Massive Bank and High Profile Resignations Across the World

[Sabrina]

North London Islington newspaper also getting its teeth into the UK child abuse cover-ups. Good for whistleblower Dr Liz Davies vilified in the past. Things are shifting. (Ex Tory Prime Minster Ted Heath was allegedly involved in the Jersey abuse).

http://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2014/oct/postcards-link-islington-care-home-children-scene-notorious-jersey-sex-abuse#.VC-gwwF7fgw.twitter

3 Oct UK

Postcards that link Islington care home children to scene of notorious Jersey sex abuse

THESE may look like the kind of postcards you’d find in any British holiday town. A relic of fun memories. To child abuse campaigners, however, these are a smoking gun. For the first time they provide solid evidence that children from Islington’s homes in the 1970s were sent on trips to Jersey, in an exchange programme with children from the notorious Haut de la Garenne home, where widespread abuse took place.

Establishing that children from Islington were indeed sent to Jersey on exchange trips – as has long been claimed – is another piece of the jigsaw that creates a picture of a child abuse ring operating in the UK, with children passed around the country.

It has been established by many independent inquiries that child abuse took place in all of Islington’s 12 children’s homes during this period.

Islington Council has no official records that children in its homes in the 1970s and 80s were ever sent to Jersey on official visits, as all the documents have been destroyed. Circumstantial evidence has been there, however.

The deputy superintendent of Grosvenor House Children’s Home, at 114 Grosvenor Avenue in Canonbury, was Nich­olas Rabet. He spent 15 years there.

When in 1992 the Evening Standard revealed the extent of abuse in Islington’s homes – confirmed by numerous reports – Rabet fled to Thailand. He was arrested by Thai police and charged with abusing 30 young boys there, and it was thought he was responsible for abusing 300. He committed suicide days before he was due to stand trial in 2006.

Rabet was from Jersey, and is said to have regularly taken children from Islington on camping trips to the island.

The postcards on this page were sent by a former resident of Gros­venor House, who wishes to be known only by his first name, Richard, to his father.

He was aged five or six, and in care at the time they were posted.

Richard’s mother died when he was a few weeks old; his father was an alcoholic and struggled to cope with the young child. Richard spent about two years in care in the late 1970s.

He says he does not remember the holiday in Jersey, beyond perhaps being in a tent. But the postcards – found recently in his father’s attic – prove he was on the Channel Island while a resident at Grosvenor House.

“I do believe I was interfered with,” Richard told the Tribune. “I can’t say that I remember it. But I displayed behaviour afterwards that is consistent with being abused. While I was in Grosvenor House I remember a blue transit van picking me up in the evenings and driving along Balls Pond Road to Hackney.

“I just remember being taken away in the evenings. I didn’t particulary know why. But I was taken to addresses in Hackney. I remember driving past this old missionary building that had a big white circle with a big red cross. I’m not saying it’s all connected. I think I spent a lot of that year in care quite disorientated. I spent time in a bedroom with three other boys, all much older than me. I didn’t have a great time there.

“This is not about money, it’s about me disclosing and getting Islington to admit that it was wrong. I was in that care home when the likes of Nicholas Rabet was the deputy superintendent and I believe I was abused.”

Richard is now struggling with depression and other conditions, for which he sees a therapist.

He is trying to find ­others who may have been in the home with him at the time in an effort to help him remember. No one has ever been brought to book for the child abuse scandal in Islington.

The leader of the council at the time, Margaret Hodge, has apologised for failing to take allegations seriously and not investigating. She is now considering running for London Mayor. All of the files of who was in Islington’s children’s homes during the period have mysteriously vanished.

Dr Liz Davies, a former social worker who blew the whistle on Islington’s abuse, and who is now a reader in child abuse at London Met University in Holloway, said: “The Jersey postcards are massively significant. They have stamps and postmarks proving they are legitimate.

“Richard’s file makes no mention of trips to Jersey at all, no financial records, parental permission or anything. He went on holiday at the same time with the school and remembers it very well as a happy occasion. However, he struggles to remember the trips to Jersey. This is common in cases of severe trauma.

“Richard’s postcards are the only proof we have of children sent from Islington to Jersey. One postcard is of Gorey castle, which is next to Haut de la Garenne.”

A Town Hall spokeswoman said: “The council will offer whatever help or support we can to anyone who contacts us about events from this time.”

• A vigil will be held outside the former children’s home at 114 Grosvenor Avenue at 1.45pm tomorrow (Saturday). Balloons will be released and flowers laid.

• The Highbury home is to be turned into residential flats. Islington Council was given planning permission last month to convert it into four flats.

[Sabrina]

Things seem to be continuing to shift in subtle and not so subtle ways. Some interesting links on both Benjamin Fulford and Cobras latest blogs here:


http://hipknowsys.blogspot.com.br/2014/10/benjamin-fulford-october-6-2014-white.html (6 Oct)

and



http://2012portal.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/plasma-and-planetary-situation-update.html (7 Oct),

[Sabrina]

The little guy sets the bailiffs on the big council...

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/court-crime/chaos_at_camden_town_hall_as_high_court_bailiffs_seize_council_computers_to_repay_debt_to_resident_1 _3788428

UK

Chaos at Camden Town Hall as High Court bailiffs seize council computers to repay debt to resident

Officers from Camden Council were left red-faced after High Court bailiffs gained entry to the town hall and began seizing thousands of pounds worth of council-owned TVs, computers and printers to repay money owed to a resident.

story at link

30 sept

[Sabrina]

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5381/operation-fernbridge-loses-chief-as-pressure-mounts-on-met

7 Oct UK

Detective chief inspector Paul Settle, head of the Metropolitan Police Service’s paedophile unit, has stepped aside after months of pressure over the direction of the investigations. According to one Met source, the DCI is formally off on sick leave.

full story at link

[Sabrina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29532336

For self preservation, to avoid being spat at or looking like a prat more like...

8 Oct

World Bank finance chief gives up bonus to please staff

Bertrand Badre will decline the remainder of his $94,000 (£58,000) annual bonus, the bank said.

The move was an attempt to appease staff, who were angry that he got a bonus while the bank was cutting jobs.

Mr Badre had pushed for much of the cutbacks at the organisation, which is being reorganised.

World Bank president Jim Yong Kim reportedly made the announcement to applause during a staff meeting on Tuesday.

"Of course staff unease is natural and understandable in any large organisation undergoing such a large-scale realignment," World Bank spokesman David Theis told Reuters.

more at link

[Sabrina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29520685

7 Oct

Banker admits Libor fraud conspiracy

]A senior banker from a UK[/COLOR] bank has admitted conspiring to defraud over manipulating the Libor lending rate.

The banker, who can not be named for legal reasons, is the first person in the UK to plead guilty to the offence.

Two men have already pleaded guilty in the US to fraud offences linked to the rigging of Libor, for years the benchmark by which trillions of pounds of financial contracts are based.

The case arose from the Serious Fraud Office's (SFO) investigations.



It began looking into Libor manipulation in 2012 after it emerged that it was being widely abused by leading banks to manipulate rates in their favour.

New laws
The economic secretary to the Treasury, Andrea Leadsom, said: "The integrity of the City matters to the economy of Britain. Ensuring that the key rates that underpin financial markets are robust, and that anyone who seeks to manipulate them is subject to the full force of the law is vital."

The government started consulting on new laws to ensure that markets are fair two weeks ago.

It would like to create a new criminal offence for the attempted manipulation of Libor, and extend any new legislation to cover seven other major financial benchmarks.

The SFO's investigation continues and 11 other individuals stand charged and await trial.

Seven banks and brokerages have settled regulatory allegations of interest rate rigging in the UK and the US after global investigations.

So far, 17 men have been charged with fraud-related offences.

Last month, Lloyds Banking Group dismissed eight staff members following an investigation into the behaviour of its rate setters.

The move follows the bank's £218m fine in July for "serious misconduct" over the setting of Libor.

and

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/06/uk-deutsche-bank-libor-idUKKCN0HV25Y20141006

7 Oct

U.S., UK regulators might settle Deutsche Bank Libor case this year -

(Reuters) - U.S. and British regulators are in a plan to settle the Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) Libor case in the next few months as they hope to extract major penalties from the bank for alleged manipulation of the benchmark interest rate, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.

However, the size and timing of the settlement is still unclear and is unlikely to conclude until early 2015, the newspaper said, citing a person briefed on the talks.

Regulators are hoping to convince the bank to pay well into the hundreds of millions of dollars, the newspaper said, citing a source.

Deutsche Bank said it is cooperating in the various regulatory investigations and conducting its own ongoing review into the matters, the newspaper said.


The bank is being investigated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Justice Department and the UK Financial Conduct Authority, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Deutsche Bank, which paid more than 5 billion euros (£3.9 billion) over the past two years for various settlements, expects to pay 3 billion more this year.

The bank has been is grappling with the Libor case for over a year now.

Banks like BNP Paribas SA (BNPP.PA) and Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN.VX) paid heavy fines earlier this year, for violating the U.S. sanctions.

Deutsche Bank could not be immediately reached for comment outside regular working hours.

[Sabrina]

Good news re: case against loan sharks targeting the vulnerable with loans at large interest rates.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2781153/Payday-loans-written-1million-people-Wonga-founder-walked-4million-payoff-left.html

UK

Payday loans could be written off for 1million people 'but Wonga founder still walked off with £4million payoff when he left'

Wonga refunding £220m debts to 330,000 people who could not pay back

Campaigners say case could now open floodgates with other lenders

Claims come amid report Wonga's founder sold a 1% stake back to lender

It is claimed £4m sale was when he left firm's day-to-day running last year

Up to a million payday loan borrowers could be in line for refunds, it was claimed today - amid reports Wonga's founder received £4million from the controversial company when he left.

Wonga was ordered this week to refund £220million in debts to 330,000 customers who took out loans they could not afford to repay.

Campaigners now say the case could open to floodgates to apply to other lenders - and up to a fifth of the estimated 5million people who have taken out payday loans across the industry, not just from Wonga, in the last six years.

story at link

5 Oct

[Sabrina]

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20141005/OPINION03/141009758

Cities can take steps to protect bees’ vital place in agriculture

5 Oct US

By Megan Dunn

Last Monday, the city of Seattle unanimously passed a resolution prohibiting the use of neonicotinoid (or ‘neonic') pesticides on city-owned property. City departments worked to create the resolution and will seek to use only pollinator-friendly methods of weed and pest control. How does a ban on pesticides in Seattle have a positive impact on bees? And, what does this mean for Everett and Snohomish County?

I testified in support of the ban as a representative of Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP). NCAP is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from harm caused by pesticides. Our programs are focused on advancing sustainable agriculture through practice and policy, reducing pesticide use in urban environments, and securing better safeguards for wildlife and waterways most affected by pesticide pollution. After recent neonic bans, we worked in Eugene, Oregon, to promote alternatives and Spokane to encourage planting bee-friendly habitat.

Our nation's food and farming system relies upon honeybees for continued prosperity. Of the food we eat, 1 in 3 bites is depends on pollination by honeybees. In Washington, the production value of crops pollinated by honeybees is approximately $2.1 billion.

full story at link

[Sabrina]

More signs of media control starting to unravel...

http://yournewswire.com/leading-german-journalist-cia-media-pushing-for-world-war/

Leading German Journalist: CIA Media Pushing for World War

Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of largest newspapers in Germany, admits he worked for the CIA. His fears for a war in Europe, lead him to his decision to tell the truth about corporate media being controlled by the financial class.

video at link - wont copy here for some reason...



“I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I’ve been educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public,” Ulfkotte told Russia Today. “I was supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. Why? Because I am pro-American.”

“The German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to bring war to Russia. This is a point of no return, and I am going to stand up and say… it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia.”

Ulfkotte said most corporate media journalists in the United States and Europe are “so-called non-official cover,” they work for an intelligence agency. “I think it is especially the case with British journalists, because they have a much closer relationship. It is especially the case with Israeli journalists. Of course with French journalists. … It is the case for Australians, [with] journalists from New Zealand, from Taiwan, well, there is many countries,” he said.

“The German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to bring war to Russia,” he told RT. “This is a point of no return, and I am going to stand up and say … it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do, and have done in the past, because they are bribed to betray the people not only in Germany, all over Europe. … I am very fearful of a new war in Europe, and I don’t like to have this situation again, because war is never coming from itself, there is always people who push for war, and this is not only politicians, it is journalists too. … We have betrayed our readers, just to push for war. … I don’t want this anymore; I’m fed up with this propaganda. We live in a banana republic, and not in a democratic country where we have press freedom.”

[KiwiElf]

Reference to above video

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[Sabrina]

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/breaking-news-well-stew-webb-says-super-breaking-from-vt-radio-9-3-14/


On Leo Wanta via Kauilapele and a story to be published on Veterans Today. Radio links at the link above.


Breaking News (well, Stew Webb says “Super-Breaking”) from VT Radio 9-3-14…

Posted on 2014/09/05 by kauilapele

I was sent this by DH just now, who occasionally sends me insider articles and information I sometimes read. This one struck home, and I felt VERY strongly that I needed to post this. NOW…

I’ve listened to parts of the radio show this came from, but in particular, the Part 4 MP3, below, has some breaking news regarding a threat against Leo Wanta. The recording they mention starts at 11:58 of Part 4. The audio player for this part is below, and snips from the upcoming Gordon Duff article about this are below the MP3s (I’m refraining from publishing the whole article which DH included in their email to me, as it may not be completely finished, and I wanted Gordon to publish it himself, first).

Veterans Today Radio News Reports Stew Webb Host September 3 2014
Guests: Gordon Duff, Jim Dean, Dr. Preston James and Amb. Leo Wanta

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The two men referred to, and speaking at the 11:58 mark of Part 4, are Sheldon R. Songstad, (South Dakota state Rep. & Sen., 12 years service), and Donald Sundquist (Governor, Tennessee, 1995-2003).

MP3s of the show (music removed, volume leveled and boosted, ~30 min., 9-13 MB each)

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4

Snippets from Gordon Duff’s upcoming article (not yet published, so I just put highlights)

“A day after former Republican Virginia governor, Bob McDonnell and his wife were convicted of 20 counts of bribery and influence peddling, former Republican Tennessee governor Don Sundquist and South Dakota Senator Sheldon Songstad may face, not just the largest bribery charge in world history but indictment for conspiracy to murder as well.

“What is amazing about this case is the amount of money involved, totaling $9.5 trillion US dollars, in fact the entire GNP of the United States for several years. Sundquist and Songstad, wanted $30 billion out of the proceeds to pay themselves along with congress, the US Treasury Department, 5 Supreme Court justices and two former US presidents.

“During the 1980s, Lee Wanta was… was tasked by President Reagan and CIA Director William Colby to destabilize the Soviet Union through establishment, with funds from the US Treasury, of a worldwide currency trading scheme.

“Wanta, with the help of Reagan, amassed a fortune of $27 trillion, funds earmarked by Reagan to pay America’s national debt, restore the nation’s infrastructure and fund a world free of debt based currencies.

“However, after Reagan left office and George H.W. Bush assumed the Presidency, Wanta was kidnapped and imprisoned in Switzerland, transferred to an American prison where he was held without due process for years and the money disappeared, taken by the Bush family.

“Nobody has heard of Sheldon Songstad, who with former congressman and governor, Don Sundquist, admit demanding a $30 billion dollar bribe from Wanta in order to compel the Supreme Court to issue a pay order on Wanta’s personal funds, based on the case he won, $4.5 trillion plus interest, totaling $9.5 trillion.

“The audience heard Sundquist describe how they would settle for as little as $5 billion, as a “retirement nest egg” and how, if Wanta fails to pay, they would arrange for his murder… Current US Senator Bob Corker, Republican from Tennessee had been on a conference call earlier that included Sheldon Songstad, telling Wanta that his funds would be paid.

“…they confessed to what legal experts have identified as dozens of crimes and laid out a trail of bribery and corruption that crosses nearly every level of government, every court and over a hundred of Americas’ highest elected officials.

“What is made clear is that the United States is far more a criminal organization than a nation. Those who don’t understand how America can say one thing and, with amazing consistency, do something else, often something totally bereft of moral responsibility, I think we may well have made the reasons abundantly clear.”

[Sabrina]

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/crime-desk/donal-macintyre-s-crime-cafe/major-political-figure-in-the-uk-questioned-on-child-sex-abuse-charges

Would be good if the lid is finally being lifted off all of this.

12 Oct UK

Political figure in the UK questioned on child sex abuse charges

Westminster village set to be rocked by claims of sex abuse against one senior political figure.

A political figure in the UK has been asked in for questioning in the in relation to historical child sex allegations involving London care homes.

The name of the individual has not been released and he has not been charged but is believed to have been in a held a senior position in the British Government and was a major figure in his political party.

The individual was also, connected to a number of high profile music figures and his arrest under caution will shock the UK political establishment.

It is understood that the individual denies all claims of historical abuse.

The allegations and interrogations under caution has not been publicised and no name has been released as is standard, but it comes as Paul Gambaccini, the BBC Radio presenter, is released from all threat of charges, after being arrested some months ago.

Gambaccini has long protested his innocence and now the Metropolitan Police say that he will not face any charges.

Another man, who identity has not been released will also not face charges relating to complaints made by adults claiming abuse as teenagers, the Metropolitan Police confirmed.

The force said that the alleged victims would be informed of the situation and the reasons why matters would not proceed any further.

While the wagons now circle around senior political figures who were allegedly involved in abuse or helped cover it up, rumours close to the child abuse investigation suggest that a huge name in music is also in the frame for child abuse allegations.

“Nearly, eveyr key figure of a certain generation has been targeted and if its sex with boys then this man is certainly in the frame”, one entertainment insider told the Sunday World.

The gates have opened in relation to child sex abuse allegations but there much more to come, he said, wishing to preserve his identity.

The political figure has been not arrested and presented himself to Police by appointment under the same controversial arrangements that Rolf Harris was initially engaged with by the Metropolitan Police.

The ramifications from this, should it proceed to charges, is expected to be of earthquake proportions in the Westminster village.

A former senior policeman who was involved in one of the early investigations into abuse by political figures has said to the Sunday World that “political interference certainly impeded investigations of political figures”.

He is reserving a great deal of his testimony and evidence for a judicial inquiry that has been set up to investigate the potential involvement of establishment figures and alleged cover up by their associates and establishment friends.


and
via Exaro News twitter feed

As more+more witnesses come forward, @ExaroNews is lining up some major breaks on Westminster’s paedophile network. http://www.exaronews.com

[Sabrina]

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5385/lord-brittan-leaves-vice-chairman-job-at-ubs-investment-bank

Lord Brittan leaves vice chairman job at UBS investment bank (UK)


Tory grandee retires weeks after being named in in Parliament over paedophile dossier

article at link .. cant copy.

17 Oct

and

n.b still no news on the Irish Sunday World article above in UK media...

[Sabrina]

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/sacked-adviser-to-victorian-premier-claims-he-ran-mp-porn-ring/ar-BB9fWWe

Australia 16 Oct

A sacked senior adviser for the Victorian premier will tell a court he ran a porn ring that loaned adult movies to Coalition MPs and advisers from inside his office.

Don Coulson, once an adviser to former premier Ted Balilieu, was sacked days after Premier Denis Napthine took over in March last year.

He is now suing the state government for wrongful dismissal, claiming $67,000 in redundancy payments he claims it still owes him, News Corp reports.

But the government claims Mr Coulson must return $30,000 in severance pay because he stored a "considerable amount" of pornography in his Treasury Place office while working for Mr Baillieu.

In its counterclaim, the government alleges that in 2001, Mr Coulson, 59, was disciplined for "downloading a large amount of pornography during work hours and using the resources of his public service employer".

Mr Coulson told News Corp he denied the allegation and claims the only pornographic material he would have had in his office were memory sticks made available for collection by MPs and advisers to view on their private computers without breaking government IT rules.

"I believe at least one minister, and MPs, were ­accessing this material," he was quoted as saying.

He said he was not sure exactly what sort of pornographic material was on the memory sticks and declined to name other people involved in the porn ring.

His case will begin in a Victorian County Court in February.

[Sabrina]

Much love to Dr Emoto, who resigned from this dimension this week.


From his Facebook page -

Dear Facebook friends of Masaru, (17 Oct)

Early this morning, Masaru has passed away peacefully with his wife by his side.

Since he became ill in Shanghai, he has received so much love and gratitude from his dear friends of all over the world. He was very encouraged and happy to receive your kind messages with love.

His last word was "Arigato". ("Thank you" in Japanese) We believe his last word was to you, everybody. He was so grateful for you and thanked you all so very much.

He used to say, "Life is LOVE which is a gift from God and parents, and DEATH is gratitude for going to a new dimension". So now he is in another dimension and continues to look over us warmly with love and gratitude.

We are going to carry on his mission of spreading the power of "love and gratitude".

We thank you very much for offering prayers for Dr. Emoto, and please send your love, light, and gratitude to him once again.

With much love and gratitude,

IHM Staff

and

some of his water images here

http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/water-crystal.html

and

just seen via Star Tsar that Dolores Canon has also departed

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?76124-Mrs-Dolores-Cannon-has-left-Earth-

can see Dolores chuckling as she gets confirmation of her many regressions from another dimension...

[Journeyon]

Sabrina, what a great thread! I always check out your updates, and appreciate the time and effort you spend to keep this thread current. A huge thanks, long over due.

Journeyon

[Sabrina]

Many thanks for your comments Journeyon... its become compulsive waiting for all the dominoes to fall....:)

[Sabrina]

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/tcmassie/breaking_pope_ousts_top_vatican_judge_after_incendiary_anti_gay_comments

17 Oct Vatican

Breaking: Pope Ousts Top Vatican Judge Known For Incendiary Anti-Gay Comments

In one of the more explosive shakeups in the recent history of the Catholic Church, the second-most powerful man in the Vatican has been ousted.


American Cardinal Raymond Burke, a darling of conservative Catholics who is virulently anti-gay, has confirmed to BuzzFeed what rumors from Rome have said for weeks. He will be demoted by Pope Francis from the head of the Roman Catholic Church's version of the Supreme Court to a figurehead role as the Patron of the Knights of Malta, a chivalrous order known for its work among the sick.

This is not the first demotion for Burke, who was dropped by Francis almost a year ago from an important Vatican bureau that selects bishops around the world. Burke was replaced on The Congregation for Bishops by Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., who, while also conservative, does not use the inflammatory rhetoric that has made Burke a favorite of the far-right in the Catholic Church.

Burke recently told an interviewer that legally-married gay and lesbian family members should be shunned from family celebrations during the upcoming holidays, asking “what would it mean to grandchildren to have present at a family gathering a family member who is living [in] a disordered relationship with another person?”

Burke's strong criticism of a preliminary document that included more inclusive welcoming of LGBT community members in the life of the Church and his challenge to Francis, who is seen to have had a hand in the drafting of the document, were apparently the last straw for the Pope.

Francis recently replaced outspoken Chicago Cardinal Francis George with the more conciliatory Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Washington, a major promotion for the 65-year-old native of Omaha, Nebraska. Admittedly, George was two-and-a-half years beyond the age of 75, when bishops and cardinals submit their resignations to the pope. However, some cardinals have been kept on the job until age 80 when they lose their right to vote in the conclave that selects a new pope after the death or resignation of the reigning pontiff.

These moves are thought by Vatican watchers to be signs that Francis wants to tone down the attacks on communities that are marginalized by the Catholic Church, including LGBT parishioners and divorced and pro-choice Catholics. Burke is a major proponent of the Latin Mass and is known for his fondness of clerical garb that went out of style following the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, which attempted to modernize the Church in worship and its relationship to Jews and to other Christian faiths. Burke opposes those reforms and his move to Rome from St. Louis, where he served as archbishop,




more at the link

[Sabrina]

Thought this was a strange accident when saw on Reuters, and Zerohedge illuminates some of the demise of the petro dollar possibilities which would be most unpopular in some circles...


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/21/russia-total-ceo-idUSL2N0SG00D20141021

UPDATE 7-Total CEO de Margerie killed in Moscow business jet accident

21 Oct Russia... France..


MOSCOW, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed when a business jet collided with a snow plough during takeoff at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport, the company and airport officials said.

The collision occurred late on Monday, just minutes before midnight Moscow time, the airport said in a statement. The Dassault Falcon business jet carrying de Margerie had been due to travel to Paris.

"Total confirms with deep regret and great sadness that Chairman and CEO Christophe de Margerie died just after 10 p.m. (Paris time) on October 20 in a private plane crash at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, following a collision with a snow removal machine," the company said in a statement.

The plane's three crew also died, said Total, France's second-biggest listed company with a market value of 102 billion euros.

There was no immediate word on the cause of the collision. Visibility was 350 metres (1,150 feet) at the time, the airport said, adding that civil aviation authorities had launched an investigation.

Vnukovo is Moscow's oldest and third biggest airport. Located southwest of the capital, it is used by President Vladimir Putin and other government officials.

De Margerie, 63, was on a list of attendees at a Russian government meeting on foreign investment in Gorki, near Moscow, on Monday. With his distinctive bushy moustache and outspoken manner, he was one of the most recognizable figures among the world's top oil executives.

"France is losing an extraordinary business leader who turned Total into a world giant," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in a statement.

"France is losing a great industry captain and a patriot."

more at link

and via Zerohedge

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-20/anti-petrodollar-ceo-french-energy-giant-total-dies-freak-plane-crash-moscow

"Anti-Petrodollar" CEO Of French Energy Giant Total Dies In Freak Plane Crash In Moscow

20 Oct

Three months ago, the CEO of Total, Christophe de Margerie, dared utter the phrase heard around the petrodollar world, "There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars," as we noted here. Today, RT reports the dreadful news that he was killed in a business jet crash at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow after the aircraft hit a snow-plough on take-off. The airport issued a statement confirming "a criminal investigation has been opened into the violation of safety regulations," adding that along with 3 crewmembers on the plane, the snow-plough driver was also killed.

As RT reports,

According to preliminary data, the light aircraft collided with a snow-cleaning machine on takeoff, a source at the capital’s airport told RIA.

The aircraft was sending distress signals while still in the air and reporting an engine fire and fuselage damage, LifeNews reports. Upon crashing on the runway, the aircraft was engulfed in flames, reportedly killing everyone on board.

While initials reports suggested four people died in the tragedy, officials report that five bodies were found at the crash site, one allegedly being the driver of the snow-cleaning vehicle.

Vnukovo Airport has temporarily suspended all flights following the incident.

“A criminal investigation has been opened into the violation of safety regulations after a light aircraft crash in the capital's Vnukovo airport,” transport official Tatyana Morozova told RIA.

An investigative group is working at the crash site, Morozova added. In addition to people who were on board the plane, she said, the driver snowplow was killed.

Debris from the aircraft was scattered up to 200 meters from the crash site, according to the rescue services. The engine was found some 50 meters from the crash site, while one of the landing gears was ripped off and discovered nearly 200 meters from the main mass of debris.


Of course this could merely be a desparately sad accident... aside from the coincidence of this so recently...

Christophe de Margerie, 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 onhis 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. hmmmm......

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.

So even a major beneficiary of the status quo appears to see the end in sight for the Petrodollar.

* * *

Furthermore, despite Western-imposed sanctions on Russia that prohibit western financing and technology transfer to some Russian energy projects, Total is continuing to pursue a natural gas project in Yamal, a joint venture with Russia's Novatek and China's CNPC.

“Can we live without Russian gas in Europe? The answer is no. Are there any reasons to live without it? I think – and I'm not defending the interests of Total in Russia – it is a no,” the Total boss told Reuters back in summer.
* * *

And of course, it had to happen in Russia!

and via the Guardian:

A staunch defender of Russia and its energy policies amid the conflict in Ukraine, De Margerie told Reuters in a July interview that Europe should stop thinking about cutting its dependence on Russian gas and focus instead on making those deliveries safer.

He said tensions between the west and Russia were pushing Moscow closer to China, as illustrated by a $400bn deal to supply Beijing with gas that was clinched in May.

“Are we going to build a new Berlin Wall?” he said. “Russia is a partner and we shouldn’t waste time protecting ourselves from a neighbour … What we are looking to do is not to be too dependent on any country, no matter which. Not from Russia, which has saved us on numerous occasions.”

(Russia are inviting France to join them in the criminal investigation...)

and

http://rt.com/news/197700-total-plane-crash-driver/

Vnukovo plane crash: Snowplow driver drunk in collision with Total CEO's aircraft

21 Oct Russia


It was determined in the course of the investigation into the Moscow plane crash that killed the CEO of French oil giant Total that the driver of the snowplow which likely caused the crash was drunk.

“It has been determined that the driver of the snowplow was under the influence of alcohol,” head of Russia’s Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin told the reporters on Tuesday.

Markin added that “there is a possibility that a number of airport staff will be suspended from carrying out their duties pending criminal investigation.”

During the taxiing before take-off, at around 0:10 am Moscow time on Tuesday, the Falcon 50 business jet hit a snow-clearing machine. Although previous reports indicated otherwise, the plane did not leave ground following the collision.

The CEO of France’s oil and gas giant Total, Christophe de Margerie, was the only passenger in the jet, while three crewmembers who were also French citizens perished as well.

A criminal investigation has been launched into possible violation of safe-driving regulations involving an aircraft, resulting in the death of two or more persons.

“Some of the main theories being investigated at this time are a mistake by air traffic control and the actions of the snowplow driver. Bad weather conditions and the possibility of a mistake by the pilot will also be considered,” Markin said.

The black boxes have been uncovered and are being processed at this time.

Investigators are also examining technical documentation and testing fuel samples, according to Markin.

He added that “the scene is being investigated with the help of representatives from the International Aviation Committee” and that “staffers are being questioned at this time.”

“Owing to the gravity of the matter of the Falcon-300 crash in Vnukovo,” the spokesman for the Investigative Committee Aleksandr Bastrykin will personally hold a meeting with the investigative group and airport personnel, according to Markin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences over the Total CEO's death. TASS cited his spokesman as saying that "Vladimir Putin has long known de Margerie and had a close working relationship with him."

"The president highly appreciated de Mergerie's business skills, his continued commitment to the development of not only bilateral Russian-French relations but also on multifaceted levels," Peskov also said.

[Sabrina]

Pockets of main stream media revealing some useful things now...no doubt behind the scenes battle to suppress the historic child abuse investigations or get the truth out... and the high profile names involved...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-spies-recruited-paedo-ira-4466798

19 Oct

British spies recruited paedo IRA chief: Spooks used pictures of Joe Cahill to 'turn him'

British authorities covered up the child sex abuse and used damning evidence to turn Cahill into one of the British Army's most valuable informants, it has been claimed.

The British authorities covered up a case of child sex abuse by a senior figure of the IRA in order to use the damning evidence to turn him into a double agent, military intelligence sources have said.

Joe Cahill, who helped found the Provisional IRA, was pictured abusing a 14-year-old girl in a car in the 1970s, the sources said.

But instead of being prosecuted, the images were used by military spooks to turn the Republican hero – and close ally of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams – into one of the British Army’s most valuable informants.

A source revealed that Cahill – who died in 2004 – was being followed by a covert unit as he drove around Belfast when the pictures were taken.

They apparently showed the paramilitary, then in his 50s, abusing a 14-year-old girl, who was later identified.

The source said: “The pictures clearly identified both Cahill and his victim. Her father would have killed him if he had found out. He was never prosecuted and instead the pictures were used to turn him. He was a prized asset.”

The allegation is the latest paedophile scandal to hit the IRA and Sinn Fein.

Last week Cahill’s grand-niece, Mairia, revealed the IRA covered up the alleged abuse she suffered as a 16-year-old at the hands of another IRA figure. Mairia was not Cahill’s alleged victim in the 70s.

The Ministry of Defence did not comment on our story last night.

But a military source said: “This kind of thing has been unthinkable for many years now. There were some very questionable techniques deployed in the 1970s but they were put a stop to very soon afterwards.”

Several secretive military intelligence units operated in Northern Ireland at the time, including 14th Intelligence Company, also known as the Det, and several special collation teams.

Female operatives were said to have slept with IRA figures for information.

Cahill’s role as a key British agent was known to only a small handful of individuals. But a senior IRA source revealed that there was suspicion that he was a “tout” – slang for informer.

The IRA’s chief of staff was a priceless source of intelligence as the terror outfit stepped up its bombing campaign across Ireland and the mainland.

He was responsible for arming the paramilitaries with weapons and explosives from allies such as Libya and raising money from republican sympathisers.

A high-level agent like Cahill could be used to save lives and also to exert pressure on the IRA and Sinn Fein to join the peace process, which took place in the 90s.

In a separate case, Mairia Cahill last week waived her right to anonymity to speak out against alleged sexual abuse she suffered as a 16-year-old over a year in 1997 at the hands of another senior IRA figure.

Ms Cahill said she was raped and later interrogated by the IRA about her claims. She later went to the police and a case was brought against the alleged rapist and those said to have been involved in the IRA inquiry.

The man she accused, Martin Morris, has consistently denied her claims and was acquitted of all charges, which were dropped after Ms Cahill withdrew her evidence.

She said: “The only word I have for it is interrogation, because that’s exactly how it felt. They told me that they were going to read my body language to see who was telling the truth and that they were going to bring him into a room.”

Gerry Adams has denied telling Mairia that sometimes abuse victims “actually enjoy it”.

Last year he came under fire after his brother Liam was jailed for sexually abusing his own daughter.

The 59-year-old is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence for raping and abusing Aine Dahlstrom when she was aged between four and nine in the late 70s and early 80s.

During a first trial which collapsed, Mr Adams told the court he confronted his brother about the allegations in 1987 and Liam denied the abuse.

He then revealed his brother later confessed to him in 2000.

Liam’s conviction led to pressure on his brother to explain why he did not contact police over the abuse allegations when he first learnt of them.

Gerry Adams told the first trial in April last year, that he warned a priest, who is now dead, about his brother’s sinister past and the pair became estranged after the allegations emerged.

Recent allegations of historical child abuse against political figures has forced the British Government to set up an official inquiry.

Chairwoman Fiona Woolf is expected to examine abuse by MPs, in care homes and schools, and is now facing calls to expand her investigation to cover the role of the intelligence services.

Labour MP Tom Watson said: “There have been rumours that the intelligence services had knowledge of child abuse for a number of years.

"That is why it’s essential that the inquiry is given full access to intelligence service files on this subject.”

Labour MP Simon Danczuk, who exposed the truth about paedophile Liberal MP Cyril Smith, said: “The exploitation of children by the secret services and members of the establishment comes as no surprise.

"We are discovering a history of poor children being treated like disposable goods by people in high places and no one batted an eyelid.”

When approached about our story regarding Joe Cahill, a Sinn Fein spokesperson said: “This is contemptible. It is gutter journalism of the worst kind.”

and

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/calls-for-fiona-woolf-to-investigate-the-intelligence-services/

20 Oct UK

Calls for Fiona Woolf to investigate the Intelligence Services

One of the lingering questions following the revelations of paedophile Jimmy Savile’s activities is the role of the Intelligence Services;

How can it be that the Security Services failed to identify Savile, whose paedophile abuse spanned over 50 years and was awarded both an OBE and a Knighthood?

This predatory paedophile mixed easily with senior politicians and Royalty, not to mention leading the task force running Broadmoor, a top security hospital, for a year. Were the Services incompetent, or was it something else?

Similarly, there have been lingering doubts about the truth of the Kincora boys home in Belfast. This was Ken Livingstone speaking on LBC radio on 10th November 2012;

‘I was raising in parliament, up against Mrs Thatcher, the Kincora boys home, where boys were being abused and MI5 was filming it because they were hoping to be able to blackmail senior politician in Northern Ireland. They were hoping to catch one of Ian Paisleys MPs and they never did…. erm, and give themselves some leverage. The truth is there’s been an awful lot of covering up of paedophiles and paedophile rings for decades and decades.’

Are our Intelligence Services complicit in child abuse?

Today’s story in the Daily Mirror would seem to suggest that they are;

[Sabrina]

http://www.theeventchronicle.com/intel/benjamin-fulford-did-the-dragon-family-take-control-of-the-federal-reserve-board/

Latest fun and games from Benjy Fulford (we can only hope...) and n.b. re: Bank of England via Reuters:

(Reuters) - The Bank of England said on Monday that it had temporarily suspended its automated Real Time Gross Settlement payment system, which banks use to transfer large sums of money, and that it was handling major payments manually.

"The Bank of England has identified a technical issue related to some routine maintenance of the RTGS payment system and has paused settlement while we resolve it," it said in a statement.

"We can reassure the public that all payments made today will be processed," the central bank added. 20 Oct



and

20 Oct

Benjamin Fulford: Did the dragon family take control of the Federal Reserve Board?

(Benjamin Fulford) Multiple sources are reporting that as of October 17th, 2014, the Dragon family has taken over control of the international operations of the Federal Reserve Board and that as a result, the cabal’s ISIS and ebola campaigns, which were negotiating tactics, will be wound down. Under the deal, the United States, Europe and England, respectively, will be issuing their own domestic currencies. However, the world’s reserve currency will no longer be controlled by the families that used to own the Fed, the sources, including pentagon and CIA officials, said.

A Chinese government source was unable to confirm that a deal had been reached. Nonetheless, he did note that China, Indonesia and Japan had been printing dollars of their own under the old regime but that all new creation of dollars world-wide will stop in October. This implies that any new currency issued internationally will be something other than dollars; most likely a basket of currencies centered on the Chinese yuan.

A British MI5 source, for his part, says “Europe is in no condition to make any agreements based on the future use of the Euro. Italy, France and Germany all need to expedite the issuance of domestic currency and this is now a recognized fact.”

Moreover, there are still major power groups, notably in the Middle East and the US, that are unwilling to accept this deal, dragon family sources say. As a result, geopolitical turbulence is expected to continue until the final resistance groups are subdued and controlled. A dragon family member says they will push for complete cabal defeat by the Chinese lunar New Year , which falls on February 19th in 2015.
A high level “G7 source” independently confirmed that as a result of the new deal, “The New Economic System will be developed founded on the truth namely that there is Abundance of resources, not scarcity.”

If a deal has been reached at the highest levels of Eastern and Western esoteric power, then there will be many public signs appearing. For one thing many world leaders, including US corporate president Barack Obama, Japanese slave Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, UN head Ban Ki Moon and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu will be removed from office.

Certainly things are not looking good for Japan’s Abe. Two of the ministers of his just reshuffled cabinet, Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi and Justice Minister Midori Matsuhima resigned this Monday. The ministers resigned over supposed misuse of political funds but this was just an excuse for public consumption. Both ministers were disciples of top CIA Japan handler Gerald Curtis who is no longer the top Japan handler. Sources in the Japanese imperial family say that the removal of Abe and his secret handlers such as Richard Armitage and Michael Green was part of the deal made between the dragon family and the Western leaders.

Veteran politician Ichiro Ozawa has been proposed by Japanese right wingers as an interim figure to preside over Japan until a truly independent government can be formed, the sources said. Two other names put forth as possible Abe replacements are former Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto and former Miyazaki Prefectural governor Hideo Higashikokubaru.

There is also a strong push by the imperial family and others to merge Japan with North and South Korea to create Kopan, which would be an economic powerhouse with a population of 200 million. In such a scenario the Okinawan archipelago would become an independent kingdom and US forces in Japan and Korea would be stationed there to act as regional peace keepers.

The Chinese government source said that while in principle China supported maintaining existing borders, “the creation of such a state would contribute to stability in North East Asia.”

The North Korean regime, in particular, is very close to Japan. After Japan’s defeat in World War 2, an imperial Japanese military officer by the name of Osamu Hatanaka, with secret help from the imperial family, set out to recreate pre-war Japan on the Korean peninsula, the imperial family sources said. Hatanaka was a graduate of the elite Nakano military school and he put Kim Il Sung in power.

Also, Megumi Yokota, the mother of current North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was brought over to North Korea at age 13 because she had both Japanese and Korean Li dynasty royal blood.

Furthermore, in a very unusual move, it was the CIA that helped Kim Jong Un purge Jang Song Thaek and his faction in order to prevent North Korea from falling under Chinese control, the Japanese royal family members said.

Kim Jong Un disappeared from sight recently because of over indulgence, the Chinese government source said. He is now recovering from ankle surgery, he said. General O Kuk Ryol, who serves as his regent, is ensuring the stability of the Kim Dynasty, he said.

South Korean government agents also contacted the White Dragon Society last week saying their government was being blackmailed with nuclear terror in order to prevent it from improving its relations with Japan and North Korea. The WDS promised that South Korea would be safe from nuclear attack because the cabal submarines that were to be used for the attack had already been sunk..............................

Many sources and reports are also claiming that US president Barack Obama has been replaced with a military government headed by General Carter Ham. If this is really true then it should be on every television screen in the nation. Until you see that, take this information with a grain of salt.


more at the link


and various David Wilcock comments on Fulfords site here:

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/

[Sabrina]

Pity about SpiritWolfs resignation...exit...exile... as a site that hosted the Charles drama, perhaps there should be a tad more open mindedness and humility? Cant think of a guru who hasnt been knocked off their pedestal in some way ... (still without apostrophes since a demon fried my other PC hard drive :)...

[araucaria]

This guy didn't hand in his resignation papers, but he won't be going back to work:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/21/total-boss-killed-plane-crash-christophe-de-margerie-drunk-driver

Spirit Wolf has been unsubscribed a couple of times now, I'm not sure what needed to be done that hasn't been done.

[Sabrina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29719090

sounds quite right but will inevitably delay the inquiry... what a game...

22 Oct UK

Legal challenge launched over abuse inquiry chair

A victim of historical child sexual abuse has launched a legal challenge to the choice of Fiona Woolf as the chair of the inquiry investigating the issue.

A judicial review application, seen by the BBC, claims she is not impartial, has no relevant expertise and may not have time to discharge her duties.

Labour wants Mrs Woolf to meet abuse victims amid concerns over her links to former Home Secretary Lord Brittan.

Downing Street said it had "full confidence" in her doing the job.

BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said he believed the government would do everything it could to "cling onto" Mrs Woolf given that her predecessor in the role had already stood down and the inquiry was being asked to produce an interim report by the end of March.

Questions have been asked about Mrs Woolf's suitability for the role given that she has no experience in child protection or family law and on Tuesday revealed that she had dined with Lord Brittan - home secretary in 1984 when ministers were handed a dossier on alleged high-profile paedophiles - five times since 2008.

The legal challenge to her appointment could be heard before the end of the year.

Judicial review is used to challenge the decisions of government and other organisations based on the law. Most applications do not get past the initial stage and are rejected by a judge.

'Lack of confidence'
The application comes amid calls from a number of MPs from different parties for her to consider her position.

Lib Dem MP John Hemming said Mrs Woolf's personal contacts "would give no confidence to the victims that have been ignored for many years", while Conservative Nadine Dorries tweeted that Mrs Woolf "no longer" had full public and victim confidence.

For Labour, shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint told the BBC's Daily Politics that it was "really difficult for her (Mrs Woolf) to stay" if survivors of child abuse did not support her.

The opposition is urging Mrs Woolf and Home Secretary Theresa May to meet survivors of abuse immediately to address their concerns.

But Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude appealed for critics of Mrs Woolf to "step back here", telling BBC Radio 4's World at One: "This is really important and really matters. It has to be done right.

"Fiona Woolf seems to be a really admirable person in many ways... She's not doing this on her own. She's tried to be completely meticulous about disclosing all these matters. I hope we can deal with things in a grown-up way."

But Andi Lavery, who describes himself as a "survivor of abuse" at a school in the 1980s, said he had "zero confidence" in the inquiry, suggesting it had "no investigatory powers" and Mrs Woolf appeared "weak as water" when questioned by MPs on Tuesday.

'Credible'
And Alison Millar, whose law firm Leigh Day is representing victims of abuse, said: "This is not really about Fiona Woolf's ability or her integrity, this is about her independence and her ability to lead this inquiry in a way that is credible to the survivors of abuse.

"Somebody who seems to be on dinner party terms with a senior political figure whose knowledge this inquiry will be scrutinising is somebody who, from the perspective of my clients, does not have the necessary independence."

But Sharon Evans, a member of the inquiry panel, said it had "got off to a difficult start" but she was confident it was representative, with a QC and investigator from Her Majesty's Inspectors of Constabulary as well as people, like herself, with personal experience of abuse.

more at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-29732720

22 Oct Mexico

Missing Mexico students: Iguala mayor arrest ordered


Mexico's government has ordered the arrest of the mayor of the southern town of Iguala, where six people died and 43 students disappeared after clashing with local police last month.

Mexico's chief prosecutor said Mayor Jose Luis Abarca ordered the police operation, to stop the students disrupting an event hosted by his wife.

The couple are said to be on the run.

The protesting students were last seen being bundled into police cars after the clashes on 26 September.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said Mr Abarca, his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda and police chief Felipe Flores were wanted "as the individuals who likely organised the events that took place in Iguala on 26 September".

He also alleged that Ms Pineda had links to a local drug gang Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors).

Municipal police officers arrested in connection with the clashes reportedly confessed to handing the students over to the gang.

Its suspected leader, Sidronio Casarrubias, was arrested last week.

Separately, demonstrators protesting against the disappearances set fire to Iguala's town hall on Wednesday.

There were also demonstrations in other Mexican towns and cities.

Search continues
The students had travelled to Iguala to protest and raise funds for their college.

Police opened fire on their buses as they were travelling back to their town, Ayotzinapa. Six people, three of them students, were killed in the shootings.

The 43 were declared missing in the following days.

The discovery of several mass graves around the town of Iguala has raised concerns about the students' fate.

But DNA tests showed they were not among 30 bodies that have been analysed so far. The identity of the bodies remains unclear.

The Mexican government has offered a reward of 1.5 million pesos ($110,000, £68,000) for information on their whereabouts.

More than 1,200 federal police have been deployed to look for them in and around Iguala.

[Sabrina]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/10/22/blackwater-guards-convicted-in-2007-baghdad-shooting/

Blackwater guards convicted in 2007 Baghdad shooting

22 Oct

… from Russia Today, Moscow

[ Editor's Note: Prosecutors did a good job, as these convictions will dampen the "anything goes" attitute that grew out of the situation in Iraq of "shoot first and ask questions later". It was one of the issues that framed the US as an occupation army, the civilians were expendable in any and all situations... Jim W. Dean ]
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- First published … October 22. 2014 -

A Washington, DC jury has convicted one former Blackwater guard of murder and three more from the private military company of voluntary manslaughter in connection with infamous 2007 shooting in Baghdad that left 14 civilians dead and 17 others injured.

The jury of eight women and four men deliberated for 27 days before convicting Nicholas A. Slatten, of Sparta, Tennessee., of first-degree murder. The panel also convicted Paul A. Slough of Keller, Texas; Evan S. Liberty of Rochester, New Hampshire; and Dustin L. Heard of Knoxville, Tenn., of at least three counts of voluntary manslaughter, the Washington Post reported.

The jurors are still deliberating on more charges, as US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth allowed the jury to announce only those verdicts they had agreed upon so far, the Associated Press noted.

The four former Blackwater Worldwide employees faced federal homicide and firearm charges for the firing machine guns and grenades into a Baghdad traffic circle. They have been found guilty on at least some of the charges, according to the Post.

During the 10-week trial, federal prosecutors argued that the defendants opened fire without provocation, firing wildly into the crowded area because they harbored deep-rooted hostility towards Iraqis. The government also claimed the guards later boasted of their indiscriminate shooting.

The 2007 shooting, which happened at Nisur Square in Baghdad, scandalized the Iraqi public and raised tensions with the US four years into the Iraq war. The guards were accompanying a State Department convoy through the streets of Baghdad when they opened fire at a traffic roundabout. The Blackwater troops reportedly faced no provocation, yet they opened fire on a mother and her son in a white Kia vehicle and then continued to fire indiscriminately.

The maximum sentence for conviction of first-degree murder is life imprisonment. The gun charges carry mandatory minimum prison terms of 30 years. The maximum prison term for involuntary manslaughter is eight years; for attempted manslaughter it is seven years.

[Sabrina]

http://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/who-benefits-from-the-death-of-the-french-oil-giant-totals-ceo-christophe-de-margerie/

following on from story 3269 above

Who Benefits from the Death of the French Oil Giant Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie?

OCT 21

Lada Ray’s Investigation

October 21, 2014. Tragic news: The private transcontinental jet carrying Christophe de Margerie, CEO of the French oil and gas giant Total, crashed in Moscow Vnukovo-3 Airport. Vnukovo-3 isn’t your average overcrowded commercial outfit; it is an airport designed to receive the international VIPs and their private jets. The jet in question is Falcon 50, French made, cost $170-200 million. According to experts, it is one of the most reliable jets in existence, and it is designed for long-distance flights. Such a jet carrying a VIP such as Total’s CEO would be kept in excellent condition and the pilots would be top-notch. The crew on such jet is usually paid much more than commercial pilots.

What happened based on early reports: Moscow had a heavy snow aggravated by fog. Snow clearing ploughs were operating. The jet’s wing on take-off clipped the snow plough operating nearby, but the plane took off nevertheless. The driver of the plough was unharmed, but the Russian investigators announced that he was drunk. After 40 seconds in the air, the pilot sent distress call and attempted to land, but the plane burst in flames, killing all four aboard: three crew members and one passenger, Total CEO Christophe de Margerie. Here is a report about the main investigative points on RT Russia.

The questions investigators ask are: how could a drunk person be allowed to operate a snow plough? How could a dispatcher authorise a take-off with a plough present? What role did the snow and heavy fog play in all this? Did the pilot make a mistake? Did he, for example, drive off his course in the fog, resulting in the collision with the plough?

If I were them, I would also ask these questions: 1. Who and why gave the order to the snow plough operator to clean up the snow in the take-off area at that specific time? If the take-off area needed to be prepped first due to snow, then perhaps it was the correct order. Then, the Total jet needed to wait until the area was cleared of snow. Perhaps it was a lack of coordination between maintenance, dispatch, and the pilot? Did the pilot get pressured by the VIP to take off immediately, despite bad weather?

Also, I looked at the video with the plough operator and he seemed very shocked and distressed. One thing he didn’t seem at all was being drunk. Sure, the shock could have sobered him up, but I still have serious doubts he could have been that drunk. Summary of the event video, including the plough driver.

It appears Russian authorities decided to admit their fault even before the investigation and assign the blame internally due to the delicate political situation and in order to keep peace.

But let’s take a look at what went on behind the scenes geopolitically in the run-up to the event. What was the Total CEO doing in Moscow?

Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie took a different position on world events, USA, and Russia than the prevailing neo-liberal position of his government. He was against USA interference and dictate in European affairs, and for the expanded cooperation with Russia.

Total is the French oil and gas giant, ranking #6 in the world. As a result of the US sanctions, primarily the ban on dollar-denominated loans to companies operating in Russia, American oil giant Exxon Mobil was recently forced to fold its joint operations in Russia’s north. This is a big hit for Exxon’s bottom line. The company announced that they didn’t want to leave and planned to return as soon as the sanctions were over.

At the very same time, Total, which took a position of defiance against the US and EU sanctions, re-affirmed its participation in Russian projects. Moreover, Total was negotiating stepping in and replacing Exxon and other Anglo-American companies in the $27 billion Yamal liquefied natural gas project, and possibly, in the Arctic oil project as well. To accomplish that, Total was planning on using a combined euro, ruble and yuan financing. Total was in the process of securing a Chinese financing to replace the American loans. At the bottom of this article you will find a telling quote from a NASDAQ article of 9/22/2014 about Total’s negotiations with the Chinese banks.

Total CEO was in Moscow to discuss and negotiate the expanded deal. He was scheduled to fly back to Paris at 12:10 am, after the meeting with Russian PM, Dmitry Medvedev.

Total management appears to indicate that nothing will change in Total’s position and plans in regards to Russia as these are long-term plans that get drawn for 20-40 years forward. However, having taken a bold bet on the expanded cooperation with Russia, Total’s CEO didn’t get the chance to groom a successor. “He planned to, but never got around to it.” This leads some experts to believe that now that Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie is gone, the US will apply enormous pressure on the company to change its course towards Russia.

According to this expert (link to interview in Russian), “the death of Total’s CEO will impact the future not only of Total, but of the entire French economy.”

The above leads some to suspect a foul play in the death of Total’s CEO. Whether his death was the result of a tragic coincidence, poor coordination or bad weather, or whether a more sinister scenario was at play, the geopolitical circumstances paint a very different picture of the event than seems on the surface.

If we also take into account the other events: strange disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight over the Indian Ocean early this year and the recent MH17 false flag downing in Ukraine, the picture becomes even more tainted. We should also remember the strange recent failures of the Russian Proton-M cargo rockets. Strangely, all the failures of Russian rockets occurred when they were carrying foreign satellites . These rockets use American made electronics.

Incidentally, a new Proton-M rocket was just launched from the Baikonur in Kazakhstan without a hitch: the blast-off video. I could have predicted that there would be no problem with this launch because it was carrying a domestic Russian satellite. It should be clear that the reason only foreign satellite launches of Russian rockets fail is because someone is trying to discredit Russia as a reliable business partner. Before these mysterious recent failures, Russian space industry had no failures for over 40 years. I wrote about this problem in my prior articles, where I pointed out that in my opinion the reason behind failures was the Trojan software that could be activated or de-activated when necessary. Read more: Damning Eye-Witness Video of MH17 False Flag; Plus, Strange Failures of Russian Rockets.

Add to that the fact that since General De Gaulle, France has been one of the most pro-Russian countries in the EU, plus the fact that historically, France was more willing to do business with Russia than many other Western countries, often serving as a bridge between the West and Russia. France is supposed to deliver two Mistral carriers to Russia and if it doesn’t, it will be a huge loss for the French economy. Presently, US is putting enormous pressure on France not to deliver the Mistrals, which would result in a broken contract and huge penalties.

France’s BNP Paribas earlier this year already fell victim to the US sanctions, having to pay a $10 billion penalty, essentially bankrupting the bank. Various representatives of the French government and industry have been registering timid protests against EU’s US dollar dependence and US interference in the EU affairs. CEO of Total was a very influential voice in France for cooperation with Russia.

What does all the above have to do with the Total CEO jet crash in Moscow? Perhaps nothing, perhaps everything. Time will show.

One thing is very clear: the death of Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie was against the interests of Russia, France, or Total itself.

One of the easy ways to damage a plane is sabotage. Who and why told the worker to snow-plough the take-off area at that time? Incidentally, the snow plough’s operator name is Vladimir Martinenko, a typical Ukrainian name. Is he from Ukraine, and what part thereof? How does he feel about what’s happening there? Where do his loyalties lie? Could he be bought, or convinced to do something illegal? These are all very good questions. He did survive the accident without a scratch, despite the plane’s wing getting so damaged by his plough that the jet burst into flames 40 seconds after takeoff. Does the plough operator’s name and origin have anything to do with the event? There are lots of Ukrainian citizens working in Russia, most in maintenance, cleaning, construction, driving and other blue-collar positions. Most Ukrainians are pro-Russian, but there are no guarantees. This may mean absolutely nothing, or it may mean everything. If I were investigating this occurrence, I would look into that.

Vladimir Markin, Head of the Central Investigative Commission of the Russian Federation, called the work of the airport authorities “sloppy,” and revealed the steps the investigation is taking. The snow plough driver has been arrested and the airport management may be temporarily suspended to prevent them from influencing the investigation. Interview.

Quote: Total Looks to China to Finance Russian Gas Project — 2nd Update

By Selina Williams. Published on nasqaq.com, 9/22/14 – Link to post.

“French oil major Total S.A. on Monday said it was in talks with Chinese banks to help fund a major natural-gas project in Russia in a move to get around tightening Western sanctions over Ukraine.

Chief Financial Officer Patrick de la Chevardière said the company was looking at financing its share in the $ 27 billion Yamal liquefied natural-gas project in Chinese yuan, Russian rubles and euros.

“The effect of U.S. sanctions was that Yamal LNG will be prevented from raising any dollar financing,” Mr. de la Chevardière told a news briefing in London. Total is developing the onshore Yamal project in Russia’s Arctic north with independent Russian gas producer OAO Novatek and China’s CNPC.

Total would first look for financing for Yamal from export credit agencies such as France’sCoface and Italy’s Sace and then add Chinese and Russian finance, Mr. de la Chevardière said.

Total’s move comes as U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. said last week is it winding down its drilling campaign in the Russian Arctic because of sanctions announced by the U.S. and European Union this month. The setback to Exxon’s $3.2 billion deal to explore for oil with Russia’s Rosneft in the Arctic could represent the biggest corporate casualty of sanctions so far.

Earlier this month, Russian officials said that restrictions on western technology for drilling in hard-to-reach areas such as the Arctic Sea could hurt future oil production if they persist.

Russia relies on oil and gas to provide the bulk of its revenues and Yamal is vital to Kremlin plans to increase the country’s share in the fast-growing global LNG market.

Total is in turn relying on Yamal, which is expected to start up in 2017, to provide a chunk of the French’s company’s future production growth. Yamal is estimated to hold proven reserves of 800 million barrels of oil equivalent.”

[PathWalker]

Another top french mega bankster kicked the bucket in Tel-Aviv, and dropped from a skyscraper.
I wonder who assisted him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/world/europe/thierry-leyne-dies-in-israel.html?_r=0
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Business Partner Dies, Apparently in Suicide

PARIS — Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli banker and partner of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former chief of the International Monetary Fund, was found dead on Thursday after apparently taking his own life in Tel Aviv.

Mr. Leyne, 48, jumped off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex, according to Israeli officials.

The two men met several years ago and, in October 2013, founded Leyne Strauss-Kahn & Partners in an effort to capitalize on the former fund chief’s experience and expertise. The company offers investment banking advice and services.

After training as a civil engineer, Mr. Leyne made a career in private banking, management and investment. In 1994, he founded Assya Capital, a trading company that was listed on the Euronext Free Market in 2001.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn became an investment banker after his career was buffeted by a series of sex scandals. He has helped the government of South Sudan set up a bank, and he advised the Serbian government on economic issues. He also sits on the board of two big Russian financial institutions.

[avid]

http://www.rense.com/general96/deadmicro.html

Just a reminder about all the dead microbiologists......

This list was originally compiled for inclusion in Jim Marrs’ 2010 book The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy (originally titled Zombie Nation), but was deleted by the publisher as being too lengthy and not relevant.
In light of the growing fear over the Ebola virus, it might be worthwhile to note that by mid-2009, nearly 100 scientists around the world ­ most of them microbiologists ­ had died, many under suspicious circumstances.
Researcher Mark J. Harper compiled the following list. “While some of these deaths may be purely coincidental and seem to pose no connection, many of these deaths are highly suspicious and appear not to be random acts of violence. Many are just plain murders,” commented Harper.
Mark Harper’s dead scientists and microbiologists list: Email to author, August 20, 2009; http://www.puppstheories.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6521
While it is understood that not everyone on this list died an unnatural death, the sheer number and scope is breathtaking. This compilation of biologist and microbiologist deaths indeed causes one to wonder if someone, somewhere does not want men and women alive who may see through pandemic scare tactics and, worse yet from their standpoint, be able to produce effective antidotes.

[Sabrina]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11186410/Second-member-of-Fiona-Woolf-inquiry-admits-controversial-links-with-Lord-Brittan.html

You couldnt make it up could you, if you wanted to delay an inquiry. On the other hand, this is the time when untruths and schemes just cant be concealed any longer (perhaps the mega solar flares and eclipses are helping on this). Perhaps they thought that they could tame hire people to kick the inquiry into the long grass and keep hidden all the high profile names involved. And main stream media Telegraph (or torygraph) is now challenging them. Perhaps theyve had enough as well.

24 Oct UK

Second member of Fiona Woolf inquiry admits controversial links with Lord Brittan

Dame Moira Gibb, who is to sit with Fiona Woolf on the Government's child sex abuse inquiry, confirms she also has a link with Lord Brittan

Fiona Woolf, the controversial head of the Government’s child sex abuse inquiry, is under renewed pressure after it emerged another member of her inquiry panel has links with Lord Brittan.

The Telegraph can disclose that Dame Moira Gibb – who was appointed to sit on the panel on Tuesday along with a number of other experts – has admitted a close personal friend worked with Lord Brittan during part of the period which will be closely scrutinised by the inquiry.

Lord Brittan, who as Leon Brittan who was in charge of the Home Office in the 1980s, issued a statement through his solicitors in July after being questioned by the police over an alleged sexual offence.

Earlier this year he was questioned under caution over an allegation of rape dating back to 1967, which he said was "wholly without foundation".

It has also been claimed that while at the Home Office Lord Brittan was handed a file - now missing - in late 1983 which allegedly detailed child abuse at the highest levels of Westminster.

In a letter to Theresa May, the Home Secretary, on October 17 Dame Moira said she had no “direct interest in the matters to which the inquiry relates”.

But just five days later she was forced to write to Mrs May again.

She wrote: “I would like to set out that Mr Gerald Malone, whom I declared as a personal friend, informed me last night that he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Brittan in 1985 when Lord Brittan was Secretary of State for Trade and Investment, and a Government whip from 1986-1987.

“I will keep this matter under review during the tenure of my appointment to the inquiry panel.”

The first person appointed to head the inquiry, Baroness Butler Sloss, was forced to resign before proceedings had got underway after it emerged her brother, Michael Havers, may have had to make legal decisions about abuse allegations in his role as attorney general in the 1980s.

Mrs Woolf faced calls for her resignation after she revealed she had a number of personal links with Lord Brittan and his wife.

Mrs Woolf admitted she had lived in the same London road as the Brittans and had attended at five dinner parties with them.

Her personal connections with Lord Brittan have come under intense scrutiny because of the nature of the inquiry into what some commentators have alleged is an “establishment cover up”.

Gerald Malone was a Conservative MP in Baroness Thatcher's and Sir John Major’s governments.

As a trusted worker for Lord Brittan in the 1980s it is conceivable the sex abuse inquiry may wish to take evidence from him about Lord Brittan’s tenure at Home Office.

This could lead to a potential conflict of interest for Dame Moira, a social work expert and former chief executive of Camden borough council in north London.

[Sabrina]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-24/putin-warns-risk-major-conflict-says-dollar-losing-reserve-currency-status

ah the shifting dynamics of the US dollar...and geopolitics..

Putin Warns Of Risk Of Major Conflict, Says Dollar Losing Reserve Currency Status

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/24/2014 Zerohedge


Having been relatively quiet for a while, Russia's leader Vladimir, speaking in Sochi (following meetings with Middle East crown princes who confirmed Russia as a key partner - "isolated"?), has unleashed his most aggressive statements with regard the failing world order:

*PUTIN SAYS U.S. DOLLAR LOSING TRUST AS RESERVE CURRENCY
*PUTIN: WORLD WITHOUT RULES IS POSSIBILITY; ANARCHY GROWING
Adding that the risk of major conflicts involving major countries is growing, as well as the risk of arms control treaties being violated, Putin exclaimed that the US-led unipolar world is like a dictatorship over other countries and that "US leadership brings no good for others," and calls for a new global consensus.



Having met Crown Prince Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi in Sochi, who confirmed that Moscow “plays a very important role in the Middle East," and added that he had no doubts that his country and Russia “are bound by a privileged relationship," it appears Russia is less "isolated" than the West would have many believe.

As Bloomberg reports:

*PUTIN SPEAKS AT MEETING OF VALDAI CLUB IN SOCHI
*PUTIN SAYS WORLD GROWING LESS SECURE, PREDICTABLE
*PUTIN SAYS NO GUARANTEE OF GLOBAL SECURITY
*GLOBAL SECURITY SYSTEM IS WEAK, DEFORMED: PUTIN
*COLD WAR ENDED WITHOUT PEACE BEING ACHIEVED: PUTIN
*PUTIN SAYS COLD WAR `VICTORS' DISMANTLING INTL LAWS, RELATIONS
*U.S. HAS WORSENED DISBALANCE IN INTL RELATIONS: PUTIN
*PUTIN SAYS U.S. ACTING LIKE NOUVEAU RICHE AS GLOBAL LEADER
*PUTIN SAYS WORLD LEADERS BEING BLACKMAILED BY `BIG BROTHER'
*U.S. LEADERSHIP BRINGS NO GOOD FOR OTHERS: PUTIN
*PUTIN SEES GLOBAL MEDIA UNDER CONTROL, UNDERMINING TRUTH
*PUTIN SAYS WEST CLOSED EYES TO INTL TERRORISM ENTERING RUSSIA
*PUTIN CALLS U.S. SELF-APPOINTED LEADER
*PUTIN: UNIPOLAR WORLD LIKE DICTATORSHIP OVER OTHER COUNTRIES
*PUTIN SAYS MANY COUNTRIES DISENCHANTED W/ GLOBALIZATION: PUTIN
*PUTIN SAYS U.S. DOLLAR LOSING TRUST AS RESERVE CURRENCY
*RUSSIA WON'T BEG FOR ANYTHING: PUTIN
*SANCTIONS UNDERMINING WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION RULES: PUTIN
*RUSSIA ISN'T WALLING ITSELF OFF FROM WORLD, PUTIN SAYS
*RUSSIA READY FOR DIALOGUE ON NORMALIZING ECONOMIC TIES: PUTIN
*PUTIN: WORLD WITHOUT RULES IS POSSIBILITY; ANARCHY GROWING
*PUTIN CALLS FOR NEW GLOBAL CONSENSUS, INTERDEPENDENCE
*PUTIN: CONTINUED USE OF FORCE IN UKRAINE MAY LEAD TO DEAD END
*PUTIN SAYS U.S. CAN'T HUMILIATE ITS PARTNERS FOREVER
* * *

Fighting talk?
more at link

[Sabrina]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2807246/Lord-Mayor-London-Fiona-Woolf-protests-s-NOT-Establishment-tells-need-know-Britain-s-self-deluded-incestuous-elite.html

Love it.. and this from middle England Mail on Sunday....

Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf protests she's NOT part of the Establishment... and that tells you all you need to know about Britain's self-deluded, incestuous elite

Government chose her to head independent inquiry into historic child abuse allegations

Ms Woolf, appointed last month, is under pressure to step down due to her links with ex-Conservative Home Secretary Lord Brittan, whose conduct during the Eighties is bound to come under scrutiny

At parliamentary committee this week, Ms Woolf insisted, as an outsider, she was perfect candidate to lead the inquiry...

Yes, she admitted, she had socialised with Lord Brittan and his wife. But ‘as an ordinary solicitor in private practice, I really do not think I count as a member of the Establishment’

By DOMINIC SANDBROOK FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 00:33, 25 October 2014

When, some time in the far future, historians come to write about the British Establishment in the 21st century, they could do a lot worse than start with the extraordinary fuss surrounding Fiona Woolf, whom the Government chose to head the independent inquiry into historic child abuse allegations.

Ms Woolf, who was appointed last month, has come under increasing pressure to step down because of her links with the former Conservative Home Secretary Lord Brittan, whose conduct during the Eighties is bound to come under scrutiny.

He is likely to be a key witness in the inquiry, having been handed a dossier when he was Home Secretary by an MP concerning the alleged involvement of VIP figures in a child sex ring. This document was lost or destroyed by the Home Office.

In a much-mocked appearance before a parliamentary committee this week, Ms Woolf insisted that, as an outsider, she was the perfect candidate to lead the inquiry. Yes, she admitted, she had socialised with Lord Brittan and his wife. But ‘as an ordinary solicitor in private practice’, she went on, ‘I really do not think I count as a member of the Establishment’.

In its way, this was one of the most outstanding examples of absurdity, self-delusion and sheer effrontery I have heard for a long time.

Almost by definition, anyone who publicly denies belonging to the Establishment is almost certainly a member of the Establishment. If they weren’t, why would they need to deny it? In Ms Woolf’s case, the evidence is so overwhelming as to make her denial utterly ludicrous.

article at link

and

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2808000/Bizarre-bid-gag-MoS-Home-Office-Newspaper-warned-reported-new-press-complaints-watchdog-trying-uncover-truth-Fiona-Woolf-s-appointment-child-abuse-inquiry.html

Getting rattled and very clumsy?...

25 Oct UK

Bizarre bid to gag MoS... by 'Home Office': Newspaper warned it would be reported to new press complaints watchdog for trying to uncover truth about Fiona Woolf's appointment to child abuse inquiry

PR man claiming to be working with the Home Office threatened journalist

Said MoS would be reported for arranging interview with panel member

Newspaper hoped abuse survivor would shed light on the controversy

A Mail on Sunday journalist trying to uncover the truth about Fiona Woolf’s appointment to the child abuse inquiry received unwarranted threats from a PR man claiming to be working with the Home Office.

This newspaper was warned it would be reported to the new press complaints watchdog for simply arranging an interview with another panel member who could shed light on the controversy.

The threat was made by James Saville, a spokesman for Sharon Evans, a third person on the abuse inquiry. She runs a charity which includes Strictly Come Dancing star Kristina Rihanoff and Tony Blair’s daughter Kathryn among its trustees.

Last night, an MP said it sounded like another attempt at a cover-up. Labour’s Simon Danczuk said: ‘I find it bizarre. The last thing we want is for the Home Office, its representatives or PR people trying to silence journalists or to cover up the relationships that may have gone on.’


more at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/25/us-deutsche-bank-suicide-idUSKCN0IE08U20141025

Sadly yet another so called banker suicide...

25 Oct US

Deutsche Bank lawyer found dead by suicide in New York

(Reuters) - A senior Deutsche Bank regulatory lawyer has been found dead in New York after committing suicide, New York City officials said on Saturday.

Calogero Gambino, 41, was found on the morning of Oct. 20 at his home in the New York borough of Brooklyn and pronounced dead on the scene, according to New York City police.

Gambino was an associate general counsel and a managing director who worked for the German bank for 11 years, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported his death.

He had been closely involved in negotiating legal issues for Deutsche Bank such as a probe by regulators of banks over allegations they manipulated the Libor benchmark interest rate as well as currency markets.

Gambino was also an associate at a private law firm and a regulatory enforcement lawyer between 1997 and 1999, the Journal said, citing Gambino's LinkedIn profile and conference biographies.

He died by hanging, said Julie Bolcer, spokeswoman for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. The manner of death was suicide.

"Charlie was a beloved and respected colleague who we will miss," said Deutsche Bank in a statement. "Our thoughts and sympathy are with his friends and family."

Deutsche, Germany's biggest lender, has already paid 6 billion euros ($7.7 billion) in fines and settlements in the past two and a half years. It expects to post litigation costs of 894 million euros alone for the third quarter of 2014.

Earlier this year, former Deutsche Bank manager William Broeksmit, who had close ties to co-chief executive Anshu Jain, had been found dead at his London home in what also appeared to have been a suicide.


and

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-25/deutsche-bank-lawyer-and-former-sec-enforcement-attorney-found-dead-apparent-suicide

25 Oct

Another Deutsche Banker And Former SEC Enforcement Attorney Commits Suicide

Back on January 26, a 58-year-old former senior executive at German investment bank behemoth Deutsche Bank, William Broeksmit, was found dead after hanging himself at his London home, and with that, set off an unprecedented series of banker suicides throughout the year which included former Fed officials and numerous JPMorgan traders.

Following a brief late summer spell in which there was little if any news of bankers taking their lives, as reported previously, the banker suicides returned with a bang when none other than the hedge fund partner of infamous former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan, Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli entrepreneur, was found dead after jumping off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex in Tel Aviv.

Just a few brief hours later the WSJ reported that yet another Deutsche Bank veteran has committed suicide, and not just anyone but the bank's associate general counsel, 41 year old Calogero "Charlie" Gambino, who was found on the morning of Oct. 20, having also hung himself by the neck from a stairway banister, which according to the New York Police Department was the cause of death. We assume that any relationship to the famous Italian family carrying that last name is purely accidental.

Here is his bio from a recent conference which he attended:

Charlie J. Gambino is a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel in the Regulatory, Litigation and Internal Investigation group for Deutsche Bank in the Americas. Mr. Gambino served as a staff attorney in the United Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement from 1997 to 1999. He also was associated with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom from 1999 to 2003. He is a frequent speaker at securities law conferences. Mr. Gambino is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

As a reminder, the other Deutsche Bank-er who was found dead earlier in the year, William Broeksmit, was involved in the bank's risk function and advised the firm's senior leadership; he was "anxious about various authorities investigating areas of the bank where he worked," according to written evidence from his psychologist, given Tuesday at an inquest at London's Royal Courts of Justice. And now that an almost identical suicide by hanging has taken place at Europe's most systemically important bank, and by a person who worked in a nearly identical function - to shield the bank from regulators and prosecutors and cover up its allegedly illegal activities with settlements and fines - is surely bound to raise many questions.

The WSJ reports that Mr. Gambino had been "closely involved in negotiating legal issues for Deutsche Bank, including the prolonged probe into manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, and ongoing investigations into manipulation of currencies markets, according to people familiar with his role at the bank."

He previously was an associate at a private law firm and a regulatory enforcement lawyer from 1997 to 1999, according to his online LinkedIn profile and biographies for conferences where he spoke. But most notably, as his LinkedIn profile below shows, like many other Wall Street revolving door regulators, he started his career at the SEC itself where he worked from 1997 to 1999.


"Charlie was a beloved and respected colleague who we will miss. Our thoughts and sympathy are with his friends and family,” Deutsche Bank said in a statement.

Going back to the previous suicide by a DB executive, the bank said at the time of the inquest that Mr. Broeksmit “was not under suspicion of wrongdoing in any matter.” At the time of Mr. Broeksmit’s death, Deutsche Bank executives sent a memo to bank staff saying Mr. Broeksmit “was considered by many of his peers to be among the finest minds in the fields of risk and capital management.” Mr. Broeksmit had left a senior role at Deutsche Bank’s investment bank in February 2013, but he remained an adviser until the end of 2013. His most recent title was the investment bank’s head of capital and risk-optimization, which included evaluating risks related to complicated transactions.

