leading to arrest, according to studies cited in the Human Rights Watch report. Among those roles are making comments “that appeared designed to inflame the targets” on “politically sensitive” subjects, and pushing operations forward if a target’s “opinions were deemed sufficiently troubling”.

Entrapment, the subject of much FBI criticism over the years, is difficult to prove in court. The burden is on a defendant to show he or she was not “predisposed” to commit a violent act, even if induced by a government agent. Human Rights Watch observes that standard focuses attention “not on the crime, but on the nature of the subject”, often against a backdrop where “inflammatory stereotypes and highly charged characterizations of Islam and foreigners often prevail”.

Among the informants themselves there is less ambiguity. “It is all about entrapment,” Craig Monteilh, one such former FBI informant tasked with mosque infiltration, told the Guardian in 2012.

Informants, the study found, sometimes overcome their targets’ stated objections to engage in terrorism. A man convicted in 2006 of attempting to bomb the Herald Square subway station in Manhattan told an informant who concocted the plot he would have to check with his mother and was uncomfortable planting the bombs himself. One member of the “Newburgh Four” plot to attack synagogues and military planes – whose case is the subject of an HBO documentary airing on Monday – told his informant “maybe my mission hasn’t come yet”.

Once in court, terrorism cases receive evidentiary and pre-trial leeway rarely afforded to non-terrorism cases. A federal judge in Virginia permitted into evidence statements made by a defendant while in a Saudi jail in which the defendant, Amed Omar Abu Ali, alleged torture, a longstanding practice in Saudi Arabia. The evidence formed the basis for a conviction, and eventually a life sentence, for conspiracy to assassinate George W Bush. Mohammed Warsame, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, was held in solitary confinement for five years before his trial.

Another implication of the law-enforcement tactics cited the report is a deepening alienation of American Muslims from a government that publicly insists it needs their support to head off extremism but secretly deploys informants to infiltrate mosques and community centers.
“The best way to prevent violent extremism inspired by violent jihadists is to work with the Muslim American community – which has consistently rejected terrorism – to identify signs of radicalization and partner with law enforcement when an individual is drifting towards violence. And these partnerships can only work when we recognize that Muslims are a fundamental part of the American family,” Obama said in a high-profile 2013 speech.

Yet the Obama administration has needed to purge Islamophobic training materials from FBI counterterrorism, which sparked deep suspicion in US Muslim communities. It is now conducting a review of similar material in the intelligence community after a document leaked by Edward Snowden used the slur “Mohammed Raghead” as a placeholder for Muslims.

Sabrina

23rd July 2014, 07:26

What's happening here then? Are there some moves to resign from the games being played out of here? Bloomberg is flying from New York to Israel to show how safe it is (or safe he'll be) :) and British Airways is continuing very interestingly enough - says a lot doesn't it. Wouldn't be surprised if Cameron jumps on a flight as well :)...

http://news.sky.com/story/1305893/major-airlines-suspend-flights-to-israel

Major Airlines Suspend Flights To Israel

Services to Israel are cancelled amid airline safety concerns caused by the Gaza conflict, which has killed more than 620 people.

Major airlines from the US, Europe and Canada are refusing to fly to and from Israel after a rocket fired from Gaza landed near Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion international airport.

Delta Air Lines and United Airlines have suspended services between the US and Israel for at least 24 hours, while Germany's Lufthansa and Air France also suspended flights.

Low-fare airline EasyJet is also scrapping its scheduled services for today. The airline said it will "review its operations to and from Israel on a day-by-day basis".

It comes as Israel's military confirmed two of its soldiers died overnight in further fighting, raising the Israeli death toll to 29 soldiers and two civilians.

The US flight bans followed advice from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which stopped American flights from travelling to Tel Aviv, citing the "potentially hazardous situation" caused by the ongoing conflict in the region........

Israel's Transportation Ministry has urged the airlines to reconsider their decision, insisting that the nation's busiest air hub was secure.

more at link

Sabrina

23rd July 2014, 20:40

http://news.sky.com/story/1306015/probe-launched-into-israel-war-crimes-in-gaza

23 July

Probe Launched Into 'Israel War Crimes In Gaza'

The investigation starts as the British and the US foreign secretaries arrive in Tel Aviv amid efforts to stop the bloodshed.

Probe Launched Into 'Israel War Crimes In Gaza'

The investigation starts as the British and the US foreign secretaries arrive in Tel Aviv amid efforts to stop the bloodshed.

It came after Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay told the emergency debate in Geneva that Israel's punitive house demolitions and killing of Palestinians raised serious concerns about excessive use of force by the Jewish state.

Ms Pillay also condemned the indiscriminate firing of rockets and mortars by Hamas into Israel.

"Once again, the principles of distinction and precaution are clearly not being observed during such indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas by Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups," she said.

"Every one of these incidents must be properly and independently investigated."

Those dead include 687 Palestinians, mostly civilians, 32 Israeli soldiers and two Israeli civilians, during two weeks of airstrikes and rocket attacks followed by an Israeli ground offensive inside Gaza.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also released a report, which said one child had been killed in Gaza every hour over the previous two days.

On Wednesday, hundreds of people reportedly fled Khan Younis amid heavy fighting between Israeli troops and members of the armed wing of Hamas.

The Red Crescent said Hamas fighters were using rocket propelled grenades and light weapons, including machine guns, against the Israelis.

more at link

Sabrina

24th July 2014, 06:22

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=50

PEACHES GELDOF; JEWS; ABOVE THE LAW

23 July UK

The UK celebrity Peaches Geldof, a whistleblower on child abuse activity, was allegedly murdered in April 2014.

"Officers searching Peaches Geldof's house after her death found no evidence of hard drugs, no suicide note, and no visible signs of injury...

"Police found the 25-year-old's body at home in Wrotham, Kent, at 1.35pm, and described the death as 'sudden' and 'unexplained'."

www.dailymail.co.uk/

Now, in July 2014, the police are saying that Peaches Geldof's room was littered with syringes and drugs

The coroner says he must record a verdict that death was drug related

www.dailymail.co.uk

Detective Chief Inspector Paul Fotheringham led the investigation into Peaches' death.

A police investigation into who might have supplied Peaches with drugs has not led to any arrests.

more at the link

mgray

25th July 2014, 10:55

So the Chief Financial Office for Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue among other titles, stepped down July 22 after 15 years with no further explanation.
John Bellando, whose son committed suicide in NYC 5 months ago at the age of 28 when he jump of the roof of his dad's East Side building.
The younger Bellando worked for JPMorgan three months earlier and had just started with a new firm.
Now here's the kicker: The person replacing Bellando as CFO of Conde Nast is ex-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's younger brother, who was laid off by Time Inc in February.
Seems odd to me. If it was fiction you would say no way that could happen.

Sabrina

28th July 2014, 20:43

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/28/lloyds-suspends-seven-people-rigging-rates-libor

28 July UK

Lloyds suspends seven people after £226m bill for rigging interest rates

Bank fined for manipulating libor and reprimanded by Bank of England for rigging emergency funding fees during credit crisis

Lloyds Banking Group has suspended seven employees after it was hit with a £226m bill from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic for rigging crucial interest rates.

The 24% taxpayer-owned bank not only became the seventh financial firm to be fined by the Financial Conduct Authority for manipulating Libor, but the first to be censured for deliberately reducing the fees it paid to the Bank of England for emergency funding during the 2008 banking crisis.

Along with the US department of justice – which handed Lloyds a two-year deferred prosecution agreement – and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, also in the US, the FCA published a series of emails and electronic chats showing jovial exchanges between traders. Referring to each other as mate, dude and lad, the trader emails are signed off with phrases such as "grovel grovel" and spelling errors such as "happy to ablige … rubbery jubbery".

Among those suspended by Lloyds on Monday were three of the four unnamed individuals cited by the FCA who may have been involved in depriving the Bank of England of emergency funding fees of almost £8m.

A total of 22 people are understood to be bound up in the latest regulatory crackdown on benchmark manipulation; six had already been suspended before Monday and the rest have already left the bank. Their identities are not revealed in a series of damning emails and electronic chats released by regulators as they handed out fines. Instead the individuals are referred to as "manager a" or "trader b".

The latest regulatory actions cover three main issues which date back to the financial crisis when Lloyds TSB – as it was then known – rescued HBOS three days after Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008. HBOS owned Halifax and Royal Bank of Scotland. The three issues are:

Libor 'lowballing'

There were deliberate attempts by traders at Bank of Scotland – part of HBOS – to cut their submissions to the Libor panel to avoid giving the impression the bank was facing financial difficulty. This was dubbed "lowballing" by regulators.

During the period, Libor was set by a group of banks. They made submissions to a panel, estimating how much they thought their rivals would charge to lend them money in certain currencies and across a range of timescales from overnight to 12 months.

Any bank submitting a higher rate than rivals could be regarded as being in financial distress. In August 2008, a Bank of Scotland manager circulated a memo in which the warning was given that paying too a high a rate "may give the impression of HBOS being a desperate borrower and so lead to a general withdrawal of wholesale funds".

A month later, after Lehman Brothers had collapsed, the deal to rescue HBOS was announced. A Bank of Scotland trader submitting Libor estimates told a rival: "Youll like this ive been pressured by senior management to bring my rates down into line with everyone else." The submitter then cut rates by as much as half a percentage point.

Libor manipulation

Traders were found to have colluded with rivals at Dutch rival Rabobank over the yen Libor rate. In one exchange, a Rabobank trader submitting yen estimates was reported to have told a rival at Lloyds: "morning skip … my little [racial epithet redacted] friend in Tokyo wants a high 1m (one month) fix from me today."

In another, a Lloyds trader remarked when asked about reducing a Libor rate: "Every little helps … It's like Tescos." He got the reply: "Absolutely every little helps."

In another instance, one trader was found to have been focusing on "forcing Libor" from September 2006 in order to drive up the value of trading positions.

Abuse of liquidity scheme

This involved cutting the fees paid to the Bank of England for the special liquidity scheme (SLS), which pumped money into the financial markets when the crisis was at its deepest. During the period, Lloyds TSB and HBOS paid £1.3bn in fees to the Bank. This was just under half of all fees owed by the industry under the scheme, which was regarded as crucial in keeping the banks afloat.

Four individuals took steps that saved just under £8m by changing the so-called repo rate, which was crucial in setting the fees their banks were charged. Between January 2009 and September 2009 there were attempts by Bank of Scotland and Lloyds traders to inflate their repo rates, which had the impact of cutting the fees of their joint owner, Lloyds Banking Group.

A dialogue between a Lloyds trader and a Bank of Scotland manager shows a discussion about the fees: "I think we worked out ours is going to cost another 6.8 million quid," the Lloyds trader said, to which the response was: "Just keeps on going up and up and up doesn't it?"

The regulator shows a manager from Bank of Scotland and a trader at Lloyds acknowledging their influence over the repo rate used to price the SLS. "While we've got two votes we should use this to our advantage, you know what I mean?" the Bank of Scotland manager told his colleague in April 2009, four months after Lloyds completed its takeover of HBOS.

There were 12 banks on the panel which set the repo rate, and Lloyds had two places as a result of the HBOS deal.

Sabrina

28th July 2014, 20:53

http://consciouslifenews.com/monsanto-ordered-pay-93-million-small-town-poisoning-citizens/1175507/

27 July US

Monsanto Ordered to Pay $93 Million to Small Town for Poisoning Citizens

Big wins can happen in small places. The West Virginia State Supreme Court finalized a big blow to the biotech giant Monsanto this month, finishing a settlement causing Monsanto to pay $93 million to the tiny town of Nitro, West Virginia for poisoning citizens with Agent Orange chemicals.

The settlement was approved last year, but details were worked out only weeks ago as to how the funds were to be spent.

The settlement will require Monsanto to do the following:

$9 million will be spent to clean dioxin contaminated dust from 4500 homes.

$21 million will be spent to test to see if people have been poisoned with dioxin.

Citizens will be monitored for such poisoning for 30 years, not just a few months.

An additional $63 million is to be allotted if additional tests for dioxin contamination testing is necessary.

Anyone who lived in the Nitro area between Jan. 1, 1948, and Sept. 3, 2010 will be tested for dioxin.

Although they must show proof they lived in the area, they will be eligible for testing even if they no longer live in Nitro.

Former or present employees of Monsanto are not eligible for any of these benefits.

An office will be set up to organize testing for Nitro citizens. The registration of participants is to be overlooked by Charleston attorney Thomas Flaherty, who was appointed by the court.

Residents have a right to file individual suits against Monsanto if medical tests show they suffered physical harm due to dioxin exposure.

Monsanto Produced Toxic Chemicals in Nitro

Just how were Nitro citizens exposed to dioxin? Monsanto was producing the toxic herbicide Agent Orange in Nitro, and dioxin is a chemical byproduct of the substance. It is known to cause serious health conditions.

The factory which produced Agent Orange was opened in Nitro in 1948 and remained in operation until 2004, even though usage of this herbicide in the past (in Vietnam and other Asian countries) was fatal to millions of citizens and the war veterans who were exposed to it.

“There is no doubt that during and after the war, many Vietnamese absorbed this very toxic material [dioxin]. It is our belief from toxicological research and epidemiologicalstudies from many countries that this dioxin probably resulted in significant health effects in Vietnam.” – Arnold Schecter and John Constable

“It’s been a real long haul,” attorney Stuart Calwell told The Charleston Gazette. Calwell represented Nitro area residents in a class action suit that prompted Monsanto to make the settlement.

“The politics of dioxin has been bitterly debated since the Vietnam War, but … we know that there is a health issue there and hopefully people will get their houses cleaned and the risk will come to an end and those exposed in the past will have the benefit of keeping an eye on their health.”

The people of Nitro still need to fill out a register to receive the benefits outlined in the settlement. Due to the pivotal nature of this landmark settlement, Nitro citizens need to participate as fully as possible to set a precedent for other class action suits that farmers and consumers of GMO foods around the world might wage against Monsanto in the future to finally take them down. If enough of us do it at once, then even their bloated coffers will finally be depleted, and we can enjoy a world without being poisoned to death.

While this case did not involve glyphosate, another deadly toxin used in Monsanto herbicides such as RoundUp, its time will come soon.

Sabrina

28th July 2014, 21:20

https://www.wearechangeuk.org/government-will-drip-feed-vip-paedophile-revelations-over-decades-to-avoid-mass-civil-unrest.html

27 July UK

Government will drip feed VIP paedophile revelations over decades to avoid mass civil unrest

wearechangeuk.org | 27 July 2014

The British government plans to strictly control the release of 'establishment' paedophile revelations over a period of decades in order to avoid mass civil unrest, according to a Westminster source.

It is further claimed that many cases will never be disclosed due to the severity of the offences that took place, and also the high profile status of those involved.

Even politicians such as Simon Danczuk and Tom Watson, who have pushed for transparency, are all too aware of the dangers that mass disclosure may bring.

A 'total disclosure event' would see citizens of the United Kingdom take to the streets in their hundreds of thousands, if not millions, as the extent of the crimes are revealed. The offences include the rape, torture and murder of children.

When the public accept that throughout the 70's, 80's, and into the 90's, elected officials and other dignitaries in shocking numbers used their position and status to have sex with vulnerable children, a 'critical mass mentality' will have been achieved, and the state will not have the resources or the moral high ground available to quell the disquiet.

There is no sector of the 'establishment' that remains distant from the culture of paedophilia in and around the power bases of London. The royal family, government, security services, the police and the judiciary have all played their part in covering up a sickness that has plagued the country for decades.

The abuse of children by establishment paedophiles continues to this day, albeit on a lesser scale. The unaccountability of decades ago has been diluted by the information age.

Yet, powerful players in the corridors of power still have a vested interest in not only covering up the evil deeds of the past, but also indulging those who still engage in these heinous crimes.

Sabrina

30th July 2014, 14:56

Arrests of the bad kind...

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/chris-spivey-arrested-in-2am-raid/

30 July UK

Chris Spivey arrested in 2am raid

Brilliant writer, Chris Spivey, has been arrested in a night-time raid on his home by the desperate powers-that-be.

Chris, who is edging ever and ever closer to the truth about the Woolwich hoax, has obviously rattled the filth who run this country , and they’ve been forced into a pathetic rearguard action by arresting him and taking away his computer equipment.

Of course, if they think that’s going to stop the truth about the twisted British Establishment emerging, they must be even thicker than they look.

According to Chris’s website: (chrisspivey.co.uk)

” Chris was ILLEGALLY arrested with a warrant for harassment , now not being privy to the so called warrant if it’s not a wet signature and also if it’s not issued under oath it is an unlawful document and as such he has been illegally detained under false pretences , nothing new there then .”

” Just after 2 am 6 police entered Chris’s property with a so called warrant , if he had refused they would have forced entry (bit like our MP’s do with kids) but hey that’s ok to **** the nation’s kids and then arrest someone for revealing it , those six (sick) so called policemen who took part in this are breaking their own oath , as no harassment or breach of the peace has or had taken place .

It would seem it is easier to enter a honest man’s home and arrest him on a trumped up charge than it is to arrest the likes of Camoron , Clegg , Blair , Brittain , Mandelson (“I said a mouse not a gerbil up my ass”) along with I have my eye on you Brown (“Which eye is that said Alice looking through a glass full of ****”) and the other peados who reside in the house of **** . Not only does he have his young daughter and a 1 year old grandchild on the premises who were verbally abused by some wanker dressed in a uniform , all her possessions were rifled through and they attempted also to take her phone . Obviously after two hours of a bunch of retards who under the disguise of being up-holders of the law , who having woken the child and tried to make Chris sign for the computer stuff they had stolen , (as harassment laws do not cover electronic devices unless they are used to communicate with someone directly to cause the said harassment ) his daughter Stacey was obviously very upset , whereupon our brave boys in blue told her to “Grow up” .

To the boys in blue (men in tights) when the **** hits the fan and you hear a knock it wont be half a dozen it will be 100′s if not 1000′s knocking on your door and God help you then , as the old diatribe “I was only doing my job” wont sit well when your time comes .

Prohibition of harassment.

(1)A person must not pursue a course of conduct—

(a)which amounts to harassment of another, and

(b)which he knows or ought to know amounts to harassment of the other.

(2)For the purposes of this section, the person whose course of conduct is in question ought to know that it amounts to harassment of another if a reasonable person in possession of the same information would think the course of conduct amounted to harassment of the other.

(3)Subsection (1) does not apply to a course of conduct if the person who pursued it shows—

(a)that it was pursued for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime,

(b)that it was pursued under any enactment or rule of law or to comply with any condition or requirement imposed by any person under any enactment, or

(c)that in the particular circumstances the pursuit of the course of conduct was reasonable.
Offence of harassment.

(1)A person who pursues a course of conduct in breach of section 1 is guilty of an offence.

(2)A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both.

Civil remedy.

(1)An actual or apprehended breach of section 1 may be the subject of a claim in civil proceedings by the person who is or may be the victim of the course of conduct in question.

(2)On such a claim, damages may be awarded for (among other things) any anxiety caused by the harassment and any financial loss resulting from the harassment.

(3)Where—

(a)in such proceedings the High Court or a county court grants an injunction for the purpose of restraining the defendant from pursuing any conduct which amounts to harassment, and

(b)the plaintiff considers that the defendant has done anything which he is prohibited from doing by the injunction,

the plaintiff may apply for the issue of a warrant for the arrest of the defendant.

(4)An application under subsection (3) may be made—

(a)where the injunction was granted by the High Court, to a judge of that court, and

(b)where the injunction was granted by a county court, to a judge or district judge of that or any other county court.

(5)The judge or district judge to whom an application under subsection (3) is made may only issue a warrant if—

(a)the application is substantiated on oath, and

(b)the judge or district judge has reasonable grounds for believing that the defendant has done anything which he is prohibited from doing by the injunction.

(6)Where—

(a)the High Court or a county court grants an injunction for the purpose mentioned in subsection (3)(a), and

(b)without reasonable excuse the defendant does anything which he is prohibited from doing by the injunction,

he is guilty of an offence.

(7)Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (6) in respect of any conduct, that conduct is not punishable as a contempt of court.

(8)A person cannot be convicted of an offence under subsection (6) in respect of any conduct which has been punished as a contempt of court.

(9)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (6) is liable—

(a)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or a fine, or both, or

(b)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both.

Putting people in fear of violence.

(1)A person whose course of conduct causes another to fear, on at least two occasions, that violence will be used against him is guilty of an offence if he knows or ought to know that his course of conduct will cause the other so to fear on each of those occasions.
(2)For the purposes of this section, the person whose course of conduct is in question ought to know that it will cause another to fear that violence will be used against him on any occasion if a reasonable person in possession of the same information would think the course of conduct would cause the other so to fear on that occasion.
(3)It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to show that—
(a)his course of conduct was pursued for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime,
(b)his course of conduct was pursued under any enactment or rule of law or to comply with any condition or requirement imposed by any person under any enactment, or
(c)the pursuit of his course of conduct was reasonable for the protection of himself or another or for the protection of his or another’s property.
(4)A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—
(a)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or a fine, or both, or
(b)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both.
(5)If on the trial on indictment of a person charged with an offence under this section the jury find him not guilty of the offence charged, they may find him guilty of an offence under section 2.
(6)The Crown Court has the same powers and duties in relation to a person who is by virtue of subsection (5) convicted before it of an offence under section 2 as a magistrates’ court would have on convicting him of the offence.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/40/contents

To all intents and purposes the law about harassment is a Civil matter and therefore should be dealt with by a Civil court , harassment is a bit of a grey area (something akin to the lack of grey matter in plods head) and not a criminal offence and as such should be dealt with by the proper authority and the issue of a warrant is unlawful , unless a previous court order has been broken .

Chris has just been arrested for harrassment, apparently under section 32, because he wouldn’t sign under section 23. 6 police felt the need to search his flat and Stacey and Clay’s room…. looking for cctv footage , well bad luck as you were on “Candid Camera” plod so you can deny that in court also its now safely in several different countries .

This is harassment section 23.6 http://www.neiladdison.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/law/act.htm which refused to sign , so they arrested him under harassment section 32 http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/sentencing_manual/racially_or_religiously_aggravated_harassment/ which if you can find any racial or religious aggravated harassment on this site please let us know .

http://chrisspivey.org/chris-spivey-illegally-arrested/

We look forward to hearing from Chris about this disgusting incident as soon as he is released.

In the meantime, we have a message for the scum who run this country from behind the shadows.

We’ve told you before and we’ll tell you again.

Arrest, kill, lie, perjure, rant, scream, abuse, vilify.

Do whatever you f*****g well want.

It’s way to late now.

The truth will out anyway.

It’s only a matter of time.

Sabrina

31st July 2014, 06:12

Rather close to the Royals this one...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-philip/11001995/Prince-Philips-former-aide-charged-with-sex-assault-on-girl-aged-12.html

31 July UK

Prince Philip's former aide charged with sex assault on girl aged 12

Former royal aide Benjamin Herman is accused of three counts of indecent assault and one attempted indecent assault on a child when he was working for Prince Philip

The Duke of Edinburgh’s former equerry has been charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

Benjamin Herman, who went on to become a trusted aide to Princess Anne, will appear in court next week to face three counts of indecent assault and one of attempted indecent assault on the girl in the 1970s, when he was working for Prince Philip.

The ex-marine, 79, told a newspaper reporter he would fight the charges.

Police are believed to have scoured Prince Philip’s official diaries from January 1972 to January 1974, the period when Herman is accused of carrying out the attacks.

Officers have also taken statements from former Buckingham Palace staff, it was reported last night.

Herman worked as a personal assistant to Prince Philip for three years then became Prince Anne’s private secretary before returning to the military where he achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

It is not known if Scotland Yard detectives have questioned any members of the royal family over the accusations.
Herman will appear at Wimbledon magistrates court, south London, on Monday.

When asked whether he denied the charges, he replied, “of course”.

The grandfather, who now lives in Hook, Hants, has been on bail since his arrest 18 months ago after voluntarily attending a police station.

The Crown Prosecution confirmed he had been charged.

At the time of the alleged attacks Herman was splitting his time between his home in Windsor, Berks, and Wellington Barracks, near Buckingham Palace.

From 1971 to 1974 Herman shadowed Prince Philip at numerous official engagements as his equerry.

He was then said to be handpicked by Princess Anne to run her household when she got married in 1974.

After two years he resumed his military career which saw him serve with 40 Commando, Royal
Marines, and get promoted to the position of Military Assistant and Aide-de-Camp to the Commandant General Royal Marines.

Sabrina

31st July 2014, 06:19

I hope this is added to the Bush/Blair war crimes charges one day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/gaza/11001631/UN-spokesman-breaks-down-talking-about-Gaza-child-deaths.html

UN spokesman breaks down talking about Gaza child deaths

Haunting video clip shows former BBC reporter reduced to sobs as he discusses latest deaths of Palestinian refugees in what was supposed to be a shelter

clip at the link

Sabrina

31st July 2014, 06:30

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/how-chinas-anticorruption-drive-claimed-its-biggest-scalp-yet--and-left-the-ruling-elite-fearful-of-the-same-fate-9638697.html

30 July China

How China’s anti-corruption drive claimed its biggest scalp yet - and left the ruling elite fearful of the same fate

Two influential former Chinese leaders gave their consent for President Xi Jinping to investigate the former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, sources said, in a sign that the corruption investigation will not open a rift in the ruling Communist Party.

Mr Xi would not have been able to investigate someone as powerful as Mr Zhou without the agreement of senior party members and other retired top officials, political analysts said. But less clear is whether the elite is starting to get jittery over Mr Xi’s expanding corruption crackdown, which is spreading fear throughout the party and the government.

Mr Xi’s predecessors Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin had approved the investigation into Mr Zhou, the most senior Chinese official to be ensnared in a graft scandal since the party swept to power in 1949, two sources with ties to the leadership said.

The party said in a brief statement on Tuesday that Mr Zhou was being investigated by the party’s anti-corruption watchdog for suspected “serious disciplinary violations”.........

About 30 senior officials at the provincial and ministerial level or above have been put under investigation for corruption since December 2012, state media has said. The People’s Daily newspaper, the party’s mouthpiece, said the crackdown was not about to end: “There will be no halt. This is only one step in a process. Going forward, whoever is corrupt will be punished.”

more at link

Sabrina

31st July 2014, 06:37

WikiLeaks Exposes “Worst Suppression Order in Living Memory” as Australian Govt Gags Media on Multi-Million Dollar, Multi-National Corruption Case

Australia

From RT.com, July 30, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/mxcoa7v

WikiLeaks has accused the Australian government of blindfolding the public with the worst suppression order in “living memory.” The media gag bans Australian news outlets from reporting on a multinational corruption case for reasons of national security.

The whistleblowing organization published the details of the “unprecedented” gag order issued by the Australian government on Wednesday. The super injunction passed by the Supreme Court of the state of Victoria prohibits Australian media organizations from publishing material on a multi-million-dollar graft case involving high-ranking officials from Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

“The gag order effectively blacks out the largest high-level corruption case in Australia and the region,” said a statement published on WikiLeaks’ website.

The case pertains to RBA subsidiaries Securency and Note Printing who bribed the officials to secure lucrative contracts to supply bank notes to their governments. The gag order was issued after the secret indictment of seven senior executives from the RBA subsidiaries on June 19, writes WikiLeaks.

The Australian government justifies the order as being in the interests of national security and prevention of “damage to Australia’s international relations.” However, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argues such an act of “unprecedented censorship” is unjustifiable.

“With this order, the worst in living memory, the Australian government is not just gagging the Australian press, it is blindfolding the Australian public,” said Assange in a statement published on the WikiLeaks website. He called on Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to explain “why she is threatening every Australian with imprisonment in an attempt to cover up an embarrassing corruption scandal involving the Australian government.”

“Corruption investigations and secret gag orders for ‘national security’ reasons are strange bedfellows. It is ironic that it took [Prime Minister] Tony Abbott to bring the worst of ‘Asian Values’ to Australia,” said Assange.

Lawyers have suggested that media outlets may not be the only targets of the gag order, arguing that social media users who post links to the WikiLeaks statement could be subject to prosecution. Media lawyer Peter Bartlett told the Age newspaper that using the hashtag WikiLeaks did not violate the order, but any mention of the contents of the statement is prohibited.

According to WikiLeaks, the last blanket suppression order was issued in 1995 to stop Australian news outlet Fairfax Media from publishing information about a US-Australian spying operation on the Chinese Embassy in Canberra.

WikiLeaks founder Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over two years after being granted political asylum. UK police have resolved to arrest the whistleblower if he sets foot outside the embassy building and comply with an extradition order to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault.

Assange believes his extradition will lead to his eventual transfer into American custody where he will be tried for publishing thousands of classified, US government files on the WikiLeaks website.

Sabrina

2nd August 2014, 07:24

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1165-coast-global-initiation

FULL EPISODE of David on Coast: The Global Initiation

The latest blog from David Wilcock and interview on Coast Radio - including his take on the financial situation and banker suicides.

Sabrina

2nd August 2014, 08:36

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/31/the-161-bankers-who-run-the-world/

The 161 Bankers Who Run the World

By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

In following video, Peter Phillips from Project Censored lays out exactly how the richest one-thousandth of 1% maintain iron control over the global economy and all so-called democratic governments.

He cites a study Project Censored published in their Top 25 Censored Stories of 2012-2013 edition of the world’s most “integrated”* corporations and those with the largest financial asset concentration.

Unsurprisingly, there’s considerable overlap between the two groups.

The 161 board members of the top 13 companies control $28 trillion of wealth. They also help the 1% hide another $30 trillion offshore so it can’t be taxed.

They’re 88% white (and nearly all male) and 63% come from the US or Europe.

They work with secret (and not so secret) groups, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the Bohemian Grove, the World Economic Forum, the G7, the G20, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to ensure that the domestic and foreign policy of all western governments benefits themselves and the capitalist investors they represent.

They also ensure that the national security state, busy killing people in 130 countries, acts in the exclusive interest of transnational capital. The fascist coup they engineered in Ukraine is only the most recent example.

They regularly engage illegal conspiracies but are always too big and powerful to jail.

Here are the top 13 companies identified in the study:

1 BlackRock US $3,560 trillion
2 UBS Switzerland $2,280 trillion
3 Allianz Germany $2,213 trillion
4 Vanguard Group US $2,080 trillion
5 State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) US $1,908
6 PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company) US $1,820 trillion
7 Fidelity Investments US $1,576 trillion
8 AXA Group France $1,393 trillion
9 JPMorgan Asset Management US $1,347 trillion
10 Credit Suisse Switzerland $1,279 trillion
11 BNY Mellon Asset Management US $1,299 trillion
12 HSBC UK $1,230 trillion
13 Deutsche Bank Germany $1,227 trillion

*The researchers use the term “integrated” to describe financial corporations with major holdings in key non-financial sectors (i.e. energy, defense and mass media).

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Sabrina

3rd August 2014, 08:24

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-kincora-scandal-mi5-tried-to-blackmail-belfast-homosexual-says-whistleblower-9644610.html

3 Aug Ireland

The Kincora scandal: 'MI5 tried to blackmail Belfast homosexual,' says whistleblower

In the glut of allegations of sexual abuse, one care home stands out. At Kincora, a boys' home in Belfast, three men routinely abused teenage boys in their care for more than a decade. In this case, the abuse is undoubted, as a court confirmed when, in December 1981, William McGrath, the "house father", Raymond Semple, an assistant warden, and Joseph Mains, warden, were sentenced to four, five and six years respectively for the sexual abuse of children. What makes Kincora remarkable is the lingering suggestion that British security services connived in the continued abuse of children in order to secure intelligence.

More than three decades on, Kincora still stinks. Last week, it was revealed that in the 1980s three former residents had received secret payments – with gagging clauses – in compensation from the local authority. Two books have been written, one even alleging that a murder was committed to discredit army information officer Colin Wallace, who had sought to expose publicly what was happening. A possibly game-changing testimony emerged on Friday when former intelligence officer Captain Brian Gemmell went public in saying that, in 1975, his boss in MI5 made him cut short attempts to investigate what was going on at the home.

