Massive Bank and High Profile Resignations Across the World

[KiwiElf]

I think the child abuse list is going to get a lot longer... when will they start investigating Hollywood??

[Sabrina]

Feb is going to be a 'big' month by the look of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21464153

15 Feb

G20 finance ministers meet amid 'currency war' fears

The finance ministers of the G20 group of nations are meeting in Moscow amid concerns that major trading powers may be heading towards a currency war.

Japan's monetary stance has seen a big decline in the yen, while the euro has risen against a basket of currencies.

The value of a country's currency has a big impact on its trade and there are fears nations may try to influence markets to help boost their economies.

The G20 has previously asked nations to refrain from market intervention.

Earlier this week, the G7 group of nations issued a statement saying they would not set targets for exchange rates of their currencies.

On Thursday, Anton Siluanov, finance minister of Russia, the host of the G20 meeting, said it, too, was likely to issue a similar communiqué.

"The language may differ (from the G7), but the intent will remain the same," the minister was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.

Slowing growth

The meeting comes at a time when some of the world's biggest economies and regions are still struggling to spur economic growth.


There are countries within the G20 that actually set exchange rate targets. And that isn't what Japan is doing”


Its gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.1% in the three months to the end of December, from the previous three months, the third straight quarter of contraction.

Meanwhile, the eurozone recession also deepened in the final three months of 2012.

The economy of the 17 nations in the euro shrank by 0.6% in the fourth quarter, the sharpest contraction since the beginning of 2009.

It is the first time the region failed to grow in any quarter during a calendar year.

The economies of Germany, France and Italy, the biggest members of the eurozone, all shrunk by more than expected.

This has led to fears that countries that continue to struggle may try to devalue their currencies in order to trigger growth.

A weak currency makes goods from a country, or region, in the case of eurozone, cheaper to foreign buyers and also boosts profits of firms when they repatriate their foreign earnings back home.

more at link

and

http://news.sky.com/story/1052502/g2...-currency-wars

15 Feb

G20 Meets Amid Fears Over Currency Wars

Currencies look set to top the agenda at the G20 meeting, amid anger at Japan apparently driving down the value of its yen.

Finance ministers of the G20 nations are meeting in Moscow amid fears of an increased risk of 'currency wars'.

Friction has occurred over the Japanese yen and government policy which has driven down the value of the yen - making it more competitive - in recent months.

The G20 forum, which put together a huge financial backstop to halt a market meltdown in 2009, is back in the spotlight after a week in which the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations tried, and spectacularly failed, to speak on currencies with one voice

The G7 has long been the powerhouse of financial diplomacy, but tension between Washington and Tokyo has risen over new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bid to end two decades of deflation.

The group issued a joint statement last Tuesday reaffirming "our longstanding commitment to market determined exchange rates".

Yet the show of unity was quickly undermined by off-the-record briefings critical of Japan.

Hosts Russia say the G20 - which includes leading emerging markets and accounts for 90% of the world economy - will back the thrust of the G7 text when they issue their communique on Saturday.

Russia's finance "sherpa", deputy finance minister Sergei Storchak, said the drafting discussion was proving "difficult", but the final text would not single out Japan for criticism.

"There is no competitive devaluation, there are no currency wars," Mr Storchak said.

"What's happening is market reaction to exclusively internal decision-making."

When the G20 last met in November, its statement contained a call to "refrain from competitive devaluation of currencies".

That was omitted by the G7 in what Tokyo took to mean its policies had won a free pass.

"As the G20 meeting in Moscow gets underway, the battle lines are drawn - it isn't 'G6 against Japan' as much as it is 'G7 against G13'," French bank Societe Generale said in an analysis note.

The United States, G20 delegation sources said, was blocking attempts to agree on a commitment to cut borrowing to replace a collective pledge to halve budget deficits agreed at the G20 Toronto summit in 2010.

The so-called Toronto goal expires this year.

Meanwhile, the eurozone's largest economy, Germany, and the European Central Bank, want a new borrowing pledge - in line with their own tough medicine for the currency bloc's ailing periphery.

The manoeuvring on currencies is reminiscent of the 1980s, when two accords sought to manage first the excessive strengthening, and then weakening, of the US dollar.

But, with the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and China's adoption of its own brand of capitalism, the world has changed.