A thread connecting Broeksmit to wrongdoing, however, was uncovered earlier this summer when Wall Street on Parade referenced his name in relation to the notorious at the time strategy provided by Deutsche Bank and others to allow hedge funds to avoid paying short-term capital gains taxes known as MAPS (see How RenTec Made More Than $34 Billion In Profits Since 1998: "Fictional Derivatives")

From Wall Street on Parade:

Broeksmit’s name first emerged in yesterday’s Senate hearing as Senator Carl Levin, Chair of the Subcommittee, was questioning Satish Ramakrishna, the Global Head of Risk and Pricing for Global Prime Finance at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York. Ramakrishna was downplaying his knowledge of conversations about how the scheme was about changing short term gains into long term gains, denying that he had been privy to any conversations on the matter.

Levin than asked: “Did you ever have conversations with a man named Broeksmit?” Ramakrishna conceded that he had and that the fact that the scheme had a tax benefit had emerged in that conversation. Ramakrishna could hardly deny this as Levin had just released a November 7, 2008 transcript of a conversation between Ramakrishna and Broeksmit where the tax benefit had been acknowledged.

Another exhibit released by Levin was an August 25, 2009 email from William Broeksmit to Anshu Jain, with a cc to Ramakrishna, where Broeksmit went into copious detail on exactly what the scheme, internally called MAPS, made possible for the bank and for its client, the Renaissance Technologies hedge fund. (See Email from William Broeksmit to Anshu Jain, Released by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.)

At one point in the two-page email, Broeksmit reveals the massive risk the bank is taking on, writing: “Size of portfolio tends to be between $8 and $12 billion long and same amount of short. Maximum allowed usage is $16 billion x $16 billion, though this has never been approached.”

Broeksmit goes on to say that most of Deutsche’s money from the scheme “is actually made by lending them specials that we have on inventory and they pay far above the regular rates for that.”

It would appear that with just months until the regulatory crackdown and Congressional kangaroo circus, Broeksmit knew what was about to pass and being deeply implicated in such a scheme, preferred to take the painless way out.

The question then is just what major regulatory revelation is just over the horizon for Deutsche Bank if yet another banker had to take his life to avoid being cross-examined by Congress under oath? For a hint we go back to another report, this time by the FT, which yesterday noted that Deutsche Bank will set aside just under €1bn towards the numerous legal and regulatory issues it faces in its third quarter results next week, the bank confirmed on Friday.

In a statement made after the close of markets, the Frankfurt-based lender said it expected to publish litigation costs of €894m when it announces its results for the July-September period on October 29.

The extra cash will add to Deutsche's already sizeable litigation pot, where the bank has yet to be fined in connection with the London interbank rate-rigging scandal.

It is also facing fines from US authorities over alleged mortgage-backed securities misselling and sanctions violations, which have already seen rivals hit with heavy fines.

Deutsche has also warned that damage from global investigations into whether traders attempted to manipulate the foreign-exchange market could have a material impact on the bank.

The extra charge announced on Friday will bring Deutsche's total litigation reserves to €3.1bn. The bank also has an extra €3.2bn in so-called contingent liabilities for fines that are harder to estimate.

Clearly Deutsche Bank is slowly becoming Europe's own JPMorgan - a criminal bank whose past is finally catching up to it, and where legal fine after legal fine are only now starting to slam the banking behemoth. We will find out just what the nature of the latest litigation charge is next week when Deutsche Bank reports, but one thing is clear: in addition to mortgage, Libor and FX settlements, one should also add gold. Recall from around the time when the first DB banker hung himself: it was then that Elke Koenig, the president of Germany's top financial regulator, Bafin, said that in addition to currency rates, manipulation of precious metals "is worse than the Libor-rigging scandal."

It remains to be seen if Calogero's death was also related to precious metals rigging although it certainly would not be surprising. What is surprising, is that slowly things are starting to fall apart at the one bank which as we won't tire of highlighting, has a bigger pyramid of notional derivatives on its balance sheet than even JPMorgan, amounting to 20 times more than the GDP of Germany itself, and where if any internal investigation ever goes to the very top, then Europe itself, and thus the world, would be in jeopardy.


At this point it is probably worth reminding to what great lengths regulators would go just to make sure that Deutsche Bank would never be dragged into a major litigation scandal: recall that the chief enforcer of the SEC during the most critical period following the great crash of 2008, Robert Khuzami, worked previously from 2002 to 2009 at, drumroll, Deutsche Bank most recently as its General Counsel (see "Robert Khuzami Stands To Lose Up To $250,000 If He Pursues Action Against Deutsche Bank" and "Circle Jerk 101: The SEC's Robert Khuzami Oversaw Deutsche Bank's CDO, Has Recused Himself Of DB-Related Matters"). The same Khuzami who just landed a $5 million per year contract (with a 2 year guarantee) with yet another "law firm", Kirkland and Ellis. One wonders: if and when the hammer falls on Deutsche Bank, will it perchance be defended by the same K&E and its latest prominent hire, Robert Khuzami himself?

But usually it is best to just avoid litigation altogether. Which is why perhaps sometimes it is easiest if the weakest links, those whose knowledge can implicate the people all the way at the top, quietly commit suicide in the middle of the night...

[Sabrina]

They are going to need to build some new prisons for the perpetuators of false flags when arrested one day ... these are taken apart so immediately and forensically (yes no doubt some disinfo as well) on the so called alternative media sites nowadays that every day feels like a washing machine spin cycle...

But isnt there an immediate knowing in our beings that these stories are BS as we resonate on different frequencies now :)

ITCCS Breaking News: October 25, 2014 – Police State Powers coming to Canada


Canada: “Track B” secret government, police powers established by Order in Council – “Our equivalent of NDAA” in effect November 1 – ITCCS to respond

Ottawa:

In the wake of the staged shooting of a Canadian soldier in Canada’s capital this week, a secret system of government armed with sweeping police powers will soon be inaugurated by a special Order in Council.

A source in Ottawa claims the new system mirrors the American “Homeland Security” regime, and stands outside the laws and Parliament of Canada. The Order establishing the new regime is codenamed “Track B’, and is closed to public scrutiny and Parliamentary or judicial review.

“This is like the free trade agreement: there’ll be the official version for the masses and the real arrangement, cloaked and operational. Not even (Prime Minister) Harper’s cabinet knows most of the facts” stated the source today.

Under “Track B”, according to the source, police and special para-military units will have unlimited powers of arrest and detention, utilizing secret prisons and open ended warrants to incarcerate anyone indefinitely without due process or Habeas Corpus.

“November 1 is the official start date, but things are moving already” said the source.

In response to the Track B disclosure, ITCCS Central will be issuing a special communique and directive to its members this Monday, October 27, along with a breaking interview with its North American Field Secretary Kevin Annett.

The special communique and interview will be posted at www.itccs.org and throughout the ITCCS global network.

Issued by ITCCS Central, Brussels

October 25, 2014, Brussels (7 pm GMT)

www.itccs.org

[PathWalker]

Deutsche Bank lawyer found dead by suicide in New York
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/25/us-deutsche-bank-suicide-idUSKCN0IE08U20141025

(Reuters) - A senior Deutsche Bank regulatory lawyer has been found dead in New York after committing suicide, New York City officials said on Saturday.

Calogero Gambino, 41, was found on the morning of Oct. 20 at his home in the New York borough of Brooklyn and pronounced dead on the scene, according to New York City police.

Gambino was an associate general counsel and a managing director who worked for the German bank for 11 years, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported his death.

He had been closely involved in negotiating legal issues for Deutsche Bank such as a probe by regulators of banks over allegations they manipulated the Libor benchmark interest rate as well as currency markets.

Gambino was also an associate at a private law firm and a regulatory enforcement lawyer between 1997 and 1999, the Journal said, citing Gambino's LinkedIn profile and conference biographies.

He died by hanging, said Julie Bolcer, spokeswoman for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. The manner of death was suicide.

"Charlie was a beloved and respected colleague who we will miss," said Deutsche Bank in a statement. "Our thoughts and sympathy are with his friends and family."

Deutsche, Germany's biggest lender, has already paid 6 billion euros ($7.7 billion) in fines and settlements in the past two and a half years. It expects to post litigation costs of 894 million euros alone for the third quarter of 2014.

Earlier this year, former Deutsche Bank manager William Broeksmit, who had close ties to co-chief executive Anshu Jain, had been found dead at his London home in what also appeared to have been a suicide.

[Sabrina]

http://rt.com/business/198928-china-world-bank-rival/

Major news imo... and what better time as last week and this weekend had unprecedented solar flare activity....pushing everything to the surface... good stuff on this from Dana Mrkich here http://danamrkich.blogspot.co.uk/.....

24 Oct

China launches new World Bank rival

China and India are backing a 21 country $100 billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to challenge to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.

Memorandum of understanding were signed with 21 Asian countries in Beijing Friday. Australia, Indonesia and South Korea were absent following hidden pressure from Washington.

The development bank was proposed a year ago by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and is to offer financing for infrastructure projects in underdeveloped Asian countries.

Headquartered in Beijing, former chairman of the China International Capital Corp investment bank Jim Liqun, is expected to take a leading role.

The bank will initially be capitalized with $50 billion, most of it contributed by China. The country is planning to increase authorized capital to $100 billion. With that amount the AIIB would be two-thirds the size of the $175 billion Asian Development Bank.

India will be the second largest bank shareholder though Kuwait, Qatar, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Nepal, Oman, and all the countries of the Association of Southeast Asia, except Indonesia are involved.

Australia, Indonesia and South Korea did not participate following US claims of ‘concerns’ about a rival to Western-dominated multilateral lenders.

Japan, China's main rival in Asia, which dominates the Asian Development Bank along with the United States, did not attend but had not been expected to do so.

Indonesia refused to participate claiming it needs time to discuss China’s proposal.

The Australian Financial Review said US Secretary of State John Kerry had personally asked Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to “steer clear” from joining AIIB.

"Australia has been under pressure from the US for some time to not become a founding member of the bank and it is understood Mr. Kerry put the case directly to the prime minister when the pair met in Jakarta on Monday following the inauguration of Indonesian President Joko Widodo," the paper said.

South Korea, one of America’s closest allies in Asia, is alse prevaricating. Its finance ministry said it spoke with China to request more time to consider details such as the AIIB's governance and operational principles.

US officials have said they do not want to support an initiative Washington thinks is unlikely to promote good environmental, procurement and human rights standards in the way the World Bank and ADB are required to do. (lol...:))

But Chinese officials are convinced the American opposition is an attempt to contain the global rise of China and its ambition to remain the dominant power in Asia.

“You could think of this as a basketball game in which the US wants to set the duration of the game, the size of the court, the height of the basket and everything else to suit itself,” Wei Jianguo, a former Chinese commerce minister, told the Financial Times.

Matthew Goodman, scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC believes the initiatives of a BRICS Bank and AIIB “represent the first serious institutional challenge to the global economic order.”

Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said the AIIB will set high standards, safeguard policies and improve on bureaucratic, unrealistic and irrelevant policies, according to the Xinhua news agency.

[Sabrina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-29797985

28 Oct China

China 'to protect whistle-blowers' amid corruption fight

Chinese authorities say whistle-blowers will be protected, amid an ongoing crackdown on corruption.

China's top prosecuting body said it has, for the first time, laid out rights for those exposing malpractice.

It urged citizens to file reports in a "lawful manner" via official channels and promised a quick response.

China's President Xi Jinping has prioritised stamping out corruption in the Communist Party and government since he took office in 2012.

The BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing says the fact that the authorities are trying to reassure the public in this fashion highlights the reluctance many whistle-blowers have about coming forward.

Those reporting official wrongdoing and corruption sometimes face violent reprisals, says our correspondent.

Protection plan
The Supreme Court Procuratorate said in a statement that it had "for the first time clarified the rights that whistle-blowers enjoy", including the right to protection and rewards.

"After receiving a report from someone who provides his real name, the procuratorate should do a risk assessment and must, in a timely manner, implement a protection plan and prevent reprisals on the whistle-blower," it said.

The prosecuting body also encouraged citizens to file reports via a telephone hotline and website recently set up by the government.

"Whistle-blowers should file their reports in a lawful manner, and cannot deliberately twist the truth, falsify evidence and cause people harm," it said.

China does not give legal protection to those who make allegations outside official channels.

Correspondents say that while the authorities may want to tackle corruption, they remain wary about giving up too much control.

Since the latest anti-corruption campaign began, several bloggers who have posted their allegations online have been harassed and beaten.

Reuters reported that blogger Li Jianxin was stabbed in the face in July, blinding him in his right eye, by two unidentified men who also splashed acid on his back.

Li had posted accusations of official misconduct in Huizhou city in Guangdong province.

Earlier this month, an investigative journalist who reported on a state-controlled construction equipment maker was jailed for defamation and bribery.

[Sabrina]

Published on Oct 26, 2014

For more Juice News visit thejuicemedia channel: http://www.youtube.com/thejuicemedia

The G20 Summit is approaching and the leaders of the wealthiest nations on the planet will converge in Australia. Join the noble Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot as he lists his recent achievements and launches the opening of the G20 Summit in Australia, backed by a faithful and compliant mainstream media, represented local correspondent Ken Oathcarn. This episode features a magical cameo from Wizard Senator Scott Ludlam, who has been campaigning tirelessly in speeches to empty Senate rooms to stop the Government’s proposed mandatory data retention laws – coming up soon for a vote in the Senate



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[Sabrina]

http://www.shiftfrequency.com/ben-fulford-oct-28-2014-the-battle-for-the-planet-earth-is-reaching-a-climax/

Benjamin Fulfords take on some of the banker deaths from his latest blog:

Last week, for example, evidence emerged the United States of America Corporation has been shut down. The corporation has been removed from the Dun & Bradstreet corporate data base. In addition, the Puerto Rican government’s site lists the:

“Supreme Council Of The United States States Of America Atlantic Jurisdiction Grand Orient” https://prcorpfiling.f1hst.com/CorpInfo/CorporationInfo.aspx?c=73-122&m=oce as “cancelled” (cancelado).

According to British MI5 intelligence, this is the entity that presided over the East Coast of the United States of America, including Washington D.C., Yale University and Skull and Bones. Its’ mandate was cancelled by the French Freemason Grand Orient Lodge, the source said.

This is almost certainly connected to the many suspicious deaths of J.P. Morgan bankers since J.P. Morgan is controlled by the Skull and Bones Bush clan. One aim of the attacks on J.P. Morgan insiders is to gain access to a database of over 119,000 people, including President Barack Obama, who are receiving bribes from the Bushes, according to a CIA source in Asia.


and

has the Mars base been resigned?

Furthermore, we can confirm through MI5 British Intelligence that last week NASA abruptly terminated live coverage of a comet approaching Mars after a planet sized explosion suddenly appeared there. Here is a link to an independently filmed video of that explosion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx3WdyOihH8

A US based source who correctly predicted the trouble in the Ukraine and the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner, says the “the US Mars base was destroyed.” British intelligence confirmed that contrary to what the world public has been told, the US did in indeed have people on Mars.


more at link

[Sabrina]

http://www.shiftfrequency.com/bix-weir-deutsche-bank-derivative-problems-leaking-everywhere/

Bix Weir ~ Deutsche Bank Derivative Problems Leaking Everywhere

This weekend I sent an email blast after learning that one of the head structuring banksters for the largest derivative holder in the world, Deutsche Bank, had committed suicide. Yesterday I had an interview with Paul Sandhu where we touched upon what was going on in the back rooms of this mega-Bad Guy Bank.

Today we learn that the CFO for Deutsche Bank is heading for the hills too!!

Deutsche Bank Preparing to Replace Financial Chief http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/deutsche-bank-preparing-to-replace-financial-chief/

“The German lender Deutsche Bank is preparing to replace its chief financial officer, Stefan Krause, with a Goldman Sachs Group partner, Marcus Schenck, in a shakeup ahead of its third-quarter results announcement on Wednesday, according to people briefed on the discussions.”

“Deutsche Bank is also expected to announce management changes intended to deal with other problems that have been a major distraction for Anshu Jain, the co-chief executive, as he tried to defend the bank’s position among global investment banks.”

“The lender said last week that it had set aside another 894 million euros, or about $1.13 billion, in legal costs in the third quarter to cover lawsuits and regulatory inquiries into a variety of legacy issues.”

END

YES! This is ALL about gold and silver derivative rigging and that will come out in the not too distant future.

Remember this little newsflash back in January?…Metals Currency Rigging Worse Than LIBOR, Bafin Says http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-16/metals-currency-rigging-worse-than-libor-bafin-s-koenig-says.html

“Germany’s top financial regulator said possible manipulation of currency rates and prices for precious metals is worse than the Libor-rigging scandal, which has already led to fines of about $6 billion.”

“Bafin interviewed Deutsche Bank employees as part of a probe of potential manipulation of gold and silver prices, a person with knowledge of the matter has said in December.”

END
Make no mistake.. .This Is A Huge Sign The Good Guys Are Winning!

Here’s the interview I did with Paul yesterday… Bix Weir Interview: Banker Suicides, Derivatives Nightmares, Big Bank Failures and it’s not all Doom and Gloom http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/1478.cfm

Things are falling apart for the Bad Guys…just hold on tightly to your physical metal and we will all get through this mess.

[Sabrina]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-28/total-war-over-petrodollar

more on the recent death of the Total CEO as previously covered:

28 Oct

Total War Over The Petrodollar

Submitted by Marin Katusa via Casey Research,

The conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Total SA’s chief executive, Christophe de Margerie, started the second the news broke of his death. Under mysterious circumstances in Moscow, his private jet collided with a snowplow just after midnight. De Margerie was the CEO of Total, France’s largest oil company.

He’d just attended a private meeting with Russian Prime Minister Medvedev, at a time when the West’s relationship with Russia is fraught, to say the least.

One has better odds of being struck by lightning at an airport then a snow plow, or any other ground support vehicles hitting a plane and killing all inside the plane, in my opinion. And I say that as someone who’s familiar with airports, having worked at Vancouver International Airport when I was in university; I was the one who would bring the plane into its parking bay.

If it weren’t for those short odds, a snowplow on the runway with an allegedly drunk driver would be the perfect crime. But who would benefit from his death?

De Margerie was one of the few business leaders who spoke out against the isolation of Russia. On this last trip to Moscow, he railed against sanctions and the obstacles to Russian companies obtaining credit.

He was also an outspoken supporter of Russia’s position in natural gas pricing and transportation disputes with Ukraine, telling Reuters in an interview in July that Europe should not cut its dependence on Russian gas but rather focus on making the supplies more secure.

But what could have made de Margerie a total liability is Total’s involvement in plans to build a plant to liquefy natural gas on the Yamal Peninsula of Russia in partnership with Novatek. Its most ambitious project in Russia to date, it would facilitate the shipping of 800 million barrels of oil equivalent of LNG to China via the Arctic.

Compounding this sin, Total had just announced that it’s seeking financing for a gas project in Russia in spite of the current sanctions against Russia. It planned to finance its share in the $27-billion Yamal project using euros, yuan, Russian rubles, and any other currency but US dollars.

Did this direct threat to the petrodollar make this “true friend of Russia”—as Putin called de Margerie—some very powerful and dangerous enemies amongst the power that be, whether in the French government, the EU, or the US?

In my book The Colder War, one chapter deals with “mysterious deaths” and how they are linked to being on the wrong side of the political equation. Whether it’s going against Putin or against the petrodollar, there are many who have fallen on both sides.

If Total doesn’t close the $27 billion financing it needs to move forward with the Yamal LNG project then we’ll know someone stepped in to prevent an attack on the petrodollar. The CEO of Total, before his death and his CFO were both strong supporters of Total raising the $27 billion in non US dollars and moving the project forward with the Russians. But, this could all change if the financing does not complete.

How many other Western executives who dare to help Russia bypass sanctions—and turn it into an energy powerhouse—will die under suspicious circumstances?

Marin Katusa, is author of The Colder War, manager of multiple global energy-exploration hedge funds, and co-founder of Copper Mountain Mining Corporation.

[Sabrina]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11194280/Labour-MP-is-condemned-for-linking-Leon-Brittan-to-child-abuse.html

Typically misleading headline trying to frame it another way... but good for him... it wont go away..

29 Oct UK

Labour MP is condemned for linking Leon Brittan to child abuse

Jim Hood MP is accused of misusing parliamentary privilege after making 'serious accusations against a noble lord'

A Labour MP was last night embroiled in a row over the use of parliamentary privilege after he told the Commons that Lord Brittan, the former home secretary, had been accused of “improper conduct with children”.

Jim Hood, the Labour MP for Lanark and Hamilton East, was denounced by Conservatives after he used a debate about coal miners to discuss reports about Lord Brittan.

Under a British constitutional convention, comments made in parliament are protected from libel action.
Lord Brittan has been accused of failing to act on a dossier about alleged VIP paedophile rings given to him by MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983. The peer has denied the claims.

During a Commons debate on coalfield communities last night, Mr Hood said: “By the way, the current exposé of Sir Leon Brittan [sic], the then home secretary, with accusations of improper conduct with children will not come as a surprise to striking miners of 1984.”

MPs immediately challenged Mr Hood over his comments.

Conor Burns, the Conservative MP for Bournemouth West, said: “He has just made very profound, serious accusations against a noble lord. Is that in order?”

Lindsay Hoyle, the Deputy Speaker, said that he had not heard Mr Hood’s comments but added: “It’s up to each member to decide what they said and they must make that decision.”

However, Mr Hood continued: “The rumours that Sir Leon Brittan was involved with misconduct with children does not come as news to miners who were striking in 1984. When miners were going up into the dock in magistrates’ courts we were aware and miners were declaring… the point is miners were saying in the dock in magistrates’ courts throughout the strike that they objected to instructions coming from the home secretary when there was reports about child abuse being linked with that same home secretary.”

Mr Hoyle interrupted the Labour MP and said: “I think it is up to each MP, we have to be very careful on what we said, and we must consider what we are saying and what the implications are.”

Mr Hood continued: “I accept, obviously, what you say but I’m just repeating what I’m reading in the papers.”

Matthew Hancock, a Conservative business minister, said: “At the end of this debate the Labour front bench should disassociate themselves from the disgusting remarks of the previous speaker.”

Mr Burns later suggested that Mr Hood may have misused parliamentary privilege by making the comments.

He told The Daily Telegraph: “I was profoundly concerned that in an almost casual aside an MP made allegations of child abuse against a serving member of the House of Lords.

“I’m really concerned he did it in an almost flippant way.”

The new chairman of the government inquiry into child sex abuse has recently been criticised for her links to Lord Brittan.

Fiona Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, has faced calls to resign after she admitted that she entertained the former home secretary and his wife three times at dinner parties at her house, and twice went to his home in central London for dinner.

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/leon-brittan-accused-by-mp.html


In 1983, Sir Leon Brittan (right) a senior minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet was handed Geoffrey Dickens's dossier on top people's child abuse rings.

Asked by The Independent what the dossier alleged and what action, he took, Sir Leon replied by email: "I have no recollection of these matters. Sorry!"

more at link

[Sabrina]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/binyamin-netanyahu-a-chicken****-say-us-officials-in-explosive-interview

hmmm more shifting....along with solar flares...:)

29 Oct

Binyamin Netanyahu 'chicken****', say US officials in explosive interview

Quotes from senior Obama administration figures damn Israeli prime minister over stance on settlements and peace with Palestinians

US relations with Israel have plunged to new depths of bitterness and hostility as senior officials in the Obama administration decried Binyamin Netanyahu as a “chicken**** prime minister”, “coward” and a man more interested in his own political survival than peace.

The furious assessment delivered in anonymous but no-holds barred comments in an interview with the American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic underline a state of anger with Netanyahu that is characterised as “red hot”.

The remarks are particularly telling in having been made to Goldberg, a Washington insider who has interviewed both Obama and Netanyahu, and who warned US-Israeli relations were in a “full-blown crisis” that could only get worse after the midterm elections.

Speaking to the Israeli parliament – the Knesset – a few hours after the comments were revealed, Netanyahu angrily insisted he was “under attack simply for defending Israel”, adding that he “cherished” Israel’s relationship with the US.

“When there are pressures on Israel to concede its security, the easiest thing to do is to concede,” he said. “You get a round of applause, ceremonies on grassy knolls, and then come the missiles and the tunnels.”

The Obama officials’ comments underline the dismal state of relations between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu after a series of damaging announcements by Israel – including again this week – regarding its determination to push ahead with settlement building in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The temperature of relations plunged again last week when Israel’s defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, was pointedly snubbed by senior administration officials during a visit last week to Washington, which itself followed a public warning from the White House that Israel risked alienating its “closest allies”.

Despite the deepening frustration in Washington, Netanyahu continued to hit back over the latest settlement announcement, saying US criticism was “detached from reality”, even on the eve of the publication of the latest remarks.

“The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chicken****,” said one official quoted in the Atlantic. “The good thing about Netanyahu is that he’s scared to launch wars. The bad thing about him is that he won’t do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states.

“The only thing he’s interested in is protecting himself from political defeat. He’s not [Yitzhak] Rabin, he’s not [Ariel] Sharon, he’s certainly no [Menachem] Begin. He’s got no guts.”

In a more diplomatic and public statement on the recent settlement announcements, the US National Security Council spokesman Alistair Baskey insisted the US would continue to criticise Israel.

more at link

[Sabrina]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-29/20-year-cbs-news-veteran-details-massive-censorship-and-propaganda-mainstream-media

more main stream media journalists speaking out (after Germanys FAZ)...

20-Year CBS News Veteran Details Massive Censorship And Propaganda In Mainstream Media

29 Oct US


Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Journalists should be dark, funny, mean people. It’s appropriate for their antagonistic, adversarial role.

– Matt Taibbi, in this New York Magazine article

Reporters on the ground aren’t necessarily ideological, Attkisson says, but the major network news decisions get made by a handful of New York execs who read the same papers and think the same thoughts.

Often they dream up stories beforehand and turn the reporters into “casting agents,” told “we need to find someone who will say . . .” that a given policy is good or bad. “We’re asked to create a reality that fits their New York image of what they believe,” she writes.

– From the excellent New York Post article: Ex-CBS reporter’s book reveals how liberal media protects Obama
Earlier this week, I published a piece titled, Former CBS Reporter Accuses Government of Secretly Planting Classified Docs on Her Computer, which I thought was incredible in its own right, yet the information in that post seems almost trite compared to the flood of information Attkisson has revealed to the New York Post’s Kyle Smith.

The following excerpts from the piece will confirm all of your worst suspicions about mainstream media:

Sharyl Attkisson is an unreasonable woman. Important people have told her so.

When the longtime CBS reporter asked for details about reinforcements sent to the Benghazi compound during the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack, White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor replied, “I give up, Sharyl . . . I’ll work with more reasonable folks that follow up, I guess.”

Another White House flack, Eric Schultz, didn’t like being pressed for answers about the Fast and Furious scandal in which American agents directed guns into the arms of Mexican drug lords. “Goddammit, Sharyl!” he screamed at her. “The Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, The New York Times is reasonable. You’re the only one who’s not reasonable!”
Interesting, because as Matt Taibbi notes in the quote at the top, investigative journalists are not supposed to be reasonable. I digress…

In nearly 20 years at CBS News, she has done many stories attacking Republicans and corporate America, and she points out that TV news, being reluctant to offend its advertisers, has become more and more skittish about, for instance, stories questioning pharmaceutical companies or car manufacturers.

Working on a piece that raised questions about the American Red Cross disaster response, she says a boss told her, “We must do nothing to upset our corporate partners . . . until the stock splits.” (Parent company Viacom and CBS split in 2006).

Reporters on the ground aren’t necessarily ideological, Attkisson says, but the major network news decisions get made by a handful of New York execs who read the same papers and think the same thoughts.

Often they dream up stories beforehand and turn the reporters into “casting agents,” told “we need to find someone who will say . . .” that a given policy is good or bad. “We’re asked to create a reality that fits their New York image of what they believe,” she writes.

Reporting on the many green-energy firms such as Solyndra that went belly-up after burning through hundreds of millions in Washington handouts, Attkisson ran into increasing difficulty getting her stories on the air. A colleague told her about the following exchange: “[The stories] are pretty significant,” said a news exec. “Maybe we should be airing some of them on the ‘Evening News?’ ” Replied the program’s chief Pat Shevlin, “What’s the matter, don’t you support green energy?”

Says Attkisson: That’s like saying you’re anti-medicine if you point out pharmaceutical company fraud.

One of her bosses had a rule that conservative analysts must always be labeled conservatives, but liberal analysts were simply “analysts.” “And if a conservative analyst’s opinion really rubbed the supervisor the wrong way,” says Attkisson, “she might rewrite the script to label him a ‘right-wing’ analyst.”

In mid-October 2012, with the presidential election coming up, Attkisson says CBS suddenly lost interest in airing her reporting on the Benghazi attacks. “The light switch turns off,” she writes. “Most of my Benghazi stories from that point on would be reported not on television, but on the Web.”

Two expressions that became especially popular with CBS News brass, she says, were “incremental” and “piling on.” These are code for “excuses for stories they really don’t want, even as we observe that developments on stories they like are aired in the tiniest of increments.”

Hey, kids, we found two more Americans who say they like their ObamaCare! Let’s do a lengthy segment.

When the White House didn’t like her reporting, it would make clear where the real power lay. A flack would send a blistering e-mail to her boss, David Rhodes, CBS News’ president — and Rhodes’s brother Ben, a top national security advisor to President Obama.
I had no idea that the President of CBS News’ brother was a top national security advisor to President Obama, did you?

Attkisson, who received an Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow award for her trailblazing work on the story, says she made top CBS brass “incensed” when she appeared on Laura Ingraham’s radio show and mentioned that Obama administration officials called her up to literally scream at her while she was working the story.

One angry CBS exec called to tell Attkisson that Ingraham is “extremely, extremely far right” and that Attkisson shouldn’t appear on her show anymore. Attkisson was puzzled, noting that CBS reporters aren’t barred from appearing on lefty MSNBC shows.

No interview with Holder aired but “after that weekend e-mail exchange, nothing is the same at work,” Attkisson writes. “The Evening News” began killing her stories on Fast and Furious, with one producer telling Attkisson, “You’ve reported everything. There’s really nothing left to say.”

Sensing the political waters had become too treacherous, Attkisson did what she thought was an easy sell on a school-lunch fraud story that “CBS This Morning” “enthusiastically accepted,” she says, and was racing to get on air, when suddenly “the light switch went off . . . we couldn’t figure out what they saw as a political angle to this story.”

The story had nothing to do with Michelle Obama, but Attkisson figures that the first lady’s association with school lunches, and/or her friendship with “CBS This Morning” host Gayle King, might have had something to do with execs now telling her the story “wasn’t interesting to their audience, after all.”

The who charade is completely incestuous.

Meanwhile, she says, though no one confronted her directly, a “whisper campaign” began; “If I offered a story on pretty much any legitimate controversy involving government, instead of being considered a good journalistic watchdog, I was anti-Obama.”

Yet it was Attkisson who broke the story that the Bush administration had once run a gun-walking program similar to Fast and Furious, called Wide Receiver. She did dozens of tough-minded stories on Bush’s FDA, the TARP program and contractors such as Halliburton. She once inspired a seven-minute segment on “The Rachel Maddow Show” with her reporting on the suspicious charity of a Republican congressman, Steve Buyer.

All I have to say is thank you CBS, or should I say SeeBS. Thank you for being so horrible at reporting that you have opened an enormous gap for myself and countless others in alternative media to fill. I genuinely couldn’t have done it without your incompetence.

[Sabrina]

Farewell QE, youve jumped off the roof as well...

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/29/fed-quietly-ends-stimulus-hard-work

29 Oct

The Fed has quietly ended its stimulus. Now the hard work really begins

The Federal Reserve has spent six years and over $3tn buying up bonds to save the economy. Now it has to figure out how to sell it all back without creating a panic

Federal Reserve to end quantitative easing program

The largest financial stimulus program in the history of the United States has ended. Now the really interesting chapter of the American economy begins.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Reserve announced it would stop its sprawling six-year-old stimulus program, known as quantitative easing. In three rounds of QE, the Fed bought trillions of dollars of mortgage and US treasury bonds from banks and hedge funds to keep interest rates at zero.

The announcement means that the Fed will no longer buy those bonds. Many will focus on whether and when interest rates will rise, but that’s not the big question. Of course interest rates will rise; they’re currently at zero. If you’re a consumer buying anything that needs an incredibly low interest rate, you’ve had plenty of time to lock it in. If you’re a company that needs to refinance your debt, there have been six years to get it done. Anyone else who’s trying to figure out when rates will rise is most likely a speculator, and that grousing can safely be ignored.

The Fed is not filling up the financial hole left by its stimulus. It has only stopped digging itself deeper.

What the Fed isn’t saying is how it plans to get rid of the enormous number of bonds it has bought. The concerns raised by the Fed’s stimulus still exist: has it helped the economy? (Probably, but not enough). Has QE made banks more profitable? (Yes, and that will continue). Has QE created an expectation that the Federal Reserve can now meddle in the markets with trillions of dollars of muscle, complicating things for normal money managers? (Yes, and that expectation, too, will continue). In other words, by ending QE, the Fed is not filling up the financial hole left by its stimulus. It has only stopped digging itself deeper.

This is a big problem, and a historic one. How the Fed manages its exit from quantitative easing will berevealing, exposing the fault lines that underpin the financial system. One of those fault lines, and the one most worth watching, is the resentment that banks have benefited extraordinarily from the Fed’s stimulus. While banks made billions in profits from low interest rates, ordinary Americans lost out.

more at link

and

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-29/alan-greenspan-qe-failed-help-economy-unwind-will-be-painful-buy-gold

Alan Greenspan: QE Failed To Help The Economy, The Unwind Will Be Painful, "Buy Gold"

29 Oct

[Daozen]

Some really positive news there, Sabrina. Thanks. I should come here every day.


Last week, for example, evidence emerged the United States of America Corporation has been shut down. The corporation has been removed from the Dun & Bradstreet corporate data base. In addition, the Puerto Rican government’s site lists the:

“Supreme Council Of The United States States Of America Atlantic Jurisdiction Grand Orient” https://prcorpfiling.f1hst.com/CorpI...c=73-122&m=oce as “cancelled” (cancelado).

According to British MI5 intelligence, this is the entity that presided over the East Coast of the United States of America, including Washington D.C., Yale University and Skull and Bones. Its’ mandate was cancelled by the French Freemason Grand Orient Lodge, the source said.

Very interesting. I checked, that lodge really shows 'cancelada.'

[ThePythonicCow]

Now the really interesting chapter of the American economy begins.
Indeed :).

I've been predicting a collapse of the US Dollar and major financial, economic and monetary "transition" for several years now. One of these years, I'll be right.

I am now expecting this will become evident to the majority of mind numbed Americans, over the next few months.

The key objective of the Masters of Monetary Magic will be to transition from the debt paper of the US Government being the primary "asset" behind the world's money, to the debt paper of a world-wide institution (associated with the BIS and IMF) being that primary "asset", with the US Government shifting from being in debt to the Federal Reserve, to the US Government being in debt to this world-wide institution.

Where goes control of the world's most senior debt paper ... there goes control of the world's major political and corporate institutions.

[Sabrina]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11199651/Ex-Archbishop-quits-over-Church-of-England-child-sex-abuse-revelations.html

30 Oct UK

Ex-Archbishop quits over Church of England child sex abuse revelations

Lord Hope, the former Archbishop of York, steps down from post, ending 50 years of ministry, after report into child abuse by a former cathedral dean which found 'systemic failures' by the Church of England

The former Archbishop of York, Lord Hope of Thornes, has resigned from formal ministry in the Church of England after almost 50 years after an independent inquiry found "systemic failures" in bringing a paedophile priest to justice.

Lord Hope, who was the second most senior cleric in the Church of England for a decade from 1995 to 2005, stepped down with immediate effect from his position as an honorary assistant bishop in West Yorkshire, a post he held after retiring as archbishop to become a vicar in Ilkley.

It follows the publication last week of a critical report into his handling of allegations against Robert Waddington, the former Dean of Manchester, who abused choirboys and school pupils in York, Manchester, London, Carlisle and Australia, over five decades.

The inquiry, overseen by Judge Sally Cahill QC, found that Lord Hope, who dealt with two of the cases, did not refer the accusations to police or to child protection agencies.

Instead, he revoked Waddington's right to conduct services but no further action was taken amid concerns over Waddington's health.


Judge Sally Cahill said Lord Hope's actions meant "opportunities were missed" to start an investigation which may have led to a prosecution before Waddington's death in 2007.

Lord Hope said last week that he deeply regretted not having been more proactive in helping victims come forward.

He said: “After much prayerful and considered thought I wrote at the beginning of the week to the Bishop of Leeds and in the light of the Cahill Inquiry Report I have submitted my resignation as Honorary Assistant Bishop of Bradford, now West Yorkshire and the Dales, with immediate effect.

“This ends my nearly 50 years of formal ministry in the Church of England, which I have always sought to serve with dedication.

“I will certainly continue to pray for the important ongoing work with survivors.”

The current Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, said: “I respect the prayerful decision made by my predecessor Lord David Hope.

Robert Waddington the former Dean of Manchester who abused choirboys and school pupils
“I am deeply saddened by his decision. He has served the Church of England with joyfulness, commitment, honesty and holiness.

“I personally thank him for his leadership as a priest, principal of a theological college, bishop and archbishop of the Province of York; and above all as a dear brother in Christ.”

He added: “As the old saying goes ‘to err is human, to forgive is divine’.

“The Inquiry into the alleged abuses by Robert Waddington led by Her Honour Judge Sally Cahill QC has made its recommendations and these now need to be considered and action taken in a thoughtful and measured manner to ensure the Church can be a safer place for all.

“I continue to hold all the survivors in my thoughts and prayers and I am grateful too that some have offered to help the leadership of the Church of England to create a new culture of protecting and safeguarding all God’s children.”

[Sabrina]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11199859/Fiona-Woolf-faces-renewed-calls-to-step-down.html

Mainsteam media pursuing it all now.. good...

30 Oct UK

Fiona Woolf faces renewed calls to step down

How the Home Office interfered with a letter which was intended to set out child abuse inquiry chief's impartiality

Fiona Woolf, the head of the Government’s child sex abuse inquiry, faced renewed calls for her resignation after it emerged the Home Office played a key role in re-writing a personal letter setting out her suitability for the job.

MPs have said Mrs Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, should step down over her social and professional links with Lord Brittan.

The Tory peer, formerly Leon Brittan, is at the centre of the scandal over the Government’s handling of child sex abuse allegations.

He was in charge of the Home Office in the early 1980s when, it is alleged, officials failed to act on information contained in a files containing details of an establishment paedophile cover up.

The final version of Mrs Woolf’s letter was finally sent to Theresa May, the Home Secretary, on October 11, in which Mrs Woolf stated her personal contact with Lord Brittan would not affect her “independence and impartiality”.

But earlier drafts of her letter – seven in all – were ping-ponged between Mrs Woolf’s private office, the Home Office, lawyers to the sex abuse inquiry and counsel representing the Home Secretary.

Although the letter gave the impression of being a personal statement of impartiality by Mrs Woolf, the truth was very different.

The final draft had been altered beyond recognition when compared with the original version.
Furthermore, an unknown number of lawyers and civil servants had been allowed to have input into Mrs Woolf’s letter.

As pointed out by the chairman of the home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz MP, even the facts appeared to have been manipulated to place greater distance between Mrs Woolf and Lord Brittan.

The amendments to Mrs Woolf’s letter paint a picture of a Home Office desperate to shore up the credentials of their new chairwoman.

The department was anxious to avoid another scandal after the first woman appointed to lead the inquiry, Baroness Butler-Sloss, the retired judge, had to resign in July over a potential conflict of interest, just weeks after accepting the job.

It emerged after Lady Butler-Sloss’ appointment that her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general in the 1980s and may have had to make legal decisions on child abuse allegations at the very time under examination by the new inquiry.

One undated draft letter, the fifth in the sequence of seven, says that Mrs Woolf dined at the Brittans’ home in November 2009 and February 2012, adding: “From my recollection there were no other guests who attended.”
The next draft says: “From my recollection there were at least six other guests who attended” and by the final draft the number has fallen to “at least four”.

Mrs Woolf also stated in her first draft – written by her lawyers for the inquiry team - that she and Lady Brittan were magistrates and “from recollection we may have sat on the same bench on at least one occasion”.

In the final version she simply said: “I do not recall serving in the same court at the same time but it is possible that this did happen on a rare occasion.”

There were also changes to details over the number of times the ladies met for coffee.
Simon Danczuk MP, the Labour backbencher who has played a leading role in exposing child sex abuse scandals, said: “We need to know what Theresa May knew about this dialogue between her senior civil servants and Fiona Woolf.

“It is this kind of cover up approach that got us into this situation in the first place, because the whole inquiry is about a cover up.

“Now we have the Home Office colluding in a cover up around Fiona Woolf’s closeness to Leon Brittan. It’s just unbelievable.”

He added: “Between the first draft and the final draft there is no doubt that civil servants and Fiona Woolf have worked together to give the impression that the relationship between Woolf and Brittan was quite distant, when we can see that is not the case.

“She was closer to them than the final letter suggests.

“If the Home Office thought the early versions of the letter showed Mrs Woolf was too close to Lord Brittan they should have ruled her out of the job rather than trying to smooth it over.”

Mr Danczuk, who has previously called for Mrs Woolf to resign, said: “I cannot see how she can now remain in place. The sooner she goes, the better – so we can get on with the work the inquiry needs to do.”

Mr Vaz said: “The lessons of the Butler-Sloss appointment and resignation have not been learned.

"There should have been full disclosure of this information before, not after, her appointment.”

Alison Millar, a lawyer representing alleged abuse victims involved in the inquiry, said: “What is immediately striking in Fiona Woolf’s response is the admission that she did not draft the initial letter.

"Even more shocking is that it went through seven drafts before it was ‘approved’.

“The full extent of her relationship with Lord and Lady Brittan, which is still not entirely clear, only slowly unravels through these draft letters sent between Ms Woolf and the Home Office.

“This response by Mrs Woolf will only cement in the minds of my clients that she is not the right person to head this inquiry."

and

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/fiona-woolfs-letter-to-hasc-and-drafts/

Her different draft vetted letters here...

[Sabrina]

The half brother of a senior Tory politician will plead guilty to a ‘substantial’ amount of historic sexual abuse charges, a court heard today (tues). Charles Napier, 67, half brother of MP John Whittingdale, faces 21 charges of indecent assault on boys aged eight to 13 between 1968 and 1973 and is yet to enter his pleas. As a single gross indecency charge was dropped by the Crown today (tues) his defence barrister said he will be admitting the bulk of the offences at his plea hearing next month. Napier, who appeared at Southwark Crown Court dressed in a dark green jacket, pale blue shirt and blue tie, faces sex abuse charges relating to 21 schoolboys over a five year period. -

Court News UK 30 Oct

[Sabrina]

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/29/politics/inspector-general-resigns-secret-service/index.html?eref=edition

29 Oct US

DHS inspector general investigator resigned after prostitution sting

Washington (CNN) -- David Nieland, who helped draw attention to what he said were shortcomings in the government's probe of a Secret Service prostitution scandal, resigned from his job at the Department of Homeland Security inspector general on Aug. 9, months after he was caught up police prostitution sting.

Deputies in Broward county, Florida, conducting an anti-prostitution operation on May 2 stopped Nieland after he was seen entering and leaving a location they were monitoring for prostitution activity, according to U.S. government sources.

Nieland was an investigator with the DHS inspector general, who claimed that political interference appeared to cause the inspector general to hold back findings in an investigation of Secret Service agents involved with prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia.

The Office of Inspector General confirmed that Nieland "separated" from federal service in August, but added "As a matter of policy, the OIG does not comment on investigative or personnel matters."

U.S. government sources said Nieland, wearing casual clothing including khakis, told deputies who stopped him he was there as a law enforcement officer working on an anti-human trafficking operation.

His story prompted the deputies to stop their operation, for fear of conflicting with a federal probe, according to those U.S. government sources. Nieland told his bosses that he had been stopped because of a broken taillight, but his superiors found out from local authorities that he was caught in the local prostitution operation.

CNN attempted to reach Nieland in recent weeks without success.

He told the New York Times the story wasn't true.

and

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/01/politics/secret-service-director-resigns/index.html

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigns

1 Oct

Washington (CNN) -- Julia Pierson, the first female director of the Secret Service, resigned Wednesday in the aftermath of a fence-jumper gaining access to the White House on September 19 and a subsequent congressional inquiry uncovering other security lapses.

Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson announced the resignation in a statement. He also announced that the Department of Homeland Security would take over an internal inquiry of the Secret Service and that he would appoint of a new panel to review security at the White House.

more at link

[maurice]

When the rich and powerful find they have been used with the same tools as you and I they have only one advantage over us , lots of money . But when they realise that the blackmail operation used to keep them compliant WILL NOT PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN they find their loyalty stretched to breaking point and resort to that old trick of all illuminists , passive aggresive non compliance . In the military this is called dumb insolence or dereliction of duty . Failing to pull their weight they undermine the best efforts of the controllers who , never ones to tolerate any disobediance in the ranks , Pack a huge tantrum , execute a kill order in the hope of bringing the others back in to line and guess what , just undermine morale in the ranks even further.

Never ever underestimate therefore ,the stupidity and self defeating methods of the controllers . They have arrogance down to a fine art and there is none so blind as those who believe themselves 'superior'.

Sure they are good at manipulation and yes they have access to advanced technology and control the movers and shakers through fear and blackmail . But once you have taught your chosen underlings how to leave their body they know one thing the majority dont , that death is not the end . And when Death stares you in the face all you can do is look back and smile . Conquer death and you conquer fear . And death does not mean you cant still be useful.

To understand is to pardon. Nobody obtains great wealth on this planet without selling their soul to the machine first . The casino is rigged . I know .They have tried to recruit me many times with the oldest carrot of all , money and the power it brings .

You may be able buy the most beautiful whores on the planet , but as far as she is concerned you are just another trick . Sex without love ? where is the joy in that ?

The illuminists completion dates for their 'Great work' have come and gone so many times now . My father and grandfather where and still are instrumental in stalling , end running and buggering up their best laid plans . How do they do it ? Easy . Greedy people are by definition blindingly incompetent and short sighted . WE just let them walk to the edge of the cliff minus the walking stick . Cern has failed to deliver despite countless trillions of dollars thrown at it . Why ? because the bean counters don't understand the math of love .

A house divided against itself will always fall .

When the court is arrayed in splendour ,the granary is full of weeds. Lao Tzu

Ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty , the beggining of confusion. Lao Tzu again .

[Sabrina]

http://www.channel4.com/news/woolf-fiona-child-abuse-inquiry-lord-brittan-butler-sloss

Woolf in sheeps clothing:)... this really is unravelling for tptb.... it delays it all for the victims (and a cynic might say, like the other appointee, she was obviously wrong for the job, so what were they playing at), but on the other hand theres a groundswell standing up and making such a noise that the politicians cant push through a compliant chosen figure. And perhaps an unintended consequence is that the noise in the media and parliament and amongst child support groups gets louder and louder over this and Lord Brittans name gets mentioned again and again...

31 Oct UK

Fiona Woolf quits as head of child abuse inquiry

The head of the inquiry into child sex abuse resigns after concerns emerged over her links with former home secretary Lord Brittan.

Mrs Woolf, a City lawyer and Lord Mayor of London, stepped down after abuse victims met the panel of inquiry into historic child sexual abuse to discuss the case on Friday.

It follows claims that a letter setting out Mrs Woolf's contacts with Lord Brittan and his wife was redrafted seven times, with guidance from Home Office officials, before being sent to Home Secretary Theresa May.

The links with the Brittans have come under scrutiny because he is likely to be called to give evidence to the inquiry about his handling of child abuse allegations.

The former cabinet minister denies failing to act on a dossier of paedophilia allegations he received while in office in the 1980s.

Hearing victims' voices
In a statement issued by the City of London Corporation, Mrs Woolf said:

"When I took on this important inquiry, I was determined to ensure that the victims' voices were heard and that, as a society, we got to the truth regarding the repeated failure of institutions meant to protect them. Sadly, it's become clear that the inquiry as chaired by me will not have widespread victim support - and I am particularly sensitive to the views of victims, many of whom have demonstrated immense courage.

It's become clear that the inquiry as chaired by me will not have widespread victim support.
Fiona Woolf
"As their needs must be paramount, I have decided to stand aside so that this important work can proceed without the obstacle of negative speculation and comment."

The statement ends:

"The whole of society needs to work together to ensure that the victims, and potential future victims, of child sexual abuse are properly safeguarded. Now we must all ensure that we seize the opportunity for change that this inquiry offers."

Integrity'
Theresa May said she had accepted Mrs Woolf's resignation "with regret".

The Home Secretary added: "I believe she would have carried out her duties with integrity, impartiality and to the highest standard.

"I decided to set up this inquiry because it's imperative that we establish the extent to which institutions in this country have taken seriously their duty of care towards children. Recent reports from Rotherham and Greater Manchester demonstrate the importance of this work.

"As with Hillsborough, the best way to do this is through an independent panel inquiry. I believe we have a panel which brings a wide range of experience and expertise and one that survivors can have confidence in."

Troubled inquiry
Mrs Woolf was chosen to lead the inquiry following the resignation of Lady Butler-Sloss in July. Lady Butler-Sloss's brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general in the 1980s, when some of the abuse is said to have taken place.

Fiona Woolf's appointment as chairwoman of the historic child sex abuse inquiry was meant to restore confidence in the inquiry, but quickly plunged it into fresh controversy.

Her installation was initially welcomed by campaigners who were keen for the investigation to begin and she was described by Labour MP Simon Danczuk as a "smart and capable woman".

'Unanimous feeling'
Peter Saunders, chief executive of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said victims would rather wait for a proper inquiry than rush forward with a "paper exercise".

He said earlier that victims were "unanimous in our feeling that Fiona Woolf cannot remain as chair".

There are one or two people who have said 'We've just got to get on with this'.
Peter Saunders
He added: "It has to be a statutory inquiry, the terms of reference need to be looked at the geographical spread.

"There are one or two people who have said 'We've just got to get on with this'.

"Well no, I don't agree. I think most survivors of abuse have waited a long, long time to get a voice and they are more than happy to wait a little longer to make the whole thing work rather than steam ahead with a sort of paper exercise with the sort of wishy-washy terms of reference that we have at the moment."

Edinburgh-born, the former Law Society president was educated at St Denis School before reading law at Keele University and completing a diploma in comparative law at the University of Strasbourg.

Mrs Woolf, 66, qualified as a solicitor in 1973 and became a partner at CMS Cameron McKenna eight years later. The solicitor told MPs she knows "thousands" of people in London but insisted she is not a member of the establishment.


'Put children first'
The chief executive of The Children's Society criticised the delays in the inquiry, saying "to make this a reality, this inquiry must get underway".

Matthew Reed said: "This critical inquiry has already been delayed twice. Now, it is vital that, as steps are taken to find a new chair, its work continues. The victims and survivors of child sexual abuse have already waited too long to get the justice they deserve.

"The inquiry needs to take effective action to protect, help and support the victims of child sexual exploitation and enable their voices to be heard. But to make this a reality, this inquiry must get underway."

and


http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/fiona-woolfs-letter-to-hasc-and-drafts/

Fiona Woolfs many drafts of her own resignation letter sent to the Home Office to check (before she resigned to them...)....

see at link

and


also via Needleblog


Colin Tucker: Lost In Home Office Revisions

This didn’t make the final Home Office approved draft.

Why?

Maybe because Scotland is excluded from this ‘Overarching’ ‘Independent’ Inquiry ?

Or was there another reason ?

see at link here http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/colin-tucker-lost-in-home-office-revisions/


and a readers comment;

Roger Gough
October 31, 2014 at 8:03 pm
From my own position as enthusiastic onlooker, I believe that the tireless efforts of bloggers and facebook posters too numerous to mention, have contributed in no small way to this magnificent result. Their methods and tenacity have unearthed information that could not have even been guessed at and have educated those who sense the corruption of our ‘leaders’ but have felt powerless to do anything about it; the startling revelations regarding Ms Woolf’s ‘butler’ being a hugely important case in point. Some bloggers have had no input into this particular case but they have added massively to the campaign’s impetus by reporting with equal vigour on other inequitable situations, thereby alerting the curious public to the overall levels of corruption within Government and the establishment and by so doing encouraging this ground swell of resentment. I take great pride in stating that this eulogy has not required a single rewrite; thank you folks.

[maurice]

Yes Sabrina I think your right ,things are unravelling fast and not before time . I really admire people like you who take the time to research all this stuff and get it out there . You are doing a very real service to humanity and its a real joy for me to watch such commited and sincere people on the forum sticking it to the establishment . Without knowledge and support most people feel helpless and give up. My computer skills are so basic I would not know how to do what you do . Well this type of computer anyway . Im used to direct interface stuff .

I have seen and had to deal with the consequences of sexual abusers within the establishment . Its such a key part of their control mechanism that they cannot afford to loose it . When the victims realise they can bring this network down by refusing to be smoked with rigged enquiries the big players are going to be quakeing in their silk boxer shorts . Ha ha , Love it.

[Sabrina]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815206/Bishop-quits-post-child-sex-abuse-report-accused-covering-paedophile-priest.html

31 Oct

Bishop quits over over covering up child sex abuse case

story at link

[Sabrina]

exaraonews.com

1 Nov UK

Met starts investigation into child abuse at Dolphin Square (apartment block used by politicians, VIPs etc near Parliament) as part of investigations into alleged paedophile network at Westminster...(involving two former Conservative MPs, including one ex Cabinet minister)

story at link

[maurice]

There is not a single city town or village in Australia that does not have a well protected peadophile network . They poison everything . I have been offered various enticements if I would allow them access to my daughter . They have also tried to groom her . The worst though is when they use their own children as procurers . Every church ,every masonic hall , every other business front is a cover for these operators . And they hide it all behind their squeeky clean 'respectable' facades . They spy on everyone , smear anyone who does not dance to their tune . They make and break everyone they can insinuate in to their crooked incestuous network .

[Sabrina]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-dickens-dossier-secret-file-on-establishment-paedophiles-may-be-opened-9842133.html

5 Nov UK



The Dickens Dossier: Secret file on establishment paedophiles may be opened

A secret file which is said to contain the names of paedophiles with links to the British establishment and which is rumoured to be locked away in archives at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, could be made public as part of the Government’s child abuse inquiry.

Inquiry panel members Barbara Hearn and Sharon Evans, along with Ben Emmerson QC, counsel to the inquiry, assured campaigners at their meeting last week – shortly before Fiona Woolf announced she would be the second person to resign as chair – that they would have top-level security clearance and access to restricted or closed files.

Ian Pace, who in 2013 organised a petition of musicians calling for a public inquiry into abuse in specialist music schools, and one of 21 campaigners at Friday’s meeting chaired by Home Office official Usha Choli, asked whether the panel would have access to closed archives such as those belonging to the former Labour cabinet minister under Harold Wilson.

“The answer seemed to be yes,” said Mr Pace. “We were told the panel’s security clearance would enable them to access things like intelligence files and closed archives such as a lot of material contained within the Barbara Castle archives where some people suspect she may have kept a copy of the dossier.”

At least three people have tried unsuccessfully to access the Castle files to see if it contains the Dickens Dossier, but found a lot of the material closed. Some papers with restricted access include diary entries and correspondence with family members. All of her correspondence with the former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw between October 1981 and February 1999 is also marked “closed” on the library’s database, along with a letter she wrote to Neil Kinnock in December 1999.

The whereabouts of the “Dickens Dossier”, containing allegations of paedophiles linked to the British establishment and compiled by former Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens, is unknown. It went missing after the politician handed it to the then Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, in 1984, as are more than 100 documents concerning child abuse allegations that had been held by the Home Office. It is rumoured it may be in the Barbara Castle archives within the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.

Mr Pace said: “I do know of separate occasions where people went after a whole range of material where the Dickens Dossier was likely to be, but could not see any of it.”

The Independent on Sunday revealed at the weekend that the inquiry panel will have “developed vetting” – top-level clearance allowing them access to intelligence files and information.

Home Secretary Theresa May told the Commons on Monday that the Government was “in the process of working out the protocol” to ensure that access is possible “between all agencies and the inquiry, so that no stone is left unturned”.

Due to the number of ongoing cases and historical sex abuse trials taking place in the coming months, campaigners have received assurances from the panel that witnesses could give evidence about people already on trial, with proceedings therefore sub judice.

[Sabrina]

Wheels coming off quite a few buses (via Cobra with more from him here: http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/cobra-update-11-2-14-a-new-planetary-situation-update/)



http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/10/27/worlds-oldest-bank-shares-suspended-twice-during-trading-day/

World’s Oldest Bank Shares Suspended Twice During Trading Day

Italy

Monte dei Paschi shares were suspended twice throughout today. At one stage down 22% currently trading down 18%. Peripheral bond markets behaving themselves only Italian BTP’s were wider by 7bp’s. The European banking crisis is still in full bloom. What the ECB will not admit is that the design of the Euro lacking a single debt required banks to keep reserves in “riskless” government debt of member states. To be politically correct, they spread it around.

27 Oct

and

http://www.france24.com/en/20141024-italy-reveal-cost-eu-palaces-escalating-budget-row-renzi-hollande/

Angered by EU criticism of Italy’s proposed budget for 2015, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has warned that his government is “going to have some fun” publishing details of the cost of European institutions.

Renzi’s comments, made on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, mark the latest twist in a mounting row over Rome’s proposed budget for 2015, which has come under fire from the EU Commission.

Earlier in the day, the Commission’s outgoing chief Jose Manuel Barroso had vehemently criticized the Italian government’s decision to publish a letter from the EU requesting clarifications on the budget.

The letter, signed by the EU's Economic Affairs Commissioner Jyrki Katainen, was marked "strictly confidential".

Slamming Rome’s "unilateral" decision, Barroso said the Commission preferred that budget talks with member states take place behind closed doors.

The Commission chief, who steps down on October 31, said his team was "in consultations" with several countries over infringement of the rules and "it's better this happen in a context of trust".

In Italy's case, the proposed budget complies with the EU’s strict deficit ceiling of 3% of GDP, but falls well short of required commitments on structural reform.

Renzi responded to Barroso’s criticism with a threat to shed light on Brussels' own spending.

"We will publish data on everything that is spent by these palaces. We're going to have some fun," he said.

Renzi also insisted that Italy’s budget posed “no problems”, underscoring Rome’s decision to adopt a hard line in talks with Brussels.

Anti-austerity front

Galvanized by mounting popular discontent against the EU, Renzi’s administration has become more vocal in its criticism of the budgetary orthodoxy preached by Brussels.

In so doing, it has lent support to France, another critic of austerity policies and a frequent violator of EU budget rules.

French officials have confirmed they also received a letter from the EU, though they do not intend to publish it.

The dialogue with Brussels continues "in very good conditions", French President François Hollande said Thursday, stressing France's commitment to EU budgetary rules but "with the maximum flexibility".

France has forecast a budget deficit of 4.3% in 2015, far above the expected 3%.

It has defiantly ruled out any further cuts to spending, claiming these would do serious harm to its fragile economy.

The Commission has until next Wednesday to decide whether Italy, France and the other recipients of the letter are in "serious" breach of EU rules.

But admonishing France and Italy, the second and third-biggest eurozone economies, and formally demanding a change to their budget would be a huge political risk.

EU officials are wary of the possible fallout in both countries, where near-zero growth and soaring unemployment are fuelling support for eurosceptic and far-right parties.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP) 24 Oct

and

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/mining-ceo-proposes-crush-market-manipulation-by-halting-silver-sales-would-send-ripples-to-the-entire-system_10242014

Mining CEO Proposes: Crush Market Manipulation By Halting Silver Sales: “Would Send Ripples To The Entire System”

story at link

[Sabrina]

David Wilcock comments on Benjamin Fulfords latest blog:

Comment by dwilcock on November 3, 2014 @ 9:04 pm

It is always intriguing when Ben’s sources reveal data that is similar or identical to what I’m hearing. One of these is the assassination threat against the US President. There is no doubt that he is at very high risk now. Furthermore, I was able to independently confirm last week’s leak that there is high drama, including yelling, going on every day in the White House.

Specifically, Obama is now being “sat down three times a day and told to stay the f- out of everything that is going on.” Up until now they gave him some semblance of control over the situation. They let him make certain decisions. Now he’s finally being told he has absolutely no power over anything. Just say nothing, do nothing, sit there and let us do what we need to do.

There was a story a few weeks ago that Obama was “ignoring” the Presidential Daily Briefings and only getting them in writing instead of in person. This was used to reflect negatively upon him. I since found out that he wasn’t being OFFERED the briefings in person. Then when they need something against him, they blame him for it.

Bear in mind that all of this comes from an insider who very seriously does not like Obama.

There are two other things here that are worth mentioning. One is that two different space probes experienced fiery deaths last week, one of which was Richard Branson’s long-awaited project. Don’t forget that Elon Musk, head of Tesla, also had a space probe that exploded on its first major test run.

Although we haven’t confirmed it yet, foul play is strongly suspected in each of these cases. Why? Because as soon as you get even into LEO (low earth orbit,) there’s so much stuff up there that’s not supposed to be there, they can’t expect the “masking” to work well enough to conceal everything. We would know too much too soon.

Both Elon Musk and Richard Branson are powerful men who are not part of the Cabal, and who would gladly release any anomalous photos and films. All the Cabal would have to do is use simple torsion-field technology to zap the craft as they go up, and soften the matter until it comes apart at the weakest points.

Then the controlled media goes on a rampage about “greedy billionaires” whose “ego” and “hubris” has taken them so far into never-never land that there is no hope for them. So there is the dual benefit of throwing them under the bus and taking the widespread public discontent due to the deliberately sabotaged economy and aiming it at public targets.

The other important point is that Ben didn’t take credit for predicting the almost complete 180 on Ebola in the mainstream media. Although it was being talked about like the worst thing ever when he wrote that prediction a week ago, within a week it has become non-existent. The stories have all dried up and it’s like it didn’t even happen. The alternative media is still tracking it, but the number of articles about it have decreased by about 900 percent.

I am sorry to hear that two of Ben’s allies have now been arrested and that he is threatened with the same. This is no easy game and Ben has kicked every hornet’s nest in sight.

I have been asked repeatedly about Ben’s statement last week regarding the alleged Mars base. First of all, if that did happen it would be a great humanitarian tragedy. There are at least 200,000 personnel on that base, including 10,000 who are from our planet and the rest from elsewhere. It would be a huge atrocity if they got blown up.

I am very confident that what we are seeing is nothing more than a lens flare. Notice the burst of light originates from the exact center of the object. Our atmosphere creates varying degrees of light refraction since light has to move through air to get to the telescope. This causes mirages and distortions just like you see from heat rising off of hot pavement, for example. This same effect is why stars appear to be twinkling. The amount of light that can actually make it to us is continually fluctuating.

Lastly, it is very, very rare for anyone to be able to come back to our society if they have had any contact with this “breakaway civilization.” If you spend any length of time in an underground or off-world base, the likelihood that they will ever let you return to any life on the normal surface of planet earth is extremely small. You have to make a permanent life decision and there’s no turning back. They further guarantee this by giving you an injection that makes it literally lethal to return.

Everything about the financial systems opening up is right on. It is becoming very obvious that we are going through massive changes, as I said in last week’s epic article, which you definitely should read if you haven’t already:

http://www.divinecosmos.com/index.php/start-here/davids-blog/1170-cabal-defeat

This includes discussion of at least five major Hollywood films that are all predicting the defeat of the Cabal and helping to foster it.

I also point out how the Ebola image used by the mainstream media is actually very close to the secret Cabal symbol for Tubal Cain, which they see as Lucifer’s great-great-great grandson and the father of their bloodline.

This, along with the name ISIS, shows how they have to put their “signature” on everything in order for the magic to work. There’s also a detailed discussion of how this use of magic resurfaced with Queen Elizabeth’s astrologer John Dee, the original OO7 or “Two-Ball Cane.”

These are exciting times. I have had dreams suggesting there is still very high risk of new and disruptive events. The morning of the Canadian shooting I had a dream in which two empty school buses were about to be hit with missiles and I had just enough time to turn on the hazard lights before they were going to blow, as a warning to get people away from them.

Interestingly, these buses were parked precisely on the street where I used to sell the gold coins I had bought from a modest inheritance in 2000, in order to keep myself going. This suggests the possibility of market turbulence in the gold supply.

There are other interesting things going on I don’t want to mention at this point. Suffice it to say that this insider war is very real, and as I wrote in the article, it is becoming increasingly visible and public. I also am seeing a very strong and continuous push being made towards Disclosure, and the attacks on Elon Musk and Richard Branson’s space probes cannot stop this from happening.

- David Wilcock
wisdomteachings.com
divinecosmos.com


http://benjaminfulford.net/2014/11/03/desperate-cabal-loots-japanese-pension-funds-to-buy-time/

[Sabrina]

http://www.shakamovement.org/

http://www.staradvertiser.com/elections/20141104_GMO__Charter.html

4 Oct Maui, Hawaii

Voters adopt GMO ban

Supporters expect a suit by corporations that were lobbying against the measure

A controversial Maui County Charter amendment temporarily banning genetically engineered crops passed Tuesday night, but just barely.

About 50.2 percent of voters -- the minimum needed to pass the initiative -- voted in favor, while 47.9 percent voted against. Supporters are expecting a lawsuit by corporations opposed to the bill.

The voter initiative divided the community after the group SHAKA Movement collected enough signatures to place the proposal on the ballot. The charter amendment bans the use of genetically modified organisms unless the companies' practices are tested and deemed safe.

A crowd of supporters cheered when the results were announced at the Akaku community TV station.

"It's the triumph of the people over the corporations," said Mark Sheehan, spokesman for SHAKA Movement, who was at the station. "We're surprised and delighted and thrilled."

Tom Blackburn-Rodriguez, spokesman for the pro-GMO group Citizens Against the Maui County Farming Ban, said in an emailed statement that the group was disappointed by the results, calling the proposal "scientifically unjustified, deeply flawed and irresponsible."

more at link

and

5 Nov UK

Our forests have been saved - again! And together we played a huge part in that. (via 38 Degrees)

The government was trying to sneak through plans which would have paved the way for our forests to be sold off. But at the very last minute, they backed down. They u-turned and made changes which mean our forests will be protected - in law. [1]

This is huge. For months, forest campaigners have been fighting for this. [2] In the last 24 hours, over 150,000 of us signed a petition backing them. And it was carried into the House of Lords debate by Baroness Royall who’s been battling the plans. [3]

As the debate started thousands of us took to Twitter. Together, we made sure they knew we were watching. [4] The government was well aware that they were fighting a losing battle.

Baroness Royall wanted to thank 38 Degrees members:

“This is a big victory for everyone that has campaigned to protect our forests. The 38 Degrees petition was a vital part of that. I’m grateful to all who showed their support.”

A few years ago, when it looked like the government was going to sell our forests, 38 Degrees members fought long and hard to save them. [5] And we won. This latest campaign proves how much power we have when we scramble together quickly to stand up for something we care about.

[Sabrina]

Ottawa False Flag Killings covered “huge scandal”: ITCCS Breaking News, November 4


Senior Canadian cabinet minister exposed as participant in Ninth Circle sacrificial cult along with mafia-tied catholic Cardinal – Both men named at February 22 cult ritual in Rome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TybPu74hhvc&feature=youtu.be

Ottawa:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s senior cabinet minister for Quebec and the head of the powerful Privy Council, Denis Lebel, was present at the cult ritual killing of a child in Rome on February 22 of this year, according to evidence given to ITCCS officials last week by an eyewitness.

Lebel was in Rome at the head of an official Canadian delegation to the inauguration of Quebec Archbishop Gerald Lacroix, who was ordained a Cardinal by Jesuit Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, earlier that same day of February 22, 2014. (http://www.international.gc.ca/media/aff/news-communiques/2014/02/21a.aspx?lang=eng)

Cardinal Lacroix was also present at the Ninth Circle ritual attended by Denis Lebel, according to an eyewitness.

The witness claims that the incident involved the serial anal rape and killing of “a little boy about five or six” and took place at midnight in basement chambers of the Jesuit-run International Youth Centre within the Church San Lorenzo Piscibus in Rome, less than a mile from the Vatican.

Cardinal Lacroix is also believed to have been scheduled to participate in the Ninth Circle sacrificial ritual in Westmount, Quebec on August 15 that was disrupted by an ITCCS special action unit. (see www.itccs.org, August 20, 2014)

“That isn’t the first child sacrifice at San Lorenzo” claims the eyewitness. “It’s right next door to the (Jesuit) Superior General’s (Adolfo Pachon’s) office. It happens especially in that month since February 21 and 22 are the ancient Roman festivals of Feralia and Terminalia, when animals and children were sacrificed in memory of the dead.”

The same Cardinal Gerald Lacroix is a member of the notorious St. Pius X Society (SSPX) an extreme right wing catholic cult closely tied to the Ndrangheta crime syndicate and neo Nazis connected to rogue catholic Archbishop Bernard Fellay. The present Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, is in negotiations with Fellay to have his SSPX cult readmitted into the roman catholic church.

(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/12/1336000/-Why-Pope-Francis-Is-Seeking-Reconciliation-with-European-Fascists)

According to ITCCS North American Field Secretary Kevin Annett, this latest exposure of Minister Lebel’s ties to the Ninth Circle and Cardinal Lacroix was likely behind the October 22 staged shooting of a soldier in Canada’s capital, and the murder of an Ottawa police investigator by the Ndrangheta three weeks before.

“I’ve learned that ITCCS Directors received the evidence of the February 22 ritual involving Lebel and Lacroix on Monday, October 20. The staged killing of Ottawa soldier Nathan Cirillo occurred two days later. The government’s talk of new police powers and the media hysteria that followed Cirillo’s shooting were an obvious distraction from this news of Lebel and Lacroix, that could easily topple the Harper government. Denis Lebel is crucial right now in Harper’s upcoming election hopes to win Quebec for his party.

“Ultimately this is all about covering for the big money, which means the Ndrangheta syndicate, that provides the children for the Ninth Circle rituals and who killed Ottawa police inspector Kal Ghadban on September 28 after he’d helped stop the Westmount ritual in August. Apparently, Ghadban knew of Denis Lebel’s and Gerald Lacroix’s invovlement in the Ninth Circle ritual and he planned to bring charges against both men.” (see www.itccs.org, October 1, 2014)

“Big money” includes as well Minister Lebel’s ties to those global resource companies affected by his decisions as federal Transport and Infrastructure minister: companies like Power Corporation, Cargill, Sinclair Oil and others whose officers have been named as participants in child trafficking and Ninth Circle sacrificial rites. (see www.itccs.org , September 28, 2014)
The ITCCS and its Canadian affiliates plan to establish an ongoing inquiry into the Lebel – Lacroix connection, the murder of Officer Kal Ghadban, and the role of Ndrangheta and the Vatican in the Harper government’s false flag operations.

Issued by ITCCS Central, Brussels

4 November, 2014

​A Youtube interview with Kevin Annett on this story is attached:

[Sabrina]

http://itccs.org/2014/11/01/an-end-to-the-crown-republic-of-kanata-convenes/

1 Nov Canada via ITCCS.org

An End to the Crown: Republic of Kanata convenes

Pre-Convention Report

by Colin Sullivan
Secretary to the Provisional Council for the Republic of Kanata, Winnipeg

Fellow patriots,

Hundreds of new volunteers have flocked to our ranks in the past several months, and inspired by our vision of a liberated and sovereign nation, are being organized and trained within the six Districts of the Republic of Kanata. And many of these men and women have already taken the Oath of Allegiance to the Republic, and are actively breaking free from the criminal “authority” of the crown.

We expect to see many of you as delegates and observers at our first Constitutional Convention in Winnipeg, between January 1-4, 2015. Not only will that event see a Proclamation of Independence declared and a Constitution for Kanata adopted, but the work of our regional groups will be shared and built upon, to unite more of our people under our banner.

more at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-03/jpmorgan-faces-u-s-criminal-probe-into-foreign-exchange-trading.html

4 Nov US



JPMorgan Faces U.S. Criminal Probe into Currency Trading

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) said it faces a U.S. criminal probe into foreign-exchange dealings and boosted its maximum estimate for “reasonably possible” losses on legal cases to the highest in more than a year. The shares fell in New York.

The firm is cooperating with the criminal investigation by the Department of Justice as well as inquiries by regulators in the U.K. and elsewhere, it said yesterday in a quarterly report. The largest U.S. bank said it might need as much as $5.9 billion to cover losses beyond reserves for legal matters, up $1.3 billion from the end of June, and the most since since mid-2013.

“In recent months, U.S. government officials have emphasized their willingness to bring criminal actions against financial institutions,” the bank wrote of the general legal environment. “Such actions can have significant collateral consequences for a subject financial institution, including loss of customers and business.”

Broken Benchmarks

Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 58, who led the New York-based firm through $23 billion in settlements last year, is contending with an international probe into whether traders at the biggest banks sought to profit by rigging currency rates. Citigroup Inc. (C) and Zurich-based UBS AG disclosed last week they also face criminal inquiries by the Justice Department into their foreign-exchange dealings. Citigroup cut third-quarter results to include a $600 million legal charge.



“These investigations are focused on the firm’s spot FX trading activities as well as controls applicable to those activities,” JPMorgan said in its report. While the company is in talks to resolve the cases, “there is no assurance that such discussions will result in settlements,” it said.

JPMorgan slid 1.7 percent to $59.87 at 9:52 a.m., the most in more than two weeks and the worst performance in the KBW Bank Index. (BKX) The shares have gained 2.5 percent this year, compared with the 3.9 percent advance of the 24-company index.

Banks are facing foreign-exchange probes by authorities on three continents, people with knowledge of the situation have said. Richard Usher, JPMorgan’s chief currency dealer in London, left the company amid efforts to settle a U.K. probe into allegations of foreign-exchange rigging, people with knowledge of the moves said last month. He hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing.