Last night, Capt Gemmell told The Independent on Sunday he had had personal experience of the security services discussing using somebody's homosexuality to apply pressure on them. "Some months before I was told to leave the Kincora case alone, on the grounds that the service didn't involve itself with homosexual matters, I had a meeting at a hotel on Buckingham Palace Road. There were three members of MI5 talking about a known Protestant terrorist, John McKeague of the Red Hand Commandos, being homosexual, and they asked me if I thought he could be blackmailed over his homosexuality, because they had film of him."

Last week, Clint Massey, a former resident, gave his first newspaper interview, to The IoS. Born in 1957, he had been in another Northern Ireland care home before, in 1973, he was sent to Kincora, a half-way house for boys in care at the start of their working life. He shared a room with two other boys, who used to leave early in the morning to go to work, leaving him alone in the room. "On my first full day there," he recalled, "McGrath came in and asked me what I wanted for breakfast, but, as he did so, he put his hand inside my pyjamas." Mr Massey says he was abused several times a week, and often raped...............................

"But I hope there are people shaking in their boots. They may be old men now but I don't care. There's no statute of limitations on this. I think there are lots of people shaking. I hope they're expecting a knock on the door, but an investigation can't dig deep here [in Northern Ireland]. At Westminster, they have the authority, and they can do it if they want to."

full story at link

Sabrina

3rd August 2014, 08:42

From RK News, August 1, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/o7axucn

Bolivia Declares Israel a “Terrorist State” as Latin America Cuts Ties and Recalls Israel Ambassadors

RK News title: “Latin America cuts ties with Israel“

Americas: Bolivian President Evo Morales declared Israel a “terrorist state” Wednesday and tore up a long-standing visa exemption agreement with the country in protest at the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza strip.

Morales announced that the Bolivian government would now be demanding Israeli visitors apply for a visa in order to enter the South American country.

“We are declaring Israel a terrorist state,” Morales said, adding that Israel’s military operation meant the country “is not a guarantor of the principles of respect for life that govern the peaceful and harmonious coexistence of our international community.”

Earlier in July, Morales filed a request with the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights to prosecute Israel for “crimes against humanity.”

Formal diplomatic relations between the two countries were broken off in 2009, during the last major Israeli offensive in Gaza. At that time, Morales labeled the conflict a “genocide.”

A visa exemption agreement between Israel and Bolivia was signed in August 1972, during the Bolivian dictatorship. South America is popular destination with young Israelis, who will be affected by the move.

Over the past two weeks five South American countries – Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru and Chile – have recalled their ambassadors in Israel, a major act of protest in diplomatic language.

The decision by Brazil in particular angered Israel and a subsequent war of words threatened to spark a serious diplomatic row. Yigal Palmor, a spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, slammed South America’s largest country, labeling it “politically irrelevant” and a “diplomatic dwarf.”

The Israeli Foreign Ministry expressed its “deep disappointment” over the countries’ decision, according to The Jerusalem Post, with Palmor saying that the nations “would have been much better advised to promote the international move intended to assist Israel in its efforts to defend innocent civilians and instate a durable ceasefire with the demilitarization of Gaza.”

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Monday that a “massacre” was taking place in the Gaza Strip and backed calls from the United Nations for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. She maintained that Israel was a “friend” and that the ambassador would return “in due course.”

On Tuesday, a statement released by four members of the Mercosur group of South American economies after a summit in the Venezuela capital, Caracas, condemned Israel’s “disproportionate use of force.” Paraguay did not sign the document.

Sabrina

3rd August 2014, 20:24

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2713810/Government-digital-chief-caught-child-porn-stash-did-Downing-Street-secret-six-months.html

2 Aug UK

Government IT expert caught with child porn stash..why did Downing Street keep it secret for 6 months

(a former cabinet office digital expert)

story at the link

Sabrina

7th August 2014, 06:29

Fascinating take on it all here and the various shifts in power.....

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/05/the-coming-de-construction-and-complete-reset-of-israel/

The Deconstruction and Complete Reset of Israel

World Zionists Have been Ordered to Cut Israel Loose. Systematic Deconstruction and Reset to Follow in Progressive Steps Just like with South African Apartheid.

… by Dr. Preston James

DO NOT EXPOSE OUR EVIL In a startling and unexpected major reversal of recent history, World Zionists (WZ) have now been “ordered” to cut Israel loose, to make sure it follows the same course of Deconstruction and Reset that South Africa did, and to become transformed into an ethnically and racially diverse Euro-style nation.

During the next several years the nation-state of Israel as presently configured will be quite significantly transformed and reconstituted, with the final design yet to be decided or designated by those who call the shots, aka The Powers That Be (PTB).
The best guess so far is that Israel will become a multi-racial, ethnically diversified Globalized nation-state cleared of its maniacal World Zionist (WZ) Babylonian Talmudic leaders, or in the extreme case if that fails, completely wiped off the face of the earth during a staged WW3 type Mideast nuclear exchange.

One way or the other the Israel will be transformed into a Globalist platform for the seating of a NWO World Leader who is going to be designated as their Luciferian Ruler and will no longer be the center of an age old war between the “Teutonic Zionists” (WZs) aka “The Crusaders” and the Mideast Islamics.

Already, wealthy Israelis are leaving Israel for safer places and a general unconscious sense of dread and fear is descending on the land despite the blatant conscious media displays of chutzpah and false bravado against the undefended Palestinian civilians, especially the women and children.

Israel is now a sinking ship brought about by its Apartheid, blockade, horrific tyranny and mass-murder against Palestinians. The World has become very well informed and will just plain not put up with it anymore.

Israel has become an Apartheid Occupation force of Palestine and a land-thief, abuser, tyrannizer and mass-murderer of Palestinians. And just like South Africa, the World will deal with it quite substantially, only this time faster and most likely much more severely.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the World will just not put up with this much longer and the mass divestiture and boycotting of Israel and all their products is quickly becoming the new world norm, spreading like wildfire in Europe and now even to America, Israel’s biggest military supplier and funds provider for nothing but crime and abuse in return..............

The American military High Command now knows the full story how Israel did the 9/11/01 nuclear attack on America with the help of several traitors inside the JCS, NORAD, FAA and USAF along with massive support from the NeoCons, PNACers, and the Bush2 Administration and is hoppin’ mad and many want revenge. They with the help of numerous Intel Cowboys who have come back from retirement, are hard at work disassembling AIPAC and the other Israeli espionage fronts inside America that are run by “cry babies” and operate as parasites upon America................

Homeland Security (DHS) is now going to go “down the tubes” as all America gangs up against it, especially those on the inside............

At some point not too far off expect major War Crimes tribunals to be forthcoming with numerous land and monetary reparations and damages paid to Palestinian survivors, the same way many Judaics were supposed to be paid.............

full story at link

Sabrina

7th August 2014, 06:41

David Wilcock's comments on Benjy Fulford's latest article.. (Benevolent and not so benevolent ETs theme also written about at the end of the Veteran's Today article above). Increasingly interesting time!!

Comment by dwilcock on August 5, 2014 @ 12:22 am
Wow. Ben should do summaries more often. This is a strong piece.

One important detail I was reminded of recently that Ben has never leaked:

Apparently the opposition has become strong enough that Saudi Arabia is no longer accepting US dollars for oil since the beginning of this year. Anyone wanting to buy Saudi oil has to pay them with some other form of currency.

That seems hard to believe, but it came from impeccable sources.

This is why fracking has stepped up in the US as well as the development of the North Dakota oil field.

I will be releasing the two-and-a-half-hour Russian documentary featuring Fulford and myself some time soon, hopefully today or tomorrow.

In the meantime make sure you check out the radio show I just did on Coast to Coast AM:

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1165-coast-global-initiation

It does appear that we are going to see a complete financial system reboot before the end of the year at the pace things are going now.

- David

Comment by dwilcock on August 5, 2014 @ 12:41 am
As a further note, I would say the biggest thing missing in this summary is WHY the Cabal has been systematically draining the planet of financial resources and pushing it so close to the edge.

The greater reality is that there has been a massive military buildup to fight a potential war against extraterrestrial invaders.

The Cabal keeps telling us this again and again through literally hundreds of different movies and TV shows.

The infrastructure they’ve built up is vast, and includes underground facilities, lunar facilities, large ships and other off-world locations, such as on asteroids, Mars, other moons in our solar system, et cetera.

There will be no greater paradigm shift in our history than the one we go through as this becomes known. This does not excuse the actions of the Cabal but it does explain more of what is going on.

The perceived severity of this war, and the need to keep fighting it, is another strong reason why so many people who are “on the inside” at that level stay involved. They also would not want to go back to the ordinary world, as they would be completely cut off from all these exotic toys and intriguing new friends, allies and enemies.

Additionally, if anyone tries to speak out they would be killed — and as I said before, the vast majority of people who get into this separate, compartmentalized world end up never being allowed to return to the surface of our own planet for any reason, at any time.

It does appear that they need to tell us soon, for a variety of different reasons — including that the benevolent ETs are now forcing them to. Much of the shenanigans that we are seeing in the world right now telegraphs a last-ditch effort to try to create a new war, by any possible means, to distract or offset a massive change that is likely inevitable no matter what.

You’ve got to give them credit for fighting this hard even when it is obvious that they will lose. The benevolents are vastly more powerful than they are. They know who these people are and they have been told what they have to do. They simply do not want to give up the power and control they feel they have.

Be on the alert for the new video… it starts to crack open the door into this world by discussing the underground bases, though it’s really just a brief introduction.

- David [divinecosmos.com]

Comment by dwilcock on August 5, 2014 @ 12:45 am
Let’s edit that sentence at the end.

Old:

They know who these people are and they have been told what they have to do. They simply do not want to give up the power and control they feel they have.

New:

The Cabal knows who these benevolents are and they have been told what they have to do. The Cabal simply does not want to give up the power and control they feel they have.

These people are inherently distrustful of everyone and it is understandable why they would think the benevolents are also in possession of a secret twist, and therefore not looking out for our best interest.

- David

Benjy Fulford's article here:

http://hipknowsys.blogspot.com.br/2014/08/benjamin-fulford-august-4-2014-it-is.html

Sabrina

7th August 2014, 06:51

Well they are certainly going after ex-editor of News of the World, Andy Coulson - who must know a lot from his time with Murdoch and in Downing Street - while Rebekah Brooks, ex- chief executive at News International (and former editor) got off the hacking charges (and was paid off considerably by News Int.). It sucks if your highly expensive legal fees aren't paid for you....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-28676197

Andy Coulson faces series of perjury charges over Tommy Sheridan trial

6 Aug UK

Former Downing Street director of communications Andy Coulson faces a series of perjury charges over the Tommy Sheridan trial.

Mr Coulson, 46, is alleged to have lied while giving evidence at the trial on 9 and 10 December 2010.

He is accused of knowing there was a culture of phone hacking at the News of the World while he was editor.

The case was called for the first time in public at the High Court in Glasgow.

It is alleged he knew of instances of phone hacking involving murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, Home Secretary David Blunkett's mistress Kimberley Quinn and actor Daniel Craig.

Mr Coulson, of Preston, Kent, is also charged with knowing that payments of about £2,750 were made to corrupt police officers by a journalist between 1 December 2002 and 26 January 2007.

He was not present in court but was represented by Murdo MacLeod QC. No plea was entered on Mr Coulson's behalf.

Swingers' club
Former Scottish Socialist Party leader and Solidarity MSP Mr Sheridan was awarded £200,000 in damages after winning a defamation case against the News of the World in 2006.

The now defunct tabloid printed allegations about his private life, which included claims that he visited a swingers' club and cheated on his wife.

Mr Sheridan was later jailed for three years for committing perjury during the case. He has continued to maintain his innocence.

Papers from the court allege that, while giving evidence at the Sheridan trial, Mr Coulson falsely claimed he did not know private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and had not exchanged emails with him.

It is claimed he knew that Mr Mulcaire and journalist Clive Goodman "engaged together" in phone hacking, but said in evidence he did not.

It is alleged he knew Mr Goodman paid Mr Mulcaire a total of £4,600 but claimed in evidence he was unaware of payments.

Mr Coulson also allegedly said he only knew of a "very unfortunate case" of hacking by Mr Goodman when in fact he knew of a culture of hacking.

A further hearing was set for October.

The court was told a trial would not take place before January next year.

Sabrina

7th August 2014, 21:49

https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/24654686/khmer-rouge-leaders-jailed-for-life/

8 Aug

Khmer Rouge leaders jailed for life

Two Khmer Rouge leaders were jailed for life Thursday after being found guilty of crimes against humanity, the first sentences against top figures of a regime responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians.

Neither "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, 88, nor former head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, betrayed any hint of emotion as the sentences were handed down at Cambodia's UN-backed tribunal.

But outside the court on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, regime survivors burst into applause with many weeping after a 35-year wait for justice.

Judge Nil Nonn said the defendants, who are the most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leaders, were "guilty of the crimes against humanity of extermination... political persecution, and other inhumane acts".

Their lawyers swiftly announced their intention to appeal the conviction, but the court earlier ruled the pair would remain in detention until a final judgement due to "the gravity of the crimes".

Prosecutors had sought the maximum life terms for the men, who played key roles in a regime that left around a quarter of the country's population dead during the "Killing Fields" era from 1975-1979.

Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998 without ever facing justice, the Khmer Rouge dismantled modern society in their quest for an agrarian utopia.

Regime atrocities affected virtually every family in Cambodia as Pol Pot's peasant army -- infamous for their red chequered scarves and dark clothing -- slaughtered perceived enemies of the revolution and emptied towns and cities at gunpoint to work in the fields.

The plan spectacularly backfired, leading to the collapse of the economy and mass starvation.

Nuon Chea, wearing his trademark sunglasses, sat in a wheelchair in the dock as the verdict was read, while Khieu Samphan stood impassive next to him.

Late in their two-year trial both men expressed remorse for the suffering the Khmer Rouge inflicted on Cambodia, but remained staunch in denying knowledge of its crimes at the time.

- Justice at last -

The ruling is likely to bring a level of relief to those who survived the Khmer Rouge years, which saw Cambodians wiped out by starvation, overwork, torture or execution by ruthless cadres.

"This is the justice that I have been waiting for these last 35 years," said Khieu Pheatarak, one of around 900 Cambodians at the court to hear the verdict.

Pheatarak was among hundreds of thousands forced from their homes in the capital in 1975 by gun-toting cadres.

"I will never forget the suffering but this is a great relief for me. It is a victory and an historic day for all Cambodians," said the 70-year-old who lost 20 family members including her husband and five siblings under the regime.

The complex case against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan was split into a series of smaller trials in 2011 for reasons including their advanced age and the large number of accusations.

US Secretary of State John Kerry in a statement hailed the verdict as "a historic, if long delayed, step along the path for Cambodia" and said the United States would keep supporting work by the UN-backed tribunal.

Social justice campaigners welcomed the verdict as a clear sign to ordinary Cambodians that all are equal before the law.

It shows "that even people in very high positions of power are subject to the rule of law... even if it takes a very long time", said Heather Ryan, a trial monitor at the Open Society Justice Initiative.

However, many victims fear the ageing Khmer Rouge leaders may not live to serve much time in jail -- if their sentences are upheld.

A court spokesman said the entire appeal process could take around 18 months.

Former foreign minister Ieng Sary died aged 87 last year while still on trial. His wife Ieng Thirith was released in 2012 after being ruled unfit for trial due to poor health.

Considered one of the regime's chief architects, Nuon Chea "planned, ordered, instigated, aided and abetted" extermination and forced evacuations according to the trial judge.

Khieu Samphan was found guilty of the same with the exception of ordering the crimes.

Nuon Chea was Pol Pot's deputy but after the fall of the regime he joined rebels in the forested Thai-border area, eventually defecting to the government along with Khieu Samphan in 1998.

Last week a second trial of the pair began at the court on charges including genocide of Vietnamese people and ethnic Muslims, forced marriages and rape.

In its breakthrough first verdict in 2010, the court sentenced former prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, to 30 years in prison -- later increased to life on appeal -- for overseeing the deaths of 15,000 people.

Sabrina

10th August 2014, 06:29

Police told not to arrest Greville Janner UK

Detectives investigating a Labour MP over child abuse allegations more than 20 years ago were stopped from arresting him, The Times has learnt.

Greville Janner, now Lord Janner of Braunstone, was interviewed by appointment in the company of his solicitor as part of a major investigation into the abuse of boys at homes in Leicestershire in 1991.

A number of sources with knowledge of the case have confirmed that officers had wanted to arrest the Leicester West MP, which would have given them the power to search his home and offices. Legal advice was sought on taking the rare step of arresting an MP and it is understood that the advice from senior counsel was that it was an appropriate course of action. At the last minute the planned arrest was blocked. Arrangements were made instead for Lord Janner to attend a police station by appointment with his solicitor, Sir David Napley.

The decision-making process is being re-examined by Leicestershire police as part of Operation Enamel, which is looking into allegations against Lord Janner and others.

Kelvyn Ashby, the retired officer who was senior investigator on the original case, confirmed that he was in contact with the Operation Enamel team but declined to comment further.

Police executed search warrants at Lord Janner’s home in Golders Green, north London, in December and at his office at the House of Lords in March. A partial file of evidence has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service, which is providing the police with “investigative advice”.

The peer, now 86 and said by friends to be in very poor health, has not been arrested. He has strongly denied the allegations against him in the past.

The new investigation into Lord Janner and others is one of dozens of historic abuse inquiries which come under the umbrella of Operation Hydrant, a nationwide steering group headed by senior police officers and set up to ensure consistent approaches to cases involving “persons of public prominence”.

The Times 08/08/14

araucaria

10th August 2014, 06:51

Sabrina

10th August 2014, 07:03

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Its-the-deadliest-strain-says-the-man-who-discovered-Ebola/articleshow/39434060.cms?intenttarget=no&utm_source=TOI_AShow_OBWidget&utm_medium=Int_Ref&utm_campaign=TOI_AShow

Interview in the Times of India with the scientist who 'apparently' discovered the ebola virus in the Congo in 1976 (Peter Piot):

How serious is the outbreak at present? Do you think it could become a mass killer if exported outside Africa?

'It is the largest ever, the longest ever, the first one that involves three countries, the first one that involves cases in capitals and it is disrupting entire societies, not only because of the deaths, but also hospitals stop functioning, commerce comes to a halt and then there's the panic and fear.'

Well that's a very useful set of things to create for some people with other agendas perhaps - while perpetuating the 'fear porn' energy and making some more vaccination money along the way. Oh yes, and where did that plane go? Completely slipped our minds...

full article at link

and more gems here:

http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/heres-why-wont-be-lining-up-for-the-ebola-vaccine-08062014

Sabrina

10th August 2014, 07:18

A number of sources with knowledge of the case have confirmed that officers had wanted to arrest the Leicester West MP, which would have given them the power to search his home and offices. Legal advice was sought on taking the rare step of arresting an MP and it is understood that the advice from senior counsel was that it was an appropriate course of action. At the last minute the planned arrest was blocked. Arrangements were made instead for Lord Janner to attend a police station by appointment with his solicitor, Sir David Napley.

Something wrong with this: he's a titled lord and a member of the House of Lords. He can't be a member of the House of Commons as well.

Thank you Sabrina for keeping us posterd on all these matters. It just goes on and on, doesn't it?

Hi, He's a member of the House of Lords now (and was President of the British Board of Jews), but was an MP when police originally wanted to question him years ago. He rose pretty high up the Tory (sorry edit I mean Labour this time!) food chain and allegedly was involved in very vicious abuse. Apparently, claiming some sort of dementia now... But credit to some of these police investigations where it looks as tho' they are refusing to be intimidated in the way they used to be. Think some high profile names must be having some sleepless nights nowadays.

More on the Janner story here:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/child-abuse-detectives-raid-labour-3740002#.U-cawVZyzRo 21 June

A Labour peer’s office in the House of Lords has been raided as part of a probe into historic child sex abuse allegations, writes Ben Endley in the Sunday People.

Up to eight officers from Leicestershire Police searched Greville Janner’s space and are understood to have removed computer equipment.

The force refused to confirm whether anything was seized but said the March raid was part of an ongoing enquiry.

Lord Janner, 85, has not been arrested in connection with the allegations but Leicestershire Police submitted a dossier of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service in April.

The former QC was named Baron Janner of Braunstone, Leicester, in 1997 after serving as an MP for 27 years, at Leicester North West then Leicester West.

It is thought the raid was part of an investigation concerning allegations linked to Frank Beck, who was found guilty of abusing more than 100 children in the 1970s and 1980s.

The pervert, who ran children’s homes in Leicestershire, was given five life sentences and died in jail.

A police spokesman said: “Leicestershire Police can confirm that in March its officers carried out a search of part of the House of Lords in connection with an ongoing enquiry into non-recent child sexual abuse.

“A search warrant was obtained in advance from a Crown Court Judge and the search was conducted in accordance with established House of Lords procedures and monitored by senior officials from the House of Lords.

"No arrests or charges have been made and enquiries continue.”

In December, Leicestershire officers searched Lord Janner’s home in Barnet, North London. His legal team has confirmed he is helping with inquiries.

Two men from Corby, Northamptonshire, aged 69 and 63 have also been quizzed in connection with the allegations but have not been arrested.

In Beck’s 1991 trial, a 30-year-old man claimed he had been abused by Lord Janner, who was still an MP at the time, while he was in care aged 13.

Lord Janner was not prosecuted and received cross-party support in the Commons when he said there was “not a shred of truth” in the claims.
more at link

pathaka

10th August 2014, 20:27

David Wilcock's comments on Benjy Fulford's latest article.. (Benevolent and not so benevolent ETs theme also written about at the end of the Veteran's Today article above). Increasingly interesting time!!

Just out of curiosity:

Why do you or anybody else for that matter read, listen or give any credence to Poppycock or Fullofitford?

They've both proven lied, gotten caught pants down and have been wrong utterly on facts/dates/predictions/leaks so many times that even the most ardent mathematician has lost count.

Why not just toss a coin?

Really, I'm serious about this question.

What do they provide, other than delusional entertainment peppered with some odd facts here and there?

Sabrina

12th August 2014, 05:43

David Wilcock's comments on Benjy Fulford's latest article.. (Benevolent and not so benevolent ETs theme also written about at the end of the Veteran's Today article above). Increasingly interesting time!!

Just out of curiosity:

Why do you or anybody else for that matter read, listen or give any credence to Poppycock or Fullofitford?

They've both proven lied, gotten caught pants down and have been wrong utterly on facts/dates/predictions/leaks so many times that even the most ardent mathematician has lost count.

Why not just toss a coin?

Really, I'm serious about this question.

What do they provide, other than delusional entertainment peppered with some odd facts here and there?

Hi Pathaka, Lol on your open-minded question :)....I shift thru' a lot of info. as I'm sure a lot of Avalonians do. I take want resonates and leave the rest. But I reckon on the intelligence of the majority of the fellow Avalonian members, to take what they need and what resonates with them as well. Your question kinda has the opposite of resonance energy.... it closes everything down into a tiny little box. But we live on an interesting planet and there's all sorts of wheels within wheels and nuggets of truth or disinfo. that get dropped into things. You are going to miss out on an awful lot by jamming your fingers in your ears, and humming and shutting your eyes and giving everything a label of truth or BS, goodie or baddie etc. etc.

Nobody's asking you to read any of this. There's other stuff on Avalon that looks ernest and genuine and gets loads of likes, that I roll my eyes at, and turns out to be not what it seems at all - but there's all sorts of different versions of reality out there, so chill out and enjoy the ride and let everyone employ their own intuition on it all... :)...

Sabrina

12th August 2014, 05:47

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/10/americas-secret-civil-war/

America’s Secret Civil War - Preston James

Numerous nations are now petitioning that Bush2, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice as well as Netanyahu and numerous other Israeli leaders be charged with War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in the World Court........

Breaking news: Air to ground lasers have been now deployed over Gaza by Israel and used to attack and kill Palestinians at night.(6) Obviously this is a very serious war crime, and as well a crime against humanity. And such deployment of “stolen”, decommissioned US weapons systems opens up a whole new type of warfare which can be deployed against America and Israel or any other nation in the future unless Israel is immediately sanctioned for this laser deployment. It is also essential that Israel be boycotted by all nations and the whole World for these war crimes and crimes against humanity and all foreign Aid from America completely cut off, all of it, every single cent of the billions every year..

full story at link

Sabrina

12th August 2014, 06:01

Would have been amusing to be a fly on the wall at this one...

World’s Richest People Meet, Muse On How To Spread The Wealth

(or how to hang onto it as it all crumbles...)

11 Aug London

By Ari Shapiro, Parallels, May 27, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/m5fupnq

Talk of economic mobility and the wealth gap is hardly new. From the Occupy movement to President Obama’s re-election campaign, income inequality has been in the spotlight for years.

Even so, the “inclusive capitalism” conference in London on Tuesday broke new ground. Not because of the conversation, but because of the people having it.

The 250 people from around the world invited to attend this one-day conference do not represent “the 99 percent,” or even the 1 percent. It’s more like a tiny fraction of the 1 percent.

“We have $30 trillion of assets under management in the room,” says conference organizer Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who runs E.L. Rothschild, a major investment firm she and her husband, of the storied Rothschild banking family, founded in 2003.
That amount — $30 trillion — is roughly one-third of the total investable wealth in the world. If money is power, then this is the most powerful group of people ever to focus on income inequality.

“If this bulk of capital decides that they are going to invest in companies that aren’t only thinking about the short-term profit,” says Rothschild, “then we will see corporate behavior change.”

The titans of commerce and finance didn’t necessarily fly to this meeting in London out of a sense of ethics or moral duty, though that may be a motivation for some. For many, says Rothschild, it’s a sense of self-preservation. Capitalism appears to be under siege.

“It’s true that the business of business is not to solve society’s problems,” she says. “But it is really dangerous for business when business is viewed as one of society’s problems. And that is where we are today.”

Prince Charles kicked off the morning’s proceedings.

“What is so impressive about today’s gathering is that every one of you, ladies and gentlemen, is so well-placed to take the kind of action needed to create a new form of inclusive capitalism,” he told the conference.

Defining Inclusive Capitalism
That phrase, “inclusive capitalism,” is deliberately broad. People talked about it as valuing long-term investment over short-term profits. Some mentioned environmental stewardship; others focused on treating workers well.

Christine Lagarde, who runs the International Monetary Fund, said it is a way to rebuild trust in the financial system. :)

“So the big question is, how can we restore and sustain trust?” she asked in her keynote speech. “First and foremost, by making sure that growth is more inclusive and that the rules of the road favor the many and not just the few.”

She said this will be a hard slog, because there will be winners and losers, “and the likely losers are those who have the biggest voice, because they have the largest means.”

Later in the day, the group heard speeches from former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Bank of England chief Mark Carney.
Critics suggest this may all be optics. The conference delegates didn’t sign on to a specific action plan, or even publicly endorse a set of values.

“I suspect the return on investment in this conference is astonishingly low,” says Scott Winship of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank. “It sort of surprises me that you have a bunch of people in the investment community who view this as having a significant return on investment in some way, whether the return is in people patting them on the back and saying, ‘Thanks for caring about us,’ or in actual changes to policies.”

Conference organizer Rothschild says there will be follow-up with all of the delegates, but she made a conscious decision not to ask for any commitments up front.

“Even for me,” she says laughing, “I thought that would be a little pushy.”

Sabrina

12th August 2014, 06:17

More on the Labour Peer, Lord Janner, and police investigations into his alleged child abuse.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=102246

Police to probe why arrest of Lord Janner over child abuse accusations was ‘blocked’

By wmw_admin on August 11, 2014

Chris Greenwood — Daily Mail August 9, 2014

Police were blocked from arresting a high-profile Labour MP suspected of child abuse more than 20 years ago, it was claimed yesterday.

Greville Janner, now Lord Janner, was interviewed by appointment as part of a major inquiry into attacks on boys at Leicestershire care homes in 1991.

The prominent politician and campaigner, who represented Leicester West, was accompanied by his solicitor and did not face charges.

Detectives had taken legal advice from a senior lawyer on the rare and potentially controversial move of arresting the serving politician.

This would have given them the power to search his home and offices, as well as taking his fingerprints and other evidence.

But sources close to the case told The Times that at the last minute the planned arrest was blocked. It is not known by whom.

Arrangements were made instead for Lord Janner to attend a police station by appointment with his solicitor, Sir David Napley.

Leicestershire Police confirmed yesterday that the decision is being re-examined as part of Operation Enamel, which is looking at allegations against Lord Janner and others.

Investigators have consulted Kelvyn Ashby, the officer who led the original case and has since retired.

Lord Janner, now aged 86, faces more than 20 allegations of historic abuse at children’s homes, including claims of rape and sexual assault.

They suspect he used his hobby as a magician – he is a member of the magic circle – to get close to his victims and gain their trust.

One man said he was seven-years-old when the politician visited his care home and left him ‘scarred for life’ by sexually assaulting him.

But in an unusual move, police have not interviewed Lord Janner under caution or arrested him over the damaging allegations.

This is despite searching his home in Golders Green, North London, and Parliamentary office during the course of their nine month inquiry.

It is believed that the Labour peer’s poor health, he suffers advanced dementia, has prevented officers from speaking to him.

A partial file of evidence has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which is providing the police with ‘investigative advice’.

Yet, some fear Lord Janner’s rapidly failing health could lead to him escaping prosecution. He has strongly denied the allegations against him in the past.

It will ultimately be for the CPS to decide whether there is enough evidence and it is in the public interest to put him on trial.

In 1991, the MP received all-party support when he told the House of Commons that there was ‘not a shred of truth’ in the allegations made against him.

Lord Janner has not registered his attendance at the House of Lords since police raided his £600,000 North London apartment last December.

The investigation into Lord Janner and others is one of dozens of historic abuse inquiries taking place across Britain.

Chief constables are so concerned that they have brought together a nationwide group to oversee cases involving ‘persons of public prominence’.

Lord Janner, who represented Leicester North West and then Leicester West for 27 years, was made a life peer on his retirement from Parliament in 1997.

The father-of-three, whose wife of more than 40 years died in 1996, became a barrister in 1954 and was appointed a QC in 1971.

He is associated with a number of Jewish organisations, having served as president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1978 to 1984.

He chairs the Holocaust Educational Trust and is vice-president of the World Jewish Congress.

The Labour peer is described on his website as ‘a key international figure in efforts to seek compensation and restitution for Holocaust victims.’

A Leicestershire police spokesman said it is ‘investigating several complaints in relation to Operation Enamel — it is an inquiry into allegations of criminal conduct and all appropriate lines of inquiry will be progressed.’

Asked if the decision not to arrest Lord Janner was part of the new investigation, the spokesman said: ‘This is an operational matter, no further details will be disclosed.’

and a reader's comment on TheColemanExperience blog on this story:

The police are unconcerned about threats from Israel to start a bombing campaign in the UK if Greville Janner is charged with over 20 counts of boy-nobbing.

They say the law must be seen to be working and they don’t give a fig about the homosexual agenda. Police spokesman Paul Cason said if he escapes suddenly back to Israel its proof of his guilt.

gripreaper

12th August 2014, 06:43

Reply to this post here ("http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?41059-Massive-Bank-and-High-Profile-Resignations-Across-the-World&p=863653#post863653')

Christine Lagarde, who runs the International Monetary Fund, said:
“So the big question is, how can we restore and sustain trust?” she asked in her keynote speech.

I can answer that for you Christine. Eliminate fiat currencies created out of thin air, with usury and compound interest attached to it, and quit it with the colonial imperialism and abject raping and pillaging of the planet.

For many, says Rothschild, it’s a sense of self-preservation. Capitalism appears to be under siege.

Capitalism gets a bad rap because it is predicated upon the stealing of natural resources and vampiring the energy of the masses, based on environmental degradation and plunder, where all value added flows upstream to the 1% while those who did all the work get nothing.

You bastards who hold 30 trillion in wealth and are worried about the fate of capitalism, ought to be worried. Your alien interlopers who you pay homage to, and your narcissistic, hedonistic, psychopathic pathology is no longer hidden in your secret societies, but is facing the light of day.

The fact that the emperor has no clothes is not a secret anymore.

Sabrina

13th August 2014, 07:36

There's threads on Avalon on Robin Williams' suicide, and there are some raising doubts now, so I'm adding this to the list of banker and showbiz suicide question marks here. Yes, some suicides are sadly just suicides, but this didn't feel right to me looking at the build up of stories after his death (rather like Peaches Geldof or Amy Winehouse).