Empowered emerging markets now demand a greater say in global financial management - especially after the Western-led global financial crisis.

[KiwiElf]

Israel's Lieberman goes on trial for corruption
AFP Updated February 18, 2013, 2:11 am

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/1...or-corruption/

JERUSALEM (AFP) - The trial of Israel's former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of fraud and breach of trust opened at a Jerusalem court Sunday in a case which will decide the former bouncer's political future.

Wearing a dark-blue suit and white shirt, Lieberman was silent as he entered the courtroom and did not speak to waiting reporters, an AFP correspondent at Jerusalem Magistrate's Court said.

Lieberman is accused of having promoted an Israeli ambassador who provided him with confidential information about a police investigation into his affairs.

The hearing before a panel of three judges began promptly at 1200 GMT and was expected to be brief and focus on procedural issues, with Lieberman expected to plead not guilty.

In mid-December, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said he was charging Lieberman with two offences over the promotion of the former envoy to Belarus, Zeev Ben Aryeh, in an incident dating back to 2008 when Lieberman was an MP.

Lieberman immediately resigned his cabinet post but retains his status as an MP, expressing confidence that he will be cleared of all charges and will return to his job as foreign minister.

According to the indictment, Lieberman was allegedly tipped off by Ben Aryeh that police had contacted their counterparts in Belarus for help with an inquiry into his affairs.

He is then suspected of seeking to reward Ben Aryeh with a posting to Latvia.

An outspoken hardliner who has been investigated by police several times since 1996, Lieberman denies the charges, saying he is eager to vindicate himself in court.

Among the witnesses due to appear is Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, who heads the ministry's appointments committee. Lieberman allegedly failed to tell him that Ben Aryeh had informed him about the police probe.

Ben Aryeh is also expected to take the stand.

Lieberman's main concern will be to avoid a conviction including both a finding of "moral turpitude" and a prison sentence, which would bar him from serving as a minister for seven years.

"Lieberman has to be acquitted or, at the very least, to escape from being stained with moral turpitude," Maariv newspaper said.

"If the judges convict him of crimes of moral turpitude when they convict him of fraud and breach of trust over his role in the appointment of Zeev Ben Aryeh as the Israeli ambassador to Latvia, he will be forced to resign from the Knesset."

Public radio said the next hearing was expected on April 25, followed by three more in quick succession.

Despite his resignation from the foreign ministry, Lieberman remains head of the hardline secular nationalist Yisrael Beitenu which ran on a joint list with the rightwing Likud of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, narrowly winning last month's general election.

The list won 31 seats in the 120-member parliament, and Netanyahu is currently trying to piece together a coalition government.

Lieberman's political future, however, will depend on the outcome of the trial.

Since Lieberman's resignation, Netanyahu has himself served as interim foreign minister but he is reportedly seeking to reinstate his ally once the legal proceedings are over.

[KiwiElf]

Cameron in trade offensive amid India graft scandal
AFP Updated February 18, 2013, 10:21 pm

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/1...graft-scandal/

MUMBAI (AFP) - British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in India on Monday with what he called Britain's biggest ever overseas business delegation for a three-day visit clouded by a corruption scandal.

His trip comes amid a raging controversy over India's 2010 procurement of 12 helicopters from Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland in a $748 million (560 million euros) deal.

After an investigation in Italy suggested kickbacks were paid via middlemen to secure the deal, India has taken steps to cancel the contract and started its own police investigation.

The British prime minister is likely to face further questions about the probe -- the helicopters, for use by VIPs, are being manufactured in southwest Britain -- with the Indian government keen to be seen to be acting tough on its latest problems.

It has taken the gloss off Cameron's second trip to India since being elected in 2010. He arrived pressing for deeper economic ties between the two countries which are united by their colonial history.

"I've brought with me the biggest ever business delegation to leave Britain shores and I'm really proud to be bringing them here, to meet with Indian businesses and to link up our countries," he said on Monday.

Speaking at a factory of partly-British consumer products group Hindustan Unilever, he said that "India's rise is going to be one of the great phenomena of this century" and that "Britain wants to be your partner of choice".

The British leader has targeted a doubling of annual bilateral trade from 11.5 billion pounds ($17.8 billion, 13.4 billion euros) in 2010 to 23 billion pounds by the time he faces re-election in 2015.

Among his delegation are executives eyeing moves by the Indian government to open up the retail, airline, banking and insurance sectors to foreign investors.