Holder’s View

JPMorgan booked $1.01 billion in legal expenses during the third quarter, tied “in large part” to the currency probes, Chief Financial Officer Marianne Lake said on Oct. 14. Cases could cost banks as much as $41 billion combined to settle, analysts at New York-based Citigroup, led by Kinner Lakhani, said last month.



The bank separately estimated that fourth-quarter sales and trading revenue will drop by about $300 million, or 8 percent, amid a push to simplify the company. Costs in the division will be lowered by about $200 million as the firm sells units including its physical commodities business as part of that effort, it said.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced in May that authorities were pursuing criminal cases against banks, showing that financial institutions aren’t too big to prosecute. The Justice Department later wrested guilty pleas -- once viewed as a death penalty for a bank -- from Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN)’s main bank subsidiary for helping Americans avoid taxes, and from BNP Paribas SA (BNP) for handling banned transactions involving Sudan, Iran and Cuba.

SEC Directive

U.S. firms began disclosing estimates for possible legal losses after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told finance chiefs in 2010 they should provide investor guidance “when there is at least a reasonable possibility” costs will be incurred, even if the risk is too low to require reserves.

JPMorgan said its estimated range, spanning no cost to as much as $5.9 billion as of Sept. 30, “involves significant judgment, given the varying stages of the proceedings.” It already has set aside money to cover several hundred legal proceedings, and it may boost those accruals further if additional expenses become probable.

[Sabrina]

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5396/video-nick-tells-of-how-mps-liked-to-inflict-pain-during-abuse

5 Nov UK

Victim tells how MPs (two former Conservative MPs) liked to inflict pain during during sexual assaults at Dolphin Square in London and calls for other witnesses to come forward for the new police investigation

article and video at link (doesnt allow to copy)

more on the UK child abuse investigations here:

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/

[Sabrina]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/11/05/hellyer/

Canadian Defence Minister exposes NWO, UFOs

A review of The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis by Paul Hellyer

by Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor

Paul Heller has held high-level posts in the Canadian government. During the 1960s as Defence Minister, Hellyer oversaw the unification of Canada’s armed forces, and in 1968 he nearly became Prime Minister.

Then in 1973 David Rockefeller created the Trilateral Commission to put an end to the “excess of democracy” that had allowed truth-telling independent-minded people like Hellyer to rise to power. As the New World Order tightened its stranglehold, Hellyer became one of Canada’s leading critics of globalization.

By the late 1980s the Liberal Party was coming under bankster control. In response, Hellyer created the Canadian Action Party – one of the few genuinely alternative parties in Western political life.

Then in 2005 Hellyer made headlines by stating: “UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead.” It was the first time anyone of G-8 cabinet rank had ever publicly confirmed the alien presence on Earth.

Hellyer’s 15th book, Money Mafia, takes on three interrelated existential issues: The New World Order bankster dictatorship; climate change and looming environmental disaster; and the alien presence on earth and resulting creation of ultra-secret national security states and even “breakaway civilizations”.

article at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-05/we-have-just-witnessed-last-gasp-global-economy

We Have Just Witnessed The Last Gasp Of The Global Economy

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/05/2014 -

"... the admissions of financial danger by internationalists, the sharp drop in stocks at the beginning of fall, the reversal of the political theater, and the fact that mainstream investors now recognize the illegitimacy of the markets yet continue with the scam anyway, signals the last gasp of the global economy. I expect increasing market instability from this point on, as well as numerous geopolitical distractions which will be blamed for the fiscal chaos. Needless to say, the coming storm is a deliberately engineered one, meant to achieve very specific goals, including a fearful and panicked populace, easy to manipulate as the system goes off the rails for the last time."

full story at link

[Sabrina]

Thanks to Aviators for this.

https://libertyroadmedia.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/banking-a-death-cult-first-suicides-now-murder/

BANKING A DEATH CULT? FIRST SUICIDES, NOW MURDER

What the hell is up with these bankers now? We know they’ve been killing the economy for years, then they started actually killing themselves (supposed suicides) earlier this year, and now we have an employee of Bank of America charged with killing two women:

HONG KONG—A 29-year-old British banker appeared in court on Monday to face murder charges after police said they found two women dead in his apartment, with one body hidden in a suitcase.

Police said Rurik Jutting called them to his apartment early Saturday in an upscale building in the city’s Wan Chai district, an area popular with tourists and known for its night life. Until recently, he had been a Hong Kong-based employee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said a person familiar with the matter.

more at the link and video

and

https://libertyroadmedia.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/judges-dupes-or-in-on-it-this-question-keeps-coming-up/

JUDGES: DUPES OR IN ON IT? THIS QUESTION KEEPS COMING UP… US

So a judge took it upon himself to drastically reduce the damages which a jury found should be paid to California homeowner Phillip Linza (Linza v. PHH Mortgage, et al.), according to the Sacramento Bee:

The jury awarded $514,000 in compensatory damages and $15.7million in punitive damages. The judge decided the award was vastly overblown. In a written opinion, Berrier [the judge] said, “There was no evidence that the errors made were intentional or made in reckless disregard of causing emotional distress.”

National Mortgage News gives more details on the judge’s ruling:

The judge did acknowledge that PHH had acted as a “bad party” to the loan modification contract. PHH made “inconsistent demands for payment arguably repudiating the modification contract, threatened [Linza] with foreclosure, refused to return his many calls or to apologize for or correct its errors, refused to enter into a new agreement and even ridiculed his plight.”

Regardless, Judge Berrier said there was no evidence to support claims of negligence or fraud.

“As a general rule, a financial institution owes no duty of care to a borrower when the institution’s involvement in the loan transaction does not exceed the scope of its conventional role as a mere lender of money,” the judge wrote.

PHH is a third-party servicer of the loan, which is owned by investors in a private-label mortgage-backed security trust.

This judge apparently would like to come off as a dupe rather than being in on the fraud. The quote that appears to confirm that is the one above that “a financial institution owes no duty of care to a borrower” if that institution is “a mere lender of money.” PHH is clearly not the lender in this case, and surely Judge Berrier is aware of that.

Interestingly, the judge did find that PHH was a “bad party,” but apparently not so bad that they had to part with $16 million, even though it’s widely known that a single mortgage note two times or more of its face value on the secondary market (see “Guest Post: Mortgages Were Pledged To Multiple Buyers At The Same Time”), not to mention bloated servicing fees and/or other trash fees that are tacked on in “default” servicing.

[ThePythonicCow]

Thanks to Aviators for this.

https://libertyroadmedia.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/banking-a-death-cult-first-suicides-now-murder/

BANKING A DEATH CULT? FIRST SUICIDES, NOW MURDER
And now more -- two murders and then an unlikely "suicide".

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CNBC Exec’s Children Murdered, 1 Day After CNBC Reports $43 Trillion Bankster Lawsuit (http://www.thedailysheeple.com/cnbc-execs-children-murdered-1-day-after-cnbc-reports-43-trillion-bankster-lawsuit_102012)

This week financial news organization CNBC gave some mainstream attention to the largest money laundering and racketeering lawsuit in United States History, in which “Banksters” and their U.S. racketeering partners are being accused of laundering of 43 trillion dollars worth of ill gotten gains. The lawsuit is said to involve officials located in the highest offices of government and the financial sector.

Since this information was surprisingly revealed by the mainstream news organization there has been a very suspicious and deadly fallout at the CNBC headquarters. Within hours the original page for the article was taken down, and CNBC senior vice president Kevin Krim received news that his children were killed under very suspicious circumstances. It seems that the murder happened first and then the page was removed later.

According to mainstream accounts the children’s nanny is responsible for the murders, allegedly stabbing both children. However, those same mainstream news sources report the highly unlikely story that the nanny slit her own throat just after committing the homicides. Police have released very little information and although a wider plot has not been officially implicated, it seems very possible that these murders are a show of force against the press organization for releasing such damning information about the most powerful people in the world.

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A tip of the hat to Joseph P. Farrell (http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/11/tidbit-cnbc-executives-children-murdered-financial-lawsuit-report/) for passing the above story along.

[Heather2017]

And now more -- two murders and then an unlikely "suicide".

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CNBC Exec’s Children Murdered, 1 Day After CNBC Reports $43 Trillion Bankster Lawsuit (http://www.thedailysheeple.com/cnbc-execs-children-murdered-1-day-after-cnbc-reports-43-trillion-bankster-lawsuit_102012)

This week financial news organization CNBC gave some mainstream attention to the largest money laundering and racketeering lawsuit in United States History, in which “Banksters” and their U.S. racketeering partners are being accused of laundering of 43 trillion dollars worth of ill gotten gains. The lawsuit is said to involve officials located in the highest offices of government and the financial sector.

Since this information was surprisingly revealed by the mainstream news organization there has been a very suspicious and deadly fallout at the CNBC headquarters. Within hours the original page for the article was taken down, and CNBC senior vice president Kevin Krim received news that his children were killed under very suspicious circumstances. It seems that the murder happened first and then the page was removed later.

According to mainstream accounts the children’s nanny is responsible for the murders, allegedly stabbing both children. However, those same mainstream news sources report the highly unlikely story that the nanny slit her own throat just after committing the homicides. Police have released very little information and although a wider plot has not been officially implicated, it seems very possible that these murders are a show of force against the press organization for releasing such damning information about the most powerful people in the world.

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A tip of the hat to Joseph P. Farrell (http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/11/tidbit-cnbc-executives-children-murdered-financial-lawsuit-report/) for passing the above story along.



Think that was two years ago?

[ThePythonicCow]

And now more -- two murders and then an unlikely "suicide".

Think that was two years ago?
Aha - you're right. Joseph and myself are both guilty of not reading the dates on what we link.

Thanks!

[Heather2017]

No worries, Paul. I was horrified when it happened so remembered it clearly. Thanks to you and Sabrina for your updates.

[Sabrina]

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/sovereignty-and-self-determination-anyone-11-5-14-california-county-passes-historical-law-declaring-right-to-self-governance/#more-32430

Sovereignty and Self-Determination, Anyone? 11-5-14 “California County Passes Historical Law Declaring Right to Self-Governance” US

California County Passes Historical Law Declaring Right to Self-Governance

James Lee, Contributor
Waking Times

“The sacred rights of mankind, are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” ~ Alexander Hamilton

Mendocino County, in the pristine northern lands of California, where the magnificent ancient coastal Redwood trees meet the inland California Oaks, has voted itself into the constitution writing (righting) business.

Yesterday, by a significant margin, they became the first county in California, and only the second county in the country to pass into law a very powerful local ordinance that declares local self-governing rights in their communities over state and federal jurisdiction. Over 67% of the votes cast were in favor of the measure.

The ordinance provides for waters free from toxic trespass; preemptively bans all fracking activities countywide with heavy fines and penalties for violation of the ordinance; and establishes a Community Bill of Rights to, for, and by the residents of Mendocino County while checking corporate powers as well.

In addition, the newly created law gives the Rights of Nature to exist and flourish without toxic trespass whereas previously Nature had no standing in the court of law.


Here is some of the powerful language in the proposed ordinance which you can read (source):

“Right to community self-government.

All residents of Mendocino County possess the right to a form of governance where they live which recognizes that all power is inherent in the people and all free governments are founded on the people’s consent.

Use of Mendocino County government by the sovereign people to make law and policy shall not be deemed by any authority to eliminate or reduce that self-governing authority. Rights as self-executing, fundamental and unalienable.

All rights delineated and secured by this ordinance are inherent, fundamental and unalienable; and shall be self-executing and enforceable against both private and public actors.”

The people of Mendocino County have made history once again after being the first county in the nation to ban Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) in 2004. Now these Mendonesians of premier wine making, medical marijuana growing and self-declared independence are continuing to assert and reclaim their inherent rights to decide for themselves what the laws will be in their communities and their county.

What may seem radical to many is only following in declarations and rights acknowledged to, by, and for them by the California State and U.S. Constitution, as well as the Declaration of Independence:

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.

Article 1 of the California State Constitution of 1849:

Sec. 1. All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property: and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.

Sec. 2. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security, and benefit of the people; and they have the right to alter or reform the same, whenever the public good may require it.

Across the nation a truly grass-roots movement of taken back power by, and for the people at the local levels has begun in earnest.

In California, in this election alone, two other counties, Santa Barbara and San Benito, put anti-fracking measures in front of the voters while Big Oil spent over $7 million to defeat them. Santa Barbara was defeated last night but San Bernardino County’s measure passed into law.

Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania have in recent years passed into law local ordinances banning everything from toxic pig sludge dumping to Community Bill of Rights legislation as well as legal standing for the Rights of Nature to exist. In 2010, the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania made history by becoming the first city to pass a local ordinance banning hydraulic fracking.

So far, state courts have upheld these rights in Colorado and Ohio. However, a bigger challenge comes in coming months as a federal judge will make ruling on Mora County, New Mexico’s recent local ordinance passed that bans fracking in their county. It will be high stakes for all as over 30% of the states revenues comes from the oil and gas industry.

Yet clearly the people of Mora County are choosing to protect their health and well being over profit, jobs and revenues for their county.

Last week NASA released photos taken from space showing mass methane gas releases from the four corners region of the Southwestern United States, stunning all as to the widespread drastic effects that intense and increasing fracking activities are having on our environment.

Up north in Oregon, Lane and Benton Counties are bringing to vote local ordinances to preempt Oregon state laws for the right to determine local food sovereignty. Last year, Oregon had preempted local counties from banning GMO’s in their communities. Communities are now empowering themselves and fighting back.

Who is the Author of Authority?

The real basis of the question of the ability of local communities to write laws becomes just who is the final author of Authority?

Put another way, who has the power to make law, the people in the communities, counties and cities where they live or unreachable legislatures and Presidents residing hundreds and thousands of miles away?

Who are backed by huge corporate funding sources, that few can look, touch or feel, yet are called by many to be our “representatives” for what is best where we live, work and breathe.

It is estimated in the United States alone there are some 26 million plus laws, rules, regulations, permits, codes, violations, infractions, et. al., where ignorance of the these laws are not excusable in court and our government schooling never teaches to anyone.

And to enact state and federal laws, the powers that be must really on fear, force, coercion, ignorance and threat of being caged to get their laws obeyed. In other words, they demand obedience and compliance, or else coercion and force may be used no matter how amoral, immoral or destructive the laws may be.

Is it Legal?

Many in Mendocino County are asking about the legality of writing their own laws preempting the power of state and federal law over their county. One answer is provided by the founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), Thomas Linzey :

The law is not currently on your side. Over the past century, both corporations and state government have restricted the authority of municipal corporations so that the people of the municipality have very few rights at all. Your right to govern your own county has been canceled out by the “rights” of corporations, and the authority of the State to preempt your lawmaking.

Measure S is about changing that. It is about changing the law by challenging the law. Openly, frontally, and directly. The current system of law does not allow you to say “no” to fracking within the County. You therefore have a choice – you can either accept that current status of the law, or you can work to change it. Measure S is about asserting your right – as residents of the County – to change how the municipal system operates.

Measure S is about challenging what the law “is” and adopting a new system of law which enables you to control what happens in the County.

(CELDF), along with Global Exchange of San Francisco, have been instrumental in providing assistance and guidance across the country to help we the people take back our rights and reclaim our power to decide for ourselves what laws we wish in our communities. For over 14 years they have been active in helping communities pass local ordinances across the nation. Currently there are over 8 states and some 800 communities who have recently passed local ordinances yet it has not been easy.

In 2008 and again in 2010, Spokane, Washington tried to pass local ordinances banning corporate power in their city and protection of their waterways but failed by a few percentage votes while being heavily outspent by outside corporate interests. They plan to try again in the next election cycle.

In 2008, the City of Mt. Shasta organized and began the process of empowering themselves when they learned that the corporate/state power company for Northern California, Pacific Gas and Electric, was actively spraying the skies above them with toxic chemicals through Geo-engineering.

PG &E cloud seeding, where the energy giant launches a cannon of silver iodide into passing storm clouds, forces the unnatural release of rain in one location to increase hydroelectric power for increased company profits from their dams.

Additionally, Mt. Shasta City citizens attempted to ban water withdrawal from the local aquifers by corporate water bottlers, who were taking water at will from local tributaries. The community wanted to stop these unwanted practices which posed serious environmental damage to their very pristine ecosystem at the base of Mt. Shasta.

Measure A had nearly the entire community support and was likely to pass until forces unseen got involved and due to “clerical error” removed Measure A from the ballot just two weeks before elections.

What is highly suspicious about the “clerical error” was the same city voter registrar who helped the citizens of Mt. Shasta write the legalese language to the measure was also the same person who declared the measure invalid. You can read more about this act of subversion here.

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“We will take America back, Sheriff by Sheriff, County by County, State by State.” -Sheriff Richard Mack

“We are the watch keepers of Mendocino County” Sheriff Tom Allman, Mendocino County

Who Will Enforce These New Laws?

The next question that invariably comes up about the new local law is who will enforce it? Over the past few years a national organization called the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) was formed to protect the people and their constitutional rights in the communities they serve over state and federal jurisdictions.

Among other things, CSPOA makes claim that they are being adherent to the U.S. Constitution and that first, last, and foremost, it is the local sheriffs and community police officers who have final law and protection of its people authority.



Just this year, in 2014, CSPOA wrote their own constitution which in part states:

The people of these united States are, and have a right to be, free and independent, and these rights are derived from the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.” As such, they must be free from infringements on the right to keep and bear arms, unreasonable searches and seizures, capricious detainments and infringements on every other natural right whether enumerated or not (source).

As of November 4th, 2014, over 650 police officers, sheriffs and public officials have put their signature to the CSPOA constitution. Sheriff Allman, of Mendocino County is a member of CSPOA.

Home Invasion?

Mendocino County is known for growing medical marijuana and is legal by state and local laws. Most growers pay per plant taxes to county and state for the right to grow weed that helps and heals. This summer, local growers were stunned to see several private, for-hire para military Blackwater type operations swoop down on ropes from helicopters, in full military regalia with guns drawn and no ID badges.

They were apparently employees of Lear Asset Management Services and harvested (read stole) people’s crops to presumably sell for profit. Sheriff Allman was at a loss to as to who was doing it and why. To date no arrests have been made and no further disclosure as to who was behind the taking of people’s crops. As Time magazine reported about this action:

They are hired by large land owners to do the work of clearing trespass gardens from private property, and perform forest reclamation, sometimes funded by government grant. Deep in the woods, they cut down illegal pot plants and scrub the environmental footprint produced by the backwoods drug trade. They carry AR-15 rifles, lest they meet armed watchmen bent on defending their plots. (source)

It is probably not by sheer coincidence that this is happening when states are legalizing medical marijuana across the country and companies like GW Pharmaceuticals are selling marijuana based drugs like “Sativex”, which is derived from the Sativia strain of the plant that is shown to help with cancer treatments.

Probably not so coincidentally, the World Health Organization came out this year and stated that cancer was predicted to increase by 70% over just the next couple of decades alone in developed countries and an estimated 100% increase in so called under-devoloped nations as corporate pharmaceutical companies salivate with future huge profit potentials. (source)

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Natures Laws and Earths Ways

2014 Global Rights of Nature Summit; A diverse gathering of 60 scientists, attorneys, economists, indigenous leaders, authors, spiritual leaders, politicians, actors, and activists from 16 countries and 6 continents.

Maybe the most critical and exciting piece of the local ordinance that passed in Mendocino County yesterday was the recognizing the Rights of Nature to exist and flourish. To this day Nature has no legal standing in our courts of law throughout the nation.

In 2008, the nation of Ecuador made history when it became the first nation in the world to legally recognize the Rights of Nature as well as language to provide for the long term protection and security of her natural resources over all other interests.

Few are aware that our Founding Fathers specifically chose Nature to guide them in their new governance as stated in the very first paragraph, of their very first document, declaring independence from the tryanny of Great Britian:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them,

This has been followed by the international expansion of a Rights of Nature legal standing with the creation of a Rights of Nature Tribunal involving many of the worlds most revered environmental activists. They will act as trustees for Nature’s Rights. Over 850,000 people from 122 countries have now signed petitions advocating for Rights of Nature. (source)

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In this critical time, where Nature herself is under grave attack from Man’s century of transgressions against her, caring people across the planet are actively and passionately beginning to realign themselves with ancient and native peoples by giving the highest respect to the life giving forces of Father Sun and Mother Earth.

By taking back our power at the local level we are setting in course actions to arrest the gross degradation of our planet from those in near and far away places who are hell bent to destroy without conscience and who seek only profit and power over all.

As We the People once again reclaim our rights to be the legal primary stewards of our soil, air and waters we are reconnecting with the immutable Laws of Nature and Source of all that is.

By coming together (to gather) to be the change we all wish to see, we bring hope and show future generations that they too have the power to change what must be changed or our children will have no future to exist and flourish in health, abundance and beauty.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Jamie Lee is the author of Tabu Blog, and a strong advocate of personal liberty and freedom from overbearing government.

This article is offered under Creative Commons license. It’s okay to republish it anywhere as long as attribution bio is included and all links remain intact.

another video and photos at link

[Sabrina]

Ive personally got question marks about New Earth Nation and Sacha S (and know some people who have worked on it), and this isnt the way to write a press release when you have to wade thru it to find out whats the news, but here it is. Contact is at Sachas Humanitad organisation, which has worked with the UN (still no apostrophes on my kevboard :))...Perhaps some of you know more on this all?

http://www.newearth.media/press-release-war-crimes-drama-in-washington-dc-courtroom/

PRESS RELEASE: War Crimes Drama in Washington, DC Courtroom

By Santi 7 November 2014

Rod Class DC Gun Case Exposes the War Powers Act of 1917

Sacha Stone, London, England, founder of New Earth Nation, interviewed Rod Class about his DC Court Case three days before he was arrested in a bizarre series of circumstances October 28, 2014. This case has shined a focused spotlite on the level of Corruption going on in the Courtrooms of America.

The Rod Class DC Gun Case, 1:13-cr-00253-RWR, took an unexpected turn the morning of November 6. Former World Bank Lawyer Karen Hudes showed up at his hearing, along with a former FBI Agent, and several members of the AIB Radio Research Network.

Hudes, and those in attendance, were so outraged at the actions taken against the popular Legal Scholar that Hudes intends to file an Amicus Curae into the case to demand that the Judge set bail for the 60-year old Class. Hudes, and other concerned networks, want all interested parties to attend the Status Conference set for (Mon) 11/10/2014 at 11:30 AM in Courtroom 9 before Chief Judge Richard W. Roberts.

Sacha Stone, London, England, founder of New Earth Nation, co-hosted an interview with Rod Class about the upcoming Case a week before he was arrested under bizarre circumstances October 28, 2014, and held without bail in a DC jail.

That interview is available here

Rebecca Cope, Co-host, Adventures Into Sovereignty, Andrew Bartzis, Galactic Historian, New Earth Nation and Rising Life Media have in the works a documentary and E-Learning Series to present the SOURCE DOCUMENTS that Class has uncovered in his ten-year research. It is this information that has caused the system to go into over-drive to shut Class up, any way they can.

Class has been embroiled in a DC Gun Case since May, 2013, that should have been dismissed the first time Class filed his pro-se paperwork. The gun law he is charged with violating was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Heller v Palmer case he cited in the first go-round.

Before his arrest, Class filed proof in a Superior Court of Record that he is a private citizen. He gave notice of this change to the DC Court. They denied it. He filed an Amicus Curiae to show cause on October 3, 6, 7, in the private to the judge and they ignored that as well. The Judge has Registered mail sitting in DC that they have refused to accept.

Rod Class stands mute on his Amicus Curiae to protect the public. The Judge and the Prosecutor and the Public Defender have used every ploy, including Diesel Therapy, riding him around in a bus until he is exhausted and demoralized, before they bring him before the Judge.

Think this can’t happen in America in 2014? What does Rod Class know that has caused the Judge to violate Article 100 of the Lieber Code? The Judge has breached the International Law Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal. The Court does not seem to care.

Class’s efforts to hold corrupt officials accountable to the rule of law are legendary.

It was Class who forced the North Carolina Courts to admit, on the public record, that the Administrative Agents posing as “Public Officials” are NOT. The ruling from the Judge was clear: They are “private entities, in fact, CORPORATIONS.”

To make sure he understood what the Judge meant, Class asked for an Administrative Review. He placed evidence from the Governor’s website listing the various offices of “government” for North Carolina.

The ruling by Judge Ridgeway, 11 CV 1559, in 2011, proved what Class had uncovered through his research: The “Agencies”, including the elected Governor, are NOT ‘Public officials responsible to the people. They are not organized under the Executive Branch.’

Class now had the proof he needed: The Administrative Agencies posing as government answered to the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund. An unscrupulous International Banking Cartel under the thumb of the Vatican had taken over every function of government in the United States and forgot to tell the people. (And at least 118 other countries worldwide.)

The DC case has revealed the dirty little secret the Cartel has taken great pains to hide for 100 years. The War Powers Act of 1917 as amended was used by the Banking Cartel to set the people up for an extortion racket that makes the Mafia look like Sunday School teachers.

The War Powers Act, Aka Trading with the Enemy, was amended in 1933 via the Amendatory Act to set the people up to be charged as an Enemy of the State. The DC Judge has invoked this Act as his authority to charge Class.

There is one major problem: the Judge had to be appointed under the Constitution in order to preside over an Article III Constitutional court. It is the only way he and his cronies can gain access to the accounts set up for the people’s use under the provisions of the War Powers Act. Charging Class as a War Criminal allows them access to the accounts. They can partake of the “spoils of war” and believe they have no accountability for their crimes against humanity.

Article III of the Constitution, backed up by the 11th Amendment, limits the power of Judges to preside over Civil cases only. Criminal cases must be presented before a Jury. The Judge is a neutral blind observer. There must be an injured party before a case can commence. The jury must find the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The Judge declares the appropriate sentence. Robbery and murder are criminal offenses requiring a jury verdict, for instance.

Rod Class, a disabled veteran, did not injure anyone. He didn’t even break a law. Instead, he is accused in a set-up that is well-documented; he faces a possible prison sentence of 10 years for a Statutory violation that has already been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

What type of court has the presumed authority to charge Class in a Civil action that carries a felony penalty that could land him in jail for years?

There is only one place in Statutory Law that gives a Judge any authority to preside over such a case: 50 USC Chapter 3, Section 23: War and National Defense. The War Powers Act of 1917, as amended, has been invoked.

Class understands this Act. His history lesson starts with the Civil War. The Banking Cartel funded the war efforts for the South. Lincoln refused to borrow money from them, preferring instead to conscript the resources of the American people as collateral to back his currency, the greenback. Lincoln was assassinated for his efforts, but he had given the bankers the perfect method to overthrow the fledgling Republic.

In 1913, during a Christmas Recess, the Cartel bribed enough Congressmen to pass the Federal Reserve Act. They set themselves up to print the currency for the USA. They started World War I in 1914. In 1917, they got the War Powers Act passed.

Understanding the ramifications of this Act 100 years later will make it clear why the Secret Shadow Government wants Rod Class shut up.

Reading the Act reveals how cleverly the American people were set up by the bankers and their agents. They stole the resources of the people, kept them as the spoils of war, and set the people up as war criminals. This Act explains why the Bankers and their cronies, the 1%, control all the resources, while the 99% struggle to survive, lose their homes to fraudulent foreclosures, and get railroaded before a War Crimes Tribunal on trumped-up charges.

During World War I, under the War Powers Act of 1917, and in full force and effect from that time forward, all private property belonging to the people was conscripted for the use of the war effort. To conscript means “to draft for military service.”

This Act imposed restrictions deemed necessary “during a time of war.” What was formerly a right – to trade with anyone anywhere – now became a “privilege” requiring permission. One had to apply for a license to “trade with the enemy.” License and Registration procedures were put in place to keep up with the property the people contributed to the war effort.
The Alien Property Custodian, Agent in charge of registration, was required to keep up with the contribution of the people. This Agent had authority to create war bonds, or death bonds, or other means, using the people as collateral to fund the war debt.

Under Power of Attorney Appointment, the Agent was appointed Trustee of the Trusts set up for such purposes. All rights, title, and interest to manage the people’s property as if it was owned by the Government was placed under the Agent’s control.

EXCEPT: The Alien Property Custodian had to settle any claims brought before him resulting from the use of the people’s property. Under Section 7, “No person shall be held liable in any court for anything done or admitted under this Act.”

Courts were not allowed to hold peaceful inhabitants accountable for failure to pay a debt. The people had no choice in the matter, all property belonged to the State, under Section 9 of the War Powers Act, the Alien Property Custodian was required by law to settle the debts. All one had to do was present the claim under Oath, via signature, and it had to be settled.

UNLESS: a person was guilty of War Crimes. If one was even suspected of aiding and abetting the enemy, all such property could be confiscated and permanently turned over to the State, and no such compensation would be required.

Please read that last paragraph about ten times. It provides major clues why neither you nor your grandparents nor great-grandparents ever saw any debts paid or resources returned “after the war is over.”

World War I was over in 1918. How can the War Powers Act of 1917 still be in force?

Most people do not know their history like Rod Class does. They are not aware of the National Banking Emergency declared in 1933 that has never been lifted. They do not know that a price was put on the head of every newborn through the Social Security Act of 1935. Section 501 set a price of $1.8 million per live birth, and Section 502 gave the government mandatory funding of $1 Million for every year thereafter, in 1935 dollars. This funding was conscripted from the future labors of the offspring and placed in trust. The Alien Registration Act of 1940 set up the method to assign a unique name and number to each child. The Birth Certificate, issued in the given name of the newborn, provides proof that a trust was set up, and a Government Copywrite Trademark issued, in order for the Custodian to have a means to settle any debts.

Rod Class, 60, has provided, at minimum, $61.8 million, to “the government” to settle his debts. His paltry military disability check will not even pay for the rising costs of his defense in the DC case. He has to depend upon donations. If he goes to prison, his pension will be pulled and his wife, who is also disabled, will not have funds to live on. Yet someone had access to those funds and more.

The provisions passed in 1917 set the people up to be used as collateral for the currency. In exchange, the Federal Reserve Board, a for-profit, private enterprise with no more “federal” standing than Fed-Ex, had agreed to pay the debts of the government. That included the needs of the people.

Need a new car? Present a bill with your signature to the Custodian. The Banking Cartel had agreed to settle all debts in exchange for the rights to print the currency.

Today, the Department of Motor Vehicles claims the right to conscript the Manufacturer’s Statement of Origin when a new vehicle is purchased. The auto dealer is told to send it to STATE OF (home state). The private party who paid for the vehicle receives a Certificate of Title from DMV, “equitable title,” a “beneficial interest” to use the vehicle. Proof of Driver’s License is required for permission to use what was thought to be the private property of the one who “bought” it.

The Register of Deeds converts real estate transactions into a fee-simple Warranty Deed. The former owner is now subject to a Tenant (property) Tax to use the property. Building permits, restrictions, and fines accrue if one fails to maintain the property as specified by the owner. Fail to pay the Property tax for two years and the “tenant” can be forced off the land even if there is no mortgage.

“The Agents” are conscripting and claiming ownership of the people’s resources like clockwork for some undisclosed party. Why is the Agent not paying the debts of the people as required by law?

Title 31, Judiciary, traces how it requires the Judge, the Prosecutor, and the Public Defender in order to access the account in the “Defendant’s” name. Rod Class filed his paperwork to require the Prosecutor and the Public Defender to act as Trustee in order to honorably settle any accounts that were required in order to settle his DC Case. The Judge “denied” his paperwork, as he has denied countless pages which expose the grand swindle.

When a Judge accuses the “Defendant” of a war crime, the Judge can gain access the accounts set up to settle any debts. He can preside over the creation of court bonds, prison bonds, and gain access to municipal funding as “legal” bribes for looking the other way when he knows that a man is not guilty of any crime. He pads his retirement account as an agent for the Cartel.

As a War Criminal, Class has no rights and no remedy. The Judge can deny him access to the accounts, no matter that he files proper protocol, proves that he is not an enemy of the State, and places proof of the accounts. He has no means, method, nor duty to access the accounts. That is the Fiduciary Duty of the Judge and the Court acting as Bank on behalf of the Cartel.

A Judge does not have to prove that Class is an Enemy of the State. The charge itself is enough for the Judge and his cronies to access the accounts and put the spoils of war in their own pocket.

So Rod Class utilized the only choice left to him. He served notice that he is not a “US Citizen” under presumption of authority to the Corporations Posing as Governments. He filed proof of his Private Citizen Status.

The result: The Judge knows what Class has filed so he circumvents justice by failure to pick up the Registered Mail.

The comedy of errors has been well-documented by Class and his band of Researchers. The Trailer for the Documentary Series will be released in the coming days. The Source Documents Class teaches from reveals the truth of the methods used by the Cartel to take over every function of government while the people weren’t paying attention. For more information, contact info@adventuresintosoevereignty.com. Request information on the E-Learning Course that is in production to reveal the Source Documents from the Congressional Record, from various Acts, and from a deep understanding of the Statutes and Codes that have allowed a Judge to treat himself and his cronies to the “spoils of war” at the people’s expense.

Class has placed his paperwork in an archive that is readily available on the internet. His teaching is freely available on the AIB Radio Network on Talkshoe.com. Various international organizations, including New Earth Nation, have his back. An International Tribunal is under organization to hold these illegal Agents and the Corporations posing as Government accountable to the Rule of Law.

This article was written with help from the Rod Class Research Network by Rebecca Cope, Co-ordinator, New Earth Nation Law Academy. For information about the International Tribunal for Natural Justice contact Rebecca@humanitad.org

[Sabrina]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/11/07/uk-britain-hacking-edmondson-idUKKBN0IR1D720141107?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

Havent jailed those further up the food chain I see. And did News International use other government technology for the hackings? Just a thought.

7 Nov UK

Former Murdoch UK news editor jailed for phone hacking

(Reuters) - A former newspaper executive whose emails led to the exposure of widespread phone-hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct British tabloid, the News of the World, was jailed for eight months on Friday.

Ian Edmondson, 45, worked as news editor on the paper, which was closed three years ago when revelations about the extent of criminal activity became public, sending shockwaves through Murdoch's News Corp and the British establishment.

Edmondson admitted last month conspiring with colleagues to illegally access voicemails, and has been linked to 334 hacking cases, with the victims including actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller and musician Paul McCartney.

"I accept ... there was considerable pressure on journalists at the News of the World to obtain stories to sell newspapers," said the judge, John Saunders. "That may have led to a belief that the ends justified the means."

Edmondson is the eighth person from what was once Britain's biggest-selling paper to have been convicted of involvement in the widespread hacking of phones to find exclusive stories about politicians, celebrities, members of the royal family and others.

The scam was first uncovered at the paper in 2006, but Murdoch's British newspaper arm News International said then it was limited to its former royal editor Clive Goodman and private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who were both later jailed after admitting offences.

However the discovery of three emails sent from Mulcaire to Edmondson, then the paper's associate editor, at the end of 2010 led to a major new police investigation.

The emails, dating from 2006, provided instructions on how to hack the phones of the then deputy prime minister, a government minister and Frederick Windsor, the son of Queen Elizabeth's cousin.

Edmondson was sacked in early 2011 and the emails were handed over to police who slowly uncovered a huge scandal that ultimately led Murdoch to close the newspaper.

Edmondson originally denied the charges and was a defendant in a trial which led to the conviction and jailing in June of the paper's former editor Andy Coulson, who had later become Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief.

However he was ruled unfit to stand trial because of ill health. The trial was told Coulson had once instructed Edmondson when he was working on a story about a celebrity to "do his phone".

[Sabrina]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/07/six-britons-arrested-silk-road-dark-web-takedown-online-drugs

7 Nov

Six Britons arrested over Silk Road 2.0 amid dark-web takedown

Arrests are part of joint European and US operation across 17 countries to crack down on online drugs trade

Six Britons have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in running online drug marketplace Silk Road 2.0 and one other illegal website.

The arrests were part of a joint European and US operation stretching across 17 countries and culminating in the shutdown of over 400 other illicit web sites and services not usually accessible through normal search engines or by typing out standard web addresses.

UK police revealed that more British nationals involved in the “dark web” global trade of illegal drugs, forged documents and firearms will be arrested as part of the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) “project protein”.

On Thursday US law enforcement agencies announced the detention of the alleged head of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall a 26-year-old from San Francisco who used the handle Defcon.

The original Silk Road online markeplace was taken down by the FBI and international partners in September 2013. It allowed people to trade goods anonymously and soon became notorious as a place for purchasing drugs and other controlled or illegal products.

The alleged founder of the site, 29-year-old Ross William Ulbricht, who went by the name Dread Pirate Roberts, is currently standing trial in the United States. Ulbricht denies the charges against him.

The new Silk Road 2.0 site began trading a year ago and is believed to have been resurrected by former administrators of the old site, allowing more than 100,000 people to buy and sell illegal drugs and other contraband, US prosecutors said.

The NCA described the six British arrests as “significant”, adding that a large amount of computer equipment has been seized at all the addresses searched and will now be forensically examined.

The six – a 20-year-old man from Liverpool, a 19-year-old man from New Waltham in Lincolnshire, a 30-year-old man from Cleethorpes, a 29-year-old man from Aberdovey in Wales and a man and woman, both 58, also from Aberdovey, have all been bailed after being interviewed.

The head of Europol’s cyber crime unit, Troels Oerting, told the Guardian that 40 digital investigators collaborated on one of the biggest dark-web takedowns to date. Following the six-month-long investigation police have seized drugs, guns, and €180,000 in cash, gold and silver, and $1m worth of bitcoin virtual currency.

Police added that technical infrastructure key to the hosting of illegal marketplaces on the dark web had also been dismantled.

“We are not ‘just’ removing these services from the open internet,” said Oerting. “This time we have also hit services on the dark net … where, for a long time, criminals have considered themselves beyond reach. We can now show that they are neither invisible nor untouchable.”

Police have also taken down sites going by the name of Cloud Nine, Hydra, BlueSky, Outlaw Market and Alpaca.

In a statement the NCA’s deputy director, Roy McComb, was clear other arrests would be made as part of the operation. “Over the months since the original Silk Road was taken down, we have been working with partners in the US and Europe to locate technical infrastructure key to the dark web and to investigate individuals suspected of significant involvement in illegal online market places.

“Those arrested by the NCA in this phase of the operation are suspected of setting up Silk Road 2.0, or of being significant vendors of illegal drugs. The operation is ongoing and more arrests can be expected as we continue to investigate those involved in setting up and profiting from these illegal marketplaces.”

Warning that criminals wouldn’t stay anonymous by using the dark web, McComb said: “Criminals like to think that the dark web provides a safe, anonymous haven but in reality this is just like any other organised crime network. It may take time and effort to investigate and build a criminal case, but we are determined to identify and prosecute people caught dealing drugs and committing serious crime using the dark web.”

On Wednesday, Britain’s most senior police chief, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, warned the internet and other communications platforms must not become a safe haven for criminality.

Speaking alongside Bill Bratton, the commissioner of the New York police department, at a counter-terrorism conference in New York, Hogan-Howe claimed the internet was at risk of becoming a “dark and ungoverned space” which was “frustrating the efforts of police and intelligence agencies to keep people safe”. hmmm also a source of freedom of information from time to time...

and

https://gigaom.com/2014/11/06/fbi-shuts-down-silk-road-2-0-website-arrests-alleged-operator-in-dark-web-bust/

6 Nov US

FBI shuts down Silk Road 2.0 website, arrests alleged operator in dark web bust

The FBI and Homeland Security announced they have taken down Silk Road 2.0, an illegal drug marketplace, and arrested its alleged owner Blake Benthall, who went by the name “Defcon.” Benthall, 26, was arrested Wednesday in San Francisco and is expected to make an appearance in court here later on Thursday. The bust comes a little over a year since the alleged creator of the original Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, was also arrested in San Francisco in October 2013. The Silk Road 2.0 site, which was nearly identical both in how it operated using Tor and in what it sold, launched a month later. Benthall then allegedly took administrative ownership as “Defcon” in late December 2013, according to the FBI.

[Sabrina]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/catalonia-independence-80-vote-to-split-from-spain-9850332.html

10 Nov Spain

Catalonia independence: 80% vote to split from Spain

Millions of people voted on the issue of Catalonian independence on Sunday, with more than 80 per cent of people electing for a split from Spain in a bid to carve out a new Mediterranean nation.

But the vote itself was a watered down version of a referendum due to the legal restrictions put in place by the Spanish government, resulting in it being referred to by many as a mock-vote.

With 88 per cent of votes counted, results showed that more than two million people took to the polls of the potential 5.4 million voters, with around 1.6 million voting in favour of independence for the north-eastern region of Spain.

But many saw the vote as a symbolic referendum on independence from Spain, with supporters hoping it will propel the issue further despite the opposition from Madrid.

The vote, which was branded a “consultation of citizens” in the face of Spain’s legal blocking of the ballot, was set up and manned by grassroots pro-independence organisations.

Election volunteers, rather than state employees such as teachers, took responsibility at the polling stations in places such as school buildings, and the 2.5 million pamphlets issued urging people to vote were sent out by private companies rather than the state-owned postal service.

Spanish unionist parties argue that, for these reasons, the vote could not legitimately reflect the wishes of anyone.

But there was a festive atmosphere in Barcelona as hundreds lined up to vote on Sunday,with some wearing pro-independence regalia.

“I voted for independence because I’ve always felt very Catalan,” said Nuria Silvestre, a 44-year-old teacher. “Maybe I wasn’t so radical before, but the fact they are prohibiting [the vote] from Madrid has made me.”

Regional government head Artur Mas claims the restrictions on the vote means the turnout number will likely be considered more important that the results of the vote itself.

“We have earned the right to a referendum,” Mas said, adding that “once again, Catalonia has shown that it wants to rule itself”.

Rafael Catala, Spain’s justice minister, accused Mas of organising “an act of pure political propaganda with no democratic validity. A sterile and useless event,” he said, adding that the government may take further legal measures against the vote.

It is the second vote of its kind in Spain and has not been recognised by the central government. Catalan politicians opted for the watered-down poll after plans to hold an official referendum was declared potentially illegal by the Spanish and suspended by Spain’s constitutional court.

[Sabrina]

Any white hats in this all?

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/10/banks-too-big-to-fail-mark-carney-bailouts

10 Nov UK

Mark Carney hails new deal for ‘too big to fail’ banks

Bank of England governor unveils new set of rules about the amount of capital that must be held by 30 ‘globally systemically important’ banks to avoid further bailouts


The governor of the Bank of England said on Monday that policymakers had achieved a “watershed moment” in their attempts to avoid a repeat of the taxpayer bailouts of the banking system six years ago.

Mark Carney said that new standards being published for banks should ensure they hold enough capital to absorb losses they incur and minimise the impact on financial stability and the need for international bail outs.

“Once implemented, these agreements will play important roles in enabling globally systemic banks to be resolved without recourse to public subsidy and without disruption to the wider financial system,” he said.

Speaking in Basel, Switzerland in in his capacity of chairman of the Financial Stability Board, Carney was referring to a new set of rules about the amount of capital that must be held by 30 banks designated as “globally systemically important”. Known as G-SIBs, these banks include HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland and will be required to conform with a new measure of capital intended to cover all their losses in the future.

Carney said: “Agreement on proposals for a common international standard on total loss-absorbing capacity for G-SIBs is a watershed in ending ‘too big to fail’ for banks”.

The proposals, being published ahead of this weekend’s meeting in Brisbane, Australia, were drawn up by the FSB after the G20 meeting in St Petersburg asked for ways to devise a system to avoid future taxpayer bailouts.

The UK used £65bn of taxpayer cash to prop up RBS and Lloyds Banking Group and billions more to keep the financial system afloat during the financial crisis. The government has yet to sell off any of its stake in RBS although it has reduced its shareholding in Lloyds.

The FSB said the new standard for total loss absorbing capital – known as TLAC – should “provide home and host authorities with confidence that G-SIBs have sufficient capacity to absorb losses, both before and during resolution, and enable resolution authorities to implement a resolution strategy that minimises any impact on financial stability and ensures the continuity of critical economic function”.

The level which has been set – and will come into force in 2019 assuming it is adopted – is for banks to hold TLAC of 16% to 20% of their assets when adjusted for risk.

[Sabrina]

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/pie-the-paedophile-intelligence-enigma/

9 Nov

PIE: The Paedophile Intelligence Enigma



“A conspiracy like this… a conspiracy investigation… the rope has to tighten slowly around everyone’s neck. You build convincingly from the outer edges in.” – Associate Director of the FBI Mark Felt (Deep Throat)

After two years of investigation since the Savile expose by many people, the noose is tightening.

Last night Exaro revealed that Sir Peter Hayman was the Deputy Director of MI6 – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, PIE.

The suggestion was not entirely new. Hugh Muir in The Guardian had said much the same in February 2014:

When the police did get around to prosecuting PIE leaders for conspiring to send indecent material through the post, a strange thing happened. Evidence comprised masses of obscene material, but by far the most active and viciously minded member of PIE – one Mr Henderson – was never prosecuted nor produced as a witness. Who was this hideous fellow? After the convictions, a conscience-stricken member of the prosecution called Private Eye to say they had been ordered from the very top to perjure themselves over “Mr Henderson” – who was, in fact, Sir Peter Hayman, long-time deputy director of MI6.

The Guardian

However, that Guardian piece was only one article, Others had described Sir Peter Hayman variously as an MI6 operative, or someone with connections to the security services. The Exaro article is important in that it explicitly confirms Sir Peter Hayman as the Deputy Director of MI6 from around 1974.

Sir Peter Hayman was a paedophile and a member of PIE.

His tenure as Deputy Director of MI6 appears to coincide with Maurice Oldfield’s tenure as the Director of MI6 (1974-1979) – a man who has come under suspicion himself and not just for his ‘homosexuality’.

The Prime Minister- Sir Maurice Oldfield became Security Co-ordinator in Northern Ireland in October 1979. Subsequently reports were received which caused his positive vetting clearance to be reviewed. In March 1980, in the course of that review, he made an admission that he had from time to time engaged in homosexual activities. His positive vetting clearance was withdrawn. By this time he was already a sick man; he finally ceased to serve as Security Co-ordinator in Northern Ireland when a successor took over in June 1980; he died in March 1981.

There was a lengthy and thorough investigation by the Security Service, which included many interviews with Sir Maurice Oldfield himself, to examine whether there was any reason to suppose that he himself or the interests of the country might have been compromised. The conclusion was that, though his conduct had been a potential risk to security…

Hansard

And so we face the very real possibility that from 1974 (the very year that PIE was founded) until 1979 both the Director and Deputy Director of MI6 were paedophiles and members of the Paedophile Information Exchange, PIE.

Over the last two years I’ve occasionally picked up tantalising indications that there is a different view within the security services regarding the ‘establishment paedophile’ issue, nothing firm, nothing that I could hang a story on, just the odd titbit here and there.

It now starts to make a little sense for if the foreign intelligence services(MI6) was headed by two paedophiles then the domestic intelligence service (MI5) would have known and would have been put in an impossible situation. One point I’d like to make is that it is not helpful to greater understanding to think of any of the UK’s security services as homogeneous organisations. These are organisations which depend entirely, and out of necessity, on compartmentalisation of roles and information.

This brings me to the PIE membership list. Over the last two years I’ve had two sniffs of this but have never been able to lay my hands on a copy. I’m told that there are 3 slightly different membership lists held by 3 different police forces in the UK. I’ve also been told that there is no legal reason why this list could not be published. PIE was a legal organisation from 1974 until 1984. Though many members of PIE were at some stage prosecuted, being a member of PIE was not illegal and the membership list is not subject to the Data Protection Act as it can not be enforced retroactively.

It had been suggested to me that some names on the list are not paedophiles themselves, they foolishly considered the PIE campaign as a equality and rights issue and they deeply regret having been a member. We’ll call this the NCCL PIE members for arguments sake, as it would not be unusual for executive members of an umbrella organisation like the NCCL to automatically receive membership of an associated organisation – as PIE was to the NCCL. Nevertheless, these NCCL PIE members would have received literature through the post just as every member of PIE would.

I’m afraid that it is no longer in the public interest to spare these individual’s blushes. With an increasing number of high establishment figures named as members of PIE it is essential that this membership list be put responsibly into the public domain.

At the very least, the CSA Inquiry panel members should not wait until a chair is appointed, they should demand copies of all three PIE membership lists without delay.

[Sabrina]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mi6-chief-shamed-diplomat-raped-4596308

Its starting to come out and some of the UK main stream media are now covering it as well.

8 Nov UK

'MI6 chief and shamed diplomat raped me' claims alleged victim of VIP paedophile abuse ring

The victim, who we are identifying only as “Nick”, says Sir Peter Hayman was one of a group of men who raped him as a child during a party in London

A victim of a VIP paedophile abuse ring has identified a shamed top diplomat and MI6 chief as one of his attackers, reports the Sunday People.

The man, now in his 40s, picked out a photo of Sir Peter Hayman – a former deputy director of the secret service.

Hayman, for many years a pillar of the establishment, caused a scandal when he was caught with paedophile literature.

But until now he has never been accused of actual abuse.

The victim, who we are identifying only as “Nick”, says Hayman was one of a group of men who raped him as a child during a party in London.

Details of his ordeal have been passed to Scotland Yard via the Exaro investigative website.

Detectives are already looking at allegations of sex attacks at Dolphin Square, a luxury London apartment complex near Parliament named in an exposé into VIP child abuse in the Sunday People last week.

The Met Police inquiry centres on historical allegations that MPs and other establishment figures abused youngsters at the address.

The news comes as Home Secretary Theresa May struggles to find an ­acceptable chairman for an inquiry into claims of a top level cover-up of VIP paedophiles.

Two people asked to chair the ­inquiry, lawyer Fiona Woolf and ­retired judge Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, have so far quit over their links to the establishment.

The news that Hayman has now been identified as an abuser will send shockwaves through the top levels of British society.

Abuse survivor Nick told Exaro: “He used to like to kiss and to touch, liked me to do that to him.

"But it would always culminate in me being raped. That happened all the time.”

During an interview, Nick was presented with a series of pictures.

He picked out Hayman, saying he was one of the men who abused him at Dolphin Square and other London addresses.

Nick explained: “I learnt his name over a number of sessions.”

He said the abuse began when he was aged 11 in 1979 and continued for two or three years. Nick said he had believed Hayman, who died in 1992 aged 78, was a politician because he mixed with MPs.

He claimed that Hayman was often at the same “abuse parties” attended by a sadistic former Conservative MP who was violent towards boys.

He has also alleged a former Conservative cabinet minister sexually abused him at Dolphin Square and other locations.

Neither man is being named for legal reasons. Hayman had top jobs at the Home Office, the Foreign Office, the MoD and Nato.

He also served as High Commissioner to Canada before ­his ­undercover career as a spy-master.

But behind his public image lay a sordid ­secret.

He was a key member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a vile pressure group that a­dvocated legalising sex between adults and children.

A chance to nail Hayman came in 1978, when police raided the homes of PIE members.

Among them was Hayman, who had left a package containing disgusting material on a London bus.

At a flat he rented in Notting Hill, 45 volumes of diaries containing ­graphic sexual fantasies, often involving children, were found.

The flat was registered to a “Mr Henderson” – actually Hayman.

The then director of public prosecutions, Sir Thomas Hetherington, ­advised against charging him.

He was cautioned but not prosecuted. Hayman reportedly told police: “If this comes out I shall either shoot myself or go to Brazil.”

In 1981, five other PIE members went on trial for conspiracy to corrupt public morals.

Hayman was ­referred to during the case but not by name. Later that year he was finally ­exposed by crusading MP Geoffrey Dickens.

Mr Dickens used Parliamentary privilege to name Hayman to ­fellow MPs in the House of Commons.

He demanded to be told why Hayman had not been prosecuted.

Hayman was fined for gross indency in 1984 but escaped ­justice for paedophilia.

Nick believes the establishment closed ranks to protect high-­profile perverts.

Over the past two years the Sunday People has lifted the lid on a string of similar shocking claims that VIPs preyed on vulnerable children at places like the notorious Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London.

Nick, who claims his father touted him to a network of ­perverts, is now a key witness in Operation Midland, a new ­investigation by the Metropolitan Police paedophile unit.

He said: “Would Hayman’s ­arrest have led to disruption of the paedophile group and made a difference? It could have.

“But it doesn’t surprise me that the authorities did nothing.

"It was all just a cover-up.”

[Sabrina]

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/cias-isis-fighters-denis-cuspert-peter.html

And more on Sir Peter Hayman and more, here.

10 Nov

CIA'S ISIS FIGHTERS? DENIS CUSPERT; PETER HAYMAN; ROTHERHAM

"Peter Hayman was the key liaison between MI6 and the CIA at the height of the MKULTRA child sexual abuse program."

story at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106#ixzz3IQY9jbk5



The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare


Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking

By Matt Taibbi | November 6, 2014

She tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn't take it anymore.

"It was like watching an old lady get mugged on the street," she says. "I thought, 'I can't sit by any longer.'"

Fleischmann is a tall, thin, quick-witted securities lawyer in her late thirties, with long blond hair, pale-blue eyes and an infectious sense of humor that has survived some very tough times. She's had to struggle to find work despite some striking skills and qualifications, a common symptom of a not-so-common condition called being a whistle-blower.


Fleischmann is the central witness in one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history, possessing secrets that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon late last year paid $9 billion (not $13 billion as regularly reported – more on that later) to keep the public from hearing.

Back in 2006, as a deal manager at the gigantic bank, Fleischmann first witnessed, then tried to stop, what she describes as "massive criminal securities fraud" in the bank's mortgage operations.

Thanks to a confidentiality agreement, she's kept her mouth shut since then. "My closest family and friends don't know what I've been living with," she says. "Even my brother will only find out for the first time when he sees this interview."

Six years after the crisis that cratered the global economy, it's not exactly news that the country's biggest banks stole on a grand scale. That's why the more important part of Fleischmann's story is in the pains Chase and the Justice Department took to silence her.

She was blocked at every turn: by asleep-on-the-job regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission, by a court system that allowed Chase to use its billions to bury her evidence, and, finally, by officials like outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, the chief architect of the crazily elaborate government policy of surrender, secrecy and cover-up. "Every time I had a chance to talk, something always got in the way," Fleischmann says.

This past year she watched as Holder's Justice Department struck a series of historic settlement deals with Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America. The root bargain in these deals was cash for secrecy. The banks paid big fines, without trials or even judges – only secret negotiations that typically ended with the public shown nothing but vague, quasi-official papers called "statements of facts," which were conveniently devoid of anything like actual facts.

And now, with Holder about to leave office and his Justice Department reportedly wrapping up its final settlements, the state is effectively putting the finishing touches on what will amount to a sweeping, industrywide effort to bury the facts of a whole generation of Wall Street corruption. "I could be sued into bankruptcy," she says. "I could lose my license to practice law. I could lose everything. But if we don't start speaking up, then this really is all we're going to get: the biggest financial cover-up in history."

more at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/max-clifford-loses-appeal-over-eightyear-jails-sentence-for-sex-offences-9845908.html

UK

Max Clifford loses appeal over eight-year jail sentence for sex offences

Disgraced media mogul Max Clifford has lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his eight-year jail sentence for sex offences.

The 71-year-old was convicted of a number of historic offences between 1977 and 1984. Clifford had branded his accusers "fantasists" and denied the charges, but was convicted at London's Southwark Crown Court.

But Lord Justice Treacy, who heard the case with Mr Justice Turner and Judge Michael Pert, upheld the sentence against the former PR guru and said it was "justified".

Announcing the court's decision today, Lord Justice Treacy said it was a "just and proportionate" sentence "taking account of considerations of harm and culpability together with aggravating factors and such mitigation as was available to the appellant".

Clifford, from Hersham, Surrey, became the first person convicted under Operation Yewtree, Scotland Yard’s major investigation into historical sex crimes.

At a recent appeal hearing, Clifford's barrister Richard Horwell QC told the three judges that Clifford's last offence was committed 29 years ago, "since when he has led an industrious life, and devoted a considerable part of his time to charitable works for which he has raised substantial funds".

The trial judge had "accepted that he is no longer a danger to women and that he will not commit further offences".

Mr Horwell said that for a number of reasons the sentence imposed was "too long", adding: "Although the sentencing process must reflect modern attitudes, and I fully accept that that is our law, the sentencing process must not abandon common sense and fairness."

Rosina Cottage QC, for the Crown, said the total sentence imposed was one the trial judge was "entitled to reach".

When sentencing Clifford, Judge Anthony Leonard told him his personality and position in the public eye were the reasons his crimes were not revealed earlier.

He said: "The reason why they were not brought to light sooner was because of your own dominant character and your position in the world of entertainment which meant that your victims thought that you were untouchable, something that I think you too believed."

He added: "These offences may have taken place a long time ago, when inappropriate and trivial sexual behaviour was more likely to be tolerated, but your offending was not trivial, but of a very serious nature."

Clifford is currently serving his sentence at Littlehey Category C men's prison in Cambridgeshire.

[Sabrina]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2822939/Former-schoolboy-claims-drugged-abused-Coalition-minister-just-14.html

UK

Former pupil at school which is at centre of child abuse probe claims he was drugged and assaulted by a Coalition minister when he was just 14

Man alleges he was given a pill which made him feel ill

He said he woke up naked but has no memory of alleged attack

Says he reported alleged incident to police, who will not question politician

Also alleges he was abused by two other men as a young pupil

story at the link


6 Nov

[Sabrina]

http://tapnewswire.com/2014/11/harry-patch-no-one-wanted-to-kill-soldiers-who-were-only-obeying-a-criminal-government-like-we-were/

ww1 remembered. Harry Patch – ‘no one wanted to kill soldiers who were only obeying a criminal government like we were’

November 9, 2014 UK

I just looked up Harry Patch, the last remaining WW1 veteran, who died a few years back. He didn’t speak about the war til he turned 100. Then he described it as “legalised mass murder”. I

story at the link

[Sabrina]

It's 11.11 today… perhaps this is the rallying cry for the whole world - 'We've had enough'… Awful acts across the world are also creating great bravery.


http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/10/world/americas/mexico-missing-students-impact/index.html?eref=edition

11 Nov Mexico

CNN) -- "Enough, I'm tired," Mexico's top prosecutor said, cutting off reporters' questions.

Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam had just revealed that authorities believe 43 missing students were kidnapped, executed and dumped in a river -- and he was ready to call it a day.

His words spread like wildfire through an outraged nation.

Mounting fury over government officials' response to -- and possible role in -- the students' disappearance had already convulsed the country for weeks, sparking demonstrations where at time violence flared.


Now Murillo's comments at a press conference last week have become a new rallying cry, used by fed-up protesters dishing out some of the sharpest criticism Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration has faced since he took office in December 2012.

#YaMeCansé -- Spanish for "enough, I'm tired" -- became a trending hashtag on Twitter and a topic of viral YouTube video posts as people in Mexico and around the world fired back.

"I am also tired that the government protects and colludes with organized crime," a young man says at the beginning of one online video.


"Hello. I'm Juan. And I've had enough," another man chimes in. "I'm tired of so much injustice."

It's a rapidly unfolding political crisis for Peña Nieto, threatening his efforts to revamp Mexico's image abroad and convince citizens that drug-related violence is on the decline.

Students' case sends shock waves

The case of the 43 missing students from a rural teachers' college in Mexico's Guerrero state quickly grabbed the national spotlight as word spread about their September 26 disappearance.

And as details of the troubling case emerged, outrage only grew.

Authorities say the students were abducted by police on order of a local mayor, then turned over to a gang that's believed to have killed them and burned their bodies before throwing some remains in a river.

There's no indication any of the students had ties with organized crime, Murillo said.

It's one of the most serious cases in the contemporary history of Mexico and Latin America, Human Rights Watch Americas Director José Miguel Vivanco told Mexico's El Economista newspaper. He compared it to a massacre of students during a Mexico City demonstration in 1968.

"At that time, these kinds of things happened: mass disappearances of people, where no one was held accountable," he told the newspaper.

But now it's the 21st century, he said, a time when Latin America "has overcome these kinds of practices." It's no wonder, he said, that "an act of this magnitude" unfolding "in view of all Mexicans, the international community and the media" has caught so much attention.

On Friday, protesters marching in Mexico City carried posters saying, "Enough, I'm tired." Others held signs saying, "It was the state."

Demonstrators sprayed graffiti on the walls of Mexico's National Palace Saturday, trying to break down and set fire to a massive wooden door.

Official: Men confess to killing students Mexican mayor caught in abduction case New video of missing Mexican students
"These are the people that are screwing over the country," they chanted.

Protesters clashed with police at Acapulco's airport on Monday, crippling the airport for hours and forcing the cancellation of several flights.

Mexico's President has also said he's outraged about the students' case, but he's condemned the protest violence. And some have expressed skepticism that protesters are truly concerned about what happened to the students, accusing them of exploiting the situation for political reasons.

Protesters condemn what they call inaction by the government.

"There is a national emergency. This is clear," José Alcaraz, a protest organizer, told CNN en Español Saturday. "There is a decomposition of the Mexican state."

more at the link

[Sabrina]

Luckily a lot of people are following all of this now...

http://news.sky.com/story/1370879/missing-child-sex-abuse-files-report-due-out

11 Nov UK

Missing Child Sex Abuse Files Report Due Out
The review has looked at claims dating back to the 1980s - after a leak suggested a secret dossier of information was missing.

A report on how the Home Office handled information relating to high-profile historical child abuse allegations is due to be released.

NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless will be questioned by MPs on the findings of the review he led into the response to claims made in the 1980s.

He was brought in to investigate in July after an internal review found the department had "lost or destroyed" 114 files between 1979 and 1999.

His appearance before the Home Affairs Select Committee is the latest episode in a long-running and controversial saga.

And speaking ahead of its publication, the report was criticised by campaigning Labour MP for Rochdale Simon Danczuk.

Mr Danczuk, who exposed former Lib Dem MP Cyril Smith as a paedophile, told the Daily Telegraph: "There are sophisticated digital techniques for looking into archives for missing documents which have not been used in the Wanless review.

"I put Peter Wanless in touch with a leading company which specialises in tracing this kind of material but the timescale for his review did not allow the use of such techniques.

"That raises serious questions about the scope of the investigations and, frankly, leaves a question mark over any of its findings."

A leak last week suggested a dossier of information passed by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens to the Home Office - and then-home secretary Leon Brittan - in 1983 had not been found.

Lord Brittan has denied failing to act on the file, which is said to have named prominent politicians and other senior figures alleged to be involved in a paedophile network.

Current Home Secretary Theresa May was forced to apologise to victims of the alleged abuse after losing a second chair of the official government inquiry.

Fiona Woolf resigned as chair of the inquiry on 31 October over her links to Lord Brittan, after predecessor Baroness Butler-Sloss stood down in similar circumstances in July.

Ms May told MPs she would meet victims before deciding on a new chairperson and would establish a liaison group.

"Almost four months after I announced my intention to establish a panel inquiry it is obviously very disappointing that we do not yet have a panel chairman and for that I want to tell survivors that I am sorry," she said.


and another angle and view on it all here:


http://laurabruno.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/lisa-renee-satanic-ritual-abuse

Lisa Renee ~ Staying Awake to Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA)

This is an extremely important post by Lisa Renee, including a video interview of Teal Swan. This will be difficult reading for many, but it’s worth the courage to continue, as facing and moving beyond this paradigm directly relates to our ability to anchor in the new societal energies without sliding back into addictions, mind control and the same old, same old wretched power structure with new masks. I have included a few quotes as a lead in to the much longer article. Please do read. We who are in touch with our own esoteric and earthly power can — we must — become like Gandalf’s in this world saying, “You shall not pass.” We must not allow such abuse to continue, as it pervades literally every nook and cranny of society and prevents people from accessing and anchoring the new energies.

“This is the most unbelievable to the sane mind and loving heart, yet, we must know this exists in huge numbers to begin to protect the children of the earth from this sickness.”

Because when you do not care about your human neighbor as someone’s baby, child or as a worthwhile human living person, because all you see day in and day out is killing, war, death and hate crimes, you begin to believe that lack of empathy is normal human behavior. This is how the NAA has used Archontic strategies to breed and create an increasingly narcissistic society that is potentially psychopathic. The point is that this is not normal human behavior, it is driven from technological mind control of sophisticated entities who want to rule with an iron fist and enslave human beings by driving them into insanity. This method of mind control through SRA is very effective for takeover and invasion with minimal resistance or revolt by inhabitants who are unaware they are being invaded because they are being told they are free people and being desensitized while they are being driven into insanity.

Learn to identify these SRA strategies and work to stop them from using you and deceiving others around you[.] ~ Lisa Renee

more at the link

[Sabrina]

Things are getting interesting.


Banks prepare for massive forex market fines

12 Nov

The six banks allegedly involved in the rigging of the £3trn-a-day foreign exchange market face a triple whammy of multimillion-pound penalties today as US and Swiss regulators join forces with the City’s top watchdog.

The Financial Conduct Authority, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Switzerland’s Finma are finalising details of an 18-month investigation and the penalties they will impose on the banks.

With the FCA expected to fine the six up to £1.5bn, it has emerged that the CFTC could add a further £1bn to the bill, while Finma is likely to punish only UBS.



Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland, along with Citigroup, JP Morgan and UBS, could be fined an average of $300m (£190m) apiece by the CFTC.

The scale of the fines will vary according to the depth of involvement of each bank in the alleged manipulation of forex markets. The FCA declined to comment and the CFTC was not available for comment.

The FCA had earlier told the banks it wanted to reach a settlement with all of them by the end of this month. Today is now the target. But one senior banking source cautioned that last-minute negotiations were continuing and that a deal might still slip into next week.

Three of the banks were hit by huge fines by the CFTC over the separate and earlier Libor-rigging scandal. Barclays was penalised $200m, RBS $325m and UBS $700m. Finma also fined UBS Sfr59m (£38m) over Libor.

The Libor investigation was spearheaded by the CFTC with back-up from the US Department of Justice and the FCA. In the forex investigation it has been the FCA which has led the investigation, with support from US and other global regulators.

Today’s potential settlement could also include the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, an offshoot of the US Treasury which regulates banks. Hong Kong regulators have also been running investigations.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/banks-prepare-for-massive-forex-market-fines-9854996.html

[Sabrina]

http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/rt-biotech-lobby-defeat-in-europe-meps-strengthen-govt-gm-opt-outs/

11 Nov

:) :) :) RT: Biotech lobby defeat in Europe: MEPs strengthen govt GM opt-outs

MEPs have defeated a European Commission proposal to prevent member states from banning genetically modified crops on health and/or environmental grounds.

Even if the EU approves genetically modified (GM) crops for cultivation, Tuesday’s vote now allows national bans for environmental or health reasons.

The European Food and Safety Authority approved GM for use in the EU, but a number of states opposed to GM, such as France, wanted rights to block crops under the principle of ‘subsidiarity’, or devolution to individual states.

Under previous rules, the European Commission had proposed in 2010 to let member states ban GM crops on their territory for national planning or socio- economic reasons.

But this slightly messy compromise would have allowed biotech corporations to ride roughshod over any country in the EU that didn’t want GM.

Any governments wanting to ban GM would first have been obliged to try and strike a deal with the biotech companies, in order to exclude their territory from GM cultivation. This would have allowed biotech companies to put heavy pressure on certain governments and put them at risk of costly law suits.

The compromised agreement, which was voted through by Europe’s Council of Ministers in June, was branded as a“third rate agreement” by the French parliamentarian, Corine Lepage.

“The Council’s text does not give a solid judicial basis to realistically ban GMOs. It gives biotechnology companies a tremendous influence in the decision-making process,” she said in a statement at the time.

[Sabrina]

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/was-abused-buckingham-palace-kitchen-boy-sent-to-peter-hayman/

Was Abused Buckingham Palace Kitchen Boy Passed To Peter Hayman In Canada ?
Sir Peter Hayman was High Commissioner in Canada 1970–74

How sick is that ?

Can be found HERE on page 27 & 28


https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/372926/Interim_Report_-_Annex_E.PDF

(Hayman was deputy director of M16... see story 3330 above)

[Sabrina]

http://www.thelocal.es/20141111/corruption-crackdown-26-arrested-in-fraud-probe

11 Nov Spain

Corruption crackdown: 26 arrests in fraud probe

Twenty-six public officials were arrested in anti-corruption raids in Spain on Tuesday as another graft scandal rocked the country.

At least 30 arrests are expected in the raids targeting a kickbacks scheme in Spain's Andalusia, Canary Islands, and Extremadura or Madrid regions.

The scheme saw public officials allegedly taking illegal cash commissions in exchange for awarding parks and gardens maintenance contracts, according to Spain's El País newspaper.

Tuesday's raids, overseen by Spanish 'super judge' Mercedes Alaya, grew out of investigations into Andalusia's massive Ere corruption case, a probe into the misuse of some €150 million ($185 million) in public funds by Andalusian Socialist government officials.

SEE ALSO: Ten shocking corruption cases hurting Spain

The raids on Tuesday also come just two weeks after another corruption crackdown saw another Spanish judge accuse 26 people of fraud and bribery.

Among those in custody in relation to that case is the former Madrid secretary general for Spain's ruling Popular Party Francisco Granados.

Judge Velasco sent Granados to prison with no possibility of bail while he investigates the politician in connection with money laundering, organised crime and misuse of public funds, among other offenses.

The case saw Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy apologize in parliament.

[Sabrina]

http://blogs.channel4.com/siobhan-kennedy/uk-banks-face-massive-fines-rigging-foreign-exchange-market/827

12 Nov (more on previous page as well)


UK banks to pay massive fines for rigging foreign exchange market

First it was Libor. Now Britain’s biggest banks have disclosed massive fines for their role in the manipulation of the global foreign exchange market, or Forex.

Five UK banks have been fined a total of £2bn by UK and US regulators for their role in Forex rigging.

Sources close to the investigation have told Channel 4 News that British, Swiss and US regulators are set to hand out combined record fines of at least £3bn to seven banks – among them Barclays, HSBC, and the taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), but also including UBS, Citigroup, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan Chase.

In other words, a line-up of the world’s biggest financial institutions.

This is all about the so-called Forex market, where banks buy and sell currencies to each other. It’s a huge market worth more than $5tr daily, much bigger than the value of shares traded on global stock markets.

The allegation is that traders inside the banks colluded over their instant messaging systems to rig the market. The aim? To boost their banks’ profits and hence their bonuses.

If that all sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Traders inside many of the same banks were found guilty of deliberately rigging Libor, the benchmark inter-bank lending rate, to artificially raise profits and bonuses. Many have since gone to jail which is exactly where dozens of Forex traders are likely to end up too.

RBS has been fined £217m by the FCA – the UK financial regulator – and $290 by its US counterpart, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Among UK banks, Barclays is still negotiating its settlement with regulators.

The FCA is levying fines of between £225m and £250m, meaning the Forex scandal will actually be bigger in penalty terms than Libor.

RBS, Barclays and HSBC had already launched their own investigations into Libor when news of the scandal became public. Between them, the three British banks have set aside £1.14bn to cover the fines, and many of their traders have been suspended. Details have been passed to the Serious Fraud Office, which is also conducting its own criminal probe.

But it’s impossible to tell how much this will end up costing because like Libor, the Forex benchmark is used by all sorts of institutions, pension funds, money managers and the like, to set the price they pay for foreign currencies. So many of them could launch high-profile lawsuits too, seeking damages.

Sources inside RBS in the past have told me they literally have no idea how much the Forex scandal may end up costing the bank. It could take years. And that’s bad news for us because such uncertainties will only delay the point at which the taxpayer can start getting its money back.

And as incredible as it may seem, yet further scandals still lurk. Regulators, don’t forget, are still investigating benchmark rates for the crude oil and global swaps markets. So more pain to come.

[ThePythonicCow]

Things are getting interesting.

Banks prepare for massive forex market fines
As I was reading this just now, the thought occurred to me that the purpose of these fines was not to punish or fix the banks.

Rather the purpose was to subsequently justify global financial, banking and monetary regulation, as part of a global monetary system being constructed now, to replace the US Dollar that has been the global "reserve" currency ... all part of a global currency reset such as I describe here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?76591-Global-Currency-Reset--SDR-s-and-the-New-Bretton-Woods-by-JC-Collins-&p=900438&viewfull=1#post900438) ... shameless plug.

As usual ... high profile crimes are made high profile deliberately ... in order to justify high profile extensions to the powers of central authorities.

[Sabrina]

http://americankabuki.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/benjamin-fulford-signs-of-cabal-defeat.html#more

Signs of cabal defeat are now obvious but, expect one last big push for war

by Benjamin Fulford 11 Nov


The signs of cabal defeat are now proliferating to an extent that can no longer be hidden from any but the most deeply brainwashed people in the West. The most obvious sign is the APEC meeting winding up today in China. There three of the world’s largest oil producers, Canada, Russia and Qatar signed new deals to trade oil in Yuan. This makes it a mathematical certainty the petrodollar is finished. Russia also announced it was de-pegging the Ruble from the petrodollar.

In England, meanwhile, multiple senior politicians are working towards creating government currency to replace the 300 year old Rothschild fiat currency regime, according to MI5 sources. On November 20th, for the first time in 170 years, the British Parliament will discuss this issue. This is link to a paper on the subject that has been distributed to all British MPs:

https://www.positivemoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Backbench-Briefing-Note.pdf

The Japanese government is also seriously contemplating doing exactly the same thing. This means that all Japanese government debt will be written off in one fell swoop.

There are also indications the corporate government in the United States has gone into full crisis mode. For example, when this writer tried to access the official Russian Ria Novosti news site from his computer and his tablet device, he was redirected to an obvious disinformation site called “Sputnik News.” This came after the Russian government news site put out reports that American mercenaries were shelling the crash site of Malaysian airlines flight 17. This can only be described as an attempt by the American fascist regime to prevent the Europeans from finding out it was their supposed US allies who shot the passenger plane down.