This is one take on some of it:

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/searc...max-results=50

and this photo caption:

Robin Williams' final instagram showing his daughter. Note the Masonic pattern on his daughter's dress. This Masonic pattern is linked to mind control.

And the wide-spread media coverage has also spread all sorts of energy such as: 'World Less Full Of Laughter' or perhaps a sense of hopelessness that if he can't hack it - who can? etc. as well as distracting from other stories...

Sabrina

13th August 2014, 07:47

Well thank you Mirror newspaper - obviously feeling empowered enough to run this story (or their lawyers) - things are changing....

Top Conservative MP 'revealed secrets of Bloody Sunday to Northern Irish rent boy'

The Northern Ireland lad, now 59, claims the top Tory told him of bombshell top-level decisions that led to the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre

Former Attorney General Sir Michael Havers is today accused of passing on state secrets to a rent boy in the aftermath of a sordid sex party in Westminster.

The Northern Ireland lad, now 59, claims the top Tory told him of bombshell top-level decisions that led to the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre.

He says Havers “squeezed” him as he told him of private discussions that made clear what Prime Minister Ted Heath thought about the Derry shootings in which 14 people died.

The former rent boy , who was then 20, said he listened in awe as Havers began spilling secrets to him just three years after the massacre following one of the debauched parties now at the centre of the Westminster MPs sex scandal.

Now a dad of four living back in Derry, he revealed: “When Sir Michael learned I left Ireland for London in the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday massacre to build a new life he was fascinated.

“And when he found out I was from Derry he was even more intrigued and started to tell me information about what went on that day and passed on details of private conversations.

“Even then, as a young man, I could not believe someone like him would disclose details like that in such an environment. Looking back, his behaviour really was extraordinary.”

The rent boy, who we are calling David, says Havers told him how he held secret conversations with Lord John Widgery, the then Lord Chief Justice of England.

It was Widgery who conducted the original – and now discredited – inquiry into the killings that took place during a protest march against internment.

“Sir Michael said Lord Widgery had told him that the Prime Minister blamed the Army for what happened,” said David.

“He said Heath had been persuaded by commanders on the ground in Derry that soldiers should be ‘sent in hard’ on the day of the march.

“The plan, Sir Michael told me, was to give ‘Derry a bloody nose, not a Bloody Sunday’. Sir Michael said Mr Heath had ‘reluctantly agreed to the plan’ and deeply regretted it.

“Sir Michael then just shrugged and said Lord Widgery had put the matter to bed. He then gave me a squeeze and said: ‘Sorry old boy’.”

Havers was to become a hate figure in the eyes of the IRA. They bombed his house in 1981 in revenge for him prosecuting the Guildford Four
and the Maguire Seven.

Now these new allegations about the Attorney General, who died in 1995, raise fresh questions about his conduct during his time in office.

Havers was also Attorney General at the height of alleged sexual abuse scandal in the 1980s. And he is believed to have tried to stop Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens using parliamentary privilege to name diplomat Sir Peter Hayman as a paedophile.

Havers was accused of a “whitewash” after failing to prosecute Sir Peter, a member of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange.

Havers’ sister Baroness Butler-Sloss was originally selected to head up the new government inquiry into the Westminster abuse claims, but has now stepped down. In a statement she said she “did not sufficiently consider” whether her family links would cause difficulties in the inquiry.

David, now an office worker, disclosed claims about Havers after telling the Sunday Mirror of his alleged ordeal within one Westminster sex ring.

He claimed that he arrived in England 40 years ago only to be blackmailed into sleeping with a number of senior Tories.

He is now planning to submit a statement to the inquiry and has met Labour MP Tom Watson who is campaigning on behalf of victims.

10 Aug

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/top-conservative-mp-revealed-secrets-4030872#ixzz3AFup7CmM
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Sabrina

14th August 2014, 06:53

$16 Trillion Federal Reserve Lie is Nothing Compared to Gold and Silver Market Manipulation

By Christina Sarich, NationofChange, August 11, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/oljm6qk

“Given the clubby manipulation efforts we saw in Libor benchmarks, I assume other benchmarks – many other benchmarks – are legit areas of inquiry.” ~ CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton

The July 2011 audit by the Government Accountability Office of the Federal Reserve exposed one of the biggest lies the US has ever been told – that the Fed had secretly given out $16,000,000,000,000.00 to US banks, corporations and foreign financial institutions everywhere from France to Scotland, but this incredible exposed deceit is nothing compared to what is coming out now about the manipulation of gold and precious metal markets.

The prevarications of cabalistic bankers and their puppeteers are like the teeth of a viperfish. Though the creature looks pretty horrific, they only grow to about 12 inches long, and they like to stay deep in murky waters to avoid detection.

Sure, those prehistoric-looking jaws are scary, but only as long as you stay ill-informed. However, if you were hoping to ride unscathed through the supposed looming Global Currency Reset or Revaluation (GCR), by purchasing gold and silver, think again.

Though the Feds called the secret $16-trillion-dollar bank bailout an ‘all-inclusive loan program’ it was nothing more than a heist. The same as the gold, silver, platinum, and other precious metal market tinkering happening right under our noses, today. These markets are manipulated in order to line the pockets of big financial institutions – who were already bailed out by Cabal money. It’s the continuation of legacy of giving ‘the entitled’ more entitlement.

This manipulation is evidenced in a number of ways. During the nearly 5,000 years in which humanity has been mining/refining gold and silver; the gold/silver price ratio has averaged roughly 15:1. Yet currently (and through all the recent decades of silver manipulation) this ratio has been depressed to 50:1 (or lower).

Christopher Pia, a hedge-fund trader with Moore Capital has just been fined $1 million in a market manipulation of precious metals settlement but his previous fines loomed larger. He paid a $25 million fine to settle separate CFTC claims of attempted manipulation and supervisory violations in April 2010 without admitting or denying the allegations. He is just a small shark in the big ocean, too. If these were just his fines settled out of court, you can imagine the total dollar value of the markets he machinated.

Additionally, China’s Chief Auditor has identified $15.2 billion in loans backed by falsified gold, according to the National Audit Office’s website. It has been estimated that upwards of $80 Billion was advanced in gold backed loans alone, according to Goldman Sachs, as quoted in a Bloomberg article today.

Furthermore, Financial Times removed an article from its site recently that exposed gold market manipulation because it was too ‘sensitive.’ You can see a preserved copy of the article here. The article attests that gold prices were manipulated 50% of the time between 2010 and 2013.
http://news.goldseek.com/GATA/1407252780.php

“The findings come amid a probe by German and UK regulators into alleged manipulation of the gold price, which is set twice a day by Deutsche Bank, HSBC [a New York based corporate bank], Barclays, Bank of Nova Scotia, and Societe Generalein a process known as the London gold fixing.”

Let me back up and give just a little history about the players in the ‘investigation’ of market manipulation. The cabal is divided into smaller groups, but they all work together, until their piece of the pie is threatened. The Four Horsemen of Banking include the Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo who own the Four Horsemen of Oil: Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco; in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.

According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.

Many mainstream publications try to minimize investor worries about gold and silver price-fixing by saying that there is no evidence that gold prices are rigged, but you’d have to be a pretty dull knife to buy that fabrication.
As the Financial Times article clearly outlined in their retracted article:

“Research found the gold price frequently climbs (or falls) once a twice-daily conference call between the five banks begins, peaks (or troughs) almost exactly as the call ends and then experiences a sharp reversal, a pattern it alleged may be evidence of “collusive behaviour”.

“[This] is indicative of panel banks pushing the gold price upwards on the basis of a strategy that was likely predetermined before the start of the call in order to benefit their existing positions or pending orders.
“The behaviour of the gold price is very suspicious in 50 per cent of cases. This is not something you would expect to see if you take into account normal market factors.”

In fact, Britain’s Barclay’s bank was recently slapped with a $44 million dollar fine for gold price fixing ( a mere slap on the hand), and as Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibi has said, “The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There’s no price the big banks can’t fix.”

So whether its interest rate swaping, libor fixing, or the manipulation of gold and silver, its all fair game to the Four Horsemen. So are we to believe these goons, represented by some ‘anonymous party’ when they say that they want to change the process of how they value metals?

“The proposal is for an independent chairman and third-party administrator, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Deutsche Bank AG’s exit from the process this year as it scales back its commodities business left Societe Generale SA, Bank of Nova Scotia, HSBC Holdings Plc and Barclays Plc to set the fixing price twice a day by phone.”

This, as the World Gold Council (WGC) hosted a meeting on July 7 attended by 34 delegates including producers, refiners, central banks and exchanges, and who discussed the gold benchmark. They unanimously want an independent party to administer the rate as well as improve transparency.

Good luck with that, WGC, it’s like asking for the Easter Bunny to prove that Santa Clause exists. As long as the cabal is allowed to continue its machinations, no trading is sacred.

Daozen

14th August 2014, 07:31

Good to see this thread's still going. The fearmongers and hopemongers were both wrong. We seem to be inching forward.

Fulford is getting more and more interesting. As Wilcock pointed out, he's using mainstream news and objective data points instead of backroom sources.

I noticed there's more positivity in general, and it's easier to astral project every week.

Sabrina

14th August 2014, 14:44

Well, well, more of the hidden stuff coming to the surface and the police going for it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28790718

Sir Cliff Richard's Berkshire property searched by police

14 Aug UK

Police have searched a Berkshire property belonging to Sir Cliff Richard in relation to an alleged historical sex offence.

No arrests have been made and Sir Cliff, 73, who is abroad, said the allegation was "completely false".

Police spokesman Det Supt Matt Fenwick said the allegation involved a boy under 16 and dated from the 1980s in the South Yorkshire area.

The search in Sunningdale was carried out by South Yorkshire Police.

The investigation is not connected to Operation Yewtree and police said officers from that operation - set up by the Metropolitan Police to investigate hundreds of allegations in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal - had been notified.

Thames Valley Police said it had assisted the South Yorkshire force with the execution of a search warrant at the property.

Eight plain-clothed police officers in five unmarked cars arrived to conduct the search which ended at about 15:30 BST.

Sir Cliff has an apartment at the Charters Estate in Sunningdale, Berkshire

Allegations denied
Sir Cliff has responded to the police search of his apartment in a statement, which said: "For many months I have been aware of allegations against me of historic impropriety which have been circulating online.

"The allegations are completely false. Up until now I have chosen not to dignify the false allegations with a response, as it would just give them more oxygen.

"However, the police attended my apartment in Berkshire today without notice, except it would appear to the press.

"I am not presently in the UK but it goes without saying that I will cooperate fully should the police wish to speak to me. Beyond stating that today's allegation is completely false it would not be appropriate to say anything further until the police investigation has concluded."

Sir Cliff's representative Phil Hall said the singer would not be conducting interviews at this time.

According to the BBC's Tom Burridge in the Algarve, Portugal, the singer left his home there on Thursday morning and has travelled with his sister to another part of Portugal for a few days.

The singer, born Harry Webb, is one of the most successful British musicians of all time.

He has sold 21.5 million singles - more than any other male British artist - and is the only performer to have had at least one UK top five album in each of the last seven decades.

He has represented the UK in the Eurovision song contest twice and in 2013 released the 100th album of his career.

He was knighted in 1995 and performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace in 2012.

and

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/the-curious-case-of-cliff-richard-tony-blair-and-the-vip-child-abuse-connection/

The curious case of Cliff Richard, Tony Blair and the VIP child-abuse connection

BY THECOLEMANEXPERIENCE AUGUST 10, 2014

story at link

and

http://aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/jimmy-savile-kray-twins-cliff-richards.html

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 06, 2012

JIMMY SAVILE, THE KRAY TWINS, CLIFF RICHARD...

story at link

Daozen

15th August 2014, 06:23

God bless the UK whitehats.

Sabrina

15th August 2014, 06:42

Back to the poodle parlour..

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/iraq-s-al-maliki-steps-down-as-pm-endorses-replacement-1.1959296

Iraq's Al-Maliki steps down as PM, endorses replacement

14 Aug

BAGHDAD -- Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister for the past eight years, relinquished the post to his nominated replacement late Thursday, ending a political deadlock that has plunged the country into uncertainty as it fights a Sunni militant insurgency.

Standing alongside fellow Dawa Party member, Haider-al-Abadi, al-Maliki said he was stepping aside in favour of his "brother," in order to "facilitate the political process and government formation."

Al-Maliki said the decision to back al-Abadi reflected his desire to "safeguard the high interests of the country," adding that he would not be the cause of any bloodshed. "My post is your confidence in me," he declared in a televised address.

Al-Maliki has been struggling for weeks to stay on for a third four-year term as prime minister amid an attempt by opponents to push him out, accusing him of monopolizing power and pursuing a fiercely pro-Shiite agenda that has alienated the Sunni minority.

The pressure intensified this week when his Shiite political alliance backed al-Abadi to replace him, and President Fouad Massoum nominated al-Abadi to form the next government. Al-Maliki for days has refused to step aside, threatening legal action against the president for what he said was a violation of the constitution.
But in a meeting of his party earlier Thursday, al-Maliki agreed to endorse al-Abadi as the next prime minister, two senior lawmakers from his State of Law parliamentary bloc -- Hussein al-Maliki and Khalaf Abdul-Samad -- told the Associated Press.

The lawmakers said al-Maliki also agreed to drop a suit before the constitutional court challenging al-Abadi's nomination.

Al-Maliki had grown increasingly isolated as he was deserted not only by his Shiite allies but also top ally Iran, the United States and the U.N. backed al-Abadi, who has 30-days to put together a Cabinet for parliament's approval.

The U.N. Security Council urged al-Abadi to work swiftly to form "an inclusive government that represents all segments of the Iraqi population and that contributes to finding a viable and sustainable solution to the country's current challenges."

more at the link

Sabrina

15th August 2014, 07:04

More on the Cliff Richard historic sexual abuse investigations... (he befriended BBC's Jill Dando not long before she was shot on her doorstep by a mystery killer and before she was allegedly going to expose a peodophile ring she'd discovered at the BBC).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2724827/Police-search-home-belonging-Cliff-Richard-historic-sex-abuse-investigation.html

15 Aug UK

'I'm totally innocent': Cliff Richard's fury as police raid his £3m home after claims of sex assault on boy at 1980s Christian rally

Police officers seen at Sunningdale, Berkshire property of entertainer, 73

The allegation relates to an underage boy and dated from 1980s, police say

Alleged abuse is claimed to have taken place at a 1985 Sheffield stadium rally by US evangelist preacher Billy Graham

Officers spent around five hours at apartment in luxury gated development

Police say the search was not connected to Operation Yewtree

Singer is believed to be at his holiday home in Portugal's Algarve region

Sir Cliff has released a statement describing allegation as 'completely false'

Star expresses anger that media was given access to the police search

full story and pix at link

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/cliff-richard-victim.html

14 Aug

CLIFF RICHARD - VICTIM?

The US evangelist Billy Graham and Sir Cliff Richard (above) have links to CIA-Mossad-MI5 mind control and child sexual abuse?

Sir Cliff's association with Billy Graham dates back to 1966.

Sir Cliff Richard has been accused of sexually molesting a young boy on the night he appeared with Billy Graham at a football stadium in Sheffield in 1985.

Sir Cliff has also been linked to the boy brothel Elm Guest House.

Billy Graham is linked to the CIA and CIA brainwashing.

"In 1992 ... after Bush Sr. gave his now infamous New World Order Speech, the Rev. Billy Graham said that we should 'embrace' this 'New World Order'.

"In The Deadly Deception, by Jim Shaw, an ex-33rd degree mason, ... Shaw relates how Graham was present at his ceremony initiating him into the 33rd degree. Only freemasons are allowed to attend these ceremonies."

"When Billy Graham's family migrated to Turtle Island, they arrived with the name Frank, being related to Jakob Frank; then they changed to a Scottish name, Graham.

"Billy Graham's daughters lived in Israel and his son fought for Israel in the 6-day war."

(Bilderberg.org :: View topic - MK ULTRA/CIA/Freemasonry..Was It ...)

"Mind-control survivor K. Sullivan has written an astounding book called MK...

"Sullivan says she was abused and raped by ... Billy Graham, among others."

Evangelical Christians have a long association with child abuse, mind control and support for Israel..

Certain security services are always on the lookout for kids to mind-control and turn into sex slaves.

Cliff has been close friends with all the wrong people, from Lord Boothby (pedophile rings) to Tony Blair.

Harry Webb, aka Cliff Richard, was born in India, a top recruiting ground for MI5.

His mother, Dorothy Marie Dazely, came from a military family.

His father, Rodger Webb, used to cane young Harry.

In 1948, Harry and his family moved to London.

Harry's father got a job with Thorn Electrical Industries (EMI) "a key member of Britain's military intelligence establishment."

By the 1950s Harry Webb was renamed Cliff Richard and was trying to become the UK's Elvis Presley.

Harry was involved with the entrepreneur Harry Greatorex, Norrie Paramor, the TV producer Jack Good, and members of the Kosher Nostra.

In 1959, Cliff's group landed an EMI recording contract.

EMI, a key member of Britain's military intelligence establishment, has been linked to mind control.

http://aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/savile-emi-mk-ultra-eric-woolfson.html

more at the link

Sabrina

16th August 2014, 07:10

Part of the shift? At the moment, seems things have to go crazy to the extreme (Gaza etc) to summon the 'wake up' call.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/police-militarization-bill_n_5679707.html

14 Aug US

House Democrat Readies Bill To Demilitarize Local Police

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) announced Thursday that he plans to file legislation aimed at stemming the militarization of local police -- something on full display this week in Ferguson, Missouri, where officers in riot gear have been showering largely peaceful protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets.

In a letter to his Democratic colleagues, Johnson asked for support for his bill, the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act. The measure would rein in a Defense Department program that provides Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, M16 assault rifles and other surplus military equipment to local law enforcement, free of charge.

"Our main streets should be a place for business, families, and relaxation, not tanks and M16s," Johnson says in his letter. "Our local police are quickly beginning to resemble paramilitary forces. This bill will end the free transfers of certain aggressive military equipment to local law enforcement and ensure that all equipment can be accounted for."

Johnson will file his legislation in September. His office said he has been working on it for months but decided to expedite it in light of this week's events in Ferguson. Protests began there Saturday after a police officer killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was walking down the street.

"Before another small town's police force gets a $700,000 gift from the Defense Department that it can't maintain or manage, it behooves us to rein in the Pentagon's 1033 program and revisit the merits of a militarized America," reads his letter to colleagues. "I hope we can work together on this important issue."

The Georgia Democrat isn't the only lawmaker who wants to scale back local police forces' access to military weapons. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said Thursday that it's "time to demilitarize this situation" in Ferguson, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wrote a Thursday op-ed titled, "We Must Demilitarize The Police."

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, joined with two other lawmakers Thursday in calling on chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) to hold a hearing to examine the use of excessive force by local law enforcement.

"In Ferguson, why do local police dress in military-style uniforms and body armor, carry short-barreled 5.56-mm rifles based on the M4 carbine, and patrol neighborhoods in massive armored vehicles?" the lawmakers said in a letter to Goodlatte. "In all likelihood, the decision to adopt a military posture only served to aggravate an already tense situation and to commit the police to a military response."

Sabrina

16th August 2014, 07:20

http://thebricspost.com/brazil-presidential-candidate-dies-in-plane-crash/#.U-8FdFZyzRo

Brazil presidential candidate dies in plane crash

August 13, 2014,

Brazilian officials on Wednesday said presidential candidate and leader of Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) Eduardo Campos has died in a plane crash on Wednesday.

A shocked Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff condoled his death soon after reports surfaced of the 49-year old Campos’ private jet crashing while trying to land amid bad weather in Santos city.

“Oh my God! Independent of political issues, Eduardo Campos was a great father and a great man. A tragedy!” tweeted Rousseff on Wednesday.

Rousseff announced a three-day mourning period and a three-day suspension of her presidential campaign.

Campos was running third in opinion polls ahead of the October presidential polls.

Rousseff is leading in polls with about 36 per cent of voter support while Campos had 10 per cent of voter support.

Campos had said in a 2013 interview to the UK-based Economist that he shared the feelings of Brazilians that fueled the summer of protests, where more than a million people across the country came on the streets to demand better public services.

“If I weren’t governor I would have taken to the streets too. But this year or next people will continue, on the internet, when casting votes, during political campaigns, to express this feeling of wanting more. I share it. The Brazilian street is teaching us a lesson: the dream has not ended,” he said.

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God bless the UK whitehats.

And all the others across the world :)

Daozen

16th August 2014, 07:24

Sabrina

17th August 2014, 07:34

Sure, all of them. Everyone's helping. I just noticed that the UK media and police were the first to openly revolt against the networks inside government. They must be very brave, I hope they stay safe.

Yes I think there's been a power shift in the Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS) and some of the police child abuse investigations have been done secretly - no doubt because of the intimidation they are getting themselves from tptb. Former Labour Cabinet Minister Barbara Castle submitted a file of alleged child abuse by people in high places to the police years ago and Special Branch came and took it. Think the policeman originally in charge of the various strands of child abuse investigations was taken off the job himself some time ago - must have been too good at it. But they seem to have a new confidence to fight it all. Some said PR Max Clifford would have been untouchable, considering what he must know. But it's the political scalps that will be interesting - and are presumably intimidating the most. And what's happened to the results of the BBC abuse enquiry, which should have been published months ago. That would lead to an avalanche of compensation claims for those abused. And would we want to pay our licence fees any more?...

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“Just to give you a heads up, wave-riders, we are about to hit a ‘tidal bore’. Get ready to ride!” – Cliff High

http://www.shiftfrequency.com/clif-high-simultaneous-tides-and-shockwave-riders/

About bloody time :)...

Sabrina

17th August 2014, 08:38

http://itccs.org/2014/08/16/child-sacrificial-cult-disrupted-arrests-made-in-montreal/

16 Aug via ITTCS - International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State

Canada

Child Sacrificial Cult Disrupted, Arrests made in Montreal

Posted on August 16, 2014

Public Announcement of the Central Command of the Direct Action Units established by the International Common Law Court of Justice

Global Communique No. 2: August 16, 2014 – Brussels

Striking in the early hours of Friday, August 15, one of our trained Direct Action Units (DAU) in Montreal, Canada successfully disrupted the preparations for a child sacrificial cult ritual at a private residence in the fashionable Outremont district.

In the course of the action and under the authority of warrants issued by the Court, the DAU arrested two cult members who are being held in protective custody prior to their questioning and possible indictment before the Court.

The DAU Commander who headed the action has issued the following report to our Central Office:

“At 0700 hours EST yesterday, 15 August, our Alpha team moved into action against the private residence in Outremont, Quebec that has been under surveillance by us since 4 August. We met no opposition or resistance from the single armed security guard at the said residence, who was immediately detained along with a male cult employee engaged in preparations for the upcoming midnight ritual.

“Under questioning, the private security guard identified the location of the ritual as within a small sub-basement chamber that was reconnoitered and filmed by our team. The chamber included two small prison cells with wall shackles, and a central sound proof chamber containing a stone altar awash with apparent blood stains that were sampled and bagged for analysis. An adjoining room held locked cabinets containing considerable child pornographic material, articles of children’s clothing that was bagged for analysis, metallic torture devices, ceremonial swords, and sophisticated film equipment.

“The male cult employee in our custody refused to answer any of our questions, but in the course of our action a second cult member arrived at the residence and was detained. This member, an older woman, was very unnerved by our presence and combat attire. She therefore admitted to the upcoming ritual that evening and identified three of its participants: a ‘local catholic bishop’ whom she refused to name, a Cargill corporation executive named Kerry Brick, and an American named Stephen Holding from Sun Valley, Idaho, apparently with Sinclair Oil, Ltd.

“This informant also claimed that the two children to be used at the midnight ritual were being held at a separate facility at McGill University, but she claimed not to know where. She said that the normal procedure was to deliver them in a drugged condition just before the ritual began, for security reasons. Finally, she confirmed that the cult members describe themselves as part of the Ninth Circle society and claim they all carry tattoos with a cult insignia of the said Ninth Circle.

“Our team restrained all three prisoners and locked down the premises, while taking more videos and samples from the underground chamber. We then secured a covert perimeter in the neighbourhood in anticipation of the arrival of the cult participants and their victims. Unfortunately, although we maintained our vigil until well after midnight, no-one else arrived at the premises for the rest of that day and evening. We must assume that the participants were somehow alerted to our presence and aborted the ritual.

“The security guard in our custody was released by us after he proved that he had been retained in a private commercial capacity. The two cult members are being held in our DAU prison facility in Montreal prior to their questioning by the Court Prosecutor and his Canadian affiliates. All samples and film we obtained are in transit to Brussels headquarters for analysis.

”We are maintaining our covert surveillance on these cult premises in Outremont until further orders are received from Central Command.

DAU Alpha Team Commander, Montreal 16/08/2014”

Supplementary Report of the Action at Pro Cathedral, Ireland by DAU Beta Team:

Our DAU Beta Team in Dublin, Ireland encountered no ritualistic activity at the Cathedral at the time and date reported by our two Diocese informants. The latter claim that the ritual was either cancelled or moved to another location, but could not confirm anything more. However, the identity of a Ninth Circle adherent in Dublin was shared by one of the Diocese informants: a priest named Damien O’Reilly who is an assistant to the acting head of the catholic church in Ireland, Dublin Archbishop Dermot Martin.

DAU Beta Team is continuing its surveillance procedures at the Pro Cathedral and other reported cult centres in Ireland, and is assisting the Common Law Court being established in Galway to investigate the apparent ritual slaying of babies at the catholic facility in Tuam.

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The Court is proceeding to authorize further follow up actions by our DAU’s at other child sacrificial centres in Rome, Canada, the United States, Ireland, England, Belgium and Holland. Updates are forthcoming.

CC-DAU Communique No. 2

Issued 16/08/2014

Brussels

DAU Central Command Office

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and

http://itccs.org/2014/08/08/statement-of-the-central-command-of-the-direct-action-units-established-by-the-international-common-law-court-of-justice-june-1-2014/

Regarding the interdiction of child trafficking and sacrificial rituals by our Command

Communique No. 1 – August 8, 2014, Brussels

Since mid July, our Central Command has operated high grade surveillance and intelligence operations against two child torture networks associated with the catholic Ninth Circle cult, based in Dublin, Ireland and Montreal, Canada.

Since July 10, informants have provided the names of participants in the rituals which were originally scheduled for August 15. The same ritual tortures and killings also occur systematically each month at the new moon at these and other locations, including forest groves near Brussels and Zwolle, Holland. The informants also confirmed the location of the August 15 killings to be at Pro Cathedral in Dublin and Marie Reine du Monde Cathedral in Montreal, within sub-basement crypts in both churches.

The same informants have also confirmed that the children and adolescents used in these rituals are provided through catholic orphanages in the two respective cities and through the Ndrangheta criminal syndicate that works closely with the police and Vatican agents in Canada and Ireland.

Our Command has trained and mobilized two six man Units to intervene and stop these scheduled cult sacrifices on August 15. The Units are trained, armed professionals.

On August 2, a highly placed informant notified our Command that the Montreal cult gathering has been relocated to an underground experimental facility on the grounds of McGill University. This relocation was prompted by the presence of “some very prominent men” at the upcoming August 15 ritual “including (George) Soros, local catholic archbishop Christian Lepine and corporate officials of the Cargill corporation”.

There has been no evidence that the Dublin cult gathering has been moved from its Pro Cathedral venue under the sponsorship of Archbishop Dermot Martin.

Our Command is continuing with its operations at all of these suspected locations on and before August 15, to stop these child sacrificial rituals and detain all of the participants for public trial, employing whatever force is required.

Untrained supporters of our actions are advised for their own safety not to intervene in our operations but to hold public information vigils outside both of these cathedrals during the day and evening of August 15, and to contact itccscentral@gmail.com for specific instructions.

Issued 8 August 2014
Brussels

CC-DAU Communique No. 1
itccscentral@gmail.com

Sabrina

19th August 2014, 06:25

British Arms Sales to Israel Face High Court Challenge

By Jamie Doward, The Observer, August 17, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/n6hdk7k

The British government faces being dragged into the high court over the sale of military hardware to Israel in an unprecedented legal move that puts the UK’s controversial export policy on a potential collision course with the EU.

Law firm Leigh Day, representing the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), has written to the business secretary, Vince Cable, claiming that the failure by the British government to suspend existing licences for the export of military components to Israel is unlawful as there is a risk that they may have been used in Gaza.

It says that it has been instructed to seek a judicial review of the government’s reluctance to suspend licences unless it agrees to stop the export of the components.

The move puts the UK’s multimillion-pound military export programme in the spotlight when Israel’s actions in Gaza have caused international concern and there is mounting disquiet about the role foreign states are playing in facilitating the conflict, which is now the subject of an uneasy ceasefire.

The government has come under sustained pressure to justify its continued sale of military equipment since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge on 8 July. To date, more than 1,900 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed, according to Palestinian and UN officials. On the Israeli side, 67 have died, all but three of them soldiers.

Following a review initiated by the prime minister this month, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announced it would suspend 12 export licences for arms and other military equipment to Israel only if the current ceasefire was broken.

However, in its letter to Cable, shared with the Observer, Leigh Day says the definition of what constitutes a “broken” ceasefire leading to a resumption of hostilities is not defined or explained. It says the campaign group is concerned that arms manufactured in Britain may have been – and could continue to be – used in Gaza in breach of international humanitarian and human rights law.

The law firm cites the air strike on a UN school in Rafah as an example of such a breach. The attack, reportedly by Israeli troops, resulted in the deaths of 10 civilians and was described by the UN as a “gross violation of international humanitarian law” and a “moral outrage and a criminal act”.

“If arms from the UK are being used to commit crimes against humanitarian law, and human rights law, then export licences for these materials must be revoked immediately,” said Rosa Curling of the human rights team at Leigh Day, who is representing the campaign group.

“If this is not done, the government’s current policy is unlawful and susceptible to legal challenge. We have asked the government to clarify the review of the arms export licences and requested details of all current licences to understand what is being sent so we can get a better picture of whether any of the arms supplied by the UK have been or may be used in criminal acts.”

Export licence applications to Israel are considered case by case and checked against EU criteria which stipulate that the government must consider their impact on regional peace, security and stability, as well as the human rights record of the recipient. Campaigners believe the UK’s decision to continue to allow exports of military equipment to Israel runs counter to these criteria.

“After the slaughter of recent weeks, it beggars belief that the UK government is continuing to allow the export of components which it admits could be part of equipment used by the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza,” said Ann Feltham, parliamentary co-ordinator at the CAAT. “Such equipment containing UK components has been used in Israeli attacks in the past and the licences should never have been granted in the first place.”

Any suspension of exports would have an impact on UK military hardware manufacturers. The CAAT claims that since 2010 the UK has licensed £42m of military equipment to Israel, including that used in targeting systems and drone components. UK companies also provide components that go into US-built equipment destined for Israel.
The legal challenge launched by Leigh Day, the firm that secured £20m in compensation from the government on behalf of victims of torture during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s, is highly unusual but not without precedent. In 2004 the high court refused permission for a judicial review into the government’s continued sale of military equipment – including Scorpion tanks, Saracen armoured personnel carriers and Hawk aircraft – to Indonesia.

and

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/rt-8-18-14-jews-and-arabs-refuse-to-be-enemies-thousands-call-for-peace-at-tel-aviv-rally/

RT 8-18-14… “‘Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies’: Thousands call for peace at Tel Aviv rally”

Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square over the weekend to encourage an end to hostilities through peace negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian unity government.

The protest’s organizers said that the turnout Saturday night was as high as 10,000 people, while Israeli media said that just “thousands” were involved in the protest, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Participants rallied under the slogan: “Changing direction: toward peace, away from war.”

Several protesters were chanting, “Bibi go home,” according to JPost.

The left-wing Meretz party’s leader, member of the Knesset Zehava Gal-On, called for the resignation of Netanyahu, saying he had failed to ensure peace in the south despite having the capacity and authority to act over the course of the past five years.