It also includes heads of six British universities aiming to attract students to Britain and seek partnerships in India's vast higher education market.

After business meetings in Mumbai on Monday, Cameron will fly to New Delhi for talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday.

His pitch to New Delhi echoes similar statements from fellow Western leaders seeking to hitch their stagnant economies to one of the most dynamic regions in the world.

India's economy has slowed sharply, but is still growing at about six percent annually.

The timing of the helicopter corruption scandal could therefore not have come at a worse time as Cameron seeks greater market access for British companies and more trade.

He was also expected to remind the Indian government of the merits of the part-British Eurofighter jet, which was competing for a $12 billion contract until last year.

India chose France's Dassault Aviation for exclusive negotiations but the deal has still not been signed.

Indian investigators will travel to Italy as early as this week as part of an inquiry into the alleged kickbacks, a spokesperson for the Delhi-based Central Bureau of Investigation said Sunday.

On his last trip to India in 2010, Cameron issued an unexpectedly blunt warning to India's arch-rival Pakistan about promoting "the export of terror", which played well in New Delhi but provoked a furious response in Islamabad.

Pakistan's ambassador to Britain accused Cameron of "damaging the prospects of regional peace".

As well as trade, Cameron will use the trip to correct any misunderstandings about his government's drive to slash immigration numbers amid concerns that young Indians could be deterred from applying to study in Britain.

"There is no limit on the number of students who can come from India to study at British universities," he told the Hindustan Times in an interview.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Limor (here)
Israel central bank chief Stanley Fischer resigns

On the Israeli headlines - Stanley Fischer, The chief of the Banks of Israel and an advisor to the prime minister is resigning two years prior to his second term as governor was set to finish. Now, my personal note - Stanley Fischer is one of three people (that I know of) between Israeli leaders that is a direct Iluminati guy, he was brought from the US especially for this part, is a member of a secret society (just like Nethanyahu and Peres), was a member of the CFR, regularly attends Bilderberg meetings, and generally set to construct a lot of the financial evil agendas of the NWO in the country.

From Jim Willie's subscription HAT TRICK LETTER:

Stanley Fischer has been the head of the central bank of Israel since 2005. He is often given credit for steering the small nation through difficult times. He has announced his resignation, effective in June, two years before his term ends. At age 69 years, he is hardly beyond his useful years, nor in poor health. Fischer is known as the PhD thesis advisor for current USFed chairman Ben Bernanke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1970s. They created a revisionist history thesis pertaining to the Great Depression, complete with unjustifiable untestable constructs. The highly praised thesis is seen as basis for Quantitative Easing and massive bond purchases to safe the system. However, since the nation is not subject to the Gold Standard, no solution has come. The Bernanke PhD thesis is being disproved with each passing month, and each new QE program. Fischer has held many top posts, all integral to the failed fiat paper financial structure that is crumbling on a global scale never witnessed in history. He served as deputy director of the Intl Monetary Fund, and held a top post at Citigroup Corp. At the IMF, he worked on resolving financial crises in Mexico, Russia, and Southeast Asia during the 1990s. He was mis-educated at the London School of Economics and MIT, along with many financial banking leaders. Under Fischer, the nation of Israel made a distinction. As central bank head, he led the movement early to raise interest rates, making it the first nation to take such a step toward stabilization.

[ThePythonicCow]

From Jim Willie's subscription HAT TRICK LETTER:

Terence James O'Neill will retire from his post at chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Mgmt. O'Neill is best known for coining the term BRIC, the acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China. They are cited in tandem as the four rapidly developing growing economies. He joined Goldman in 1995 as chief currency economist and co-head of global economics research, then became head of global economics, commodities, and strategy research in 2001. By 2010, he rose to chairman of their asset management division. Indeed, he challenged conventional economic thinking about emerging markets, leading to anticipated significant economic and social impact on the geopolitical stage.

[KiwiElf]

Moody's cuts UK's coveted Aaa credit rating
Reuters February 23, 2013, 10:53 am

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/1...redit-rating/#

By Daniel Bases

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Friday cut the United Kingdom's credit rating to Aa1 from Aaa, citing weakness in the nation's medium-term growth outlook that it now expects to extend for a number of years.