The other sign that something big is going down with the US regime is the fact the Pentagon has warned its troops to not go out with Russian or Chinese women. This is a sort of measure taken in war time to prevent military secrets from leaking out. Finally, CNN has shut down its Russian operations, again the sort of thing that happens in war time.

The Russians, for their part, have started a major push to seize the remaining ethnically Russian districts in the Ukraine as well as the gas fields in the Sea of Azov.

The US corporate government is in no position to win any war against Russia and China at this point in time because neither its NATO allies nor Japan are going to go along with such a suicidal and world-destroying plan.

The more likely outcome will be the overthrow of the US corporate government and the restoration of the Republic of the United States of America.


Another reason for cabal panic is a criminal trial that started on November 10th in London, England where evidence will be presented that the 311 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan was a terrorist attack. The trial is being held to determine whether UK lawyer Michael Shrimpton gave false warnings about a nuclear terror threat to the 2012 London Olympics. Here is a link to a Daily Mail article about the trial.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2828974/Barrister-bomb-hoax-calls-Defence-Secretary-claiming-London-2012-Queen-targets-court-hears.html

The defendant has lined up multiple witnesses to bolster his claim that the nuclear terror threat was real and that Japan had already experienced a nuclear terror attack. This writer is scheduled to be one of the witnesses at the trial.

The trial is important because it will bring lots of information that has appeared online under the forensic scrutiny of a criminal court. If the evidence is good, it will then lead to criminal charges eventually being filed against the perpetrators of 311. The Japanese and North Koreans involved in the attack have been offered, and have accepted, amnesty in exchange for providing information about 311.

The trial is expected to be a fair one because there are proliferating signs the UK is freeing itself of cabal influence. The ongoing investigation into a high level pedophile ring there is the clearest evidence of this. British newspapers are now reporting, for example, that Sir Peter Hayman, former Deputy Head of MI6 British foreign intelligence was a pedophile rapist. Investigators into the pedophilia network are particularly interested in cases where pedophilia was used to blackmail politicians and influence government policy.

The other indication is that the British and European dominated Financial Stability Board, an international financial regulator, has come up with regulations to make sure taxpayers never again have to bailout “too big to fail” financial institutions like happened after the Lehman shock of 2008. This is clearly aimed at the big US banking institutions that own the Federal Reserve Board and looted US taxpayers in 2008.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

more at the link

and


Additional comments by David Wilcock (note comment date/time stamps seem to indicate David Wilcock is in Asia -AK)

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=3937

David Wilcock: Things Are Ramping Up VERY Quickly.. We Are Going To See Major People Getting Knocked Off

Posted By: Jordon [Send E-Mail]
Date: Wednesday, 12-Nov-2014 10:48:41


(Wilcock comments on Fulford's latest post)

Comment by dwilcock on November 12, 2014 @ 10:41 pm

I spent all day yesterday gathering new info from insiders. Things are ramping up VERY quickly. My mind has been blown wide open. Lots of new people are starting to come forward and they may just be the first wave.

Apparently the preferred method of how the Alliance will get the planet back is going to continue to involve behind-the-scenes work for a period of time. It may or may not depending upon how fast certain things move.

Although I do not at all advocate this approach, we have the number-one source available to one of my highest-level insiders saying that we are going to see major people getting knocked off and it will be made to look like accidents. This could go on for weeks or even months. This was independently confirmed by others.

There will be a decisive shift, I was told. Some of the intel suggested it could happen fairly quickly.

The most intriguing new tidbit was that it will reach a point where everyone knows about the Cabal and what they were up to on an extremely public level. Once this happens, the media will be MANDATED to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, whether they like it or not.

I am going to keep a steady focus on getting a video pipeline established. The dream I just woke up from told me to relentlessly focus on this. There will be a need for it soon enough, as if there isn’t already.

- David

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Comment by dwilcock on November 12, 2014 @ 10:54 pm

There is some intel, which I do not believe is credible, suggesting that things could very dramatically shift in just a few weeks. Part of this job is to assess the value of certain intel and not pass things along unless they seem to help.

Many times I have heard imminent-sounding things and decided not to pass them along, and then they didn’t happen. No matter who tries to plan what, things have their own speed of traveling. Windows open and windows close. Opportunities shift on an hourly basis with the political winds.

Some of the most exciting new information concerns the secret space program. There is no question that ET activity has dramatically ramped up in and around the earth. Disclosure is very much going to be a part of this, and part of what embarrasses our shadow government is there are so many different folks out there that they honestly don’t know what the heck is going on.

The “learning curve” is going to be significant. I have been charting the progress towards Disclosure on my show and there is much more to say on this. One insider said that all this fighting over the financial system, and how we change it, is valiant but also sadly foolish, as we are right on the brink of changes so massive that money will be as obsolete as the Pony Express.

- David

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Comment by dwilcock on November 12, 2014 @ 11:10 pm

OK, one last thing taken from some of my written notes:

“We will see the arrest and prosecution of top banksters, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, anyone who has been violating the law. This will target people and groups who have used lobbyists to change a law from something that was real and good for humanity into something that would further their cause. People who have blatantly violated laws and committed treasonous acts contrary to the life and living conditions of humans are strongly likely to be arrested or certainly thwarted. This will also include a significant majority of the senate and congress in the United States.”

There you have it. The other stuff that is imminent will be fascinating if it happens, and if so we don’t have to wait long, so I am content to just “sit here watching the wheels go round and round…”

- David

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Comment by shad01 on November 12, 2014 @ 11:14 pm

I think the only weapon the cabal have left is the media.

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Comment by dwilcock on November 12, 2014 @ 11:16 pm

Ironically I had a dream that said exactly that just yesterday morning. The Cabal basically no longer exists except as a tired old story that they are telling in movies, pop music, video games and media disinfo.

- David

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Comment by shad01 on November 12, 2014 @ 11:19 pm

David your insights into what’s going on are very appreciated. Thank you for all that you do.

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Comment by dwilcock on November 12, 2014 @ 11:24 pm

That’s what we’re all here for! I thank you for saying it.

One insider who actually did interviews for my upcoming second show said I am in a singularly unique position here with regards to the nature and type of leaks I’m getting, and I have a responsibility to put it out there. Ben is also in such a position.

There is lots of “hatorade” to be drunk out there, but if you know what I know, you wouldn’t be concerned about any of it!

- David

[Sabrina]

http://inhabitat.com/the-netherlands-says-no-to-monsanto-bans-roundup-herbicide/?onswipe_redirect=no&oswrr=1

The Netherlands Says "No" to Monsanto, Bans RoundUp Herbicide

The Netherlands is the latest country—after Russia, Tasmania and Mexico—to say no to Monsanto. Starting at the end of 2015, the sale of glyphosate-based herbicides to private parties will be prohibited due to a recent decision by the Dutch Parliament. This means that people who spray RoundUp on their gardens and lawns will have to find another form of pest control. The main ingredient in RoundUp, glyphosate, has been linked to cancer, infertility, birth defects, nervous system damage, and kidney disease.

29.9.14

[Sabrina]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bank-of-england-fires-forex-expert-slammed-for-not-reporting-scandal-worries-9857504.html

13 Nov UK

Bank of England fires forex expert slammed for not reporting scandal worries

The Bank of England yesterday sacked the man tasked with being its eyes and ears in the foreign exchange markets, on the same day that banks were slammed and fined billions of pounds.

Veteran Bank employee Martin Mallett’s ousting was not connected with the affair, the Bank said. But in a report released yesterday by Lord Grabiner into how the Bank handled its monitoring of forex traders, it is made clear that at some key stages Mr Mallett was concerned about the behaviour of City bankers but did not refer his concerns further up the Bank.

In fact, it is due to Mr Mallett’s failure to communicate his concerns that Lord Grabiner found no Bank executives above him could be blamed for failing to act over the forex scandal.

In March 2012, Mr Mallett, whose job was to be in regular contact with forex market executives by phone and at regular meetings in expensive London restaurants and bank headquarters, said in a taped phone conversation to one that he would “feel uncomfortable justifying it to the regulator the way it’s currently set up”.

From at least 28 November 2012 Mr Mallett had been concerned about what he called in one conversation the “chattiness” of foreign exchange brokers from rival firms in City chatrooms, particularly in the run-up to the key fixing times when currency prices are set.

But he did not raise the issue with regulators or an “appropriate” person at the Bank of England.

more at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/13/barclays-penalty-currency-rigging-banks

13 Nov

Barclays may face massive new penalty over currency rigging

Bank puts discount on fines at risk by refusing early settlement as six rivals are ordered to pay £2.6bn for currency rigging

Barclays could face a huge new penalty for rigging currency markets after pulling out at the 11th hour from the settlement talks that led to £2.6bn of fines being slapped on six other big players in the currency markets.

Barclays will not be eligible for the 30% discount on the fines handed to its rivals in exchange for settling early after its surprise move not to participate in the settlement with US and UK regulators.

The bank, which was the first to be fined for rigging Libor in 2012, is reported not to have agreed to the settlement with the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and the US commodity futures trading commission because of continuing talks with another US regulator.

It was the only one of the banks involved in talks over the ground-breaking settlement that is also regulated by the New York State department of financial services (DFS), run by Benjamin Lawsky, the American attorney who has in the past taken a tough stance over wrongdoing at banks.

Barclays said it had considered a settlement with the FCA and the CFTC on terms similar to the other banks – Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, UBS, JP Morgan and Citigroup. “However, after discussions with other regulators and authorities, we have concluded that it is in the interests of the company to seek a more general coordinated settlement,” the bank said.

Barclays shares fell more than 2% to 229.5p as investors worried about when the investigation could end, after the FCA said it would “progress our investigation into the firm” and also look at its “wider FX [foreign exchange] business areas”.

In Britain, UBS was handed the biggest fine, at £233m, followed by £225m for Citibank, JP Morgan at £222m, RBS at £217m and £216m for HSBC. In the US, the regulator fined Citibank and JP Morgan $310m (£196m) each, $290m (£184m) each for RBS and UBS, and $275m (£174m) for HSBC. The Swiss regulator – which also found issues with UBS’s metal trading – also punished the Swiss bank for having failed to investigate warnings of currency market manipulation. Another US regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, also imposed fines on JP Morgan, Citi and Bank of America, taking the day’s tally to £2.6bn.

The banks faced further fines from regulators whose investigations are continuing.

The FCA and the CFTC published hundreds of pages of documents alongside their findings against five banks.

Chatroom talk between traders showed them discussing information about their clients’ orders with names such as “3 musketeers” and the “A-team”.

The City minister, Andrea Leadsom, said those who had done wrong “will not be back in a dealing room on a big salary”.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It’s completely disgusting. I think taxpayers will be horrified … I don’t know if corruption is a strong enough word for it.”

The FCA said 36 firms – including those involved in the announcement – would now be part of an “industry-wide remediation” to root out failings in the market. Senior managers will be required to attest to changes to their practices and to conduct root-and-branch reviews of their businesses.

“A lot of it is not rocket science,” said Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the FCA, suggesting that, for instance, firms needed to look at whether employees were using mobile phones in dealing rooms.

“All firms need to work with us to deliver real and lasting change to the culture of the trading floor. This is essential to restoring the public’s trust in financial services and London maintaining its position as a strong and competitive financial centre,” said Wheatley.

The focus also turned to bonuses and whether firms would face legal action after agreeing to the fines for market manipulation that covered the period from 2008 to October last year – a period when banks such as RBS were being bailed out with billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money.

Clive Adamson, director of supervision at the FCA, said he expected firms to “think hard” before deciding the size of bonuses. RBS said it would look at clawing back bonuses and what effect the settlement should have on bonuses for senior management. No current bonus payouts will take place until an internal investigation is completed and an update on that investigation was promised before the end of the year.

“Today is a stark reminder of the importance of culture and integrity in banking and we will rightly be judged on the strength of our response,” said RBS’s outgoing chairman, Sir Philip Hampton.

RBS had received complaints from two clients, in October 2010 and January 2012, about the activities of forex traders and in November 2011 one of its own traders raised concerns, which were not heeded. “With hindsight, I don’t think we followed them up terribly fully,” said Hampton, who was chairman of the bank for most of the period.

UBS has been ordered by its domestic regulator to limit its payouts to foreign exchange traders.

Lawyers warned that the banks could face a flood of legal action after the fines. Anthony Maton at claimant litigation firm Hausfeld said: “Any person or entity that engaged in FX transactions directly or indirectly with one or more of the colluding banks between 2008 and 2013 may have a civil claim.”

Simon Hart, banking litigation partner at lawyers RPC, said: “These fines and the evidence published today could trigger a flood of civil litigation from pension funds and other fund managers that lost money because of forex manipulation moving prices against them.”

The other regulators still investigating include the department of justice in the US and authorities in Asia. The US Federal Reserve announced it was also investigating possible improper conduct in foreign exchange markets.

The FCA said Barclays was the only bank it was continuing to formally investigate, suggesting that others such as Deutsche Bank were not facing action by the UK regulator.

[Sabrina]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/11/12/uk-banks-forex-investigation-idUKKCN0IW0H120141112?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

Regulators fine global banks $4.3 billion in currency investigation

(Reuters) - Regulators fined six major banks a total of $4.3 billion (2.73 billion pounds) for failing to stop traders from trying to manipulate the foreign exchange market, following a yearlong global investigation.

HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L), Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS.L), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), Citigroup Inc (C.N), UBS AG (UBSN.VX) and Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) all faced penalties resulting from the inquiry, which has put the largely unregulated $5-trillion-a-day market on a tighter leash, accelerated the push to automate trading and ensnared the Bank of England.

Authorities accused dealers of sharing confidential information about client orders and coordinating trades to boost their own profits. The foreign exchange benchmark they allegedly manipulated is used by asset managers and corporate treasurers to value their holdings.

Dealers used code names to identify clients without naming them and swapped information in online chatrooms with pseudonyms such as "the players", “the 3 musketeers” and “1 team, 1 dream." Those who were not involved were belittled, and traders used obscene language to congratulate themselves on quick profits made from their scams, authorities said.

Wednesday's fines bring total penalties for benchmark manipulation to more than $10 billion over two years. Britain's Financial Conduct Authority levied the biggest penalty in the history of the City of London, $1.77 billion, against five of the lenders.

"Today's record fines mark the gravity of the failings we found, and firms need to take responsibility for putting it right," FCA Chief Executive Officer Martin Wheatley said.

He said bank managers needed to keep a closer eye on their traders rather than leaving it to compliance departments, which make sure employees follow the rules.

The investigation already has triggered major changes to the market. Banks have suspended or fired more than 30 traders, clamped down on chatrooms and boosted their use of automated trading. World leaders are expected to sign off on regulatory changes to benchmarks this weekend at the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia.

In the United States, which has typically been more aggressive on enforcement than other jurisdictions, the Department of Justice, Federal Reserve and New York's financial regulator are still probing banks over foreign exchange trading.

EXASPERATION

Regulators said the misconduct at the banks ran from 2008 until October 2013, more than a year after U.S. and British authorities started punishing banks for rigging the London interbank offered rate (Libor), an interest rate benchmark.

The foreign exchange probe has wrapped up faster than that investigation did, and Wednesday's fines reflected cooperation from the banks. Britain's FCA said the five banks in its action received a 30 percent discount on the fines for settling early.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered the same five banks to pay an extra $1.48 billion. Swiss regulator FINMA also ordered UBS, the country's biggest bank, to pay 134 million francs ($139 million) and cap dealers' bonuses over misconduct in foreign exchange and precious metals trading.

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency fined the U.S. lenders a total of $950 million. It was the only authority to penalise Bank of America.

More penalties are likely to follow. Barclays Plc (BARC.L), which was not included in Wednesday's settlement, said it had pulled out of talks with the FCA and the CFTC to try to seek "a more general co-ordinated settlement" with other regulators that are investigating its activities.

The FCA said its enforcement activities were focussed on those five plus Barclays, signalling it would not fine Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE).

The CFTC declined to comment on whether it was looking at other banks.

Britain's Serious Fraud Office is conducting a criminal investigation, and disgruntled customers can still pursue civil litigation.

RBS, which is 80 percent owned by the British government, received client complaints about foreign exchange trading as far back as 2010. The bank said it regretted not responding more quickly.

The other banks were similarly apologetic.

BANK OF ENGLAND

The currency inquiry struck at the heart of the British establishment and the City of London, the global hub for foreign exchange dealing.

The Bank of England said on Wednesday that its chief foreign exchange dealer, Martin Mallet, had not alerted his bosses that traders were sharing information.

The British central bank, whose governor, Mark Carney, is leading global regulatory efforts to reform financial benchmarks, has dismissed Mallet but said he had not done anything illegal or improper.

It also said it had scrapped regular meetings with London-based chief currency dealers, a sign the BOE wants to put a distance between it and the banks after the scandal.

Shares of banks involved in the settlement were down slightly Wednesday afternoon. Bank of America dipped 0.2 percent, JPMorgan fell 1.6 percent, and Citi was 0.6 percent lower.

RBS was down 1 percent, HSBC was down 0.3 percent, and UBS was down 0.1 percent in after-hours trading.

12 Nov

[Sabrina]

http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/kenyan-catholic-bishops-accuse-who-and-government-officials-of-secret-mass-sterilization-programme/

Kenya’s Catholic bishops are charging two United Nations organizations with sterilizing millions of girls and women under cover of an anti-tetanus inoculation program sponsored by the Kenyan government, reports Infowars.

http://www.infowars.com/a-mass-sterilization-exercise-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-in-un-tetanus-vaccine/

A statement signed by 27 Catholic Bishops alleges complicity in the Kenyan Ministry of Health.

The statement will be a wake up call to Africans to the extent of the corruption among their own Health Ministers and regulators as African health ministries and regulators move to approve potentially deadly Ebola phase II vaccine trials among thousands of health care workers.

It has emerged that the Kenyan Ministry of Health must have known the tetanus vaccines contained the Beta- HCG hormone which causes infertility and multiple miscarriages in women.

Prior knowledge can be the only explanation for why government officials kept such tight control over the vaccines, sending police as escorts, while refusing samples for independent laboratory tests.

Given the precedents, it is to be feared that the laxity of the Kenyan Health Ministry and regulators are due to a secret slush funds.

GlaxoSmithKline has a long record of bribery and fraud. GSK was fined 500 million dollars in China in September for bribing doctors and regulators.

GSK is a key player in unrolling a potentially dangerous Ebola vaccine in Africa – and African health ministries and regulators are complicit in preparing to allow these extremely risky vaccines to be given to thousands health workers in poorly designed trials, which will highly likely not capture adverse events reactions.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/19/us-gsk-china-idUSKBN0HE0TC20140919

The African health ministries and regulators are, of course, no more corrupt than the US FDA or the European regulators.

Merck’s own former Doctor predicts that Gardasil will become the greatest medical scandal of all time. I think the Ebola jab will become the greatest medical scandal of all time, dwarfing even the swine flu jab scandal.

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-that-gardasil-will-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/#sthash.1SrGTqxm.dpuf

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-that-gardasil-will-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/

Statement signed by the Catholic Bishops on November 26th.

http://www.dioceseofkitui.org/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/111-kutui-nairobi-dinner

2. The Tetanus Vaccine
Dear Kenyans, due to the direction the debate on the ongoing Tetanus Vaccine campaign in Kenya is taking, We, the Catholic Bishops, in fulfilling our prophetic role, wish to restate our position as follows:

The Catholic Church is NOT opposed to regular vaccines administered in Kenya, both in our own Church health facilities and in public health institutions.

However, during the second phase of the Tetanus vaccination campaign in March 2014, that is sponsored by WHO/UNICEF, the Catholic Church questioned the secrecy of the exercise. We raised questions on whether the tetanus vaccine was linked to a population control program that has been reported in some countries, where a similar vaccine was laced with Beta- HCG hormone which causes infertility and multiple miscarriages in women.

On March 26, 2014 and October 13, 2014, we met the Cabinet Secretary in-charge of health and the Director of Medical Services among others and rasied our concerns about the Vaccine and agreed to jointly test the vaccine. However the ministry did not cooperate and the joint tests were not done
The Catholic Church struggled and acquired several vials of the vaccine, which we sent to Four unrelated Government and private laboratories in Kenya and abroad.

We want to announce here, that all the tests showed that the vaccine used in Kenya in March and October 2014 was indeed laced with the Beta- HCG hormone.

On 13th of October 2014, the Catholic Church gave copies of the results to the cabinet secretary and the Director of Medical Services. The same was emailed to the Director of Medical Services on October 17, 2014.

Based on the above grounds, We, the Catholic Bishops in Kenya, wish to State the following:

That we are shocked at the level of dishonesty and casual manner in which such a serious issue is being handled by the Government.

That a report presented to the Parliamentary Committee on Health November 4, 2014 by the Ministry of Health, claiming that the Government had tested the Vaccine and found it clean of Beta- HCG hormone, is false and a deliberate attempt to distort the truth and mislead 42 million Kenyans.

That we are dismayed by attempts to intimidate and blackmail medical professionals who have corroborated information about the vaccine, with threats of disciplinary action. We commend and support all professionals who have stood by the truth.

That we shall not waver in calling upon all Kenyans to avoid the tetanus vaccination campaign laced with Beta-HCG, because we are convinced that it is indeed a disguised population control programme.

[Sabrina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30027045

12 Nov UK

Police handling of child abuse intelligence to be investigated

Three police forces face an inquiry over alleged failures to act on tip offs about potential paedophiles.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will examine how Essex, North Wales and North Yorkshire handled information from Canadian police passed to the UK in 2012.

story at link

and

http://darrenlaverty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/police-and-criminal-investigation-2014.html#links

Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Police and Criminal Investigation 2014

Posted by Darren Laverty

I can confirm that South Wales Police have launched a criminal investigation into the potential actions of North Wales Police during the investigations into child abuse in the late 1980's early 1990's. Serving and non serving officers are under scrutiny. In addition they will investigate the potential criminal activities of a number of senior council officials who ruled the roost at Gwynedd county council/social services. It's been estimated to take a minimum of 6 months.

[Sabrina]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/11/12/obamas-setback-in-beijing/

12 Nov

Did China Just Scupper the TPPA?

By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

The Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is a secret free trade treaty Obama is negotiating with eleven other Asian Pacific countries (US, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Chile, Peru, Canada, Mexico, Vietnam, Singapore and Brunei). The President had hoped to seal the deal at the recent Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing. Instead all 21 Pacific Rim countries have agreed to develop a roadmap for a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) treaty. The FTAAP would include China and Russia, whereas the TPPA excludes them.

China Deliberately Excluded
The TPPA is viewed as a centerpiece of Obama’s “strategic rebalancing” towards Asia. Also known as the “Asian pivot,” Obama’s intention is to counter China’s growing economic strength by isolating them economically and militarily.

The US has required the twelve countries participating in TPPA negotiations to sign a secrecy clause. Only corporations (i.e. the 600 corporations that helped write it) are allowed to see the text of the treaty. Not even Congress is permitted access. If Wikileaks hadn’t leaked large sections of the draft agreement, we wouldn’t even know it existed.

Is TPPA Really a Trade Treaty?
Scheduled to coincide with the APEC summit, November 8 was an International Day of Action against the TPPA, with major protests in New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia and the US. From the sections which have been leaked, it seems the TPPA isn’t a trade treaty at all. It’s really an investor protection treaty, granting corporations the right to sue countries for laws that potentially hurt their ability to make a profit. These lawsuits, involving hundreds of millions of dollars, would be heard by secret tribunals run by corporate lawyers. There would be no right of appeal.

In other words, the intent of the TPPA is to allow corporations to overturn the environmental, labor and healthy and safety laws and regulations of member countries. There’s even a special “transparency” clause inserted by the pharmaceutical industry that would allow them to challenge formularies (in the US this would include Medicaid and the VA) that promote cheaper generic medications.

If finalized, the TPPA would also allow oil and gas companies to overturn fracking bans, Monsanto to overturn GMO labeling laws, investment banks to overturn banking regulations and the telecommunications industry to overturn Net Neutrality laws.

Why the Secrecy?
It’s pretty obvious why Obama is trying to negotiate the TPPA in secret. Prior investor protection treaties (e.g. the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement) have gone down in flames thanks to massive public lashback, both in the US and in treaty partner countries.

Congress isn’t too happy, either, about being denied access to the draft TPPA treaty. In November 2013 Congress voted down Obama’s request for “fast track” authority on the TPPA. Fast track, otherwise known as Trade Promotion Authority, would require Congress to accept the final TPPA deal or reject it. No debate would be allowed on specific provisions.

There are rumors Obama plans to reintroduce TPPA fast track authority before Christmas, hoping for a better outcome with a new, pro-business Republican congress.

The POTUS also had hopes of ramming through an agreement on the TPPA treaty in Beijing, at a side meeting in the US embassy. It appears he did try and failed, as Pepe Escobar describes in a recent RT article Lame Duck Out of the Silk Trade Caravan.

The Effect on Australia and New Zealand
A trade deal that excludes China, their major trading partner, makes absolutely no sense for Australia and New Zealand. Kiwi and Aussie environmental and labor activists are also deeply concerned about signing an international agreement that allows multinational corporations to sue their governments in a secret corporate tribunal. They’ve worked damned hard to win laws and regulations guaranteeing minimal environmental, labor and health safety standards. If the TPPA goes through, these could all be wiped out with the stroke of a pen.

China Aims to Suppress US Influence in Asia
In an interview with Chinese media, Obama denies he was trying to isolate China by pressuring Asian Pacific countries to sign a secret trade deal that excludes them. Yet it’s pretty obvious to all concerned that’s exactly what he’s trying to do.

It’s also pretty clear that Chinese president Xi Jinping outmaneuvered him. In addition to getting all 21 APEC nations to sign onto an FTAAP feasibility study, China signed other trade deals geared towards reducing US dominance in the region.

On Monday the Chinese and Malaysian central banks signed a deal to establish a yuan clearing bank (to facilitate energy and other trade deals in local currencies rather than US dollars).

Russia and China signed a similar deal to conduct oil trades in rubles and yuan, rather than US dollars. According to Russian president Vladimir Putin, the new agreement will significantly reduce US influence over world energy markets.

Back in October,
Back in October, China launched the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank a rival to the US-dominated World Bank and Asian Development Bank.

[Sabrina]

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Foster Gamble: Is the Value of your Money About to Change
2 Nov

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New British financial watchdog to open bank payments to competition

12 Nov UK

(Reuters) - Britain's newest regulator set out on Thursday how it will wrest strategic direction of the 75 trillion pound payments sector from its big bank owners to spur competition.

The payments system forms the vital plumbing that allowed people and companies to make 21 billion transactions in 2013 via online banking, cheques and cash machines.

Policymakers argue that ownership of the system by a few banks such as HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and Barclays reinforces those lenders' dominance, making it harder for the recent flurry of new entrants such as Virgin Money and Metro Bank to build their presence.

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) said it would take control of strategy development and launch a review of ownership and competitiveness by April 2015, when it formally assumes its regulatory powers.

"Ownership, control and governance of payment systems will be opened up to give all service users a voice when decisions are made, not just those that own the systems, typically the major banks," the PSR said in a statement.

It will also review indirect access, or how new banks go through one of the systems' owners. "Competition is limited, decision-making opaque, and this is stifling innovation. This has to change," PSR Managing Director Hannah Nixon said.

The regulator, which operates under the umbrella of the Financial Conduct Authority, will have the power to carry out enforcement investigations, issue penalties and compel banks to take remedial action.

It will handle commercial disputes regarding access to payment systems or fees and charges relating to services provided by them. It will also have the power to force a bank to sell its interests in an operator.

New entrants want so-called portability, meaning customers keep their account number when they move to another lender.

"I don’t understand why, in the modern world, where we have one mobile phone number for all of our lives, why we can’t have one bank account number ... for all of our lives," Virgin Money chief Jayne-Anne Gadhia said on Thursday as the bank made its stock market debut.

[Sabrina]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11234001/Tory-MP-murdered-boy-at-orgy-abuse-victim-claims.html

This prominent in the Tory main stream media.

16 Nov UK

Tory MP 'murdered' boy at orgy, abuse victim claims

Scotland Yard is investigating three 'possible murders' linked to a Westminster paedophile ring that was allegedly operating in the 1970s and 1980s


A Conservative MP murdered a young boy during a depraved sex party in the 1980s, an alleged victim of the Westminster paedophile scandal has claimed.
The 12-year-old boy, who was being abused by a group of men, was strangled by the politician at a luxury townhouse in front of other victims, it has been alleged.
On another occasion, the victim claims a young boy, who was around ten-years-old, was deliberately run down and killed by a car being driven by one of his abusers.
The alleged murders are among three that are now being investigated by the Metropolitan Police as part of a major probe into claims that a powerful paedophile ring with links to Westminster was operating in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.

Scotland Yard, which set up Operation Fairbank two years ago to look at the abuse claims, announced on Friday it had launched a fresh strand of the inquiry, entitled Operation Midland, to probe the alleged murders.

The allegations emerged after a man, who is now in his 40s, came forward claiming to have been one of around 15 boys, who were abused at the hands of a powerful paedophile network operating some 30-years ago.

He claims after being handed to the group by his father, he was regularly picked up in cars and taken to hotels and apartments, where he was physically and sexually abused by “senior military and political” figures.

Some of the abuse allegedly took place at flats in the Dolphin Square development in Pimlico, where a number of politicians have London homes.

The man, who has spoken at length to Scotland Yard detectives, said he had witnessed two murders of abuse victims by members of the group.

He told the Sunday People that he had been in the same room as a 12-year-old boy, when a Tory MP throttled him to death.
He described the boy as being around 12-years-old and having brown hair, but said he did not know his name.

The murder was allegedly witnessed by another abuse victim who was in the room at the same time.

He said: “I watched while that happened. I am not sure how I got out of that. Whether I will ever know why I survived, I am not sure.”

On another occasion he claims a member of the gang deliberately ran over one of the victims, in what he described as an effort to demonstrate their power.
A third boy was murdered during a depraved orgy at which another Tory MP was present, the man has told detectives.

On Friday, Scotland Yard announced that it was now investigating a “possible homicide” as part of its ongoing probe into historic child sex abuse.

A spokesman said: “Over the past month, detectives working on Operation Fairbank within the Met's Specialist Crime and Operations have been made aware of allegations concerning serious non-recent sexual abuse, said to have occurred over 30 years ago.

“Our inquiries into this, over subsequent weeks, have revealed further information regarding possible homicide. Based on our current knowledge, this is the first time that this specific information has been passed to the Met.”

The spokesman went on: “Detectives from the Child Abuse Investigation Command are working closely with colleagues from the Homicide and Major Crime Command concerning this information, which is being looked at under the name of Operation Midland.”



THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN BRITISH HISTORY
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and reader's comment on the Needleblog carrying this video:

It is the biggest scandal this country has ever experienced and it needs to be resolved 100% transparently now. As you mentioned a long while back, this is indeed bigger than Watergate and far, far more shameful.

Whoever is reading – NAPAC deserve your donations.

A very interesting read on the Telegraph if you’ve missed it. Not news to those in the know but significant that a major MSM player are becoming braver in what they report. We need to see more of this. It’s on the Daily Mail, Express, Metro & Mirror. Whilst wary, part of me senses that the MSM are desperate to blow the lid on this but cautious of libel implications. I could be wrong but we wouldn’t have read as many articles like this a few months ago……..A right wing paper reporting allegations that a Tory MP murdered a child at a sex orgy.

[KiwiElf]

I can't validate the authenticity of this information or website and it may just be scaremongering, but the story is popping up elsewhere, shades of the Cyprus template of 2011 when Bank Accounts were literally robbed...

Bank deposits will soon no longer be considered money but paper investments
November 12, 2014 5:02 PM MST

http://www.examiner.com/article/bank-deposits-will-soon-no-longer-be-considered-money-but-paper-investments

This weekend the G20 nations will convene in Brisbane, Australia to conclude a week of Asian festivities that began in Beijing for the developed countries and major economies. And on Sunday, the biggest deal of the week will be made as the G20 will formally announce new banking rules that are expected to send shock waves to anyone holding a checking, savings, or money market account in a financial institution.

On Nov. 16, the G20 will implement a new policy that makes bank deposits on par with paper investments, subjecting account holders to declines that one might experience from holding a stock or other security when the next financial banking crisis occurs. Additionally, all member nations of the G20 will immediately submit and pass legislation that will fulfill this program, creating a new paradigm where banks no longer recognize your deposits as money, but as liabilities and securitized capital owned and controlled by the bank or institution.

In essence, the Cyprus template of 2011 will be fully implemented in every major economy, and place bank depositors as the primary instrument of the next bailouts when the next crisis occurs.

On Sunday in Brisbane the G20 will announce that bank deposits are just part of commercial banks’ capital structure, and also that they are far from the most senior portion of that structure. With deposits then subjected to a decline in nominal value following a bank failure, it is self-evident that a bank deposit is no longer money in the way a banknote is. If a banknote cannot be subjected to a decline in nominal value, we need to ask whether banknotes can act as a superior store of value than bank deposits? If that is the case, will some investors prefer banknotes to bank deposits as a form of savings? Such a change in preference is known as a "bank run."

Each country will introduce its own legislation to effect the ‘ bail-in’ agreed by the G20 this coming weekend.

Large deposits at banks are no longer money, as this legislation will formally push them down through the capital structure to a position of material capital risk in any "failing" institution. In our last financial crisis, deposits were de facto guaranteed by the state, but from November 16th holders of large-scale deposits will be, both de facto and de jure, just another creditor squabbling over their share of the assets of a failed bank. - Zerohedge

For most Americans with savings or checking accounts in federally insured banks, normal FDIC rules on deposit insurance are still in play, but anyone with over $250,000 in any one account, or held offshore, will have their money automatically subject to bankruptcy dispursements from the courts based on a much lower rank of priority, and a much lower percentage of return.

This also includes business accounts, money market accounts, and any depository investments such as a certificate of deposit (CD).

What makes this sudden push to securitize cash held as bank deposits is the pending question of whether the central banks or sovereign governments know that a crisis is forthcoming, especially in light of Europe's rapid decline into recession, and Japan's need to monetize their entire budget through central bank easing?

Just as people thought the ownership of gold and silver was inviolate prior to 1933 when the government ordered it confiscated to bailout the banks and Federal Reserve during the Great Depression, we are all now faced with the realization that the money we thought was our own, and protected in our checking and savings accounts no longer is. And after Sunday at the G20 meeting, the risks of holding any cash in a bank or financial institution will have to be weighed as heavily and with as much determination of risk as if you were holding a stock or municipal bond, which could decline in an instant should the financial environment bring a crisis even remotely similar to that of 2008.

[Sabrina]

http://eclinik.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/afghanistan-shocked-wall-street-by-jailing-2-bankers-freezing-karzai-brothers-assets/


AFGHANISTAN SHOCKED WALL STREET BY JAILING 2 BANKERS, FREEZING KARZAI BROTHER’S ASSETS


AFGHANISTAN SHOCKED WALL STREET BY JAILING 2 BANKERS, FREEZING KARZAI BROTHER’S ASSETS
NOVEMBER 15, 2014 ECLINIK

Who would expect that a US military controlled territory would jail bankers including an ex-president’s brother?

Previously, Iran executed by hanging a billionaire and three others who were responsible for @2.6Billion bank scam [here], and 2 received life sentences and 25 others received 25 years in prison.

In comparison, the United States has jailed just one banker for PR’s sake.

Judge toughens jail terms in Kabul Bank scandal, freezes Karzai brother’s assets

(Reuters) – An Afghan judge tripled the jail sentences of two former heads of Kabul Bank to 15 years on Tuesday at the end of a re-opened court case into the bank’s collapse in 2010, which followed allegations of fraud and triggered a financial crisis.

Afghanistan’s new President Ashraf Ghani announced on Oct. 1 that he would re-open the inquiry into the theft of almost $1 billion from the bank, fulfilling a campaign promise to make fighting corruption a priority.

The case also involved Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of Ghani’s predecessor president Hamid Karzai. Mahmoud Karzai, a shareholder in the bank, has so far been spared jail but the judge on Tuesday ordered that his assets be frozen, along with those of others, until all the funds stolen from the bank have been returned. They face prosecution if the funds are not repaid.

The Afghan government was forced to bail out the country’s then biggest bank after a run on deposits in 2010. It was later re-launched as the state-run New Kabul Bank, but confidence in the banking sector has yet to fully recover.

Only about a third of the $935 million stolen has been recovered, according to the receivers.

The two former heads of the bank, founder Sher Khan Fernod and former Chief Executive Haji Khalil Ferozi, had been convicted in the initial inquiry of taking $810 million of the stolen money and were both sentenced to jail for five years. Their jail terms were tripled on Tuesday.

"The court sentences you both, Sher Khan Fernod and Haji Khalil Ferozi to terms of 15 years in jail for embezzlement and money laundering of the Kabul Bank money," the judge, Mehrajuddin Hamidi, said, adding that they could appeal against the verdict.

Foreign donors, whom the Afghan government relies on to pay its bills, have welcomed Ghani's decision to re-open the inquiry. The Afghan Attorney General's office had said the initial sentences were too lenient given the amount of money stolen.

Mahmoud Karzai was spared a jail sentence after the initial inquiry, conducted when his brother was still president, thanks to a presidential decree that granted immunity from prosecution to those who returned funds.

However, while Karzai said he had returned funds that he owed the bank, Afghanistan's anti-corruption watchdog said last month that Karzai was among individuals and companies that still owed the bank a total of $633 million.

"Their properties are to be identified and frozen. If they do not return the money, they will be prosecuted," Judge Hamidi said on Tuesday.

Karzai was listed by the watchdog as having owed $22.2 million in loans from the bank and having paid back only $13.4 million.

He has denied that he still owes money and said last month that he had paid back all his loans with interest and had done no wrong.

On Tuesday, Karzai said the court's verdict would not affect him as he did not owe any money.

"I don't owe them any money, so it's irrelevant. In fact, I made an overpayment (and) I am going to serve the Attorney General's office tomorrow with orders to refund me the $450,000 I overpaid," Karzai told Reuters.

The problems at Kabul Bank are adding to a fiscal crisis, which along with fighting the Taliban insurgency, is one of the most urgent challenges facing President Ghani, who was sworn in just over six weeks ago after months of turmoil over who had won the election.

Afghanistan relies on aid for most of its income and, despite receiving billions of dollars in aid each year, was forced to delay payments to civil servants last month because it had run out of cash.


and

America Watches In Stunned Disbelief As Afghanistan Jails Two Failed Bank Executives


Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/12/2014 Zerohedge

Spot the banana republic: :)

Nation #1 spends and issues tens of trillions in taxpayer funds and debt, crushing the growth potential of future generations, just to bail out a banking sector full to the brim with criminal “riggers” (as today’s settlements once again prove), where bubble mania was so pervasive not a single bank would have survived absent a global central bank bailout, and where bank executives wouldn’t bend over for anything less than a million.

Nation #2 just sentenced two senior officials of a bank that collapsed under (a measly by New Normal standards) $1 billion in debt to 15 years in prison each for embezzlement and fraud.
Nation #1 is, of course, the US (or any other western nation). Nation #2 is Afghanistan.

Which one is the banana republic again?

AP reports that the scandal in 2010 shook confidence in Afghanistan’s tiny banking sector, and the loss accounted for around 5 percent of the country’s economy, making it the biggest banking collapse in history. By comparison, just the derivative book of JPMorgan alone is 4 times the size of US GDP.

Like in the US, the government had no choice but to bail out the bank and brought in receivers who, officials say, have traced most of the missing funds.

The scandal struck at the heart of the Kabul political establishment, involving relatives of the former president Hamid Karzai and one of his deputies, Marshall Mohammad Qasim Fahim.

President Ashraf Ghani has put the case at the center of his anti-corruption campaign, and within days of taking office in September ordered it resolved within 45 days.

So banker justice does exist? And this is how non-banana republics deal with a runaway criminal financial sector, which dangles the threat of systemic collapse any time the regulators, at least those who don’t hope to get a job on Wall Street next, come sniffing:

The Kabul Bank’s former chairman Sherkhan Farnood and former chief executive officer Khalillulah Ferozi were sentenced live on television, after a two-day appeal against earlier sentences of five years in prison. They have already served more than four years of the original sentence.

A panel of five judges at the Kabul Appeals Court also fined Farnood more than $237 million.

The court also ordered the assets of Mahmood Karzai and Hasin Fahim, brothers respectively of the former president and deputy president, along with 17 other defendants, frozen until their debts are repaid.

“If there is any delay in returning all the outstanding debt, they will be dealt with by the courts,” the judgment said.

The bank was one of the country’s flagship institutions and until its collapse had been responsible for paying salaries of government employees, army and police across the country.

It was split into two, with the offshoot, the New Kabul Bank now responsible for the salary payments, and holding around $400 million in customer deposits, officials said.

Curious for more? Read “The Great Afghan Bank Heist.”

And while Afghanistan’s banking sector is now well on the road to recovery and doesn’t need endless central bank bailouts (unlike the US, Europe or Japan) the nation does remain a banana republic but for other reasons: namely, US forces refuse to leave. Why? One look at the chart below should explain it.



Why Afghanistan remains an incubator – under constant US supervision – for the heroin trade, read “7.6 Billion Reasons Why The US ‘War On Drugs’ In Afghanistan Failed“

[Sabrina]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/australia-newzealand/article4268573.ece

Britain tricked Maoris out of New Zealand sovereignty


British colonial authorities cheated the Maoris out of their birthright in New Zealand by misleading them over an agreement that allowed the Crown take control of the country, a tribunal has decided.

The verdict, from the body charged with resolving Maori grievances, calls into question the legal basis upon which sovereignty was passed to Britain in 1840. It relates to the Treaty of Waitangi, signed between Maori tribes and the British Crown, which gave Britain the right to govern New Zealand in return for the protection of the indigenous people.

15 Nov

[KiwiElf]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/australia-newzealand/article4268573.ece

Britain tricked Maoris out of New Zealand sovereignty


British colonial authorities cheated the Maoris out of their birthright in New Zealand by misleading them over an agreement that allowed the Crown take control of the country, a tribunal has decided.

The verdict, from the body charged with resolving Maori grievances, calls into question the legal basis upon which sovereignty was passed to Britain in 1840. It relates to the Treaty of Waitangi, signed between Maori tribes and the British Crown, which gave Britain the right to govern New Zealand in return for the protection of the indigenous people.

15 Nov

It was stolen from the Maori outright and the British Crown certainly have NOT looked after them, HOWEVER,... to say the Maori are indigenous is not correct - they were not the first here, nor did they originate in NZ. ;)

[Sabrina]

http://news.sky.com/story/1375291/organised-child-sex-abuse-prevalent-nationwide

18 Nov UK

Organised Child Sex Abuse 'Prevalent' Nationwide

MPs call for an urgent review into child protection systems across England after an inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal.

here is alarming evidence that organised sexual exploitation is widespread and not limited to recently-uncovered abuse in Rotherham, MPs have warned.



The Communities and Local Government Committee, investigating the scandal, said Rotherham was "not an outlier" for abuse.

Its report called for an urgent review into child protection systems nationwide.

Committee chairman Clive Betts said: "As a committee, we heard alarming evidence that the organised child sexual exploitation at Rotherham is prevalent across England.

"It's vital local authorities across the country now ensure their scrutiny, governance, and leadership is fit and ready to identify and combat child sexual exploitation in their communities."

Earlier this year Professor Alexis Jay published a report outlining how at least 1,400 children had been sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2003.

The Communities and Local Government Committee said senior Rotherham Council officers must be held to account for the "systematic" failures which allowed the abuse to continue over a number of years.

It said that despite having child protection policies in place, the council had been "divorced from reality".

The report was also critical of the watchdog Ofsted for its failure to "lift the lid on the council's shameful inability to tackle child sexual exploitation" despite carrying out a number of inspections.

t said "serious questions" needed to be asked of Ofsted representatives who will be called to give evidence to the committee.

Ofsted said it welcomed the opportunity to give evidence.

"In common with a number of organisations, we accept that past inspections may not have given child sexual exploitation the forensic focus it needed and deserved," a spokesperson said.

"That's why last year we introduced a new and much more rigorous inspection framework for inspecting children's services, which places a stronger emphasis on the issue."

The publication of the Jay report prompted Shaun Wright, the councillor with responsibility for children's services between 2005 and 2010, to step down as South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner after intense media pressure.

Rotherham's strategic director of children's services, Joyce Thacker, and Martin Kimber, council chief executive, also resigned.

[Sabrina]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/11/17/uk-bank-of-england-carney-bonuses-idUKKCN0J107J20141117?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

17 Nov

Carney says may need to regulate bankers' salaries

(Reuters) - The Bank of England said on Monday that senior bankers' salaries may in future be at risk if they or their staff break rules, firing a warning shot to the City after the latest dealing room scandal cost six banks $4.3 billion in fines.

Transcripts of currency traders from banks such as UBS (UBSN.VX) boasting in online chatrooms about their bonuses while they tried to manipulate benchmark rates have put regulators under renewed pressure.

Europe has already agreed to curb bankers' bonuses, but the Bank of England has said that policy will not tackle the problem as lenders can dodge it by paying allowances and hiking fixed pay.

The Bank, which regulates Europe's financial hub in London, is bringing in its own regime which will see bonuses deferred for years and allow them to be clawed back if wrongdoing emerges -- even if the money has already been spent.

Yet with Europe's bonus cap cutting the pool of money that the Bank of England can target, Mark Carney, its governor, said salaries, or fixed pay, could also be in its sights.

"Standards may need to be developed to put non-bonus, or fixed, pay at risk," Carney said in a speech in Singapore.

"European rules create a situation that makes the case for additional reforms to ensure that the burden of excessive risk taking and misconduct by staff can still be borne by those staff."

Given that the Bank of England's new regime is not yet in place, remuneration experts said Carney's speech was a tap on the shoulder rather than a plan for immediate action and underlined the political pressures at play.

A group of UK lawmakers brought together to look at ways of improving behaviour in the wake of banking scandals has said pay is at the heart of the problem.

"Mark Carney is firing a warning shot. He is putting the industry on notice that if they just increase fixed pay and take employees out of bonus schemes that is not going to work for him," said Tom Gosling, head of reward practice at PwC.

International regulators may yet introduce reforms that would require banks to pay part of their senior staff bonuses in bonds connected to the performance of the bank.

Carney, who is also chairman of regulatory watchdog The Financial Stability Board, said a proposal by New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley to bring in "performance bonds" for senior bankers was "worthy of consideration".

Dudley said last month that deferred pay for senior bankers should be in the form of debt, rather than shares, and that these "performance bonds" would be forfeited to pay some of the fines imposed on a lender for wrongdoing, easing the burden on shareholders.

"I think introducing bonds into variable pay could happen sooner rather than later," said Gosling. "There is a lot of common ground between the EU, the Bank of England and the Fed on the use of bond-type instruments in remuneration."

[Sabrina]

Weird... when I cut and pasted originally ... those benefiting became those who suffered and vice versa....:)

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/hummingbird-hits-your-blog.html

17 Nov

Google is now using a new search system (a new search algorithm) for searches.

Google started using its new system, Hummingbird, around the beginning of September 2014.

Who has benefited?

New York Times. (graphs at link)


Large American news corporations are among those who have benefited.



Google Hummingbird - Wikipedia.



Who has suffered?

globalresearch.ca
washingtonsblog.com
rt.com

Any site that criticises the USA has suffered.

So, Google is as rigged as the crime statistics, the stock market or the price of Gold?

Google is very much the CIA.

Expect your future Google searches to turn up American commercial junk.

[Sabrina]

BIX WEIR: ALERT: World’s Largest Derivative Holder…Wobbling!

Posted on November 18,

All eyes are on Deutsche Bank’s $75T Derivative portfolio at the moment as they just announced they will be “scaling back” their most profitable nuclear ponzi scheme…Credit Default Swaps!

Deutsche Bank Scales Back Trading in Credit Derivatives

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-11-17/deutsche-bank-exits-most-single-name-credit-default-swap-trading

“The bank is exiting part of the market as trading linked to swaps protecting against the default of individual companies plunged from as much as $32 trillion before the financial crisis to less than $11 trillion, according to data from the Bank for International Settlements. Trading in the market, which was blamed for helping to exacerbate the financial crisis, has become more expensive as regulators across U.S. and Europe have stepped up scrutiny and increased balance-sheet requirements making it harder to carry out trades.”

“Earlier this month, the company announced that the co-head of its fixed-income trading business was stepping down, leaving Richard Herman to become the sole head of the department, according to the company.”

END

Remember…for every derivative written there is a counter-party taking the other side of that bet.

Keep an eye on this story as it can bring the financial markets to a halt if it starts spreading to other banks.

My advice – Stay indoors…and not just for the crappy weather!

May the Road you choose be the Right Road.

Bix Weir

www.RoadtoRoota.com

[Corncrake]

Recently read this in Rolling Stone and thought it would fit in rather well here.
What is so depressing though no longer shocking is the government's collusion in the cover-up.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106

The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare

She tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn't take it anymore.

"It was like watching an old lady get mugged on the street," she says. "I thought, 'I can't sit by any longer.'"

Fleischmann is a tall, thin, quick-witted securities lawyer in her late thirties, with long blond hair, pale-blue eyes and an infectious sense of humor that has survived some very tough times. She's had to struggle to find work despite some striking skills and qualifications, a common symptom of a not-so-common condition called being a whistle-blower.

Fleischmann is the central witness in one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history, possessing secrets that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon late last year paid $9 billion (not $13 billion as regularly reported – more on that later) to keep the public from hearing.

Back in 2006, as a deal manager at the gigantic bank, Fleischmann first witnessed, then tried to stop, what she describes as "massive criminal securities fraud" in the bank's mortgage operations.

Thanks to a confidentiality agreement, she's kept her mouth shut since then. "My closest family and friends don't know what I've been living with," she says. "Even my brother will only find out for the first time when he sees this interview."

Six years after the crisis that cratered the global economy, it's not exactly news that the country's biggest banks stole on a grand scale. That's why the more important part of Fleischmann's story is in the pains Chase and the Justice Department took to silence her.

She was blocked at every turn: by asleep-on-the-job regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission, by a court system that allowed Chase to use its billions to bury her evidence, and, finally, by officials like outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, the chief architect of the crazily elaborate government policy of surrender, secrecy and cover-up. "Every time I had a chance to talk, something always got in the way," Fleischmann says.



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106#ixzz3JQPKCZGr

[KiwiElf]

UK PM warns on second global crash
CNBCBy Matt Clinch | CNBC – Mon, Nov 17, 2014 9:45 PM NZDT

https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-pm-warns-second-global-084520730.html

The global economy is again showing worrying signs of an imminent financial crisis, according to British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is warning of a dangerous backdrop of instability and uncertainty.

Writing in the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper, he said that this weekend's G-20 summit in Brisbane had further underlined the problems facing the global economy.

"Six years on from the financial crash that brought the world to its knees, red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy," he said in the article published late Sunday.

Read More Banker pay must stop encouraging misconduct: Carney
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102190028?__source=yahoo|finance|inline|story|story&par=yahoo&doc=102190211

Global trade talks have stalled, the euro zone is teetering on the brink of recession and emerging markets are now slowing down, he said. The spread of Ebola, the conflict in the Middle East and Russia's "illegal" actions in Ukraine are all adding to the global insecurity, according to Cameron.

His words echo those of the Bank of England last week, which said that there were downside risks for the U.K. from weaker euro area activity which could also weigh on exports and be associated with rising market volatility.

The U.K. is heavily indebted compared to most of its peers but has been praised by organizations like the International Monetary Fund for being the fastest growing G-7 economy since the financial crash of 2008. The government - majority-led by the right-of-center Conservative Party - has followed a path of austerity and fiscal restraint since coming to power in 2010, although it has still missed deficit targets during that period.

Read More Global markets 'living on borrowed time': Wilbur Ross
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102190203?__source=yahoo|finance|inline|story|story&par=yahoo&doc=102190211

Criticized at first, the austerity policies have come at the same time as a significant drop in unemployment in the U.K., with the Bank of England now looking to raise interest rates next year. Opposition policymakers argue the country has become unbalanced, with poorer citizens bearing the brunt of the cuts in spending.

This thesis gained some backing on Monday with a new report that showed that the poorest groups in U.K. society lost the biggest share of their incomes on average following the benefit and direct tax changes since 2010. The research, by the London School of Economics and the University of Essex, also showed that the changes have not contributed to cutting the deficit and have instead been spent on tax breaks.

Read More Japan shocks as economy slips into recession
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102184733?__source=yahoo|finance|inline|story|story&par=yahoo&doc=102190211

In his article, Cameron said that there had been "difficult decisions" in recent years for the U.K. economy but underlined that it was "vital" that the U.K. stuck to its long-term economic plan. With the country heading towards a general election, set to take place in May next year, Cameron also used the article as an opportunity to put forward his case for re-election. His words highlighted that the economy will be a key battleground for politicians next year.

"In six months' time, Britain will face a choice: the long-term plan that has seen it prosper, or the easy answers that would surely have seen it fail," he said.

"By sticking to our long-term plan at home and standing up for Britain's interests abroad, we will do everything possible to protect our economy."

[Sabrina]

I don't follow Poof very much, but he/she is right on all the changes and dynamics happening at the moment...outside UK PM Cameron's control as in his doom mongering comments above. Look at Bank of England chief's proposals on previous page as just one example :)....

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/11/18/office-of-poofness-11-17-14-chains/

POOF SAID: “For today’s message– here is the final scoop for the day……. “Changes are occurring on almost every front. Laws, rules, regulations, protocols, disciplines, levels of privacy, changes in currency values, exchange values, level of precious metals, types of currency backing, use of digital funding, or not, European and Asian exchanges, plus South American exchanges, everything is topsy turby and you wonder why someone like the Zapster, as someone called him– could even put together a review?

“Every time a change occurs the trickle-down effect gets broadened. It might help to think about the way that humanity is changing as well and to recall that it doesn’t take a majority of changed minds to impact the entire population. the 100th Monkey Experiment comes to mind. Reference: the Cultural Creatives -remember that all along you have been told you are change-agents.

story at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.channel4.com/news/south-yorkshire-police-rotherham-child-sexual-exploitation

18 Nov UK

Police watchdog probes Rotherham abuse officers

The independent police watchdog announces 10 South Yorkshire Police officers are to be investigated over their conduct in relation to complaints of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.

The IPCC said the officers were all identified through the Jay report, which found that more than 1,400 children had been subjected to sexual exploitation in the town between 1997 and 2013.

Professor Alexis Jay's report criticised Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police for not taking action when children as young as 11 were raped by men, beaten, abducted, and regularly trafficked to other cities to be abused.

'Positive step'
The watchdog's commissioner Kathryn Stone said: "The amount of public concern across the country about this episode and the impact on confidence in the police means it is important that a fully independent investigation is conducted to establish how South Yorkshire Police dealt with child sexual exploitation.

"I sincerely hope that victims and their families will see this investigation as a positive step towards answering the many questions they must have. I have met with South Yorkshire Police and am reassured by their commitment to fully cooperate with the investigation."

Today the IPCC identified seven parts of the report, which was published in August, that could lead to misconduct allegations against the officers under investigation.

The officers were originally part of a group of 13 referred to the IPCC. Two officers will not face investigation at this time, while the other is still under review.

and

http://news.sky.com/story/1375951/vulnerable-kids-at-risk-of-abuse-warns-report

19 Nov UK

Vulnerable Kids At Risk Of Abuse, Warns Report

The Ofsted report says many local authorities are still failing to deal with the threat of child sexual exploitation.

Vulnerable children at risk of sexual exploitation are being put in danger due to unacceptable failings by social services, health workers and police.

AdChoices

A report by the education watchdog Ofsted found local authorities have been "too slow" to face up to their responsibilities in preventing child sexual exploitation.

It also said more needed to be done to improve inter-agency co-operation, in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal.

more at link

[Sabrina]

All breathtakingly sad. But the main stream media are now getting their teeth into these on-going stories and cover-ups, regardless of high profile names allegedly involved.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11239535/Father-claims-Scotland-Yard-covered-up-sons-murder-by-Westminster-paedophiles.html

18 Nov UK (in the establishment newspaper the Telegraph..)

Father claims Scotland Yard covered up son's murder by Westminster paedophiles

Exclusive: The father of murdered eight-year-old Vishal Mehrotra says police ignored a tip-off that the boy may have been abducted by a VIP paedophile ring

The father of an eight-year-old boy murdered in the 1980s claims that his son may have died at the hands of a Westminster paedophile ring - and that Scotland Yard helped “cover up” the crime.

Vishambar Mehrotra, a retired magistrate, recorded a male prostitute saying in a telephone call that his son may have been abducted and taken to a now notorious guesthouse in 1981.

He took the recording to police at the time but claims they refused to investigate an allegation implicating “judges and politicians”. Mr Mehrotra said it had been a “huge cover-up”.

The Metropolitan Police announced last week that they were investigating possible murders linked to the Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London. The new inquiry began when an alleged victim came forward claiming to have witnessed three boys being killed, including one allegedly strangled by a Conservative MP during a depraved sex game.

He claimed that high-profile paedophiles abused children at locations in London in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mr Mehrotra’s son Vishal was abducted as he walked home to Putney after watching the Prince of Wales and Diana Spencer ride to their wedding in a carriage on July 29 1981.

He had gone ahead of other family members for the last few hundred yards. He was last seen less than a mile from the guesthouse.

Mr Mehrotra claims he received an anonymous call from a male prostitute in the months following. A man he guessed to be in his 20s told him Vishal may have been abducted by “highly placed” paedophiles operating from the Elm Guest House, Mr Mehrotra said.

He told The Telegraph: “I was contacted by a young man who seemed to be in his 20s. He told me he believed Vishal may have been taken by paedophiles in the Elm Guest House near Barnes Common.

“He said there were very highly placed people there. He talked about judges and politicians who were abusing little boys.” Mr Mehrotra, a solicitor who was a JP at Wimbledon magistrates’ court until retiring in 2006, claims the man said he had already informed police about activities at the guesthouse, but had received no response.

He added: “I recorded the whole 15-minute conversation and took it to police. But instead of investigating it, they just pooh-poohed it and I never heard anything about the tape again. The whole thing went cold.

“At that time I trusted the police. But when nothing happened, I became confused and concerned.

“Now it is clear to me that there has been a huge cover up. There is no doubt in my mind.”

In February 1982, part of Vishal’s skeleton was found in woodland in West Sussex. There was no trace of his legs, pelvis or lower spine, nor of his outer clothes, his sleeveless vest or his Superman underpants.

At the inquest into his death, the West Sussex coroner Mark Calvert Lee recorded an open verdict but said “foul play” was likely.

Police said 20,000 people had been interviewed, half of them in nearby Putney, and 6,000 properties checked.

Mr Mehrotra, now 69 and living in West Molesey near Hampton Court, said he had “hardly been contacted” by police in the intervening years.

He said he had not been spoken to in recent months despite the alleged witness reporting the murder of three boys at the time Vishal vanished.

Mr Mehrotra said: “This guesthouse was right next to where Vishal disappeared. There were predatory people there who were taking young boys and abusing them.

“It seems to me that it all adds up, so I can’t understand why the police have again failed to get in contact with me. I think the revelations of Savile and others in recent months have opened up a Pandora’s box. Hopefully everything will all come out soon.”
In June 1982, four months after Vishal’s remains were found, police raided the Elm Guest House.

Dozens of men were questioned, reportedly including at least 30 who were prominent in public life and business. It was widely reported at the time that the raids were linked to Vishal’s disappearance. The Times reported that the investigation had included the disappearance of another boy, Martin Allen, 15, missing since Guy Fawkes Night, 1979, whose body has never been discovered. The son of the chauffeur to the Australian High Commissioner, he was last seen waving goodbye to a school friend at King’s Cross Underground station.\

Police at the time dismissed the reports as “nonsense”. Soon afterwards, lawyers acting on behalf of the guesthouse threatened newspapers with legal action if they continued reporting on its alleged activities.

Martin’s brother said on Tuesday that police should reopen the investigation into the teenager’s disappearance. Kevin Allen, 51, said he had always suspected a cover-up after police told him all the case files had been lost in a freak flood.

He said: “I think it’s a new lead. Anything to ensure these people don’t get away with it. I think there are powerful forces involved in this. Years ago I was warned by a policeman that if I looked too deep into this then I might get hurt. I’ve never forgotten that.

“We have barely heard anything for 20 years, but there are other missing cases where the police barely stopped looking.

“My dad died never knowing what happened to Martin. We would love to have an answer for my mother before she passes away.”

In May 1983, as police wound up the inquiry into Vishal Mehrotra’s death, Carole and Harry Kasir, the owners of the Elm Guest House were fined £1,000 each and given suspended nine-month sentences at the Old Bailey for “running a disorderly house”. They were found not guilty of living off immoral earnings and having obscene films.

Five years later Carole told child protection officers that children from the council-run Grafton Close Children’s Home had been supplied to the brothel. She provided names of people who had frequented the guesthouse.

The Liberal MP Cyril Smith, now dead, has been widely alleged to have abused children from Grafton Close at The Elm.

At an inquest into her death in 1990, members of The National Association of Young People in Care said that Kasir had lived in fear of her life since the hotel was exposed. Christopher Fay said: “The reasons for her death are all tied up in this child pornography ring at the hotel.

“She was hounded and harassed by police and security services. She knew all the top people who had been involved in the ring at the hotel.”

Scotland Yard launched Operation Fairbank two years ago to look into suggestions that high profile political figures had been involved.

Officers have set up a new strand of the inquiry, Operation Midland, after being passed information about the three alleged murders.

The allegations emerged when a man in his 40s came forward claiming to have been one of around 15 boys who were abused by a powerful paedophile network 30 years ago.

Some of the abuse allegedly took place at flats in the Dolphin Square development in Pimlico, where a number of politicians have had London homes.

According to the man, a 12-year-old boy was strangled by a Conservative MP at a town house in front of other victims.
On another occasion, a boy of around 10 was deliberately run down and killed by a car being driven by one of his abusers, the man claimed.

The Attorney General on Tuesday said he would back an investigation into the allegations if there was evidence to support the claims. Jeremy Wright, speaking in the Commons, said: “My view is that the Crown Prosecution Service should pursue cases where the evidence exists to wherever the evidence leads, and that is regardless of the position held by the person being investigated.

“And if evidence is brought to light to justify such an investigation, I would expect it to be carried out.”

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said the force would not comment on an ongoing investigation.

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/cia-child-abuse-idaho-london-crimea.html


19 Nov

'CIA CHILD ABUSE'; IDAHO, LONDON, CRIMEA, GERMANY...

story at link

[Sabrina]

Another so called banker suicide at the forum thread here:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?77195-NYC-banker-suicide

and more here:

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/11/a-citigroup-banker-dies-along-with-responsible-press-reporting/

20 Nov

A Citigroup Banker Dies – Along With Responsible Press Reporting

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 20, 2014

Depending on where and when you got your news yesterday on the tragic death of Shawn D. Miller, a Managing Director of Wall Street mega bank, Citigroup, you were either emphatically told he died of a suicide or you were led to believe he was murdered. By late evening yesterday, the story had disintegrated into wild speculation. The New York Daily News ran this stunning headline, based on anonymous sources, at 9:22 p.m.: “Banker, 42, slashed his own throat in Manhattan bathtub during drug- and booze-filled bender: sources.”

It is becoming abundantly clear that if you work for a major Wall Street firm and die a sudden death, it will be shaped, molded, twisted and contorted until it fits with the suicide narrative – no matter how strongly the facts argue otherwise.


This is what we can reliably report this morning: Police were called to the scene at 120 Greenwich Street at 3:11 p.m. on Tuesday, November 18, a trendy, upscale area of Tribeca in Lower Manhattan. A friend of Miller’s had become concerned when he could not reach him by phone and called the doorman of the building to ask him to check on him. The doorman found Miller in the tub of his bathroom with knife lacerations to the throat and arms and called the police. EMS responders declared Miller dead at the scene.

All of this occurred on Tuesday afternoon, giving the New York Post plenty of time to check and double check their facts with the New York Police Department. In an on line post at the New York Post web site at 6:30 a.m. yesterday – Wednesday, the day after the death – the New York Post ran the following bold headline: “Banker found dead with throat slit in apparent suicide: cops.” That article reported that the police believed it was a suicide because “a knife was found under his body, sources said.”

But at 3:14 p.m. yesterday, the international wire service, Reuters, reported that “no weapon was found.”

At 4:05 p.m. yesterday, the New York Post ran a new headline: “Hunt on for man last seen with dead Citigroup exec.” This article states that “Police have not yet found the weapon used to cut Miller’s throat,” confirming what was reported by Reuters less than an hour earlier.

But then came the outrageous headline at the New York Daily News at 9:22 p.m. last evening, based on unnamed sources, suggesting that Miller had gone on a drug- and booze-filled bender and killed himself. The newspaper reported: “When crime scene investigators moved Miller’s body, they discovered a knife under him, leading them to believe he slashed his own throat and collapsed into the tub on top of the weapon, sources said.”

The wild and contradictory reporting instantly reminded us of how the London dailies had reported on the tragic death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, in January of this year. Magee’s body was found in a pool of blood on a ninth floor landing of JPMorgan’s European headquarters building in London.

The London Evening Standard tweeted: “Bankers watch JP Morgan IT exec fall to his death from roof of London HQ,” which linked to their article declaring that “A man plunged to his death from a Canary Wharf tower in front of thousands of horrified commuters today.”

The London Evening Standard’s reporting was flatly contradicted by the Sunday Times, which reported that “Gabriel Magee’s body lay for several hours before it was found at 8am last Tuesday.”

No single witness was ever identified by the police to say they had observed Magee plunging from the top of the building. The ninth floor landing was accessible from an inside stairway of the building, meaning his body could have arrived there through means other than a fall.

Both Citigroup and JPMorgan have paid billions of dollars to settle fraud charges by regulators. Both are also under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. In addition, both banks hold life insurance on many of their employees. When an employee dies, the death benefit is paid to the corporation tax free.

The practice is called Bank-Owned Life Insurance (BOLI). Just four of Wall Street’s largest banks (JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup) hold a total of $68.1 billion in Bank-Owned Life Insurance assets according to their regulatory filings. According to Michael Myers, an expert on BOLI, those assets could potentially mean that just these four banks are holding $681 billion in face amount of life insurance on their workers, or possibly even more.

[Sabrina]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-20/latest-scandal-goldman-ny-fed-employees-busted-colluding-illegally-sharing-confident

20 Nov US

The Latest Scandal: Goldman, Fed Employees Busted For Illegally Sharing Confidential Information

On the morning of Friday, September 26, in addition to the shocking news of Bill Gross' departure from Pimco, the world was just as shocked, or not as the case was for many, that a former NY Fed staffer, Carmen Segarra, who had been previously fired for suggesting that Goldman Sachs has an undue influence on the NY Fed and gets a preferential treatment (certainly as a result of NY Fed's president Bill Dudley being working previously at Goldman Sachs), had released nearly 50 hours of tapes confirming her allegations: that the NY Fed was nothing but a branch of the bank that controls every central bank. The full details were presented in "How Goldman Controls The New York Fed: 47.5 Hours Of "The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes" Explain."

Ironically it was on that very day that another recent Goldman hire from the NY Fed - a classic case of, as the NY Times puts it, the "revolving door, the symbolic portal that connects financial regulators to Wall Street" - a 29-year-old former New York Fed regulator named Rohit Bansal, got into hot water after something "shocking" was revealed: he had an inside source at the NY Fed who was providing him with illegal, confidential information on a regular basis.



Here is William Dudley, formerly of Goldman Sachs and president
of the New York Fed, saying "I don’t think anyone should question
our motives." It may have been an order.

As Bloomberg notes, following the re-escalation of the Segarra scandal, Bansal was promptly fired. Of course, had Carmen not revealed to the world just how extensive Goldman's domination of the NY Fed is, as Bansal's action demonstrated, he would still be fed confidential information from the New York Fed itself.

more at the link

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11243857/Australias-most-corrupt-politician-is-finally-charged.html


20 Nov Australia

Australia’s 'most corrupt politician', is finally charged

Eddie “The Godfather” Obeid will finally face court after daring prosecutors to charge him

One of the most corrupt politicians in Australian history – former state minister Eddie Obeid, known as “he who must be obeyed” - will finally be prosecuted after an inquiry found he lobbied colleagues over leases for restaurants without revealing that his family owned them.

Mr Obeid and fellow minister Ian Macdonald, who has also been charged, practiced corruption in the state of New South Wales that was “on a scale probably unexceeded since the days of the Rum Corps [a colonial-era corps that had a monopoly on the liquor trade]", a corruption inquiry heard in 2012.

Mr Macdonald, known as “Sir Lunchalot”, has been charged over the granting of a lucrative mining licence but may face further charges after receiving the services of a prostitute as apparent payment for assisting a property developer. The prostitute, named Tiffanie, told the inquiry the encounter was so repulsive she wanted to vomit.
Mr Obeid has previously dared prosecutors to charge him and appeared defiant outside his sandstone mansion in Sydney. Branded “The Godfather” by the media, he has insisted he is the victim of a political witch-hunt.

"I have no concern whatsoever that in a court of law we'll be able to fight the evidence, and I'm very confident."

Mr Obeid, 71, a long-serving Labor MP in the New South Wales state government, was born in Lebanon and worked in Sydney as a taxi driver before taking control of a local Arabic newspaper. He served as an MP from 1991 to 2011, while he and his family built up a sizable portfolio of businesses and properties. During his time in parliament, he became a factional kingpin and exercised influence over numerous MPs and ministers, who relied on him for their positions.

“[He] treated the state as his personal fiefdom,” historian Ross Fitzgerald wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald in August.

Mr Obeid’s influence is said to extend to his small hometown of Matrite in north Lebanon, where he reportedly owns a $US1 million palace.

A corruption inquiry in June found that Mr Obeid “misused his position as an MP” and sought to lobby other MPs and public servants for favourable decisions affecting his family’s restaurant leases in Circular Quay, a popular harbour-side tourist district. He could still face charges over other corrupt dealings investigated by the inquiry.

Mr Obeid said the corruption inquiries were “nothing but sham inquiries”.

[Sabrina]

http://www.channel4.com/news/spy-cable-revealed-how-telecoms-firm-worked-with-gchq

20 Nov

Spy cable revealed: how telecoms firm worked with GCHQ

One of the UK's largest communications firms had a leading role in creating the surveillance system exposed by Edward Snowden, it can be revealed.

Cable and Wireless even went as far as providing traffic from a rival foreign communications company, handing information sent by millions of internet users worldwide over to spies.

The firm, which was bought by Vodafone in July 2012, was part of a programme called Mastering the Internet, under which British spies used private companies to help them gather and store swathes of internet traffic; a quarter of which passes through the UK. Top secret documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and seen by Channel 4 News show that GCHQ developed what it called "partnerships" with private companies under codenames. Cable and Wireless was called Gerontic.

A company such as Vodafone, which has responsibility for so many customers, has to take a clear stand against these data grabs

German Green Party MP
Under the moniker, the company carried out tests on equipment used to carry out the surveillance, it came up with suggestions on how the spies could go about tapping its network, and even had a GCHQ employee working full-time within the company.

And a 2011 document reveals that Cable and Wireless went further. The company rented space on a cable owned by Indian telecoms company Reliance Communications that stretched from Asia across the Middle East and landed in Porthcurno in Cornwall. Reliance's transatlantic cable lands in Sennen Cove six miles to the north. And the two cables come together at nearby Skewjack Farm. Documents show that in 2011, this allowed Britain's spies to access all traffic from Reliance's main cable and send it to the GCHQ base up the coast in Bude.

Surveillance
Top secret documents from GCHQ show it was this access point, codenamed Nigella and run by Cable and Wireless, that allowed Britain's spies to gather the private communications of millions of internet users worldwide.

Channel 4 News has been unable to establish whether Reliance Communications was served with a warrant to authorise this and the company has not responded to our calls. Either way, from having no access to the cable at all, GCHQ planned to take in a trillion gigabytes of data per second.

The documents show an increasingly close relationship between the spy agency and Cable and Wireless, which has been operating submarine cables from the UK for more than a century. From 2008 until at least 2010, Cable and Wireless held regular meetings with GCHQ and was paid tens of millions of pounds to establish surveillance on web traffic as it flowed through its networks. At one point, the Mastering the Internet programme was costing £1m per month.

Cable and Wireless was bought by Vodafone in a billion-pound takeover. Documents seen by this programme appear to show that the Nigella access point was still feeding GCHQ's interception programmes as late as April 2013 - long after Vodafone's takeover had been completed. And GCHQ's partner company was still codenamed Gerontic.

'Consequences'
Vodafone insists GCHQ was never given direct access to its network and that any interception could only take place with a warrant. It also said GCHQ can only access the customer data of other telecoms companies if it serves them with a warrant too.

The damage has not only affected private citizens. In Germany, a key market where Vodafone has 30 million customers, has already been rocked after the Snowden documents showed that Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone was intercepted. And now, leaked documents from government cyber security experts have singled out Vodafone uniquely for criticism, questioning its ability to protect officials' data. Some politicians are now calling for Vodafone's contract with the German government to be pulled.

German Green Party MP Florian von Notz said: "the consequences would be to immediately suspend the contract, or cancel it. I believe cancellation is possible and legal. A company such as Vodafone, which has responsibility for so many customers, has to take a clear stand against these data grabs."

A Vodafone spokesman said: "the law in Germany governing all these areas of privacy and data protection are essentially the same as the laws in the UK. What we have in the UK is a system based on warrants, where we receive a lawful instruction from an agency or authority to allow them to have access to communications data on our network. We have to comply with that warrant and we do and there are processes for us to do that which we're not allowed to talk about because the law constrains us from revealing these things. We don't go beyond what the law requires.

A GCHQ spokesman said: "it is longstanding policy that we do not comment on intelligence matters; Furthermore, all of GCHQ's work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework, which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight."