Israeli author David Grossman speaks as thousands of Israelis protest during a left-wing peace rally in the coastal city of Tel Aviv calling for the Israeli government to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority on August 16, 2014. (AFP Photo / Gali Tibbon)

“You could have achieved the framework you are willing to accept now without paying the price of 64 dead soldiers and the deaths of civilians,” she told the crowd.

Other protesters marched under signs stating, “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies,” and “When there is no peace, war comes,” according to the JPost. In addition to Meretz, Hadash, Peace Now and other left-wing organizations participated in the rally.

more at link

Sabrina

19th August 2014, 06:43

Shadowy figures at the intimidation again re: child abuse cases. Some of main stream media framing it to put seeds of doubt into the public's mind re: national treasure Cliff Richard (they seem to forget Rolf Harris and Max Clifford falling from grace). Other national treasure Sir Michael Parkinson being wheeled out to come to Cliff's defence. I'm not sure BBC luvie Parkinson is really the man to do this - puts me in mind of the questionable Cilla Black coming to the defence of some of the other abusers. Hope their skeletons are secure in their cupboards...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/cliff-richard-officers-may-be-disciplined-over-alleged-witchhunt-9674983.html

Cliff Richard officers may be disciplined over alleged 'witch-hunt'

Police officers have been warned they could face disciplinary action over their dealings with the BBC before the highly public five-hour search of Sir Cliff Richard’s home following an allegation of historic child abuse.

The corporation came under fire from politicians, senior police and one of its former journalists, Sir Michael Parkinson, after it broke the story of the probe into the 73-year-old singer, who was reportedly preparing to return from holiday in Portugal to face police questioning over the affair.

more at link

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/cliff-richard-malta-peter-righton.html

18 Aug

CLIFF RICHARD; MALTA; PETER RIGHTON...

The Cliff Richard police officers, who searched his home, may be disciplined over an alleged 'witch hunt'.

A pedophile ring for top British people operated on the island of Gozo (Malta).

Evidence of 'organised abuse' and 'trade' of young boys in Gozo resurfaces

According to a leaked 1993 report, by the Hereford and Worcester Social Services Department:

An elite pedophile ring was involved in "the organised abuse of young boys" and the "trade" in young boys on Malta and Gozo.

The "elite paedophile ring" included over 20 prominent members of the British parliament, the judiciary and religious figures.

more at link

and

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/cliff-richard-is-taking-the-piss/

18 Aug

Cliff Richard is taking the piss

Raisin-in-a-wig, Cliff Richard, has apparently been the victim of a media ‘witch-hunt’, following the police raid on his Berkshire apartment by officers investigating historic child-abuse allegations.

Cliff’s predicament has even managed to bring comatose chat-show host Michael Parkinson back to life.

Parkinson, who was last seen on TV flogging bespoke coffins, has joined condemnation of the raid and even went as far as to accuse the BBC of ” behaving like a tabloid “.

Oooh, get you Parky.

Of course, none of us should be too quick to judge Cliff either.

It may well be that all the rumours about him are indeed false.

Maybe he didn’t visit sordid boy-brothel Elm Guest House after all.

Maybe he hasn’t had an affair with bisexual scum, Tony Blair.

Maybe he isn’t implicated in the death of his close pal Jill Dando.

Maybe he didn’t buy himself a new Barbadian identity to avoid justice.

Maybe he hasn’t hoodwinked us all, Jimmy Savile-style, for the past 5 decades.

You see, Cliff might really be the wholesome, celibate Christian singer he’s led us all to believe he is.

Sadly though, he isn’t.

The whole of the UK media know who Cliff really is and so does the music industry.

Its about bloody time the public found out the truth as well.

Oh, and by the way.

Some people have asked what vile hobby Cliff shares with Melvyn Bragg.

Well, the truth of the matter is this:

They both like lads to urinate in their mouths.

How sickening.

But it goes to show one thing.

Cliff Richard really has been taking the piss all these years.

pix at link

and

http://theduckshoot.com/does-this-video-contain-cliff-richard-is-a-paedophile/

Does This Video Prove Cliff Richard is a Paedophile?

The Questions this video raises:
Cliff Richard was a friend of Lord Boothby and Ronnie Kray. He wrote to Ronnie Kray regularly in prison. What was the relationship between these men?
He was a friend of Tony Blair (aka Anthony Charles Lynton Blair aka Miranda). What was his reationship with Blair?
What WERE the details of the photographs found at a London train station in 1970?
He is on the National Association for Young People in Care’s (NAYPIC) Elm Guest House list. Who IS “Gladys”?
Was he arrested in 1983 by Sutton police for interfering with children?
Did MI5 then tell Sutton police to drop it?
The ex-policeman who tells the story of a cross-dressing “Harriet Webb” who turned up at a hospital screaming and wearing blood stained women’s underwear. Was this Harry Webb aka Cliff Richard?
What’s his friendship with Melvyn Bragg all about?
He was good friends with TV presenter Jill Dando, but why was he questioned so many times about her murder?
Was she investigating an elite paedophile ring?
Why has he given up UK citizenship and become a fully-fledged citizen of Barbados?

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Sabrina

19th August 2014, 18:51

http://quietmike.org/2014/07/25/bush-administration-lawsuit-hearing/

Bush Administration Lawsuit Hearing Scheduled for Sept. 11th

If all goes well, the announcement of a start date to the Bush Administration trial could be just six weeks away.

Last summer, Inder Comar, Esq. filed a lawsuit against the Bush Administration on behalf of Iraqi refugee plaintiff Sundus Shaker Saleh. It is a noble attempt to hold the Bush Administration accountable for war crimes and a case that Quiet Mike has been following from the beginning.

Earlier this year, the Department of Justice, who is defending the six Bush Administration officials, responded to the lawsuit by requesting that the case be dismissed. The Bush tribe is claiming that the planning of the war occurred within the scope of their employment and therefore they have immunity.

Rather than dismissing the case, the Judge asked for additional information. So Mr. Comar filed a 2nd amended complaint back in June. The amended complaint provides more details about the planning of the Iraq war and when it started.

Comar’s evidence, shows the Bush/Cheney team started planning the invasion of Iraq as far back as 1997. The amended complaint also explains that the war was motivated by personal enrichment and the war was a “crime of aggression.”

Earlier this week. Inder Comar got his chance in court to respond to the motion to dismiss and explain the 2nd amended complaint further. He essentially made two points to the court.

The first argument he made was something called judicial estoppel. It prevents a party from taking a position in a case which is contrary to a position they have taken in earlier legal proceedings. In this case, Comar used the Nuremburg Trials as an example.

The Nuremburg Trials, which the United States views as legitimate, held Nazi leaders accountable for their acts of aggression. Comar held that judicial estoppel dictates the Bush Administration and DOJ can’t argue that leaders aren’t accountable for acts of aggression because it runs contrary to the US’s position at Nuremburg.

The second point that was made referred to the Augusto Pinochet trial. In 1999, British Lawyers determined that Pinochet did not have immunity for certain acts he committed while in office such as torture and other violations of international law. These Brits held that Pinochet was not immune because Chile had signed the convention against torture.

In light of the treaties and charters that the United States has signed, Comar stated that the defence can’t now claim that acts of aggression are above a leader’s authority. In this case, the Bush Administration.

What does all this mean? On August 15th, the United States will have the opportunity to respond to the second amended complaint. In the meantime, a hearing is scheduled for September 11th, of all dates. If the hearing goes ahead as scheduled, and if all else goes well, the announcement of a start date in the trial to hold the Bush Administration accountable could be just six weeks away.

25 July

If you are hearing about this case for the first time, you can follow its progress on Witness Iraq. http://witnessiraq.com

You can also read up with our past articles. Please spread the word, too few people are even aware of Mr. Comar’s efforts. This case deserves all our support.

A Saleh v. Bush Lawsuit Update May 29 2014
http://quietmike.org/2014/05/29/saleh-v-bush-lawsuit-update/

Inder Comar: The Man Behind the Bush Administration Lawsuit August 15th 2013
http://quietmike.org/2013/08/15/the-man-behind-the-bush-administration-lawsuit/

The Bush Administration on Trial June 16 2013
http://quietmike.org/2013/06/16/the-bush-administration-on-trial/

Sabrina

20th August 2014, 05:41

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/19/rick-perry-texas-indictment-courthouse/14294855/

How those politicos like to frame things:)...

20 Aug

Texas Gov. Perry turns himself in on felony charges

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history, turned himself in amid the cheers of supporters at the Travis County Courthouse on Tuesday to face two felony counts of abuse of power.

He was not a contrite defendant.

"I believe in the rule of law," he told the crowd. "We will prevail."

Perry, a Republican who is considering a run for president in 2016, has vehemently denounced the charges in televised press conferences and through his legal team since being indicted on Friday.

"Like a true Texan, he's being pushed and he's pushing back," said Mark P. Jones, political scientist at Rice University. "He's making a conscious decision not just to fight this head-on but to utilize the national attention for political gain."

It's the first time in nearly 100 years that a Texas governor has been indicted. The last one was Democrat James Ferguson, who was convicted and removed from office for vetoing funding for the University of Texas after objecting to some faculty members.

Perry's indictment stems from the drunken-driving arrest last year of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who was captured on video berating officers following her arrest. She served jail time, underwent counseling and returned to her post.

When she refused Perry's call to resign, the Republican governor vetoed $7.5 million in state funding for the public integrity unit overseen by Lehmberg, a Democrat. A grand jury found sufficient evidence to put Perry on trial on charges that his veto overstepped his legal authority.

The two felony charges carry prison sentences of up to more than 100 years, if convicted.

Perry and his legal team say the charges are politically motivated. They say he legally used his veto to withhold funds from someone unfit for office. Democratic leaders in Texas have called for his resignation, but people around the country have backed him.

Perry appeared at the courthouse Tuesday dressed in a dark blue suit, powder blue tie and signature dark-rimmed glasses. Supporters in the crowd, who seemed to outnumber his detractors, greeted him with thunderous applause and chants of "Perry! Perry!" as he stepped forward to make a short statement before going inside to be booked. Backers held signs such as "Keep Calm & Veto On" and "Free Perry," turning the legal procedure into an impromptu pro-Perry rally.

Whereas in previous statements Perry pointed to Lehmberg's actions as justification for his veto, on Tuesday the governor sought to turn the issue into a constitutional fight over government's rights.

"This indictment is nothing short of a an attack on the constitutional powers of the office of governor," he said to loud cheers. "There are important fundamental issues at stake, and I will not allow this attack on our system of government to stand."

Will Hailer, executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, said Perry overstepped his powers by pushing Lehmberg to resign. His group has called for Perry to step down.

"It's about coercing a public official and abuse of his power," he said. "That's what this is really about."

But Hailer was outnumbered at the rally, which was overrun by Perry supporters. Amanda Shell, 26, held up a sign that had a picture of the Texas flag next to a heart and "Perry."

"There's a lot of Texans supportive of Perry's decision," she said. "We feel he did the right thing."

Perry, who has been governor for 14 years, has worked hard to resurrect his national image after an embarrassing end to his 2012 presidential run, when he momentarily lost his train of thought during a televised debate in the Republican primaries.

How the national scrutiny of this latest legal wrangling affects his 2016 chances remains to be seen. The indictment may actually endear him to Republican voters, who could view the charges against him as political, said Ross Ramsey, executive editor of the Texas Tribune, an online politics and public policy news site.

"Perry's completely killing them in the public fight," he said. "His story is the story being told right now."

Sabrina

20th August 2014, 06:47

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28793654

UK

Paedophile Peter Righton advised Home Office on policy

By Tom Bateman
BBC Radio 4 Today reporter

A paedophile at the centre of a forthcoming historical abuse inquiry advised the Home Office on changes to the residential child care system.

Peter Righton gave "considerable assistance" as an expert in child care to a government report in 1970.

He had earlier left a teaching job over complaints of child abuse. He later became a member of a pro-paedophile campaign group. Righton died in 2007.

The Home Office said it was "absolutely committed" to stamping out child abuse.

In July, Home Secretary Theresa May announced an overarching inquiry into how public institutions had handled historical claims of child sexual abuse.

This followed a campaign by MPs whose concerns included evidence of a wide paedophile network in documents seized from Righton's home in 1992 after his arrest over child abuse images.

'Dangerous man'
The report to which Righton contributed led to major reforms of 1970s children's homes.

It was authored by a Home Office advisory committee and set out how hundreds of new homes should be brought under local authority control.

So-called community homes replaced approved schools - residential centres for "delinquent" youngsters - and involved the employment of hundreds of social care staff.

The report credited Righton, who at the time was an academic specialising in social work, for "considerable" help in a chapter on the training of residential workers.

A former care professional familiar with the events has told the BBC that Righton travelled extensively carrying out research work during the period he contributed to the project and had been to children's homes "all over the country" including Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Rochdale and Preston.

"He [used to] go and interview, in approved schools, individual boys and he certainly went to speak to the heads of homes," the former care worker said.

The retired worker - who asked not to be identified - said that Righton "networked" at children's homes, adding: "He was a very dangerous man because he was put in a position where he could abuse trust."

Righton visited the Bryn Estyn approved school in Wrexham where he met staff and children, according to the care worker's account.

The former worker said that Righton had claimed that he "took boys out" and had also said he used "sexual" language with them.

The source added that the words Righton had exchanged with the boys were "not something that you would have in a healthy conversation with a child".

Bryn Estyn was later at the centre of an abuse scandal in which 140 former residents made allegations that they were abused between 1974 and 1984.

An official report described "appalling" abuse at the home and former housemaster Peter Howarth was jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing boys as young as 12. He died in prison.

The Waterhouse report into abuse at north Wales homes described how local councils were "in a state of turmoil" in the early 1970s owing to the new responsibilities imposed on them by the legislative changes of the time.

Howarth had earlier taught at the same special school in Kent where Peter Righton had faced complaints of child abuse.

Classics cult
By the mid-1970s, Righton had become a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which advocated sexual relationships between adults and children.

At the same time he became increasingly influential in the field of residential child care, according to Ian Pace, a lecturer at City University who has researched historical abuse at music schools and the influence of PIE.

He said Righton, who studied classics at Oxford University, was "deeply involved with the cult of the classical world that was very important to... the paedophile movement", focusing on stories of "Greek love" between men and young boys.

Mr Pace said "some of Righton's interests" were reflected in the Home Office advisory report.

The section of the report which credited Righton called for residential child care workers to be trained in "the growth of civilisation" and "aesthetic values".

The Home Office declined to comment on the revelations about Peter Righton.

A spokesman referred the BBC to the home secretary's comments to the House of Commons in July when she said the government would address two concerns: "First, that in the 1980s the Home Office failed to act on allegations of child sex abuse.

"Secondly, that public bodies and other important institutions have failed to take seriously their duty of care towards children.

"As I informed the House on 7 July, the whole government take the allegations very seriously. That is why I announced two inquiries last week."

In 1992 Peter Righton was fined £900 for possessing images of child abuse and was cautioned over an earlier assault.

18 Aug

Sabrina

20th August 2014, 06:55

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=50

19 Aug

CLIFF RICHARD; BARBADOS; ISRAEL; FLORIDA

Cliff Richard, who is said to be worth $75 Million, has a villa on Barbados.

Among the people who enjoy staying on Barbados are Simon Cowell, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Elton John.

Jeffrey Epstein has his own private Caribbean island, Little St James.

Ian Fleming used to bring his gay friends to Jamaica.

A UNICEF study warns of pedophile rings operating in Barbados.

http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/business/04/03/unicef-study-links-child-sex-abuse-‘business’-in-some-caribbean-territories-to-tourism/

Cliff Richard loves Israel.

The daughter of Cliff's close friend Billy Graham is going to Israel "next week as a part of the Christians in Solidarity with Israel trip."

American Evangelical Christian Leaders Plan Solidarity Trip to Israel

http://forward.com/articles/204021/american-evangelical-christian-leaders-plan-solida/

Cliff Richard has been spotted in Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, in Florida

How safe is Florida?

In Florida, at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, children were sexually abused, tortured and murdered.

Young boys were reportedly raped at the Green Isle Boys Ranch which operated in Clermont Florida.

Green Isle Boys Ranch was run by a large organisation called Bridges of America.

http://cullen-hemphill.com/sexual-abuse-allegations-lead-to-shut-down-of-green-isle-ranch/

more at link

and

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/cilla-black-defends-cliff-richard-7637078

Cilla Black says allegations against close friend Sir Cliff Richard are "without foundation"

(she would say that wouldn't she :)...)

Sabrina

20th August 2014, 21:13

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/was-peter-mandelson-and-the-labour-front-bench-aware-of-allegations-against-sir-peter-morrison/

19 Aug UK

Were Peter Mandelson And The Labour Front Bench Aware Of Allegations Against Sir Peter Morrison ?

A letter sent by Tom Watson’s original PMQ source, Peter McKelvie, to Lord Mandelson alleges that the Labour front bench were made aware of allegations of child rape against Sir Peter Morrison around 1993/1994. It is unclear, at this stage, whether anyone from the Labour Party reported these allegations to the police but it appears that the Conservative Party front bench were notified.

The allegations appear to be supported by two further corroborative sources.

The letter, published in full below, was sent two weeks ago and no reply has yet been received. A reminder has been sent.

Dear Lord Mandelson (name redacted in linked to article)

I am a retired Child Protection professional and the person who contacted Tom Watson, MP, in September 2012, as a result of which he asked a PMQ on 24th October 2012 regarding a paedophile ring with links to No.10, a question which led to the Metropolitan Police setting up Operation Fairbank/Fernbridge, which I ‘m sure you will be aware is both ongoing and rapidly expanding following significant witnesses at long last coming forward to tell the truth about the alleged appalling collusion of senior politicians of all the main political parties in the alleged abuse carried out by their colleagues.

I was sickened to the stomache when I first heard Edward Heath’s Chief Whip, the late Tim Fortescue’s account on Michael Cockerell’s 1995 BBC documentary of how Whips covered up criminal activity by MP’s towards young children and I don’t need to tell you the revulsion I felt towards our political masters having worked with sexually abused children over a 30 year period when I heard of how the Whips ran the Dirt Book system.

I was very pleased to see the BBC Newsnight team show the Tim Fortescue interview again on 7th July this year because survivors of abuse now have more strength, belief and courage than politicians are going to be braced for. Time is on their side and this time they will not go away until they get the answers they deserve.

I wrote to David Cameron on 16th September 2013 asking him to set up an independent body to examine the allegations of abuse by elite groups within the Establishment and said ” It would be better if you led such an exercise before it is forced upon you by public demand. THE LATTER WILL HAPPEN IN TIME “

Not only did people power win the day on the demand for an independent inquiry but it further demonstrated to politicians that survivors and their supporters would not accept token gestures such as the appointment of puppet figures to lead such an Inquiry.

My reason for writing to you is very specific.

You will be aware how the evidence against Peter Morrison has become much more specific in recent months culminating in a statement by Barry Strevens, Mrs. Thatcher’s personal bodyguard that he warned her that Morrison was ” involved in sex parties with under-age boys “

Graham Nicholls, who ran the Chester Trades Council when Morrison was Chester’s MP, wrote the following :-

” After the 1987 General Election, around 1990, I attended a meeting of Chester Labour Party where we were informed by the agent, Christine Russell, that Peter Morrison would not be standing in 1992. He had been caught in the toilets at Crewe Station with a 15 year boy. A deal was struck between Labour, the local Tories, the local press and the Police that if he stood down at the next election the matter would go no further. Morrison walked away scot – free. “

An Independent Inquiry will need to examine this alleged scenario in forensic detail.

For the last 2 years I have been working closely with a very trusted, committed and dedicated team of retired police officers, investigative journalists and child protection managers and we will do everything in our power to assist and support survivors to get the answers as to who colluded over the horrific abuse they suffered at the hands of powerful individuals.

Survivors have shown enough faith in some of our group to disclose historical abuse that they have felt too frightened to talk about for decades.

It is through my work with this group that I have now received from 3 seperate sources an account of an alleged role that you personally played in the cover up over Peter Morrison’s rape of children and young people which he allegedly carried out in the full knowledge of senior politicians of all main parties.

This is the gist of the allegations :-

” A British Aerospace Trade Union Convenor said a member said he was raped by Peter Morrison as a child – the Convenor went to the National HQ of the union who put it to Labour front bench. Peter Mandelson (name redacted in original) was saying that the Tory Front Bench had been approached. “

This I’m sure you will agree is very specific.

A second and third source confirms these allegations and it is alleged that these conversations first took place at a 1993/4 Xmas party hosted by the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Party.

I would like to give you the opportunity to address these allegations as they implicate you in a very serious cover up of the rape of a child.

Obviously I have no way of knowing whether the statements of other people are true but I will certainly present the allegations to the Independent Inquiry and demand that everyone involved is interviewed on oath.

Yours sincerely

Peter McKelvie

Sabrina

23rd August 2014, 14:31

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/aug/23/goldman-sachs-settlement-fannie-mae-freddie-mac

23 Aug US

Goldman Sachs agrees to $1.2bn settlement over mortgage bonds

Regulator Federal Housing Finance Agency finds bank sold faulty bonds to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Goldman Sachs has agreed to a settlement worth $1.2bn (£723m) to resolve a US regulator's claims the bank sold Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac faulty mortgage bonds, the regulator announced on Friday.

Under the settlement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the conservator for the two government-controlled mortgage finance companies, Goldman Sachs said it agreed to pay $3.15bn (£1.9bn) to repurchase mortgage-backed securities from Fannie and Freddie.

The FHFA, which valued the settlement at $1.2bn, said the accord "effectively makes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac whole on their investments in the securities at issue."

The $1.2bn reflects the amount that Goldman will pay, minus the estimated current value of the securities being bought back from Fannie and Freddie.

The deal averts a trial on 29 September in a pair of lawsuits against Goldman that the FHFA filed in 2011 as it sought to recover damages from various financial institutions behind some $200bn (£120.6bn) in mortgage bonds bought by Fannie and Freddie that later went sour.

To date, the FHFA has resolved all but three of the 18 lawsuits it filed, recovering $17.3bn (£10.4bn) through cases against banks including Bank of America Corp, Deutsche Bank AG and Morgan Stanley.

The FHFA's primary case against Goldman Sachs accused the bank of misleading the two mortgage finance giants in the sale of over $11.1bn (£6.7bn) in mortgage-backed securities sold to Fannie and Freddie from 2005 to 2007.

Goldman Sachs denied the allegations, and in the settlement did not admit wrongdoing. Under the settlement, Goldman Sachs will pay about $1bn (£603m) to Fannie Mae and $2.15bn (£1.3bn) to Freddie Mac, the FHFA said.

Goldman Sachs in a statement said the costs of the deal were substantially covered by its litigation reserves as of the second quarter of this year.

"We are pleased to have resolved these matters," Gregory Palm, Goldman's general counsel, said in a statement.

The deal tops a $550m (£332m) settlement that Goldman Sachs reached with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve charges over how it marketed a subprime mortgage product in 2010.

The US department of justice continues to investigate Goldman Sachs over its marketing of mortgage-backed securities. The justice department announced on Thursday a $16.65bn (£10bn) settlement with Bank of America over mortgage securities.

The FHFA continues to litigate against three other banks: HSBC Holdings, Nomura Holdings and Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

HSBC continues to face its own trial on 29 September, while Nomura's case would go to a jury on 26 January.

Sabrina

23rd August 2014, 14:38

http://www.news.com.au/national/the-vatican-refuses-to-release-files-of-australian-priests-accused-of-abusing-children/story-fncynjr2-1227032540685

The Vatican refuses to release files of Australian priests accused of abusing children

THE Vatican has refused to hand over the files of Australian priests accused of sex crimes to the child abuse royal commission.

Claiming the internal documents were the property of the Holy See, the Vatican argued the commission’s request was “neither possible nor appropriate”.

Reasons included ongoing church investigations, and that internal working documents were the sovereign property of the Holy See.

CHURCH SEX ABUSE: Cardinal George Pell heavily criticised

ROYAL COMMISSION: Catholic priests ‘encouraged victims to go to police’

Cardinal George Pell, now working in Rome, was asked if he sought an assurance from the Vatican that any document the royal commission needed would be provided.

“That is correct,” Cardinal Pell told the commission via video-link today.

“I suppose in retrospect there would be some discussion over what ‘any document’ meant.” Cardinal Pell said specific requests about cases would be more likely to succeed than what he described as an “ambit claim” for large numbers of documents.

A letter from the royal commission to the Vatican said it needed access to documents if it was to fulfil its terms of references. “It is essential that the royal commission understand the nature and extent of the communications between those congregations and the Holy See in relation to child sexual abuse complaints about Australian clerics,” the letter said.

Cardinal Pell said the Vatican had provided 5000 pages of documents in relation to specific requests.

“But in following international convention they will not provide internal working documents of another sovereign state,” he said. Cardinal Pell said he thought the royal commission’s request for documents relating to each case was “unreasonable”.

“Overwhelmingly every document that is held in Rome exists here ... I am not aware of exceptions — overwhelmingly they are available in Australia,” he said.

A letter from the Vatican’s Secretariat of State said finding every file on accused Australian priests would be a substantial burden, “inconsistent with international practice”.

“The Catholic Church is no more legally responsible for priests who abuse children than a trucking company which employs a driver who molests women,” a defiant Cardinal Pell said.

more at link

22 Aug

Sabrina

24th August 2014, 06:07

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-orders-review-of-military-equipment-supplied-to-police/2014/08/23/6316b8aa-2b03-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

23 Aug US

President Obama has ordered a review of federal programs that supplied nearly half a billion dollars in military equipment to municipal police departments last year, amid criticism of the heavily armed response by local law enforcement agencies to protests in Ferguson, Mo.

The review probably will include the Defense Department’s Excess Property program, which is designed to give away tents, generators, pickup trucks and all-terrain vehicles, as well as military aircraft, grenade launchers and heavily armed tactical vehicles. That program has distributed $4.3 billion worth of equipment since 1997, according to its Web site.

“Among other things, the president has asked for a review of whether these programs are appropriate,” said a senior administration official, who was not authorized to speak on the record about the internal assessment. The review also will assess “whether state and local law enforcement are provided with the necessary training and guidance; and whether the federal government is sufficiently auditing the use of equipment obtained through federal programs and funding.”

The official said the review will be led by White House staff, including the Domestic Policy Council, the National Security Council and the Office of Management and Budget, along with the Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and Treasury departments. The administration’s plans were first reported by the New York Times on Saturday.

Obama’s order comes amid criticism from members of Congress, civil rights groups and news media pundits over the heavy militarization of police departments in Ferguson and across the country. During the nearly two weeks of nightly protests in the St. Louis suburb after an unarmed teenager was shot and killed by a Ferguson officer Aug. 9, police dressed in riot gear employed armored vehicles, noise-based crowd-control devices, shotguns, M4 rifles like those used by forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, rubber-coated metal pellets and tear gas.

On Capitol Hill, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said last week that she will hold a congressional hearing in September to examine whether local police have become too militarized. “This kind of response by the police has become the problem instead of the solution,” she said.

“This equipment flowed to local police forces because they were increasingly being asked to assist in counterterrorism,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a statement Saturday. “But displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive. It makes sense to take a look at whether military-style equipment is being acquired for the right purposes and whether there is proper training on when and how to deploy it.”

Transfers through the Pentagon’s 1033 program have increased dramatically in recent years.

In 2006, it made 34,708 transfers worth $33 million to law enforcement agencies. Last year, the number grew to 51,779 transfers valued at $420 million, according to data provided by the Defense Logistics Agency, which manages the program. Through April of this year, the agency had made 15,516 transfers of equipment worth $206 million.

“Of all the equipment provided to law enforcement agencies through the LESO [1033] program, only 5 percent are weapons,” DLA spokeswoman Michelle McCaskill said. Since the program started nearly two decades ago, it has transferred equipment valued at $5.1 billion.

The Ferguson police have received a small amount through the program in recent years, including non-tactical items such as field packs, first-aid kits, wool blankets and medical supplies.

The Defense Department would not provide a breakdown of tactical items given to the Ferguson police exclusively, but it said that law enforcement agencies in St. Louis County — which includes Ferguson — have in recent years received a dozen 5.56mm rifles, half a dozen .45-caliber pistols, night-vision goggles and a bomb-disposing robot.

But 1033 is just one of a set of federal programs that have facilitated the militarization of local law enforcement agencies, said Kara Dansky, senior counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Center for Justice and the lead author of a June report about the issue. Police departments also have access to billions of dollars in funding from the Justice and Homeland Security departments.

“The militarization of policing is actually not a new problem,” Dansky said.

Sabrina

26th August 2014, 06:03

http://about-france.com/political-system.htm

(wish all the others would do the same..)

French Government Dissolved

August 25th 2014. French government is dissolved following criticism of François Holland's timid austerity programme by left-wing minister of the economy Arnaud Montebourg. François Hollande has asked outgoing no-nonsense moderate prime minister Manuel Valls to form a new goverment "coherent with" the President's current policy, aimed at reducing deficits and revamping the economy.

Last weekend, Montebourg, despite being Minister for the Economy, openly called for a change of policy, and for a more classic left-wing approach to France's current economic problems, including an end to austerity and more spending by the state. On the right, French conservatives claim that Hollande's austerity measures (euphemistically known as "politique de rigueur") are inadequate, notably regarding their failure to reduce France's excessive public spending and high tax burden - currently the highest in the world apart from Finland.

Sabrina

26th August 2014, 06:07

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/08/25/mainstream-report-video-of-james-foley-beheading-may-have-been-staged/#more-228373

Mainstream Report: Video of James Foley ‘Beheading’ “May Have Been Staged”

From Fairfax Media, August 25, 2014- http://tinyurl.com/qej38jh

A film purporting to show the beheading of James Foley was probably staged, according to a forensic science company, which suggests the American journalist’s execution may have been carried out off-camera.

A blip in the footage, released on social media last week by Islamic State militants, indicated that Foley may have had to repeat a line as he read a script to camera while kneeling in the sand with his hands tied.

The footage was most likely edited later using “slick post-production techniques”, according to the analysis for The Times in London by an unnamed international forensic science company that has worked for police forces across Britain, the news organisation claimed.

There was also no blood on Foley’s neck as the masked militant appeared to drew a knife across his neck.
The analysis suggested that the militant, who speaks with a London accent and is believed to be British rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, may have been a frontman for the execution, and not necessarily the killer.

“I think it has been staged,” one of the forensic experts told the news organisation.

“My feeling is that the execution may have happened after the camera was stopped.”

The Times said that the company did not question that Foley had been beheaded, but rather pointed out that camera trickery appeared to have been used.

Foley’s words, which ran for one minute and 26 seconds, appeared to have been scripted, according to the analysis.

more at link and

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/media-admits-foley-video-is-fake.html

MEDIA ADMITS FOLEY VIDEO IS FAKE

25 Aug

story at link

Sabrina

26th August 2014, 06:15

The child abuse and cover-ups of high profile people/church etc, failed investigations, intimidation, suicides, accidents, false imprisonment of the innocent etc. etc. is mind-numbingly depressing and no doubt can be mirrored across the world. Some of it is coming out now. Some of the names are there in the 'alternative' blogs. Some is getting into the main stream media, and they are running or hinting at stuff that they wouldn't before. The arrests can't come soon enough. Scotland has some dark secrets on all of this.

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/child-brothels.html

Child abuse and cover-ups in Scotland

story at link

Sabrina

26th August 2014, 06:49

http://www.voltairenet.org/article184957.html

The vulture funds that corner Argentina also come for Spain

by Jérome Duval, Fatima Fafatale

"Vulture funds" refer to companies that buy insolvent debts for a song and later try to cash in on them by force. Billionaire Paul Singer has made it his specialty. Today he is intent on consolidating his fortune at the expense of the Argentinian people, while already setting his sights on Spain.

story at link

aug

Sabrina

27th August 2014, 02:31

http://news.sky.com/story/1325278/rotherham-abuse-pressure-grows-on-police-chief

27 Aug UK

Rotherham Abuse: Pressure Grows On Police Chief

There are calls for more resignations of those accused of turning a blind eye to widespread child sexual exploitation in the town.

Pressure is growing on South Yorkshire's Police Commissioner to resign in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal, after it emerged he was once a councillor with responsibility for children's services there.

A damning report has revealed more than 1,400 children were victims of abuse there between 1997 and 2013.