This is the first of the major credit rating agencies to knock the UK off of its top rating. Moody's put the outlook back to stable while both Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings have negative outlooks.

Chancellor George Osborne said the downgrade "doubles" the government resolve to deliver a robust economic plan and is a stark reminder of the nation's debt problems.

The news is likely to intensify criticism from the Labour Party opposition of Osborne's austerity program, which is two years off track from its original goal of largely eliminating Britain's budget deficit by 2015.

Moody's said that despite considerable structural economic strengths, growth is expected to be sluggish due to a combination of weaker global economic activity and the drag on the UK economy "from the ongoing domestic public- and private-sector deleveraging process."

Trend growth for the UK economy is between 2 and 2.5 percent, Moody's sovereign credit analyst Sarah Carlson said in a telephone interview with Reuters.

"We see growth slowly building back up to that trend ... but if you take a combination of the growth and fiscal dynamics, the result is that the debt burden of gross general debt to GDP peaks in 2016, which is substantially later than was expected a few years ago," she said.

Moody's estimates debt-to-GDP for the UK peaking in 2016 at 96 percent, up from just below 90 percent now.

Sterling fell to around $1.5160 after the downgrade from about $1.5240, just off Thursday's fresh 2-1/2-year low.

"It's a pretty big deal. We didn't see a huge reaction in the pound because it's late in the New York session. But you'll see some more aggressive selling when the markets open (in Asia) on Sunday," said Kathy Lien, managing director at BK Asset Management in New York.

(Additional reporting by Steven C. Johnson in New York and Michael Holden in London; Editing by James Dalgleish)

[Sabrina]

Wheels are looking shaky on the financial bus - and of course there's lots of questions about the ratings agencies themselves. Even bankers don't know where to put their money safely any more I hear ....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...edit-downgrade

23 Feb UK

George Osborne insists he won't change course despite credit rating downgrade

Chancellor says he 'cannot let up' after move by Moody's which opposite number Ed Balls calls 'humiliating'

The chancellor has insisted that he will not change course despite the downgrade of Britain's credit rating in which he invested great political capital in maintaining.

George Osborne said Britain's situation would get very much worse if the government changed course after Moody's changed Britain's rating from AAA to AA1. The chancellor said previously the rating agency's triple-A rating was an endorsement of his austerity policies.

As far back as February 2010, he told an audience of Tory activists: "What investor is going to come to the UK when they fear a downgrade of our credit rating and a collapse of confidence?" In the Tory manifesto, published weeks later, he said: "We will safeguard Britain's credit rating with a credible plan to eliminate the bulk of the structural deficit over a parliament."

Ed Balls ,the shadow chancellor, described the downgrade as a "humiliating blow" for Osborne who was "ploughing on regardless with a plan which is not working".

In an interview at 11 Downing Street on Saturday, Osborne said: "I think we've got a very clear message, a loud and clear message that Britain cannot let up in dealing with its debts, dealing with its problems, cannot let up in making sure that Britain can pay its way in the world.

"What is the message from the ratings agency? Britain's got a debt problem. I agree with that. I've been telling the country for years that we've got a debt problem, we've got to deal with it."

Labour insisted the government had withdrawn demand from the economy which had slowed growth and increased the debt.

Balls said: "The chancellor said this [a credit agency downgrade] would be a humiliating blow and the first test of his policy was to avoid it, so clearly for him politically, it is a very, very bad moment.

"What the credit rating agencies are doing, though, is reflecting the reality and the reality is an economy which is not growing, a deficit which is getting bigger, families in real stress and a government which is ploughing on regardless with a plan which is not working – saying 'The medicine is not working, let's increase the dose of the medicine.' That is completely crazy economics."

Asked if he had broken his commitment to protect Britain's credit rating, Osborne said: "I've consistently argued that Britain has a debt and deficit problem, that we've got to tackle that head on, that we've got to take tough measures to do that and I think people understand that.

"In the end, the test of our credibility as a country is there every day in the markets when we borrow money on behalf of this country from investors all around the world. At the moment we can do that very cheaply with very low interest rates precisely because people have confidence that we have got a plan, we've got to stick to that plan and we are going to deliver that plan. What do they also say? That if we abandon our commitment to deal with that debt problem, then our situation would get very much worse and I'm absolutely clear that we must not do that."