[Sabrina]

from ECETI 20 Nov

Mexico, Sign of the Times

Today is Revolution Day in Mexico. Just recently according to the press and the locals 43 students were killed on the way to a protest. There were six others including the bus driver with a total of 49. They were on their way to protest a party and speech by the governor's wife who decided to have them what seems to be permanently removed. She tried to escape the country but was apprehended. Today people are coming out all over Mexico in demonstrations. Mexico City may have as many as a million people which in a grand understatement are not happy campers. This could turn into an Arab spring in Mexico. It seems events like these are transpiring all over the world. People are finished with the corruption and tyranny. It is part of the awakening and healing process. Iceland lead the way as a solution to the problem which always boils down to the banksters, installed puppets and behind the scenes manipulation having nothing to do with the will of the people.

I believe Revolution Day will come to America after it has its own Arab spring. It will take a trigger point like in Mexico that will generate a mass uprising. The door is always open to peaceful solutions, many of which are already in place and well underway. You will not hear about them in the mainstream corporate owned media. It will come through alternative media. Statistics have proven people have lost faith in the main stream media and are fast awakening to the propaganda machine it has become. The transformation cannot come without a transformation in consciousness and the will of the people demonstrated in mass.

We are fast approaching critical mass, what some call the hundred monkey effect. Resistance is futile. We either flow with and align ourselves with the new energies which are exponentially rising or take the downward spiral. Everything is being accelerated. Action/Reaction, karma as well as the positive attitudes, emotions, and deeds. It is time to choose wisdom over cleverness. You cannot outsmart your soul and spirit. Right thought and right action will be necessary in the days to come. Universal Law is coming to humanity and the Earth. We cannot hide from our selves, our karma or outwit the Source.

[Sabrina]

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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/11/20/all-wars-are-bankers-wars/

All Wars are Bankers’ Wars

Michael Rivero’s 2013 Documentary

By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


The purpose of war, according to radio host Michael Rivero, is to force central banks on countries that try to issue their own money. He makes a compelling argument, illustrated by numerous historical examples. The film’s main value, in my view, is in dispelling common misconceptions about where money comes from. Contrary to popular belief, western democracies don’t issue the money they use to run government services. They borrow the money at interest from privately owned central banks. In the US, this private central bank is called the Federal Reserve.


story at link

[Sabrina]

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/21/william-dudley-senate-hearing-oversight-failures-new-york-fed

21 Nov US

New York Fed chief gets grilled at Senate hearing on oversight failures

Pointed questions and plenty of ire were put to William Dudley regarding alleged coziness between his investigators and the banks they supervise

A Senate hearing on the Federal Reserve’s oversight of banks turned into a roast of New York Federal Reserve president William Dudley, who tried to fend off complaints from several angry senators and counted not one supporter on his side.

The surprisingly fiery Friday hearing – entitled Improving Financial Institution Supervision: Examining and Addressing Regulatory Capture – was held to examine whether the Fed was overlooking conflicts of interest between its investigators and the banks they supervise.

The hearing was inspired by complaints from the whistleblower Carmen Segarra, a former Fed bank examiner who has claimed she was silenced by her bosses at the New York Fed during her supervision of Goldman Sachs. Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, said during the hearing that Segarra had done “a public service in bringing [these problems] to light”.

Segarra’s complaints highlighted the revolving door problem at the Fed, whereby many examiners go to work for banks they once disciplined. That opens the door for Fed employees to leak information to banks. One such case, highlighted this week, caused Goldman Sachs to fire a young banker who had come from the Fed.

“The Fed is too cozy with the very banks where its oversight was needed,” Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia said during the hearing.

“It’s not surprising that Wall Street always manages to stay one step ahead of the sheriff,” Brown said. Brown said the Fed’s problems showed that “the agencies handcuff themselves or public servants curry favor with the banks they supervise”.

It was the second hearing in as many days to slam the Fed, putting pressure on the central bank to examine its oversight of the US financial system. A Senate investigation found on Thursday that the Fed put the financial system at risk by allowing banks to get away with gaining an unfair advantage in the commodities markets.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, reiterated that point to Dudley: “Until you’re willing to take meaningful action, our financial system and our whole economy remain at risk.”

Dudley was a target for several senators, including Democrat Jeff Merkley of Oregon, who complained that the nation’s central bank had gone too easy on wrongdoers in banking. Brown expressed concern about “Americans who lost their jobs, who lost their pensions, who lost their savings” because of wrongdoing at banks.

Dudley found no allies. The senators grilled him for not spotting failures ranging from the Libor rate-fixing scandal to the London Whale mess at JP Morgan. Dudley countered that the London Whale problems originated mostly out of the firm’s London office. However, a Senate investigation last year drew testimony from American bank examiners at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency who said that JP Morgan had defied their attempts to gain understanding of the bank’s workings.

Dudley, a former Goldman Sachs economist, took over leadership of the New York Fed in 2009 when his predecessor, Tim Geithner, became US treasury secretary. His Goldman Sachs experience drew some grumbling from Brown, who said of the commodities hearing the day before: “Goldman Sachs was defended by some of my colleagues, as they always are around here.”

Warren landed the sharpest punches against Dudley, interrupting him in hopes of forcing him to acknowledge the Fed had failed, as she saw it, in supervising banks.

Warren also pressed the issue on Libor, an international interest rate that according to regulators was manipulated by traders for years. “Do you wish you had looked at it earlier, investigated it before they had cheated people for years?” Warren asked Dudley.

Warren, more than the other senators, asked Dudley to account for his behavior as leader of the New York Fed.

“I think there’s a terrible cultural problem at banks,” Warren said, “but given the long list of supervisory failures at the New York Fed, both before and during your tenure, would you say that the Fed has its own cultural problems?”

Dudley objected that the Fed had not failed, but Warren disagreed.

“Change has to come from the top and it has to go all the way through the institution,” Warren said, following up with the pointed response that “either you need to fix it, Mr Dudley, or we need to get someone who will”.

Dudley, trained as an economist rather than a bank regulator, fended off the abuse by objecting: “I’m more of a fire warden, not a cop on the beat.” He also countered the senators’ points by saying the bank commissioned a 2009 examination of its own supervisory policies and has helped jail executives at BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse.

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http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/21/bank-of-england-investigates-staff-auction-rigging

21 Nov UK

Bank of England investigates staff over possible auction rigging

Investigation by lawyer looks into possible manipulation of money market auctions in 2007 and 2008

The Bank of England is investigating whether staff knew or even aided possible manipulation of auctions it held at the onset of the financial crisis to pump liquidity into the banking system, the Financial Times has reported.

The newspaper said the formal inquiry began during the summer and the central bank asked the British lawyer who looked into the Bank’s role in a foreign exchange scandal to head the new investigation.

A spokesman for the bank said he could not comment on the details in the report.

“If the bank were conducting an investigation or review of any of its activities, as it does from time to time, it would be wholly inappropriate to provide a running commentary via the press,” the spokesman said.

“I can tell you that no actions have been taken or are currently being contemplated against any employee of the bank.“

The FT, quoting people familiar with the situation, said the investigation would look into whether Bank of England money market auctions in late 2007 and early 2008 were rigged, and whether officials were party to any manipulation.

About 10 Bank staff have been interviewed as part of the inquiry and have been provided with defence lawyers at the expense of the Bank, the FT said.

The report comes little more than a week after an investigation, headed by lawyer Anthony Grabiner and commissioned by the Bank’s oversight committee, found no evidence that any of its official had been involved in improper behaviour in relation to a foreign exchange trading scandal.

The FT said Grabiner had been asked to conduct the new investigation.

The Bank dismissed its chief foreign exchange dealer last week, saying it found information about serious misconduct but it stressed the case was unrelated to the foreign exchange scandal.

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http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/21/rbs-admits-mistake-led-overstating-financial-strength-banking-regulators

21 Nov UK

RBS admits mistake led to overstating financial strength to regulators

Shares in RBS fell by almost 3% as it emerged bank has least margin for error among UK rivals

Royal Bank of Scotland has admitted it made a mistake that led to it overstating its financial strength to banking regulators.

Shares in RBS tumbled by almost 3% at one point on Friday as investors digested the bank’s announcement that it is less able to withstand an economic crisis than previously thought.

The bank, which is 80% owned by the British taxpayer, has still passed the stress test exercise designed by European banking regulators, but among UK banks it has the least margin for error. An RBS spokesperson said the stress tests were a “theoretical” exercise that had no impact on its most recent capital position.

One in five European banks failed the stress tests that were published last month by the European Banking Authority. The tests were intended to prevent a rerun of the economic crisis, with banks required to show they had enough capital to withstand a series of economic shocks such as a sudden rise in unemployment, a sharp fall in house prices and decline in economic growth. The banks were asked to model how a slide into recession imposing £20bn of losses would affect their common equity tier 1 ratio – a key measure of financial strength based on its earnings.

Under Friday’s revised results, RBS has found that its capital position in a crisis would be weaker than it previously thought: it would have a common equity tier 1 ratio of 5.7%, scraping above the EBA pass rate of 5.5%, but significantly less comfortable than the 6.7% it reported last month.

The revised results mean that RBS beat the threshold by the narrowest margin among UK banks: Lloyds came in at 6.2%, followed by Barclays at 7.1% and HSBC at 9.3%. RBS said that if it was repeating the stress-test exercise based on its latest earnings figures, it would have a stronger financial cushion. The bank said it had improved its CET 1 ratio by 220 basis points to 10.8% by 30 September, compared to 8.6% at the end of last year.

The mistake was discovered by officials at the Bank of England, who spotted an anomaly in RBS’s figures after the pan-European results were published in late October. Officials at Threadneedle Street contacted RBS, which amended the figures and filed the results to the EBA on Friday. No errors were uncovered at any other UK bank, although Deutsche Bank amended one of its figures shortly after the stress test results were published.

A spokesperson for RBS said the bank would be looking into how the mistake was made: “The result remains a pass under the most stressed scenario, and there is no impact on our last reported capital position of 10.8% or our 2016 capital target of at least 12%. We are examining how this mistake was made, and will be working with our regulators as we do so.”

The Bank of England will publish the results of its own stress tests on UK banks on 16 December and RBS is likely to come under even closer scutiny after this latest error.

The bailed-out bank is still reeling from a £56m fine imposed by banking regulators this week, in response to an IT breakdown in 2012 that saw 6.5m people, 10% of the population, locked out of their accounts. RBS issued an apology for the “unacceptable weakness” and said it had docked £6m in bonuses from staff after the IT collapse which affected customers at RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank.

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One take on the recent meetings:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40239.htm

What Really Happened in Beijing: Putin, Obama, Xi And The Back Story The Media Won’t Tell You

Ukraine, Iran's nukes, the price of oil: There are ties worthy of a Bourne film, if the media connected the dots

By Patrick L. Smith

November 16, 2014 "ICH" - "Salon"- By way of events on the foreign side, the past few weeks start to resemble some once-in-a-while event in the heavens when everyone is supposed to go out and watch as the sun, moon and stars align. There are lots of things happening, and if we put them all together, the way Greek shepherds imagined constellations, a picture emerges. Time to draw the picture.

The situation on the ground in Ukraine is getting messy again. Equally, events of the past year now leave Ukraine’s economy not far from sheer extinction. You have not read of this because it does not fit the approved story, but Ukraine’s heart barely beats. Further east, we hear in the financial markets that the ruble’s decline brings Russia to the brink of another financial collapse.

Let’s see. Oil prices are now below $80 a barrel. It costs me nearly $20 less to put gasoline in my car than it did a year ago, and good enough. But why has the price of crude tumbled in so short an interval? It makes little sense when you gather the facts, and — goes without saying — you get no help with that from our media.

Let’s keep on trucking. Secretary of State Kerry went to Oman for another round of talks on the Iranian nuclear question last weekend. Russia recently emerged as a potentially key part of a deal, which will be the make-or-break of Kerry’s record. In effect, he now greets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with one hand and punches him well below the belt with the other. Somewhere beyond our view this must make sense.

En avant! Obama went to Beijing last week for a sit-down with Xi Jinping, who makes Vladimir Putin look like George McGovern when he wants to, which is not infrequently. Still in the Chinese capital, our president then attended a meeting with other Asian leaders to push a trade agreement, one primary purpose of which is to isolate China by bringing the rest of the region into the neoliberal fold. (Or trying to. Washington will never get the overladen, overimposing Trans-Pacific Partnership off the ground, in my view.)

A big item on Xi’s agenda — he was in on the Pacific economic forum, too — was the recent launch of an Asians-only lending institution intended to rival the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank affiliate doing the West’s work in the East. Being entirely opposed to people helping themselves advance without American assistance and all that goes with it, Washington used all means possible to sink this ship. When Obama got off the plane in Beijing, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank had $50 billion in capital and 20 members, more to come in both categories.

Xi, meantime, had a productive encounter — another — with the formidable Vlad. My sources in attendance tell me both put in strong performances. In short order, Russia will send enough natural gas eastward to meet much of China’s demand and — miss this not — in the long run could price out American supplies in other Pacific markets, which are key to the success of the current production boom out West.

This is a lot of dots to connect. As I see it, the running themes in all this are two: There is constructive activity and there is the destructive. Readers may think this oversimplifies, but for this there is the ever-lively comment box below. I am willing to listen.

story at link

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https://www.minds.com/blog/view/370619333145006080/bolivia-passes-law-of-mother-earth-which-gives-rights-to-our-planet-as-a-living-system

Bolivia passes "Law of Mother Earth" which gives rights to our planet as a living system

The Law of Mother Earth ("Ley de Derechos de La Madre Tierra") holds the land as sacred and holds it as a living system with rights to be protected from exploitation, and creates 11 distinguished rights for the environment. It was passed by Bolivia's Plurinational Legislative Assembly. This 10 article law is derived from the first part of a longer draft bill, drafted and released by the Pact of Unity by November 2010. Can we please spread this law? There has to be a way for the free market to interoperate with reverence for this planet. Period.

In accordance with the philosophy of Pachamama, it states, "She is sacred, fertile and the source of life that feeds and cares for all living beings in her womb. She is in permanent balance, harmony and communication with the cosmos. She is comprised of all ecosystems and living beings, and their self-organisation."

"It makes world history. Earth is the mother of all," said Vice-President Alvaro García Linera. "It establishes a new relationship between man and nature, the harmony of which must be preserved as a guarantee of its regeneration."

The law enumerates seven specific rights to which Mother Earth and her constituent life systems, including human communities, are entitled to:

To life: It is the right to the maintenance of the integrity of life systems and natural processes which sustain them, as well as the capacities and conditions for their renewal

To the Diversity of Life: It is the right to the preservation of the differentiation and variety of the beings that comprise Mother Earth, without being genetically altered, nor artificially modified in their structure, in such a manner that threatens their existence, functioning and future potential
To water: It is the right of the preservation of the quality and composition of water to sustain life systems and their protection with regards to contamination, for renewal of the life of Mother Earth and all its components
To clean air: It is the right of the preservation of the quality and composition of air to sustain life systems and their protection with regards to contamination, for renewal of the life of Mother Earth and all its components
To equilibrium: It is the right to maintenance or restoration of the inter-relation, interdependence, ability to complement and functionality of the components of Mother Earth, in a balanced manner for the continuation of its cycles and the renewal of its vital processes
To restoration: It is the right to the effective and opportune restoration of life systems affected by direct or indirect human activities
To live free of contamination: It is the right for preservation of Mother Earth and any of its components with regards to toxic and radioactive waste generated by human activities

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_Rights_of_Mother_Earth

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/apr/10/bolivia-enshrines-natural-worlds-rights

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bolivias-law-of-mother-earth_n_848966.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/science/earth/14bolivia.html

http://www.newser.com/story/116229/bolivia-to-give-nature-same-rights-as-humans.html

19 Oct

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http://investmentwatchblog.com/not-just-gold-and-silver-new-lawsuit-says-precious-metals-manipulation-is-even-worse/

26 Nov (graphs at the link)

Not just gold and silver… New lawsuit says precious metals manipulation is even worse




From Bloomberg:

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) were sued in New York over claims they conspired for eight years to manipulate prices for the precious metals platinum and palladium in what plaintiffs’ lawyers say is the first class-action lawsuit of its kind in the U.S.

Standard Bank Group Ltd. and a metals unit of BASF SE (BAS), the world’s largest chemical company, were also sued. The four companies used inside information about client purchases and sale orders to profit from price movements for the metals used in products ranging from jewelry to cars, according to a complaint filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court.

The lawsuit by Modern Settings LLC, a jeweler that buys precious metals and derivatives set on their prices, claims the companies “were privy to and shared confidential, non-public information about client purchase and sale orders that allowed them to glean information about the direction” of prices.

Similar lawsuits have been filed this year in Manhattan accusing banks of rigging the benchmark price for gold. Authorities around the world are examining the gold market for signs of wrongdoing.

Regulators tightened scrutiny of benchmarks after uncovering price-rigging in interbank-loan rates and currencies. Silver became the first precious metal to change its traditional procedure in August, and Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) will run the replacement for the 95-year-old London gold fixing. A new mechanism for platinum and palladium starts Dec. 1.

Read more:

http://thecrux.com/not-just-gold-and-silver-big-banks-now-being-sued-for-manipulating-platinum-and-palladium-too/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-25/hsbc-goldman-rigged-metals-prices-for-years-suit-says.html

Big Banks Busted Massively Manipulating Foreign Exchange, Precious Metals … And Every Other Market


Currency markets are massively rigged. And see this and this.

Reuters notes today:

Regulators fined six major banks including Citigroup (C.N) and UBS (UBSN.VX) a total of $4.3 billion for failing to stop traders from trying to manipulate the foreign exchange market, following a year-long global investigation.

HSBC (HSBA.L), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), JP Morgan (JPM.N) and Bank of America (BAC.N) also face penalties resulting from the inquiry that has put the largely unregulated $5 trillion-a-day market on a tighter leash, accelerated the push to automate trading and ensnared the Bank of England.

In the latest scandal to hit the financial services industry, dealers shared confidential information about client orders and coordinated trades to make money from a foreign exchange benchmark used by asset managers and corporate treasurers to value their holdings. Dozens of traders have been fired or suspended.

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Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fined five lenders $1.77 billion, the biggest penalty in the history of the City of London, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ordered them to pay a further $1.48 billion.

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The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates banks, also fined the U.S. lenders $950 million and was the only authority to penalise Bank of America.

Gold and Silver Are Manipulated

Today, Switzerland’s financial regulator (FINMA) found “serious misconduct” and a “clear attempt to manipulate precious metals benchmarks” by UBS employees in precious metals trading, particularly with silver.

Reuters reports:

Swiss regulator FINMA said on Wednesday that it found a “clear attempt” to manipulate precious metals benchmarks during its investigation into precious metals and foreign exchange trading at UBS …

Gold and silver prices have been “fixed” in daily conference calls by the powers-that-be.

Bloomberg reported last December:

It is the participating banks themselves that administer the gold and silver benchmarks.


So are prices being manipulated? Let’s take a look at the evidence. In his book “The Gold Cartel,” commodity analyst Dimitri Speck combines minute-by-minute data from most of 1993 through 2012 to show how gold prices move on an average day (see attached charts). He finds that the spot price of gold tends to drop sharply around the Londonevening fixing (10 a.m. New York time). A similar, if less pronounced, drop in price occurs around the London morning fixing. The same daily declines can be seen in silver prices from 1998 through 2012.


For both commodities there were, on average, no comparable price changes at any other time of the day. These patterns are consistent with manipulation in both markets.

Derivatives Are Manipulated
Runaway derivatives – especially credit default swaps (CDS) – were one of the main causes of the 2008 financial crisis. Congress never fixed the problem, and actually made it worse.

The big banks have long manipulated derivatives … a $1,200 Trillion Dollar market.

Indeed, many trillions of dollars of derivatives are being manipulated in the exact same same way that interest rates are fixed (see below) … through gamed self-reporting.

Reuters noted in September:

A Manhattan federal judge said on Thursday that investors may pursue a lawsuit accusing 12 major banks of violating antitrust law by fixing prices and restraining competition in the roughly $21 trillion market for credit default swaps.

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“The complaint provides a chronology of behavior that would probably not result from chance, coincidence, independent responses to common stimuli, or mere interdependence,” [Judge] Cote said.

The defendants include Bank of America Corp, Barclays Plc, BNP Paribas SA, Citigroup Inc , Credit Suisse Group AG, Deutsche Bank AG , Goldman Sachs Group Inc, HSBC Holdings Plc , JPMorgan Chase & Co, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and UBS AG.

Other defendants are the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and Markit Ltd, which provides credit derivative pricing services.

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U.S. and European regulators have probed potential anticompetitive activity in CDS. In July 2013, the European Commission accused many of the defendants of colluding to block new CDS exchanges from entering the market.

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“The financial crisis hardly explains the alleged secret meetings and coordinated actions,” the judge wrote. “Nor does it explain why ISDA and Markit simultaneously reversed course.”

In other words, the big banks are continuing to fix prices for CDS in secret meetings … and have torpedoed the more open and transparent CDS exchanges that Congress mandated.

Interest Rates Are Manipulated
Bloomberg reported in January:

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc was ordered to pay $50 million by a federal judge in Connecticut over claims that it rigged the London interbank offered rate.

RBS Securities Japan Ltd. in April pleaded guilty to wire frauda s part of a settlement of more than $600 million with U.S and U.K. regulators over Libor manipulation, according to court filings. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in New Haventoday sentenced the Tokyo-based unit of RBS, Britain’s biggest publicly owned lender, to pay the agreed-upon fine, according to a Justice Department Justice Department.

Global investigations into banks’ attempts to manipulate the benchmarks for profit have led to fines and settlements for lenders including RBS, Barclays Plc, UBS AG and Rabobank Groep.

RBS was among six companies fined a record 1.7 billion euros ($2.3 billion) by the European Union last month for rigging interest rates linked to Libor. The combined fines for manipulating yen Libor and Euribor, the benchmark money-market rate for the euro, are the largest-ever EU cartel penalties.

Global fines for rate-rigging have reached $6 billion since June 2012 as authorities around the world probe whether traders worked together to fix Libor, meant to reflect the interest rate at which banks lend to each other, to benefit their own trading positions.

To put the Libor interest rate scandal in perspective:

The big banks have conspired for years to rig interest rates … upon which $800 trillion in assets are pegged
This was the largest insider trading scandal ever … and the largest financial scam in world history
Local governments got ripped off bigtime by the Libor manipulation
Even though RBS and a handful of other banks have been fined for interest rate manipulation, Libor is still being manipulated. No wonder … the fines are pocket change – the cost of doing business – for the big banks
Energy Prices Manipulated
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says that JP Morgan has massively manipulated energy markets in California and the Midwest, obtaining tens of millions of dollars in overpayments from grid operators between September 2010 and June 2011.

Pulitzer prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston noted in May that Wall Street is trying to launch Enron 2.0.

Oil Prices Are Manipulated
Oil prices are manipulated as well.

Commodities Are Manipulated
The big banks and government agencies have been conspiring to manipulate commodities prices for decades.

The big banks are taking over important aspects of the physical economy, including uranium mining, petroleum products, aluminum, ownership and operation of airports, toll roads, ports, and electricity.

And they are using these physical assets to massively manipulate commodities prices … scalping consumers of many billions of dollars each year. More from Matt Taibbi, FDL and Elizabeth Warren.

Everything Can Be Manipulated through High-Frequency Trading
Traders with high-tech computers can manipulate stocks, bonds, options, currencies and commodities. And see this.

Manipulating Numerous Markets In Myriad Ways
The big banks and other giants manipulate numerous markets in myriad ways, for example:

Engaging in mafia-style big-rigging fraud against local governments. See this, this and this
Shaving money off of virtually every pension transaction they handled over the course of decades, stealing collectively billions of dollars from pensions worldwide. Details here, here, here, here, here,here, here, here, here, here, here and here
Charging “storage fees” to store gold bullion … without even buying or storing any gold . And raiding allocated gold accounts
Committing massive and pervasive fraud both when they initiated mortgage loans and when they foreclosed on them (and see this)
Pledging the same mortgage multiple times to different buyers. See this, this, this, this and this. This would be like selling your car, and collecting money from 10 different buyers for the same car
Cheating homeowners by gaming laws meant to protect people from unfair foreclosure
Pushing investments which they knew were terrible, and then betting against the same investments to make money for themselves. See this, this, this, this and this
Engaging in unlawful “frontrunning” to manipulate markets. See this, this, this, this, this and this
Engaging in unlawful “Wash Trades” to manipulate asset prices. See this, this and this
Otherwise manipulating markets. And see this
Participating in various Ponzi schemes
Charging veterans unlawful mortgage fees
Cooking their books (and see this)
Bribing and bullying ratings agencies to inflate ratings on their risky investments
The Big Picture
The experts say that big banks will keep manipulating markets unless and until their executives are thrown in jail for fraud.

Why? Because the system is rigged to allow the big banks to commit continuous and massive fraud, and then to pay small fines as the “cost of doing business”. As Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitznoted years ago:

“The system is set so that even if you’re caught, the penalty is just a small number relative to what you walk home with.

The fine is just a cost of doing business. It’s like a parking fine. Sometimes you make a decision to park knowing that you might get a fine because going around the corner to the parking lot takes you too much time.”

Indeed, Reuters points out today:

Switzerland’s regulator FINMA ordered UBS, the country’s biggest bank, to pay 134 million francs ($139 million) after it found serious misconduct in both foreign exchange and precious metals trading. It also capped bonuses for dealers in both units at twice their basic salary for two years.

Capping bonuses at twice base salary? That’s not a punishment … it’s an incentive.

Experts say that we have to prosecute fraud or else the economy won’t ever really stabilize.

But the government is doing the exact opposite. Indeed, the Justice Department has announced it will go easy on big banks, and always settles prosecutions for pennies on the dollar (a form of stealth bailout. It is also arguably one of the main causes of the double dip in housing. And there is no change in the air.)

Indeed, the government doesn’t even force the banks to admit any guilt as part of their settlements. In fact:

“The banks have been allowed to investigate themselves,” one source familiar with the investigation told Reuters. “The investigated decide what they want to investigate, what they admit to, and how much they will pay.

Wall Street has manipulated virtually every other market as well – both in the financial sector and thereal economy – and broken virtually every law on the books.

And they will keep on doing so until the Department of Justice grows a pair.

The criminality and blatant manipulation will grow and spread and metastasize – taking over and killing off more and more of the economy – until Wall Street executives are finally thrown in jail.

It’s that simple …

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/11/banks-big-busted-massively-manipulating-foreign-exchange-precious-metal-markets.html


Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/not-just-gold-and-silver-new-lawsuit-says-precious-metals-manipulation-is-even-worse/#M5EFvWJXlbEwepHQ.99

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http://yournewswire.com/former-surrey-comet-news-editor-gagged-over-reporting-of-alleged-paedophile-ring/

25 Nov UK

Former Surrey Comet news editor gagged over reporting of alleged paedophile ring -

‘A former Surrey Comet news editor was gagged by the Government over the reporting of an alleged Westminster paedophile ring operating out of Elm Guest House in Barnes.

Hilton Tims, 82, the paper’s news editor between 1980 and 1988, revealed at the weekend he had been handed a D-notice preventing the reporting of sex allegations in 1984.

Elm Guest House, in Rocks Lane, is at the centre of the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Fernbridge, which is investigating claims of sexual abuse and grooming of children by Government ministers, MPs and senior police officers in the late 1970s and early 80s.’



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Published on Nov 27, 2014
Bringing the debate on child abuse to a close MP Zac Goldsmith pays tribute to the survivors of abuse, to Labour MPs Tom Watson and Simon Danczuk, “and above all to the extraordinary work by the investigative journalists at Exaro and David Hencke in particular. This is an organisation that has really led the campaign on so many fronts, and I know that the mainstream press who’ve been so slow to pick up on what’s really happening in this scandal, have become heavily dependent and rightly so on Exaro.
And I sometimes feel that because they are online, they don’t have the magazine on your desk, they are somehow invisible to people who are not paying attention, but they are absolutely crucial and David Hencke has an encyclopaedic knowledge of something which I don’t ever want to have encyclopaedic knowledge on frankly, but he’s an extraordinary figure. There can be no doubt at all that people have done terrible things and that they have been protected by the establishment. And I’m sure that some of the key figures are alive today, and the measure of success for the police investigation is that those people face justice before they die. This process really needs to happen now. Justice must be done and it must be seen to be done. And it’s no good waiting years and years for some of these people to fade away and be punished in their absence it’s not good enough.
The measure of the success for the inquiry is that we and the wider public understand how these conspiracies and cover ups have been able to happen, it’s only by understanding how they formed that we will have any hope at all of preventing them from happening again.
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[Sabrina]

http://theantimedia.org/veterans-national-guard-in-ferguson/

24 Nov US

Military Veterans Send Urgent Letter to National Guard in Ferguson Telling them to Stand Down

(TheAntiMedia) Hundreds of active duty US military and veterans have sent an open letter to Missouri National Guard members urging them to join Ferguson protesters, not fight against them.


The letter, signed by many veterans including dozens who fought in the Iraq war, was published on MarchForward.org and can be viewed below:

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To our brothers and sisters in the Missouri National Guard:

We are writing to you as active-duty U.S. service members and veterans, most of us having served in the Iraq war.

You have a choice you can make right now.

The whole world is watching the Ferguson police with disgust. They killed an unarmed, college-bound Black youth in broad daylight, and subsequently responded to peaceful, constitutionally-protected protests with extreme violence and repression.

Countless constitutional and human rights violations by these police have been documented over the course of the Ferguson protests; from attacking and threatening journalists, to using tear gas against peaceful protesters, including children.

Now, Governor Nixon has again activated the National Guard to “support law enforcement.” But you don’t have to follow their orders—you can stand with the protesters instead.

Our true duty
When we signed up, we swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States.

The police in Ferguson are violating that Constitution.
The First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of the press.

These laws are, as we are taught our entire lives, our most cherished Constitutional rights—the whole basis for the “freedom” we are told makes us the greatest country on Earth.

more at the link

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http://rt.com/business/209023-metals-price-fixing-lawsuit/

more on this story

26 Nov

Goldman Sachs, HSBC, BASF sued in first US metals price manipulation case

Four major global firms are to appear in a New York court accused of manipulating platinum and palladium prices for eight years. The law suit is the first of its kind in US history.

Those accused include units of Goldman Sachs Group, the world’s biggest global investment bank, HSBC Holdings, Europe's largest bank by market value, the metals unit of BASF SE (BAS) ), the world’s largest chemical company, and Standard Bank Group from South Africa, the world’s largest producer of platinum and second largest producer of palladium after Russia.

The plaintiffs claim the manipulations of precious metals prices, which is believed to have started in 2007, have cost purchasers millions of dollars, Reuters reports.

The companies have been sued for using insider information about client purchases and sale orders to profit from slight movements in the price of platinum group metals, be they used for jewelry or for industrial use, such as the production of automotive catalytic converters, fuel cells, etc.

The illegal sharing of customers’ data enabled the banks to undertake a “front-running” price manipulation, with the help of fabricating “spoof” orders, which is claimed violates US antitrust and commodities laws.

The suit was filed in the Manhattan Federal Court on Tuesday by Modern Settings LLC, a Florida-based maker of jewelry and police badges. All four defendant companies refused to comment on the issue.

Last year BASF’s metal unit generated €2.36 billion ($2.95 billion) revenue in precious metals trading, according to Reuters.

READ MORE: Banking breeds cheating for financial gain - Swiss researchers

Regulators around the world have been tightening the screws on the global banks over the manipulation with some of benchmark rates, such as rates on the foreign exchange markets and the inter-bank London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR).

In spring 2014 the Swiss regulator became the first to confirm it had uncovered illegal currency rate rigging by world’s leading financial organizations, Goldman Sachs, and HSBC included.

By November the world’s biggest banks had agreed to pay out $4.3 billion to settle an investigation into their alleged rigging of foreign exchange rates.

READ MORE: Banks fined record $4.3 bn for corrupting integrity of currency trading

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http://rt.com/business/209591-gold-europe-gold-repatriation/

28 Nov

Swiss, French call to bring home gold reserves as Dutch move 122 tons out of US

The financial crisis in Europe is prompting some nations to repatriate their gold reserves to national vaults. The Netherlands has moved $5 billion worth of gold from New York, and some are calling for similar action from France, Switzerland, and Germany.

An unmatched pace of money printing by major central banks has boosted concerns in European countries over the safety of their gold reserves abroad.

The Dutch central bank – De Nederlandsche Bank – was one of the latest to make the move. The bank announced last Friday that it moved a fifth of its total 612.5-metric-ton gold reserve from New York to Amsterdam earlier in November.

It was done in an effort to redistribute the gold stock in “a more balanced way,” and to boost public confidence, the bank explained.

“With this adjustment the Dutch Central Bank joins other banks that are keeping a larger share of their gold supply in their own country,” the bank said in a statement. “In addition to a more balanced division of the gold reserves...this may also contribute to a positive confidence effect with the public.”

Dutch gold reserves are now divided as follows: 31 percent in Amsterdam, 31 percent in New York, 20 percent in Ottawa, Canada and 18 percent in London.

Meanwhile, Switzerland has organized the ‘Save Our Swiss Gold’ referendum, which is taking place on November 30. If passed, it would force the Swiss National Bank to convert a fifth of its assets into gold and repatriate all of its reserves from vaults in the UK and Canada.

“The Swiss initiative is merely part of an increasing global scramble towards gold and away from the endless printing of money. Huge movements of gold are going on right now,” Koos Jansen, an Amsterdam-based gold analyst for the Singaporean precious metal dealer BullionStar, told the Guardian.

France has also recently joined in on the trend, with the leader of the far-right National Front party Marine Le Pen calling on the central bank to repatriate the country’s gold reserves.

In an open letter to the governor of the Banque de France, Christian Noyer, Le Pen also demanded an audit of 2,435 tons of physical gold inventory.

Germany tried and failed to adopt a similar path in early 2013 by announcing a plan to repatriate some of its gold reserves back from the US and France.

READ MORE: No ‘gold rush’: Germany keeps reserves in the US

The efforts fizzled out this summer, when it was announced that Germany decided to leave $635 billion worth of gold in US vaults.

Germany only keeps about a third of its gold at home. Forty-five percent is held in New York, 13 percent in London, 11 percent in Paris, and only 31 percent in the Bundesbank in Frankfurt.

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http://benswann.com/pressured-by-obama-administration-defense-secretary-chuck-hagel-quits/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=nl

one view on it all:

Pressured by Obama Administration, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Quits

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has announced that he will step down from his post once a replacement has been found. He was reportedly encouraged to resign by White House officials after he made statements that seemed to contradict the Obama administration's talking points on ISIS.


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President Obama described Chuck Hagel as “a young Army sergeant from Vietnam who rose to serve as America’s 24th secretary of defense” at a press conference today announcing Hagel’s resignation. Hagel will continue to serve as Secretary of Defense until a replacement has been confirmed by the Senate. According to The New York Times, the former Republican Senator Hagel had been asked to step down from his post by officials within the Obama administration after he made comments in August that contradicted the President’s messaging on the conflict with ISIS.

MSNBC quoted an anonymous Obama administration official who said, “He wasn’t up to the job.” Another anonymous White House insider told The New York Times, “The next couple of years will demand a different kind of focus.” Hagel reportedly struggled to make allies within Obama’s inner circle and failed to provide consistent, clear statements articulating the President’s national security agenda. Critics claimed that he was too passive in his leadership, quiet during staff meetings, and too quick to let General Martin E. Dempsey do most of the talking on behalf of the Pentagon.

At one point, Chuck Hagel called ISIS an “imminent threat to every interest we have… beyond anything that we’ve seen” at a time when the Obama administration was trying to downplay the threat, offending administration officials. According to PJ Media, Hagel spoke at the Reagan Library last week and suggested that America’s military capability is in decline under Obama’s leadership. “I am worried about it, I am concerned about it, Chairman Dempsey is, the chiefs are, every leader of this institution,” said Hagel, notably omitting President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden from the list of officials worried about the nation’s military prowess.

Slate notes that many reports suggest that Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter or former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy may be on the administration’s radar as a replacement for Hagel. Democrat Senator Jack Reed has also been mentioned as a possible replacement, but a spokesperson for his office told The New York Times, “Senator Reed loves his job and does not wish to be considered for secretary of defense or any other cabinet post.”

President Obama said that Hagel had not been fired and that the Secretary of Defense had himself opened talks two weeks ago in an effort to iron out a resignation that has been characterized by both sides as “mutual.”

“It’s been the greatest privilege of my life to serve with the men and women of the defense department and defend their families,” said Hagel as he announced his resignation.

24 Nov

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http://rt.com/news/209575-mexico-reform-police-students/

28 Nov

‘Mexico has to change’: Pena Nieto pledges reform after 43 students ‘massacred’

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said he will introduce constitutional reform after 43 trainee teachers were allegedly handed by police to a drug gang and then brutally murdered. He pledged to bring corrupt local authorities under the “rule of law.”

READ MORE: More mass graves unearthed in search for missing Mexican students

“Mexico cannot continue like this,” Peña Nieto said in his Thursday speech to political leaders. “After Iguala, Mexico has to change,” he said, referring to the alleged murder of students in the southwestern city of Iguala on September 26.

The president came forward with a 10-point plan on reforming local authorities, who are often ill-controlled in the country’s municipalities. It is aimed at stopping the collusion between local governments, police, and gangs. The plan involves redefining powers in the penal code and adopting a special crime-battling law.

Admitting that the Iguala tragedy has uncovered “institutional weakness,” Peña Nieto proposed to empower the central government to dissolve local authorities involved in organized crime, and give state authorities control over municipal police, which are often viewed as corrupt and suspected of covering drug trafficking.

The measures, called to “strengthen the rule of law,” propose to standardize police training and bring forward a unified state police. Moreover, the plan promises instruments to provide security and protect human rights, as well as combat corruption.

more at link

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-30209106

UK

John Allen trial: Former children's home boss guilty of 26 abuse charges

A former children's homes boss has been found guilty of 26 charges of sexually abusing youngsters in Wrexham.

John Allen, 73, of Needham Market, Suffolk, denied 40 counts of sexual abuse against 19 boys and one girl in the late 1960s up to the early 1990s.

The jury in his trial at Mold Crown Court started their deliberations last Wednesday. The trial began in October.

Allen has been found not guilty of two charges. The jury is still deliberating on 12 charges.

The case was adjourned for the rest of Wednesday.

The former hotelier and pop band manager ran 11 homes in the Wrexham area known as the Bryn Alyn Community, despite not having any qualifications for the work he was doing.

The prosecution claimed he was a "regular and formidable presence" at the homes, saying Allen created "a sexualised atmosphere... alongside a culture of fear".

The trial also heard that some children spoke to those in authority, including the police, but were often ignored or disbelieved.

Jurors were also told of Allen's previous conviction in 1995 for six counts of indecent assault involving repeated abuse of six boys dating from the 1970s.

More complainants came forward following the publication of the Waterhouse report into abuse in north Wales care homes in 2001 and after the setting up of Operation Pallial in 2012 to investigate claims of historical child abuse, the court heard.

It is the first trial held as part of the Operation Pallial investigation which has identified 120 potential suspects.

26 Nov

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/suffolk-centre-of-child-prostitution.html

SUFFOLK - CENTRE OF CHILD PROSTITUTION

story at link

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-30099590

John Allen's children's homes in Wrexham 'like hell'

A victim of the paedophile boss of a group of north Wales children's homes has described his experience in care as being "like hell."

It followed the conviction of 73-year-old John Allen of 33 sex offences in a campaign of abuse spanning decades.

The man gave evidence in the trial of Allen for the historical abuse at the former homes in Wrexham known as the Bryn Alyn Community.

In an interview with BBC Wales, he explained how Allen had groomed him, giving him gifts before he abused him.

More than 20 years later, the man is still plagued by terrible dreams.

"The system really did fail us," said the man who cannot be identified.

He described Bryn Alyn as a "dumping ground" for children who had arrived there under different circumstances.

more at link

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http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/alfred-webre-transhumanist-agenda-war-crimes-tribunal-deconstructing-the-transhumanist-agenda/

Alfred Webre: Transhumanist Agenda War Crimes Tribunal “DECONSTRUCTING THE TRANSHUMANIST AGENDA”


Citizen’s War Crimes Tribunal to prosecute Transhumanist Agenda

Transhumanist Agenda War Crimes Tribunal

Public Announcement

Thursday Nov. 27, 2014

The Transhumanist Agenda War Crimes Tribunal is pleased to announce it is in formation and will be launching in Spring 2015.

Citizen’s War Crimes Tribunal to prosecute Transhumanist Agenda

Kevin Annett announced on Nov. 25, 2014 that he would be joining a Transhumanist Agenda War Crimes Tribunal announced on Nov. 20, 2014 at the Covert Harassment Conference in Brussels. The mission of the Citizen’s Tribunal is to prosecute, try, adjudicate, sentence, and enforce against perpetrators at all levels in the Transhumanist Agenda including the use of new physics torture and mind control/robotization weapons; the use of mind-control technologies in any and all human settings; and the robotization of humans.

Kevin Annett will be a Judge on the War Crimes Tribunal, along with Alfred Lambremont Webre, former Judge on the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal.

Former Belgian Parliament MP Laurent Louis has agreed to serve as Prosecutor for the Tribunal.

BACKGROUND ON THE TRANSHUMANIST AGENDA

Here are some background documents on the Transhumanist Agenda addressed by the Tribunal:

Geoengineering, Fukushima radiation, & the Transhumanist Agenda
by Alfred Lambremont Webre

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2014/01/geoengineering-fukushima-radiation-the-transhumanist-agenda.html

Covert Harassment Conference 2014 with NSA Whistleblower William Binney

http://covertharassmentconference.com/

EUCACH.ORG www.eucach.org

www.mind-computer.com

www.nanobrainimplant.com

www.mindcontrol.se

​2. ​Alfred Webre: Citizen’s war crimes Tribunal, International Statute, Comprehensive enforcement to end Transhumanist Agenda

WATCH ON YOU TUBE

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

SPEECH & LINKS

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2014/11/alfred-webre-citizens-war-crimes-tribunal-international-statute-comprehensive-enforcement-to-end-transhumanist-agenda.html

​3. Global Communique from The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS): November 15, 2014 – The Evidence that forced Pope Benedict to Resign is Now Available

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2014/11/global-communique-from-the-international-tribunal-into-crimes-of-church-and-state-itccs-november-15-2014-the-evidence-t.html

​4. Global Communique from The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS): November 15, 2014 – The Evidence that forced Pope Benedict to Resign is Now Available

Global Communique from The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS): November 15, 2014 – The Evidence that forced Pope Benedict to Resign is Now Available

Documentation of Genocide and Child Murder in Canada – Issued from the court record of The International Common Law Court of Justice, Brussels
(Case Docket No. 02252013, The People v. Joseph Ratzinger, Elizabeth Windsor et al)

Vancouver:

The ITCCS has just released the complete set of testimonies and documents that convicted the government and churches of Canada, the Vatican and the Crown of England, and their officers, of planning, committing and concealing crimes against humanity.

These 150 exhibits formed the basis of the verdict of February 25, 2013 that sentenced Pope Benedict, Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and others to twenty-five years in prison without parole, and stripped them of their office and authority.

This historic verdict lawfully disestablishes the Crown of England and the Vatican as legitimate bodies, and authorizes the seizure of all church and crown property, lands and assets under the authority of the common law and new constitutional Republics.

Please post and share these historic records, and help our common law sheriffs enforce these verdicts against these criminal individuals and institutions.

Issued 15 November, 2014 by ITCCS Central Office, Brussels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvhfXAd08TE – Common Law Court Proceedings – Genocide in Canada (Part One) – 1 hr. 46 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKFk_L7y9g – Common Law Court Proceedings – Genocide in Canada (Part Two) – 1 hr. 47 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ormOIlOi4Vc – Final Court Verdict and Sentencing – 8 mins. 30 secs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IylfBxm3sMg – Authorizations and Endorsements of ITCCS/Kevin Annett by indigenous eyewitnesses – 10 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CReISnQDbBE – Irene Favel, Eyewitness to the incineration of a newborn baby by a priest at Muscowegan Catholic Indian school, Saskatchewan, 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBUd3UXt6fI – Other key testimonies from our Court case against genocide in Canada

www.itccs.org

The Common Law Manual​
​www.itccs.org

The mills of Citizen Tribunal justice grind slowly and they grind exceedingly fine.

Transhumanist Agenda War Crimes Tribunal

http://www.warcrimestribunal.wordpress.com

CONTACT: peace@peaceinspace.org

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-26/guest-post-did-they-want-more-violence-ferguson-10-coincidences-too-glaring-ignore

Would look that way....yet another criminal charge to add to the list one day....


Guest Post: Did They Want More Violence In Ferguson? 10 'Coincidences' Too Glaring To Ignore

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

Was it a conspiracy or was it incompetence? Those appear to be the only two alternatives that we are left with after the horrific violence that we witnessed in Ferguson on Monday night. The first round of Ferguson rioting back in August took everyone by surprise, but this time authorities had more than three months to prepare. They had the ability to control precisely when the grand jury decision would be announced and how many cops and National Guard troops would be deployed on the streets. But despite all this, the violence in Ferguson on Monday night was even worse than we witnessed back in August.

Either this was a case of almost unbelievable incompetence, or there was someone out there that actually wanted this to happen. If someone out there is actually trying to provoke more violence in Ferguson, then the rioters are being played like a fiddle. Most of them have no idea that they could potentially just be pawns in a game that is far larger than they ever imagined. The only other alternative to explain what we just saw is incompetence on a level that is absolutely laughable. Something definitely does not smell right about all of this, and let us hope that at some point the American people get the truth.

The following are 10 “coincidences” from Monday night in Ferguson that are too glaring to ignore…

story at link

26 Nov

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UK main stream media finally doing some useful reporting, with the help of the 'alternative' online blogs....


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2852444/Did-PM-s-adviser-try-stop-MP-linking-Brittan-claims-child-sex-abuse-Former-solictor-general-said-naming-not-wise-move.html

27 Nov UK

Did PM's adviser try to stop MP linking Brittan to claims of child sex abuse?

Simon Danczuk, the campaigning Rochdale MP, claimed Sir Edward Garnier spoke to him before he was due to give evidence

Mr Danczuk said Sir Edward – who was Solicitor General from 2010 to 2012 – said that ‘challenging Lord Brittan on child abuse would not be wise’

The MP made the claims in a Commons debate under Parliamentary privilege

One of David Cameron’s former legal advisers was accused yesterday of trying to discourage a Labour MP from naming Lord Brittan over child abuse allegations.

Simon Danczuk, the campaigning Rochdale MP, claimed Sir Edward Garnier spoke to him before he was due to give evidence to a committee of MPs this summer.

Mr Danczuk said Sir Edward – who was Solicitor General from 2010 to 2012 – said that ‘challenging Lord Brittan on child abuse would not be a wise move’.

The MP made the claims in a Commons debate under Parliamentary privilege, meaning he cannot be sued for libel or face other legal action over what he said.

The debate, about the progress of the Government’s overarching inquiry into the handling of child sex abuse allegations by public bodies, also heard from Tory MP Zac Goldsmith who repeated claims that a former Cabinet minister was photographed with a naked boy in the sauna of a guesthouse at the centre of historic child sex abuse allegations.

Mr Danczuk told MPs: ‘Earlier this year I told the Home Affairs Select Committee that a dossier containing allegations about child abuse by politicians had been handed by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens to the then home secretary Leon Brittan.

'This revelation helped lead to the Wanless/Whittam review and to the establishment of the overarching inquiry. But not everyone was pleased with the idea that I might challenge Lord Brittan.

‘The night before my appearance at the committee I had an encounter with the right honourable learned member for Harborough [Edward Garnier].

After the 10pm vote he drew me to one side outside the chamber and warned me to think very carefully about what I was going to say the following day. He told me that challenging Lord Brittan on child abuse would not be a wise move and that I might even be responsible for his death as he was unwell.

'I understand people are cautious about naming parliamentarians but I do think that people who might know about child abuse allegations should answer questions whatever their position. We should not shy away from that.’

Leon Brittan was Home Secretary from 1983 to 1985, and Mr Danczuk claims that at the time he was sent a dossier of allegations by Mr Dickens about paedophiles ‘operating and networking within and around Westminster’.

The dossier has never been recovered despite a Home Office inquiry into historic files. The issue will form part of the overarching abuse inquiry which was commissioned by ministers in the summer.

In yesterday’s debate Mr Goldsmith claimed that a child protection campaigner had been told by one of the owners of the Elm Guest House, Carol Kasir, that she had photographs of ‘establishment figures’ at the hotel where boys in care had been ‘brought in for sex’. One picture allegedly showed a former Cabinet minister in the sauna with a naked boy, Mr Goldsmith said.

But the evidence, along with logbooks, names, times, dates and photographs of Mrs Kasir’s customers simply disappeared after a 1982 police raid on the guesthouse.

Mr Goldsmith added: ‘There can no longer be any doubt at all that powerful people have done terrible things and that they have been protected by the establishment.’

Mr Danczuk said earlier: ‘We now know that from at least the 1970s up to the present day there have been people in positions of power who have sexually abused children. Not only this, there have been powerful people willing to cover up this abuse and obstruct justice.’

Sir Edward declined to comment when contacted by the Daily Mail yesterday.

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27 Nov UK

Ex cabinet minister was photographed in sauna with naked boy at notorious guest house where children were 'brought in for sex', MP tells Parliament

Zac Goldsmith said child protection campaigner had been told of pictures

Elm Guest House owner allegedly had photos of 'establishment figures'

But the evidence of guest house customers disappeared in 1982 police raid


story at link

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2852189/Ex-cabinet-minister-photographed-sauna-naked-boy-notorious-guest-house-children-brought-sex-MP-tells-Parliament.html#ixzz3KMIF4oF7

[Sabrina]

http://www.thrivemovement.com/tracking-global-changes.blog

For the first time in 70 years, countries are overtly checkmating U.S. dominance in the world trade arena. Here is an excerpt from our live ThriveTogether think tank event last weekend.

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http://galacticconnection.com/late-breaking-news-game-changer-spread-changes-light-across-world/

30 Nov Canada

LATE BREAKING NEWS – A GAME CHANGER TO SPREAD CHANGES AND LIGHT ACROSS THE WORLD NOV 30, 2014!!!!

PLEASE spread this far and wide, especially since people need to KNOW that The Light is succeeding!!! You just gotta LOVE this one folks! Listen to this impromptu interview with Kevin Annett and Alexandra Meadors where we discuss the most recent reaction from the Canadian Supreme Court to the Public Order of Revocation filed by Kevin Annett in response to the Kinder Morgan oil drilling attempts in Burnaby Mountain – one of the few untouched biodiverse locations on the planet!!!

If you aren’t excited yet – get ready to be!!!

This stand down order ACCOMPLISHED the following:

1) a denied injunction by Kinder Morgan against the protestors

2) a release of ALL those arrested involved in this event

3) a halt in their drilling

Are you seeing the power of Common Law now? Are you feeling the significance of this precedence within statute law???

I am so excited!!!! YEAH!

Love
Alexandra

Interview at the link.

and

http://itccs.org/2014/11/29/common-law-revocation-order-overturns-rcmp-kinder-morgan/

Common Law Revocation Order overturns RCMP, Kinder-Morgan

A special announcement from the Republic of Kanata and Common Law courts in Canada, describing how the RCMP and B.C. Supreme Court have bowed to the common law Revocation Order nullifying “crown” authority in the Kinder-Morgan environmental dispute in Vancouver.

The common law works: join our movement and reclaim our nation.

Issued 29 November, 2014 on liberated territory of the Republic of Kanata. www.itccs.org , www.republicofkanata.com

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Public Order of Revocation at the link.




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http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5419/buckingham-palace-drawn-into-scandal-over-paedophile-ring

29 Nov UK

Buckingham Palace drawn into scandal over paedophile ring

From confidential Home Office files - article at the link.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30266834

30 Nov UK

English devolution: Councils demand more powers

The leaders of more than 100 English councils have demanded more powers be devolved from Westminster.

They said English voters would not accept greater devolution to Scotland if a transfer did not also take place in England, adding "It's England's turn now", in a letter to the Observer.

The council leaders also said they opposed further cuts in their funding.

It comes days after a commission on further devolution said more powers should be transferred to Edinburgh.

The Smith Commission, set up in the wake of the Scotland's vote against independence, recommended the country's parliament should be able to set its own income tax rates, with the cash earned staying north of the border.

Also on Thursday, David Cameron said proposals for English MPs to vote on English laws are to be published before Christmas.

'Look north with envy'
The Observer letter has 121 signatories in total. It is signed by senior Local Government Association (LGA) figures including chairman David Sparks, along with 65 Labour council leaders, 40 Conservative leaders, 10 Liberal Democrat leaders and one independent.

The LGA represents more than 350 councils in England and the 22 Welsh councils through the Welsh LGA.

"Earlier this week, the Smith Commission set out a better deal for Scotland, granting more control over funding and recognising the importance of devolving power down beyond Holyrood. It's England's turn now," they wrote.

They call on George Osborne to use Wednesday's Autumn Statement - his update on tax and spending plans - to outline a "new settlement for England" which devolves power from Westminster and shares out tax and spending across the UK "on a fair basis".

"The people we represent, who look north of the border with envy at the greater control Scots are to get over their everyday lives will expect nothing less," the letter continues.

The leaders also warn Mr Osborne that, having seen their budgets slashed by 40% over the current parliamentary term, local government cannot afford another punishing round of "austerity" cuts.

"Funding for services provided by councils has borne the brunt of austerity, while demand continues to rise. When the chancellor delivers his statement... 'more of the same' cannot be an option," they say.

"Further reductions without radical reform will have a detrimental impact on people's quality of life and will lead to vital services being scaled back or lost."

'Unstoppable tide'
Local government minister Kris Hopkins warned that councils could not be exempt from the continued need to find savings.

"Local government accounts for a quarter of all public spending and must play its part in paying off the deficit left by the last administration," he said.

The fall-out from Scotland's historic No vote against independence in September has ignited a fierce debate on English devolution.

The three main parties pledged more devolution for Scotland during the campaign to encourage it to reject independence - which voters did - but it also prompted many calls from across the political divide for devolution south of the border.

Earlier this month, a poll commissioned by the BBC suggested some 80% of people in England supported having more powers devolved to local areas.

Shadow communities secretary Hilary Benn said devolution for England was now inevitable.

"Devolution isn't just for Scotland. There is an unstoppable tide now flowing right across England in favour of people having more power locally," he said.

"If we want to get the economy moving in all parts of the country, then we need to give local communities more power to shape their own future."

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11263787/Israeli-coalition-close-to-collapse-as-Benjamin-Netanyahu-threatens-elections.html

Israeli coalition close to collapse as Benjamin Netanyahu threatens elections

Israeli premier hints at early polls after senior cabinet split over bill that would declare Israel a nation for Jews but leave Arabs as second-class citizens

Israel's government was on the verge of collapse on Sunday night as a split over a controversial new law designating the country a Jewish state deepened into an all-out assault by cabinet rivals on the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mr Netanyahu signalled that he was ready to call an early general election to stifle the rebellion, led by ministers from centrist coalition partners to his right-wing Likud Party.

He lashed out angrily after his finance minister, Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, publicly accused him of playing "petty politics" while ignoring weighty issues such as the budget and Israel's foreign relations in the latest in a series of rancorous exchanges.

"Recently, hardly a day passes without us running into diktats or threats of resignation, or ultimatums and such, as ministers attack the government and its prime minister," Mr Netanyahu told Sunday's cabinet meeting. "I hope that we will be able to return to proper conduct. This is what the public expects of us because only thus is it possible to run the country, and if not, we will draw conclusions."

His comments were the clearest sign yet that the country was heading towards an early poll less than two years after Mr Netanyahu formed a mostly Right-wing coalition in which Mr Lapid headed the second-biggest party. Opinion surveys have indicated that Mr Netanyahu's Likud party would again emerge as the largest party in a fresh poll, giving him a fourth term as premier, despite falling approval ratings.

After days of talk of a "coalition crisis", sources close to the Israeli leader said the country was "98 per cent into an election", the liberal newspaper Haaretz reported.

The open talk of an election followed threats from Tzipi Livni, the justice minister, and Mr Lapid to resign if a bill to declare Israel "the nation state of the Jewish people" becomes law.

The prime minister says the law is necessary to fend off Palestinian opposition to Jews' right to live in Israel but Mr Lapid and Ms Livni say it is a threat to the country's democratic character since it would reduce Arabs to second-class citizenship, and that it has been introduced by electioneering purposes.

Amid the political manoeuvering, a parliamentary vote on the bill scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed, government insiders suggested.

In a unabashed personal attack, Mr Lapid told an audience in Tel Aviv that he had not spoken Mr Netanyahu outside cabinet meetings for five weeks.

"The major issues are stuck and the prime minister isnﾒt doing anything about the state budget, Israel's international relations, personal security and housing," he said. "Instead we are dealing with the pettiest of politics. The prime minister needs to decide that he doesn't want elections. This crisis can be solved in a conversation between us."

Nahum Barnea, an influential columnist with the mass circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, criticised the prime minister in even more graphic terms, writing: "He has gone into what people who know much more than me about psychology call a manic-depressive state....There are ministers who are certain that he is no longer functional."

The cabinet approved the Jewish nation state bill last week against a backdrop of of increasing tensions between Jews and Arabs and concerns over outbreaks of anti-Arab racism.

Those worries were highlighted over the weekend after arsonists attacked a mixed school in Jerusalem that promotes co-existence between the two communities.

Saturday's attack at the Hand-in-Hand bilingual school resulted in severe fire damage to a classroom for first-grade children. The attackers also sprayed anti-Arab graffiti, including "Death to Arabs" and "There's no coexistence with cancer" in Hebrew on walls inside the school. Mr Netanyahu condemned the incident.

30 Nov


and


http://galacticconnection.com/20-national-governments-overthrown-cabal-take-begins-cia-sources-say/

Benjamin Fulford's latest take on events:

2 Dec

Over 20 national governments to be overthrown as cabal take-down begins, CIA sources say Mon, December 1, 2014

The Satanic Nazionist cabal that seized power in the West is about to be taken down and the result will be the toppling of over 20 governments, including those at of the United States, Japan and the UK, CIA, Pentagon and MI6 sources say. Many CIA and Pentagon officers have gone into bunkers in preparation for battle with the cabal mercenary armies, the CIA and Pentagon sources say. The firing of US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel last week was the trigger event, the sources say. The fact the two main cabal candidates to replace him refused the job, indicates something is definitely going on at high levels of the military industrial complex. As one source put it (using more direct language) the fecal matter is about to encounter the ventilator.

Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama tried, and failed, last week to use staged race riots around the country as an excuse to use Homeland Security to enforce martial law on behalf of the cabal.

Many in the US military are confused and unsure of what to do because they have been heavily indoctrinated into blindly following orders and accepting civilian control. The first thing that needs to be drilled into the heads of these fence-sitters is that they are disobeying their oath, and therefore their orders, by allowing the constitution of the United States to be shredded by fascists. The second thing that must be explained to them is that civilians are not in charge, gangsters are.

There is also a lot of confusion even at high levels of the CIA and other US intelligence agencies about the consequences of the bankruptcy of the US corporate government. The big point they need to keep in mind is that finance is the psychological process of deciding what humans do in the future. Even if the US financial system collapses, nothing in the real world will change. No houses, land, factories or people will vanish just because trillions of debt slavery instruments mis-labelled as “US dollars,” are deleted from bank computers.

The only risk of chaos would come from a failure by the military industrial complex to pro-actively shut down the system and reboot it with a meritocratically controlled replacement run by and for the people.

Also, the US military need to know that if they do not act against the Satanists in Washington D.C. and Wall Street, then
a tsunami will hit the US East coast, forcing an evacuation of New York City, the entire state of Florida and many other places, White Dragon Society sources say.

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/11/24/fogo-volcano-erupts-after-20-years-of-sleep-evacuations-in-progress-cape-verde-islands/
The military needs to make contingency plans ASAP if they are to avoid a humanitarian crisis caused by the tsunami.

full article at link and mentions Netanyahu here:

Furthermore, evidence given at the trial that 311 was a man-made tsunami and nuclear terror attack has attracted high level interest, MI5 sources said. The UK external intelligence agency MI6 has asked its counterparts in US and Japanese intelligence for detailed evidence about the 311 attack. In addition, Israeli Mossad intelligence sources are also investigating allegations that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was one of the chief planners of that attack, the MI5 source says.

[Sabrina]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prolific-child-abuser-john-allen-4727494

Main stream media getting some teeth at last...

1 Dec UK

Prolific child abuser John Allen 'shared victims' with paedophile friend linked to Tony Blair minister

John Allen, 73, and Michael John Carroll, 66, were friends when they were abusing youngsters North Wales and London respectively in the 1980s

Two notorious paedophiles were at the centre of a nationwide network of abusers which allegedly included both Labour and Tory politicians, a Mirror investigation has found.

Detectives suspected 16 years ago that the children's home abuse ring spanned the country and involved hundreds of victims.

Official documents show paedophiles John Allen, 73, and Michael John Carroll, 66, were friends when they were abusing youngsters North Wales and London respectively in the 1980s.

Their links can be revealed on the day Allen was jailed for life for sexually abusing 19 children he was paid to look after.

Margaret Thatcher's former aide Sir Peter Morrison is suspected of abusing boys in Allen's care in Wales while a former minister in Tony Blair's government is currently being probed over his alleged visits to Carroll's Angell Road children's home in Lambeth, south London.

Both men were protected by the authorities who ignored Allen's victims for years and allowed Carroll to remain in charge of the home despite knowing he was a convicted paedophile.

A series of articles in the Daily Mirror have revealed how former detective Clive Driscoll was removed from an investigation into Carroll in 1998 when he named the Blair minister as a suspect.

Official papers from that year show a boy placed in a Lambeth home was abused by Carroll, known as MJC, while two of the boy's brothers went to a Bryn Allen Community in Wales where youngsters were attacked by Allen.

The internal Lambeth council document, dated 23 September, 1998, states: "Additional information not yet in a statement is that the third brother of witness 1 and 2 was placed at Bryn Allen Community not Angell Road.

"However he has confirmed that he knew MJC who used to visit John Allen at the community.

"John Allen is now serving a long custodial sentence for abuse of children at that group home...From the placements list it appears we used a number of homes to place children now known to have suffered extensive abuse. Eg Bryn Allen, and St Georges Liverpool now renamed Clarence House."

more at the link


and


http://thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/james-bond-and-the-paedophiles/

James Bond and the paedophiles

story at the link


and


http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/john-allen-bigger-picture.html

John Allen the bigger picture


story at link

interesting the Mirror link has been taken off their website as of 2 Dec? I'm now seeing some value in recording some of this stuff!!

[Sabrina]

http://order-order.com/2014/12/01/goodbye-gordon-never-forget-the-prime-mentalists-greatest-hits/

For the list, ex Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be stepping down as an MP at the next national election (UK). All sorts of stories to come out about him yet am sure. Lives in a Scottish society allegedly entrenched in child abuse as well, some say.

DECEMBER 1ST, 2014

Goodbye Gordon – Never Forget the Greatest Hits

Gordon Brown will tonight finally announce he is making his lack of parliamentary attendance official by quitting at the next election. This website was taking the p**s out of the former Prime Mentalist way before it was cool, but with the old media doing their favourite McMental greatest hits today, Guido couldn’t resist. Never forget the curse of Jonah:

all the clips at the link.

[Sabrina]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-01/tensions-between-us-russia-are-worse-you-realize-–-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov

Rather like this quote via Zero Hedge below... geopolitics is rocking and shifting all over the place, and the so called old powerful leaders are looking shaky, with the public's credibility with them at an all time low. However there's also a concentrated attack on the planet. China and Russia have banned GM imports, and apparently a US-based company has developed corn that attacks human sperm - go figure on this one (see second link). There's a huge fight back needed to cleanse the Earth.




via Zero Hedge

"Many reasonable analysts understand that there is a widening gap between the global ambitions of the US Administration and the country’s real potential. The world is changing and, as has always happened in history, at some point somebody’s influence and power reach their peak and then somebody begins to develop still faster and more effectively. One should study history and proceed from realities. The seven developing economies headed by BRICS already have a bigger GDP than the Western G7. One should proceed from the facts of life, and not from a misconceived sense of one’s own grandeur."

story at the link


and



http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/note-to-china-and-russia-did-you-import-depopulation-corn/

“Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world from overpopulation.

“The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm.

full story at link



and


Perhaps these energies will help: Every year during December our solar system moves into alignment with the Great Central Sun at the Galactic Core, which is located at 26-27 degrees Sagittarius. This is the annual Ascension alignment that occurs between 12:12 and 12:21…it is the Cosmic Gateway into a higher dimensional Earth. (via Meg Benedicte)

[Sabrina]

Not an attractive list, but a list of some of the banker deaths in the last years. It can probably never be complete. But many have been documented on this thread over the years (the verdict suicide is obviously debatable). Hopefully, they are in a happier place, but very tough for their families.

http://pastebin.com/HtC0wms6

and

http://www.theeventchronicle.com/study/anonymous-posts-list-mysterious-banker-deaths/

bankers/CEO death list:

DEAD (50)

Nov - Shawn Miller, 42, banker found dead in bathtub with throat slashed.
Oct - Edmund Reilly, 47, a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, threw himself in front of a speeding Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
July – Julian Knott, 45, JPMorgan Executive Director,Global Tier 3 Network Operations, SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND
June – Richard Gravino, 49, Application Team Lead, JP Morgan, SUDDEN DEATH cause unknown/pending
June – James McDonald – President & CEO of Rockefeller & Co – apparently self-inflicted, GUNSHOT WOUND
May – Thomas Schenkman, 42, Managing Director of Global Infrastructure, JP Morgan, SUDDEN DEATH, cause unknown/pending
May – Naseem Mubeen – Assistant Vice President ZBTL Bank, Islamabad, SUICIDE jumped
May – Daniel Leaf – senior manager at the Bank of Scotland/Saracen Fund Managers, FELL OFF A CLIFF
May – Nigel Sharvin – Senior Relationship Manager Ulster Bank manage portfolio of distressed businesses, ACCIDENTAL DROWNING
April – Lydia (no surname given) 52, France’s Bred-Banque-Populaire, SUICIDE jumped
April – Li Jianhua, 49, Non-bank Financial Institutions Supervision Department of the regulator, HEART ATTACK
April – Benedict Philippens, Director/Manager Bank Ans-Saint-Nicolas, SHOT
April – Tanji Dewberry – Assistant Vice President, Credit Suisse, HOUSE FIRE
April – Amir Kess, co-founder and managing director Markstone Capital Group private equity fund, CYCLIST HIT BY CAR
April – Juergen Frick, Bank Frick & Co. AG, SHOT
April – Jan Peter Schmittmann – former CEO of Dutch Bank ABN Amro, (Possibly suicide, SHOT)
April – Andrew Jarzyk – Assistant Vice President, Commercial Banking at PNC Financial Services Group, MISSING/DEAD
March – Mohamed Hamwi – System Analyst at Trepp, a financial data and analytics firm, SHOT
March – Joseph Giampapa – JP Morgan lawyer, CYCLIST HIT BY MINIVAN
March – Kenneth Bellandro, former JP Morgan, SUICIDE jumped
Feb – John Ruiz – Morgan Stanley Municipal Debt Analyst, died suddenly, NO CAUSE GIVEN
Feb – Jason Alan Salais, 34, Information Technology specialist at JPMorgan, FOUND DEAD outside a Walgreens pharmacy
Feb –  Autumn Radtke, CEO of First Meta, a cyber-currency exchange firm, SUICIDE
Feb – James Stuart Jr, Former National Bank of Commerce CEO, FOUND DEAD
Feb – Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, SUICIDE
Feb – Li Junjie, JP Morgan, SUICIDE
Feb – Ryan Henry Crane, SUDDEN DEATH cause unknown
Feb – Richard Talley, UNKNOWN CAUSE
Jan – Gabriel Magee, SUICIDE
Jan – William ‘Bill’ Broeksmit, HUNG/POSSIBLE SUICIDE
Jan – Mike Dueker, SUDDEN DEATH cause unknown
Jan – Carl Slym, SUICIDE
Jan – Tim Dickenson, SUDDEN DEATH cause unknown
Dec 2013 – Robert Wilson, a retired hedge fund founder, apparent SUICIDE leaped to his death from his 16th floor residence
Dec 2013 – Joseph M. Ambrosio, age 34, Financial Analyst for J.P. Morgan, died suddenly from Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Dec 2013 – Benjamin Idim, CAR ACCIDENT
Dec 2013 – Susan Hewitt – Deutsche Bank, DROWNING
Nov 2013 – Patrick Sheehan, CAR ACCIDENT
Nov 2013 – Michael Anthony Turner, Career Banker, CAUSE UNKOWN
Nov 2013 – Venera Minakhmetova Former Financial Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, CYCLIST HIT
Oct 2013 – Michael Burdin, SUICIDE
Oct 2013 – Ezdehar Husainat – former JP Morgan banker, killed in FREAK ACCIDENT when her SUV crushed her to death
Sept 2013 – Guy Ratovondrahona -Madagascar central bank, Sudden death – cause not confirmed
Aug 2013 – Pierre Wauthier, SUICIDE
Aug 2013 – Moritz Erhardt, SUICIDE
July 2013 Hussain Najadi CEO of merchant bank AIAK Group, SHOT
July 2013 Carsten Schloter, SUICIDE
July 2013 Sascha Schornstein – RBS in its commodity finance, MISSING
April 2013 David William Waygood, SUICIDE
Mar 2013 – David Rossi – communications director of troubled Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), SUICIDE
Fang Fang – JP Morgan, China, DISGRACED
Nick Bagnall – Director at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, son accidentally killed himself while trying to re-enact a Tudor hanging
Robin Clark – RP Martin -Wolf of Shenfield City banker shot, SURVIVED
Kevin Bespolka – Citi Capital Advisors, Dresdner Bank, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, Seriously injured and son dead
Robert Wheeler, 49, a Deutsche Bank financial advisor, DISGRACED
Chris Latham – Bank of America, ON TRIAL, Murder for Hire
Igor Artamonov – West Siberian Bank of Sberbank, Daughter found dead (POSSIBLE SUICIDE)
Hector Sants, Barclays – resigned due to stress and exhaustion, after being told he risked more serious consequences to his health if he continued to work – a remarkable turnaround as the Church reportedly approached him two months later and was told he had made a full recovery,
April 21st Bruce A. Schaal, 63, died suddenly Banker in Twin Lakes for 35 years
April 20th Keith Barnish 58, Died Suddenly (Still working as Senior Managing Director at Doral Financial Corporation. Previously Bear Stearns, Bank of America Senior Vice President
March 12th Jeffrey Corzine, 31, son of MF Global CEO and Chairman Jon Corzine involved in major banking crime was found dead in an apparent suicide.
Keiran Toman, 39, former banker who believed he was being stalked by a reality TV crew starved to death in a hotel room, an inquest heard today.
An inquest was opened after his death in July 2010 but his family asked for a second hearing as they were not informed. Police found all of Mr Toman’s possessions in the room, but despite documents mentioning his family, failed to tell them he had died.
Nicholas Austin, 49, A former bank manager from Hersden died after drinking antifreeze in an effort to get high. was found in a coma by his wife Lynn at their home in Blackthorne Road on October 5. He died the same day.
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[Sabrina]

On a lighter note....

well it would be if it would post, but it's here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nSjPdT788#t=21

[ulli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nSjPdT788

Maybe the link will work now.

[Sabrina]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/541793/SNP-activist-killed-over-child-sex-files

UK 30 Nov

SNP activist 'killed over child sex files'

A FIREBRAND SNP activist who died in mysterious circumstances was to expose a paedophile ring that would have brought down the Government, it was claimed last night

Willie McRae was said to have discovered child abuse by cabinet ministers and other leading members of the establishment on both sides of the Border. Shortly before his death he was seen photocopying a dossier of names in case something should happen to him.

The copies are understood to have been posted to a number of close associates. Despite a lengthy inquiry, the Sunday Express has been unable to establish whether any copies of the alleged dossier are still in existence.

McRae never went public with his allegations as he was found shot dead in his car off a remote road in Wester Ross on April 6, 1985.

Some maintain he was murdered by the security services over his opposition to plans to dump nuclear waste in Scotland, while others have said he was silenced by drug smugglers.

Significantly, however, his death also fits the timeline of recent claims about Westminster perverts and a massive police cover-up of child abuse and murder in the early 1980s.

His death also came just months after the late Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens handed his own infamous paedophile dossier to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan – only for it to be lost or destroyed by Home Office officials.

Fionna Borders, whose late husband James was a barrister involved in a number of child abuse cases, said she was convinced that McRae was on the verge of “shaking the establishment” to the core when he lost his life.

Mrs Borders said she learned of McRae’s dossier from former police officer turned private investigator Iain Fraser, who died only a few weeks ago.

A close friend of McRae’s who had an office in the same building on Bath Street in Glasgow, Mr Fraser was hired to spy on his “bosom buddy” in 1985 by an anonymous client.

Mrs Borders said: “Willie McRae got that information, and being the kind of man he was, he could not just sit on it. Unfortunately he spoke of the list to somebody he should not have which was his downfall.

“It is easy to sound like a conspiracy theorist – but at times conspiracy theories are proven true.

“Why not stage a car accident, his Volvo wrapped around a tree? God knows that has been done in the past. No. It was made to look like suicide – except, of course, it wasn’t.

“It was a message to leave matters well alone, and those in the know took it just as it was intended.”

Another source close to Mr Fraser said he had learned of the existence of the alleged dossier from a member of staff in Mr McRae’s office.

Some years ago, McRae was linked with another document describing a network of high-ranking Scottish paedophiles – dubbed The Untouchables – based on the deathbed confession of child abuser James Gallogley. But this dossier was dismissed as a hoax.