It detailed examples of 11-year-olds being gang raped and children being forced to watch violent sex abuse while being threatened that they would be next.

It has emerged authorities in the town "could and should" have done more to stop the abuse but did not listen to children trying to report it.

In some cases victims were treated with contempt.

Shaun Wright was a Labour councillor for Rotherham until he was elected Police Commissioner in 2012, and was in charge of children's services from 2005 to 2010.

Colin Ross, the leader of the Lib Dem group on Sheffield City Council, said it is "difficult to see how local people can have confidence in him to continue as our Police and Crime Commissioner".

UKIP Yorkshire and Humber MEP Jane Collins also called on Mr Wright to go, adding: "The apologies we have heard are totally insincere and go nowhere near repairing the damage done."

A spokesperson for Mr Wright said: "The Commissioner has previously apologised for the failure of Rotherham Council while he was in its cabinet from 2005 to 2010.

"He repeats that apology today and he fully accepts that there was more that everyone at Rotherham Council should have done to tackle this terrible crime.

"Since becoming Police and Crime Commissioner he has repeatedly publicly made tackling child sexual exploitation his number one priority."

The leader of Rotherham Council, Roger Stone, stepped down with immediate effect following the publication of the report.

The council has apologised for its failings but confirmed no staff will face disciplinary action.

South Yorkshire Police also issued an apology but it too revealed that no officers have been disciplined.

Several of the individuals named in the report are still working in child protection.

Jim Gamble, former Chief Executive of CEOP, told Sky News: "Every person particularly in a leadership role who has got it wrong whether today, yesterday, or in the years before must take responsibility for their actions.

"There's a couple of things, you need to make sure; 1) that they're not in a position of authority in any other local safeguarding board, in any other organisation that works to protect children and 2) if there is evidence that individuals surpassed information that there's a criminal investigation."

A lawyer who represents some of the victims has told Sky News they intend to take legal action against the authorities.

Solicitor David Greenwood said he was "appalled" by what he called a "systematic failure".

He added that some of the girls involved have displayed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and will need "a lot of input to get their lives back on track".

and

http://order-order.com/2014/08/26/rotherham-councils-125000-officers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+guidofawkes+%28Guy+Fawkes%27+blog+of+parliamentary+plots%2C+rumours+and+conspir acy%29&utm_content=FeedBurner+user+view

Rotherham Council’s £125,000 Officers

Whilst 1,400 children in Rotherham were abused, the council consistently featured heavily in the TPA’s Town Hall Fat Cat lists:

Chief Executive: £158,160
Strategic Director of Children and Young Peoples Services: £125,530
Strategic Director Development Services: £125,530
Strategic Director of Neighbourhoods and Adults Services: £125,530
Strategic Director of Resources: £132,954

Clearly some ‘matter’ more than others. Can anyone honestly say, this lot where earning their haul? Instead of trying to take kids off couples who they suspected of being Ukippers, perhaps they could have actually done their jobs. The outgoing Labour leader has jumped before he left anyway, but more heads need to roll.

Sabrina

27th August 2014, 02:47

http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/08/26/fbi-to-probe-witness-tampering-in-oklahoma-city-bombing-case-amid-claims-of-second-accomplice/#more-228457

US

FBI to Probe Witness Tampering in Oklahoma City Bombing Case Amid Claims of Second Accomplice

Russia Today, August 25, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/nj86mp3

The FBI has been ordered to investigate allegations that claim the agency intimidated a witness and compelled him not to testify at a recent trial over evidence related to the Oklahoma City bombing.

According to theSalt Lake Tribune (see separate story below) US District Judge Clark Waddoups scheduled a November 13th hearing on the matter, in which Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue accused the FBI of threatening to eliminate a former undercover agent’s health benefits if he took the stand.

The former agent reportedly knew convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh.

The core of the issue is that Trentadue claims the FBI has surveillance video revealing McVeigh carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing with an accomplice.

The FBI adamantly denies that such video exists, and the government has insisted repeatedly that McVeigh acted alone in the event that killed 168 people.

The witness involved in this whole situation, John Matthews, was scheduled to testify regarding this alleged video in July, but withdrew at the last minute. Trentadue – as well as a freelance journalist named Roger Charles – stated that when he spoke with Matthews about his absence, the former agent told them the FBI threatened him.

“He was told he should take a vacation and that if he did testify he should suffer from a case of the ‘I don’t remembers,’” Trentadue told the judge back in July, as quoted by local Fox 13 News.

FBI attorney Kathryn Wyer told Waddoups on Monday that Trentadue’s allegations have no basis in reality, and that they are “another one of [his] conspiracy theories.” She said the agency did not present more evidence in its favor because there is no connection between the FBI and the decision to not testify. She added that the only time agents were in contact with Matthews was when he called the bureau himself to declare his decision to withdraw.

Wyer argued that the agent who took Matthews’ call dealt with him as they would have any other person, and that the individual should not be brought in to speak. However, the judge disagreed.

“The proceeding is going to document whether or not there was any inappropriate contact with Mr. (John) Matthews,” Waddoups said, as quoted by Fox 13. “No one is being accused at this point other than the question has been raised. He’s being given the opportunity to answer that.”

“If all of this is nonsense, let’s bring this in and put an end to it,” he added, according to the Associated Press.

These allegations come as part of a larger trial, in which Trentadue is suing the FBI to gain access to the alleged video that shows McVeigh acting with another person. He has cited various documents that suggest such a video exists, namely one by a Secret Service agent that describes a security video showing more than one person exiting the rental truck McVeigh was in minutes before the bomb went off.

more at the link (25 Aug)

and

FBI to Probe Tampering Claims in OKC Bombing Records Case

By Pamela Manson, The Salt Lake Tribune, August 25, 2014- http://tinyurl.com/lro95lv

Sabrina

27th August 2014, 02:54

First France (see story on page before) and now Ukraine....hopefully this could start a good trend...

Ukraine President Dissolves Parliament

26 Aug Ukraine

By Shirley Li, The Wire – August 26, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/kn4fyml

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has dissolved parliament and will hold elections October 26, the Associated Press has reported.

Poroshenko had warned of the move last week, telling news agency Interfax Ukraine his decision “will be made when there is a constitutional basis for it and that moment, as everyone knows, is on Independence Day (Aug. 24).”

The country has been mired with an unstable economy for months, as a result of the ongoing fighting in its eastern regions. Despite a multi-billion euro lifeline provided by the International Monetary Fund, reforms failed to take shape.

Poroshenko also met persistent pushback from the parliament, which had been populated with supporters of former president Viktor Yanukovych.

The dissolution of parliament follows the July 24 collapse of the Moscow-backed governing coalition in Ukraine, which had seen the rise of separatist rebellions for months. The conflict has left more than 2,000 civilians dead and at least 726 Ukrainian servicemen, according to the AP, while an estimate for the number of rebel dead has not surfaced.

The announcement comes a day ahead of a summit in Minsk, Belarus, that will see both Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend. Putin is expected to pressure Ukraine into pursuing negotiations instead of continuing to fight on the ground.

The dissolution, as outlined by the constitution, cannot take effect until at least a month has passed. With the snap elections in October, the pro-Europe Poroshenko and his liberal supporters could manage to win more support for their strategy against Russia. Poroshenko also has the support of the United States.

“In my discussions with party factions and parliamentary leaders, I will be guided by the desire of the Ukrainian people,” he told Interfax Ukraine earlier last week. “They want a ‘reboot,’ they want a purging [of the system]. The elections will be the best form for a purging.”

Sabrina

27th August 2014, 03:08

It goes without saying, use discernment as usual (as with every other story on this site)...However, there seem to be an unprecedented amount of extreme news events and dramatic weather patterns which don't smell right, suggesting some are in panic mode...

http://hipknowsys.blogspot.com.br/2014/08/benjamin-fulford-august-26-2014-major.html#more

Benjamin Fulford - August 26, 2014: Major fall offensive against Nazionists begins despite continuing cabal threats of mass murder

The summer is ending and the Satan-worshipping cabalists are trembling in fear of what will come their way this autumn, according to White Dragon Society, CIA and Chinese government and other sources. However, instead of anything dramatic happening, the cabal will be left to continue its slow motion implosion as new international structures continue to be put in place to by-pass their financial control systems, the sources say. The mathematics of finance and the real economy are working irrevocably against the cabal governments in the US and Israel so, time is on the side of the 188 nation BRICS alliance. Just like it is best to wait for a sick lion to die instead of trying to pick a fight with it, the cabal is inevitably sinking so there is no need to do anything rash.

Nonetheless, there might also be something more dramatic actions planned but obviously they will not be announced in advance. We can hint, however, that these planned moves involve gold, silver, and, for some, lead.

The cabal, for its part, is continuing to produce one fake fear-mongering media event after the other in an effort to manipulate the opinions of a steadily shrinking audience of brain-washed believers. To this end the cabal has recently staged the fake beheading of a journalist in the Middle East, orchestrated race riots in the US, attempted to reignite a cold war with Russia, tried to start a global Ebola pandemic, threatened to blow up Chicago, LA and New York etc.

The people who wrote the Mossad motto “by way of deception, thou shalt make war,” obviously never read the parable about the boy who cried wolf. The lies and fake incidents are no longer believed by most informed people, especially in the world’s military and intelligence organizations. Instead of creating the desired effect of herding the sheeple in predetermined directions, the recent staged events have caused profound disgust throughout the world’s governments, armed forces and other agencies with the ability to actually fight if necessary.

That is why senior members of the Nazionist cabal are frantically looking for some place to escape what they see as an inevitable purge.

One place they are trying to flee to is Southern Argentina. The recent hedge fund lawsuits and cabal attempts at financial blackmail against Argentina’s government are meant to pressure it into allowing one million or so US based cabalists to flee there and set up a new government on the coast of Patagonia, according to a senior cabal member.

Argentina, however, has joined Japan, Israel, North Korea, China, New Zealand and other nations in wisely refusing to allow such a large group of Satan worshipping criminals to move to their country.

The cabalists, especially those based in the US and Israel, will have to face justice from the people they have so callously exploited.

full story at link

and comments from David Wilcock on the article:

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/david-wilcock-comment-article-on-ben-fulfords-8-26-14-post/#more-30471

Comment by dwilcock on August 27, 2014 @ 1:29 am

There’s some pretty big stuff missing here but I guess it depends on who you’re talking to. The short answer is that “everything bad the Cabal is hoping to accomplish is either being done now, or is about to be done.” Thankfully they are being systematically counter-attacked.

I now have three independent high-level insiders telling me the same thing about next month. One of them has the intel from two completely different sources, so technically it’s four different very informed insiders saying the same thing. Each of these sources has access to the different major factions, so it constitutes a uniform consensus.

We’ve heard almost all of this story before and I have become skeptical and distrustful. That’s my disclaimer. There is no point in fearing this information and, as has been the case in at least seven other instances, whatever they plan doesn’t end up happening.

Nonetheless, here is the gist of it:

The Cabal has to pay up in September and they don’t have the money. Everyone hates them because of the NSA snooping and the destruction of the world’s economy. The international community has lost its patience. BRICS is accelerating very rapidly as the Cabal is withering.

Therefore the Cabal has to go all out, and do everything they possibly can to create maximum chaos, before the end of September, as that apparently is their “moment of truth.” Ben alluded to something big coming, and I have heard no specifics, other than that the Cabal seems to see the end of September as their deadline and whatever they do, it needs to be before then.

In the “moment of truth,” the USG will be forced to declare the Fed and its dollar to be bankrupt and in default — or it will be declared for them by others. We will shift from the FRN (Federal Reserve Note) to the TRN (Treasury Reserve Note). Money will now be issued and backed by the US Treasury itself. No money will be allowed to be printed without collateral of some kind behind it.

I have heard conflicting reports of what the valuation of FRN to TRN will be. One of the highest insiders said, roughly two months ago, that if you have money in the bank it won’t change in value. FRN dollars will be able to be redeemed at full value, but only up to 10K at a time and only for a short period, say a week. Then the value depreciates considerably.

This is intended to get rid of a massive glut of “black cash” hoarded by criminals, and also tons of counterfeit 100s being printed by Iran to try to destroy the US. You can easily see the president making a speech about how this will be good for America and strike a killer blow against organized crime. It will also seriously rejuvenate the purchasing power of the new TRN.

Anyway, apparently there are two factions now within the USG that are fighting over how much the TRN will have depreciated from the FRN. The group we could call the “good guys”, i.e. aligned with BRICS, are apparently now lobbying for 16 percent. [Again, this could be way off because another source told me it would not go down at all.]

The “bad guys” say this is only “kicking the ball around,” and “within 10 years we’re going to have the same problem” if they only devalue by 16 percent.

The “bad guys” apparently want an EIGHTY SIX PERCENT downgrade of the value of money — at least the American version. The excuse is that this will permanently resolve the problems in our financial system. We take the hit, tighten up our belts, and weather the storm for the benefit of future generations and a new, permanent stability.

The reality, which they gleefully are excited about, is that if it actually happened (which it won’t,) society would collapse. An announcement of this type may very well be the “Hail Mary Pass” they are hoping for, the last, best move they can make that would hopefully create the social breakdown they feel they so desperately need right now.

So here’s the deal. Ben hinted at it but didn’t really get the scope of it.

The Cabal are trying to fire every shot they’ve got right now. They deliberately sent agent provocateurs into Ferguson and goaded the police into maximum aggression with minimum thought behind it.

Some Cabal agents posed as police and worked alongside them, increasing the violence. They said they were there to help and swore them to secrecy. Anyone from the Ferguson police force who dares to speak out about this will very quickly decide they want to commit suicide and carry it out, possibly even leaving a note, or their car runs off the road in a tragic remote-controlled accident.

These guys were not part of the normal force, hence they did not have any badges on. This was widely reported and written off as the police not wanting to be profiled by civilians.

The Cabal’s hope is that Ferguson will be the spark that ignites a nationwide race war between blacks and whites. The corporate news heads are being good “heels,” in the carnival wrestling sense of the term. The more angry they can get the audience, so they root for the “face,” the better they do their job.

Of course, carnivals are organized crime. Every sideshow event is rigged, and the “face” and the “heel” laugh over beers after a match. Then the same carnivals that feature porn (girl shows), pharmaceuticals (snake oil), sports (wrestling), entertainment (clowns, sideshows), occult (palm and card readers), et cetera in the town go into the country.

Out come the Bibles. These same folks re-arrange their game to become tent revivalist preachers shouting the glory of God and the coming Apocalypse. It’s all about WHAT MAKES MONEY.

Now the same “barker” who was luring people into the girl show has a Bible in his hand. He is preaching the Good Word. The girl who just had a bottle in her hand, and elsewhere, is now behind him on stage — clapping her hands and leading the flock in the singing of the gospels.

The Bibles sell like hotcakes.

If you don’t believe me, read books on the history of carnivals. It’s all about making money. They’ve been run out of town after town and city after city and yet there still is no widespread understanding about how every single event is cleverly rigged so you don’t win unless they let you. The wrestling matches are completely staged.

The carnival was the main source for porn, because in the “girl show” you pay to get in and see her dance with skimpy clothes. Then she says “step behind this curtain and you’ll see me with this bottle and nothing else. I’ll teach you things that will make a woman do anything you want!”

Anyway, the big “reveal” is this: The same people stage both sides of the wrestling match, and the same people then move into a Christian country and pose as religious zealots to maximize profit.

This business is very, very ancient, far predating the time of television and movies, and therefore had a near-monopoly or at least a strong edge on industries including professional sports, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, occult and porn, and posed serious competition to the churches.

All you have to do is see that the Cabal is using this same “carnival strategy” on a much larger level. The person at the gate sees how much money you have, thanks to cleverly-positioned mirrors, and if you have a big wad, he pats you on the back with chalk and you become a “mark.” Then everyone knows to concentrate their focus on you.

They’re all in on it, working together, face and heel. They buy off the police and judiciary to avoid prosecution for ripping people off. It all sounds very familiar and it’s a really old game. They can only work one town for so long before they get run out.

Thankfully now there is a massive international alliance that has run out of patience — and the game is up.

So what we’re seeing right now is the worldwide carnival of doom breathing its final death-rattle.

They hope to spread Ferguson-type riots across the country. They are simultaneously trying to create a West Versus Muslims war with ISIS agitprop. I watched the “beheading” video, even after being told that I should honor James Foley by not seeing it.

I agree that there were tons of problems with it suggesting it was fake. It appeared to be a dull, fake stage knife, and they immediately start fading to black as soon as his neck is allegedly being cut. No visible blood gushes out, and if it had, wouldn’t they have wanted you to see it?

After the way I screamed and cried when I thought I was going to be murdered, and remembering what that felt like, I highly doubt James Foley is dead. I think he was given the opportunity to play along, read his cue cards and disappear with a new identity and a hairpiece for his freshly shorn head, probably along with a Lord of the Rings-style theatrical beard.

He probably doesn’t like the US after what happened to him, and his work as a journalist, and was given the offer he could not refuse. Remember the Northwoods documents… we know that they stage these things and tell their insiders “he didn’t really die, we just need to attack these villains while we still have a chance.”

That helps everyone play along, feel special for knowing how the masses are being fooled, and be part of a group that is using these deceptions for the greater good — so they think.

It is very unlikely that they will succeed in any large-scale strike against the US or elsewhere, due to a combination of an ever-growing alliance against them. This includes folks from here and other folks who have been called “angels” in the Bible.

That’s a complex subject, but we have a huge wealth of links showing “Divine Intervention” happening over and over and over again, systematically stopping them from succeeding in any of these plans.

Once you acknowledge that benevolent ETs do exist, and then acknowledge that they have systematically stopped us from having nuclear war, the next step is to see that they ARE involved — and they are protecting us from the Cabal so we can finish the job ourselves.

So September is where it all comes together, from what I’m hearing. The Cabal is hoping to create a variety of simultaneous triggers that avalanche us into martial law, social collapse, gun confiscation, mass starvation and prison camps. The same old thing we’ve been hearing them lust for since at least the mid-1990s, which was when I first started learning about this. I am tired of hearing it.

I highly, highly doubt this will work, but this is what they are hoping to achieve, and they will definitely be making their best effort in that direction. Yet, what we are seeing is that the same old tricks do not get traction. Blow up an airplane, attack innocent people, stage riots, fake terrorism, chop people up, burn them, et cetera.

If you do this in times of peace it can create big results, but when you do it in a time of chaos, you get diminishing returns. Like a heroin junkie, you need a bigger and bigger “fix” to get any high at all.

They have desperately, desperately tried to do the big fix — and a lesser example is the utterly satanic nature of the music industry’s videos in the last four years particularly — but all the really big stuff is being thwarted by an impressive alliance.

The Cabal has been successful in using their HAARP-type technology to make it almost mathematically impossible for rain to fall in California, thus precisely driving us into an extreme emergency drought. This prevents food from being grown, which in turn can create mass starvation and the breakdown of a major city.

In this Rense post you can see the nice, straight-lined energetic wall they are creating that completely blocks any storm cells from getting in and raining. This has become very, very painfully obvious and profoundly unnatural. Why would ALL of California be singled out so that it never, ever frickin’ rains?

http://www.rense.com/general96/pacstorms.html

Additionally, the quake we just had in San Francisco was very likely a deliberate one. Again, the benevolents very likely intervened and distributed the stress in a way that was not planned. Their tech is far more advanced than the Cabal usually assumes it to be. The Cabal’s hope undoubtedly was that it would have been far bigger and more destructive than the 6.0 that we just saw.

The Cabal is also using HAARP to trigger the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland to go off, because the ash field could plunge Europe into extreme cold temperatures, thus again creating a destabilizing condition. This could help staged riots be more “successful,” in their terms, and kill people off faster if they get displaced. This is a setup for when the pre-planned whites versus Muslims war gets going.

I have no direct involvement in any of this on either side, and only hear rumors. All I can say is that we live in “interesting times” and we may finally be seeing an end to this madness in sight.

Time to shut down the Carnival of Death and run ‘em out!

I do not advocate torturing and killing Cabal members. The vast majority of them are victims and / or heavily misled. We do not want to generate more atrocities and repeat the cyclical mistakes of history. We can step up and realize these are people, not creatures or robots, and draw boundaries with them, saying “Enough is enough,” without doing the same things to them that they’ve been doing to us.

We’re better than that. We can accept heroes who defect from their ranks and come forward to help. Now is the time.

- David Wilcock divinecosmos.com

Sabrina

27th August 2014, 03:22

BeforeItsNews.
http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2014/08/monsantos-worst-nightmare-coming-true-the-rise-of-gmo-labeling-2547468.html
25 Aug US
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Source: http://naturalsociety.com/monsantos-worst-nightmare-coming-true/
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Monsanto’s Worst Nightmare Coming True: The Rise of GMO Labeling

Activists against GMOs just might take down the biotech giants after all. GMO labeling could soon be a sweet reality.

Last week, Colorado broke a new record by bringing 16,950 signatures to a GMO labeling campaign for fall’s election, more than double the qualifying signatures needed to make sure that GMO labeling is on the ballot. This huge message to Monsanto accompanies a similar campaign in Oregon, all while the biotech industry awaits approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for more Agent Orange chemicals (2,4-D) to be used where glyphosate has failed.

Incredibly, the USDA is ignoring Americans as well as scientists who say that being carpet-bombed with 176 million pounds of toxic pesticides is not only unfathomable, but intolerable. No one wants these carcinogenic, birth-defect-causing toxins created by biotech companies and seed monopolizers anymore.

Finally, Monsanto has to fight GMO labeling fronts simultaneously in two different states. It is the company’s worst nightmare – come true. Surely, Monsanto was hoping people would give up and just back down as they continue to buy out Congress, the FDA, and even Supreme Court judges. But instead, it just fueled grassroots efforts all the more.

It is the best time, if ever, to stand up to Monsanto and Dow Chemical’s toxic products in the marketplace. You can speak out and join the fight. Oregon and California need your help, and so does the rest of the world fighting these GMO-pushers.

Dr. Bronner’s and Dr. Mercola are also getting behind the action with a 3 to 1 promise to match donations to fight Monsanto and GMO in the next week. You can use the link below to contribute.

Triple your impact before time runs out – we need to hear from you today!

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Despite Monsanto’s big pockets and constant threats – even threatening to sue the state of Vermont for instating a GMO labeling law, people are standing up. You don’t have to be an ‘expert,’ either. You can be a farmer that has watched your crops fail, or your animals suffer from eating GMO feed. You can be a concerned mom, or a citizen who simply wants to know what is in the food.

We all can gather together to make an urgent and unprecedented move against Monsanto. We’re gaining the much needed momentum we needed.

Already, Monsanto and their corporate front groups are panicking at the idea of having to face down active campaigns in TWO major states. The food movement is shaking their boots at what we have accomplished. Don’t’ give up yet!

Sabrina

28th August 2014, 06:12

Well that's the official story anyway, blaming those Ruskies ... The truth will be the opposite of what they are putting out.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...ther-us-banks/

NATIONAL SECURITY

FBI reportedly probing hack of JP Morgan Chase, other US banks

28 Aug

The FBI and other federal agencies are investigating a coordinated computer hack targeting JPMorgan Chase and at least four other American banks, according to multiple published reports late Wednesday.

Bloomberg News, citing a U.S. official and a person briefed by law enforcement, reported that the attackers stole personal data that can be used to empty bank accounts. A third person told Bloomberg that employee data was also targeted and that the scale of the theft indicated the potential for serious fraud.

Bloomberg reported that the FBI was looking at whether Russian hackers were involved as a way of retaliating for economic sanctions placed on Moscow due to its involvement in the ongoing conflict with Ukraine. The site's report cited security experts saying that the attack appeared "far beyond the capability of ordinary criminal hackers."

However, an analyst quoted by The Washington Post said that any Russian cyber-retaliation was more likely to involve disruption of networks, not data theft. Bloomberg reported that that investigators had not ruled out Russian or Eastern European cybercriminals.

FBI Supervisory Special Agent Joshua Campbell told the Post that the FBI was working with the Secret Service "to determine the scope of recently reported cyber attacks against several American financial institutions." Bloomberg reported that the National Security Agency was also helping in the probe.

Security breaches at large banks like JPMorgan Chase are rare due to the multiple layers of security around their networks. Spokeswoman Patricia Wexler emailed a statement to the Associated Press and other news outlets saying in part that “companies of our size unfortunately experience cyber attacks nearly every day. We have multiple, layers of defense to counteract any threats and constantly monitor fraud levels."

JPMorgan is the largest U.S. bank by assets.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Sabrina

28th August 2014, 06:17

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/27/christine-lagarde-imf-investigated-alleged-political-fraud

27 Aug France/IMF

Christine Lagarde to be investigated for alleged role in political fraud case

IMF chief and former finance minister says decision to investigate her for alleged negligence is unfounded

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has been charged with "simple negligence" over her handling of a controversial €400m payout to French business tycoon Bernard Tapie when she was finance minister.

Lagarde announced that she had been placed under investigation by a magistrate on Tuesday – the French equivalent of being charged in the UK – after being questioned for 15 hours at the court of justice in Paris, which deals with cases of alleged ministerial wrongdoing.

But she told a reporter that she would not resign from her position: "I'm going back to work in Washington this afternoon," she said. The IMF chief insisted that she had not broken the law and would appeal.

The case is an embarrassment for Lagarde, the IMF and France. Judicial sources told the Guardian that negligence by a government official carried a possible one-year prison term and/or a €15,000 (£11,900) fine.

Speaking to journalists in her lawyer's office, Lagarde later said: "After three years of investigations, dozens of hours of questioning, the commission realised that I was not complicit in any violation and has therefore been reduced to allege that I may not have been sufficiently vigilant in the arbitration."

Lagarde had earlier been questioned only as an "assisted witness", and not as a suspect, in connection with the arbitration deal worked out in 2008 under which Tapie received the money at taxpayers' expense to settle a commercial dispute with the state. Lagarde was the finance minister of then French president Nicolas Sarkozy at the time.

The case, which has implicated several other former Sarkozy aides, hinges on whether the arbitration process was rigged in favour of Tapie as a reward for his support for the centre-right political leader in the 2007 presidential election. It stems from the sale of the sports giant Adidas in 1993, in which Tapie claimed to have been defrauded by the now-defunct Crédit Lyonnais bank. Soon after Sarkozy became president, Lagarde decided to send the long-running legal dispute with the bank to private arbitration. But the out-of-court settlement was challenged by the Socialist opposition because it was far higher than any previous court ruling.

The investigation into Lagarde was opened in August 2011, on suspicion of possible complicity in the embezzlement of state funds. However the charges of negligence are far less serious. Her former chief of staff, Stéphane Richard, who is director of the phone company Orange, was placed under investigation in June last year with three others, including Tapie, for conspiracy to defraud.

Lagarde said she had asked her lawyer to challenge the magistrate's decision, which she called "totally baseless". The IMF has stood behind its chief who took over after another prominent French politician, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was forced to resign from the post amid accusations he sexually assaulted a maid in a New York Hotel in 2011. The charges were eventually dropped and he subsequently reached a settlement with the maid.

Largarde's lawyer could not immediately be reached.

Desmond Lachman, a former IMF official, told AFP that he did not believe the situation would have an impact on Lagarde's ability to run the IMF.

"Ms Lagarde has been rather effective in leading the IMF. It hasn't really affected the way in which she has been running the organisation in the past three years and I don't see why this development would change that," he said. He added, however, that if she were forced to step down, the emerging market members would push for a leader from an emerging market economy, marking a first for the IMF.

Paulo Nogueira Batista, the representative of Brazil and 10 other countries on the IMF board, described the developments in France as a "serious matter".

"It's too early to make an assessment, but we need some time to reflect as to whether or not this could be seen as damaging the image of the fund," he told Agence France-Presse, making clear that he was speaking only personally.

"We also need to assess if this case demands so much time that it interferes with her mission."

Sabrina

29th August 2014, 07:20

http://www.theeventchronicle.com/news/europe/christine-lagarde-imf-head-formally-charged-fraud-probe/

More on Lagarde IMF head.

27 Aug

Christine Lagarde: IMF Head Formally Charged In Fraud Probe

(Zero Hedge) Ah, the perils of European power politics.

A day after France revealed its new government, the person who so eagerly stepped in after DSK’s infamous and choreographed fall from grace and the IMF presidency (not to mention his derailed French presidential ambitions, greenlighting Hollande as what would become the worst French president ever), Christine Lagarde is about to be DSKed herself after “someone” clearly has set their sights on the former French finance minister.

Several hours ago the news hit that a French court has put Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, under a formal probe for negligence in a corruption investigation dating back to her days as finance minister. To be sure, this development is hardly a shock: recall that it was over a year ago when “IMF’s Lagarde Flat Raided Over French ‘Payout’ Probe” with her ascent to the head of the IMF also riddled with numerous allegations of impropriety involving the Tapie matter. However, until now, such outside interventions were below the radar, and certainly never escalated to anything formal or official. Alas, it now appears that Madame’s time has come, even if Lagarde hasn’t grasped it just yet.

From the WSJ:

Ms. Lagarde confirmed the decision in a statement but said it was “without basis,” adding she would challenge it with a higher court. She said she was heading back to Washington Wednesday and would brief the IMF board about the latest development.

The investigation is part of a complex, drawn-out probe into the alleged misuse of state funds. The case stems from a decision in the 2008 to use arbitration to settle a dispute with business tycoon Bernard Tapie. The arbitration panel awarded €420 million to Mr. Tapie.

“The magistrates of the court of justice of the Republic have decided to place me under formal investigation,” Ms. Lagarde said in statement. “After three years of procedure, the sole surviving allegation is that through inadvertence or inattention I may have failed to intervene to block the arbitration that brought to an end the longstanding Tapie litigation,” she added.

Bloomberg adds:

IMF issues statement after Managing Director Christine Lagarde put under formal investigation for her role in an arbitration case during her time as French finance minister.

IMF spokesman Gerry Rice: “She is now on her way back to Washington and will, of course, brief the board as soon as possible. Until then, we have no further comment”

Regardless of the spin, at this point it’s all over for the first female president of the IMF, whose departure has come with the same facility as her ascent.

The only question is who and why was angered by her policies over the past three years, and who will be her replacement. And most importantly, is the imminent shift at the top of the IMF indicative of what the CFR pitched yesterday when it proposed that the time has come for Bernanke’s money paradrop. After all, one would need an even more obedient puppet at the head of the monetary fund if such an idiotic plan is to even be able to take off the ground, so to speak.

As for Lagarde, we are confident she and Angelo Mozillo will have enough fake tanning tips to exchange during their long and worry-free retirement.

Source: Zero Hedge

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-28/man-many-perversions-–-federal-cybersecurity-head-convicted-child-porn-charges

28 Aug US

"A Man Of Many Perversions" – Federal Cybersecurity Head Convicted Of Child Porn Charges

Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The following story is a warning as to why centralized power is so dangerous. It doesn’t matter whether the power is political or corporate, overly centralized power in all forms must be resisted whenever it appears. The worst of all worlds is when centralized political and corporate power unite in an unholy alliance, which is what has happened to America in recent decades. When this occurs, the combined forces of oligarchy simply begin to rapaciously feast on the citizenry with zero accountability. This is a fair description of the United States in 2014.

The primary problem with centralized power is that sociopaths (for obvious reasons) gravitate toward, and greatly covet, positions of power. Once entrenched in such positions, they are able to act upon their perversions with general immunity, and if they are caught, are often left in positions of power by others who at that point “own them” via blackmail. This of course is nothing new, it is how the game of power, politics and economics has been played since the beginning of time. It is also why decentralization of power is the natural evolution we as a species must embrace in order to build a better world.

Enter Timothy DeFoggi, the one-time cybersecurity director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who received several awards for his government “service” over the years. The self-proclaimed man of “many perversions,” frequented a child porn site called PedoBook where he “exchanged private messages with other members expressing interest in raping, beating and murdering infants and toddlers.”

More from Wired:

As the acting cybersecurity chief of a federal agency, Timothy DeFoggi should have been well versed in the digital footprints users leave behind online when they visit web sites and download images.

But DeFoggi—convicted today in Nebraska on three child porn charges including conspiracy to solicit and distribute child porn—must have believed his use of the Tor anonymizing network shielded him from federal investigators.