Moody's warned that "subdued" growth prospects and a "high and rising debt burden" were weighing on the economy. It said it now expects the "period of sluggish growth" to "extend into the second half of the decade".

"The main driver underpinning Moody's decision to downgrade the UK's government bond rating to AA1 is the increasing clarity that, despite considerable structural economic strengths, the UK's economic growth will remain sluggish over the next few years due to the anticipated slow growth of the global economy and the drag on the UK economy from the ongoing domestic public and private sector deleveraging process," the agency said.

However, the main impact could be political for Osborne, as rates paid by the US fell after Standard & Poor's reduced its credit score in 2011.

The chancellor's deputy, Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury, played down the news. He said: "Of course this is disappointing news, but I have always said that the credit rating agencies are not the be all and end all. What in the end matters is the confidence that people who invest in this country have.

"We still command very low interest rates, historically low interest rates. This country has reduced its deficit by a quarter over the past two and a half years. Over a million jobs have been created in the private sector."

This quarter is crucial for the chancellor if the country is to avoid a triple-dip recession following the 2008 banking crisis which led to sharp reductions in growth in early 2009.

The economy contracted by a surprise 0.3% in the last three months of 2012 and if it shrinks again in the subsequent three months it would be regarded as once again in recession. Employment, though, ended 2012 at 29.7m – the highest number of people in work since records began in 1971.

[Sabrina]

The ex IMF boss...

http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/21/domini...-club-3509235/

Dominique Strauss-Kahn palace ‘would be a giant swingers club’

Shamed Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a ‘half man, half pig’ who would have turned the Élysée Palace into a ‘giant swingers club’ had he become France’s president, according to his ex-mistress.

The former International Monetary Fund boss would have used his ‘staff as touts, orgy organisers, experts in the art of satisfying [his] darkest urges’, Marcela Iacub wrote in her kiss-and-tell book, Beauty And Beast.

The 64-year-old’s wife, Anne Sinclair, treated him like a poodle as she was obsessed with becoming the country’s first lady, the 48-year-old lawyer added.

Strauss-Kahn said he felt disgusted with the ‘inaccurate account’, while Ms Sinclair, 64, claimed Ms Iacub delivered a ‘slanderous interpretation of my thoughts’.

Strauss-Kahn faces up to 20 years in prison over his alleged role in a vice ring.

21 Feb

[Sabrina]

A few of us Avalonians attended this.

http://2012portal.blogspot.co.uk

Short Update about London Conference (Cobra)

Our conference was a great success! In cooperation with St. Germain, we have managed to put a Light virus in the etheric matrix structure of the energy vortex of the City, a major planetary financial center. This will have a long lasting positive consequences on the etheric energy structure of the planet and will assist in the transformation of the financial system. There were some other very positive things going on, but they can not be communicated, they have to be experienced.

This time nobody saw a UFO. Oh, no. Instead of that, our planet had a huge display of cosmic power just hours before the start of the conference, the meteor striking Chelyabinsk, the most spectacular cosmic event hitting our planet in the last hundred years. On top of that, another cosmic body, asteroid 2012 DA14, made a very close approach to the surface of our planet in the very exact minutes as we started the conference. We are definitely connected with the universe!

[Sabrina]

More on the One People's Trust via Brian at American Kabuki - geared at contacting the US media.

http://americankabuki.blogspot.co.uk...action_23.html

"OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDIA -- CALL TO ACTION cont'd -- MASTER MEDIA CONTACT LIST"


"OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDIA -- CALL TO ACTION cont'd -- MASTER MEDIA CONTACT LIST"

By Brian Kelly

Last week I posted this article as a Call-to-Action pledge to vie for OPPT supporters to contact their local media with the objective of pushing this story out into the mainstream.

http://www.americankabuki.blogspot.c...to-action.html

In an attempt to cut down on folks needing to find the media contacts on their own, I've decided to fuel the fire and increase participation, by removing the need to research from the equation.

If you're inspired to take action and ready to play a role in the free'ing of Humanity, the official Press Release that went out on Feb 4th, can be downloaded from Scrib'd at the link to last week's post above. Once downloaded it can be saved as an attachment to an email. In the body of the email, copy and paste the below draft, ending with "Contact Brian Kelly for questions or to schedule an interview."