Earlier this month, it emerged that Police Scotland has set up a team of detectives to investigate claims of child abuse involving the late Solicitor General Sir Nicholas Fairbairn MP and other high-ranking Scottish legal figures from the same era.

Mrs Borders said she believed McRae’s dossier named powerful men from both sides of the Border, and he was “well on his way” to going public.

Before leaving Glasgow for his cottage near Kintail, Wester Ross, the 62-year-old showed a briefcase of documents to a friend, PC Donald Morrison, and told him: “I’ve got them this time.”

However, despite phoning ahead to ask for the fire to be lit, he never made it to his destination.

Instead, his body was found the next morning off the A87, with a bullet wound to his head. A gun was near the car leading to the suicide verdict.

His briefcase or the documents it contained have never been found.

Mrs Borders added: “McRae had worked so hard to expose this disgusting cancer. He knew it was dangerous which is why he made the back-up copies – not that anything has ever come of them.

“He had been due to leave Glasgow much earlier than he did, but his tyres had been slashed. That’s not something that’s widely known.

“In those days nobody wanted to be on the Highland roads at night. There was nothing open after 9pm. Yet he only headed up the road at 6.30pm knowing it would take him until late to reach his destination. The only reason is somebody made sure he would be alone on the roads.”

Calls for a public inquiry have been unsuccessful despite the fact the gun had been fired twice and was found some distance from the car.

Furthermore, although McRae was not wearing gloves, there were no fingerprints on the firearm.

Just a few months after McRae’s death, Geoffrey Dickens spoke in the House of Commons about the dangers he had faced due to his attempt to expose powerful paedophiles.

He said: “Honourable Members will understand that where big money is involved and as important names came into my possession so the threats began. First, I received threatening phone calls followed by two burglaries at my London home.

“Then, more seriously, my name appeared on a multi-killer’s hit list.”

Dickens died in 1995 and his investigation was forgotten until the Jimmy Savile scandal led to a renewed interest in historic abuse.

Meanwhile, the retired policeman who was the last person to see Willie McRae alive last night said he too believed the solicitor had uncovered evidence about a powerful paedophile ring.

more at the link

[Sabrina]

Getting very close to home now...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/vip-paedophile-ring-abused-teenage-4721479

29 Nov UK

VIP paedophile ring 'abused teenage boy INSIDE Buckingham Palace and Balmoral Castle'

A teenage boy working at Buckingham Palace revealed he was groomed and sexually abused by a VIP paedophile ring there.

The lad was also assaulted at the Royal Family’s Scottish retreat Balmoral, according to shocking Home Office files, reports the Sunday People.

In a heartbreaking note, the boy – then just 16 – told how he was the victim of “exploitation of the highest order”.

The chilling claims could now be the subject of a police investigation into ­historic allegations of child sex abuse in the 1970s and 80s – linked to MPs and powerful figures.

The disturbing account was passed directly to the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan but he ruled it was “not practical” to investigate.

Campaigning Labour MP Tom Watson said: “I’m sure the Palace will want to co-operate with any inquiry.”

A Palace spokesman said: “The Royal Household takes any allegation of this nature seriously and would act to ­address any specific allegations or investigate specific information.”

The Sunday People and the investigations website Exaro have established that the Home Office file contains evidence of a letter written by the boy’s mother.

She wrote to campaigning MP Geoffrey Dickens, fearing that her son had been groomed by a paedophile ring while working at the Buckingham Palace kitchens.

The boy was 16 at the time, putting him below the age of homosexual consent which was then 21 in England.

In Scotland homosexuality was still totally illegal.

Mr Dickens said at the time: “The boy told his parents he had been sexually abused by members of the Royal Household at the Palace.

“I am concerned the Palace could be part of a chain supplying young men to paedophiles in the diplomatic service.”

The 16-year-old went to work at the Palace in the early 1970s. After a few months his family noticed he was acting strangely.

A family friend told Exaro: “Things were OK when he first joined the Palace staff.

"After a few months, things started to turn a little strange.”

After what the source ­described as an “incident” at Balmoral, the royal family’s Scottish home, the boy’s parents were told by a close friend who also worked at Buckingham Palace that their son was being sexually abused there.

The source added: “They got wind of this after an incident at Balmoral when he screamed in the night.”

The concerned friend, who worked for the royals at the time, immediately alerted the boy’s parents.

He told them: “This is something that you should have nothing to do with.”

Reports from the time reveal further details of the boy’s ordeal.

One says his parents discovered a ­handwritten note from him.

It read: “What Buckingham Palace did for me was exploitation of the highest order.”

The boy’s mother said at the time: “My son was happy and normal until he went there.

"Then he changed completely. He refused to talk to us or discuss what he was up to.

The boy’s father also claimed that young Palace staff were lavished with expensive gifts for “entertaining men”.

He added: “In some cases Palace ­officials were involved.

“Afterwards, the servants got good references to take up posts abroad with wealthy employers.”

According to the Home Office files, the desperate parents wrote to Geoffrey Dickens for help.

The MP raised the mother’s concerns with the Home Secretary in 1983.

But Mr Dickens received a reply saying Leon Brittan felt it would not be practical to carry out a detailed investigation.

He wrote: “I need hardly assure you that the Royal Household is extremely concerned at these unsubstantiated ­allegations and it is, of course, their policy to take every step to avoid an occurrence of such as is alleged.

There is nobody ­currently employed in the Royal Household who is under the age of 18.”

Mr Brittan indicated that her son had worked at Buckingham Palace for a year, adding: “It is extremely difficult to ­comment on the accuracy of the ­allegations in the letter.”

But an even more chilling development is contained in the files, lending weight to the claims that a paedophile VIP ring was linked to the Palace.

During his time at Buckingham Palace, the 16-year-old was approached by notorious paedophile Sir Peter Hayman and was asked to work for him in Canada, where he was ambassador.

Hayman has been identified as a member of the VIP paedophile ring operating in Westminster and is known to have had royal connections.

He was desperate to have the boy working for him, even writing to his parents to ask them about taking his son on as a footman. Hayman said the boy would need winter clothes.

The parents never found out how Hayman knew their son.

But the source said: “They knew there was something wrong.”

The parents were so concerned by Hayman’s approach that they attempted to stop their son working for him, the family friend explained.

Exaro has established that the boy’s parents intervened to stop him going to Canada to work for Hayman.

Mr Watson, who has led the campaign for a full-scale inquiry into claims of child sex abuse at the heart of the Establishment, said: “In light of what we now know, any allegation of sexual crimes regarding Peter Hayman should be thoroughly investigated.

“He was protected by the Establishment at the time.

“The full extent of how his conduct was covered up has not been explained.”

The parents and their son have declined to comment on the allegations.

But the revelations link Buckingham Palace to a paedophile network of MPs and powerful figures that operated over many years in the UK.

Palace officials have already been linked to the notorious brothel the Elm Guest House in South West London.

Police are investigating archives on Hayman in a bid to find his links to other Establishment paedophiles.

"An abuse survivor, known as “Nick” to protect his identity, named one of his many VIP attackers as Hayman.

Nick picked Hayman out from a collection of pictures that Exaro showed to him, placing him at abuse parties with other paedophiles.

An appendix to a review by the Home Office last year reveals one of their missing files was called: “Sir Peter Hayman (1980-81 Papers Ex-Diplomat’s Intriguing Private Life).”

[Sabrina]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/02/israel-set-for-elections-netanyahu-fires-ministers

2 Dec Israel

Israel set for elections as Netanyahu fires two ministers

Prime minister says he wants early elections because ‘it is impossible to lead a state’ within current government

Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has announced he wants elections as soon as possible after dramatically dismissing two leading members of his cabinet, causing the collapse of his coalition.

Explaining his decision to seek the dissolution of parliament at a televised press conference, Netanyahu said he was “taking the risk [of early elections] in order to improve governance”. He condemned the instability of his most recent government, which he blamed for a lack of progress on a number of key issues.

Addressing Israelis, Netanyahu said: “I turn to you, the citizens of Israel, this evening because under the current situation, from within the current government, it is impossible to lead a state.

“My responsibility as prime minister is to do that. To preserve security, to develop the economy, to lower the cost of living – to take care of you, the citizens of Israel.

“These are things that I did over the course of four straight years in the previous government. I believe that was one of the best and most stable governments in the history of Israel.”

His decision to dismiss justice minister Tzipi Livni, Israel’s lead negotiator in the peace process, and finance minister Yair Lapid, follows weeks of mounting political tensions within Netanyahu’s increasingly dysfunctional coalition.

“In recent weeks, including the last 24 hours, ministers Lapid and Livni harshly attacked the government I’m heading,” Netanyahu said after ordering his cabinet secretary to deliver dismissal letters to the two ministers. “I won’t tolerate any more opposition within the government, I won’t tolerate ministers attacking from within the government’s policies and its leader.”

A statement from his office added: “The prime minister plans to call for parliament’s dissolution as soon as possible and to go to the people and get a clear mandate to lead Israel.”

The earliest that elections could happen under Israeli electoral law is March next year.

Those elections would be fought under new rules that include the threshold for party representation being increased – a move that pollsters have anticipated would see the disappearance of Livni’s Hatnuah party from the Knesset in any case.
more at link

[Sabrina]

Happy to promote the so called beheading video meme, but not their own....opening up legal issues no doubt of the methods used.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-administration-seeks-to-overturn-decision-to-release-controversial-guantanamo-bay-forcefeeding-footage-9899459.html

3 Dec

Obama administration seeks to overturn decision to release controversial Guantanamo Bay force-feeding footage

President Obama’s administration will ask a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s ruling to release more than 30 videos depicting controversial force-feeding methods used on foreign prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay.

The Justice Department has asked the US appeals court to overturn Judge Gladys Kessler decision to allow the release 32 videos that depict Guantanamo guards forcibly removing a Syrian detainee from his cell and subjecting him to forced feedings.

The videos, classified “secret”, contain footage of hunger-striking prisoner Abu Wa'el Dhiab being subjected to the controversial feeding method intended to prevent prisoners in the detention camp starving to death. Washington rejects that the method is abusive but says the public disclosure of the tapes could “adversely affect security conditions in Afghanistan and Iraq”. (yeah right....)



The ruling in October to release the tapes was the first of its kind and followed sustained pressure from more than 15 media organisations who argued that the videos should be made public under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

But the disclosure was halted at the eleventh-hour after the Justice Department argued releasing the tapes during an appeal period would deprive the government of any meaningful opportunity to contest public release of classified information.

more at link

[Sabrina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30305435

3 Dec US

Bill Cosby sued for alleged under-age sexual abuse

Judy Huth's lawsuit alleges that Cosby molested her at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles in 1974 and told her to lie about her age.

Cosby's lawyer had no immediate comment on the accusation.

Cosby, 77, has faced a series of renewed allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted more than a dozen women.

He has not been charged in connection with any of the allegations, which his lawyers have described as "discredited" and "defamatory".

Ms Huth's lawsuit says she and a 16-year-old friend met Mr Cosby on a film set and were later invited to his tennis club, where they were given alcohol before being taken to the Playboy mansion.

There, Ms Huth alleges that she was forced to carry out a sexual act against her will. The lawsuit states that the teenagers were told to lie about their age, and say they were 19 if asked.

It says the incident caused Ms Huth "psychological damage and mental anguish". She is seeking unspecified damages.

The claims in the lawsuit are the first in which a woman has alleged that Cosby assaulted her when she was under age, the Associated Press reported.

In 2005 a woman who accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her brought a lawsuit against him, but the case was settled out of court.

The new suit came a day after Cosby resigned from the board of trustees of Temple University in Philadelphia, where he was once a student, amid the allegations.

Several broadcasters have shelved projects with Mr Cosby, including NBC and Netflix.

[Sabrina]

http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/the-world-war-is-coming-closer-tomorrow-the-us-congress-will-vote-to-go-to-war-with-russia/

(comments are via Jean Haines' website)

“green light” to war on russia, legislation in us congress: say no to war with russia under h. res. 758 “russian aggression”

Rep. Dennis John Kucinich, December 2, 2014

US Congress

US – Russia relations have deteriorated severely in the past decade and they are about to get worse, if the House passes H. Res. 758.

NATO encirclement, the US-backed coup in Ukraine, an attempt to use an agreement with the European Union to bring NATO into Ukraine at the Russian border, a US nuclear first-strike policy, are all policies which attempt to substitute force for diplomacy.

Russia’s response to the terror unleashed by western-backed neo-nazis in Crimea and Odessa came after the local population appealed to Russia to protect them from the violence. Russia then agreed to Crimea joining the Russian Federation, a reaffirmation of an historic relationship.

The Western press begins its narrative on the Crimea situation with the annexation, but completely ignores the provocations by the West and other causal factors which resulted in the annexation. This distortion of reality is artificially creating an hysteria about Russian aggressiveness, another distortion which could pose an exceptionally dangerous situation for the world, if acted upon by other nations. The US Congress is responding to the distortions, not to the reality.

Similar distortions are developing now in the coverage of events in the eastern part of Ukraine, in Donetsk and Luhansk.

Tensions between Russia and the US are being fueled every day by players who would benefit financially from a resumption of the Cold War which, from 1948 to 1991 cost US taxpayers $20 TRILLION dollars (in 2014 dollars), an amount exceeding our $18 trillion National Debt.

With wars re-igniting in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Syria being a staging ground for an ongoing proxy war between the great powers, the US treasury is being drained for military adventures, our national debt is piling up, and we are demonstrably less safe.

Tomorrow the US House will debate and vote on H. Res. 758 which is tantamount to a ‘Declaration of Cold War’ (Kucinich is wrong with this assumption – it is a Declaraion of a very hot nuclear war, as the time is running out for any prolonged new Cold war and there are no political and diplomatic safety mechanisms at place to avert such a war, as was the case during the Cold war. Note, George) against Russia, reciting a host of grievances, old and new, against Russia which represent complaints that Russia could well make against the US, given our nation’s most recent military actions: Violating territorial integrity, violations of international law, violations of nuclear arms agreements.

Congress’ solution? Restart the Cold War!

The resolution demands Russia to be isolated and for “the President, in consultation with Congress, to conduct a review of the force posture, readiness and responsibilities of United States Armed Forces and the forces of other members of NATO to determine if the contributions and actions of each are sufficient to meet the obligations of collective self-defense [my emphasis] under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, and to specify the measures needed to remedy any deficiencies…” In other words, ‘let’s get ready for war with Russia.’

This is exactly the type of sabre rattling which led to the initiation and escalation of the Cold War. It is time we demanded that the US employ diplomacy, not more military expenditures, in the quest for international order.

It is time the US stepped out of this expensive dialectic of conflict and seek to rebuild diplomatic relations with Russia and set aside the risky adventurism in the name of NATO.

If you agree, please contact your congressperson today, 202-224-3121, and ask them to vote against H. Res. 758.

Sincerely,


Dennis

@Dennis_Kucinich

[Sabrina]

http://rt.com/news/210823-france-palestine-parliament-vote/

2 Dec

French parliament votes to recognize Palestinian state

France’s Socialist-led parliament has passed a symbolic vote to recognize Palestinian statehood, despite staunch objections from Israel. MPs in Britain and Spain have already passed similar motions.

The proposal was passed with 339 votes in favor and 151 against, meaning that it was supported by more than two-thirds of French lawmakers.

Israel immediately responded, saying that the motion would “harm the peace process,” AFP reported.

The vote is non-binding, but sends a signal that Israelis and Palestinians must return to the negotiating table, following the collapse of US-mediated statehood talks in April.

"We don't want a symbolic recognition that will only lead to a virtual state. We want a Palestinian state that is real so we want to give a chance to negotiations," Europe Minister Harlem Desir told lawmakers after the votes were tallied.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has supported the vote, setting a two-year deadline for the creation of an independent Palestine. He said that if no resolution had been found by then, France would officially recognize Palestine anyway.

So far, Sweden has been the only country to diplomatically accept the existence of Palestine, despite similar symbolic votes across Europe.

But not everybody accepted Tuesday's motion as a "gesture of peace and friendship," as it was described by its supporters.

"It will add fuel to the fire in a region that doesn't need that at all," said Christian Jacob, leader of the conservative UMP Party, which voted against the initiative.

Outside the parliament building, several hundred Jewish demonstrators gathered in protest, bearing placards reading: “Hamas + Fatah = Terrorist state.”

Israeli officials have said that Europe’s drive to legitimize Palestine is a validation of Hamas’s rocket attacks on settlements inside Israel, and disincentivizes Palestinians from making any further concessions during future talks.

April’s negotiations stalled after the Palestinians refused to abandon their commitment to the “right of return,” a condition that means potentially millions of Arabs from nearby regions would be entitled to Israeli citizenship.

In turn, Jerusalem is failing to budge on Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and insisting that IDF troops should be stationed permanently in the area, even after the creation of an independent Palestine.

The situation has been further inflamed by Israel's incursion into Gaza this summer, in which over 2,100 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis died.

and

meanwhile in Israel:

Israel set for elections as Netanyahu fires two ministers

Prime minister says he wants early elections because ‘it is impossible to lead a state’ within current government

see story previous page

[Sabrina]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-30/eon-banks-on-renewables-with-plan-to-spin-off-conventional-power.html

More of the shift?

1 Dec

EON Banks on Renewables in Split From Conventional Power

EON SE, Germany’s largest utility, will break itself up, spinning off fossil-fuel power plants into a separate company to focus on renewable energy.

The plan is the most radical response yet to Germany’s unprecedented switch to wind and solar power. The so-called energy shift has forced EON and its peers to close nuclear reactors and undermined power prices, decimating the profitability of traditional utilities.

Chief Executive Officer Johannes Teyssen said other utilities would have to consider similar moves as the industry adjusted to the massive changes in the way electricity is generated and consumed. The company expects to complete the split in 2016.

“We are the first to resolutely draw the conclusion from the change of the energy world,” Teyssen told reporters in Dusseldorf today. “We’re convinced that energy companies will have to focus on one of the two energy worlds if they want to be successful.”

There will be pain along the way. EON also announced it will write down the value of assets by 4.5 billion euros ($5.6 billion), leading to a substantial full-year loss. The Dusseldorf-based company set dividend payments for this year and next at 50 cents a share, down from 60 cents for 2013.



Even so, the shares jumped to its highest in more than four months on the plan, which Teyssen outlined to investors and reporters today.

Set Blueprint

EON’s plan “could set a blueprint for other utilities” including German rival RWE AG (RWE), analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. led by Deepa Venkateswaran said in a note today. “It will create more strategic clarity for EON’s shareholders and will help unlock more value for the stable downstream businesses.”

RWE has no plans for a similar move and will continue to operate “along the complete value-chain,” spokeswoman Annett Urbaczka said today by e-mail.

The spinoff will include conventional power generation, global energy trading, exploration and production. That will leave the company to concentrate on renewables, distribution and marketing to households and consumers.

The nuclear business will also be transfered, meaning the new company will have to manage the costs of running down EON’s fleet of nuclear reactors.

“EON limits its liability to the spinoff” Thomas Deser, a fund manager at Union Investment, one of EON’s 10 biggest shareholders, said by phone from Frankfurt. “It’s a smart approach.”

The share jumped 4.2 percent to 14.86 euros in Frankfurt, the highest close since July 24. The volume of shares traded was three times the three-month average.

Respond Dramatically

The 4.5 billion-euro impairment charge, booked on its southern Europe and generation assets, will result in the company reporting a “substantial” loss this year, though its full-year underlying net income target still holds, the company said in a statement yesterday.

Germany’s shift toward renewables from nuclear energy has led to a surge in wind and solar generation, cutting power tariffs already weakened by slow European economic growth.

[Sabrina]

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/demand-for-mp-s-to-be-drug-tested-starting-with-george-osbourne?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1417429842

Life just gets stranger.....

DEMAND FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT TO BE DRUG TESTED. STARTING WITH GEORGE OSBORNE.

TO: HOME SECRETARY (CURRENTLY THERESA MAY)

Enforce compulsory drug tests for all Members of parliament, and where necessary prosecute under the misuse of substances act.
Why is this important?

"Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's appearance and bizarre behaviour during Prime Minister's Questions on the 26th of November 2014 begs the question of whether or not he was or had recently been under the influence of drugs. The government's exponentially failing drug policy puts public health at risk and defies the advice of their own researchers, whilst lining the pockets of dubious pharmaceutical companies and criminal gangs dealing on the black market. It is also in the public interest to know whether MPs are dabbling in legal highs, in a bid to escape failing a conventional drug test."

How it will be delivered

mayt@parliament.uk.

and


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[Sabrina]

UK via Needleblog 3 Dec UK


David Steel (Lib Dem) On Cyril Smith Child Abuse

“What Smith was accused of was no different from what went on in public schools all over the country” – Lord Alton quoting David Steel after a discussion the two had concerning the Rochdale Alternative Press Cyril Smith child abuse allegations.


Perhaps that's the nub of it, and normalised (?) by the top (and not so top) public schools attended by UK politicians (Eton Cameron, Fettes Blair etc.). Trauma, abuse, abusers, control, blackmail etc. etc.

.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2592068/How-paedophile-scandal-hushed-George-Osbournes-old-school.html

How a paedophile scandal was hushed up at George Osborne's old school (see George in story above)



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http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/school-discipline-short-skirts.html

quote: It sometimes seems that the elite are responsible for the sad state of some of our schools.

(the elite who went to private schools now in charge of setting the guidelines (some very dubious) for state schools)

...............

via the Coleman Experience:

According to Aangirfan, Tony Blair attended a private boarding school called Fettes, in Edinburgh.

One of his teachers, Knox Cunningham, was involved in a high-level paedophile ring. Blair, who liked to call himself Miranda, absolutely adored Cunningham.

By a strange coincidence, the Fettesgate Scandal of the early 90′s uncovered a “magic circle” of corruption and rent-boys allegations going to the very top of the Scottish Legal system.

” A group of gay judges and lawyers were conspiring to ensure soft treatment for homosexual criminals, or so went the rumour that spread through Edinburgh legal circles in the late 1980s.

The talk was of a “magic circle” reaching the highest levels of the Scottish legal system and the potential blackmail of judges by “rent boys”.


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Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (Tony Blair, former PM of the UK)

” He was charged and appeared in court at Bow Street magistrates court for importunity in a public toilet with another male. He tried to get sexual favour from the other man, little did he know that the toilet was being watched by police. Blair was fined £500, and walked away with nobody knowing who he really was as he used his middle names to cover who he was. Charles Lynton is the name used, and his friends in court got him off with a fine, because he is one of them.”

via http://www.seancopland.com/articles/sex_offenders_register_free_online_search.html

His opinion and research on it all - but you couldn't come up with a more blackmail able bunch of dysfunctional leaders (and I suppose you have to have compassion for them from one perspective). And n.b. Neville Jenner has been questioned by the police recently but claims dementia. Lord Britton's name is coming up repeatedly in UK main stream media stories on Westminster abuse cover-ups at the moment... etc. etc.

So perhaps this is why demons look as tho' they are coming up to haunt them - see Tony Blair's much ridiculed latest Christmas card:

http://mashable.com/2014/12/01/tony-blair-christmas-card/

Former British Prime Minster Tony Blair released a joyless, soul-sucking holiday card Monday, to wish everyone a season filled with death, destruction and general sorrow.

Blair's unsettling Christmas card, showcasing an empty gaze and toothy-grin, hit the Internet hard, inspiring the Twitter hashtag #ThingsLessUncomfortableThanTonyBlairsChristmasCard.

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and George Osborne in story above looks as tho' he's starting into the abyss.

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[Sabrina]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/11271618/Pope-sacks-the-head-of-his-Swiss-Guard-for-being-too-strict.html

3 Dec Vatican

Pope sacks the head of his Swiss Guard for being 'too strict'

Daniel Anrig will no longer serve as commandant of Pontiff's private army after Pope Francis is rumoured to prefer a 'less military' approach to security

Secretary of state, and now Pope Francis’s reformist zeal has claimed a new scalp – the head of his own private army, the Swiss Guard.

In a dispassionate one-sentence notice, the Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, announced on Wednesday that Daniel Anrig will no longer serve as the commandant of the 500-year-old corps after the end of next month.

No official explanation was given for the decision, but it was widely rumoured that the Argentinean Pope, who has established a warmer, more inclusive style of governance since being appointed pontiff in March last year, found the commander’s manner overly strict and “Teutonic”.

The 77-year-old pope is said to have been appalled recently to have emerged one morning from his private suite of rooms to find that a Swiss Guard had been standing guard all night.

“Sit down,” he told the young guardsman, to which the soldier said: “I can’t, it’s against orders.”

The Pope replied: “I give the orders around here,” and promptly went off to buy a cappuccino for the exhausted soldier.

In October, the Pope was photographed shaking hands with a member of the elite corps, breaking years of protocol which demanded that pontiffs should treat the Swiss Guardsmen with aloofness.

The Jesuit pontiff, nicknamed “the people’s Pope”, is said to want the Swiss Guard to be less rigid in its rules, even “less military”, according to Il Messagero, a Rome-based daily.

That is in line with the Pope’s dislike of security in general.

On trips abroad, including his visit to Turkey at the weekend, he asks to be driven around in a modest hatchback, rather than a shiny, armour-plated limousine.

e has chafed at the restrictions to his freedom of movement imposed by the Swiss Guard and the Vatican gendarmerie, the tiny city state’s police force.

Colonel Anrig, 42, initially served as commandant of the Swiss Guard for five years, but then had his term extended by Pope Francis.

He has chafed at the restrictions to his freedom of movement imposed by the Swiss Guard and the Vatican gendarmerie, the tiny city state’s police force.

His tenure could have been extended further, but the Pope decided not to do that, with speculation that Anrig may now be replaced by his deputy, Christoph Graf, who is said to have a more paternalistic style of command.

Colonel Anrig, 42, initially served as commandant of the Swiss Guard for five years, but then had his term extended by Pope Francis.

more at link

[Sabrina]

US dollar resignations...

http://rt.com/business/211087-brazil-uruguay-trading-currency/

3 Dec

Brazil, Uruguay move away from US dollar in trade

Brazil and Uruguay have switched to settling bilateral trade with local currency to stimulate turnover, bypassing the US dollar.

Payments in the Brazilian real and Uruguayan peso started on Monday. The agreement was signed on November 2 by the head of Brazilian Central Bank Alexandro Tombini and his Uruguayan counterpart Alberto Grana. Both countries believe such a move would strengthen trade across Latin America.

"The agreement was the result of long negotiations between the countries belonging to Mercosur [the common market of South American countries - Ed.], as well as the global strategies of BRICS," RIA quotes Carlos Francisco Teixeira da Silva, Professor of International Relations at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

READ MORE: ‘BRICS system’ – healthy alternative to ‘defunct dollar system’

Silva says the measure is a "step forward" in Latin American monetary independence, and "the best opportunity for the countries of South America to get rid of the old mechanisms of economic regulations dictated by the United States."

If the new mechanism proves to be successful, it can be further expanded to countries such as Paraguay, Bolivia, or Venezuela.

Alex Luis Ferreira, a doctor of economic sciences from the University of Sao Paulo, says "the Brazilian real is likely to be used as an exchange and reserve medium."

In November President Vladimir Putin said Russia plans to leave the "dollar dictatorship" of the market and increase the use of the ruble and the yuan in trading with China. Settlements in yuan between China and Russia have increased 800 percent in annual terms between January and September 2014.

READ MORE: Russia-China trading settlements in yuan increases 800%

Russia, China and Latin American countries are not the only ones interested in ditching the US dollar. The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) which also includes Belarus and Kazakhstan is planning to create a single market for financial services by 2025 which will simplify switching to dollar-free trading. Earlier this week the Russian State Duma proposed the creation of a single area for payment in national currencies. Such measures are expected to minimize Western influence on the economy of the EEU.

[ThePythonicCow]

An excellent commentary by Joseph P. Farrell, on one of the recent banker "suicides", and what might be behind such:
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Farrell's Youtube notes:

Published on Dec 4, 2014

A suicided banker that fell off the radar: Scott J. Therriault. read about him here:

http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Scott-Jeffrey-Therriault-101820014

and here:

http://btrepartners.com/principals/

[Sabrina]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30339699

5 Dec Vatican

Vatican finds millions 'tucked away', says Cardinal Pell

The man responsible for the Vatican's finances says he has found millions of Euros "tucked away" off balance sheets.

Cardinal George Pell, who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy, said it meant the Holy See's finances were better than expected.

He made the comments in the Catholic Herald, in an essay outlining his vision for the Vatican.

Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Pell as part of his efforts to reform the Church and make it more transparent.

"It is important to point out that the Vatican is not broke," Cardinal Pell wrote. "Apart from the pension fund (...) the Holy See is paying its way, while possessing substantial assets and investments.

"We have discovered that the situation is much healthier than it seemed, because some hundreds of millions of Euros were tucked away in particular sectional accounts and did not appear on the balance sheet," he added.

There have been a number of scandals at the Vatican Bank, most recently last year when allegations were made the bank had been used by money launderers.

Cardinal Pell did not say any wrongdoing had been found but said Vatican departments long had "an almost free hand" with their finances.

Pope Francis' reforms, he said, were "already past the point where it would be possible to return to the 'bad old days'".

They aimed to make Vatican finances "boringly successful", he added.

At the time of Pope Francis' election, Cardinal Pell - who is Australian - had been vocal in his calls for financial reform.

[Sabrina]

Banker Deaths...

Thanks Paul for post 3409 - dead banker was algorithmic high frequency trading expert says Farrell. He may have seen something in his trades that led him to believe in manipulation of markets (even outside the 'normal' manipulation perhaps).... derivatives especially, gold, real estate. etc. Farrell also questioned whether US electronic surveillance also predicts trades outside the normal assumptions about tracking people.

Also death of Russian banker in United Emirates.

[Sabrina]

Very interesting developments in Hawaii.

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/big-island-video-news-12-4-14-american-flags-taken-down-by-hawaiian-kingdom-advocates-at-uh-university-of-hawaii-hilo/

Big Island Video News 12-4-14… “American Flags Taken Down By Hawaiian Kingdom Advocates [at UH (University of Hawai’i, Hilo)]”

Vis Kaulipele: As far as I know, these people are doing this on their own, and are not directly associated with the Kingdom of Hawai’i group of Ali`i Nui Mō`ī Edmund K. Silva, Jr.

This was a step in the direction of re-energizing the Kingdom, however, and I did receive one comment from someone interested in this (excerpts below).

“I find it totally appropriate that a student should catalyze this issue at his institution of learning. The educational institutions should teach the truth and represent the truth in all their actions. The Kingdom is the truth.

“The respectful manner in which this action was carried out is commendable. I have heard that when the Hawaiian flag was lowered and the U.S. flag raised during the overthrow [1893, 1898], the Hawaiian flag was cut up into pieces and given to those attending as souvenirs. If that story is true, then in discussing the latest action regarding a flag, we should remind people of that history and contrast it with the current action.

“There will be many ways the emerging Kingdom’s presence will be manifested by people. We hope that those manifestations will take place in a pono manner.”

And there is a link to a document written by Dr. Keanu Sai (a pdf), which has lots of legal “stuff” in it. If you like reading that kind of thing, maybe that 118 page document will be for you. http://hawaiiankingdom.org/pdf/Memo_Ka_Pouhana_5_27_14.pdf

One thing I will say, the re-energized Kingdom of Hawai’i ho’oponopono “court” system will communicate with its people with EASY TO READ IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE and DOCUMENTS. I am really “put off” (yes, and sometimes pissed off) by all the complex legalese baloney that these “legal” documents contain which takes a damn attorney/lawyer/circus-freak-manager to figure out what in God’s name they mean!!! (and the I AM of ME needs and wants none of that!!).

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American Flags Taken Down By Hawaiian Kingdom Advocates

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http://youtu.be/OyUZq6HDAKI

(ABOVE VIDEO) Footage taken by David Lakota documents the events on December 1 at the University of Hawaii’s Hilo campuses. Edited by David Corrigan and voiced by Sherry Bracken.

ABOUT
On Monday, a group of students and activists took down the American flag flying at main entrance of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, instead raising the Hawaiian flag that was beneath it. The action was related to what they say is the continued illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States. The American flag that was taken down was folded and handed over to university administrators. The group then went over to do the same thing at the flag pole of Hawaii Community College in Hilo. While there, they encountered security.

This video was shot by David Lakota. He and fellow participant Gene Tamashiro spoke on camera afterwards. UH student La’akea Caravalho explained more.

Big Island Video News asked the university for an official response to what occurred. We have yet to receive a statement.

UPDATE – The reasoning behind the action is evident in a letter written by students of the University of Hawaii to faculty and adminstrators, which began by saying the students have found the university has committed war crimes under the illegal occupation, specifically “pillaging” and “Americanization”. The letter relies on evidence presented in the recent “Memorandum for Ka Pouhana, CEO of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs regarding Hawai‘i as an Independent State and the Impact it has on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs” by Dr. Keanu Sai.

After detailing the background of the war crimes accusations, students wrote:

In closing if you are able to refute the evidence in the Memo then assuredly the felonies – war crimes – have not been committed. But if you are not able to refute the evidence, then beginning on November 28, 2014, Hawaiian Independence Day, La Kuokoa, which has been celebrated since 1843, the United States Flag will no longer be raised over the Hawaiian flag from that day forth. We demand that the Hawaiian Flag shall be raised first and be last taken down each day. The occupying United States flag shall be on a separate flag pole of exact same height with the flag flown as well at the same height. If no flag pole is provided for the U.S. flag it shall not be raised until one is provided by the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College at no cost to the students. the none refute of evidence means that all State of Hawaii officials and employees, as well as We / Students are compelled to comply with Hawaii Kingdom Law and the law of occupation. Students of UH-Hilo on November 4, 2014

[Sabrina]

People rising up in Ireland as well.


On the 10th of December Ireland will Rise

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Right to Water demonstration 10 December.

Great speech here....wish they'd do the same at Westminster!

Speaking on 20th November, Richard Boyd Barrett TD tells the government that the demonstration planned for the 10th of December will call for the scrapping of water charges.


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[Sabrina]

http://www.neonnettle.com/features/393-the-saturnalia-cult-threat-to-vulnerable-children-over-christmas

The Saturnalia Cult: Threat To Vulnerable Children Over Christmas

EXCLUSIVE interview with Rev Kevin Annett (Youtube)

Child welfare groups across Europe and North America have vowed to be extra vigilant over Christmas, in the wake of eyewitness accounts of Satanic cult sacrifices involving children on important dates of the Roman calendar.

artlcle at link....

some snippets in it:

INTERPOL acted on evidence supplied by European-based ITCCS activists leading to 1,000 arrests of mainly ‘criminal middlemen’ and the rescue of 30 Romanian children from the Italian Ndrangheta networkin September.

“It’s difficult to work with the authorities as a body, but not with individuals,” concedes Annett. “We have increasing support from individual police in Canada and the US especially, but also Europe.”

When asked about the effectiveness of the group’s Brussels-based International Common Law Court of Justice, he states: “The effectiveness is proven in the fact that four of the major people who were named in the indictments in our court have all resigned.Not just Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, but also Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Secretary of State, Sean Brady, the Cardinal of Ireland, and the Head of the Jesuits, Adolfo Pachon. All of them stepped down, or have announced their resignation after being named publicly in our indictment.”“We may not have the power right now of a regular court, but we have a great moral power – and it’s having an effect. The guilty will never come out and announce, ‘yes, you’re right’, but they’ll show by their actions that we are. Also, other courts can use the evidence to issue arrest warrants. That’s being recognised. These people in power know the significance of just publishing the evidence against them. You can tell by their reactions.”

video interview with Annett at link..

[Sabrina]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-embassies-braced-for-attacks-as-report-on-cia-torture-comes-out-9911327.html

How they frame the headlines.. should be outrage at the torture, not worry at demonstrations at embassies....

8 Dec

US embassies braced for attacks as report on CIA torture comes out

American diplomatic and military posts overseas have been told to prepare themselves for violent protests this week if the US Senate proceeds with its promised release of a long-awaited report into “enhanced” interrogation techniques used by the CIA on prisoners after the 11 September attacks 13 years ago.

The 480-page report, a summary of a still-classified 6,000-page study compiled by the US Senate Intelligence Committee chaired by Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, could be made public on Tuesday morning in spite of strong opposition from some Republicans.

It will be the moment America comes clean about the techniques used on detainees at secret prisons around the world to extract intelligence on al-Qaeda. The methods, such as sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces and waterboarding, will be described as having gone beyond what was “legally allowable”, CBS News reported. That, in common parlance, would be torture.

more at link

[Sabrina]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/08/supreme-court-lets-stand-massive-bp-settlement

8 Dec US

Supreme court lets stand massive BP settlement with Gulf Coast residents

Decision makes agreement final and starts six-month deadline for filing claims
Businesses need only prove they made less in 3 to 8 month period after spill

The supreme court is leaving in place BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement with lawyers for businesses and residents over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The justices did not comment Monday in rejecting the London-based oil giant’s arguments that lower courts misinterpreted settlement terms and put BP on the hook to pay inflated and bogus claims by businesses.

The court’s decision makes the economic and property damage settlement final, starting a six-month deadline for filing claims, said plaintiffs’ attorney Joe Rice of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

BP PLC wanted the court to consider whether people and businesses seeking payments under the settlement included some who haven’t actually suffered any injury related to the spill.

A district court and an appeals court ruled that, under the settlement BP agreed to, businesses do not have to prove they were directly harmed by the spill to collect money — only that they made less money in the three to eight months after the spill than in a comparable pre-spill period.

BP’s Macondo well blew up on April 20, 2010, killing 11 men. An estimated 103 million to 176 million gallons of oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico before the mile-deep well was capped July 15, 2010. Lawyers for BP and the government agree that 34 million gallons was captured before it could pollute coastal marshes and fishing grounds.

“Today’s ruling is a huge victory for the Gulf, and should finally put to rest BP’s two-year attack on its own settlement,” lead plaintiffs’ attorneys Stephen J Herman and James P Roy said in an emailed statement.

The settlement doesn’t have a cap, but BP initially estimated that it would pay roughly $7.8 billion to resolve the claims. The company said it can no longer give a reliable estimate for total cost.

The company, which made separate settlements for medical claims and seafood-related business claims, has paid more than $13 billion in claims by individuals, businesses and government entities and another $14 billion-plus on response and cleanup, according to its oil spill website.

[Sabrina]

http://www.nature.com/news/china-sacks-officials-over-golden-rice-controversy-1.11998

10 Dec China

China sacks officials over Golden Rice controversy

Chinese families did not give consent for children to consume genetically modifed rice in the part US-funded study.




China has sacked three officials for breaching Chinese laws and ethical regulations during a trial in which children were fed genetically modified rice.

The trial’s legitimacy was questioned in August by the environmental group Greenpeace. A three-month investigation, led by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), culminated in the decision on 6 December to sack two members of the CDC’s own staff — Yin Shi’an, the principal investigator of the Chinese arm of the project, in Beijing, and Hu Yuming at the CDC's regional office in Hunan province, where the study took place — as well as Wang Yin, head of science and technology at the Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences.

The genetically modified rice strain at the centre of the controversy is engineered to produce β-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, with the aim of fighting vitamin A deficiency in developing countries. It has been dubbed Golden Rice because of its bright yellow colour.


The trial was designed to test how efficiently the β-carotene is converted to the vitamin once ingested. The US study team was led by Guangwen Tang, a nutrition scientist at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, and was part-funded by the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the US Department of Agriculture.

According to a paper published online by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on 1 August, each group of two dozen or so children aged six to eight ate meals containing Golden Rice, spinach or β-carotene capsules for lunch every week day during the three-week trial1.

But none of the children, their parents or school teachers was aware that Golden Rice was involved, according to a 45-minute investigative news programme broadcast on 8 December on CCTV, China’s state television channel.

The informed-consent form said that the rice contained β-carotene, but not that it was genetically modified or that it was Golden Rice. Nor did it highlight uncertainty around any potential risks of ingesting such rice.

more at link

and

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-12/06/c_127281433.htm

6 Dec China

Zhou Yongkang arrested, expelled from CPC

BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Zhou Yongkang has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and prosecutors have opened an investigation into his suspected crimes and decided to arrest him, authorities announced Saturday.

Zhou's expulsion from the CPC was according to a decision made at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Friday.

The meeting also decided to transfer the suspected criminal case of Zhou, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and relevant clues to judicial organs for handling according to the law.

The decisions were made after attendees at the meeting deliberated over and adopted an investigation report on Zhou's severe disciplinary violations, which had been submitted by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).

A separate statement released Saturday by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said prosecutors had opened an investigation into Zhou's suspected crimes and decided to arrest him according to the law.

According to a statement released after Friday's meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee met on Dec. 1, 2013 to hear a report on the clues pointing to Zhou's disciplinary violations uncovered by the CCDI, and decided to launch an examination.

On July 29, 2014, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to hear a CCDI report on the examination and decided to file a case for investigation.

The investigation found that Zhou seriously violated the Party's political, organizational and confidentiality discipline. He took advantage of his posts to seek profits for others and accepted huge bribes personally and through his family, the statement said.

He abused his power to help relatives, mistresses and friends make huge profits from operating businesses, resulting in serious losses of state-owned assets.

Zhou leaked the Party's and country's secrets. He seriously violated self-disciplinary regulations and accepted a large amount of money and properties personally and through his family.

Zhou committed adultery with a number of women and traded his power for sex and money, it said, adding that other clues of suspected crimes by Zhou were also found during the investigation.

What Zhou did completely deviated from the Party's nature and mission, and seriously violated Party discipline. His behaviors badly undermined the reputation of the Party, significantly damaged the cause of the Party and the people, and have yielded serious consequences, the statement said.[COLOR="red"]

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8 Dec

Benjamin Fulford - December 9, 2014: First the evil Pope, then the dumb Secretary of Defense, now Netanyahu, next the Bush clan

The satanic cabal is suffering a series of catastrophic defeats. Like a snowball gradually turning larger, the removal of a few cabalists is now turning into an avalanche of losses for the cabal. The removal of Pope Maledict and the abdication of a several European royals is now being followed with the removal of key cabal power brokers in the United States. The low IQ, and easy to manipulate, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has been replaced with Ashton Carter, a polymath with a PHD in theoretical physics. Under cabal rule, meritocrats like Carter ran into a glass ceiling. The fact that such a man is now in the top post is a good sign but, Carter will have to show with his actions that he is on the right side. The early omens are good. The US military industrial complex is out to oust mass murdering psychopath Benyamin Netanyahu had have already managed to overthrow his government. The evidence presented in a British court that Netanyahu was one of the key planners of the 311 tsunami and nuclear mass murder attack was a key reason for his loss of support inside the military industrial complex as well as in the Israeli government, Mossad sources say.

As soon as the US move to oust Netanyahu was reported in Israeli newspapers, US President Barack Obama was sent to a top military hospital for “acid reflux.” MI5 sources say it was likely he was poisoned by people close to Netanyahu. What the people close to Netanyahu fail to realize is that even if they had killed Obama it would have made no difference because he is just a spokesperson for the military industrial complex. The military industrial complex has a lot more men with guns than the cabal could ever dream of defeating even with their usual tool of targeted assassinations.

The other big sign that it is not business as usual in Washington is the fact the US Congress passed legislation that amounted to a declaration of war against Russia

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/december/04/reckless-congress-declares-war-on-russia/

but this was ignored by both the military and the media. It means the cabal bribed fools in Congress have been removed from any real power.

The next thing the Joint Chiefs of Staff must do is to start rounding up and putting in jail the members of murderous Bush clan, starting with George Bush Sr.

In China as well, there was a very big move last week with the arrest of former top Security Chief Zhou Yongkang.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-12/06/c_127281433.htm

According to Chinese government sources, the removal of Zhou was

Source:
http://benjaminfulford.net/2014/12/09/first-the-evil-pope-then-the-dumb-secretary-of-defense-now-netanyahu-next-the-bush-clan/

[This post will be updated with the full article on Thursday.]

[Hervé]

"Riddles" Surround 36th Dead Banker Of The Year (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-07/riddles-surround-36th-dead-banker-year)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 12/07/2014 22:05 -0500

52-year-old Belgian Geert Tack - a private banker for ING who managed portfolios for wealthy individuals - was described as 'impeccable', 'sporty', 'cared-for', and 'successful' and so as Vermist reports (http://www.vermist.nl/nieuws/detail/bericht/raadsels-rond-vermissing-van-ing-bankier/), after disappearing a month ago, the appearance of his body off the coast of Ostend is surrounded by riddles...

Tack disappeared on November 5th... (http://www.vermist.nl/nieuws/detail/bericht/raadsels-rond-vermissing-van-ing-bankier/)
Impeccable. Sporty. Cared for. Successful. Just some qualifications that are attributed to the 52-year-old from the Belgian Geert Tack Haaltert.


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2014/12/20141206_tack2.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2014/12/20141206_tack2.jpg)


Geert Tack worked as a private banker for ING and managed portfolios of wealthy clients. The Belgian was much respected in the financial world and was known as an up and top professional. His sudden disappearance had the effect of a bombshell. "If Tack himself was having trouble he has managed to keep it well hidden", colleagues say.

Nobody then could have guessed that the man would not return on Wednesday, November 5th to his wife in their villa Vondelen. and was found dead this weekend off the coast of Ostend... (http://www.vermist.nl/nieuws/detail/bericht/raadsels-rond-vermissing-van-ing-bankier/)
On December 3, the body was found on the coast of Ostend and removed from the water. The prosecutor confirmed today that it is Geert Tack, but it is still awaiting further results of the autopsy for the exact cause of death. The results of toxicological testing are not yet known.


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2014/12/20141206_tack1.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2014/12/20141206_tack1.jpg)


The examiner states that the body showed no outward signs of violence.
As Vermist comments, he was well-liked and successful but the situation of his disappearance remain odd to say the least... (http://www.vermist.nl/nieuws/detail/bericht/raadsels-rond-vermissing-van-ing-bankier/)
What makes the case very mysterious are the rather peculiar circumstances under which he disappeared. A few weeks earlier Tack drove his car to the garage and then took a replacement car. Oddly enough, he used it much later, shortly before he disappeared. Meanwhile, the car, a Renault Espace, has been found in Knokke, but Tack's whereabouts are still unknown to this day.

Also - why did he find it sometimes so difficult to get to sleep in the weeks before his disappearance? Why did he leave his laptop and cell phone at home that Wednesday morning ?

Although a desperate act can not be excluded, there are also people considering the missing part of a preconceived plan. From his position Tack had the opportunity - whether or not forced by third parties - to run off with money from his clients. It is a hypothesis that is being seriously investigated by the federal police, but which colleagues refuse to consider.

"He would never do something like that" said one of them with certainty. "Geert is a blameless man. This is the 36th Dead Banker of the year (via Beforeitsnews) (http://www.niburu.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8688:ing-bankier-dode-nummer-36-aangespoeld-in-oostende&catid=15:financieel&Itemid=28):

1) David Bird, 55, long-time reporter for the Wall Street Journal working at the Dow Jones news room

2) Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG

3) William Broeksmit, 58, former senior manager for Deutsche Bank

4) Ryan Henry Crane, age 37, JP Morgan

5) Li Junjie, 33, Hong Kong JP Morgan

6) Gabriel Magee, 39, age JP Morgan employee

7) Mike Dueker, 50, who had worked for Russell Investments

8) Richard Talley, 57, was the founder and CEO of American Title (real estate titles)

9) James Stuart Jr. 70, Former National Bank of Commerce CEO was found dead in Scottsdale, Ariz

10) Jason Alan Salais, 34 year old IT Specialist at JPMorgan since 2008

11) Autumn Radtke, 28, CEO of First Meta, a Singapore-based virtual currency trading platform

12) Eddie Reilly, 47, investment banker, Vertical Group, New York

13) Kenneth Ballando, 28, investment banker, Levy Capital, New york

14) Joseph A. Giampapa, 55, corporate bankruptcy lawyer, JP Morgan Chase

15) Jan Peter Schmittmann, 57, voormalig topbestuurder ANB/AMRO, Laren, Nederland

16) Juergen Frick, 48, CEO Bank Frick & Co AG, Liechtenstein

17) Benoît Philippens, 37, directeur BNP Parisbas Fortis Bank, Ans, België.

18) Lydia…, 52, bankier Bred-Banque-Populaire, Parijs

19) Andrew Jarzyk, 27, bankier, PNC Bank, New York

20) Carlos Six, 61, Hoofd Belastingdienst en lid CREDAF, België

21) Jan Winkelhuijzen, 75, Commissaris en Fiscalist (voormalig Deloitte), Nederland.

22) Richard Rockefeller, 66, achterkleinzoon elitebankier John D. Rockefeller, Amerika

23) Mahafarid Amir Khosravi (Amir Mansour Aria), 45, bankeigenaar, zakenman en derivatenhandelaar, Iran

24) Lewis Katz, 76, zakenman, advocaat en insider in de bancaire wereld, Amerika

25) Julian Knott, Directeur Global Operations Center JP Morgan, 45, Amerika

26) Richard Gravino, IT Specialist JP Morgan, 49, Amerika

27) Thomas James Schenkman, Managing Director Global Infrastructure JP Morgan, 42, Amerika

28) Nicholas Valtz, 39, Managing Director Goldman Sachs, New York, Amerika

29) Therese Brouwer, 50, Managing Director ING, Nederland

30) Tod Robert Edward, 51, Vice President M & T Bank, Amerika

31) Thierry Leyne, 48, investeringsbankier en eigenaar Anatevka S.A., Israël

32) Calogero Gambino, 41, Managing Director Deutsche Bank, Amerika

33) Shawn D. Miller, 42, Managing Director Citigroup, New York, Amerika

34) Melissa Millian, 54, Senior Vice President Mass Mutual, Amerika

35) Thieu Leenen, 64, Relatiemanager ABN/AMRO, Eindhoven, Nederland

36) Geert Tack, 52, Private Banker ING, Haaltert, België

[Sabrina]

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5424/lord-janner-faces-re-opened-police-probe-into-child-sex-abuse

8 Dec UK

Lord Janneer faces re-opened police probe into child sex abuse (despite claims of severe dementia)



Police have re-opened their investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse against former Labour MP Lord Janner, Exaro can reveal.

The police investigation had come to a halt in the summer after it was claimed that Janner was suffering from severe dementia and so was too ill to face prosecution.

But two sources close to the investigation have told Exaro that it has re-started. Officers from Leicestershire Police are re-interviewing witnesses who claim to have been abused as boys by Janner.

story at link

[Sabrina]

http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/rt-senate-accuses-cia-of-torturing-prisoners-overstepping-legal-boundaries/



9 Dec US

RT: Senate accuses CIA of torturing prisoners, overstepping legal boundaries

​The intelligence committee of the United States Senate has released its long-awaited congressional report detailing the CIA’s use of torture on prisoners in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

On Tuesday, the executive summary of the roughly 6,000-page report was finally published by the Senate Intelligence Committee, for the first time exposing the panel’s findings following a four-year-long investigation conducted at a cost of more than $40 million.

“There may never be the right time to release this report,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), the committee’s chair, said on the Senate floor early Tuesday concurrent with the release of the executive summary. “The instability we see today will not be resolved in months or years. But this report is too important to shelf indefinitely.”

A fraction of the full report, the 480-page executive summary contains the committee’s conclusions concerning the post-9/11 tactics deployed by the CIA under the administration of US President George W Bush in an attempt to gain intelligence from suspected terrorists. Those techniques, including sleep deprivation and the simulated-drowning practice known as waterboarding, have since been reined in by Pres. Barack Obama; with respect to their impact, Sen. Feinstein said previously that her panel’s probe lent to “critical questions about intelligence operations and oversight” and showed that the CIA undermined “societal and constitutional values that we are very proud of.”



Among the report’s findings is that: the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence; the CIA’s justification for the use of such tactics rested on inaccurate claims of their effectiveness; the interrogations and conditions of confinement of detainees was “far brutal and far worse” than the CIA claimed; and that the CIA “actively avoided or impeded congressional oversight of the program.”

One portion of the report reveals that the committee analyzed 20 of “the most frequent and prominent examples of purported counterterrorism successes that the CIA has attributed” to its interrogation techniques, “and found them to be wrong in fundamental respects.”

“In some cases, there was no relationship between the cited counterterrorism success and any information provided by detainees during or after the use of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques,” the committee determined.

“Some of the plots that the CIA claimed to have ‘disrupted’ as a result of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques were assessed by intelligence and law enforcement officials as being infeasible or ideas that were never operationalized,” reads another portion of the report’s summary.


In a rebuttal released by the CIA on Tuesday, however, the agency said those 20 instances “remain valid examples of the program’s effectiveness,” nonetheless acknowledging “some flaws in its past representations.”

According to excerpts, some detainees would be stripped naked and shackled, then led along dirt hallways while being beaten by CIA officials. Some prisoners were told they’d never leave alive, and others were told by agents that their mothers would be raped or killed. Routinely, detainees were force-fed rectally, according to the Senate’s investigation, despite officials having not found any medical necessity in doing as much; as a result, detainees suffered from rectal prolapses and other after-effects.

Click the link below to view the Report in pdf form:

http://pdf.yt/d/X2jXFNTFss0eR0Xc/embed?sparse=0

“These comments are not a condemnation of the CIA as a whole,” Feinstein told the Senate on Tuesday. “The CIA plays an incredibly important part in our nation’s security and has thousands of dedicated and talented employees. What we have found is that a surprisingly few people were responsible for designing, carrying out and managing this program.”

Ahead of Tuesday’s publication, both Bush and his former vice president, Dick Cheney, went on the record to defend the CIA’s tactics and condemn any efforts to discredit them.

“We’re fortunate to have men and women who work hard at the CIA serving on our behalf,” Bush told CNN’s Candy Crowley for an interview on the “State of the Union” television program that aired Sunday. “These are patriots and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off base.”

Speaking to the New York Times, Cheney called the interrogation tactics “absolutely, totally justified,” contrary to the committee’s findings.

“What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it,” he told the Times in a telephone interview. “I think that’s all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program.”

Some American officials doubt the international community at large will agree with the Bush administration, however, and have warned that releasing the report could provoke violence. (this seems to be a red herring, complete distraction from the torture cited or run up to yet another false flag/s to me Sab.)

“I think this is a terrible idea,” Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN over the weekend with regards to the report’s release.“Foreign partners are telling us this will cause violence and deaths. Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths.”

“There are some indications that the release of the report could lead to a greater risk that is posed to US facilities and individuals all around the world,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest added on Monday. “The administration has taken the prudent steps to ensure that the proper security precautions are in place at US facilities around the globe.”

and

from the New York Times Q&A:

Q. Will the Senate report lead to the prosecution of anyone for torture or other crimes?

A. Highly unlikely. The Justice Department conducted a limited review of the interrogation program, as well as the C.I.A.'s destruction of video recordings of waterboarding and other interrogation sessions, but brought no criminal charges. Mr. Holder had directed prosecutors to consider charges only against those who engaged in unauthorized activities, since the use of the brutal interrogation methods was approved by C.I.A. leaders and the George W. Bush White House.

....we'll see .... expect there are some lawyers with other war crimes objectives studying all of this closely...

[Sabrina]

http://rt.com/news/212663-palestine-icc-observer-status/

Palestine officially granted ICC observer status

9 Dec

The International Criminal Court has officially granted Palestinians observer status at a meeting of the 122 member countries. This is a pivotal step on the way to Mahmoud Abbas’s strategy to press war crimes charges against Israel.

It is still unclear if Palestine can actually sue Israel, because the court’s judicial body has not recognized it as a state. Abbas is planning to pursue a full membership to the court if the UN Security Council fails to act on the proposed resolution to compel Israel to withdraw and cease all activity beyond the pre-1967 demarcation line.

The outgoing president of the ICC’s Assembly of State Parties, however, pointed out that this was more a symbolic and non-binding step that would not have effect on future decisions by the judicial body.

“The assembly takes the following decisions on procedure independently and without prejudice to decisions taken for other purposes, including the decisions of any other organization or any organ of the court concerning legal matters before it,” Tina Intelmann told reporters, as cited by the Jerusalem Post.

“At the same time I recall that Rule 94 of the rules of procedures states that at the beginning of every session of the assembly the president, subject to the adoption of the assembly, may invite states which are not parties to the Rome Statute and which have not signed the final act nor the statute to attend the assembly proceedings,” she said.

The Rome Statute is the ICC’s founding document. If Palestine were to become party to it, the International Court would have a free hand in assessing all alleged war crimes committed on Palestinian territory. Although it should be noted that Israel isn’t a member itself, and only its own membership in addition to a Palestinian one could open it up to ICC investigations.

The chair then listed “the state of Palestine” among the attendees invited for the Monday session. Others could have voiced objections, but none did.

"The Palestinians have been promising to join the court but have repeatedly delayed action," HRW International Justice Counsel Balkees Jarrah told the AP.

"We've been calling on them to join the court which could open up the prospect of justice for serious crimes by all sides."

His sentiment was boldly echoed by the executive director of the international organization, Kenneth Roth.

"Palestinians should stop futzing around with 'observer status' & just join the International Criminal Court already," Roth told reporters on Tuesday.

HRW has been among the more vocal bodies on the issue of Israeli war crimes, which gained a sharper prominence over the summer, when operation Protective Edge took the lives of thousands of Palestinian civilians, leading to numerous legal probes, both international and domestic.

[Sabrina]

9 Dec via Dutchsinse on Facebook US

Jet crashes 350 feet away from US Army Reserve LEGAL COMMAND HEADQUARTERS located in Gaithersburg Maryland... strikes two houses.. killing 6 people.

Former manager from the CDC on board.. Michael J. Rosenberg



Full post with screenshots of the distance to the Army center:
http://dutchsinse.com/12092014-gaithersburg-maryland-plane…/

one reader's comment: Same pilot in plane crash at same airport 4 years


CDC is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
www.cdc.gov/
CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. (they say :))...

[Sabrina]

https://www.aclu.org/national-security/infographic-torture-architects

Via at the American Civil Liberties Union:

[Infographic] The Torture Architects


Accountability for torture is a moral, ethical, and legal imperative, and it is necessary to prevent torture from ever happening in our names again. Although much has been revealed about the Bush administration's torture program, those in the upper echelons of the administration who crafted, approved, and oversaw the program have escaped legal accountability. The graphic below diagrams the participation of key high-level officials in the torture program based upon publicly available information.

Hover over a former government official below to learn more about their role in the torture program. Read more about how the Obama administration can ensure accountability for torture.

graphics at the link...

(how do you copy graphics to this thread.... am techno challenged today.. so much easier on my planet :))....

[conk]

(how do you copy graphics to this thread.... am techno challenged today.. so much easier on my planet :))....

If it is an image on the web you can right click and find Properties (usually the last on the list). Copy the URL and paste it into the "Insert image" icon (the one to the right of the little envelope)

[Sabrina]

Shooting the messenger as usual, but useful info. coming out and highlighting the hypocrisy of EU President Juncker.



http://www.france24.com/en/20141213-luxleaks-suspect-whistleblower-charged-theft-juncker-tax-avoidance/

Suspected ‘LuxLeaks’ whistleblower hit with theft charges

Text by FRANCE 24

Latest update : 2014-12-13

A Frenchman suspected of having leaked thousands of pages of documents that could jeopardize multinational companies – and the new president of the European Commission – over tax avoidance was questioned by a Luxembourg judge on Friday.

The suspect's identity has not been revealed, but Luxembourg media reported that he is a French national and former employee of auditing firm PwC Luxembourg.

"A person has today been charged by an investigating magistrate in Luxembourg on counts of theft, breach of confidentiality, violation of trade secrets, money-laundering and fraudulent access to an automated data-processing system," the Luxembourg prosecutors' office said in a statement.

The embarrassing documents revealed secret tax avoidance deals between Luxembourg and some of the world’s biggest companies, including Apple, Disney, IKEA and Pepsi, which were hammered out while European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was the country’s prime minister.

Over 300 companies involved

PwC executives had previously declared that top secret documents had been stolen in September 2010 by a former employee who had made copies of confidential data over two years without being spotted.

But the scandal did not blow up until last month -- just days after Juncker came to office as European Commission chief -- when dozens of newspapers pored over a new wave of 28,000 pages of documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, revealing the full scale of the tax breaks won by 340 companies.

A fresh batch of documents released this week dragged in dozens of new companies, including Microsoft-owned Internet phone service Skype

They detail "aggressive tax structures" brokered for major companies by accountants Ernst & Young, KPMG, PwC and Deloitte between 2003 and 2011.

Junker in the hot seat

Juncker, who survived a vote of no confidence over the scandal late last month, urged EU states and lawmakers on Friday to back tougher money-laundering laws.

"Transparency and good governance are pillars of our action" against corruption, Juncker wrote in reply to a letter from investigative journalists who pressed him on the issue.

Juncker has suggested that the scandal has been used as a way to attack him in his first weeks in the job, saying that the timing of the leaks was "not a coincidence," while maintaining he was not personally involved in the deals brokered with major corporations.

Juncker easily survived his confidence vote in the European Parliament, but when asked if his rival socialists might withdraw their confidence, leader Gianni Pittella gave the Commission chief six months to come up with proposals to settle the tax avoidance problem.

"The trust we've instilled in him is not a blank cheque. It is conditional on his actions," Pittella told a press conference.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)

[Sabrina]

Via Fox US 14 Dec

Is there any significance in the highlighted passage at the end? Think Fulford mentioned something about them being disbanded (yes in our dreams... but things are shifting)..


The Senate passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill late Saturday that funds the government through next September, averting a partial government shutdown and sending the measure to President Obama's desk.

The Senate voted 56-40 for the long-term funding bill, the main item left on Congress' year-end agenda. The measure provides money for nearly the entire government through the end of the current budget year Sept. 30. The sole exception is the Department of Homeland Security, which is funded only until Feb. 27.

[Sabrina]

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5428/police-privately-admit-cover-up-for-paedophile-mps-and-vips

13 Dec UK

Police privately admit cover up for paedophile MPs and VIPs

story at the link

Spare a thought for the good cops who have been trying to bring this out for decades.

and more here:

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/procurers-of-boys-for-elite.html

Procurers of boys for the elite (so called)

and

http://www.blacklistednews.com/In_Great_Britain%2C_Protecting_Pedophile_Politicians_is_a_Matter_of_“National_Security”/39362/0/38/38/Y/M.html

[Sabrina]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-12/media-focusing-wrong-senate-torture-report

12 Dec US

The Media Is Focusing On the WRONG Senate Torture Report


The Big Story Torture Everyone Is Missing

While the torture report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee is very important, it doesn’t address the big scoop regarding torture.

Instead, it is the Senate Armed Services Committee’s report that dropped the big bombshell regarding the U.S. torture program.

Senator Levin, commenting on a Armed Services Committee’s report on torture in 2009, explained:

The techniques are based on tactics used by Chinese Communists against American soldiers during the Korean War for the purpose of eliciting FALSE confessions for propaganda purposes. Techniques used in SERE training include stripping trainees of their clothing, placing them in stress positions, putting hoods over their heads, subjecting them to face and body slaps, depriving them of sleep, throwing them up against a wall, confining them in a small box, treating them like animals, subjecting them to loud music and flashing lights, and exposing them to extreme temperatures [and] waterboarding.
McClatchy filled in important details:

Former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the interrogation issue said that Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld demanded that the interrogators find evidence of al Qaida-Iraq collaboration…

For most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there.”

It was during this period that CIA interrogators waterboarded two alleged top al Qaida detainees repeatedly — Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times in August 2002 and Khalid Sheik Muhammed 183 times in March 2003 — according to a newly released Justice Department document…

When people kept coming up empty, they were told by Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s people to push harder,” he continued.” Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s people were told repeatedly, by CIA . . . and by others, that there wasn’t any reliable intelligence that pointed to operational ties between bin Laden and Saddam . . .

A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were under “pressure” to produce evidence of ties between al Qaida and Iraq.

“While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq,” Burney told staff of the Army Inspector General. “The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link . . . there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results.”

“I think it’s obvious that the administration was scrambling then to try to find a connection, a link (between al Qaida and Iraq),” [Senator] Levin said in a conference call with reporters. “They made out links where they didn’t exist.”

Levin recalled Cheney’s assertions that a senior Iraqi intelligence officer had met Mohammad Atta, the leader of the 9/11 hijackers, in the Czech Republic capital of Prague just months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The FBI and CIA found that no such meeting occurred.

The Washington Post reported the same year:

Despite what you’ve seen on TV, torture is really only good at one thing: eliciting false confessions. Indeed, Bush-era torture techniques, we now know, were cold-bloodedly modeled after methods used by Chinese Communists to extract confessions from captured U.S. servicemen that they could then use for propaganda during the Korean War.

more at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.tomheneghanbriefings.com/index.html

Heneghan will have his own agenda but last banker in the unexpected deaths toll was was algorithmic high frequency trading expert. Makes you think....Scott Jeffrey Therriault, age 42, of Fairfield, passed away Saturday, October 25, 2014 in his home. Born in Schenectady, NY, Scott had been a Fairfield resident for the last 12 years. He graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in Economics. Scott worked as a trader on Wall Street for Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan and UBS, and most recently was a commercial real estate investor (story on previous page).




It is Leak City as the Day of Reckoning Approaches



by Tom Heneghan, International Intelligence Expert

UNITED States of America - It can now be reported that sources close to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, have uncovered evidence linking JPMorgan Chase, US Citibank, Bank of America and previously reported Bank One in using secret, illegal 1845 accounts in the matter of illegal dark pool trading, bogus algorithm electronic quotes, and massive interest rate and foreign currency manipulation.

Note: The Central Bank of Japan has been fingered as a major co-conspirator.

At this hour, the Central Bank of Japan, along with the NAZI Paperclip controlled Central Bank of Ukraine, is involved in a massive attempt to destroy the Russian ruble.

The technique being used is called "electronic algorithm generated spoofing".

Reference: This evidence has previously been classified, and get this, as 'National Security' by current U.S. Attorney General and Marc Rich defense attorney, Eric Holder.

The secret illegal 1845 accounts have been used by the Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate to engage in massive worldwide narcotic trafficking and engineer a worldwide NAZI Paperclip NSA espionage network, which includes utilizing and controlling the entire U.S. media.

Reference: CBS News and Bob Schieffer have now been bought off and compromised by the Bushes and the Clintons.

more at link

7 Dec

[Sabrina]

The war of the net...

http://hackread.com/anonymous-hacks-swedish-govt-emails-pirate-bay/

Annonymous hacks top Swedish gvt emails
Against seizure of Pirate Bay

15 Dec Sweden

Online hacktivist Anonymous with cooperation of HagashTeam has target the Swedish government against shutting down of world renowned The Pirate Bay website and server by Swedish police last week.

Hackers have leaked email addresses of government officials especially Sweden.

The hack was announced by Anonymous on their Twitter handle. After analyzing the data we found email addresses with their clear text passwords belonging to government officials from Sweden, India, Israel, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.

At the moment it is unclear how Anonymous got access to these login details and which server they belong.

The leak also contains a message for the Swedish government:

Warning: Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to all!! Bye :*
Here is a tweet from Anonymous hacker with the original link of Pastebin where leaked data has been dumped.


Stay with us, we will update you more on this issue.

[Sabrina]

KiwiElf has a thread on this, and whether you follow Fulford or not, the Senate report really does open up all sorts of legal possibilities to start actions I would imagine. Believe there have been war crimes lawyers in the background for some time and this should be an early Xmas present for them.... :)

Torture report paves way for arrest of top Nazionists.

Posted by Benjamin Fulford

December 15, 2014

http://benjaminfulford.net/author/benjamin/

The 500 page report of Bush era torture issued by the US Senate marks a major turning point in US power. While much of what is in the report is old news to most aware humans, the fact that it was issued by the US Senate Intelligence Committee and the fact that it was widely reported on in the corporate propaganda media is very important. For one thing it shows that Nazi faction of the cabal no longer controls the corporate media. It confirms information given to me earlier that the Cohen faction of the cabal had broken ranks with the Bush faction.

Even more important is that, according to establishment rules, once an incident is “in the news” then action must be taken. Since the United States is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, it means their government is bound by law to prosecute war criminals. This means, just as we predicted last week, that George Bush Jr. and the entire Nazi (Neo-con) faction of the cabal, are headed for jail and possibly even the death penalty.

The release of this report comes as the British Crown Prince William was in Washington to “attend a World Bank conference.” Japanese government sources say that while in Washington, William signed treaties...

Full report here:

http://src-fla.us/index.php/news2e62...10-ben-fulford

[Calz]

This one is interesting ...

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BANKER DEATH UPDATE: SLAIN MASS MUTUAL EXECUTIVE MELISSA MILLAN HAD “TRADE SECRETS”

December 17, 2014 by Joseph P. Farrell


Not long ago I blogged about the sad murder of Melissa Millan, an executive with Mass Mutual, who was found murdered on a jogging track near her home. She has joined a sad and growing list of people in banking or banking related business who have died under quite suspicious circumstances. But now there’s more information to add to her story:

Slain MassMutual Executive Held Wall Street “Trade Secrets”

( http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/12/slain-massmutual-executive-held-wall-street-trade-secrets/ )

This is one to study closely, folks, for it confirms that at least a part of the pattern we’ve been seeing is the relationship to BOLI, or Bank-Owned Life Insurance policies on its employees (which I definitely think is part of the pattern, though certainly not all of it). But in order to see the significance of this pattern, and the late Ms. Millan’s place within it, I want to draw your attention to certain paragraphs in this article. First, the general context:



“Information has now emerged that Millan had access to highly sensitive data on bank profits resulting from the collection of life insurance proceeds from her insurance company employer on the death of bank workers – data that a Federal regulator of banks has characterized as “trade secrets.”

“Millan was a Senior Vice President with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts and a member of its 39-member Senior Management team according to the company’s 2013 annual report. Millan had been with the company since 2001.

“According to Millan’s LinkedIn profile, her work involved the “General management of BOLI” and Executive Group Life, as well as disability insurance businesses and “expansion into worksite and voluntary benefits market.”

“BOLI is shorthand for Bank-Owned Life Insurance, a controversial practice where banks purchase bulk life insurance on the lives of their workers. The death benefit pays to the bank instead of to the family of the deceased. According to industry publications, MassMutual is considered one of the top ten sellers of BOLI in the United States. Its annual reports in recent years have indicated that growth in this area was a significant contributor to its revenue growth.”

And now, an important consideration:



“Four of Wall Street’s largest banks are the largest owners of BOLI according to December 31, 2013 data from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), holding a combined total of $68.1 billion. The four banks’ individual BOLI assets are as follows as of the end of last year:

“Bank of America $22.7 billion

“Wells Fargo 18.7 billion

“JPMorgan Chase 17.9 billion

“Citigroup 8.8 billion

“The BOLI assets, however, support a far greater amount of life insurance coverage in force on the workers’ lives – potentially as much as a ten to one ratio – meaning that just these four banks could be holding $681 billion on the lives of their current and past employees.” (Boldface emphasis added)

Now ponder this one for a moment, for what is being implied is that BOLI policies count as assets on the books of the banks, from which they can conceivably be used in derivatives bundles, or even – perhaps surreptitiously – counted as part of the reserve requirements of the bank. If bundled into dreivatives and securities bundles, then the trading value of such policies increases exponentially… as does the danger – if such policies are traded in such securities bundles – that someone might try to “collect.” Of course, all that is way-out “wackadoodle” speculation, but it serves my point, that such policies – based directly on “human capital and life” – were used as assets on the books, and hence, most likely formed a huge component of the derivatives bubble that with all the talk of Quantitative Easing has fallen off the radar.

Now with that wild speculation in mind, consider these paragraphs:



“Since details on the number of workers insured and the annual amounts that big Wall Street banks report as profits on the death of their current and former workers are closely guarded secrets, in March of this year Wall Street On Parade wrote to the regulator of national banks, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), asking for BOLI information under the Freedom of Information Act.

“Because JPMorgan Chase has experienced a number of tragic deaths among young workers in their 30s this year, we asked the OCC for the number of deaths from 2008 through March 21, 2014 on which JPMorgan Chase collected death benefits; the total face amount of BOLI life insurance in force at JPMorgan; the total number of former and current employees of JPMorgan Chase who are insured under these policies; and any peer studies showing the same data comparing JPMorgan Chase with Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup.

“The OCC responded to our request on April 18, 2014, advising that they did have documents responsive to our request but that all documents were going to be withheld because they were “privileged or contains trade secrets, or commercial or financial information, furnished in confidence, that relates to the business, personal, or financial affairs of any person,” or relate to “a record contained in or related to an examination.” (See OCC Response to Wall Street On Parade’s Request for Banker Death Information).

“It is noteworthy that JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup are all publicly traded companies with shareholders. Under securities law, shareholders have a right to material information on how the company is making its profits. An investor who wants to own the shares of a well-run bank whose business model is to make prudent loans to businesses or loans to responsible retail customers, should have a right to know how much of a bank’s profits are coming from the unseemly practice of collecting death benefits on its workers.”

Now, as I have indicated before, collecting on insurance policies would seem to me to not add up to very much “bottom line” on the profit-loss statements of the too-big-to-jail banks. So something else would seem to be involved.

Then comes the crucial statements:



“On July 1, 2011, Millan assumed the leadership “of an expanded and centralized services and operations division” that included “business underwriting and operations, as well as claims.”

“There is evidence that Millan did use internal studies to see trends. On September 18, 2013, MassMutual released a 2013Employer Perspectives on Disability Benefits study showing inadequate coverage of some workers in case they became disabled. The press release announcing the study quotes Millan as follows:

“ ‘Not only are many executives at risk, but so are their families,’ said Melissa Millan, senior vice president, worksite insurance, MassMutual. ‘We commissioned this study to help employee benefits executives and benefits managers benchmark their disability insurance plans more effectively, and help lead organizations to fully informed recommendations and decisions.’ ” (Emphasis added)

Now what all of this adds up to in my opinion, is the real bottom line: Information, and trends. Ms. Millan was in a position to see general trends, So this is not about banks offing their employees to collect on insurance. After all, if that were really the case, who would work for them?