But DeFoggi’s conviction is perhaps more surprising than others owing to the fact that he worked at one time as the acting cybersecurity director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. DeFoggi worked for the department from 2008 until January this year. A department official told Business Insider that DeFoggi worked in the office of the assistant secretary for administration as lead IT specialist but a government budget document for the department from this year(.pdf) identifies a Tim DeFoggi as head of OS IT security operations, reporting to the department’s chief information security officer.

Although anyone could use the sites, registered users like DeFoggi—who was known online under the user names “****christ” and “PTasseater”—could set up profile pages with an avatar, often child porn images, and personal information and upload files. The site archived more than 100 videos and more than 17,000 child porn and child erotica images, many of them depicting infants and toddlers being sexually abused by adults.

DeFoggi became part of that sting after becoming a registered member of PedoBook in March 2012 where he remained active until December that year when the FBI shuttered it. During this time DeFoggi, who described himself as “having many perversions,” solicited child porn images from other members, viewed images and exchanged private messages with other members expressing interest in raping, beating and murdering infants and toddlers.

DeFoggi received many commendations during his government career, according to an exhibit list created by the government for his trial. The list includes several certificates of award from the U.S. Treasury, a certificate of appreciation from the State Department for his work on a Hurricane Katrina task force, several documents related to computer courses he attended and certifications he received.

Sabrina

29th August 2014, 07:27

It would be good to see some confirmation from any other sources on all of this (and the stopping of the Canadian satanic ritual). As expected, some are questioning it all. This release doesn't mention under which legal basis he'd be arrested.

Impending Irish Arrest and Extradition of Kevin Annett on verge of Tuam Killings Inquiry:

Posted on August 28, 2014

An Urgent Bulletin from the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) and its Direct Action Unit in Ireland

August 28, 2014

Dublin

The Irish government has agreed to extradite Kevin Annett to England to face imprisonment when he arrives in Ireland this weekend, according to information obtained through our sources in Ireland’s national police, the Gardai.

The same sources indicate that Kevin’s arrest and transportation to a “special administrative prison” in London has been ordered in response to the plan by him and our Brussels-based Common Law Court to open an independent inquiry into the apparent sacrificial murder of children at Tuam, Ireland, commencing on Monday, September 1. These killings have been linked to the catholic-run Ninth Circle cult that includes popes, cardinals and members of the British royal family and Church of England.

In response to this new attack, Kevin Annett has agreed to reschedule his September travel itinerary to temporarily avoid Ireland and any country under so-called “crown of England” jurisdiction, and to accept additional security protection. However, the independent inquiry into the Tuam mass graves and ritual murders in Ireland will proceed as scheduled
under the auspices of the Common Law court being established in Galway, as part of the September 1 commencement of our Permanent Inquiry into Child Trafficking and Ritual Sacrifice.

For more information on the Inquiry and the Galway common law court case into the Tuam killings, contact itccscentral@gmail.com .

And stay tuned for a personal you tube message from Kevin Annett, to be issued tomorrow, Friday, August 29, and posted at www.itccs.org .

Issued by the Directorate, ITCCS Central
Brussels
28 August, 2014

Sabrina

30th August 2014, 07:07

Are mysterious banker suicides and accidents moving on to this?

http://americankabuki.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/former-fbi-director-louis-freeh-in.html#more

comment via American Kabuki: Hmmm... another single car accident? One of the reasons that automakers were given special government incentives in the early 2000's was to encourage people to trade in working 1990s era cars (that had simpler electronic systems) was so that people would purchase cars with electronics that enabled them to be remotely controlled. Wonder what the FBI will find? No alcohol, no skid marks, very strange... -AK

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh in surgery
after automobile wreck

http://goo.gl/gI4NPe

Louis Freeh in surgery Tuesday after wreck

The Vermont State Police say there is no evidence that drugs or alcohol were a factor in former FBI director Louis Freeh's crashing his SUV in Barnard on Monday.

Freeh, 64, of Wilmington, Del., was back in surgery Tuesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., where he remains under armed guard, the authorities said. He received serious injuries in the wreck.

Freeh was southbound on a rural stretch of Vermont 12 in Barnard in a 50 mph zone when he drove his 2010 GMC Yukon off the left side of the road at about 12:15 p.m., the police said. Barnard is about a 80-minute drive southeast of Burlington.

EARLIER

ALSO: Federal judge, past head of FBI Freeh hospitalized with serious injuries...

Former FBI director Freeh injured in VT wreck

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/vermont/2014/08/25/louis-freeh-injured-vermont-car-crash/14596459/

BARNARD – Former FBI director Louis Freeh was seriously injured in a car crash Monday afternoon in Barnard, the Vermont State Police confirmed Monday night.

State police in Royalton received a 911 call at 12:16 p.m. regarding a one-vehicle crash near 2762 Vermont 12. Troopers responded, along with rescue and fire personnel from the Barnard area.

Freeh, 64, of Wilmington, Del., was airlifted from Barnard to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., for treatment, police said. He has a summer home in Barnard.

UPDATE

Freeh back in surgery Tuesday after Vermont wreck

"The thoughts and prayers of the entire FBI remain with former Director Freeh and his family tonight," current Director James Comey said in a statement.

A spokesman from Dartmouth-Hitchcock said he could neither confirm nor deny whether Freeh was at the hospital, because Freeh's name was absent from a list of patients whose information could be released to the media.

more at link

Sabrina

30th August 2014, 07:41

More on the unravelling story of child grooming and abuse, official cover-ups, corruption and intimidation etc. in Rotherham in the UK. Good for Andrew Norfolk of the Times and Rotherham Politics blog etc. for not letting this rest despite them pursuing this since 2010 with local and national governments, children's charities etc. etc. The cover-ups on this and disregard to the victims is mind-boggling.

http://rotherhampolitics.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/akhtara-spider-at-the-centre-of-the-taxi-trade-web/

Akhtar…a spider at the centre of the taxi trade web

(Rotherham councillor Jahangir Akhtar resigned a year ago - see story on this below - sab.)

In 2002 a raid on Risky Business office, files held there were shredded. These files formed the basis of a report that revealed the extent of CSE in Rotherham. This report named names, schools and other places where young girls, and we now know maybe boys, were approached.

It also named taxi firms involved in both grooming and the transportation of young girls for the purposes of their prostitution. Taxi drivers were critical to the industrialization of CSE, moving girls around sometimes even between towns.

Much has been made of Akhtars aggressive role in the Council, however what mustn’t be forgotten is his senior role in the local Taxi business.

For many years he was leader of the Taxi Drivers association, and himself was joint owner of a private hire firm. He is notorious among drivers for somehow getting himself a highly lucrative disabled taxi permit. Very cheaply.

Akhtar is now denying having knowledge of the extent of grooming until 2013, and by implication how taxis were used in the abuse and prostitution. Personally, I find this incredible.

more at link

http://rotherhampolitics.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/labour-biraderi-corruption-and-child-sexual-abuse-joining-the-dots/

Labour, Biraderi, Corruption and Child Sexual Abuse: Joining the Dots

Posted on August 29, 2014 by rothpol

Once the Mirpuri/ Pakistani community in Britain started to politically organise its leaders found the UK highly fertile ground for the introduction of political practices imported from their homeland.

Specifically I am talking about the close links between organised crime, politics based in caste and clan and the protection of the misogynistic male dominance within their own community; inevitably this ended up protecting sexual criminals.

A culture where the clan (Biraderi) leaders effectively abuse religion and family ties to enrich themselves , abusing their own community by deliberately building up fear of kafir (non Muslim outsiders) to make them toe the community leadership line. The likes of EDL, BNP and UKIP are a gift to a Biraderi leadership who canscare their own by saying “that’s what awaits if you leave our nest”.

Another tactic of the leadership is to be seen with white figures of power, because poor and ill-educated people understand power in a way that the empowered middle classes don’t. They are sending out messages: look at me, I can look after you, I can do things, don’t challenge me, I am more important than you.

Here we must make an important point that the Biraderi system and the criminal leadership are equally damaging for those within their own community. The inherent misogyny and mafia like threats to exclude and punish those who broke the code of silence means many crimes going unreported, many young Pakistani girls raped and then disinherited.

For those who choose to look there has been a build of evidence for many years that much of the political leadership coming forward from of the Pakastani/Mirpur community is corrupt, especially in inner town and city wards. Inevitably this local organisation has polluted the whole body of the Labour Party.

There is no excuse for the Labour Party nationally and locally turning a blind eye to these corrupt practices. In a meeting with Bradford Muslim women Ed Miliband actually promised that the Party would no longer depend upon the Biraderi leadership as its source of reference for the Muslim community.

Perhaps what Ed didn’t confront, or understand is that here we are talking about criminality and the tolerance of criminality for self -interest. In Rotherham that interest was the 2000 votes, guaranteeing the re-election of Labour Councillors and MP.

The crimes, including sex crimes are nothing to do with Islam or mystical cultural differences. It is never a question of the Labour party “tolerating the difference”, it was about too many in the party wanting to garner the block votes that come through the Biraderi.

The same power of the Biraderi leadership that oppressed their own communities and protect organised crime was what has attracted the Labour Party; they could use their control to deliver the vote. The only price for many in the Labour is wilfully turning a blind eye, and justifying it as an equalities issue.

and

Rotherham Council Paid Paedophile Taxi Drivers To Pick Up Vulnerable Girls.

…And despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of the taxi drivers sexually abusing young girls were of ‘Pakistani Heritage’ the only driver banned from driving the children was “white”.

From BBC’s Today Radio Programme [29/08/2014]

and

http://rotherhampolitics.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/akhtar-and-the-scene-of-the-crime/

Akhtar and the scene of the crime

Posted on August 27, 2014 by rothpol

The case of Jessica was one of those Rotherham Child Sex Abuse cases reported by Andrew Norfolk in the Times. Jessica claims that when she was abducted from a Children’s Services foster home her abductor and sexual abuser was allowed to go free, un-prosecuted. She further alleged that his freedom resulted from a deal done by former Councillor Jahangir Akhtar to secure a non-prosecution deal in return for her release.

The perpetrator, Ash Hussain, was a close family friend of Akhtars, so close that once when in hospital he named Akhtars address as his home.

She stated that when she was handed over to Police Akhtar was stood nearby and that is was probably Akhtar who arranged for her abuser to be taken home.

Publicly Akhtar focused on the Police assessing whether or not he had done anything illegal despite it never being suggested by the Times that he hsd donr. The allegation was culpability not illegality.

more at link

and one year ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-23820054

23 August 2013 (a year later and the cover-ups are only becoming to come out).

Rotherham councillor Jahangir Akhtar steps down over claims

Allegations against Jahangir Akhtar have been referred to the police

The deputy leader of Rotherham Council has stepped down over claims he knew about a relationship between a girl in care and a suspected child abuser.

Jahangir Akhtar's decision follows the publication of one woman's account of being allowed contact with the alleged abuser from 1999, when aged 14.

The Times newspaper reported Mr Akhtar is related to the alleged offender and was aware of their relationship.

Mr Akhtar said he was resigning out of "courtesy". He denies the claims.

The Labour councillor said he was also standing down as vice-chairman of the Police and Crime Panel, which scrutinises the local force.

Mr Akhtar said: "I am standing down temporarily as deputy leader of the Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and as vice-chairman of the Police and Crime Panel as a matter of courtesy to those agencies to resolve any inquiry as quickly as possible."

A spokesman for Rotherham Council said: "The council has referred the allegations made in the Times newspaper relating to Councillor Akhtar to South Yorkshire Police to consider if any criminal offence has been committed and to undertake any appropriate criminal investigation."

'Predatory men'
South Yorkshire Police said it had begun an investigation but would not comment further until it was complete.

Mr Akhtar's decision to step down comes as lawyers for four women said they were set to sue Rotherham Council for "systematic failures to protect them from sexual abuse by predatory men" when they were children.

One of the women, now in her 20s, told the Times she began a relationship with a 24-year-old man, who had served two prison sentences for violent offences, in 1999, when she was 14.

It is understood the man twice made the girl pregnant.

The newspaper said social services became aware before the relationship ended that the man was part of a ring of men suspected of abusing more than 40 young teenagers in Rotherham.

The article states that by June 2000, both police and social services knew the teenager, who had been placed in emergency foster care, was in a sexual relationship with the man.

'Fatal damage'
Lawyer David Greenwood, who is acting for some of the alleged victims, said: "It is very likely that my clients will be taking legal action against Rotherham Council and potentially the police for failing to protect them over a long period of time."

Police criticised The Times article, saying: "South Yorkshire Police deeply regrets the decision by The Times newspaper to publish an article about an ongoing, complex and highly sensitive investigation into matters of historic child sexual exploitation.

"The Times newspaper contacted South Yorkshire Police on Monday, 19 August announcing its intention to publish an article about these issues. In response, the force informed the newspaper that any such publication could seriously undermine and, at worst, cause fatal damage to this inquiry."

The Times said it published the story despite South Yorkshire Police's request because it "wants to see justice for child sex exploitation victims".

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The man who exposed Rotherham - Andrew Norfolk from the Times

Sabrina

3rd September 2014, 07:20

Snippets from Bejamin Fulford's 2 September blog covering stories already mentioned here. This is his take on it. Use your own judgement as with anything else but I don't like to dismiss everything because it's from Mr X or Mrs Y - or think it's all truth either. Lots of wheels within wheels, and nuggets of truth or disinfo allegedly in all sorts of things that get presented to us, but there's an unprecedented amount of unusual events at the moment perhaps:)...

http://americankabuki.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/benjamin-fulford-september-2-2014-china.html#more

CIA sources in Europe, meanwhile, are saying “a lot of people are going to be dead,” in the US as part of a big push to destroy the network of criminals responsible for 911, the destruction of Iraq, the spread of bio-weapons and other genocidal crimes.

The attempted murder last week of former FBI head Louis Freeh was probably part of the campaign, the sources said. Freeh was deeply involved in the 911 mass murder event, multiple sources agree

Pope Francis is also under attack and P2 freemason sources are saying there is evidence he is being hit with a slow acting poison that causes neurological damage. The pope is being attacked because he is revoking special immunity from prosecution for war criminals like Tony Blair and George Bush Jr, the sources say.

There is also a lot of financial warfare taking place both in public and in secret these days. In public, the FBI accused Russia of hacking the financial computer networks of J.P. Morgan and other major US financial institutions. This attack came after many suspicious deaths of executives involved in running J.P. Morgan’s financial computer

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-27/fbi-said-to-be-probing-whether-russia-tied-to-jpmorgan-hacking.html..........

Also, in what is probably part of a campaign to remove her, IMF head Christine Lagarde announced she was being investigated by French prosecutors for fraud. The IMF under Lagarde, of course, remains unfunded and unreformed mainly because the US corporate government refuses to give up its control of it..............

Most important of all, the US military is no longer allowing itself to be manipulated into war for the Nazionist oligarchs. Remember, the pentagon refused to bomb Syria and is refusing to attack Russia over the Ukraine. Message to the Feds: you are not going to get out of the trouble this time by starting another war.

full story at link above

Sabrina

3rd September 2014, 07:36

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/former-deputy-leader-of-rotherham-council-jahangir-akhtar-and-cllr-shaukat-ali-kicked-out-of-labour-party/

UK 2 Sept - more on the Rotherham child abuse/grooming scandals unfolding (suppressed for years)

Former Deputy Leader Of Rotherham Council Jahangir Akhtar And Cllr Shaukat Ali Kicked Out Of Labour Party

Cllr Roger Stone and Cllr Gwendoline Ann Russell have also been kicked out.

If my focus is on the councillors of Pakistani heritage, I hope that decision will be understood in the context of previous posts.

Sky News:

The Labour Party has suspended four members in the wake of a report into the Rotherham child abuse scandal.

Jahangir Akhtar and councillors Roger Stone, Gwendoline Ann Russell and Shaukat Ali will now be investigated by the party.

Labour said in a statement: “As Ed Miliband made clear last week large numbers of young in Rotherham were systematically abused and then let down by those who should have protected them.

“It cannot be allowed to stand.”

The announcement follows a damning report which revealed more than 1,400 children were victims of abuse in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.

The Jay report highlighted widespread failings at both Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police.

and

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/letter-to-sarah-champion-mp-and-john-healey-mp-about-jahangir-akhtar/

From the excellent Rotherham Politics blog.

Today, former deputy leader of Rotherham council Jahangir Akhhtar was kicked out of the Labour Party but two Labour MPs Sarah Champion and John Healey were aware of serious allegations leveled against him at least a year ago.

I’ll contact both members of parliament and ask what action they took after receiving this letter.

article and letter at the link

and

A mayor has resigned after a taxi driver he personally vouched for was found to have been convicted of rape.

Milton Keynes’ mayor Subhan Shafiq had described his “friend”, who had been convicted of four sexual assaults, as being of “good current character”.

But last week, a member of the public raised concerns about the driver, and his licence was revoked.

Milton Keynes council said it had “taken rapid steps” to keep passengers safe.

The chair and vice-chair of the licensing committee, Gladstone McKenzie and Stuart Burke, have also stepped down.

BBC News 1 Sept

Sabrina

3rd September 2014, 07:52

http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/the-mysterious-rotherham-child-abuse-scandal/

More on the current UK Rotherham child abuse scandal, the framing of it, distractions, manipulation etc. etc. A lot of that around just now - just look at the celebrity nude pix hacking - yawn - yeah right - but some say: 'There's child porn in the massive celebrity nudes hack.'

The mysterious Rotherham child-abuse scandal

BY THECOLEMANEXPERIENCE

The shocking scale of child-abuse against vulnerable white girls in Rotherham has been exposed.

The abuse was carried out by vile Asian gangs who preyed on the youngsters whilst they were in care.

Girls were subjected to extreme violence when they tried to speak out about their suffering.

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/rotherham-child-abuse-bigger-picture.html

South Yorkshire Police, along with the council and local politicians, have been accused of a massive cover-up lasting over 16 years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207756/Police-turned-blind-eye-South-Yorkshire-sex-grooming-gangs-decade.html#ixzz27OC5Da53i

By a strange coincidence, just days before the controversial report was released, South Yorks Police took part in a ‘botched’ raid on Cliff Richard’s home, which drew widespread criticism from the media.

Was the raid planned to coincide with the report in order to show the police in a negative light and cast doubt on their ‘evidence’ about Cliff?

South Yorkshire Police were also involved in the disgusting lies and accusations surrounding innocent fans who died in the Hillsborough football stadium tragedy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hillsborough-coverup-worse-than-first-thought-8706527.html

Shortly before Parliament’s summer recess, Theresa May and David Cameron were under increasing pressure to open an inquiry into VIP paedophile-rings operating within the UK.

May conveniently appointed Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, to head the inquiry, knowing full-well that she had a tarnished past and would never be accepted by abuse victims and campaigners.

As planned, the inquiry was shelved for the foreseeable future, which has allowed Mi5 much-needed time to concoct one of their notorious smoke and mirrors cover-ups and ensure that no high-ranking politicians or members of royalty are exposed as paedophiles.

The Rotherham scandal has given the British public a new focus to vent their anger on.

After all, it’s certainly much more palatable to have immigrants and foreigners to blame for paedophilia, instead of having to face the horrifying fact that our children are also being raped by the cream of British Society.

The scandal has also managed to take the pressure off Leon Brittan and Greville Janner, who were both in the spotlight due to historic rape allegations resurfacing.

The security services in this country are desperately hoping they can keep a lid on the true scale of Britain’s paedophile rings for as long as possible.

By only exposing Asian gangs ( who may ironically be employed by them in the first place), Mi5 and their pals in the media are falsely turning this into a race -issue when it’s much more serious than that.

Thousands upon thousands of British children have been, and are still being, abused every single day in this ****-hole of a country, on a monumentally widespread and organised scale.

Many of these children are also murdered.

The abuse is perpetrated by royals, judges, MP’s, Lords, solicitors, members of the police and armed forces, showbiz stars and businessmen, to name but a few.

The Rotherham scandal was disgusting and it’s filthy perpetrators deserve everything that’s coming to them, but by focussing so heavily on one particular ring, remember this.

At this very moment, many high-ranking paedophiles are laughing their heads off because they’ve managed to evade justice whilst we’ve become distracted.

And that’s exactly the way Mi5 want it.

Of course, if they think we’ll stop fighting for the truth to be uncovered after all these years though, they’re even thicker than we thought.

The battle isn’t over yet you murderous, traitorous, paedophilic scum.

It hasn’t even f*****g begun.

30 Aug

Sabrina

3rd September 2014, 10:37

Even the Council on Foreign Relations Is Saying It: Time to Rain Money on Main Street

By Ellen Brown, BlackListedNews, September 1, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/ke8gamg

US

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else. —Winston Churchill

When an article appears in Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece of the policy-setting Council on Foreign Relations, recommending that the Federal Reserve do a money drop directly on the 99%, you know the central bank must be down to its last bullet.

The September/October issue of Foreign Affairs features an article by Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan titled “Print Less But Transfer More: Why Central Banks Should Give Money Directly To The People.”

It’s the sort of thing normally heard only from money reformers and Social Credit enthusiasts far from the mainstream. What’s going on?

The Fed, it seems, has finally run out of other ammo. It has to taper its quantitative easing program, which is eating up the Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities needed as collateral for the repo market that is the engine of the bankers’ shell game.

The Fed’s Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) has also done serious collateral damage. The banks that get the money just put it in interest-bearing Federal Reserve accounts or buy foreign debt or speculate with it; and the profits go back to the 1%, who park it offshore to avoid taxes. Worse, any increase in the money supply from increased borrowing increases the overall debt burden and compounding finance costs, which are already a major constraint on economic growth.

Meanwhile, the economy continues to teeter on the edge of deflation. The Fed needs to pump up the money supply and stimulate demand in some other way. All else having failed, it is reduced to trying what money reformers have been advocating for decades — get money into the pockets of the people who actually spend it on goods and services.

article at link

Sabrina

3rd September 2014, 10:43

Halliburton to Pay $1.1 BIllion for US Gulf Spill

From AlJazeera – September 2, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/kn5jqcy

Halliburton says it has agreed to pay $1.1bn to settle a substantial portion of claims arising from its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The settlement announced on Tuesday would be paid in three installments into a trust until appeals are resolved over the next two years. It is subject to court approval.

Halliburton was BP’s cement contractor on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf in April 2010. The blast killed 11 workers and triggerred the largest offshore oil spill in US history with 4.9 million barrels of oil spilling into the sea.

Halliburton was responsible for the placement of “centralisers” that help stabilise the well bore during cementing. It had earlier blamed BP’s decision to use only six centralisers – to save “time and money” – for the blowout.

The deal will settle claims assigned to Halliburton as a result of BP’s settlement in 2012 and punitive damages from the loss of property or commercial fishing activity resulting from the oil spill.

Rig contractor Transocean, which employed nine of the workers killed, agreed to pay $1.4bn in settlement last year, while BP has paid about $28bn so far.

Sabrina

7th September 2014, 16:18

Enjoying the main stream media starting to report on-going perceived attempts to stop a proper enquiry into UK´s child abuse linked to high profile figures.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746370/Revealed-New-boss-investigation-VIP-child-abuse-claims-linked-Leon-Brittan-The-Mail-On-Sunday-exposes-family-friendship-SECOND-inquiry-chief-ex-MP-accused-abuse-file-cover-up.html

7 Sept UK

Revealed: New boss of investigation into VIP child abuse claims is linked to Leon Brittan: The Mail On Sunday exposes family friendship of SECOND inquiry chief with the ex-MP accused of abuse file cover-up

Fiona Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, appointed to carry out role of investigating claims of an Establishment cover-up of VIP paedophile rings

The previous chairman Baroness Butler-Schloss stood down because her brother, Michael Havers, tried to dissuade a Tory MP publicly naming a paedophile

Home Office last night refused to answer questions about what it had known about Mrs Woolf’s links to Lord Brittan

The new chairman of a long-awaited Government inquiry into historic child sex abuse was facing calls to resign last night after The Mail on Sunday discovered her astonishing links to Leon Brittan – a key figure embroiled in the scandal.

Fiona Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, was appointed to carry out the important role of investigating claims of an Establishment cover-up of VIP paedophile rings on Friday, two months after the original chairman was forced to step down over conflicts of interest.

But this newspaper has found that the top corporate lawyer is also closely linked to Lord Brittan – who is likely to give evidence to her inquiry. It can be revealed that she:

Sits on the board of a City of London conference with Lord Brittan, who is accused of overseeing an Establishment cover-up when he was Home Secretary;

Judges an annual City award scheme alongside Lord Brittan’s wife, Diana;

Gave Lord Brittan’s wife a £50 donation and a friendly good-luck message when she took part in a charity fun run last year;

Has been a neighbour of Lord and Lady Brittan in the same exclusive London street for the past decade;

Is a governor of the elite Guildhall School of Music where pupils are said to have been abused;

Is a patron of a body for female lawyers along with Labour’s Harriet Harman, whose National Council of Civil Liberties once had links to a notorious paedophile group

full story at link

Sabrina

10th September 2014, 07:44

Former US Ambassador to UN Suspected of Money Laundering

RT.com, September 8, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/pb3qsdx

The man who previously served as the United States’ ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations is reportedly being investigated by authorities in the US for allegedly laundering nearly one-and-a-half million dollars.

Austria’s weekly news magazine, Profil, first reported on Monday that the former envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, is the subject of a probe being conducted by the US Department of Justice, according to previously unpublished court documents. Thomas Vecsey, an Austrian state prosecutor, has since verified that claim to the Associated Press.

Khalilzad, 63, served as the twenty-sixth US ambassador of the UN from 2007 through 2009, and prior to then was America’s envoy to Iraq and Afghanistan under President George W. Bush — and thus the highest-ranking Muslim American to serve in the Bush administration.

He is currently the president and CEO of Khalilzad Associates, a division of the DC-based Gryphon Partners group that bills itself as a global advisory firm focused on frontier markets and, according to Bloomberg News, is also on the board of two petroleum companies — one based in the UAE and another in the UK.

According to Profil, Khalilzad is accused of illegally transferring around $1.4 million to a bank account administered by his wife, social scientist and author Cheryl Benard. The funds, the magazine reported, are believed to be linked to activities involving Khalilzad and companies in Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, and were transferred to his wife in May 2013.

On Monday, Bloomberg reported that “the documents alleging the misconduct were part of a cache of sensitive papers retrieved from a garbage bin earlier this year by a Vienna-based blogger.”

When reached for comment by the New York Times, a spokesperson for the state prosecutors’ office in Vienna said only that a case was underway involving Ms. Benard. Holger Bielesz, an Austrian-based lawyer for the woman, told the paper that an unspecific number of his client’s accounts were frozen in February upon request of the DOJ, corroborating claims published first in Profil about Ms. Benard’s finances.

Bielesz, according to the AP, “argued Austrian authorities had over-reacted in ordering Benard’s bank accounts frozen, considering that the Justice Department has yet to express ‘reasonable grounds for suspicions.”

As of now, the lawyer added, US authorities have failed to produce any “concrete evidence” against either Khalilzad or his wife. According to a tweet sent on Monday by Washington Post deputy national security editor Jason Ukman, representatives for Khalilzad and his wife say they “vigorously” contest Austria’s seizure of assets, and added that no charges are currently pending “in the US or elsewhere.”

Sabrina

12th September 2014, 09:39

ITCCS News Flash: Highest catholic official in Ireland resigns after public exposure

Posted on September 9, 2014 Ireland

Irish Cardinal Sean Brady to step down

Dublin, September 9, 2014: Cardinal Sean Brady offered his resignation today after it was recently revealed that he forced an 11 year old rape victim to sign a statement denying that he was molested and assaulted by catholic priests. This exposure of Brady happened recently on Sean Maguire’s blog radio program featuring ITCCS spokesman Kevin Annett and eyewitnesses to Brady’s action.

In related news, the ITCCS and its common law courts are convening a public inquiry this month into Cardinal Brady’s attempted cover up of the mass killing of newborn babies at a catholic home in Tuam, Ireland. The remains of over 800 babies were discovered months ago in a cistern connected to the catholic home. Stay tuned for updates at www.itccs.org .

and

http://itccs.org/2014/09/09/a-special-commentary-update-on-the-deposing-of-irish-cardinal-sean-brady/

A Special Commentary-Update on the Deposing of Irish Cardinal Sean Brady

Posted on September 9, 2014

The Maggots are Dropping like Flies: A Requiem for Cardinal Sean Brady, as the Papal Mess Falls

by Kevin D. Annett

9 September, 2014

Life is tough these days for that growing constitutency known as deposed catholic hierarchs.

Ask Sean Brady. One moment he’s riding high as Ireland’s top papal cop, dining with Presidents and smiling for the cameras; then in a twinkling, he’s out on his ass, wondering what the bejazuz went wrong.

Brady got forcibly retired yesterday by a swift kick from a pair of papal brogans after the news broke across Ireland about a particular indiscretion of his, years ago.

Forcing an eleven year old church rape victim to sign a statement that it never happened is one of the sad but necessary jobs of any catholic priest – and they all do it, or protect those who do. It’s a canon law requirement to protect the in house kiddy rapists, after all. But when Brady did so to young Brendan Boland, who had been raped by a priest named Brendan Smyth who went on to violate kids for years afterwards, the little victim did the unusual thing years later and wrote a book about it called “Sworn to Silence”. And the whole story hit the internet this week on Sean Maguire’s Galway-based radio show featuring yours truly.

Sean Maguire, you see, is Brendan Boland’s cousin. Slam dunk.

Cardinal Brady is the fourth top Vatican official since 2013 to step down while in office after their crimes against the innocent were exposed by our Tribunal. Count ‘em: Pope Benedict (Joe the Rat Ratzinger), followed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then Jesuit head Adolfo Pachon, and now Seanie boy. Even that cute media-crafted Pope Francis, another convicted felon who likes to traffic children and even worse, is nervously talking of quitting these days.

Now don’t start pitying the motley crew. Retired clergy, especially those who prove their “right stuff” by their abominable acts, end up in cushy retirement sinecures where they can compose the kind of self-serving epistles on church reform that Martin Luther once eloquently compared to “farts laced with perfume”. But Sean Brady is no ordinary out-to-pasture crook. He’d become a major liability to Rome’s desperate PR effort to sweeten the smell of all those little corpses.

For one thing, Brady was the moving force behind Ireland’s latest cover up of mass murder, after the remains of 800 babies were discovered in a cistern at a catholic orphanage in Tuam. According to a Dublin church insider, Brady and his assistant Archbishop Dermot Martin – now his successor in crime – have kept a lid on any Gardai police inquiry into the Tuam grave site with payoffs to politicians, threats against eyewitnesses and the usual misinformation campaign in Ireland’s trained-seal corporate media.

Well that was all fine and good, and the definite papal modus operandi. But Brady got personally involved in the whole mess, which is never a good thing for someone with a tainted past. Apparently he tried pressuring some of the cops who tried acting like cops to back off from poking around the Tuam cistern. And one of the Gardai in question got royally pissed off in response and broke the real story to one of our people in Dublin.

That story, simply, is that an initial forensic examination of the babies’ remains at Tuam found that many of the skeletons had been decapitated and dismembered, in the manner of sacrificial rituals. And Brady’s determination to keep that fact quiet suggests an obvious link to the group probably responsible for the killings: the infamous catholic Ninth Circle cult whose routine, ritual slaying of newborns is based, according to participants, in Belgium, Holland, and Ireland.

With all that surfacing of those inconvenient corpses, Sean Brady had to go, and quickly, to allow the Vatican spin to win.

Be that as it may, Sean Brady belongs behind bars, along with every child raping and rapist-protecting priest in Ireland. And that’s the job of the newly-convened Common Law Court of Galway, which will be investigating and prosecuting everyone responsible for the Tuam child massacre, and its coverup.

I’m not surprised that this madness is provoking the Beast to once again lash out at our efforts and at me personally, as we move closer to ending their reign of terror. That’s what happens in a war. But we know that we are now on the winning side.

In the words of our Republican friends and ancestors, Tiocfaidh ár lá: Our Day Will Come. In truth, it already has.