At the bottom of this post, thanks to Rumor Mill News, we now have access thousands of emails to the Press and Government bodies, representing many countries all around the world....are YOU ready to have some serious FUN? Copy and paste whichever emails that resonate with you from the bottom of this post. Let's get this out in everyway imaginable. Let us collective SCREAM as ONE with LOVE, so that it permeates through the ethers of Creation's Universe...

This act is my own little way of showing that we no longer have ANYTHING to fear...if we did I would never agree to putting my name out there in this type of fashion.

Here's the message -- THE GIG IS UP. NO MORE GAMES!

The time is NOW for EVERYONE to KNOW this TRUTH once and for ALL.

I part ways for now with one simple question....Are YOU Ready??

I AM.

OPPT Frees Humanity from Debt Slavery System
Banks and Government Profited
from Casino Economy That Enslaved the World

A former international banking lawyer saw fraud … everywhere.

She followed the yellow/gold brick road back to the wizards, corrupt government corporations in bed with banks and the world’s powerful financial elite.

In response, Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf, the former lawyer and fellow trustees, Caleb Paul Skinner, and Hollis Randall Hillner created The One People’s Public Trust.

OPPT foreclosed on all governments and banks, removed the financial elite’s power, returning all wealth and gold back to its rightful owners, the people. http://oppt-in.com/uccfilings/

To disperse this wealth, OPPT formed 194 Creator’s Value Asset Centers that supplant corporate governments. http://oppt-in.com/cvac/

CVACs are a powerful system using mechanisms already put in place, paid for, and built by the people.

Soaring OPPT Movement
Lends Ear to Record Live Listenership

The One People’s Public Trust followers flock to hear founders and faces of the organization on the radio. The movement is growing by leaps and bounds.

OPPT had a record one million + live listeners worldwide on The Morning Brew Show Feb 13th. Here is the link to the show: http://is.gd/t8Bb1v
OPPT broke a second record with 190,000 live listeners on Freedom Reigns week of Feb 11th, up from 145,000 live listeners the previous week.
More than 80 OPPT-related websites as of Feb 14th, listed here: http://opptlisting.wordpress.com
A google search for "One People's Public Trust" currently produces 33M results in .28 sec

Radio Credits:
Morning Brew, www.oriontalkradio.com with
Brian Kelly of OPPT-in.com as recurring guest
Wednesdays starting Feb 13, 2013 at 12 pm Eastern Standard Time. Host Gwyn Caldwell invited OPPT back as special guests every Wednesday until this story becomes mainstream, achieving transparency and disclosure!

Collective Imagination, www.blogtalkradio.com/thecollectiveimagination
Tuesday Evenings in the US, Wednesday Mornings in Australia
Lisa Harrison, Chris Hales, Bob Wright, Santos Bonacci, D, Brian Kelly, and OPPT roundtable.

Freedom Reigns on BlogTalkradio
www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomreigns
Monday Evenings in the US, Tuesday Mornings in Australia
Lisa Harrison, Chris Hales, Bob Wright, D, Brian, AK, Lois Tucci, and Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf.

Surviving the Matrix on CrowHouse.com
Host Max Igan OPPT podcast: http://www.thecrowhouse.com/021413.html

A detailed unfolding of this event can be found here on Wakeup-World.com
http://wakeup-world.com/2013/02/18/a...losed-by-oppt/


Please contact Brian Kelly with any questions, or to schedule an interview at peoplespublictrust@gmail.com.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/MEDIA_EMAIL_ADDRESSES.htm

Note: (Each section below is partitioned after each group of emails, before the next section begins. Copy and pasting directly from the Rumor Mill News link above may be more efficient, than copy from the below list).

MEDIA EMAIL ADDRESSES
This page of email addresses is NOT designed to be used to send individual emails. It is designed so you can copy and paste them into your emails! This could be compared to sending a bulk mailing via the post office! THE PREFERRED WAY There is NO preferred way to use this list. Some people send emails to their Congressional Representatives and CC (copy) all the media email addresses. Other people prefer to BCC (Blind copy) the email addresses. The reason for this is because they want whoever is reading the email to actually READ what they have to say! With thousands of email addresses appearing BEFORE the actual message, it is less likely the Congressional staffer will ever read the email, therefore your email may NEVER be counted! If you want to let your Congressional Representatives know that you have also emailed the media, you can now include the link to this page and write a p.s. at the bottom of your email telling them you have BCC'd the email to thousands of media people!

email addresses at the link...