There is a trend, there is information, that someone desperately wants to keep a secret. I suspect the trend is not about “the immanent collapse of the dollar” or even massive market manipulation. Perhaps it’s not even about evidence of external market manipulation, but rather, about who, ultimately, is behind it.

Now the question is: did any of these dead bankers ever have any direct contact with each other? Did they ever meet over a glass of wine or cup of coffee, to huddle and mutter under their breath what their suspicions were? Connections, in other words, now seems to be becoming a key part of the puzzle.

See you on the flip side…


http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/12/banker-death-update-slain-mass-mutual-executive-melissa-millan-trade-secrets/

[Sabrina]

Fascinating Calz thanks!

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http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/12/torture-berlin-stuns-world-g-w-bush-george-tenet-donald-rumsfeld-other-face-hastened-legal-action-3078900.html

Torture: Berlin Stuns World. G W Bush, George Tenet, Donald Rumsfeld, Other Face Hastened Legal Action

17 Dec

George W. Bush’s CIA head, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others have had criminal complaints filed against them in Germany on Wednesday. The Federal Prosecutor must not wait until former CIA boss Tenet, former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and others are on German soil to begin a legal investigation is the decision made Wednesday by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)

Torture Architects Face European Legal Action



The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin has today lodged criminal complaints against former CIA head George Tenet, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the administration of former US President George W. Bush. The ECCHR is accusing Tenet, Rumsfeld and a series of other persons of the war crime of torture under paragraph 8 section 1(3) of the German Code of Crimes against International Law (Völkerstrafgesetzbuch).



The constituent elements of the crime of torture have been established again in the recent case by the US Senate in its report on CIA interrogation methods.



“The architects of the torture system – politicians, officials, secret service agents, lawyers and senior army officials – should be brought before the courts,” says ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck, who is appearing today before the German Parliamentary Committee on legal affairs. “By investigating members of the Bush administration, Germany can help to ensure that those responsible for abduction, abuse and illegal detention do not go unpunished.”



The US Senate report devotes one section explicitly to the German citizen Khaled El Masri abducted by CIA agents in 2004 due to a case of mistaken identity and was tortured in a secret detention center in Afghanistan. The criminal complaint details the US Senate report’s finding that once the unlawful error was discovered, the former CIA director refused to take further steps against those responsible.



ECCHR calls on Federal Prosecutor Harald Range to open investigations into the actions of Tenet, Rumsfeld and other perpetrators and to set up a monitoring process as soon as possible. This would allow the German authorities to act immediately in the event that one of the suspects enters European soil and not have to wait until such point before beginning the complex investigations and legal deliberations.



With the US Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Kaleck had previously submitted criminal complaints against Tenet and Rumsfeld in Germany in 2004 and 2006 and against Bush in Switzerland in 2011. ECCHR is also involved in legal proceedings in Spain and France concerning Guantánamo.



The present ECCHR criminal complaint is supported by former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak, the CCR in New York along with its President Emeritus Michael Ratner and its Vice President Peter Weiss, winner of the Martin Ennals Awards 2014 Alejandra Ancheita, Professor for International and Public Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels Annemie Schaus, Professor for Criminal Law at University of Hamburg Florian Jeßberger and Berlin attorney Dieter Hummel.



Recently, torture was explained by hailed human rights whistleblower Edward Snowden, unlike Fox News that has downplayed the war crime, instead pushing it as “awesome”.

[Sabrina]

http://itccs.org

Felt the need to say use discernment, as with everything else!

Breaking Historic Joint Communique from the Office of the Central ITCCS Directorate and the Republic of Kanata

The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS)

Avenue des Nerviens , Belgium 1040 Bruxelles

(see attached Notice to Alfred L. Webre)

December 17, 2014


Vancouver targeted for new criminal investigation:

Historic Common Law Grand Jury will investigate murders, child trafficking and “black ops” by Ndrangheta-Vatican, under Republic’s jurisdiction
Directorate reaffirms its support for Kevin Annett

Brussels:
Decades of unsolved murders, disappearances and systemic child trafficking will be the subject of the first Common Law Grand Jury ever convened in Canada, commencing January 15, 2015.

Established by the Republic of Kanata’s new constitutional jurisdiction which will be invoked on January 1, a High Court of Justice will launch the Grand Jury inquiry that will “definitely lead to indictments and convictions of some of the top child killers in Canada and the world”, according to a spokeswoman for the ITCCS Central Directorate.

Among the issues to be investigated by the Common Law Grand Jury are:

the Pacific Rim child trafficking and “snuff film” industry, and its ties to the Canadian, Thai and Chinese governments
Catholic and Ndrangheta Ninth Circle sacrificial practices among west coast indigenous people, and the unsolved disappearance of over two hundred aboriginal women in British Columbia
the regime of “institutionalized pedophilia” and child killing operating among church, police, business and judicial leaders in the so-called “Twelve Mile Club” and the Vancouver Club
the unsolved murder of six aboriginal ITCCS activists in Vancouver between 2009 and 2014
ongoing “black ops” attacks against ITCCS leaders including Kevin Annett by Ndrangheta-paid operatives in Vancouver
ITCCS Central Directorate officers, and observers from police agencies in the United States and Europe, will assist the Grand Jury, which will operate under the protection of sworn common law sheriffs authorized by the Republic of Kanata.

In conjunction with its inquiry, the ITCCS Central Diretorate will sponsor a media event and documentary film known as “Unrelenting: Twenty Years in Pursuit of the Assassins”, to commence on January 23, 2015: the 20th anniversary of the firing without cause of Rev. Kevin Annett by the United Church of Canada.

“This whole massive inquiry into genocide and child murder really began on that day, as it led to everything that we’ve achieved so far” commented Kevin Annett today from an undisclosed location.

“The world needs to be constantly reminded of what we’ve achieved and how the reign of terror against our children by church, state and the Mob has never stopped”.

In related news, the ITCCS Central Directorate in Brussels released the following addendum statement today,

“In light of recent assaults on the work and character of our North American Field Secretary Kevin Annett, the Directorate wishes to publicly reaffirm its unqualified support for and confidence in Rev. Annett. Such attacks on him by paid operatives and their dupes are a sign of the effectiveness of Kevin’s work and the sterling quality of his own integrity and courage.

“Our Directorate has made it a priority to investigate more deeply these attacks when its officers are in Vancouver in the new year, based on startling new evidence given to our office regarding the source of these attacks.”

Further information will be released shortly.

Issued 17 December, 2014
The ITCCSCentral Directorate
Belgium-1040 Bruxelles, Avenue des Nerviens

…………………………
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
17 December, 2014
To: Alfred L. Webre
2938 West King Edward Avenue
Vancouver

Dear Mr. Webre,

Recent actions by you and your associates, as well as disturbing evidence brought to our attention, have caused the ITCCS Central Directorate to lose confidence in your motives and objectivity in relation to both the work of our Tribunal and its courts, and our North American Field Secretary Kevin Annett.

Accordingly, the Directorate advises you to have legal representation present when two of our officers will meet with you in Vancouver in mid January, as part of the Grand Jury being convened by us, which is described herein.

The new and upcoming public disclosures of our work that will be issued by our Directorate will occur at the public media conference on January 23, 2015 described herein. We decline any private media interviews with you or your associates.

Sincerely,
Marie Bouchard on behalf of the Central Directorate
cc: legal and security divisions, media liaison

and

http://galacticconnection.com/breaking-interview-kevin-annett-covering-internet-black-ops-alfred-weber-12-16-14/

There's an interview here with Kevin Annett re: the split with Alfred Webre.

[Sabrina]

This time, this is not going away...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/18/london-police-vip-child-sex-abuse-murder

18 Dec UK

London police: we believe claims of ‘VIP’ child sex abuse and murder
Scotland Yard says victim’s allegations against prominent political and establishment figures are credible and true

Scotland Yard officers have said they believe allegations that a ring of prominent politicians and members of the establishment abused and terrorised children as young as seven more than 30 years ago and went on to kill three young boys.

Detectives appealed for victims and witnesses to come forward and identified a flat in Dolphin Square, London, near the Houses of Parliament, as a scene of some of the alleged abuse, as well as military premises and other locations across London and the home counties.

So far one victim, known by the pseudonym Nick, has come forward to tell of a decade of abuse he suffered at the hands of people including senior politicians and members of Britain’s establishment, and of three homicides. Police as yet have no bodies, full names of those abused or killed, or exact locations where the killings took place.

But the detective in charge of the investigation pointedly described Nick’s allegations as “true” and said Nick had been abused from 1975 to 1984, between the ages of seven and 16.

Now in middle age, Nick has given partial names of other children who were abused, the Guardian understands, and has given names of “VIPs” alleged to be involved in the abuse. He is understood to have been scared of reprisals for telling detectives about the things powerful people did to him and other children.

If the allegations are correct, it represents one of the worst scandals in modern British history and endangers already thin public trust in the politicians who govern the country.

Police promised on Thursday to investigate “without fear or favour” but declined to say if any of those named by Nick had been interviewed as witnesses or suspects.

Detectives announced last month that they had launched homicide inquiries and said they were scouring records of missing children from over three decades ago to identify those who may have been killed.

Detective Superintendent Kenny McDonald, in charge of the investigation, said police policy dictates that officers believe a victim unless evidence emerges to undermine their account, but in Nick’s case experienced detectives from two teams had concluded his accounts were true. “Nick has been spoken to by experienced officers from the child abuse team and experienced officers from the murder investigation team. They and I believe what Nick is saying is credible and true.”

Nick waited 30 years to come forward and talk to detectives, having talked to the media first. It is clear detectives are not just investigating but building criminal cases to take to court.

Deputy assistant commissioner Steve Rodhouse thanked the media for their work but warned them not to compromise crucial witnesses. He said in one case Nick had been shown a picture of a suspect by a reporter. “I need to be able to convince a court that any identification made by Nick was done within the rules … and Nick was, crucially, identifying the [person] he remembers from 30 odd years ago, rather than the photograph he was shown by journalists in the more recent past.”

McDonald said: “I appeal to men who were subjected to abuse 30 years ago to come forward. We are also investigating the murder of three young boys – we are determined to find answers.”

He said people who lived at or visited Dolphin Square in the 1970s “will have seen or heard something that they only understand the significance of now.

“I would ask you to trust me. I will support you, and do everything in my power to find those responsible and bring them to justice. I need your accounts to help me do that. The abuse he has detailed that he was subjected to was carried out by a man on his own, a group of men or during what have been described as parties.”

Nick told the BBC last month that the abusers would inflict brutal punishments on any child who did not obey orders and children were picked up in cars to be taken to locations where they were attacked.

“People who drove us around could come forward. Staff in some of the locations could come forward. There are so many people who must have had suspicions. We weren’t smuggled in under a blanket through the back door. It was done openly and people must have questioned that and they need to come forward.”

Police said Scotland Yard officers had spoken to the family of Martin Allen, who disappeared in 1979 at the age of 15, but were not yet linking his case to the VIP abuse ring investigation.

Rodhouse said no evidence had been uncovered of police being ordered to drop inquiries into abuse at children’s homes, some of which was allegedly carried out by senior figures.

One such allegation came from the highly respected former senior detective Clive Discoll, who has said he was ordered to shut down an investigation into allegations in a children’s home in Lambeth, south London.

Police said their inquiries into claims that prominent people abused children and the cases may have been “overlooked” or covered up now spanned 18 separate investigations, including one into the Elm Guest House in London.

The police inquiries followed allegations of abuse involving senior politicians and high-profile figures made by the Labour MP Tom Watson in the Commons in a question to the prime minister. Watson said on Thursday: “Nick was frightened of these powerful people and will be relieved the police have publicly believe his allegations against very powerful people.”

[Sabrina]

There seem to be all sorts of tipping points going on about new draconian laws and what people (us) will put up with... let alone the crazy financial escapades (and demise of the rouble?)...new alleged atrocities...and how the so called cost of living squares with what people can earn, and at what price...the 3D matrix makes less and less sense (and by the way, Dutchsinse says the Sydney killing was at the scene of the Matrix filming)...time to jump to 5D at least I think (we're on the gateway from 12.12 to Solstice on 21 Dec, when you need to envision what you want.

http://www.channel4.com/news/spain-protest-squatters-gag-law-demonstrations-anarchists

Three reasons Spain is on the edge of social unrest

Riot police clash with protesters in Barcelona after a raid on squatters - and demonstrators plan to hit the streets against anti-demo laws - what's going on in Spain?


#YoTambienSoyAnarquista
Around 2,000 people clashed with police on Tuesday evening following the arrest of eleven individuals suspected of "anarchist terrorism" living in squatted housing.

Dubbed 'Operation Pandora,' its mandate seeks to 'disrupt a terrorist organization of anarchist character which has several bombings attributed to it' said a judicial source.

One of the groups, 'The Kasa of the Mountain', active since 1989, said on their Twitter account that the operation aims to criminalize the anarchist movement.

Supporters on Twitter are also using the hashtag #YoTambiénSoyAnarquista ("I too am an anarchist") in solidarity with the group.

#StopLeyMordaza
A controversial law, passed last week, could see protestors fined of up to €600,000 for unauthorized demos outside public spaces such as hospitals, universities and parliament. The new law also forbids the photographing or filming of police officers in situations where doing so could put them in danger.

The citizen safety law, which has been called the 'ley mordaza' or 'gag law' by opposition groups and the media, was passed in the lower house of parliament last week by 181 votes for to 141 against.

It was opposed by all parliamentary groups except the ruling PP party, but it will now go to the Spanish senate where the PP has an overwhelming majority.

As the bill was discussed in parliament last week, members of the 15M protest movement's Solfónica popular choir broke out into song with a chorus of "do you hear the people sing?” from the play Les Miserables (see video above).

Protestors are also using the hashtag #StopLeyMordaza (#StopTheGagLaw) on Twitter to denounce the act and are planning demos on Saturday.

Immigration debate
The number of immigrants living in Spain has increased by almost eightfold between 1990 and 2013, from less than one million to over six million. Before the global recession, Spain's economy was mainly drawing migrants from Europe, North Africa and Latin America.

An amendment recently introduced to the citizen safety bill would make it legal for Spanish police to immediately deport migrants caught illegally entering north African territories of Melilla and Ceuta, a main gateway into Europe for migrants seeking a better life in Europe.

Rights groups accuse Spanish police of routinely expelling back to Morocco immigrants who have entered the two territories illegally.

These expulsions are prohibited by 11 Spanish, European and international legal norms because they deny migrants their right to seek asylum, according to rights group Amnesty International.

United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said in October that it was "concerned" by the move to make on-the-spot expulsions legal.

and

UK today

Councils 'pushed to breaking point' by new cuts

Government insists new council settlement represents a 1.8 per cent cuts but critics say overall it councils will have to slash budgets by 8.8 per cent

[Sabrina]

The shift shifting and wheels within wheels coming good?

http://rt.com/news/215347-castro-vatican-cuba-us/

17 Dec

Pope Francis unexpected hero of US-Cuba relations breakthrough

Pope Francis has congratulated both the US and Cuba on restoring relations, as the Vatican together with Canada were confirmed to have played a significant role in the talks which broke 50 years of cold.

The Vatican said that it was a key player in negotiations between the two countries, “resulting in solutions acceptable to both parties.” Pope Francis added that he will continue to be supportive of the process. It emerged on Wednesday that he had sent a personal letter to both US President Barack Obama and President of Cuba Raul Castro during the summer.

Earlier in the day, a US Senator had mentioned both Vatican involvement and the letter, saying that it had provided “greater impetus and momentum for us to move forward.”

“Pope Francis sent letters to President Obama and to Cuban President Raul Castro this past summer urging a resolution of the matter of prisoners and progress in our bilateral relationship,” US Ambassador to the Vatican, Kenneth Hackett, confirmed to Reuters.

Additionally, the Vatican was responsible for playing host to meetings between Cuban and US officials.

Canada was a host to the secret talks, it turned out Wednesday. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper revealed his country's role in the negotiations and said that he stood behind a Cuba which acknowledged “the values of freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.”

Cuba exchanged American citizen Alan Gross for three Cubans jailed in the United States on Wednesday. The prisoner swap is set to pave the way for a major overhaul of bilateral ties, potentially bringing an end to over five decades of severed diplomatic relations.

more at link

and

via Kaulipele blog:

To me, this also indicates that the “dark workers” within the Washington DC arena, have significantly lost their strength to hinder positive change.

[Sabrina]

Is the attack on the rouble now taking on a different twist?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-17/china-prepares-bailout-russia

17 Dec

China Prepares To Bailout Russia

Earlier this evening China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange's (SAFE) Wang Yungui noted "the impact of the Russian Ruble depreciation was unclear yet, and, as Bloomberg reported, "SAFE is closely watching Ruble's depreciation and encouraging companies to hedge Ruble risks." His comments also echoed the ongoing FX reform agenda aimed at increasing Yuan flexibility which The South China Morning Post then hinted in a story entitled "Russia may seek China help to deal with crisis," which which noted that Russia could fall back on its 150 billion yuan ($24 billion) currency swap agreement with China if the ruble continues to plunge, that was signed in October. Furthermore, two bankers close to the PBOC reportedly said the swap-line was meant to reduce the role of the US dollar if China and Russia need to help each other overcome a liquidity squeeze.



As Bloomberg reported, earlier in the evening, China's Wang Yungui noted

*CHINA IS CLOSELY WATCHING RUBLE'S DEPRECIATION: SAFE'S WANG
*CHINA ENCOURAGES COS. TO HEDGE RUBLE RISKS, SAFE'S WANG SAYS
*REAL IMPACT OF RUBLE DEPRECIATION UNCLEAR YET, SAFE'S WANG SAYS
Adding that China plans sweeping reforms to promote FX flexibility.

And then The South China Morning Post hints,

Russia could fall back on its 150 billion yuan (HK$189.8 billion) currency swap agreement with China if the rouble continues to plunge.

If the swap deal is activated for this purpose, it would mark the first time China is called upon to use its currency to bail out another currency in crisis. The deal was signed by the two central banks in October, when Premier Li Keqiang visited Russia.

"Russia badly needs liquidity support and the swap line could be an ideal tool," said Bank of Communications chief economist Lian Ping.

The swap allows the central banks to directly buy yuan and rouble in the two currencies, rather than via the US dollar.

Two bankers close to the People's Bank of China said it was meant to reduce the role of the US dollar if China and Russia need to help each other overcome a liquidity squeeze.

The punchline, however, is that using bilateral swaps, the BRICS are effectively disintermediating themselves from a Fed and other "developed world" central-bank dominated world and will provide their own funding.

We are pleased to announce the signing of the Treaty for the establishment of the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) with an initial size of US$ 100 billion. This arrangement will have a positive precautionary effect, help countries forestall short-term liquidity pressures, promote further BRICS cooperation, strengthen the global financial safety net and complement existing international arrangements.... The Agreement is a framework for the provision of liquidity through currency swaps in response to actual or potential short-term balance of payments pressures.
Incidentally, the role of the dollar in such a world is, well, nil.

For those who have forgotten who the BRICS are, aside from a droll acronym by a former Goldman banker, here is a reminder of the countries that make up 3 billion in population.

China has currency swap deals with more than 20 monetary authorities around the world. Swaps are generally used to settle trade.

"The yuan-rouble swap deal was not just a financial matter," said Wang Feng, chairman of Shanghai-based private equity group Yinshu Capital. "It has political implications as it is a sign of mutual trust."

The rouble has lost more than 50 per cent against the US dollar this year, pushing Russia to the brink of a currency crisis, though measures announced by the central bank helped it recover some ground yesterday.

Li Lifan, a researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said the swap would not be enough for Russia even if it is used in its entirety. "The PBOC might agree to extend something like 15 billion yuan initially as a way of showing China's commitment to Russia."
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As we discussed in October when the swap deal was signed,

...as if to assure all involved parties that there will be enough capital support on both sides, the PBOC released a surprising announcement that the central banks of China and Russia signed a 3-year, 150 billion yuan bilateral local-currency swap deal today, according to a statement posted on PBOC website. Deal can be expanded if both parties agree, statement says. Deal aims to make bilateral trade and direct investment more convenient and promote economic development in 2 nations.

To be sure, some such as Bloomberg, are skeptical that the unprecedented pivot by Russia toward China as it shuns the west, will merely harm the Kremlin. Others, however, wonder: who will be left standing: Europe, with its chronic deficit of energy and reliance on Russia; or Russia, a country overflowing with natural resources, whose economy is currently underoing a dramatic and painful shift, as it scrambles to dissolve all linkages to the Petrodollar and face the Gas-O-Yuan?

pix and graphs at llink

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http://wikileaks.org/cia-hvt-counterinsurgency/press-release.html

18 Dec

CIA report warned assassination programme might backfire

Press release

WikiLeaks today, Thursday 18 December, publishes a review by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of its "High Value Target" (HVT) assassination programme. The report weighs the pros and cons of killing "insurgent" leaders in assassination plots. After the report was prepared, US drone strike killings rose to an all-time high.

The report discusses assassination operations (by various states) against the Taliban, al-Qa'ida, the FARC, Hizbullah, the PLO, HAMAS, Peru's Shining Path, the Tamil's LTTE, the IRA and Algeria's FLN. Case studies are drawn from Chechnya, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand.

The assessment was prepared by the CIA's Office of Transnational Issues (OTI). Its role is to provide “the most senior US policymakers, military planners, and law enforcement with analysis, warning, and crisis support”. The report is dated 7 July 2009, six months into Leon Panetta's term as CIA chief, and not long after CIA analyst John Kiriakou blew the whistle on the torture of CIA detainees. Kiriakou is still in prison for shedding light on the CIA torture programme.

Following the politically embarrassing exposure of the CIA's torture practices and the growing cost of keeping people in detention indefinitely, the Obama administration faced a crucial choice in its counter-insurgency strategy: should it kill, capture, or do something else entirely?

Perceived benefits of assassinating insurgent leaders
Evidence for successful assassinations is slight. One of the few examples claimed to have had positive results is the assassination of Colombia's FARC leaders Raul Reyes and Ivan Rios, which is thought to have eroded the coherency of the FARC. Similarly, morale of the rank and file of HAMAS is said to have weakened as a result of the assassination of its founder and co-founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi by Israeli missile attacks in 2004. The CIA report nevertheless pointed out that “HAMAS' highly disciplined nature, social service network and reserve of respected leaders allowed it to reorganize after the killing..."

The CIA claimed that the paranoia its assassination programme was generating could be helpful: “HVT operations typically force the remaining leaders to increase their security discipline, which may compromise a leader's effectiveness.” HVT operations had forced Osama bin Laden to stay in hiding, rely on low-tech communications and avoid meeting his subordinates. The CIA considered that this had “affected his ability to command his organization”. Bin Laden was seen to be isolated and out of command. Bin Laden's assassination in May 2011 occurred as President Obama prepared to run for his second term in office.

The assassination of Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) leader Abu Laith Al-Libi and his deputy in Waziristan in January 2008 by a US missile strike informed the report's 'benefits' analysis. The CIA analysts considered that it resulted in “probably hindering the group's merger with al-Qa'ida”. The LIFG was dismantled a year after this report was written. Many of its top leaders subsequently became key members of al-Qa'ida. (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/05/libyan-islamic-fighting-group-leaders)

CIA's 'pruning' strategy
The secret assessment also goes into what it calls “The Pruning Approach”, where individuals within the insurgency group are selected for killing so as to affect the organization. Rather than killing senior commanders, it is sometimes more effective to kill individuals who are important to core functions. The Pruning Approach, CIA analysts state, can be “used to remove effective mid-level leaders, protect incompetent leaders or restore them to positions of authority, separate insurgent personalities from potential sources of government sponsorship, or protect human sources that are collecting intelligence on networks.”

Taliban egalitarianism to blame for failure of CIA targeted assassination programme
The report acknowledges that the effect of assassinating insurgent groups' leaders is sometimes lessened by organizations' command structure and succession planning. This is said to be a problem both in relation to al-Qa'ida in Iraq and to the Taliban.

"The Taliban’s military structure blends a top-down command system with an egalitarian Afghan tribal structure that rules by consensus, making the group more able to withstand HVT operations." Al-Qa'ida's less centralized structure meant they were able to “weather leadership losses such as the death of Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi.” He was killed by US forces in Iraq in June 2006.

In its key findings, the report warns of the negative consequences of assassinating so-called High Level Targets (HLT), a prediction that has been proven right. “The potential negative effect of HLT operations include increasing the level of insurgent support […], strengthening an armed group's bonds with the population, radicalizing an insurgent group's remaining leaders, creating a vacuum into which more radical groups can enter, and escalating or de-escalating a conflict in ways that favor the insurgents.”

Capturing HVTs instead is not necessarily a desirable option from the CIA's perspective. Drawing on the CIA-assisted capture of Nelson Mandela and the ANC leader's 27-year sentence, which he served in an Apartheid prison, the report concludes that: "Capturing leaders may have a limited psychological impact on a group if members believe that captured leaders will eventually return to the group [...] or if those leaders are able to maintain their influence while in government custody, as Nelson Mandela did while incarcerated in South Africa. (S//NF)"

Assassinations by drone strike escalated to an all-time high a year after the CIA report was written. According to findings by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 751 people were killed in drone strikes that year, compared with 471 in 2009 and 363 in 2011.

Drawing on the experience of assassination programmes in Thailand, the report warns that High Value Target assassinations "can capture the attention of policymakers and military planners to the extent that a government loses its strategic perspective on the conflict or neglects other key aspects of counterinsurgency".

graphs at link

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http://rt.com/news/215227-eu-recognize-palestine-state/

17 Dec

European Parliament votes to recognize Palestine statehood 'in principle'

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution recognizing Palestinian statehood in principle. A total of 498 MEPs voted in favor, while 88 were against.

A parliamentary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday could not decide on the matter, opting for further negotiations, but on Wednesday the European Parliament eventually adopted a resolution that “in principle” grants the troubled region statehood.

"[The European Parliament] supports in principle recognition of Palestinian statehood and the two-state solution, and believes these should go hand in hand with the development of peace talks, which should be advanced," the motion said. The vote also saw 111 abstentions.

The European Parliament reiterated its support for the two-state solution "on the basis of the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states, with the secure State of Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous and viable Palestinian State living side by side in peace and security on the basis of the right of self-determination and full respect of international law."

MEPs emphasized the EU's strongest opposition to any acts of terrorism connected with Palestinians' campaign for statehood, however.

Several of the EU's 28 member countries were already in favor of full recognition. Sweden in October became the only EU member so far to officially recognize Palestine as an independent state.

The European Parliament vote comes as the Palestinians are soon to make their case at the UN Security Council in New York, where they will ask for a complete Israeli withdrawal from East Jerusalem and the West Bank to the 1967 borders in two years' time.

These discussions follow a tense summer period when Israel carried out its controversial Protective Edge operation against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and elicited international condemnation for the number of civilians killed and damage that would take decades to undo.

READ MORE: Palestine resolution: US ‘unresolved’ ahead of Security Council meeting

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is adamantly against any resolution under which Palestine gains back the occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank, believing it would lead to “terrorists” running wild and causing regional problems.

"Attempts of the Palestinians and of several European countries to force conditions on Israel will only lead to a deterioration in the regional situation and will endanger Israel," Netanyahu said Monday.

Although the US, which has been trying to broker a two-state solution, has been a close ally of Israel for years, it is now also taking on a more stern tone with the Israeli leadership.

"This isn't the time to detail private conversations or speculate on a UN Security Council resolution that hasn't even been tabled, no matter what pronouncements are made publicly about it,” US Secretary of State John Kerry told journalists Tuesday.

It remains to be seen what Washington’s actions will be at the Security Council, when Palestine makes its case for a full Israeli withdrawal.

[Sabrina]

more good news :)

Governor Cuomo has banned fracking in the state of New York.

(via the Sierra Club Facebook)

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and more:)


http://consciouslifenews.com/maui-wins-battle-against-monsanto-new-gmo-moratorium/1179349/

17 Dec Hawaii

Maui Wins Battle Against Monsanto over New GMO Moratorium

An attorney for the SHAKA Movement in Hawaii that has been trying to uphold a democratically voted moratorium on GMOs on the island of Maui reports that residents and activists have won. An intervention in a federal lawsuit that was brought on by Monsanto and Dow trying to push their genetically modified agenda on islanders will not go through.

The federal lawsuit filed last month against Maui County by Monsanto Co. and a unit of Dow Chemical Co. thankfully flew over judge, Barry Kurren, who has deep ties with Monsanto, Dow, and Big Ag. The judge has recently overturned a democratically voted initiative to limit GMOs on the Big Island of Hawaii. Without an upswelling of public pressure, he could have done the same in Maui.

Kurren previously ruled that laws instigated by Kauai and Hawaii banning GMOs were not applicable because the state, not the counties, had jurisdiction over the issue. Dow and Monsanto were hoping that Kurren would rule similarly on the recent ban on GMOs passed in Maui.

Likely due to pressure concerning his questionable allegiances, Kurren reassigned the Maui case to Chief Judge Susan Oki Mollway. It is also due to the fact that both the plaintiffs and defendants had agreed earlier to allow a magistrate judge to try the case. Once the SHAKA Movement found out Kurren’s ties to biotech, they withdrew their approval for Kurren to preside over the case.

Maui voters clearly voted to ban GMOs on their November 4th ballots. Only a vote by the Maui County Council can lift the ban.

Last month, Judge Kurren ruled that Maui County couldn’t implement the law until he considered the lawsuit put forth by Dow and Monsanto.

Maui stands as a beacon of hope for other towns throughout the US who are interested in banning GMOs. We applaud you, SHAKA Movement!

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Netanyahu could be disqualified from Likud party primaries (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4605574,00.html)

Netanyahu faces scathing criticism from within party, after internal comptroller report reveals PM used party funds and facilities improperly; Netanyahu's office: Report is bizarre.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly abused Likud party funds, facilities and manpower to advance his bid for the party's leadership, a Likud comptroller report revealed, calling the prime minister in for a hearing which could result in his disqualification from the Likud primaries.

The scathing report, penned by Likud Comptroller Shay Galilee, said Netanyahu's actions were illegal: "Using party members and workers to promote the campaign of a party primaries nominee (Netanyahu) is 'misuse' of the party and is a form of 'benefit' or 'illegal contribution'."


This is more then bizzare.
Only in English media, nothing in Hebrew media!

Even if the Likud party disqualifies Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the Likud political party primaries. He has many tricks in his sleeve to over power his will over the party.
This could be a political spin, or a even better.

I hope this item will develop.

[Sabrina]

More emphasis on crimes by tptb....



http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/13/historic-speech-in-damascus-sends-shockwaves-around-the-world/


Historic Speech in Damascus sends Shockwaves around the World


by Preston James

Last week Gordon Duff, Senior Editor of Veterans Today delivered an Historic Keynote Address at the International Conference on Combating Terrorism and Religious Extremism held in Damascus, Syria. This speech is sending shock-waves around the World.


Gordon Duff was part of a Veterans Today Senior Staff Delegation that traveled to Damascus and was in consultation with the Veterans Today Board and other like minded individuals within the American Military and Intelligence community and other such individuals from sixty-eight different nations around the World who were at the Conference.

This Delegation included Veterans Today Senior Editor *Gordon Duff, Veterans Today Managing Editor **Jim Dean, Veterans Today Director ***Colonel James Hanke, and Veterans Today Financial Editor ****Mike Harris.

Gordon Duff’s speech quickly changed the focus of the whole conference and is now sending shock-waves around the World in the various Diplomatic, Military and Intelligence corps around the World.

Why is his speech Historic? For a number of vitally important reasons. This speech is the first time in history an American Intelligence Team of “non-activists” gave a military briefing to an audience of this type, including key Military Leaders of diverse Tribal Forces throughout Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, along with a Russian delegation and many others from around the world. Before this historic speech by Duff, no one has ever dared to speak the simple truth about the true problem, that it is not Terrorism in the Mideast, but it is the effects of large scale international Organized Crime.

But even more important, Duff, a noted international Intel and Security Consultant, identified the root cause of United States of America’s dysfunctional involvement in Iraq and Syria and the true cause of ISIS/Daish.
Duff’s speech immediately changed the whole tone of the Conference and turned it to a very practical focus on the true causes of ISIS/Daish.

His speech immediately shifted the focus of the Conference from theoretical discussions of Terrorism and Extremism, to what is actually going on at the ground level at a practical level, who is responsible and why they are doing it, that is stealing factories and torturing and killing civilians, folks that are their people.

Gordon Duff laid out the true cause of ISIS/Daish in simple terms for the very first time anyone has ever done so publicly and this disclosure from such a highly credentialed and credible Intel Professional is now sending shock-waves around the World.

Duff declared that there are far too many that have died to continue speaking in unclear terms and that it was time to share a key hypothesis based on signals intelligence. Then Duff proceeded to explain the True Causes of ISIS/Daish in simple understandable terms which provide the clarity needed to form a sustainable solution.

Duff explained that what is going on in Iraq and Syria with ISIS is not Terrorism, it is simply CRIME. That is, it is the works of an international Crime Cabal which has gotten control of the American Congress. Yes, this is a large Organized Crime problem that must be understood at its simple root cause.
Duff identified this Crime Cabal as Israeli and pointed out that this is Worldwide Crime on a scale never experienced before.
Duff explained how the illegal Supreme Court Decision of Citizens United made it possible for an Israeli-American Organized crime magnate now operating out of Macao, Sheldon Adelson to essentially buy control of both Houses of Congress in the last election and being able to bring Congress under control of this International Crime Syndicate which specializes in human trafficking and narcotics.

Duff also identified American Generals McInerney and Vallely as being involved in organizing Daisch along with Senator John McCain.
He also pointed out that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel [who has just resigned] was the one that prevented the American bombing of Syria in response to the False-Flag gas attack at Aleppo, Syria.
This keynote address delivered by Gordon Duff was historic because for the very first time ever a Top Intel and Security Consultant publicly explained how the problem with ISIS/Daish is not terrorism but is Crime. He clarified that ISIS/Daish is a result of Criminal Behavior of an Israeli based International Crime Syndicate which essentially bought control over the US Congress during the last election.

Here is Gordon Duff’s keynote speech which was historical and is now sending shock-waves around the World. (see at link)

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It should now be clear to everyone that the creation of ISIS/Daish occurred not because of Terrorism, but because of the undue influence exercised on the American Political system by this Israeli based Crime Syndicate in which a faction inside the American Congress, Military and Intel has been manipulated into supporting the creation of ISIS/Daish.

It is easy to imagine why Duff’s frank disclosure in his keynote address that the real problem on the ground in Iraq and Syria is Crime and the handy-work of an international Israeli Crime Cabal immediately changed the tone of the conference, and is now sending shock-waves around the World.
This is the first time ever that these issues have been clarified for the Syrian Security Services and Military as well as to Intel, Military and Diplomatic representatives from all over the World.

In days and weeks to follow it is expected that such an Historic disclosure based on hard Intel will change the scope and tone of the discussion about what is really going on in Iraq and Syria on the ground and how a worldwide criminal enterprise is behind it.
There were several sophisticated attempts to sidetrack and derail the VT Delegation and keep Gordon Duff from delivering his Historic Speech. Despite all these attempted interceptions, one of which was directly thwarted by VT Financial Editor Mike Harris, Gordon Duff was able to deliver his keynote address and make history by putting the actual facts behind ISIS/Daish on the public record for the very first time. Colonel Jim Hanke spoke at the Conference also and his talk was very well received.

Jim Dean took numerous films which should prove to be quite important when some are published on VT.

Mike Harris gave numerous interviews to the Syrian Press and met with Syrian Security Officials and the Grand Mufti, the World’s top Islamic legal and theological scholar. These discussions were very productive and did a great deal to further an understanding of what is actually behind the ISIS/Daish crime problem in Iraq and Syria which is nothing more than sophisticated international Organized Crime and must be dealt with as such.

Conclusion:

Obviously Gordon Duff and his team displayed great courage in attending this Conference in Damascus and deserve the highest commendations possible for this fine work representing the true interests of peace for folks with no voice.

When the dust settles time will show this speech will be a major turning point in the Criminal Cabal’s blatant abuse of the American People from their buying and hijacking of the US Congress and some American Generals with deep Intel connections and their abuse of millions around the World in many different nations, especially the Mideast.

No criminal Cabal or conspiracy this large can exist without utmost secrecy, which no longer exists thanks to Duff’s keynote address and complete disclosure. Their crimes are now no longer secret and the “Jig is now up”.

Thanks to Duff the Jig is about up for this International Israeli linked Crime Cabal, some have identified as the International Zionist Crime Cabal (IZCS) which has formed an alliance with the Bush Crime Cabal (BCC) which is now being completely identified all over the Worldwide Internet. It is now realized by many that the BCC was formed when Bush1 ran the Assassination of JFK and rose to power, able to deeply embed his operatives in the CIA, the Military, Congress, the Department of Justice and the Judiciary.

Now if anyone doubts that ISIS/Daish was set up under the Money Power of the International Zionist Crime Cabal (IZCS) operating out of Israel which has now gained Control of the US Congress, consider this. All ISIS/Daish wounded are taken to Israel for medical treatment, all expenses paid and those that can be are returned to Iraq or Syria to attack, torture, murder and asset strip innocent civilians, pretending to be Islamic Terrorists. This is all done in order to create mass confusion and to empower those governments that exist off the spoils of pushing solutions to their synthetic terrorism which is really nothing more than a massive Organized crime operation to make money and accrue more power. How do we know that the Criminal cabal has truly gained control over the US Congress. We now have actual specific evidence which has uncovered the Crime Cabal’s control over Congress through the use of large bribes and threats of assassination.

It is now beyond obvious that the only way to deal with a such a large Criminal Cabal is to indict them, arrest them, fully prosecute them, and if convicted with clearly convincing evidence beyond any shadow of a doubt, then sentence them appropriately. If they have committed Treason, Sedition or other Capital offenses well, then upon conviction in a suitable court of law, US or International, they must be executed like the convicted Nazis from the Nuremberg War trials or the convicted Japanese from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East also known as the “Tokyo Trials” and in other courts in many different places in Asia and the Pacific. About 1,000 Japanese War criminals were executed after conviction and Twenty Nazi War criminals were executed after conviction.

However, it is known inside high level Intel circles and by those who worked closely with OSS agents and operatives, that numerous American Army secret assassination teams were deployed in Europe to bring many uncharged Nazis to instant justice. Some teams operating under Presidential Orders were also deployed to Hawaii and Asia to bring “instant, extra-judicial justice” to many Japanese war criminals that avoided exposure and arrest. This whole Nuremberg Trial and Tokyo Trial process needs to be repeated against the Criminal Cabal and all their kingpins, Top Policy-Makers, political and Judicial puppets as well as all their operative and mass-murderers deployed on the ground as mercenaries for fat paychecks. Those who attempt to flee prosecution can be hunted down to the ends of the Earth if necessary.

And the worst of all this is the ability of the Crime Cabal to use American Generals and a sitting US Senator to start up and run ISIS/ISIL/Daish. This is truly disgusting but there is actually even more to this story. Because the honest faction of the US Military is now targeting some ISIS positions, what we actually have now is a Secret American Civil War being fought in Iraq. And now China has offered military help to the Iraqi government. Unless John McCain is stopped in his rise to become Chairman of the Armed Service Committee, he may be able to exert serious pressure and be able to push America into another War in Iraq (maybe Syria, Iran and the Ukraine too) and his actions could trigger a nuclear WW3 with the Russian Federation and President Putin who has just about had enough.

Hat’s off and Highest Commendations to Gordon Duff and his team of American Heroes who have now set the record straight and had the great courage necessary to publicly disclose, for the very first time anywhere, the true causes of ISIS/ISIL/Daish and have shown it to be a crime problem created by a large international Organized Crime Cabal. Now most of the World Security and Intel Units know the truth that has been hidden from them for many years by excess compartmentalizing and billions of dollars spent by the Crime cabal to control and prevent their access to this information. These Units now know with incredible clarity for the first who deploys synthetic terror, torture, mass-murder and asset-stripping in the Mideast and why. They now know it is being done to further the Crime Cabal’s goals and power.

more at the link

13 Dec

[Sabrina]

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20141219/1016024377.html

19 Dec

The United States plotted the coup which took place in Ukraine in February 2014 in response to Russia’s policy in Syria, says George Friedman, the founder and CEO of Stratfor, known as "Shadow CIA".


MOSCOW, December 19 (Sputnik) – The United States is behind the February coup in Kiev, which came in response to Russia’s stance on Syria, said George Friedman, the founder and CEO of Stratfor, a global intelligence company.

Russia has repeatedly said that the coup in Kiev was organized by the US, Friedman told Kommersant newspaper. Indeed, it was the most overt coup in history, the political analyst stressed.

The United States decided to act following Russia’s successes in the Middle East, a key region for the US. Americans saw that Russians could influence what was happening in the Middle East, Friedman said. Russians are one of the many challenges in the region that the US faces, he stated. The US thought Russia’s activities were an attempt to harm Washington, the political analyst told the newspaper, adding that events in Ukraine should be viewed in this context.

Russians seem to have underestimated how seriously the US would react to Moscow’s activities in the region and that they would easily respond, Friedman said. The US understood that the thing Russia wants the least is instability in Ukraine, he added.


The head of Stratfor, also known as "The Shadow CIA," insisted that Russia’s involvement in Syria was not the only reason for the Ukrainian crisis. However, many in Washington started to perceive Russia as a problem, the expert told the newspaper, adding that at that time the US decided to divert Russia’s attention away from the Middle East.

Syria has been in a civil war since March 2011. Over 100,000 people have died as a result of the armed conflict. Russia repeatedly stated that the election of Syria's president Bashar Assad was legitimate, and that the people of Syria should control their future. From the beginning of the war the US supported the opposition and stated that the conflict would not be over with Assad in power.

[Sabrina]

http://stopforeclosurefraud.com/2014/12/16/elizabeth-warren-was-right-the-links-between-citigroup-and-government-run-deep/

16 Dec

Elizabeth Warren was right. The link between the government (US) and Citigroup run deep

(article at link)

http://stopforeclosurefraud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/imrs.php_2.jpg

[Sabrina]

So many dynamics starting to shift - some subtle and some not - this will no doubt spur it all on...:)

http://www.mysticmamma.com/new-moon-in-capricorn-and-solstice-december-21st-2014/

NEW MOON in Capricorn and SOLSTICE December 21st 2014~

Super powered NEW MOON in Capricorn on the *SOLSTICE* heralds in a new time, a new season, and an opportunity to stand on behalf of our soul. So let’s tune in to our heart space and align with the heart of the Earth and the heart of the cosmos.

These turning points are opportunities for us to come together and unite our intentions in visualizing and birthing more LIGHT for our planet. It’s not about being afraid, of our collective shadows nor our personal ones, but about owning them and birthing more harmony and peace within ourselves and as a result without.

more at link

[Sabrina]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/12/19/uk-banks-forex-arrests-idUKKBN0JX2GS20141219?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

19 Dec

British police arrest ex-RBS trader in currency probe-FT

Bank of Scotland was arrested east of London on Friday in connection with a criminal investigation into allegations that bank traders tried to manipulate currency markets, according a report in the Financial Times.

"We can confirm one man was arrested in Billericay," a spokeswoman for the U.K. Serious Fraud Office said in a statement. She said officers from City of London Police helped in the operation, but declined to specify which investigation the arrest was in connection with.

Billericay is in the south eastern English county of Essex.

A City of London police spokeswoman declined to comment on the identity of the individual or whether they had been released on bail after questioning, saying only it was an SFO-led investigation.

An RBS representative could not be immediately reached for comment.

RBS said on Nov. 12 it was reviewing the conduct of over 50 current and former members of staff and had started disciplinary action against six people, three of whom were suspended pending further investigation.

Last month U.S., Swiss and British civil authorities fined six banks a total of $4.3 billion for failing to stop traders from trying to manipulate the foreign exchange market, and criminal authorities in the U.S. and U.K. have continued related investigations.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder also said last month he expected some resolutions of the Justice Department's investigation to come soon. He previously confirmed prosecutors had enlisted undercover cooperators as part of its multi-year probe, suggesting individuals could face charges in addition to banks.

The SFO announced it had opened its own investigation in July.

In British proceedings, arrests are usually made at the onset of an investigation, rather than as in the U.S., at the culmination of a probe.

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Published on Dec 19, 2014

New York environmentalists are celebrating the state's decision to ban drilling for shale gas, which has left energy executives reeling. The man behind the move - Governor Andrew Cuomo - got a round of applause from grateful activists outside his office. New York has banned fracking after a report on the

[Sabrina]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/20/very-very-bad-things/


Very, Very Bad Things

Posted by Preston James, Ph.D on December 20, 2014

Intel Cowboys all over the World are getting clued in to how they have been used... to be later disposed of by the Organized Crime Cabal -- and are now taking action to reverse this

story at link

[Sabrina]

http://news.sky.com/story/1396256/westminster-child-abuse-claims-of-new-murders

22 Dec UK

Westminster Child Abuse: Claims Of New Murders

An MP says two men who had evidence relating to abuse died in suspicious circumstances as he calls for their cases to be reopened.

Two whistle-blowers who had information about MPs' alleged involvement in a paedophile ring could have been murdered, according to a Labour MP who has handed a dossier of evidence to Scotland Yard.

Speaking to Sky News, John Mann MP claims he has evidence relating to the suspicious deaths of two men - a former Lambeth council official named Bulick Forsythe, and a caretaker whose name he did not disclose.

He said the police were already aware of the potential link between one of the deaths and the child sex abuse ring, which involved "highly influential" politicians during the 1970s and 1980s.

Although Mr Mann has now handed the information to the Metropolitan Police, he has been aware of it since the 1980s and 1990s, when he said the police declined to fully investigate.

"Bulick Forsythe had significant information in relation to child abuse," he said.


"The second was a caretaker who said he had tapes relating to sex parties that were taking place," he added.

"Mr Forsythe went to the police at the time and got nowhere. What I want to see is both those suspicious deaths reinvestigated."

His dossier includes 22 names of MPs he believes were involved in paedophile rings in North Wales, Lambeth in south London, Dolphin Square in central London, Rochdale, and one other location which he declined to name for legal reasons.

The MPs named include 14 Conservatives, five Labour politicians and three from other parties. Of them, 13 are former ministers.

Mr Mann told Sky News that he has given the police enough evidence on some of the suspects that he would expect the police to act "soon".

"I am confident there will be people arrested," said Mr Mann. "In some cases I’d be surprised if it didn’t happen soon."

The prospect of arrests for child abuse by MPs is likely to intensify calls for an inquiry into the historical allegations.

Home Secretary Theresa May has been dogged by setbacks after two successive chairs were forced to resign over their links to establishment figures in positions of power at the time.

Mrs May said last week that the inquiry should have the powers of a statutory inquiry in order to compel witnesses to give evidence but members of the panel are reported to be "devastated" that the existing inquiry, which has started preliminary work, is to be disbanded.

Scotland Yard detectives were already investigating "credible" claims that the murders of three young boys - aged between seven and 16 - were linked to high-profile abusers, including MPs. One victim was allegedly run over by a car.

Last Thursday, a fresh appeal was launched for further victims of historical abuse at the Dolphin Square estate, in southwest London, to come forward.

Children were allegedly taken to sex parties at the plush property, which was popular with politicians.

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/12/22/uk-britain-forex-law-idUKKBN0K00TS20141222?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUKDomesticNews+%28News+%2F+UK+%2F+Domestic+News%29

22 Dec

UK to extend Libor manipulation laws to cover gold, oil, silver

(Reuters) - Britain will widen the scope of laws which make the manipulation of market benchmarks a criminal offence to include seven more rates covering the currency, gold, oil and silver markets by April 1, the government said on Monday.

The move is the latest by the Conservative-led government to clamp down on malpractice in the City of London whose reputation has been tarnished by an interest rate-rigging scandal and claims that traders colluded to manipulate currency rates.

"Ensuring that the key rates that underpin financial markets here and around the world are robust, and that anyone who seeks to manipulate them is subject to the full force of the law, is an important part of our long-term economic plan," Chancellor George Osborne said in a statement.



Under the law, people found guilty of manipulation can be handed jail sentences of up to seven years. It was originally introduced to cover the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) market after a global manipulation scandal which resulted in banks being fined billions of dollars.

The finance ministry said seven benchmarks including the WM/Reuters 4 p.m. London fix -- the dominant global benchmark in the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market -- would be subject to the law, pending a consultation by Britain's financial watchdog.

The European Union has criminalised the rigging of financial market benchmarks after the Libor scandal, but those laws will not take effect until 2016.

A former trader from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) was arrested on Friday in connection with a criminal investigation into allegations that bank traders tried to manipulate currency markets, according the Financial Times.

For the full list of affected benchmarks see:

here

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-confirms-manipulation-of-key-forex-benchmark-to-be-made-a-criminal-offense

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30577368

22 Dec Vatican

Pope Francis sharply criticises Vatican bureaucracy

Pope Francis has sharply criticised the Vatican bureaucracy in a pre-Christmas address to cardinals, complaining of "spiritual Alzheimer's" and "the terrorism of gossip".

He said the Curia - the administrative pinnacle of the Roman Catholic Church - was suffering from 15 "ailments", which he wanted cured in the New Year.

Pope Francis - the first Latin American pontiff - also criticised "those who look obsessively at their own image".

He has demanded reform of the Curia.

There was silence at the end of the Pope's speech.

Bigger say
Addressing the Curia on Monday, Pope Francis said some power-hungry clerics were guilty of "cold-bloodedly killing the reputation of their own colleagues and brothers".

He compared the performance of the church's civil servants to that of an orchestra playing "out of tune" because they fail to collaborate and have no team spirit.


Analysis: BBC's David Willey in Rome
Clearly Pope Francis is meeting opposition among the nearly 3,000 strong staff of the Italian-dominated Curia.

He had never worked in Rome before his election as pope last year, and - as a Vatican outsider from the other end of the world - is clearly frustrated by the slow-moving and creaking Vatican bureaucracy.

He is trying to reform it with the help of a new group of cardinal advisers he has called in from every continent to draw up a new Vatican constitution.


Before his election in March 2013, the pontiff encountered internal opposition to some of the reforms he wants to carry out.

He has set up a series of specialist bodies to fight corruption and poor management, appointing a team of advisers.

The Pope also launched a clean-up of the Vatican Bank, officially known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR). The IOR has long had a poor reputation, after a succession of scandals.


Some of Curia's 15 'ailments':
Spiritual Alzheimer's
Feeling immortal or immune
Suffering from existential schizophrenia
Committing terrorism of gossip
Becoming spiritually and mentally hardened

Pope Francis has also suggested that the Curia's power - concentrated in Rome for centuries - could be diluted to some extent by giving Catholic bishops around the world a bigger say in Church doctrine.

The pontiff himself did not work in the Curia before he was elected.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/new-york-times-calls-for-cheney-bush-officials-to-be-investigated-and-prosecuted-for-torture/

22 Dec US

New York Times calls for Cheney, Bush officials to be investigated and prosecuted for torture

In a blistering editorial published in the Monday edition of the New York Times, the editorial page editors are calling upon the Justice Department to open an investigation into the torture practices committed during the administration of President George W. Bush with an eye towards prosecuting those who “committed torture and other serious crimes,” along with former Vice President Dick Cheney and other major administration officials.

Under a headline reading, “Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses,” the board criticizes the administration of current President Barack Obama for failing “to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects,” during the period following the attack on 9/11.

The editorial notes that the American Civil Liberties Union will present a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. on Monday calling for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate what appears to be “a vast criminal conspiracy, under color of law, to commit torture and other serious crimes.”


Saying it is hard to imagine the current administration “having the political courage” to order an investigation, the board calls for a full investigation that will include major figures in the Bush administration, including Cheney, and former CIA director George Tenet.

“…any credible investigation should include former Vice President Dick Cheney; Mr. Cheney’s chief of staff, David Addington; the former C.I.A. director George Tenet; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted what became known as the torture memos,” the editorial reads. “There are many more names that could be considered, including Jose Rodriguez Jr., the C.I.A. official who ordered the destruction of the videotapes; the psychologists who devised the torture regimen; and the C.I.A. employees who carried out that regimen.”

The call for the Justice Department to proceed follows the release of the so-called “Torture Report” released over a week ago.

Noting confirmation of reports of “rectal feeding,” waterboarding, detainees hung by their wrists, confined to coffins, beaten, and threatened with death, the board calls the acts criminal offenses.

“These are, simply, crimes. They are prohibited by federal law, which defines torture as the intentional infliction of “severe physical or mental pain or suffering.” They are also banned by the Convention Against Torture, the international treaty that the United States ratified in 1994 and that requires prosecution of any acts of torture,” they write.

The board concludes, “Starting a criminal investigation is not about payback; it is about ensuring that this never happens again and regaining the moral credibility to rebuke torture by other governments. Because of the Senate’s report, we now know the distance officials in the executive branch went to rationalize, and conceal, the crimes they wanted to commit. The question is whether the nation will stand by and allow the perpetrators of torture to have perpetual immunity for their actions.”

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http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5434/police-discuss-submitting-statements-on-paedophile-cover-up

20 Dec UK

Police discuss submitting statements on paedophile cover-up (with VIPs)

and

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/child-abuse-inquiry-mps-and-peers-named-in-paedophile-dossier-handed-to-scotland-yard-9938374.html

Child abuse inquiry: Three MPs and three peers named in paedophile dossier handed to Scotland Yard

21 Dec UK

Three MPs and three members of the House of Lords have been named in a dossier handed to police concerning investigations into the alleged Westminster paedophile ring.

The dossier, which has been compiled by Labour MP John Mann, contains a total list of 22 high-profile figures deemed “worthy of investigation,” following the detailed examination of hundreds of pieces of evidence presented to him by members of the public, The Sunday Times reports.

Mr Mann told the newspaper the dossier names 12 former ministers, several of whom he believes were “definitely child abusers” and at least two of which are alleged to have assaulted boys at the Dolphin Square “abuse parties”.


He believes that the evidence presented against half of those on the list is “very compelling” and that some could “definitely be prosecuted”.

more at link

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/chi-medical-marijuana-20141216-story.html

Congress quietly ends federal government's ban on medical marijuana

By EVAN HALPER

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.

The bill's passage over the weekend marks the first time Congress has approved nationally significant legislation backed by legalization advocates. It brings almost to a close two decades of tension between the states and Washington over medical use of marijuana.

Under the provision, states where medical pot is legal would no longer need to worry about federal drug agents raiding retail operations. Agents would be prohibited from doing so.

The war on medical marijuana is over. Now the fight moves on to legalization of all marijuana.

- Bill Piper, a lobbyist with the Drug Policy Alliance
The Obama administration has largely followed that rule since last year as a matter of policy. But the measure approved as part of the spending bill, which President Obama plans to sign this week, will codify it as a matter of law.

Pot advocates had lobbied Congress to embrace the administration's policy, which they warned was vulnerable to revision under a less tolerant future administration.

More important, from the standpoint of activists, Congress' action marked the emergence of a new alliance in marijuana politics: Republicans are taking a prominent role in backing states' right to allow use of a drug the federal government still officially classifies as more dangerous than cocaine.

more at link

16 Dec

[Sabrina]

Thanks to Aviators for this.

Ocwen chairman steps down

Shares of embattled mortgage-servicing firm Ocwen Financial Corp. fell more than 25% Monday after the firm’s chairman agreed to step down and the company said it would pay $150 million following a lengthy probe by New York’s top financial regulator.


http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york...wen-1419257065

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-22/ukraine-central-bank-conned-swapping-its-gold-lead-bricks

22 Dec

Ukraine Central Bank Conned Into Swapping Its Gold For Lead Bricks

Just when one thought the story of Ukraine and its (now non-existant) gold could not get any more surreal, it did.

As a reminder, it was about a month ago when we learned courtesy of an interview on Ukraine TV with the country's central bank head Valeriya Gontareva, that Ukraine's gold was virtually all gone, when she made the stunning admission that "in the vaults of the central bank there is almost no gold left. There is a small amount of gold bullion left, but it's just 1% of reserves."

That in itself would have been sufficient to explain why just a few short days later, the Netherlands shocked the world when it announced it had secretly repatriated 122 tonnes of gold from the NY Fed, and had the story of Ukraine's missing gold ended there (or even with the criminal probe launched by Ukraine whether the central bank head had abused her power and misused her office when she "intentionally committed an extremely unfavorable transaction for the gold and forex reserves of Ukraine"), it still would have been one of the most bizarre, surreal stories of 2014.

Luckily, the story just got far better, and far, far more bizarre and surreal.

As Bloomberg reports, Ukraine opened a criminal probe after several gold bars at the central bank’s storage in the southern city of Odessa turned to be painted lead.

"The management of the central bank’s branch in Odessa asked us to investigate fraud by their employee," Volodymyr Shablienko, head of the Odessa police’s press office, said by phone today. "We are conducting a forensic audit now."

As Bloomberg explains, the latest gold fraud involved a central bank employee passing lead bars covered with golden paint to the storage unit, registering them as gold, the Vesti newspaper reported today, citing an unidentified person with knowledge of the matter in Odessa’s police department.

According to additional information from RT, the central bank was actually conned into buying the gold-plated lead.

Yes lead, not even tungsten.

RT adds that the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has confirmed the theft of several kilograms of gold in the Odessa region. The cashier involved has apparently fled to Crimea, Vesti Ukraine reports. Criminal proceedings began on November 18, even though the scam apparently took place between August and October.

In other words, when Ukraine still, allegedly, had some gold left. Now it has no more gold, but at least it has some very expensive lead.

A preliminary investigation suggests the gang had someone working for them inside the bank that forged the necessary paperwork to allow the sale of the fake gold bullion. It’s also been discovered that bank staff were not regularly checked when entering or exiting the premises.

Altogether some 11 kilograms of gold worth about $420,000 are missing.

And while one can laugh at the stupidity of a central bank duped into believing gold-plated lead is the real deal, the real stunner is that according to the First Deputy Central Bank Governor Oleksandr Pysaruk, the central bank “took a principal decision that we will not buy gold any more from the population. We are making conclusions internally, including changing our procedures."

In other words, until December, the central bank would buy any gold-plated lead, or tungsten, without any authenticity tests from any member of the population, or in other words, exchanging its existing reserves, i.e., gold (which it no longer has after converting most of it into dollars), into lead.

There is a potential silver lining here in that whoever ended up getting the bulk of Ukraine's gold reserves, is now also the proud owner of a few hundreds kilograms of gold-plated lead.

One really couldn't make this up, which is perhaps the point. Better for the public to be focused on the stupidity of its central bankers, than on their criminality for selling out the people's gold (or worse, giving it away for free in exchange for political favors of the current class of US State Department muppets) to unknown buyers in exchange for a few pieces of green paper.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2884471/VIP-child-abuse-whistleblowers-murdered-MP-says-men-poised-lift-lid-scandal.html

23 Dec UK

VIP child abuse whistleblowers were 'murdered': MP says men were poised to lift lid on scandal

MP says two VIP child abuse whistleblowers may have been 'murdered'

John Mann passed detectives information about two suspicious deaths

The men were allegedly poised to lift the lid on Westminster sex abuse

Breakthrough comes a day after Mr Mann handed dossier to the police

Document named 22 politicians suspected of involvement in abuse ring

A campaigning MP sensationally claimed yesterday that two whistleblowers who threatened to expose an alleged VIP paedophile ring may have been murdered.

John Mann has passed detectives information about the suspicious deaths of the men who were allegedly poised to lift the lid on child sex abuse at the heart of the Establishment.

The development comes as the Labour MP told the Daily Mail yesterday that a key witness has come forward providing the address of a Dolphin Square flat which was used for ‘abuse parties’ by a network of high-profile figures including politicians and leading members of the judiciary, military and security services.

The potential breakthrough, which could help detectives identify the alleged perpetrators, comes a day after it emerged that Mr Mann had handed detectives a dossier naming 22 politicians – including six serving MPs and members of the House of Lords – suspected of involvement in a Westminster paedophile ring.

The Bassetlaw MP has since spoken to a victim who has provided a specific location where it is claimed that boys from care homes in Lambeth, South London, were taken to be abused – the apartment in the luxury block of 1,250 flats at Dolphin Square in Pimlico.
Mr Mann alerted police to allegations of child abuse at the prestigious block in 1989 when he was a Lambeth councillor, but nothing was done. The two whistleblowers he claims may have been killed are said to have been ready to expose powerful figures preying on teenage boys from children’s care homes in Lambeth.

The information Mr Mann has given police concerns the suspicious deaths of a Lambeth Council caretaker in 1989 and a social worker in 1993 who allegedly threatened to expose a paedophile ring linked to a future minister in Tony Blair’s government.

The unnamed caretaker was said to have tapes on ultra-violent ‘sex parties’ when he died in an apparent arson attack.
A second council employee, social services manager Bulic Forsythe, was found dead by firefighters in his blazing flat in Clapham. His skull had been fractured by a heavy weapon.

In the months before his murder the 42-year-old had told colleagues at Lambeth Council he was on the verge of exposing child sex abuse and corruption.

Witnesses have said Mr Forsythe had information about council buildings being used to film child sexual abuse. He died at the time of an internal council probe into alleged sexual abuse in the housing department where he had worked.

The report is said to implicate council officers as well as police and politicians. It states: ‘The murder of Bulic Forsythe was seen by some witnesses as a possible outcome for anyone who strayed too far in their investigation or who asked too many questions.’
Though the panel found no ‘direct link’ between his death and work, it said its evidence should be handed to police. The murder was investigated but never solved and cold case detectives are re-examining it.

Police are said to be investigating five potential paedophile rings operating over the last three decades in locations including Dolphin Square, Lambeth, North Wales and Rochdale.

The Dolphin Square flat which Mr Mann claims he can identify is not thought to have been the residence of any politician. Mr Mann told the Mail: ‘It is a short-term let. It is a big apartment in a particular part of Dolphin Square. The allegation is teenage boys were taken there and abused by at least two MPs. It is a specific allegation which will need to be verified.’

The estate is a few hundred yards along the Thames from Parliament and apartments could be rented by the night. Police believe the block was the home of sordid ‘abuse parties’ between 1975 and 1984.

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https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/send-in-the-police-to-find-the-missing-dossiers-on-child-abuse-at-the-palace-of-westminister?source=facebook-share-button&time=1417639062

38 Degrees Petition UK

SEND IN THE POLICE TO FIND THE MISSING DOSSIERS ON CHILD ABUSE AT THE PALACE OF WESTMINISTER

TO: SIR BERNARD HOGAN-HOWE

I want the Police to enter the house and secure all documentation relating to the "historic" child abuse claims. I want Sir Leon Brittan to be taken in and questioned on how he "lost" the documents he has stated he had "no memory" of and for all of this information to be shared with the people who pay for them "the public"

There are numerous people online stating that Sir Leon Brittan is directly involved with the abuse at a shocking level and no one has served a notice on any of them...we have to debated this fact

Why is this important?

There are many people speaking openly online about the fact that this is far from historic and is still going on now and as well as parties from both houses the suspects go into the church and royal family at the highest levels.

if a small amount of the allegations are real then we have the right to know and the appropriate parties should be removed from office and society. If any of us were suspected you would be in custody NOW, there wouldn't be an "inquiry" into it simple POLICE ACTION and that's what we need

How it will be delivered

By Hand

petition at the link

[Sabrina]

Aww it's late in the year and near xmas... indulge me on this one :)...


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http://abcnews.go.com/US/president-george-hw-bush-hospitalized/story?id=27803891

George Bush senior hospitalised for shortness of breath

ABC 23 DEC

story at link

and

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/19/should_bush_and_cheney_be_tried

Should Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & CIA Officials Be Tried for Torture? War Crimes Case Filed in Germany

A human rights group in Berlin, Germany, has filed a criminal complaint against the architects of the George W. Bush administration’s torture program. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has accused former Bush administration officials, including CIA Director George Tenet and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, of war crimes, and called for an immediate investigation by a German prosecutor. The move follows the release of a Senate report on CIA torture which includes the case of a German citizen, Khalid El-Masri, who was captured by CIA agents in 2004 due to mistaken identity and tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan. So far, no one involved in the CIA torture program has been charged with a crime — except the whistleblower John Kiriakou, who exposed it. We speak to Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and chairman of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, and longtime defense attorney Martin Garbus.

more at link

19 Dec

[Sabrina]

http://hipknowsys.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/benjamin-fulford-december-23-2014-us.html?m=1



Fulford's take on it all (but the recent New York Times article as below, and covered on this thread, did see some pretty big media dynamics shifting, and the UK main stream media certainly have got their teeth into the historic abuse cases and cover-ups). And see Bush Senior hospitalised yesterday reportedly for shortness of breath (previous page)...

Benjamin Fulford - December 23, 2014: US regime under unprecedented attack, black swan event imminent

The Nazi cabal that illegally seized power in the West by staging the 911 mass murder event is now close to collapse. This can be seen by the growing calls for the arrest of the top figures of the last Bush regime not only from world leaders but now even from establishment lapdogs like the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/opinion/prosecute-torturers-and-their-bosses.html?_r=0

The fact the New York Times is running such an editorial means the traditional Jewish lobby has finally figured out that Neo-con was just a euphemism for Neo-Nazi.

If a few more key individuals are removed from power in the coming days, it will lead to the end of cabal fascist rule and freedom for humanity. These people include US corporate president Barack Obama, Japanese slave Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, secret UK dictator Jeremy Heywood and Federal Reserve Board head Janet Yellen.

The key person to bring down is US corporate president Barack Obama. This should be straightforward because he has only 15% support inside the US military. Obama may be a just a puppet but he is nonetheless the publicly visible sign of continued cabal rule. Obama committed fraud to become president. In his auto-biography, “Dreams of my Father,” he writes that his father was a World War 2 veteran. Yet the birth certificate Obama made public says his father was 25 years old when Obama was born in 1961. That means his “war veteran” father was 9 years old when the war ended. Furthermore, Obama has confirmed his role as a cabal stooge by publicly repeating the Nazi lies about 911.

Hopefully, incoming Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will grasp his destiny and lead the restoration of the Republic of the United States of America.

The Japanese slave regime headed by Shinzo Abe is another key domino that needs to be toppled. Overwhelming evidence has now emerged that Abe “won” the December 14th general election through massive fraud. Japan Independence Party head Richard Koshimizu and many others last week showed police and reporters extensive proof of this. For example, the Sokka Gakkai Buddhist sect, whose political party is part of the Abe regime, gathered believers all over the country to “write practice votes,” Koshimizu says. These “practice vote” papers were then taken away to undisclosed locations, he adds. Koshimizu also showed this writer videos taken with hidden cameras showing things like automatic vote counting machines counting blank ballots long after voting stations were shut down and votes counted. Many court cases against this latest sham election are being mounted by the JIP and others.

If Abe remains in power, Japan will be looted to the point of bankruptcy in order to try to prop up Abe’s Nazi puppet masters. However, Abe has now lost support among Japanese right wingers and even his CIA handlers.

Richard Armitage, chief US Nazi agent in Japan, has put out feelers to the White Dragon Society to try to arrange some sort of peaceful exchange of power in exchange for amnesty. This can be arranged since the WDS is more interested in saving the planet than seeking revenge.

The situation in the UK is also reaching a tipping point. The ongoing police investigations into a high level pedophile ring inside the UK government are the most obvious sign of this. The ultimate thrust of this investigation is to prove that it was politicians being blackmailed over pedophilia who signed away UK independence to the Nazi/Bush EU government. Once this is proven, the UK could declare the treaties it signed with the EU as invalid.

The old guard is fighting hard to prevent this from happening. Right now fascist control of the UK is centered on Jeremy Heywood, Chief Cabinet Secretary and head of the civil service, MI5 sources say. Heywood’s chief ally is John Scarlett, head of MI6 from 2004 to 2009. Scarlett is now a consultant for Morgan Stanley. Heywood and Scarlett are linked to the “dodgy dossier” that helped Bush slave Prime Minister Tony Blair drag the UK into the illegal invasion of Iraq. If Heywood can be removed, then Nazi power in the UK will crumble, the MI5 sources say.

The UK Nazis, of course, are fighting back. For example, recently somebody started making so many bets the Queen was about to announce her resignation that London bookies stopped taking bets on the subject.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/11299022/Bookies-suspend-betting-on-Queen-announcing-abdication-in-Christmas-broadcast.html


more at the link

[Sabrina]

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5440/charles-napier-jailed-in-first-triumph-for-operation-fairbank

23 Dec UK

Charles Napier jailed in first triumph for operation Fairbank

Re: police investigations into child abuse amongst network of powerful people. Story at link

and

http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5433/paedophile-operations-ex-police-to-submit-dossier-to-met-chief

UK.. ex police submit dossier to Met Chief on cover-up of past paedophile police investigations

story at link

[Sabrina]

Is this Pope a white hat in more ways than one? He certainly seems to be getting right to some of the ills of the Vatican here, and is causing quite a stir.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2883753/Pope-criticises-Curia-lusting-power-s-sake-Christmas-message-Cardinals-Bishops.html

Pope roasts the Vatican: Pontiff blasts his own top cardinals and priests for being 'lustful for power, living hypocritical lives and suffering from spiritual Alzheimer's instead of being men of God'

Pope Francis issued blistering critique while delivering festive message

He suggested some of the Holy See had developed 'spiritual Alzheimer's'

And produced long list of their faults - titled 'The 15 Ailments Of The Curia'

Cardinals were not amused giving speech muted applause in Vatican City

22 Dec

Pope Francis today issued a blistering critique of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him while delivering a Christmas message to cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See.

Rather than offering a traditional good-willed festive greeting, the pontiff described how some of those under him lust for power at all costs and lead hypocritical double-lives

He suggested others suffer from 'spiritual Alzheimer's' and forget they're supposed to be joyful men of God - while offering a sobering catalog of the 15 sins of the Curia.

The sins, or ailments as he called them, included how the 'terrorism of gossip' can 'kill the reputation of our colleagues and brothers in cold blood.'

Another of the sins was how cliques can 'enslave their members and become a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body' and eventually kill it by 'friendly fire'.

He said: 'The Curia is called on to always improve itself and grow in communion, holiness and knowledge to fulfill its mission.

'But even it, as any human body, can suffer from ailments, dysfunctions, illnesses.'

Francis is the first Latin American pope and never worked in the Italian-dominated Curia before he was elected.

He has not shied from complaining about the gossiping, careerism and bureaucratic power intrigues that afflict the Holy See.

But as his reform agenda has gathered steam, he seemed even more emboldened to highlight what ails the institution.

The cardinals were not amused. The speech was met with tepid applause, and few were smiling as Francis listed one by one the 15 'Ailments of the Curia' that he had drawn up, complete with footnotes and Biblical references.

The annual Christmas greeting comes at a tense time for the Curia, the central administration of the Holy See which governs the 1.2-billion strong Catholic Church.

Francis and his nine key cardinal advisers are drawing up plans to revamp the whole bureaucratic structure, merging offices to make them more efficient and responsive.

The Vatican's finances are also in the midst of an overhaul, with Francis' finance czar, Cardinal George Pell, imposing new accounting and budget measures on traditionally independent congregations not used to having their books inspected.

Yet it was perhaps Pell that Francis had in mind when he complained about the temptation to lust for power even if it means defaming or discrediting others 'even in newspapers or magazines, to show themselves as more capable ... in the name of justice and transparency'.

Cardinal Pell recently wrote an explosive essay in Britain's Catholic Herald in which he said his team had discovered that the financial situation of the Holy See was 'much healthier than it seemed because some hundreds of millions of euros were tucked away in particular sectional accounts and did not appear on the balance sheet'.


The Vatican later clarified that the money hadn't been hidden and that nothing illicit was going on - just that the funds didn't appear on the Vatican's balance sheet.

Over the weekend, the Jesuit magazine America reported that an internal Vatican memo had undercut Cardinal Pell's claim of having found the cash in the first place.

It said the funds kept in the Vatican Secretariat of State were well-known, duly reported, were used to cover Vatican losses and special projects and actually had been well-managed over the years.

Francis started off his list with the 'ailment of feeling immortal, immune or even indispensable'.

Then one-by-one he went on: Being vain. Wanting to accumulate things, having a 'hardened heart', wooing superiors for personal gain.

Other faults were having a 'funereal face' and being too 'rigid, tough and arrogant,' especially toward underlings - a possible reference to the recently relieved Swiss Guard commander said to have been too tough on his recruits for Francis' tastes.

Some critiques could have been seen as worthy of praise: working too hard and planning too much ahead.

But even those traits came in for criticism as Francis noted that people who don't take time off to be with family are overly stressed, and those who plan everything to a 'T' don't allow themselves to be surprised by the 'freshness, fantasy and novelty' of the Holy Spirit.

'How good it is for us to have a healthy sense of humor,' he said.

At the end of the speech, Francis asked the prelates to pray that the 'wounds of the sins that each one of us carries are healed' and that the Church and Curia itself are made healthy.