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Kevin Annett’s great grandfather, Daniel Edward O’Neill, , was the sole survivor of a “coffin ship” of Irish refugees who landed as an orphan at age ten in Montreal. Like any child of Erin, Kev is perfecting his back stroke in anticipation of some serious head taking.

www.KevinAnnett.com
www.itccs.org

and

http://itccs.org/2014/09/10/transcript-of-anne-marie-van-blijenburghs-testimony-about-child-murders-in-belgium/

Transcript of Anne Marie van Blijenburgh’s testimony about child murders in Belgium

Posted on September 10, 2014 Belgium

Issued by The International Common Law Court of Justice, Brussels

Copyright ITCCS 2014. All rights reserved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbhMfZRhsXw&feature=youtu.be

My name is Anne Marie van Blijenburgh. I have been married for twenty four years to Kees van Korlaar. Together with his three brothers, Kees van Korlaar forms a criminal organization known as the Octopus Syndicate (ed. Note: This is a slang term in Holland for Ndrangheta, the modern Italian -based Mafia). They have worked from 1960 on to today. By order of Queen Beatrix they have organized the murder, torture, rape and killing of children in a public setting. They organized that through youth detention centers in the Netherlands.

full story at link

Sabrina

12th September 2014, 10:17

Frack Free Sussex - 11 September - UK

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AMAZING NEWS FOR SUSSEX THIS MORNING!!!!! The application by Celtique Energy to drill at Fernhurst has been UNANIMOUSLY REFUSED by the South Downs National Park Planning Committee. Campaigners wept tears of relief and joy at this mornings decision. A Massive THANK YOU to everyone who objected to the application! MORE NEWS SOON!!!

Sabrina

12th September 2014, 10:22

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/all-money-in-the-world-cant-make-up-for-what-we-took-nazareth-children-were-wronged-admits-nun-30580973.html

'All money in the world can't make up for what we took...' Nazareth children were wronged, admits nun

12 Sept Ireland

Catholic children who were selected for migration "to populate Australia" had been done a "grave injustice", the Sisters of Nazareth religious order has admitted.

Abandoned, orphaned or illegitimate children were given a "glowing report" of what life would be like for them in Australia and were selected by the order as long as they were white, "(had) good health and good stock", the Historical Abuse Inquiry heard yesterday.

The admission came from the congregation's spokeswoman as she gave evidence to the Banbridge inquiry concerning the placement of 111 children from its homes in Belfast and Londonderry in Australian institutions in the 1940s and 1950s.

Sister Brenda McCall acknowledged the lasting impact of the migration scheme on the children and told the inquiry: "With hindsight, the congregation regrets the grave injustice done to these children in sending them out, not just the children but to their families as well.

"The most eloquent apology, or the most beautiful monument, or no matter how much money they receive, will ever make up for what we took away from them."

The nun went on to say she knew that some of the children had made good lives for themselves in Australia as adults.

However, from having spoken to some of these adults in Australia, she realised that they had still had, "this 'what if, what if I had stayed in Ireland?'" on their minds.

"We have to acknowledge – the government, the British government, the Australian government, the churches, the congregations, the institutions – we all have to put our hands up and acknowledge that maybe it wasn't the right thing even though it was thought to be in the best interests of the child at the time," Sr McCall said.

The children were selected on the basis that the move to Australia was "in betterment" for them and the Sisters of Nazareth were responding to a need by the Australian and British governments at the time for young people to help populate the country.

The inquiry heard from a written statement from a 102-year-old nun that: "My memory is that a Christian Brother sent by the British Council came in to say that the government wanted Catholic children to populate Australia."

Sr McCall further told the inquiry that her order was informed by the Australian government that: "The children had to be white. That was the first thing.

"They had to have good health and good stock." She said that in the middle of 1947, the Australian government told them that they were sending "substandard children" and they were then required to give potential immigrants IQ tests.

The inquiry also heard that one of the Christian Brothers congregation had given a classroom of boys a "glowing report" of what life would be like for them in Australia and they were asked to put their hands up if they wanted to go.

Sr McCall refuted the suggestion that her order received any payment for the placement of the young children and said that their travel costs were paid for by the Australian government.

At hearing.

Background

The Historical Abuse Inquiry being held in Banbridge, Co Down, is investigating the alleged physical and sexual abuse and neglect suffered by children who were cared for in a range of religious and state-run residential institutions in Northern Ireland from 1922-95.

It began looking at the institutions run by the Sisters of Nazareth in Londonderry and Belfast and then went on to hear evidence from children who were sent to Australia to live in religious-run institutions there.

Sabrina

15th September 2014, 21:05

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-09/13/c_126981640.htm

Britain to include China's RMB as foreign currency reserve

LONDON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced Friday that the British government intend to issue a Renminbi denominated bond and to use the proceeds to finance the government's reserves of foreign currency.

"I can now announce that the UK government intend to be the first national government outside of China to issue a bond in China's currency. We issued bonds in U.S. dollar before, now we will be issuing a bond in RMB," said Osborne in the press release of the Sixth China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD).

Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai and Osborne concluded the meeting of the Sixth China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue in London.

Osborne described this dialogue outcome as "a historic moment" and a statement of British confidence in the potential of the RMB to become "the main global reserves currency".

"And let me be clear, as China becomes a bigger and bigger part of the world economy, their currency is going to be used around the world. We here in Britain understand that, and we want us to be the first country in the west to seize the opportunities that it will bring," declared Osborne.

Meanwhile, the issuance of Chinese currency bond means jobs and investment in Britain, which the government's long-term economic plan is all about, noted Osborne.

Sabrina

15th September 2014, 21:38

http://beforeitsnews.com/celebrities/2014/09/nicole-kidmans-father-dies-amid-pedophile-child-murder-ring-allegations-video-2469854.html

Nicole Kidman’s Father Dies Amid Pedophile, Child Murder ring allegations (video)

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Dr. Antony Kidman died Friday after fleeing Australia when accused of the sexual abuse and murder of children in an elite Sydney pedophile ring. A month prior Fiona Barnett had filed a complaint with the Australian NSW police and Child Abuse Royal Commission alleging Kidman’s sexual and physical assaults on her throughout childhood. When the Commission opened an investigation the clinical psychologist suddenly left his 43 years with the Sydney University of Technology and Royal North Shore Hospital to stay in Singapore until he died. The family has refused to comment and Singapore police opened an investigation on what they termed as an unnatural death.

Yesterday Barnett released her own theory about Kidman’s death,” The main perpetrator of my child sexual abuse, Antony Kidman, is dead after I filed formal complaints accusing him of the rape, torture and murder of children in an exclusive Sydney pedophile ring. As a child victim of mind control I feel he’s been sacrificed for failing to adequately program me.”

“Kidman was responsible for ensuring that I never disclosed pedophile ring activities that I witnessed as a child,” she continued. “He failed. News of Kidman’s death impacted me, someone who has undergone intense treatment. I know that there are other victims of Kidman’s crimes out there who are perhaps not as far along the healing path as I am. I anticipate that news of Kidman’s death may have a serious impact on these victims. A perpetrator’s death can even trigger suicidal ideation.

“My complaints last month to the Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission detailed two incidents in which Kidman subjected me to horrific physical and sexual assault” Barnett said. “But there are even more serious crimes against children that I witnessed Kidman commit as a member of the elite Sydney pedophile ring. Those complaints have gone to the International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels.”

full story at link

Sabrina

16th September 2014, 06:48

Love the way he nails the creation of a perpetual state of war and war crimes created by the West :)...

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KiwiElf

16th September 2014, 08:18

Snowden exposes GCSB & NSA's covert spying in NZ - Our worst fears proven true
By James Robins, Yahoo New Zealand September 16, 2014, 3:34 pm

(Also created on a separate thread but important enough it should go here too - KE)

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/opinion/post/-/blog/25003999/our-worst-fears-proven-true/

Forget Kim Dotcom’s stupid blustering and the obscenely misleading event he conducted last night at the Auckland Town Hall. Forget Julian Assange’s ridiculous rambling about the “deep state”. Forget Robert Amsterdam’s alarming speculation about American hegemony. Forget the Internet Mana Party’s opportunistic hijacking of a serious issue.

The whole affair was pointless in the extreme. It smothered the most critically important revelations to emerge about a New Zealand government in generations.

The Intercept’s report yesterday, written by Glenn Greenwald by use of Edward Snowden’s trove of leaked National Security Agency (NSA) documents, is a damning expose of our political elite which has deceived and mislead the public.

The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has used technology and methods created by the NSA which has undermined democracy and basic civil liberties in this country, and we should feel a deep sense of indignation that our worst fears have been proven true.

Some context: Last year, after it had been revealed that Kim Dotcom and 88 other New Zealanders had been illegally spied on by the GCSB, the Prime Minister promised reforms which would clarify and clear up surveillance law. That new bill was “not about expanding the powers of a mysterious intelligence empire," John Key insisted. "It simply makes clear what the GCSB may and may not do.”

The Law Society and QC Rodney Harrison angrily disagreed. The proposal was “inconsistent with the rights to freedom of expression and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure”, and the bill was forced through Parliament in a way that “degrades the democratic quality of the legislative process.”

Greenwald’s reporting has utterly vindicated this assessment.

Together, Snowden and Greenwald emphasise the way in which Key refuted public fears of an unprecedented expansion in spying powers, while presiding over an agency which was doing precisely that.

Rather than prosecute, censure, or even chastise those responsible for breaking the law in the first instance, the decision was made to use the GCSB’s horrendous breach of trust as an excuse: to radically widen the State’s power, and retroactively legalise the previous wrongdoing.

While waiting for the bill to pass (eventually by two votes), Greenwald’s reporting reveals the government was actively participating with the NSA to tap and probe the undersea cables which links New Zealand’s internet infrastructure to the rest of the globe. This is known by the codename ‘Speargun’. Wholesale collection of data (both meta and otherwise) was the chief goal, and we have every reason to believe this has become an everyday occurrence.

This is sinister and morally corrupt in the extreme.

Not only did the Prime Minister mislead the public about the nature of that law change, he continues to mislead the public about whether mass surveillance of New Zealanders has occurred.

This troubling fact was raised by Edward Snowden himself in an excoriating companion piece for The Intercept. “If you live in New Zealand, you are being watched,” he says. “The prime minister’s claim to the public, that ‘there is no and there never has been any mass surveillance’ is false.” [sic]

The validity of Snowden’s claim rests on knowledge of a program called ‘X-Keyscore’, a “wide-ranging” system which requires no court warrant and no prior approval of senior intelligence officials. There are no ‘checks and balances’.

The program, according to Glenn Greenwald, “covers ‘nearly everything a typical user does on the internet’, including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata.” This can range from the wholesale collection of text messages, emails, and Facebook meassages, to precise details of travel plans and contact books.

According to a joint Channel 4/Guardian investigation, more than 800,000 financial transactions “either through text-to-text payments or linking credit cards to phone users” are intercepted every single day.

Some members of the public will no doubt concede that this is an important thing. Indeed, every intelligence program run by the Five Eyes countries is publicly justified because it ‘prevents terrorism’ or ‘defends against cyber-attacks.’

But this absolutely necessary protection has been undermined by the indiscriminate collection of anyone’s data. New Zealand’s principal spy agency plays a role in a global surveillance apparatus which consumes information regardless of merit.

There are justifications for mass surveillance which do not comply with the narrow definition of ‘terrorism’ or ‘cyber-attacks’: Various agencies have spied on private economic interests like the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono all had their private phones tapped.

Most alarmingly, ostensibly innocent and unsuspecting international organisations have been spied on, including the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund, and Medecins du Monde.

What possible justification could there be for targeting non-partisan aid agencies?

After all of these revelations, after all of these admissions of guilt, the principal failing of our government is thus: they conducted their business in secret, subverting our undeniable right to information.

If the public are comfortable with their online connections and communications being hoovered up by vast apparatuses of the State, why would John Key not explain it accordingly? Why would John Key say one thing and do the complete opposite? Why would John Key lie over and over again if spying programs are so palatable to the public?

These are all remarkably important questions, and in the name of accountable and transparent government, we deserve answers. Now.

More from James Robins on Twitter: @James_ARobins

Sabrina

16th September 2014, 21:43

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2757596/BREAKING-NEWS-South-Yorkshire-police-crime-commissioner-Shaun-Wright-resigns-Rotherham-sex-abuse-scandal-weeks-pressure.html

16 Sept UK

South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner FINALLY resigns over Rotherham sex abuse scandal 'for sake of victims'… but gets to keep his pension

Shaun Wright was in charge of children's services before police role

He was told to stand down after damning report into child abuse

But he clung onto his £85,000 role for weeks, insisting he had support

Mr Wright finally resigned today, claiming it was 'for the sake of victims'

But it emerged he will keep his pension, which he can claim aged just 55

He has been harangued in public meetings since the inquiry reported

Calls for MP David Blunkett to take over role, but he insists: 'I'm an MP'

Shaun Wright has finally resigned as South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner after weeks of pressure over the Rotherham child abuse scandal.

The police official had caused widespread anger by his refusal to step down after an inquiry found 1,400 children had been abused in the area over a 16-year period.

In a statement released by his office today, Mr Wright claimed the media attention in the wake of the report was 'detracting from the important issue' of bringing criminals to justice and supporting victims.

full story at link

Sabrina

17th September 2014, 07:30

Angry crowd throw an MP in the bin - Finance Minister in Ukraine... Ok not a very loving thing to do to a fellow human, but sort of a symbol of what people are feeling about the lies and spin and war mongering empty rhetoric of many politicians out there (ah and Royals)...

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Sabrina

18th September 2014, 09:43

http://philosophyofmetrics.com/2014/09/17/separation-of-us-treasury-and-federal-reserve-begins/

ECONOMICS

SEPARATION OF US TREASURY AND FEDERAL RESERVE BEGINS

SEPTEMBER 17, US

H.R. 24 ‘Audit the Fed’ Bill Passes in House

By JC Collins

With all of the other economic and geopolitical events which are taking place this week we can now add the passage of the Audit the Fed bill in Congress. The bill was overwhelmingly passed with a margin of 333 to 92.

Congressman Ron Broun issued the following statement:

“Today’s passage of the Audit the Fed bill brings us one step closer towards bringing much-needed transparency to our nation’s monetary policy. For the past 100 years, the Federal Reserve, a quasi-government agency, has acted under a veil of secrecy – controlling our monetary policy and thus, our economy. While in recent years, the Fed has been granted a greater role in overseeing the regulation of our financial system, current law specifically prohibits audits of the Federal Reserve’s deliberations, decisions, or actions on monetary policy. This lack of accountability and transparency has led to grievous consequences – and it must end.

“I applaud my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats alike, for their support of this vital bill, and I commend my good friend and former colleague Dr. Ron Paul for his leadership on this important issue. I strongly encourage Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to recall his past support for this legislation – which he stated as recently as 2010 – and to bring this bill before the Senate for a vote, so we may deliver the transparency and government accountability the American people need and deserve.”

The full bill can be read here.
http://www.thewestwire.com/h-r-24-audit-the-fed-bill-passes-in-house/

Now that we are on the verge of the economic transition to the multilateral system it is only prudent for the US Government and Treasury to begin distancing itself from the Federal Reserve and start implementing the blame game.

Those who have been following my site since January will recognize the obvious pattern at play here. Congress has held up the passage of the legislation required to enact the 2010 IMF Code of Reforms which will restructure the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, allowing for the US Fed dollar to be removed as the primary reserve currency of the world and the SDR super-sovereign currency to be implemented in the role.

Another aspect of the 2010 Reforms will be to allow for the addition of the Chinese renminbi to the SDR basket value. The renminbi is quickly internationalizing and the Shanghai Gold Exchange is a major component of that process.

We are witnessing dramatic changes taking place this year and the hits keep coming. We can hardly go half a day now without another big economic or geopolitical story breaking. – JC

Sabrina

20th September 2014, 06:18

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/11110245/Goldman-Sachs-hits-back-against-Libyan-claims.html

19 Sept

Goldman Sachs hits back against Libyan claims

Wall Street bank responds to accusations that Libya's sovereign wealth fund was cheated out of more than $1bn during the Gaddafi era

Goldman Sachs has hit back at allegations that the Wall Street giant duped Libya’s $60bn sovereign wealth fund into trades that lost the country vast sums of money while making the bank hundreds of millions in profits.

In court documents filed this week, Goldman denied that the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) had been “financially illiterate” when entering into trades that proved worthless, and rejected claims that its bankers had cosied up to LIA officials. It is also claiming unspecified damages against the LIA.

The LIA is gearing up for separate London court battles against Goldman and the French bank Societe Generale, claiming they raked in huge fees and abused the fund’s trust during the Muammar Gaddafi era.

The LIA, created in the mid-2000s as the West gradually lifted sanctions on Gaddafi’s Libya, planned to grow to a $100bn wealth fund, but lost billions in trades executed by the banks when the financial crisis struck.

A $1.2bn investment in derivatives linked to the share prices of major banks and energy firms made by Goldman on the LIA’s behalf became almost worthless in 2008 as stock markets crashed around the world. The bank is said to have made a $350m profit on the deal.

more at the link

Sabrina

20th September 2014, 06:22

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/19/uk-scotland-independence-russia-idUKKBN0HE26O20140919?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

19 Sept ho ho...

Russian vote monitor denounces London pressure in Scottish 'no' vote

(Reuters) - The director of a pro-Kremlin vote monitoring agency which sent observers to Scotland's referendum denounced the result on Friday, saying Scots were pressured into rejecting independence to avoid comparisons with Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine.

"All strength and resources were thrown into preventing Scotland from splitting, and people were de facto threatened that if they secede...there will be all sorts of troubles," said Georgy Fyodorov, head of a Russian vote monitoring group.

"This influenced the decisive votes," Fyodorov said, adding that although the campaign was roughly in line with local laws, it was faulty. Fyodorov also said his three observers in Scotland had doubts over vote counting in some small polling stations that he said were run by supporters of the union.

Russian media had closely followed preparations for the Scottish vote, comparing them to referendums held in Crimea, before the Ukrainian territory's annexation by Russia, and in eastern Ukraine, known as the Donbass region.

Neither vote was recognised as legitimate by the West, but for many in Russia, a Scottish "Yes" vote would have been seen as legitimising separatist sentiments in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine, where Kiev accuses Russia of fanning violence.

"The British monarchy would not be able to recognise (a "yes" vote in Scotland) because then they would have to recognise that residents of Donbass want to split and they would have to recognise the Crimea referendum," Fyodorov told Reuters.

Residents of Crimea voted in March to join Russia, and the Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Luhansk held a referendum in May which vote organisers said showed that most wanted self-rule.

The international community refused to recognise the votes over numerous violations, and the West blames Moscow for fanning the violence in Ukraine. The Kremlin denies that and says the West uses double standards vis-a-vis Russia.

and

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/19/scotland-referendum-rigging-caught-in-secret-video/

Scotland: Referendum Rigging Caught in Secret Video

What Makes Great Britain “Great” Keeps the United Kingdom “United” by Gordon Duff

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40 million Scots weren’t allowed to vote in the referendum that ended up with a broad 10% “No” majority. Scotland made it clear, we are sticking with what many Scots, what some of us know to be a clear majority, refer to as “the festering corpse of England.”

If the video is correct as to type of ballot used, it would not be considered legal in any international election. Anyone could create a thousand of these in 20 minutes, they aren’t tracked by voter ID numbers, like paper ballots elsewhere, and their isn’t a concurrent computer record, though those, when used alone are easily hacked. This is the worst case of “low tech” vote rigging since Tammany Hall.

For those of us who have worked as election observers, the video is obvious. Were this an election in Ghana or the Ukraine, it would be internationally decertified immediately. Based on this video alone, it is not unreasonable for the international community to choose to recognize an independent Scotland that would and should form a government in exile.

Britain, of course, still has ancient laws that prohibit such things, laws protecting their neuvo-Germanic royals from attempts to question “their rule.” Any who can read or still turn on a television had deduced that Britain is ruled by child molesters long blackmailed by Israeli run media giants such as “News of the World.”

Who would want to leave something like that, who wouldn’t want Cameron or Tony Blair representing them. On his worst day, even the UKIP British, the pro-Israeli neo-Nazi hate group would rather see Obama as Prime Minister. After all, he is slightly less toadying and, if actually a Kenyan as some claim, qualified as by birth as well.

Last week I weighed in on behalf of independence, based on largely emotion and romanticism. I had heard George Galloway’s rationale for staying tied to Britain and found it utter bollocks and I like Galloway.

I have spent periods of my life in Britain, I work there, have friends across Britain and admire much about the British people. To Americans, they are truly “the cousins.” The Scots, on the other hand, are less welcoming, less warm. However, they are our family.

We aren’t going to be able to fix this problem with the referendum. I thank whoever took this video and hope it wasn’t staged at “bin Laden Studios” in Tel Aviv as so many hoaxes are. If it is not, and we will know that soon enough, there will be hell to pay.

The mainstream news will be fun to watch, just to see if they report any of it just before their own buildings are burned to the ground, which can very well happen under such circumstances. We have already seen the downing of flight MH17, a NATO/Ukraine false flag terror attack shuffled off the pages of the press after the humiliating attempt by the Dutch to bury the story under manure.

We will see if, by the end of the day, this video is seen on television across Scotland, debunked as a hoax or buried. Over the past week, we have had two interesting such snippets, the other being the blackmail murder threat against Reagan advisor Lee Wanta, a $30 billion blackmail attempt, largest in world history. The whole thing was recorded, played on radio, now released in the Russian press, sent to the FBI and not a word, though to American political fixers openly plot a murder in pretty incredible audio quality.

We are being tested. The Snowden release of the 2003 real 9/11 report was censored. Veterans Today is publishing recently declassified documents from America’s nuclear research laboratories showing that two generations of American scientists were educated in what Jim W. Dean calls “flat earth” physics.

Daily, we are seeing to what degree our history was stolen. Is the “referendum” the theft of the lives and honour of the Scottish people as well? If so, it won’t be the first time.

Sabrina

20th September 2014, 06:33

Journalists Hit Back with Anti-Spying Legal Challenge UK

By Will Fitzgibbon, ICIJ, September 15, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/km7h49b

A not-for-profit investigative journalism organization is legally challenging the British government, alleging that broad surveillance powers, including capturing journalists’ communications with foreign sources, are in breach of international law.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ), based in London, filed documents on Friday with the European Court of Human Rights. The Bureau is seeking a determination on the legality of how government agencies use a 14 year-old British law to intercept, collate, store and analyze “external communications”.

The Bureau is a reputed source on British and American drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia whose work has been cited in academic research and by United Nations investigators. BIJ reporters regularly email, telephone and Skype call with foreign sources – exactly the kind of “external communications” that may be picked up by government agencies.

The Bureau argues that the content of journalists’ calls and emails, as well as the how-when-and-where (also known as metadata), are “routinely” collected and analyzed by UK officials to build a picture of sources, contacts and story lines.

The collection of such information, according to the Bureau and its legal team, violates rights to privacy and freedom and expression and is having chilling effect on journalists who routinely report on global issues. The Bureau alleges that those engaging in public interest journalism are owed strong protections, including the right to protect a confidential source.

While the Bureau and its legal team do not question the legitimacy of the UK government’s program, the Bureau believes that the power as it relates to journalists is too broad and that it lacks oversight.
“No one knows anything about what GCHQ does with the journalistic information it pulls in,” said Gavin Millar QC, one of the lawyers working with the Bureau, in a statement. “This is because, startlingly, neither the legislation nor government guidance about its use says anything at all about this.”

“The way in which our state security apparatus is using the journalistic material it collects is in flagrant breach of these basic human rights norms,” said Millar QC.

The Bureau’s application follows revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which publicized troves of confidential details indicating “mass scale interception and surveillance of electronic communications” by government intelligence agencies across the world, including the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

In an age when more and more journalists are increasingly nervous about digital security, protecting legitimate communications is more of a hot button issue than ever.

A recent report in the US by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union reflected a growing unease within the journalism community around government surveillance. Journalists interviewed for the report told the authors they were made to feel like criminals and spies with the security techniques they’re forced to adopt to protect sources and sensitive information.

The USA Freedom Act, passed by the US House of Representatives in May, strengthened reporters’ rights within the US, but neglected to include any protections for foreign sources subject to US surveillance.

As part of a commitment to global, collaborative journalism, ICIJ is currently building a prototype, funded by the Knight Foundation, of a secure communication tool for reporters to work together and share information safely and efficiently. The first prototype of the Global I-Hub is expected to be available to ICIJ’s members in early 2015.
ICIJ reporter Will Fitzgibbon was previously employed at BIJ.

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By Blake Ellis, CNN Your Money, September 17, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/nec8tjh

After forgiving millions of dollars in medical debt, Occupy Wall Street is tackling a new beast: student loans.

Marking the third anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the group’s Strike Debt initiative announced Wednesday it has abolished $3.8 million worth of private student loan debt since January. It said it has been buying the debts for pennies on the dollar from debt collectors, and then simply forgiving that money rather than trying to collect it.

bechhaingujra

21st September 2014, 09:49

Time to bring down those institutions of torture and slavery...

Sabrina

25th September 2014, 19:56

European police arrest more than 1000 criminals using ITCCS evidence of Ndrangheta and catholic child trafficking

Posted on September 25, 2014

Breaking News: 25 September, 2014

http://rt.com/news/190272-europol-organized-crime-crackdown/

Brussels:
The ITCCS central office has confirmed today that some of the police raids that have freed thirty children from traffickers were based on evidence provided by ITCCS and its recent common law court cases. Police in at least three European nations are now working directly with the ITCCS to track child trafficking networks and make further arrests. A complete report will be issued later this week.

www.itccs.org

Sabrina

26th September 2014, 08:28

US Pays Navajo Nation $554 Million for Mishandling Resources Held in Trust

By Sari Horwitz, Washington Post, September 24, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/kxrnrz7

In the largest settlement with a single American Indian tribe, the Obama administration will pay the Navajo Nation $554 million to settle claims that the U.S. government has mismanaged funds and natural resources on the Navajo reservation for decades.

The settlement, to be signed in Window Rock, Ariz., on Friday, resolves a long-standing dispute between the Navajo Nation and the U.S. government, with some of the claims dating back more than 50 years.

The sprawling Navajo reservation, located in parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, is the largest and most populous Indian reservation, with 14 million acres of trust lands, which are leased for farming, grazing, and oil, gas and other mineral extraction. The land is also leased for businesses, rights-of-way, easements and housing.

“This landmark resolution ends protracted and burdensome litigation,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a statement provided to The Washington Post on Wednesday. “This demonstrates the Justice Department’s firm commitment to strengthening our partnerships with tribal nations.”

Under the agreement, the Navajo Nation will dismiss its current lawsuit and forgo further litigation against the U.S. government for its historic management and accounting of Navajo funds and resources held in trust by the government.

“The Navajo Nation has worked tirelessly for many years to bring this issue to a close,” said Ben Shelly, president of the Navajo Nation. “After a long, hard-won process, I am pleased that we have finally come to a resolution on this matter to receive fair and just compensation for the Navajo Nation.” Shelly said the tribe will host town hall meetings across the Navajo Nation to decide how the funds can be used or invested.

Members of the Navajo Nation Council, the legislative branch of the Navajo Nation, said that the agreement doesn’t affect the tribe’s existing or potential claims regarding water rights and health issues arising from uranium mining.
“It is very important for the Navajo people to understand that this agreement only addresses historical trust claims and does not prohibit or hinder our Nation from pursuing claims with respect to future conduct,” said Lorenzo Curley, the chairman of the council’s Naabik’iyátí’ Committee Trust Mismanagement Litigation Task Force, who was involved in the negotiations with the Obama administration.

Although the settlement marks the largest ever with one tribe, the Obama administration has made several other multimillion-dollar agreements with tribes since 2009 to settle long-standing grievances by Native Americans.
Along with the Navajo Nation, the administration has negotiated settlements resulting in a total of $2.61 billion paid to 80 tribes since 2010 for tribal trust accounting and trust management claims. The Interior Department manages almost 56 million acres of trust lands for federally recognized tribes and more than 100,000 leases on those lands. The department also manages about 2,500 tribal trust accounts for more than 250 tribes.

In the fall of 2009, attorneys for many of the tribes with litigation pending against the U.S. government wrote to President Obama and asked his administration to expedite settlement discussions. In April 2010, Obama administration officials, including then-Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, met with the attorneys and started a settlement process.

Sabrina

26th September 2014, 08:38

There's a thread on this on the forum, but he's high profile and he's resigning. As one reader's comment says: 'rats are jumping ship'? :)

http://americanoverlook.com/attorney-general-eric-holder-resigns US

Attorney General Eric Holder Resigns

Attorney General Eric Holder is preparing to announce his resignation today. According to a NPR report, Holder wants to leave his position soon before he feels “locked in” to stay for the rest of Obama’s tenure as president

President Obama appointed Holder as the first African-American attorney general in United States’ history. Obama and Holder have remained close allies throughout his five years as the nation’s top law enforcement officer and Holder has several times been accused of using his position in the Justice Department to further Obama’s liberal agenda.

Holder has also been involved in numerous scandals within the Obama administration including failing to carry out adequate investigations into the Benghazi terrorist attacks and the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

RELATED: Should We Impeach Attorney General Eric Holder?
http://americanoverlook.com/should-we-impeach-attorney-general-eric-holder/6307?ref=rel

Holder will remain at the Justice Department until President Barack Obama appoints his successor and his decision is confirmed by the US Senate, which could potentially be a very long process.

more at link

Sabrina

26th September 2014, 23:10

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/26/us-regulator-ray-rice-tapes-finance-goldman-sachs

Business

Goldman Sachs

Ex-regulator releases 'Ray Rice tapes of finance' in bid to win legal fight

Former New York Fed employee Carmen Segarra claimed she was fired because her bosses thought she was too tough on Goldman Sachs

A former US bank examiner who alleges she was fired for being too tough on Goldman Sachs has released hours of secretly recorded tapes to add muscle to her argument as she tries to win a legal appeal.

Carmen Segarra is a former New York Federal Reserve bank examiner who butted heads with her bosses over her policing of Goldman Sachs. Segarra alleges that her attempts to discipline Goldman Sachs were blocked by her bosses at the New York Fed, who she suggests were intent on giving Goldman Sachs no trouble. The Fed disputes her allegations, as does Goldman.

Segarra’s case raises a host of questions about “regulatory capture”, the term for regulators who become too cozy with the industry they are meant to police.

The issue of capture is “very dismaying”, said Anat Admati, a finance and economics professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “But it’s good to open the discussion.”

The system of bank supervision creates tight bonds between supervisors and their charges at big banks. Several bank regulators, including the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, oversee banks by embedding examiners within the banks themselves, carving out small – if often isolated – offices. The “co-workers” that the examiners see most often every day are employees of the bank. The examiners have limited access to the banks’ financial information; they depend on employees of the bank to flag any problems.

This arrangement can create a sense of friendliness as well as envy among bank examiners of the better-paid they supervise, critics say. Many former bank examiners end up working for the banks they once monitored.

“[These examiners] sit in the same office [as bankers] and they’re paid differently. They depend on the bank for information and to know exactly what they can do,” said Admati.

“People don’t go to work for regulators to actually regulate Wall Street,” said Lance Roberts, general partner of wealth management firm STA Wealth. “They do it so that they can go to work for a Goldman or another bank.”

Segarra was hired by the New York Fed in 2012 to examine Goldman Sachs’ policy on conflicts of interest, which govern the ethics of the firm’s dealing with its clients.

The tapes – many muddy in sound – reveal that Segarra clashed with her bosses as she attempted to write an official critique of why Goldman Sachs had no policy on conflicts of interest. Her bosses at the Fed are on tape urging her to abandon her insistence that the policy did not exist, and say instead that the bank had a “bad” policy. The exchanges have a sharp tone.

“In light of your repeated and adamant assertions that Goldman has no written conflicts of interest policy, you can understand why I was surprised to find a ‘conflicts of interests section’ in Goldman’s code of conduct that seemed to me to define COIs, prohibit COIs, and instruct employees what to do about COIs,” one of her supervisors wrote to Segarra.

Segarra released the tapes to the radio program This American Life and the investigative publication ProPublica. Bloomberg columnist Michael Lewis, an influential author, has called the tapes “the Ray Rice tapes of finance”, referring to the recent video that showed the Baltimore Ravens star punching his then-fiancee.