[Sabrina]

ABC NEWS: Rhode Island Records Show Inner Workings of Legion of Christ

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=18506172

Rhode Island Records Show Inner Workings of Legion of Christ

By MICHELLE R. SMITH and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
Feb 15, 2013, 5:07 PM

Documents detailing the dubious fundraising practices of a disgraced Roman Catholic religious order called the Legion of Christ were released to the public Friday, showing how the organization took control of an elderly woman's finances and persuaded her to bequeath it $60 million.

The records include the first-ever depositions of high-ranking Legion officials. They shed light on the inner workings of a secretive congregation placed under Vatican receivership after the Holy See determined that its founder was a spiritual fraud who sexually abused his seminarians and fathered three children with two women.

A Rhode Island Superior Court judge said last year that the documents raised a red flag because a steadfastly spiritual elderly woman transferred millions to "clandestinely dubious religious leaders." But they had been kept under seal until The Associated Press, The New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter and The Providence Journal intervened, arguing that they were in the public interest.

Pope Benedict XVI took over the Legion in 2010 after a Vatican investigation determined that its founder, the late Rev. Marcial Maciel, had lived a double life. The pope ordered a wholesale reform of the order and named a papal delegate to oversee it.

The Legion scandal is significant because it shows how the Holy See willfully ignored credible allegations of abuse against Maciel for decades, all while holding him up as a model of sainthood for the faithful because he brought in money and vocations to the priesthood. The scandal, which has tarnished the legacy of Pope John Paul II, is the most egregious example of how the Vatican ignored decades of reports about sexually abusive priests because church leaders put the interests of the institution above those of the victims.


The will of Gabrielle Mee, who died at age 96 in 2008, is the focus of the lawsuit. Mee's niece, Mary Lou Dauray, had alleged that Mee was defrauded by the Legion and unduly influenced by its priests into giving away her fortune. Her late husband was a onetime director of Fleet National Bank, which has since been absorbed by Bank of America.

Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein ruled in September that Dauray could not sue, but he noted there was evidence that Mee had been unduly persuaded to change her trusts and will and give the Legion her money. Dauray's lawyer, Bernard Jackvony, said Friday that the documents being released show an orchestrated effort by higher-ups at the Legion to get Mee's money and cover up Maciel's misdeeds.

The Legion says its actions surrounding Mee and her estate were appropriate and honorable. It says it did not exert undue influence over her decision-making, and that the gifts she gave to the order were made of her own free will.

Among the documents being released are depositions given by top-ranking leadership of the Legion, including the Rev. Anthony Bannon, who was once Maciel's deputy, and the Rev. Luis Garza, current head of the Legion's North American operations.

In one deposition, Garza acknowledged that he was on a committee of Legion officials that was created to distribute funds from one of Mee's trusts exclusively for Legion activities.

and

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches...marcial-maciel


Legion of Christ documents: Who was Father Marcial Maciel?
New documents offer insight into a sex scandal with connections to Pope Benedict just days after his resignation.

GlobalPost correspondent Jason Berry today published a story explaining the significance of a trove of documents ordered to be released Friday about Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the powerful, ultraconservative Legion of Christ. The documents are expected to illuminate the way in which the Legion handled accusations of rampant child sexual abuse and the siring of several illegitimate children by Maciel over several decades.

Here is a primer on Maciel and his relationships with Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II:

Who was Father Marcial Maciel?

Born in Mexico, the Roman Catholic priest founded the powerful, ultraconservative clerical order Legion of Christ in Mexico City in 1941. Dozens of victims in multiple countries made sexual abuse allegations against Maciel over the course of several decades, dating back to the 1950s.

Though he was suspended in 1956 from his leadership of the Legion by Pope Pius XII after being accused of abusing youths in Mexico, Cardinal Clemente Micara, the Vicar of Rome, reinstated him in 1958 after his predecessor’s death and Maciel enjoyed a long and prosperous career despite the claims of as many as 100 victims.

The Legion publicly apologized for Maciel’s alleged actions in 2009, just months after a new set of allegations emerged, including the fact that Maciel fathered several children during his reign as head of the Legion.

In 2010 the Vatican formally denounced Maciel for living a “life devoid of scruples and authentic religious meaning.”

How was Maciel tied to Pope John Paul II?