ARE YOU GUILTY OF ANY OF THE POPE'S '15 AILMENTS OF THE CURIA'?
During today's Christmas speech Pope Francis read out 15 sins that he believed the Curia was guilty of complete with footnotes and Biblical references. These included:

1) Feeling immortal, immune or indispensable. 'A Curia that doesn't criticize itself, that doesn't update itself, that doesn't seek to improve itself is a sick body.'
2) Working too hard. 'Rest for those who have done their work is necessary, good and should be taken seriously.'
3) Becoming spiritually and mentally hardened. 'It's dangerous to lose that human sensibility that lets you cry with those who are crying, and celebrate those who are joyful.'
4) Planning too much. 'Preparing things well is necessary, but don't fall into the temptation of trying to close or direct the freedom of the Holy Spirit, which is bigger and more generous than any human plan.'
5) Working without coordination, like an orchestra that produces noise. 'When the foot tells the hand, 'I don't need you' or the hand tells the head 'I'm in charge.''
6) Having 'spiritual Alzheimer's.' 'We see it in the people who have forgotten their encounter with the Lord ... in those who depend completely on their here and now, on their passions, whims and manias, in those who build walls around themselves and become enslaved to the idols that they have built with their own hands.'
7) Being rivals or boastful. 'When one's appearance, the color of one's vestments or honorific titles become the primary objective of life.'
8) Suffering from 'existential schizophrenia.' 'It's the sickness of those who live a double life, fruit of hypocrisy that is typical of mediocre and progressive spiritual emptiness that academic degrees cannot fill. It's a sickness that often affects those who, abandoning pastoral service, limit themselves to bureaucratic work, losing contact with reality and concrete people.'
9) Committing the 'terrorism of gossip.' 'It's the sickness of cowardly people who, not having the courage to speak directly, talk behind people's backs.'
10) Glorifying one's bosses. 'It's the sickness of those who court their superiors, hoping for their benevolence. They are victims of careerism and opportunism, they honor people who aren't God.'
11) Being indifferent to others. 'When, out of jealousy or cunning, one finds joy in seeing another fall rather than helping him up and encouraging him.'
12) Having a 'funereal face.' 'In reality, theatrical severity and sterile pessimism are often symptoms of fear and insecurity. The apostle must be polite, serene, enthusiastic and happy and transmit joy wherever he goes.'
13) Wanting more. 'When the apostle tries to fill an existential emptiness in his heart by accumulating material goods, not because he needs them but because he'll feel more secure.'
14) Forming 'closed circles' that seek to be stronger than the whole. 'This sickness always starts with good intentions but as time goes by, it enslaves its members by becoming a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body and causes so much bad — scandals — especially to our younger brothers.'
15) Seeking worldly profit and showing off. 'It's the sickness of those who insatiably try to multiply their powers and to do so are capable of calumny, defamation and discrediting others, even in newspapers and magazines, naturally to show themselves as being more capable than others.

[Sabrina]

http://consciouslifenews.com/spiritual-practical-solutions-global-conspiracy/1179586/

Spiritual and Practical Solutions to the Global Conspiracy

Solutions are what are most needed right now, as another solar cycle comes to an end on Winter Solstice 2014. There are many people doing great work exposing the global conspiracy, shining the light on the “Matrix” and digging up the dirt on the New World Order. This is very important work, for without an accurate idea of what’s really going on in the world, we are blind. We would have little or no idea of what to change. Not only that, but we would little or no motivation to change. Often, it is anger at the sheer injustice of what is happening that spurs people to stand up for truth and freedom, and to make a difference. Sometimes, we need to realize just how bad things are before we decide that we are going to dedicate our lives to doing something about it, to conceiving and implementing solutions.

There’s no doubt that it’s good to expose the truth and shine the light on the darkness, but what we most need are solutions. Broadly, there are 2 modes of activities: creation and destruction. If we spend all our time just exposing the dirt, we are only in destruction mode, and that is not going to get us out of this mess. We need to create, not destroy. Since, on the deepest level, we are beings of energy not matter, we need to work with frequency and vibration. We need to attune ourselves to frequencies of peace, abundance and love; then the old system will crumble by itself. What we focus on, we create; energy flows where attention goes. As we head into a new year, it’s time to out more focus on solutions.

A Brief Recap of the Conspiracy Exposed Thus Far

Before we do that, let’s do a brief recap of the great work of many researchers in the alternative media and truth field. We know that a psychopathic cabal of super wealthy bankers, politicians, industrialists, military and corporates heads has seized the reins of global power and is working to implement their dystopic vision of a worldwide, centralized, communist/fascist dictatorship. They are highly intelligent and have access to metaphysical knowledge hidden from the general public, but severely lack compassion and wisdom, and thus are not applying their knowledge in a way that will benefit all of humankind. With a deadened conscience and a greatly hindered ability to feel others’ pain, they are a grave danger to the future of the world. We have long had documented evidence proving their eugenics mindset and intent to depopulate the world (e.g. Kissinger’s Memorandum 200 from 1974), showing they are cold-blooded murderers. They have falsified the history of practically every major event in the world (e.g. the real reasons for the American Civil War, WW1, WW2, the sinking of the Titanic, the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and JFK, the Roswell UFO crash, and much much more), with many of these involving false flag attacks designed to justify their agenda of more war and draconian legislation. They have introduced numerous health threats, such as geoengineering/chemtrails, fluoride, vaccines, antibiotic overuse, EMF pollution, GMOs and mind control, all of which have the result of weakening, dumbing down and killing people, normally in a “soft-kill” or “slow-kill” way that escapes immediate detection.

As an added layer to all of this, we know that ET (Extraterrestrial) life is a reality, and that there is a Secret Space Program involving the colonization of the Moon, Mars and other planets and their moons (see the testimony ofRandy Cramer among others for more details). Thanks to the courage of whistleblowers like Phil Schneider, Bill Cooper, Bob Dean and many others, we know that humanity is already interacting with several species of aliens, some of which definitely do not have humanity’s best interests at heart, and are behind decades of human abduction and mutilation, including the ongoing and tragic phenomenon of missing (abducted) children. However, the lies, deception and brainwashing are so complete that those who expose this are disbelieved, branded as lunatics or forcefully silenced.

So, that is the situation in a nutshell. For truthseekers, there will always be more to know, however we are well and truly at the point where we don’t need to know all the details to act to transform it.

Solutions on a Spiritual Level

When we talk about solutions to the global conspiracy, it’s best to start with the most fundamental and powerful of all the solutions: you. Yes, you are a powerful and energetic being, just as each and every one of us is. Since the cosmos is holographic in nature, it rearranges itself according to our thoughts, feelings and state of being. Quantum physics has already shown that the observed is not separate to the observer; we are projecting our realities and creating our worlds, weaving and spinning them into existence as we go along, whether we like it or not, and whether we are aware of it or not. We can never stop this creation! We are creators; it’s part of life.

The trick is to become conscious of our creation.

The root of the global conspiracy is not about controlling a particular system (e.g. banking or surveillance), but rather about controlling what the masses think, feel and project. It’s about controlling the state of being of the people, so that, following the laws of the Universe, they will only create a kind of situation or circumstance in accordance with their inner state. If that inner state is one hemmed in by doubt, guilt, subservience, frustration and fear, the reality projected by these people will match that – and the global conspiracy will continue unabated, despite any attempts on a practical level to produce more freedom.

more at link and video which will not post !!

[Sabrina]

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/12/22/aclu-and-human-rights-watch-call-criminal-investigation-torture-program

22 Dec US

ACLU and Human Rights Watch Call for Criminal Investigation of Torture Program

NEW YORK, NY. - The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch sent a letter today to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the crimes detailed in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s torture program.

The organizations point out that the information detailed in the report leaves no doubt that crimes were committed as part of the government’s rendition, detention, and interrogation program and that the United States is obligated by both domestic and international law to prosecute such crimes.

The letter stated:

“Even though our organizations have dedicated tens of thousands of staff hours to researching, litigating, and advocating on concerns related to torture and other ill-treatment in the RDI program, the depravity of the tactics and immensity of the enterprise still astound us. There is no need to repeat the details in this letter to you, but we believe it is fair to say that many of these crimes would be horrific even if committed by an individual acting alone; but when done as part of a deliberate, coordinated government program, the crimes are more shocking and far more corrosive to U.S. democracy.”

The New York Times editorial board also called today for a full and independent criminal investigation.

Others who have called for a criminal investigation include Ben Emmerson, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism; Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Harold Koh, a former legal advisor to the Department of State said there is “more than enough to reopen investigations at the Justice Department to see whether prosecutions are warranted.”

The letter is available at:
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/aclu_and_hrw_letter_torture_special_prosecutor_-_12-22.pdf

More information is available at:
https://www.aclu.org/national-security/why-criminal-investigation-necessary

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) conserves America's original civic values working in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in the United States by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

and remember the New York Times editorial as previously covered....

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/opinion/prosecute-torturers-and-their-bosses.html?_r=1

Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses

[East Sun]

:Once you know evil behind a mask you will never be fooled again.

Francis has a great smiling face but what's behind it is the question.

I do not trust him, because I know the history of that Church.

[Sabrina]

:Once you know evil behind a mask you will never be fooled again.

Francis has a great smiling face but what's behind it is the question.

I do not trust him, because I know the history of that Church.


I agree about the history of the church... but we are in shifting times and perhaps change will come from the most unlikely places... If you read his message and just feel it, it does seem to come from the heart... I suspect it took quite a lot of courage to deliver it to the Vatican establishment. Reckon we've got to the point individually where we can feel whether a lot of messages have resonance or not from the heart not head...

[Sabrina]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/opinion/a-call-for-accountability-for-torture.html

The Opinion Pages | LETTERS New York Times

A Call for Accountability for Torture

To the Editor:

Re “Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses” (editorial, Dec. 22):

On behalf of those of us who have been deeply shamed by our country’s recent history of torture and abuse of human rights, thank you for having the courage to call for the prosecution of former Vice President Dick Cheney and his minions. I realize that this courageous stance will not endear you to the inside sources you need for your core mission. This makes your bravery in this matter even more notable.

Confronting the horrors of the damage done in our name will not be easy for the United States. We are too much imbued with our own exceptionalism. Recognizing the evil done by those we trusted to do the right thing will require a national level of self-examination that is unprecedented in our history.

If other newspapers and media outlets around the country follow your courageous lead, real change might be possible.

DAN JONES
Montpelier, Vt., Dec. 22, 2014

To the Editor:

Your editorial makes a passionate and compelling case to prosecute those who ordered, supported and participated in the C.I.A.’s “enhanced interrogation” techniques, which many would call “torture.” Yet before we go down the road of a criminal prosecution, we must ask ourselves: Is this the best way for the United States to move on as a nation?

Whether intended or not, starting a second investigation of the C.I.A. program will no doubt send a signal to the men and women of the intelligence community that tactics approved one day can land you in prison the next.

If we truly want to learn from the mistakes of the past without reopening old wounds, we may want to take a page out of the British playbook for its Iraq inquiry: creating an independent, no-holds-barred inquiry whose sole task is to determine why these techniques were approved, how they were conducted, why abuses occurred, why management of the interrogation program was so lax, and what reforms need to be put in place. The panel would be empowered to call witnesses, hold public hearings and access all of the relevant documents and memos in a bipartisan fashion.

Learning from the past and making the necessary reforms is a far better way of ensuring that we don’t make the same mistakes again.

DANIEL R. DePETRIS
Sag Harbor, N.Y., Dec. 22, 2014

To the Editor:

Do you really think, for one second, that there will ever be any charges brought against those who tortured prisoners after 9/11, and their bosses who ordered the torture? Or, for that matter, do you think that there will ever be charges brought for the far worse crime of starting an aggressive war on trumped-up excuses?

Too many American political figures — from both parties — were complicit in these acts, and any real investigation would make this fact all too apparent. And far too many Americans went along with both the torture and the war-making — with misgivings (perhaps), but all the while not speaking out, unless it was to endorse the administration’s actions.

You write, “The question is whether the nation will stand by and allow the perpetrators of torture to have perpetual immunity for their actions.”


I regret to tell you that the answer is, You betcha.

LAWRENCE HOUGHTELING
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., Dec. 22, 2014

To the Editor:

Ensuring that these abhorrent interrogation techniques are never used again is one thing, but asking Americans to legally prosecute those who were trying to protect them from what some feared would be another imminent attack may simply be asking too much.

This is one case where context matters a great deal because while one value was compromised, another compelling value was upheld. Americans recognize that the Bush administration upheld its commitment to defend our country in the unprecedented situation it faced after our homeland was attacked on 9/11. That it went too far is something most Americans are willing to forgive as long as steps are taken to prevent it from happening again. Failing to defend our country would more likely be a prosecutable offense in their eyes.

ANDREA ECONOMOS
Scarsdale, N.Y., Dec. 22, 2014

To the Editor:

Your stand on torture by the C.I.A. shows courage and acknowledges both the Nuremberg principles and the Constitution. Thank you.

JOSEPH CHMURA
Wayne, N.J., Dec. 22, 2014

[Sabrina]

Perhaps that ties in with his outspoken comments in story above...

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=29289

POPE FRANCIS PREDICTS HIS OWN DEATH THEN APPOINTS CARDINAL WHO WILL REPLACE HIM

FRENCH CARDINAL JEAN-LOUIS TAURAN WILL RUN THE VATICAN AFTER THE POPE DIES

“And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.” Revelation 17:9

On Monday, as he flew on-board the papal airplane, Pope Francis made a curious comment about his own death when he said “”I see it as the generosity of the people of God. I try to think of my sins, my mistakes, not to become proud. Because I know it will last only a short time. “Two or three years and then I’ll be off to the Father’s House.”


Even though the 77 year old Francis is a relatively young man as far as popes go, Vatican insiders say he talks often of the idea that he has not long left to live. Then yesterday, he appointed French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran as the man who will succeed him in the event of his untimely death. It was Tauran, as a senior cardinal deacon, who said the words “Habemus Papam” (We have a pope) from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on the night of Francis’ election on March 13, 2013 and then announced the name of the new pope to the world.

Never a dull moment in the Vatican these days, blink and you’ll miss a lot. Stay tuned…

20 Dec

[Sabrina]

False flags and movie locations?

http://chrisspivey.org/spiv-christmas-special/

25 Dec

Chris Spivey analyses the photographs from the recent bin lorry crash in Glasgow, Scotland and surrounding 'noise'. Must say it didn't feel right.

He says:

The tragedy bears a striking resemblance to a scene from Brad Pitt’s World War Z, which was filmed in Glasgow in 2011 only yards from where yesterday’s tragedy unfolded.

The zombie film includes a scene in which a bin lorry crashes into several cars as pedestrians scramble out of the way. The movie bin lorry careers along Cochrane Street, before coming to a stop on the corner of George Square.

The 2013 film – produced by and starring Pitt – saw the city centre play the part of Philadelphia. The film grossed nearly £350million.

(story at link)

And wasn't the recent Australian incident the same location used to shoot part of The Matrix?

More false flag crimes?

Not a very Christmassy story I know.. but isn't it all rather clumsily handled and the movie locations coincidences sticking the finger up more and more? And Sandy Hook and Batman etc. etc...

[East Sun]

:Once you know evil behind a mask you will never be fooled again.

Francis has a great smiling face but what's behind it is the question.

I do not trust him, because I know the history of that Church.


I agree about the history of the church... but we are in shifting times and perhaps change will come from the most unlikely places... If you read his message and just feel it, it does seem to come from the heart... I suspect it took quite a lot of courage to deliver it to the Vatican establishment. Reckon we've got to the point individually where we can feel whether a lot of messages have resonance or not from the heart not head...

I just posted on another thread that Pope Francis is a Jesuit or so I've been led to believe. If we are living in the time of the end we need to be very cautious of everyone, but how could we not be, with all the deception we have been hit by.

Satan is a master of deception. Good to keep that in mind.

[Sabrina]

Agree East Sun, but reckon our powers to feel what is truth or BS are growing nowadays, as ppl wake up.

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http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?78369-Federal-Court-Gives---Early-Christmas-Present---to-War-Criminals-Bush-Cheney-...

Thread here on civil case against Bush and Cheney being dismissed... but as some say, this is just the start.

[Sabrina]

There's threads on this on Avalon, but just for the record, here is David Wilcock's latest blog and transcript from his recent radio interview with Jimmy Church.

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1172-christmas-presence-disclosure

25 Dec

Just some small snippets and as we've been discussing above, you take what resonates with you, and not what doesn't. :)

FALSE FLAG EVENTS ARE USED TO FIRE EMOTIONAL ENERGY INTO THE VISUALIZATIONS THEY CREATE

and


THE GROUP HAS COLLECTIVELY VOTED THAT THERE MUST BE SOME RETRIBUTION

Now, some of the groups wanted there to be complete amnesty, and wanted there to not be any fatalities as this process takes place.

That decision has been vetoed.

There are going to be spontaneous assassinations that take place. There is going to be some violence when this starts to happen.

It's going to freak people out. It is going to be very controversial.

I may have to garrison in my house for a while once this happens.

and


Large amounts of American military equipment are being shipped out of the country -- very quietly, right from certain bases themselves like in San Diego.

This is happening with urgency. Everything is going to various overseas locations. The military leaders, smelling a rat, are doing their best to hold up the process.

[Sabrina]

One way to take down the Vatican :)..

http://www.thejournal.ie/topless-woman-baby-jesus-russia-square-1851967-Dec2014/

A topless woman tried to steal the Baby Jesus out of the Vatican’s crib

A policeman in a black cape arrested her at St Peter’s Square.

AN ACTIVIST FROM the feminist group Femen bared her breasts in St Peter’s Square on Christmas Day and rushed the Nativity scene, grabbing the Baby Jesus figurine.

A Vatican police officer wearing a black cape was quick to arrest the blonde activist and wrest the figurine away from her.

The words “God Is Woman” were daubed in large letters on her chest.

Although the incident occurred well after Pope Francis delivered his Christmas message from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica, thousands of pilgrims were still in the famous square.

Femen has staged similar stunts at the Vatican, such as a protest last month over an imminent visit by the pope to the European Parliament.

The three Femen members were wearing only leather mini-skirts and flower garlands in their hair, and one had the slogan “Pope is not a politician” emblazoned across her chest.

On November 24, the day before the pope’s visit, a topless Femen activist mounted the altar of the Strasbourg cathedral.
The movement that began in Ukraine to protest the former pro-Kremlin regime also opposes the Catholic Church’s positions against abortion and gay marriage.

Their activists often stage protests in places of worship.

http://c2.thejournal.ie/media/2014/12/vatican-femen-protest-2-375x500.jpg


She also shouted 'God is a woman'...:)

[Sabrina]

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/12/1-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-filed-against-msm-for-staging-sandy-hook-massacre-it-was-a-fema-exercise-video-3083378.html


27 Dec

1 Trillion Dollar Lawsuit Filed Against MSM For Staging Sandy Hook Massacre- It Was A FEMA Exercise! (Video)

(N.Morgan) In another shocking twist in the Sandy Hook saga, Filmmaker and Author William Brandon Shanley Launches Wave of Lawsuits for more than $1 Trillion Against Big Media Over Sandy Hook Massacre Coverage. We may not be able to get them in the criminal court, but Civil court is an entirely different affair. There may finally be recourse for this False Flag Op that was pulled on this country.

Here is Mr. Shanley’s Statement:


“After exhaustive research, the good news is that overwhelming evidence reveals that no children or teachers died at Sandy Hook two years ago. For relief, I have filed lawsuits against the media in US District Court in New Haven for Fraud and Terrorism. Here is an example of our abundant evidence, Exhibit D: The Connecticut State Police dash cams record no evacuation of children from school at critical moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqcaaE6aFX8 — Smoking Gun evidence no children died at Sandy Hook.”


Attached is a photo staged by the Newtown Bee, a wider view of that action being staged on a different day that the emergency altogether, and a sampling of front pages that terrorized the world with the fake photo.


http://http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/30080/images/evacuationnewtownsandyhook.jpg

Mr. Shanley is the producer of The Made-for-TV Election starring Martin Sheen that analyzed media coverage in the tectonic Carter-Reagan election of 1980. He is also the author of books on quantum physics, including Alice and the Quantum Cat (2011). Dr. James Fetzer, whose 35 articles on Sandy Hook for Veteran’s Today qualify him for the highest investigative journalism awards, and School Safety Consultant, Wolfgang Halbig, whose investigative expertise as a former Florida State Police officer, and loving attention as a former principal, makes this case’s particulars comprehensible to all, will be called as expert witnesses.




It is their scholarship and bravery that makes these Complaints possible for the shear breadth and scope and detail of evidence they have assembled. Hundreds of independent researchers have also made this day possible, and Mr. Shanley claims they will be tracked down and rewarded heartily for their bravery and mindfulness of America.






Mr. Shanley’s Complaint states, in part:




Defendants entered in a multi-year conspiracy, meeting in groups separately and together, to commit fraud and terrorism, i.e., to brainwash the public into thinking a lone gunman drill known as the “Sandy Hook Massacre” was real, when in fact it was a staged FEMA National Level Exercise Event that redirected government resources to terrorize the public. These crimes were undertaken with the intent of subverting the US Constitution and to affect national, state and local laws. This fraud involved lying to the public, faking news, publishing one-sided news reports, censoring reality, suppressing facts, and deliberately skewing the news to shift public perceptions.


The true costs of this breach of integrity and trust to society are unfathomable. Instead of fulfilling their Constitutional Role as the People’s Surrogates and being honest brokers of information, the Plaintiff will show how the men and women who dominate the TV news industry in the United States broke laws, besmirched the First Amendment, their Constitutional role as government watchdogs, and forfeited the right to report the news, and thereby profit from news production and distribution. The sine qua non of journalism is the search for truth. Our Fourth Estate chose a different path. Punitive damages of one year’s annual revenue from each Defendant are being sought to establish a News Trust, that will free journalism and restore trust and integrity to our communications sources. A democracy cannot survive this tyranny over human consciousness.


The New York Times, the Associated Press, the Hartford Courant, and the Newtown Bee are being sued for 10 billion usd, punitive damages, in a separate Complaint.






Case Name:
Shanley v. Smith et al
Case Number:
3:14-cv-01881-JAM
Filer:
William Brandon Shanley


Mass TV and wire service news media are being sued for 1 trillion usd, punitive damages.




Shanley v. O’Prey et al
Case Number:
3:14-cv-01929-JAM
Filer:
William Brandon Shanley



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[Sabrina]

https://medium.com/@thepalestineproject/israel-must-return-what-was-stolen-from-palestinians-6b9dd14e8c4c

Israel must return what was stolen from Palestinians

After years of evasion, legal tricks, forged documents and unfulfilled pledges, even the Israeli High Court came to realize that the state cannot be trusted, not to mention the settlers, to voluntarily agree to return the land they plundered from their Palestinian owners.

(Original editorial published under the heading below)

Razing the Amona outpost: Returning what was stolen

Palestinian landowners have waited too many years for Israeli wheels of justice to turn.

Haaretz Editorial | Dec. 28, 2014 |



It is impossible to overstate the significance of the High Court of Justice ruling ordering the state to demolish within two years the Amona illegal outpost, which was built on private Palestinian land. After years of evasion, legal tricks, forged documents and unfulfilled pledges, even the High Court came to realize that the state cannot be trusted, not to mention the settlers, to voluntarily agree to return the land they plundered from their owners.

Amona was born in sin in 1997, when a group of settlers established residence in an area that had been earmarked for an archaeological site and a Mekorot Water Company reservoir. Cease and desist orders issued by Civil Administration inspectors in 2004 halted building for four years, but it resumed in force despite new stop-work orders.

In 2006, after the High Court ordered the demolition of Amona’s permanent structures, the settlers made clear that they were not bound by the court’s authority and they turned the “battle for Amona” into a national event in which they violently confronted the police. If there was no alternative to demolition, they would make Amona a “national trauma” that would threaten any future plans to evacuate outposts or settlements.

Even now, after the High Court ruling, the settler leaders are adamant: “We swear today to fight this with all our might,” Amona spokesman Avihai Boaron said. This is nothing but a continuation of the settlers’ common view that the state and its institutions are their servants, and when they do not fulfill their mission they must be fought. Particularly infuriating is the idea that “the left-wing government and the High Court are leading the country”; That is, in the struggle between land theft and the law, the High Court is not only a legal and ideological enemy but it also violates the political reality in which the right wing is in control. That perception is no less distorted and dangerous than the settlers’ position that the theft of Palestinian land is part of the Redemption.

The government of Israel cannot continue to avoid carrying out the High Court’s ruling, according to which “there is no possibility of authorizing the construction, even retroactively,” — a recognition of the tricks the cabinet could try. Two years is sufficient time to find alternative housing, and it would be best not to not wait until the last moment. The Palestinian landowners have waited too many years for the Israeli wheels of justice to turn. They have the right to have their property returned to them, with appropriate compensation.

Mirror Copy. Originally published at www.haaretz.com.

[East Sun]

Let it be. Let justice be done, or as close as it can come to justice.

Things are looking up at last for real disclosure, and on a world wide scale as well.

[Sabrina]

KiwiElf and Camilio have thread on this, but this is worth repeating!! :)

http://benjaminfulford.net/ 30 Dec

Cabal suffers huge defeats in 2014 so the 2015 year of the sheep can also be the year of the sheeple

The year 2014 was a nasty one for the Nazionist cabal controlled G7 nations and their shrinking coterie of slave states. Now, the Pentagon is preparing to take the restored Republic of the United States of America into the 188 nation BRICS alliance, a move that would effectively and permanently end cabal rule, according to CIA sources. If cabal rule ends, then a jubilee (a one-time write off of all debts public and private), asset redistribution and a massive push to save the planet will make 2015, the year of the sheep in the Chinese Zodiac, the year of the sheeple.

The latest offensive against cabal rule has resulted in 30 arrests of senior officials in Israel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/police-...8de7b-54923773

the disqualification of Benyamin Netanyahu by his own political party

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-Election...-appeal-385611

and the fleeing of top Nazionist ruler George Bush Sr. into a hospital to avoid arrest on charges of ordering the murder of President John F. Kennedy and war crimes, including mass murder.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ss-breath.html

Last week also saw the presentation of evidence indicating the committee of 300, that is supposed to be the secret government of the planet, is losing power. The evidence came in the form of the document that can be seen at the 14 minute mark of this video clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=dKdroIjw4D8

We have confirmed from MI5 sources that the document shown is a real committee of 300 document issued in 2010 and signed by

among others, Queen Elizabeth, the head of the committee. It is not the still mysterious document signed by Crown Prince William in Washington earlier this month. This document discusses the distribution of 48 trillion US dollars to a series of established power centers. The percentages each group gets indicate where the real power lies in the secret government.

The biggest share, 20% or $9.6 trillion, goes to the “financial agencies of the United Nations,” such as the World Bank Group, the IMF, the International Finance Corporation, the BIS, the Bank of England and the Bank of China. In other words, the bankers get the biggest slice.

Next we see that the UN, the ASBLP group (Philippines), the United Kingdom, China and the Chinese Dragon (royal) family each get 10% or $4.8 trillion. Then, further down the totem pole we see that Queen Elizabeth, the European Union, the Federal Reserve Board, the committee of 300, the Vatican and the “international authorities who signed this,” each get 4% or $1 trillion 920 billion. Think about it, the Federal Reserve Board, the people who own the US corporate government, only get 4%.
Finally some people code named WZH and ASM get 3% and 2% respectively. A final one percent goes into some sort of savings fund.

The first thing to note is that the United Nations takes top position but the head of the UN is selected by hidden rulers using a secret process. The hidden rulers are almost certainly the usual suspects: the Rockefellers, Bushes, Rothschilds etc.

The next thing we need to pay attention to is who is not on this document including Russia, Africa, India, South America, Japan, Germany etc.

The final thing to notice is that if all this money had really been disbursed in 2010 then the world would be a much better place than it actually is. According to UN estimates it would only take $400 billion to stop environmental destruction and $200 billion to end poverty. That means these groups could save the world and still have $47.4 trillion to spend on luxury yachts etc.

Clearly either this money remains frozen and the document failed to release funds or else the money was not spent on this planet. No other explanation makes sense.

In any case, in order to start cleaning up the mess the Nazionists have made of this planet, we will have to keep chipping away at the visible aspects of their control.

One case in point is Barack Obama, president of the bankrupt US corporate government. This is the man who tried to orchestrate massive US race riots through his Ferguson campaign. More recently, Obama publicly lied on behalf of a Sony movie marketing campaign when he blamed North Korea for the recent so-called hacker attack against Sony Pictures. He also publicly called for the release of a movie depicting the murder of the current ruler of a sovereign nation.

Obama spent last Saturday playing golf in Hawaii with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Apparently Razak failed to please Obama because while he was visiting the US, Malaysia was hit with severe floods and, as soon as he returned home, a third Malaysia airliner vanished.

Now e-mails are being sent to this writer claiming the third vanished plane will be used for a nuclear terror attack in the Ukraine.

We cannot verify this but, clearly some trouble makers are still on the loose. Nuclear reactors in both South Korea and the Ukraine, for example, appear to be under some sort of stuxnet virus attack. The ISIS campaign is also still fizzing along, albeit at a slowing pace. The trouble in the Ukraine is also still burbling but there too, the killing seems to be slowing down drastically. The attack on Russia’s economy has now stopped having failed to even come close to its goal of regime change there.

Now there are growing reports of unrest in the US and the open stealing of citizens’ money by government goons. This is a sign of a terminally ill regime headed for complete collapse.

The issue to pay attention to in the New Year is whether the US corporate government can meet the upcoming series of payments deadlines. The first is the December 31st year end accounts settling. Then there is another big accounting deadline on January 31st.

Japanese slave Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is now frantically looting Japan’s savings to try to help his masters meet that deadline. The latest move he announced, having looted the pension fund, is a plan to steal postal savings. You can be sure his next move will be to try to drain the Norinchukin Agricultural bank. Drug money from Afghan heroin and South American cocaine is also keeping the US corporation on life support. The recent agreement to end the US embargo on Cuba is also almost certainly connected to some sort of funds release.

The real question, of course, is when will the Chinese and Arabs, the worlds’ biggest creditors, finally pull the plug on the goons in Washington D.C. and their secret UN masters.

The other big question is when will the US military take action to restore the Republic? On this end, we are hearing many reports that patriotic elements of the US military industrial complex are on the move.

[Sabrina]

http://newsinsideout.com/2014/12/video-parts-2-5-sevengate-uk-queen77bbcitvvirgin-tvabc-tvcourtsmsm-146-countries/

30 Dec UK

Westminster child abuse network: Could 2015 be the year we begin to see justice?

Ten years ago, if you talked about an elite network of child abusers, operating among the highest levels of government, media, police, and even the royal family, you likely would have been called a 'nut job' or a 'conspiracy theorist'.

Fast forward to the present day however, and allegations of pedophilia and abuse of the most horrific kind, including even reports of murder seem to be surfacing continually, almost daily at times, so much so that the issue has been forced squarely back on the table. Questions and allegations which have lingered for decades, are now being taken seriously, and most importantly so by Scotland Yard.

While no one has been officially charged as part of the wider investigations, police are now looking into numerous allegations of historic child abuse, which allegedly involve powerful and influential individuals, and which date back many decades.

While acknowledged predators like the late Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith MP, never faced justice in their lifetime, there seems a real possibility that enough new evidence is coming to light which might mean some of those involved, and whom may still be alive, could at last end up in court facing trial.

In fact, so much new evidence is apparently being brought to the attention of the authorities, and so many witnesses, sources and officials are calling for justice, that it seems like the dam is about to break, the lid firmly off Pandora's Box.

And as more and more witnesses and victims come forward, and the reality is gradually absorbed into the wider public consciousness, there seems a real chance that those who have abused their positions of trust in such a monstrous way will pay the price.

It may be likely, according at least to a dossier handed by John Mann MP to Scotland Yard, that in the past, key potential whistle-blowers on the Westminster pedophile network were murdered, in order to prevent them unearthing what is potentially one of the biggest crimes and scandals in British political history.

If some of those who have committed these unthinkable crimes, against some of the most vulnerable in society, end up jailed with lengthy sentences, this would at least be some step towards restoring justice in the eyes of an ever disillusioned public.If we can challenge the culture of impunity that currently exists, and ensure these people are punished, we have a chance of stamping out the culture that allowed such predators to operate in the first place.

Bearing in mind that among those allegedly named as part of the on-going investigation is a judge, public scrutiny and pressure will most certainly be needed, to fully hold the system to account, that is, of course if any charges are indeed brought about.

For this to happen, assuming we see some of these Masonic pedophiles face trial, we need to ensure that this issue is absolutely and unequivocally not a taboo.Everyone needs to understand the magnitude and seriousness of these cases, because it’s more than likely that this ring is still in operation according to reports.

Many people are already skeptical as whether or not the justice system itself would be capable of working against those who work directly within it.

And if no one has been jailed or been punished, it stands to reason, that there would have been no motive for networks of serial abusers to cease their activity and simply stop.

An informed public opinion, with a determined will, must exist in order for there to be any chance of justice.It is only the public after all, the real jury, which can hold the entire system to account, should that system fail to bring justice.

We can only ask for a fair judge and jury if and when charges are eventually brought to any of those implicated in these investigations.But one does sense that when the dam does eventually break, it will actually resemble an avalanche.

The 'political' culture needed for these crimes to have continued for so long, is so insipid, so vulgar and self-serving, that it stands to reason that this powerful clique will do almost anything to protect itself and to avoid the long arm of the law. Such is the nature of power.

And the evidence coming to light suggests that when necessary, they have done just that.

It’s a bitter pill for many to swallow. Consider, that in the 'mother of all parliaments', where over the last decade or more, we have seen countless cases made to go and bomb other countries in the name of democracy, that all the while the most sickening depravity was being indulged in by high ranking ministers and MPs.

Indeed, according to the files complied by John Mann MP, former and serving ministers and MPs are identified as having been among the abusers. And one senses this is simply the beginning, the tip of the iceberg.It’s hard to imagine such people suddenly rolling over without a fight.

In the 1980s, Geoffrey Dickens MP handed over vital information to the then home secretary Leon Brittan concerning child abuse parties attended by key trusted public figures.Progress was never made as a result of the dossier being handed to Brittan, but by some strange twist of fate, the dossier became 'lost'.

Let's hope the new information given by Tom Mann MP just a few days back doesn't suffer such a convenient fate.

Rumors that parliamentarians are being used, compromised and blackmailed by different competing interests due to their activities at VIP child abuse parties, and the threat of those activities being made public are rife. It certainly would explain why despite clear knowledge among those who needed to know that this abuse was indeed taking place that nothing was ever done about it.

If whistle-blowers have been killed for knowing the truth, then it seems like fear is the main pillar which has prevented this house of cards from toppling for so long.

Theresa May, Nick Clegg, and other senior political figures have all called for Scotland Yard to be given more power with these investigations, with the view to ensuring that now retired Special Branch officers and detectives, who it is believed have vital information regarding many of these cases from the past, will not be prevented from coming forward and providing evidence, by the Official Secrets Act.

It seems that while there has been resistance for many years from within the establishment that the walls of secrecy surrounding this network of child abusers are eroding.Public outrage is being accompanied with the political will to examine cases dating back many decades, and also cases in recent history.

Could 2015, which will mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta be the year in which all that is in the dark finally comes to light?We can only hope this will be the case.

The horrors which would have taken place at Elm Guest House in Barnes, South West London do not bear thinking about.

The sheer number of people coming forward now, speaking out about their ordeals, is having a domino effect, and evidence for a case must surely be mounting.Police are expressing confidence that they believe many of the victim's accounts.There are consistencies in their testimonies and statements

Cyril Smith, Jimmy Savile and other seemingly untouchable members of the elite establishment never faced justice.But perhaps they are the last to evade jail terms.Seeing some of these criminals firmly behind bars would certainly be a step toward rooting out the kind of corruption and abuse of power which has tainted our political system for so long.Maybe 2015 is the year in which we finally see this begin to happen.

Richard Sudan for RT

Richard Sudan is a writer, political campaigner, and poet. He tweets@richardsudan

[Sabrina]

Alfred Webre is questioning Kevin Annett (ITTCS - Internal tribunal into crimes against church and state) over his statements to date and integrity, after promoting Annett's work for some time. I don't know the truth of it all, but did feel moved for some reason when I posted Annett's last news to say use your discernment. Think we'll see more of these splits happening as the energies shift - even in the 'truth' movements...

Webre's statements:

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2014/12/notice-of-suspension-of-all-kevin-annett-programming-by-exopoliticstv.html

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2014/12/video-alfred-webre-why-i-exposed-kevin-annett-itccs-transcript.html

and

Annett's reply:

http://itccs.org/2014/12/24/public-legal-notice-of-criminal-defamation-and-liability/


You decide ...

[Sabrina]

Seems someone is having a joke...even stirring up the Daily Mail in outrage...

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/honours-for-manning-woolf-dick.html

30 Dec UK

HONOURS FOR MANNING, WOOLF, DICK; CHILD GROOMING; PALESTINE


The UK monarchy is 'totally discredited' by its New Year Honours?

The Queen is giving honours to:

1. Sir David Manning, who arranged the secret deal that got the UK into the Iraq war.

2. Fiona Woolf who was in charge of the child abuse 'cover-up', until it was discovered that she was a friend of Leon Brittan.

3. Cressida Dick, the policewoman in charge when the innocent Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead in a 'false flag' operation.

4. Dave Ward and Patrick Hallgate, two executives of the disastrously managed Network Rail.

5. Esther Rantzen, the friend of Jimmy Savile.

more here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2891860/New-Year-Honours-gong-Blair-aide-brokered-deal-took-Iraq-war-Chilcot-hasn-t-reported.html#ixzz3NSILDqem

Outrage as Blair aide who brokered deal that took us into Iraq war gets New Year Honours gong (even though Chilcot STILL hasn't reported)
Sir David Manning helped Tony Blair forge secret pact with George Bush

The 65-year-old is made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Honour comes as he faces prospect of criticism in delayed Chilcot report into 2003 war in Iraq

He was among 1,164 people recognised by today’s New Year’s Honours

Fiona Woolf, who stood down from Government’s child abuse inquiry, becomes a dame

Cressida Dick, policewoman in charge when Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead, is made a CBE


story at link

[ThePythonicCow]

Alfred Webre is questioning Kevin Annett (ITTCS - Internal tribunal into crimes against church and state)
Ouch - those are some serious and detailed charges by Webre against Annett.

Kevin Annett also provided this response, on December 26, on Rainbow Warrior GodDess Lisa's blogtalk radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rwarriorgoddess/2014/12/26/consciousness-caffeine-clarifying-the-controversy-with-kevin-annett

[Sabrina]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/31/shock-waves-part-ii/

Shock-Waves (Part II)

Posted by Preston James, Ph.D on December 31, 2014

The Shock-Waves of Gordon Duff’s Historic Speech at the Damascus Conference on December 1-2, 2014 are still reverberating around the World in almost every Security and Intel Unit, and among the World’s Top Leaders and Diplomats.

And these Shock-Waves are generating numerous sophisticated counter-espionage efforts for the very first time time among Nations victimized by Terrorism, efforts which are now directed to combat the true cause of World Terrorism, the very large Organized Crime Cabal (OCC) itself. This too is very Historic.



The Top Directors of Veterans Today were at the Damascus Conference on Combating Terrorism and Religious Extremism December 1-2, 2014.

The Historic keynote Address by Gordon Duff* and the Followup Briefing by Colonel Jim Hanke** are still sending shock-waves around the World. Jim Dean*** was there and took some historic video and did numerous Syrian interviews which were very informative and also quite Historic.

Mike Harris**** also gave numerous Syrian interviews which contained much of the same historic content which was revealed by Gordon Duff for the first time publicly anywhere in the World.

Sixty-eight different Nations were there and Thirty-Five had Official Representation.

The historical content of the speeches of Gordon Duff and Colonel Jim Hanke as well as the interviews by Jim dean and Mike Harris were quickly transmitted to almost every top leader around the World. These historic speeches for the first time clarified the root causes of World Terrorism and the formation and empowerment of ISIS/Daish.

For the first time in history numerous acts of Terrorism all around the World were identified and described as a very large Organized Crime problem.

Before this Conference and Duff’s Historic Speech most of the World’s Leaders and Heads of their Security and Intel apparatus viewed Terrorism as individual unconnected acts all around the World. For the first time ever Duff and the other top VT Staff presented the hard cold fact that all World Terrorism is linked to this very large Organized Crime Cabal (OCC) one way or another, directly or indirectly.

Gordon Duff’s Historic speech clarified for the first time ever publicly to this important group of top Diplomatic Security and Intel Experts that the root cause of the problem was not Terrorism but was the a very large Organized crime problem.

Duff noted that an Organized Crime problem this large has never occurred anytime before in history. he also clarified that this large Organized Crime Syndicate responsible for terrorism

Duff explained that what is going on in Iraq and Syria with ISIS/Daish is not Terrorism, it is simply ORGANIZED CRIME.

That is, World Terrorism is the work of an International Organized Crime Cabal (OCC) which has gotten control of the American Congress.

Yes, this is a large Organized Crime problem that must be understood at its simple root cause.

Duff identified this very large Organized Crime Cabal as Israeli and pointed out that this is Worldwide Crime on a scale never experienced before.

Duff went even further he identified those associated with this very large Organized Crime Syndicate who are responsible for starting ISIS/Daish which included two American generals, McNierney and Vallely and one sitting Senator, McCain.

mccain-syria-rebelsThe Citizens United Supreme Court case opened the door to the complete hijacking of Congress by the Organized Crime Cabal (OCC).

The Citizens United Supreme Court case was fixed and has had a disastrous result.

In various guest appearances on Veterans Today news reports, hosted by Stew Webb, Duff has clarified that the very large Organized Crime Syndicate (OCC) has been able to gain control over Congress in the last National Election.

This power grab occurred largely because of the Supreme Court Case called “Citizens United” which essentially opened up the certainty that very large campaign contributions could be made to “buy” and control Members of Congress by foreign based entities who have interests clearly counter to the Citizens of the United States of America aka “We The People”.

It is now known that basically that the Republican Party took control over the US Congress at the last National Election because of large support of Israeli Organized Crime Cabal bosses with money from massive human sex-trafficking, prostitution and illegal narcotics trafficking.

What exactly is this very large Worldwide Organized crime cabal (OCC)?

The OCC is comprised of three main divisions. The first is the International Zionist crime Syndicate (IZCS), AKA an expanded form of the Meyer Lanski Crime Syndicate.

The Lanski Syndicate absorbed the Italian Cosa Nostra which was basically the Action-Agent of the Rothschild based World Zionists operating out the City of London private FIAT Banking System and Israel, empowered financially by the Federal Reserve System, the World’s largest FIAT Counterfeiter.

The second component is the Bush Crime Cabal (BCC) that gained initial power under Prescott Bush (AKA Prescott Scherf)and later great power for the last 50 years after it assassinated JFK, RFK and MLK.

The IZCS and the BCC became joined at the hip and together have embedded many assets in high USG Offices and acquired control over most members of Congress, the US Department of State and the US Department of Justice. Only the US Military now remains independent for the most part except for a certain sector owned and controlled by the OCC.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/4_2963627.jpeg

more at the link

and snippet here:

Gordon Duff, the VT Senior Editor has also just released another Blockbuster Factoid that is also sending shock-waves around the World. In a recent article on PressTV.com Duff disclosed that the Anonymous group has uncovered a list of 30,000 names of Mossad Agents.

[Sabrina]

http://rt.com/business/218315-china-russia-ruble-yuan/

Ditching US dollar: China, Russia launch financial tools in local currencies

China and Russia have effectively switched to domestic currencies in trading using financial tools as swaps and forwards, as they seek to reduce the influence of the US dollar and foreign exchange risks.

The agreement signed in the end of October comes into force Monday, December 29, and provides a currency swap of CNY150 billion (up to US$25 billion).

READ MORE: Defying the dollar Russia & China agree currency swap worth over $20bn

The country’s Foreign Exchange Trade System will carry out similar transactions with the Malaysian ringgit and the New Zealand dollar.

From now on yuan swaps are available for 11 currencies on the foreign exchange market.

“China won’t stop yuan globalization or capital account opening because of the volatility in emerging market currencies,” Ju Wang, a senior currency strategist at HSBC Holdings Plc in Hong Kong told Bloomberg.

China has set up bilateral currency swap lines with more than 20 countries and regions since 2009, including Switzerland, Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia and South Korea, Xinhua News reported in July.

A swap is a financial tool to ease transactions by exchanging certain elements of a loan in one currency, like the principal or interest payments into an equivalent loan in another currency.

Currency forward is an obligation of two parties to convert an agreed amount of one currency into another by a certain date at an exchange rate specified at the moment of signing the deal.

Russia and China have long been looking for ways to cut the dollar’s role in international trade. The question is significant for China as 32 percent, or $4 trillion of its foreign exchange reserves are in US bonds, which means there is a vulnerability to fluctuations in the exchange rate.

Russia’s foreign exchange reserves are worth $398 billion, and the US dollar accounts for about $162.45 billion.

The country’s economic growth has slowed amid a standoff with Western countries over the Ukrainian conflict. After the country’s financial sector faced EU and US sanctions it became hard for Russian businesses to raise finance in the West.

Chinese authorities are particularly interested in currency swap lines with developing countries, mainly from the Asia-Pacific region. Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Singapore, Hong Kong, Argentina, and Malaysia are actively involved in transactions with China.

29 Dec

[Aspen]

Sad about Kevin Annett. It is hard to tell which of them is lying. In the video I saw yesterday of Annett defending himself, he offered not one shred of evidence that ITCCS and the tribunal that he claims found the QUeen and the Pope guilty, is anything but himself. He did not offer any names of persons who are on the tribunal or in his office that he claims to have in Brussels. Could he not present at least one supporter, one person to back up his claims???? Webre, on the other hand offers the names of several persons, he is presenting evidence to back up his claims. Also troubling, is that there do not appear any First Nations people willing to stand up and support him, even as a character reference. WHere are his supporters - if he is the hero he claims to be????R4Z6R9G6Wag His defense consists of threats of sueing Webre and obsifurcation, claiming to be a martyr for the cause, and accusing Webre of having no evidence when he does present evidence. He also accuses Webre of living in a mansion and of being insane. Not credible arguments in his defense . . .. It is also telling how Webre has used legal means to defend his property and the people living on it from Annett http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2014/12/protective-order-issued-by-sovereign-citizens-against-itccs-kevin-annett-marie-bouchard-et-al.html

[Sabrina]

Agree Aspen thanks, there doesn't seem much visible evidence of what Annett says he's been doing all this time - or - as you say - people standing by him.

[Sabrina]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2894480/Prince-Andrew-repeatedly-slept-sex-slave-controlled-underage-prostitution-ring-U-S-court-papers-claim.html

chatter about this all for some time... now coming out in open...

2 Jan UK

Prince Andrew strongly denies 'underage sex slave' allegations after being named in lawsuit filed in U.S. court papers

Court motion in U.S. brought in relation to millionaire Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein, a former friend of the Prince, was convicted of sex crime in 2008

Court papers in motion claim woman had sex with Andrew three times

They claim meetings took place in London, New York and US Virgin Islands

One meeting was 'an orgy with numerous under-aged girls' it is claimed

It is said the woman was approached by socialite Ghislaine Maxwell

She is the daughter of the late former media mogul, Robert Maxwell

The royal has issued a strong denial of the 'categorically untrue' claims

Prince Andrew has issued a strongly worded denial of any 'impropriety with underage minors' after he was named in US court documents relating to an alleged 'sex slave'.

A woman has claimed she was forced to have sex with the Prince on three separate occasions - including at an 'orgy' - when she was 'lent' to the friends of U.S. multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein, a long-term friend of Prince Andrew's, was one of the best-connected men in America until he was jailed for 13 months in 2008 for soliciting girls for underage prostitution.

Andrew stayed friends with him despite his conviction and they were seen together in 2011, shortly after Epstein's release from jail.
The Prince hit back at the latest claims today, insisting any suggestion of wrongdoing on his part is 'categorically untrue'.

story at the link

and

http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/mossad-blackmail-ring-linked-to-prince.html

2 Jan

'MOSSAD BLACKMAIL RING' LINKED TO PRINCE ANDREW?

see story at link

and snippets:

Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of the late Sir Robert Maxwell, who is said to have been a top agent of Mossad.


and


Among those whose names have been linked to Epstein are:

Ehud Barak

Bill Clinton

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and his daughter Hannah

Lord Mandelson and Lord Mandelson's boyfriend Reinaldo.

Ghislaine Maxwell

Naomi Campbell

Sir Richard Branson

Lord Palumbo, the UK's former Arts Council chairman and godfather to the Duke of York’s eldest daughter Beatrice

The journalist Toby Young

Dame Gail Ronson, wife of the multi-millionaire British developer Gerald Ronson

The JCB tycoon Sir Anthony Bamford

Philippe Amon, a Swiss industrialist

Caroline Stanbury, a former girlfriend of Prince Andrew.

[Sabrina]

http://rt.com/news/219211-stone-ukraine-us-policy/

More speaking out...

1 Jan

Oliver Stone: Ukrainians are suffering from US 'ideological crusade' against Russia

In response to those who took exception with his claims that the Ukrainian crisis involved “outside agitators,” Oliver Stone took to social media to advance his argument, saying that Ukrainians are the victims of a US strategy akin to Cold War 2.0.

This week, Stone stirred a political firestorm with his views on what he believed sparked the Ukrainian crisis, following a private interview with Viktor Yanukovich, the former Ukrainian president who was ousted in the February 2014 coup.

"It seems clear that the so-called ‘shooters’ who killed 14 policemen, wounded some 85 and killed 45 protesting civilians, were outside, third-party agitators,” Stone said, following his four-hour conversation with Yanukovich in Moscow. “Many witnesses, including Yanukovich and police officials, believe these foreign elements were introduced by pro-Western factions – with CIA fingerprints on it.”

According to the American-born filmmaker and writer, Ukraine is just the latest country in a long list to fall prey to “America’s soft power technique called ‘Regime Change 101.’”

Stone’s comments reverberated like an earthquake on both sides of the Ukrainian divide, prompting him to elaborate on his original statement. Stone’s follow-up post began with him explaining that he has no particular sympathy for Yanukovich.

“For those of you angry with my analysis of Ukraine yesterday, please try to understand the bigger picture I’m offering,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “I have no brief for Viktor Yanukovich, he may well be the most corrupt president Ukraine’s ever had. Ukraine has a dramatic history of corruption. That is not my point.”


However, he went on to argue that there is “ample evidence of pro-Western, third-party interference” in Ukraine, specifically mentioning Victoria Nuland and John McCain, two high-ranking American officials who appeared on the streets of central Kiev at the height of the Maidan showdown between police and protesters.

He also mentioned specific US government organizations, such as USAID, which has been operating in Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the National Endowment for Democracy, which he remarked “apparently organize very well on Facebook and Twitter,” suggesting a possible method of organizing the protesters for an anti-government rally.

Stone asked the question why so many Ukrainian policemen were killed and wounded during the occasionally violent rallies, “Yet no one has investigated this in the new government?”

Indeed, there has been much speculation that the so-called Maidan snipers were working in the pay of those who were trying to orchestrate the protests, and it was their aim to shoot members from both sides to trigger deeper social unrest.

To emphasize his point that the US has been playing games in Ukraine for a long time, Stone made a historical reference to 1949, when Defense Secretary James Forrestal, together with the cooperation of the CIA, created a guerrilla force codenamed ‘Nightingale’ that was comprised of ultra-nationalist Ukrainians.


For five years, according to Stone, the CIA was parachuting Ukrainian infiltrators into the country.

Stone implored his audience to see the “big picture,” which is that the United States “has never given up on using Ukraine as a launching pad to the underbelly of the Soviet Union, now a reduced Russia.”

“This Cold War 2.0 policy continues in a most deadly fashion, and whether they know it or not, the Ukrainian civilian population in the middle has suffered greatly from this ideological crusade,” Stone said.

[Sabrina]

Let's hope 2015 is the year of justice for Palestine and war crimes actions are served against those who deserve it, not those blustering and playing intimidatory games. Think this game is finally going to have to end.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Israel-freezes-Palestinian-tax-revenues-in-response-to-ICC-membership-386556

3 Jan

Israel freezes Palestinian tax revenues in response to ICC membership



Israel on Saturday night froze the transfer of some NIS 500 million in tax collections to the Palestinian Authority and may sue its officials abroad for war crimes.

The move came as a protest of the formal application for membership of the International Criminal Court that was filed on Friday on behalf of the “State of Palestine.”

This is “robbery and an act more appropriate to pirates and not governments,” chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said of Israel’s move. The tax money is used to pay public sector salaries and is critical to running the Palestinian Authority.

“A few hours ago, we have been unofficially informed that the government of Israel has decided not to transfer our revenues, which, according to signed agreements, are the revenues they collect on our behalf and are obliged to transfer to us,” Erekat said.

The Prime Minister’s Office had no response and did not make a formal announcement regarding the decision, but Israeli officials confirmed that the funds had been frozen.

Meretz leader Zehava Gal- On said “the Bibi-Bennett government continues to prefer headlines over Israeli interests. Half a billion shekels is exactly the amount that will topple the Palestinian Authority, stop the security cooperation and endanger every citizen of Israel,” she added. “The good news is that in two months this pair will be shouting from the opposition benches.”

In addition to the revenue freeze, an Israeli official said Jerusalem is “weighing the possibilities for large-scale prosecution in the United States and elsewhere” of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other senior Palestinians.

Israel would probably press these cases via non-governmental groups and pro-Israel legal organizations capable of filing lawsuits abroad, a second Israeli official said, explaining how the mechanism might work.

Israel views the heads of the Palestinian Authority as collaborators with the terrorist organization Hamas, because of a unity deal they forged in April, the officials said.

Netanyahu has previously warned that unilateral moves by the Palestinian Authority at the UN would expose its leaders to prosecution over support for Hamas, which Israel and other governments have named a terrorist group.

Hamas “commits war crimes, shooting at civilians from civilian-populated areas,” one official said, referring to the war in Gaza last summer in which more than 2,100 Palestinians and more than 70 Israelis died.

On Friday, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, submitted the Palestinian application to the ICC to the UN’s top legal affairs official, Stephan Mathias, at the UN headquarters in New York.

“This is a very important step,” Mansour told reporters.

“We are seeking justice for all the victims that have been killed by Israel, the occupying power.”

He pointed out that the Palestinians are the 123rd state-party to join the ICC.

Mansour said that a request has been filed with the ICC in The Hague to grant retroactive jurisdiction to the court to cover “war crimes” allegedly committed by the IDF during Operation Protective Edge.

The envoy said the Palestinians will also seek to take legal action over settlements, which he said are a “war crime” under the Rome Statute.

“This is a peaceful option, a civilized option, and an option that anyone who upholds the law should not be afraid of,” Mansour added.

He added that the Palestinians are not afraid of the possibility that Israel would also file war crime charges against Palestinians.

“The Palestinian leadership is not afraid of these allegations,” he said. “We honor laws and are not afraid of facing any charges with responsibility.”

A senior State Department official on Friday warned that the Palestinians’ formal application to the ICC would have repercussions for US aid. !!!!!

“It should come as no surprise that there will be implications for this step, but we continue to review,” the official told Reuters. “US assistance to the Palestinian Authority has played a valuable role in promoting stability and prosperity, not just for the Palestinians, but also for Israel as well,” the official added.

Erekat told the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen TV network over the weekend that “Palestine” would become an official member of the ICC and other international conventions and treaties by the beginning of March.

No one would be able to prevent Palestine from joining the international conventions and treaties, Erekat said. “We chose to join international bodies that don’t require a vote. That’s why Israel was unable to hinder our move.”

Erekat said that settlements and the recent war in the Gaza Strip would be the first two cases the Palestinians would submit to the ICC. A Palestinian team of experts is currently working on these two files, he added. “If needed, we will also consult with international experts,” he said.

Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog and Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni’s camp attacked Netanyahu for his decision to freeze the tax funds. In a joint statement they charged that “Netanyahu does not have any solutions for Israel’s deteriorating situation internationally.”

According to the two, who are running on a joint list, Netanyahu “is weak facing Abbas in the international arena and takes steps that cannot help IDF soldiers at [the International Criminal Court in] The Hague and will not stop the international wave.”

Should they lead the next government, they said, they would ”make diplomatic decisions that will enlist the world to Israel’s side and give IDF soldiers and officers a legal and diplomatic flak jacket to protect them and stop the Palestinians’ steps.

“We all remember how Netanyahu missed an international chance to demilitarize the Gaza Strip, choosing to speak to Hamas instead of enlisting the world to Israel’s side and promote long-term solutions,” Herzog and Livni added.

MK Nachman Shai (Labor) said the decision to suspend transferring funds is meaningless.

“Within a few days, Israel will give in and have to transfer the money to where it belongs.

The magician doesn’t have any more rabbits in his hat.

Netanyahu is once again sacrificing Israel’s international standing for narrow internal interests,” he said.

Nimer Hammad, political adviser to Abbas, said the Palestinians were not surprised by the decision, which was not the first of its kind that the Netanyahu government had taken. He said that the government was mistaken to believe that the move would benefit Israel or serve Netanyahu’s election campaign.

The PA leadership, he added, won’t backtrack on its decision to join the International Criminal Court in spite of the freezing of the funds.

Reuters contributed to this report.

[Sabrina]

http://journal-neo.org/2015/01/04/cia-torture-report-incriminates-dick-cheney/

4 Jan

CIA Torture Report Incriminates Dick Cheney

Information received this week from the highest levels of US counter-terrorism sources have confirmed that the reputed “Queen of Al Qaeda,” Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a CIA torture victim now serving 87 years in an American “super-max” prison, was a CIA agent when captured and was imprisoned to prevent releasing information that could eventually lead to the arrest and conviction of then Vice President Dick Cheney.

Siddiqui worked directly for Valerie Plame, a CIA agent purposefully “outed” when her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, disproved White House claims of “yellowcake uranium” smuggling by Iraq.

White House Security Chief, Scooter “Libby” Leibowitz was convicted of the Plame leak, although sources now confirm that the “outing” of Plame was done at the orders of Cheney and was passed on to the media by retired General Paul Vallely, a Fox News employee who has recently been filmed meeting with leaders of the ISIS/Al Qaeda terror group in Turkey and reputedly Syria as well.

When Plame was “burned,” her assistant, Dr. Aafia, was then listed as part of the now debunked yellowcake “network” and fled to Pakistan, where she was kidnapped and taken to Bagram Air Force Base, as outlined in CIA torture records.

UK TELEGRAPH GETS IT VERY WRONG

This week, the UK Telegraph published a lengthy article describing “convicted terrorist” Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s process of radicalization and, quite frankly, defending her rendition kidnapping, her 5 years of rape and torture, and the murder of her children by CIA paid contractors.

If only this were the whole story, a cover up of torture as part of a war on terror. It is not. The Telegraph has a long reputation of being a cover story “drop box” for MI-6, so the story was passed around quickly among those who take a special interest in such things.

This week a source within the Able Danger investigation, working directly with the Department of Defense and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and part of the original team that brought down rogue FBI agent Robert Hansen as well, tells of a different story regarding Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.

She was a CIA agent targeted by the Bush administration because her operational unit, headed by Valerie Plame, one involved in NNP (nuclear non-proliferation) was ready to order the arrest of Vice President Dick Cheney and top officials of the US Department of Energy, the organization that, with the Department of Defense, maintains America’s nuclear weapons inventories.

Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger of the Reagan era, was arrested at his home one morning by a similar operational unit for crimes committed in the Iran-Contra Affair and was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice.

After the 2000 US presidential election where George Bush (43) won by a nose, compliments of a Supreme Court ruling, loyal elements in defense and security became convinced the election began a coup, as some of the principals being investigated for their involvement in illegally acquiring and distributing stolen US nuclear weapon pits were placed in top positions to block any attempts of their being exposed by the ongoing investigations.

BACKGROUND

After 9/11, the US set out to create what appeared to be a worldwide terror organization, in order to justify both a political crackdown within the US and, as had been made public on many occasions by former NATO head General Wesley Clark… the long planned military takeover of the Middle East and Central Asia.

Part of this plot involved creating a cover story involving 500 tons of “yellowcake uranium”, supposedly bought by Al Qaeda and transported to Iraq to supply a nuclear program later found to never have existed. The Bush White House, at the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney, went to a terrorist group within the Italian intelligence agency, SISMI, part of the group responsible for the Gladio terror bombings and the kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro.

They created documents outlining imaginary transactions and sent them to CIA headquarters in Rome. SISMI chief Nicolo Pollari took the reports directly to the White House, where Cheney asked friends within the CIA and Department of Energy — part of a covert working team that included arms smuggler Victor Bout — to prepare reports citing the severity of the threat posed by these known forged reports.

DEEP BACKGROUND

A US Army intelligence group working within Israel, headed by Colonel James Hanke, had discovered that the nuclear weapons facility at Dimona had suffered a catastrophic accident between 1988 and 1990. Israel’s nuclear weapons inventory could no longer be maintained and expanded from domestically-produced weapons grade nuclear material.

Israel’s complicity was proven when, according to sources within the IAEA and Able Danger team, a combined operation between the US Department of Defense and Department of Justice, initially headed by FBI Agent John O’Neill, had discovered discrepancies in the US nuclear weapons inventory.

It was not just 350 missing nuclear pits, but fully one third of America’s post SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks) inventory. The records of our nuclear weapons inventory had been systematically sabotaged to hide this attack on America’s weapons inventory, or so they thought.

Able Danger established the presence of an espionage organization answerable personally to Benjamin Netanyahu. The organization included the then head of the Dept. of Energy, the AIPAC Lobby, the Anti-Defamation League, key commanders of America’s nuclear forces, the Joint Special Operations command under VP Dick Cheney, and members of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN organization.

Their investigation had tied corrupt officials at the highest levels of the US Department of Energy to the leak of classified nuclear “pit” configuration data and altering records of decommissioned nuclear weapons. Three hundred fifty W54 nuclear warheads were missing from inventories at the Pantex nuclear facility in Amarillo, Texas.

An investigation team led by Roland Carnaby, the CIA agent killed in a mysterious shooting in 2005, discovered that the missing “pits” had been stolen and taken to a nearby meat packing facility, where they were sorted using leaked DOE data in order to allow them to be safely melted down and reconfigured to replace the depleted Israeli stockpile.

Investigators from the DOE and IAEA confirm that weapons from this stolen stockpile were used in the demolition of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 — nuclear “pits” originally produced at the Hanford DOE facility in Washington. This information was part of the highly classified 2003 9/11 report given to congressional and White House leaders only, and later leaked by Russian Naval Intelligence, believed to have been among a trove of documents received from Edward Snowden.

In March 2013, a group of business executives meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received a briefing on the 2003 “Nuclear 9/11” report as part of a “Threat Assessment Conference” where Veterans Today staff were among the presenters. The briefing also included a version of the now famous “Shrimpton nuclear scare” story, confirming the recovery of a missing nuclear weapon somewhere in the EU in 2012.

9/11 AND AFTERMATH

9997776Leaked documents on the Able Danger investigation, received in September 2014 revealed that most investigation functions had ended in 1998 at the request of President Clinton, then under impeachment threat tied to his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, in a reputed Mossad “honey trap.”

Investigative chief and FBI Special Agent John O’Neill left government service and pursued leads until his untimely death during the 9/11 “event”. According to a 2005 report, thirty-five of the Able Danger investigators were also killed on 9/11, when the Pentagon office they were called to for an emergency briefing by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Myer, (who did not show up for the meeting and did not die, a lucky day for him) was demolished by an airliner, though little or no physical evidence of such a happenstance exists.

After 1998, the FBI investigation team was divided into two units under the supervision of Special Agent Mike Dick; one team was tracking arms dealer Victor Bout, and was coordinated with IAEA investigators. The second unit investigated the theft of the “pit matching” documents and centered on the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, eventually leading to the arrest of leaders of that group.

Charges were later dropped when the White House refused to turn over required evidence, and Attorney General John Ashcroft, one of the key planners of the CIA torture program, ordered an end to the investigation. Witness statements included testimony indicating White House officials had passed key nuclear secrets to Israeli embassy representatives at a Washington cocktail party in the presence of both Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice.

The second unit, assisted by CIA agent Roland Carnaby, followed the theft of nuclear weapons from the sorting facility near Amarillo to a fertilizer plant outside Waco, Texas. In April 2014, as Snowden reputedly handed Able Danger documents to Russian intelligence, the plant where the nuclear weapons were stored, the West Fertilizer Plant, was destroyed in a massive explosion, killing 15.

The entire operation was run by Victor Bout, working directly for the office of the Vice President of the United States, according to private sources with access to the Plame/Siddiqui investigation.

The nuclear pits had been moved by truck to the Port of Houston, where they had been placed on ships and transferred to the Canary Islands and later to Mauritania. The weapons were, according to Able Danger documents, stored at a mine controlled by former South African Prime Minister De Klerk inside a region controlled by the rebel Polisario Front. From there, weapons were sold to Taiwan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and other nations, along with restocking Israel.

Other weapons were set aside for use by intelligence agencies. IAEA sources report weapons from Hanford/Pantex were used for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, and the Bali bombing in 2005. The IAEA confirms up to 50 nuclear weapons have been used surreptitiously since 1945, often in configurations that minimize blast and radiation.

THE CIA’S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN

There are strange parallels in the story of two accused “Al Qaeda” operatives. While the general public thinks of Al Qaeda as a terror group, in truth, according to Able Danger documents, Al Qaeda is a joint operational sector of Saudi, Israeli and US intelligence. This dirty little secret has compromised American security greatly, due to the blackmailing position both of these countries have had over the US.

Two of the major “terror figures” of Al Qaeda, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Osama bin Laden, have been confirmed, at the highest levels, to be CIA operatives. After 9/11 both fled… Dr. Aafia to Karachi and bin Laden, who had recently received kidney treatments at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where members of congress and top VIPs receive their care, to Tora Bora.

Bin Laden died of complications from advanced kidney disease on December 13, 2001, after denying any involvement in 9/11 and advising those concerned to “look closer to home” (CIA FOIA Press Release dated 24 September, 2001.)

The curious story of Bin Laden and his second “death” in Pakistan is similar to that of Aafia Siddiqui with her reputed murderous attack on her CIA captors during a waterboarding session at Bagram Air Force Base.

Prior to the release of the recent and highly controversial CIA torture report, the reputed actual “re-killer” of bin Laden came forward. The story, as we are told, has an aging bin Laden in the upper floor of a home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden is said to have leapt to his feet, grasping an AK47 in one hand while holding a hostage in another. While standing on a bed, bin Laden is brought down in a hail of gunfire, like something out of a cowboy film.

The Aafia story is if anything worse.

We are told Dr. Aafia, confined to a wheelchair, in this case “literally” held down by handcuff “tie raps”, was brought in for a waterboarding session. The US Air Force facility had been hosting summary execution and torture sessions for Aafia and other prisoners for years. Aafia had been raped repeatedly. She was down to 80 pounds and unable to walk.

There the story, an analog of the bin Laden tale, gets more bizarre. Dr. Aafia is said to have broken her tie wraps, listed as “ISO 527-1:2012 standard,” in a fit of rage. There were five men in the room, most over 200 pounds, four of whom were “special operations trained”, including one US Navy Seal, one CIA agent and two FBI agents. The fifth member was a “translator,” please pay attention as this will be an important point.

The crippled 80-pound torture and rape victim is reputed to have knocked all four men to the ground, seizing an M4 carbine from one of them. According to transcripts, in order to save the lives of the four “terror war-fighters”, the “translator”, using his weapon shot Dr. Aafia in the abdomen.

This is the crime Dr. Aafia was convicted of, not terrorism but resisting torture. Now here comes the most curious part of all. Dr. Aafia lived in the United States for 11 years, the wife of a Boston anesthesiologist. Aafia taught at MIT, where she received her doctorate in microbiology before joining the CIA.

Aafia had spoken English all her life, published in English and taught in English at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Why did she need a translator? You just can’t make this stuff up… or can you?

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”

[Sabrina]

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150107/1016596765.html

7 Jan

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonUN Chief Says Palestinians to Join ICC in April

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a letter Tuesday that the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute will enter into force for Palestine on April 1.

UNITED NATIONS, January 7 (Sputnik) — The International Criminal Court's Rome Statute will enter into force for Palestine on April 1, according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

“The Statute will enter into force for the State of Palestine on 1 April 2015 in accordance with its Article 126 (2),” Ban Ki-moon said in a letter Tuesday.



This article provides that the Statute will enter into force on the first day of the month after the 60th day following the deposit of ratification.

On January 2, the United Nations said that Palestinian Permanent Observer to the UN Riyad Mansour had transmitted copies of documents to the Secretariat regarding the accession of Palestine to 16 international conventions and treaties, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

In a separate filing, Palestine has accepted retroactive application of the ICC's Rome Statute to June 13, 2014, for the Gaza conflict.

[Sabrina]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2897939/Houseman-cleaned-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-sex-toys-feared-billionaire-make-disappear-takes-secrets-grave.html#ixzz3O4JIE1oX

6 Jan

EXCLUSIVE: Houseman who cleaned pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex toys and feared he would make him 'disappear' takes billionaire's secrets to the grave after he died just last week

Alfredo Rodriguez, Epstein's houseman for many years, passed away last week, his widow Patricia Dunn told DailyMail.com

Court papers reveal that Rodriguez claimed witnessed nude girls whom he believed were underage at the pool area of the home

He also claimed that Epstein viewed pornographic images of underage girls on his home computers.

Rodriguez kept a 'black book' of Epstein's - which he referred to as 'The Holy Grail'

He tried to obtain $50,000 from lawyers for Epstein's book

Ex-butler called it an 'insurance policy' because he was afraid Epstein would 'make him disappear'

The houseman went to jail in 2011 for failing to turn over the book

Rodriguez said Epstein left sex toys in his bedroom after purported 'massages'

As Prince Andrew tries to salvage his scandal-hit reputation in the 'sex slave' case - the man who knows all of his pedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein's secrets has died before he could tell all in an upcoming court battle.

Alfredo Rodriguez, who was Epstein's houseman for many years, passed away last week after a six-month battle with cancer, his widow Patricia Dunn told DailyMail.com.

'Of course he knew all about Prince Andrew,' Dunn said on the doorstep of the home she shared with Alfredo in southwest Miami.


more at link

and



http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/young-girl-models-epstein-brunel.html

YOUNG GIRL MODELS, EPSTEIN, BRUNEL, MOHAMED ATTA


7 Jan

story at link

[Sabrina]

See the energy is being directed another way on Avalon now. That's fine. A lot of it's done now :)... and that can't be undone...enjoy the ride.

[penn]

Still appreciate all your posting! I can't type fast enough to keep up with my thoughts. Thank you. Penn

[skuzzy]

Ok what is going on here? This thread has been shut down. WHY? We need and deserve an answer, please. This thread was one of the top threads on here for staying informed. At least we should be informed about what is going on, I would think with more people possessing moderator powers now, an answer would have been given by now.

[KiwiElf]

HSBC hit with claims of massive tax evasion
AAP, Newstalk ZB February 10, 2015, 5:59 am

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/26248343/hsbc-hit-with-claims-of-massive-tax-evasion/

Banking giant HSBC is facing damaging claims that its Swiss division helped wealthy customers - including Australia's Kerry Packer - dodge millions of dollars in taxes after a "SwissLeaks" cache of secret files emerged online.

The documents published at the weekend claim the bank helped clients in more than 200 countries evade taxes on accounts containing $US119 billion ($A153 billion).

The huge cache of files, which were stolen by an IT worker in 2007 and passed to French authorities, has sparked criminal probes in several countries and attempts to claw back the cash. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) obtained the files via French newspaper Le Monde, and shared them with more than 45 other media organisations worldwide.

The documents showed that HSBC opened Swiss accounts for international criminals, businessmen, politicians and celebrities, according to the ICIJ.

The revelations are likely to stoke calls for a crackdown on sophisticated tax avoidance by the wealthy and by multinational companies, a key political issue across Europe. Tax avoidance is legal, but tax evasion is not.

"HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channelled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws," ICIJ reported.

A range of current and former politicians from Russia, India and a range of African countries, as well as Saudi, Bahraini, Jordanian and Moroccan royalty, and the late Australian press magnate Packer were named in the files.

Following the bombshell disclosure, there were calls for a Swiss probe against the bank, which is already facing prosecution in France and Belgium.

"I am angry," former Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey told public broadcaster RTS, claiming the scandal had seriously damaged Switzerland's reputation. HSBC shares sank 1.97 per cent to 608.60 pence in early afternoon trading in London.

So far Switzerland has only launched an investigation against HSBC employee-turned-whistleblower Herve Falciani, who stole the files at the heart of the scandal. The files were used by the French government to track down tax evaders and shared with other states in 2010, leading to a series of prosecutions.

HSBC's Swiss banking arm insisted it has since undergone a "radical transformation".

"HSBC's Swiss Private Bank began a radical transformation in 2008 to prevent its services from being used to evade taxes or launder money," Franco Morra, the head of HSBC's Swiss unit said.

He said the bank had closed the accounts of clients "who did not meet our high standards" and had "strong compliance controls in place", adding that the disclosures were "a reminder that the old business model of Swiss private banking is no longer acceptable".

[ThePythonicCow]

A fine summary article of the many deaths of well placed bankers, scientists and reporters: DEAD: 125 SCIENTISTS, 75 HIGH-LEVEL BANKERS, AND WITHIN 24 HOURS 3 INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS (SHEEP MEDIA) (http://asheepnomore.net/2015/03/20/dead-125-scientists-75-high-level-bankers-and-within-24-hours-3-investigative-journalists/)

[Sabrina]

Think this thread was killed off long ago with the bankers Paul.. just checked in as someone messaged me :)...

[ThePythonicCow]

Think this thread was killed off long ago with the bankers Paul.. just checked in as someone messaged me :)...

It was a fine thread in its day :).

[PathWalker]

Just a short reminder of latest Banksters departure.

June 17th, 2015 JP Morgan’s number 2, the Vice Chairman Jimmy Lee, suddenly and unexpectedly passes over. Since late 2013, the list of high-level banking officials to have passed over has grown to 70. Clearly, something is happening.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150617/FINANCE/150619875/jpmorgan-chase-vice-chairman-jimmy-lee-dies-unexpectedly

June 18th, 2015: Baron David de Rothschild has been indicted by a French court over financial fraud. French police have been ordered by the court to track down Baron. The Rothschild family has long been viewed as the family sitting atop the global financial ponzi scheme. Lawyer Antonio Flores told reporters, ” it’s a real breakthrough moment for everyone involved.”
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2015/06/18/exclusive-baron-rothschild-indicted-in-france-over-fraud-case/

The truth is coming out. That is disclosure.
Yet the PTW are immune, but not for long.