The New York Fed released a two-page statement disputing Segarra’s account, saying it “categorically rejects the allegations” and that its examiners “are encouraged to speak up and escalate any concerns they may have about the New York Fed or the institutions we supervise.”

Goldman Sachs, for its part, responded with a statement that the bank “has long had a comprehensive approach for potential conflicts.”

As Segarra was embattled in her job at the Fed, she secretly recorded conversations with her supervisors in hopes of showing that they were pressuring her to tone down her critique of Goldman Sachs. Segarra was fired in 2013 after only seven months of work.

The cause of Segarra’s dismissal is a matter of bitter legal dispute. Segarra sued the Fed after she was fired, claiming her questioning of Goldman Sachs rankled her bosses, who allegedly wished to be friendly to the bank. The Fed has countered that her termination was “on performance grounds”. A district court ruled in favor of the Federal Reserve. Segarra has appealed the decision.

Goldman, in its statement, implied that Segarra’s case was a matter of sour grapes from a rejected job candidate. The bank said Segarra applied for a job at the bank for three years in a row between 2007 and 2009 – three years before she took a job at the Federal Reserve. Segarra, a lawyer who has worked for banks including Citigroup in the past, has said that she applied to a number of banks.

Roberts of STA Wealth, said that the financial crisis made regulators protective of banks rather than aggressive in policing them.

“The major banks have held the government hostage for years,” Roberts said.

There have been several other examples of conflicts between banks and their regulators.

JP Morgan, for instance, fought bitterly with its regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, over a $6bn loss that was known as the “London Whale trade”.

In that case, which was the subject of a Senate hearing and investigation, it emerged that the OCC regulators faced strong resistance from bank executives including CEO Jamie Dimon, who allegedly feared that the bank’s sensitive financial information would be leaked.

According to the testimony of the OCC regulator, Dimon “raised his voice” to the bank examiner who questioned why the bank was not sending regular financial reports, which are required. The investigation also showed that JP Morgan allegedly misinformed the OCC, estimating $580m in losses. At the time, JP Morgan’s numbers showed a potential loss of $1.2bn.

Sabrina

26th September 2014, 23:23

http://abc7chicago.com/news/glaxosmithkline-fined-$4888m-for-massive-bribery-network-/316390/GLAXOSMITHKLINE FINED $488.8M FOR 'MASSIVE BRIBERY NETWORK'

ABC News
KAIJING XIAO

Friday, September 19, 2014

BEIJING -- China has fined the British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) $488.8 million (3 billion Yuan) for a "massive bribery network" to get doctors and hospitals to use its products. Five former employees were sentenced to two to four years in jail, but ordered deported instead of imprisoned, according to state news agency Xinhua today.

The guilty verdict was delivered after a one day closed door trail in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan province. The fine was the biggest ever imposed by a Chinese court.

The court gave Mark Reilly, former head of GSK Chinese operations, a three-year prison sentence with a four-year reprieve, which meant he is set to be deported instead of serving his time in a Chinese jail. His co-defendants received two to four years prison sentences with reprieves.

Reilly was accused of operating a "massive bribery network" in May. The police said it is believed Reilly authorized his salespeople to pay doctors, hospital officials and health institutions to use GSK's products since 2009.

Chinese authorities first announced the investigation on GSK in July 2013. The police said the company had funneled up to 3 billion Yuan to travel agencies to facilitate bribes to doctors and officials. The money was the exact amount of the fine.

Throughout 2012 a stream of anonymous emails alleging bribery authorized by senior staff at GSK were sent to Chinese regulators, according to media reports. At the beginning of 2013, the anonymous emails began to arrive at GSK headquarter in London, along with a sex tape of Mark Reilly and his Chinese girlfriend, according to media reports.

The charges claim that GSK hired Shanghai-based investigator Peter Humphrey and his American wife, Yu Yingzeng, to locate the whistleblower. The Humphreys were detained and charged with illegally obtaining phone logs, travel records and other data which then they put in a report to GSK.

GSK released a statement of apologies to the Chinese government and people on its website.

"GSK Plc has reflected deeply and learned from its mistakes, has taken steps to comprehensively rectify the issues identified at the operations of GSKCI, and must work hard to regain the trust of the Chinese people," the statement said.

The statement also said future commitments include investment in Chinese science, improved access of its products in both city and rural areas across the country through greater expansion of production and flexible pricing.

Taking bribery from drug companies and over prescribing medicine to patients is a common hidden rule among doctors in China. It is not uncommon for patients give doctors red envelopes with cash as a blunt plea for them to do a good job on surgeries.

Sabrina

26th September 2014, 23:26

From: http://wolfstreet.com/2014/09/22/fitch-warns-when-the-dollars-pre-eminent-reserve-currency-status-erodes/

Fitch Warns on What Happens to the US as Dollar’s ‘Pre-Eminent Reserve Currency Status’ Erodes

by Wolf Richter

September 22, 2014

It’s very risky for an American credit ratings agency to downgrade the US Government.

Standard & Poor’s found out when it stripped the US off its AAA rating in 2011 over the debt-ceiling charade. The Department of Justice then sued S&P over its role in the financial crisis, i.e. for slapping AAA-ratings on toxic securities to pocket fatter fees from issuers. But the other ratings agencies did the same thing and have not been hounded. So S&P claimed that the “impermissibly selective, punitive and meritless” lawsuit was “in retaliation” for the downgrade.

Though the Government denied the retaliation angle, it was a lesson no credit ratings agency within the long and sinewy arm of the Government would ever forget. But now Fitch is inching gingerly toward that abyss. While it affirmed (text) the US at AAA, Outlook Stable, it threw in some potentially devastating caveats.

What drives America’s dubious AAA-rating? “Unparalleled financing flexibility as the issuer of the world’s pre-eminent reserve currency….”

So endowed, “the US rating can tolerate a higher level of public debt than other ‘AAA’ sovereigns.” The “threshold” for the US is a gross national debt of 110% of GDP, the highest threshold of any country “owing to its exceptional financing flexibility.” But if the US hits that 110%, it would be “incompatible with ‘AAA.”’

Other factors also contribute to that “exceptional financing flexibility,” including America’s vast and liquid capital markets, its “large, rich, and diverse” economy, “one of the most productive, dynamic, and technologically advanced in the world.” Nevertheless, growth in that miracle economy in 2014 is going to be a “sluggish” 2%, just above stall speed. And Fitch sees the medium-term growth potential at a languid 2.2%.

The budget deficits will be shrinking only through fiscal 2015. In fiscal 2016, they’ll be rising again, due to, among other reasons, “higher net interest costs” as rates go up. Fitch hopes that normalization of monetary policy would “not fundamentally destabilize the recovery or financial markets.” But it would trigger more volatility. And “downside risks are material….”

Other issues are also dogging the US: High external liabilities, a result of “persistent current account deficits and low national savings rates,” which make the economy “more vulnerable to adverse external shocks.”

So Fitch estimates that the gross national debt – “excluding trade payables and unfunded pension liabilities, consistent with EU countries” – would hit 100% of GDP at the end of 2014. It sees a “debt peak” of 104% of GDP in 2024, based on this way of counting, which excludes any kind of recession or a market swoon. Since this 104% is “below the threshold of 110%,” Fitch does not “anticipate” a downgrade.

“However…”

A downgrade would be triggered by: “material deterioration in the coherence and credibility of economic policymaking,” whatever that means in Washington; a deterioration of the deficits and the debt-to-GDP ratio; and an erosion of “the role of the US dollar as the pre-eminent global reserve currency.”

There it is again, the dollar’s erosion as the pre-eminent global reserve currency. It is very inconvenient.

It would deprive the US of much of the “financing flexibility and debt tolerance” that it has so enormously benefitted from up to now. When China starts hoarding euros, and when European countries start hoarding Chinese yuan, and when other countries start hoarding both, and when they’re hoarding other currencies as well, such as the UK pound, the Canadian and Australian dollars, even the yen (though that’s increasingly a losing proposition), and some other currencies, instead of US dollars….

And that is already happening.

The euro is already heavily represented on the balance sheets of China and other countries as a reserve currency and is breathing down the dollar’s neck as a trading currency. Every day, new bilateral accords are being implemented around the world to elevate the yuan, especially in the financial centers of Asia and Europe.

Everyone knows by now that there will be three big reserve currencies in the near future: the dollar, the euro, and the yuan, with smaller currencies thrown into the basket. And the day is nearing when the dollar’s status as the “pre-eminent global reserve currency” erodes to less than 50%.

That’s when the US dollar hegemony will be over. The US will face a new world of funding constraints. It will no longer be able to dictate financial terms. Its long and sinewy arm that can hit banks around the world and impose rules and sanctions and penalties will atrophy. And life for US policymakers will become a lot more complex. It will be a humbling experience.

Obscured by stock market hoopla, and under the leadership of our fearless Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, the G-20 finance honchos fret about faltering global growth. Read…. OK, I Get It. Things Are Coming Unglued

Sabrina

26th September 2014, 23:34

25 Sept UK

The Police Were Forbade From Investigating Lord Janner In 1989

“The witness had produced affectionate letters that were allegedly from the MP, some on House of Commons notepaper, and provided a detailed description of the inside of the MP’s Hampstead home”

An investigation into child abuse allegations against a prominent politician 25 years ago was blocked, one of the country’s most senior police officers has revealed.

Mick Creedon, chief constable of Derbyshire, told The Times that he was a detective sergeant in 1989 when he was ordered to limit his inquiries into Greville Janner, a leading Labour backbench MP. Mr Creedon said there was “credible evidence” against the MP, now Lord Janner of Braunstone, QC, that warranted further investigation, but he was given orders forbidding an arrest or a search of his home or offices.

“The decision was a clear one — he will be interviewed by appointment and there won’t be a search of his home address or his constituency office or his office in the House of Commons,” Mr Creedon said.

The order was “conveyed” by a superintendent but Mr Creedon believes it came from chief officers. He added: “It was a decision made by people more senior than me.”

The Times

Rollo

26th September 2014, 23:44

This is the list of the most popular items sold recently on eBay.
Very interesting trend in buying goods. What about Play Station and iPhone?

27410

Sabrina

26th September 2014, 23:48

http://exaronews.com/articles/5375/commentary-how-paedophile-peter-morrison-escaped-exposure

Police cover-up and UK libel laws protected top politician, says ex-editor of Sunday Mirror

on Tory MP Peter Morrison.

story at link

Sabrina

27th September 2014, 00:00

http://www.newsweek.com/wall-street-lawyer-arrested-talking-occupy-wall-street-protester-lawsuit-273337

US

Wall Street Lawyer Arrested for Talking to Occupy Wall Street Protester: Lawsuit

Filed: 9/26/14

Stephen Kass, a 73-year-old lawyer and grandfather of seven, was walking to his cello lesson one day last September when cops arrested him. The charge? Talking to an Occupy Wall Street Protester, a new federal lawsuit alleges.

Kass, an environmental lawyer who works on Wall Street, ambled by Zuccotti Park on his way to the train Sept. 17, 2013, the second anniversary of Occupy. There, Kass says, he stopped to look at a sign reading “Tax the Rich,” and tried striking up a conversation with two protesters, one of whom was carrying the sign.

“I didn't think I was doing anything in the slightest bit unusual,” Kass told Newsweek. “I thought I was being a reasonable, responsible citizen. I was actually trying to find out what it was they were advocating.”

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During this brief chat, Police Officer K. Ernst approached Kass and told him to move. Kass, who maintains he was not blocking pedestrians on the sidewalk or vehicles in the road, declined. Other officers joined Ernst and demanded Kass move. Then, Police Officer Michael Alfieri grabbed Kass’ right arm “in two places,” the suit alleges. Kass said “take your hands off me,” but Alfieri did not—instead, Alfieri and another officer cuffed Kass.

They patted him down, searched his shoulder bag, and “pushed” Kass into a police car at Liberty Street and Broadway, and told him that he was being taken to Central Booking. A few minutes later, two other officers told Kass that if he “stayed ‘quiet’ and did not ‘cause any trouble’ he would simply be taken to the precinct and given a summons.’” They indeed took Kass to the precinct, and then asked him whether he had ever been arrested or detained, Kass said.

His reply: “I told them the only time I had been detained was when I was as a member of a New York City Bar Association delegation that went to Asuncion, Paraguay to investigate human rights abuses by the police,” Kass said. “They did not respond to that.”

Kass received a summons, and he complied, appearing in court twice, but the “officers failed to show up at court,” according to the civil complaint. The case was dismissed.

A spokesperson for the NYPD denied that Kass was arrested, stating in an e-mail to Newsweek that he was issued a summons in lieu of an arrest.

"That’s absurd," Andrew Celli, a partner with Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff + Abady LLP, who is representing Kass, said in response to the NYPD's position. "He was handcuffed, detained for over 90 minutes, transported to the precinct, and required to appear in court several times. It was an arrest and a prosecution. If their lawyers argued in court that it wasn’t, they would be sanctioned. Seriously."

Kass’ civil rights lawsuit—which alleges false arrest, malicious prosecution, assault, and battery—comes amid drastically increased scrutiny of NYPD tactics toward protesters, accused quality-of-life offenders, and minorities.

Added Kass: "I bet that if I were a younger person, or if I were a person of color, they would have been even more aggressive or violent. I didn't say those things, but I certainly thought them."

Celli said that their goal with the suit is to educate police officers about protesters’ and observers rights.

“Unfortunately, cases like this arise with depressing regularity,” Celli said. “It seems that in New York, sometimes police don't understand that sidewalks and public spaces are for more than transportation, but are places where people engage. When they don’t understand that, people get arrested, and that’s what happened to Stephen Kass.”’

The New York City Law Department commented to Newsweek that: “We are reviewing the lawsuit.”

Sabrina

27th September 2014, 08:04

http://abc7chicago.com/news/glaxosmithkline-fined-$4888m-for-massive-bribery-network-/316390/

GLAXOSMITHKLINE FINED $488.8M FOR 'MASSIVE BRIBERY NETWORK'

ABC News
KAIJING XIAO

BEIJING -- China has fined the British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) $488.8 million (3 billion Yuan) for a "massive bribery network" to get doctors and hospitals to use its products. Five former employees were sentenced to two to four years in jail, but ordered deported instead of imprisoned, according to state news agency Xinhua today.

The guilty verdict was delivered after a one day closed door trail in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan province. The fine was the biggest ever imposed by a Chinese court.

The court gave Mark Reilly, former head of GSK Chinese operations, a three-year prison sentence with a four-year reprieve, which meant he is set to be deported instead of serving his time in a Chinese jail. His co-defendants received two to four years prison sentences with reprieves.

Reilly was accused of operating a "massive bribery network" in May. The police said it is believed Reilly authorized his salespeople to pay doctors, hospital officials and health institutions to use GSK's products since 2009.

Chinese authorities first announced the investigation on GSK in July 2013. The police said the company had funneled up to 3 billion Yuan to travel agencies to facilitate bribes to doctors and officials. The money was the exact amount of the fine.

Throughout 2012 a stream of anonymous emails alleging bribery authorized by senior staff at GSK were sent to Chinese regulators, according to media reports. At the beginning of 2013, the anonymous emails began to arrive at GSK headquarter in London, along with a sex tape of Mark Reilly and his Chinese girlfriend, according to media reports.

The charges claim that GSK hired Shanghai-based investigator Peter Humphrey and his American wife, Yu Yingzeng, to locate the whistleblower. The Humphreys were detained and charged with illegally obtaining phone logs, travel records and other data which then they put in a report to GSK.

GSK released a statement of apologies to the Chinese government and people on its website.

"GSK Plc has reflected deeply and learned from its mistakes, has taken steps to comprehensively rectify the issues identified at the operations of GSKCI, and must work hard to regain the trust of the Chinese people," the statement said.

The statement also said future commitments include investment in Chinese science, improved access of its products in both city and rural areas across the country through greater expansion of production and flexible pricing.

Taking bribery from drug companies and over prescribing medicine to patients is a common hidden rule among doctors in China. It is not uncommon for patients give doctors red envelopes with cash as a blunt plea for them to do a good job on surgeries.

19 Sept

Sabrina

1st October 2014, 15:10

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-29390682

Top India politician Jayalalitha jailed for corruption

One of India's most colourful and controversial politicians, Jayaram Jayalalitha, has been sentenced to jail for four years on corruption charges in a case that has lasted for 18 years.

The chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu was found guilty of amassing wealth of more than $10m (£6.1m) which was unaccounted for.

She has to pay a 1bn rupee ($16m; £10m) fine and resign as chief minister.

A former actress, her life has been marked by a series of high and lows.

The verdict was delivered by a special court in Bangalore amid tight security.

Along with three others, Jayalalitha was sentenced to an immediate jail term, and was due to be sent to Parappana Agrahara prison in Bangalore.

But she complained on chest pains and giddiness after the verdict was delivered, the Times of India reported, and was sent to the prison hospital for assessment.

Analysis: Andrew North, BBC News, Delhi
Many Indians will applaud the conviction of Tamil Nadu's chief minister - after years of evading justice - in the hope it is another move towards cleaning up the country's notoriously criminalised political system.

India's Supreme Court has tightened the noose, disqualifying from office any MP convicted of a serious crime and ordering fast-track trials to prevent them using their influence to string things out.

But there is no bar to the many politicians who continue to execute policy while facing charges that would see them immediately suspended in most other democracies, until either their innocence or guilt is proven.

New Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised cleaner government, yet just under one-third of the ministers he appointed face criminal charges, with one even accused of attempted murder.

India's Supreme Court recently ruled that while the constitution allows Mr Modi to do this, he should set a better example on who he appoints.
more at link

27 Sept

Sabrina

1st October 2014, 15:26

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=50

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story at link

Sabrina

1st October 2014, 21:08

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/us/julia-pierson-secret-service.html

1st Oct US

Secret Service Director Resigns in Scandal Over Security Lapses

WASHINGTON — Julia Pierson, the director of the Secret Service, is resigning in the wake of several security breaches.

Ms. Pierson offered her resignation on Wednesday during a meeting with Jeh C. Johnson, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that oversees the Secret Service. The resignation came less than a day after lawmakers from both parties assailed Ms. Pierson’s leadership and said they feared for the lives of the president and others in the protection of the agency.

In a statement, Mr. Johnson said that he had appointed Joseph Clancy, a former agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division, to become the Secret Service’s acting director. Mr. Clancy was in charge of the presidential detail the night in November 2009 when Michaele and Tareq Salahi, then a married couple, managed to get past Secret Service checkpoints for President Obama’s first state dinner without being on the guest list.

Mr. Obama called Ms. Pierson after her decision “to thank her for her service to the agency and the country,” said Josh Earnest, the president’s press secretary. “The president is deeply appreciative of her service.”

Mr. Johnson said that he was directing his deputy at the Department of Homeland Security to oversee an internal review of the Sept. 19 incident in which an intruder jumped over the fence around the White House and made it deep inside the mansion.

And bowing to growing demands for an outside inquiry by Democratic and Republican members of Congress, Mr. Johnson said that he would appoint a “distinguished panel of independent experts” to report recommendations to him by Dec. 15.

“I will also request that the panel advise me about whether it believes, given the series of recent events, there should be a review of broader issues concerning the Secret Service,” Mr. Johnson said in the statement. “The security of the White House compound should be the panel’s primary and immediate priority.”

It is unclear whether the creation of that panel will be enough to satisfy critics of Ms. Pierson and the agency, who said over the last 24 hours that they had lost confidence in the agency’s ability to protect the president and his family.

In a brief interview with Del Quentin Wilber, a reporter for Bloomberg News, Ms. Pierson said that she resigned because “Congress has lost confidence in my ability to run the agency,” according to a Twitter message from Mr. Wilber shortly after the resignation was announced.

Mr. Wilber also wrote that Ms. Pierson said: “I can be pretty stoic about all this, but not really. It’s painful to leave.”

Mr. Earnest, the press secretary, had forcefully defended Ms. Pierson on Wednesday morning, saying that Mr. Obama remained fully confident in her leadership and in the ability of the agency to protect him.

But shortly after her resignation was announced, Mr. Earnest said that the president had agreed that a change was necessary.

“Director Pierson offered her resignation today because she believes it is in the best interest of the agency to which she had devoted her career,” Mr. Earnest said. He added that Mr. Obama agreed, saying, “The president concluded that new leadership of that agency was required.”

Ms. Pierson, a 30-year veteran of the Secret Service, was supposed to have been the one to repair the agency’s reputation after scandals involving drinking and prostitution during overseas trips.

But her tenure has been rocked by more serious allegations that her agents and officers have not been performing their primary job competently. Under intense questioning on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Ms. Pierson admitted that those charged with securing the White House had failed to follow numerous security protocols, allowing a man armed with a knife to penetrate deep inside the mansion.

And late Tuesday, the agency acknowledged that just days before the White House breach, an armed man was allowed to ride in an elevator with the president during an event at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Mr. Earnest said the White House was not told about the Atlanta incident until Tuesday, shortly before it was reported by news outlets. Asked if the Secret Service was not adequately keeping the White House informed, Mr. Earnest said that would be examined by the review panel.

Through the last two weeks, Mr. Obama’s aides had repeatedly declared that he retained full confidence in the agency and in Ms. Pierson’s ability to lead it. But the disclosures in the past few days — including revelations that the Secret Service had not been fully forthcoming about the details of the incidents — appear to have been too much.

On Wednesday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers heaped new criticism on Ms. Pierson, raising new questions about her ability to lead the agency and protect President Obama.

Representative Elijah J. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, commended Ms. Pierson for stepping down, saying that her resignation was in the best interest of the Secret Service and the president. But he said more change was necessary, including, possibly, more resignations.

“I think we need to look beyond her resignation,” Mr. Cummings said in an interview. “I don’t want us, after she’s left, to say to ourselves that everything is resolved. Clearly there was a culture there that was not healthy.”

On Wednesday, the intruder who jumped the White House fence, Omar J. Gonzalez, pleaded not guilty to charges of unlawfully entering a restricted government building while carrying a weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon in public and unlawfully possessing ammunition.

Mr. Gonzalez walked into the United States District Court here with his hands behind his back but not cuffed, wearing an orange jumpsuit. He listened intently as his lawyer entered his plea and waived Mr. Gonzalez’s right to a detention hearing. Judge Deborah A. Robinson ruled that Mr. Gonzalez would be detained until another hearing on Oct. 21.

Sabrina

5th October 2014, 07:38

ah blaming those damn Ruskies again :)...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/hackers-attack-cracked-10-banks-in-major-assault/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&

Hackers’ Attack Cracked 10 Financial Firms in Major Assault

By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN, NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGER

OCTOBER 3, 2014 9:39 PM

The huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase that touched more than 83 million households and businesses was one of the most serious computer intrusions into an American corporation. But it could have been much worse.

Questions over who the hackers are and the approach of their attack concern government and industry officials. Also troubling is that about nine other financial institutions — a number that has not been previously reported — were also infiltrated by the same group of overseas hackers, according to people briefed on the matter. The hackers are thought to be operating from Russia and appear to have at least loose connections with officials of the Russian government, the people briefed on the matter said.

It is unclear whether the other intrusions, at banks and brokerage firms, were as deep as the one that JP Morgan disclosed on Thursday. The identities of the other institutions could not be immediately learned.

The breadth of the attacks — and the lack of clarity about whether it was an effort to steal from accounts or to demonstrate that the hackers could penetrate even the best-protected American financial institutions — has left Washington intelligence officials and policy makers far more concerned than they have let on publicly. Some American officials speculate that the breach was intended to send a message to Wall Street and the United States about the vulnerability of the digital network of one of the world’s most important banking institutions.

“It could be in retaliation for the sanctions” placed on Russia, one senior official briefed on the intelligence said. “But it could be mixed motives — to steal if they can, or to sell whatever information they could glean.”

The JP Morgan hackers burrowed into the digital network of the bank and went down a path that gave them access to information about the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of account holders. They never made it into where the more critical financial information and personal information are stored.

The bank’s security team, which first discovered the attack in late July, managed to block the hackers before they could compromise the most sensitive information about tens of millions of JPMorgan customers, said several security experts and others briefed on the matter. The attack was not completely halted until the middle of August and it was only in recent days that the bank began to tally its full extent.

American officials say they have been working with JPMorgan since the intrusion was detected, chiefly through the Treasury, the Secret Service and intelligence agencies that seek to find the source of the attacks. But that is slow work and one official cautioned against leaping to conclusions about the identities or the motives of the attackers.

“We’ve been wrong before,” he said.

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Now for some good news - small subtle shifts coming..

http://www.france24.com/en/20141003-sweden-recognise-palestinian-state-says-new-pm/
Sweden to recognise state of Palestine

Latest update : 2014-10-03

Sweden’s new prime minister said Friday that his government will recognize a Palestinian state, a move that drew praise from Palestinian officials.

In a declaration listing his government’s priorities, Social Democratic leader Stefan Lofven told lawmakers that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be resolved through a two-state solution requiring “mutual recognition” and a will from both sides to co-exist peacefully.

“Therefore Sweden will recognize the state of Palestine,” Lofven said.

He didn’t say when or how that would happen.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki welcomed Lofven’s announcement and called on other European Union countries to follow suit.

“In the name of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership, we thank and salute the Swedish position,” Malki said in a statement.

He said the only other Western European countries that have recognized a Palestinian state are Malta and Cyprus. Some Eastern European countries did so during the Cold War.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psakia said the U.S. looks forward to working with the new government of Sweden - a close partner - but called international recognition of a Palestinian state “premature.”

“We believe that the process is one that has to be worked out through the parties to agree on the terms of how they’ll live in the future of two states living side-by-side,” she said.

Lofven has built a left-leaning minority government of Social Democrats and Greens after winning Parliamentary elections last month.

He tapped former European Commissioner Margot Wallstrom to be foreign minister, while Magdalena Andersson becomes finance minister and Peter Hultqvist will head the Defense Ministry. All are Social Democrats.

Asa Romson, leader of the Greens, the junior coalition partner, became vice-prime minister and minister for climate and environment.

The coalition is expected to struggle to push its agenda through Parliament.

(AP)

Sabrina

5th October 2014, 07:51

They may be perpetuating the ISIS spin, but main stream media middle England newspaper the Daily Mail has done a good expose here on the cover-ups re: child abuse, politicians etc. and Labour Peer Greville Janner now claiming dementia (rather suddenly some say)..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2779973/Report-reveals-extent-allegations-against-ex-MP-Greville-Janner.html#ixzz3FAyRR4Au

3 Oct UK

Child sex claims, a police 'cover-up' and troubling questions for a Labour peer: This special report reveals the full extent of the deeply disturbing allegations against ex-MP Greville Janner

Lord Janner is a life peer after representing Leicester as an MP for 30 years

Had his home searched last year as part of high-profile paedophile probe

His office was also searched into historic abuse claims linked to care homes

Now alleged that inquiry into the former MP was blocked by senior officers

It has been reported that the Labour peer is suffering from severe dementia

Shortly before retiring in 1997, a Labour MP called Andrew Faulds created an archive of the paperwork he had accrued during three colourful decades in Parliament.

Filling 263 boxes, it contained — among a great many other things — two highly sensitive documents which had landed on the prominent backbencher’s desk in 1992 and 1995.

The first was a four-page leaflet published by a group which called itself ‘Concerned Leicester Parents’. The second was a 24-page booklet, which claimed on its cover to reveal: ‘How people in high places covered-up for a Parliamentary paedophile’.

Faulds, an avuncular figure who acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company before entering politics, died in 2000, aged 77. His entire archive was subsequently transferred to the library of the London School of Economics [LSE].
There, it has sat unnoticed and virtually untouched for more than a decade. Recent events, however, seem likely to propel the Faulds archive to sudden prominence.

That’s because the yellowing pages of those two documents discuss what is now a snowballing political scandal.
Indeed, as their description in LSE’s library catalogue puts it, they explore in forensic detail ‘allegations of sexual abuse against a child’ by a colleague of Faulds called Greville Janner.

‘This booklet details a scandal that makes the sex and sleaze sagas of most politicians seem trivial,’ claims the 1995 document. The 1992 leaflet is meanwhile headlined: ‘Janner fails to answer “sex with boy” evidence.’

Greville Janner is nowadays Lord Janner of Braunstone. Aged 86 and widowed with three children, he is a prominent ex-barrister, who wrote more than 60 books and represented Leicester as a Labour MP for almost 30 years. Janner is also a former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and keen amateur magician. After retiring from the Commons in 1997, he was made a life peer.

One of his few subsequent forays into the public eye came in 2002, when Uri Geller, a friend, arranged for him to accompany Michael Jackson on a tour of Parliament. The trio dropped in on a party for Labour MP Paul Boateng, where Jackson agreed to sing happy birthday.

Life has, in other words, been very comfortable indeed. Or at least it was until December 20 last year, when Lord Janner’s genteel semi-retirement came to an abrupt halt.

That day, police descended on his home in Golders Green, North London, carrying a warrant to search the premises as part of a high-profile paedophile probe. The officers, who this June also searched Janner’s Westminster office (removing computers and other files), are part of Operation Enamel, an investigation into historic abuse claims linked to Leicestershire children’s homes during the 1970s and 1980s.

At the heart of their inquiry is the notorious 1991 trial of Frank Beck, a local care-home warden suspected of abusing roughly 200 children in his care between 1973 and 1986.

Beck, a former Liberal councillor, was given five life sentences, plus a further 24 years behind bars, after being found guilty of 17 counts of sexual abuse of children in his care. He died in prison in 1994.

The crimes shocked the nation, prompting an official inquiry chaired by Andrew Kirkwood QC. Yet Beck’s 11-week trial, at Leicester Crown Court, also made headlines for a sensational side-plot involving Janner.

That plot revolved around testimony from four separate witnesses, two of whom spoke for the prosecution, and two for the defence — and one of whom was Beck himself.

Each provided evidence supporting (to varying degrees) a similar, shocking thesis: that Greville Janner had, during the 1970s, pursued a sexual relationship with a teenage boy who lived at one of Beck’s care homes.

It should be stressed that Janner was not a witness in court, and was forbidden by law from commenting on proceedings until the jury reached a verdict. After the case finished, he did issue a swift and unequivocal denial of any wrongdoing.

Perhaps the most detailed claims against him, meanwhile, were made by the alleged victim, by that time a 30-year-old man. Speaking under oath, he claimed Janner had abused him repeatedly between the ages of 13 and 15, showing the jury letters the MP had sent him on House of Commons notepaper in the mid-1970s, and providing a description of Janner’s London residence.

more at the link

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Until last year, that is, when the authorities began reopening a series of historic child abuse cases in the wake of the Jimmy Savile affair.

Many revolve around the Elm Guest House, a gay sauna in Barnes, West London, where boys are believed to have been abused by a cabal of powerful men in the 1970s and early 1980s, including politicians Cyril Smith and Tory grandee Sir Peter Morrison.

Police are also now attempting to establish why a dossier on this alleged Establishment paedophile ‘ring’, handed to the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan by Tory backbencher Geoffrey Dickens in 1983, was later mislaid by officials.

Against this backdrop, Janner’s alleged victim renewed contact with police. They decided to look once more at the affair, this time in detail. Their investigation continues. And a file on Janner, who has not been arrested, is expected to be passed to the CPS in the coming months.

Last week, meanwhile, a sensational claim was made regarding the reason the Labour MP was never further investigated after the 1991 trial.

It came from Mick Creedon, the Chief Constable of Derbyshire police, who told The Times newspaper that he had worked on the Leicestershire force’s original investigation into Janner all those years ago. Creedon said there had indeed been ‘credible evidence’ against the MP which he believed ought to have been looked into further.

However, he claimed the investigation was blocked by senior officers, who forbade detectives from targeting the MP. ‘The decision was a clear one: he will be interviewed by appointment and there won’t be a search of his home address, or his constituency office, or his office in the House of Commons,’ said Creedon. ‘It was a decision made by people more senior than me.’

full story at link

and

via Needlebog:

Pressure Builds On Lord Janner But The Labour Party Remain Silent.

Not a single comment from anyone in the Labour leadership, and I’ve asked the entire Shadow Cabinet, regarding how Lord Janner, a peer who takes the Labour whip in the Lords, is eligible to vote on legislation but is too ill to answer questions about over 20 allegations of child abuse.

Not a dicky bird.