A man of great charisma, and the greatest fundraiser of the modern church, Maciel cultivated a relationship with John Paul II, using scenes of the two men in video-tapes that the Legion distributed to its growing base of benefactors. Maciel accompanied John Paul on papal visits to Mexico in 1979, 1990 and 1993, and in 1994 he was celebrated in “an open letter by Pope John Paul II celebrating Maciel's 50th anniversary as a priest, appeared in major newspapers of Mexico City, as a paid advertisement, celebrating Maciel as ‘an efficacious guide to youth.’”

[Jason Berry, Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church (Crown 2011)]

In 1997 a Hartford Courant investigation by Gerald Renner and Jason Berry identified nine seminary victims of Maciel in on-the-record interviews. The Vatican refused to comment. In 1998, the ex-Legionaries filed a recourse in Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s tribunal seeking Maciel’s ouster. But John Paul continued praising him, and the canon law case went nowhere.

Juan Vaca, who left the Legion priesthood, was the first victim to accuse Maciel.

“If John Paul had acted on the allegations against Maciel that Juan Vaca detailed to the pope in a 1989 letter, in a request for dispensation from his vows as a priest, Maciel's career would have been derailed...”

Vaca entered the Legion in Mexico in 1947, at age 10. Repeatedly abused by Maciel in Spain from age 12 through adolescence in Rome, the young priest went to Orange, Conn., as the Legion's U.S. director. In 1976, when Vaca left the Legion, joining the Diocese of be Rockville Centre, Long Island, N.Y., he sent a blistering 12-page letter to Maciel, naming 20 other victims.

With support of Bishop John R. McGann, he sent the letter to the Vatican in a formal protest, which achieved nothing. With McGann's support he petitioned the Vatican to punish Maciel again, sent via diplomatic pouch from the Vatican Embassy, without action. His final attempt in 1989, again through Vatican channels, included an impassioned cover letter to John Paul specifying what Maciel did.”

[Jason Berry and Gerald Renner, Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II (Free Press, 2004) and documentary by Berry: VowsofSilenceFilm.com]

"My dad told my mom that when John Paul II dies, he was going to be in trouble," said Raul Gonzalez, who filed a lawsuit in 2010 claiming that he is one of Maciel’s children and alleging the late priest molested him beginning when he was 7 years old.

How is Maciel tied to Pope Benedict XVI?

A formal request for investigation submitted to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1998 was denied by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who went on to become Pope Benedict XVI.

A book published by three religious scholars last year alleges “that in 2001 Cardinal Ratzinger and his chief canon lawyer, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, modified the statute of limitations in church law regarding sex with minors ‘retroactively in favor of the Legionary founder, and injuring the human rights and legitimate interests of us, his victims.’”

Ratzinger reopened the case in 2004, ordered an investigation of Maciel and was elected pope in 2005. In 2006 the Vatican dismissed Maciel from ministry to “a life of prayer and penitence.” He died in Jacksonville, Florida in 2008 without facing criminal charges. A year later the Legion disclosed that he had a daughter by a paramour from Mexico. Several months later two men came forward claiming to be Maciel’s sons by another woman. The Legion did not dispute their claims.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...91M0EB20130224

24 Feb Italy

Frustrated Italians vote in crucial election for euro zone

(Reuters) - Italians voted on Sunday in one of the most closely watched and unpredictable elections in years, with pent-up fury over a discredited elite adding to concern it may not produce a government strong enough to lead Italy out of an economic slump.

The election, which concludes on Monday afternoon, is being followed closely by investors; their memories are still fresh of the potentially catastrophic debt crisis that saw Mario Monti, an economics professor and former bureaucrat, summoned to serve as prime minister in place of Silvio Berlusconi 15 months ago.

A weak Italian government could, many fear, prompt a new dip in confidence in the European Union's single currency.

Opinion polls give the center-left a narrow lead but the result has been thrown completely open by the prospect of a huge protest vote against the painful austerity measures imposed by Monti's government and deep anger over a never-ending series of corruption scandals. Berlusconi's centre-right has also revived.

"I'm not confident that the government that emerges from the election will be able to solve any of our problems," said Attilio Bianchetti, a 55-year-old builder in Milan, who voted for the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement of comic and blogger Beppe Grillo.

The 64-year-old Grillo, heavily backed by a frustrated generation of young Italians hit by record unemployment, has been one of the biggest features of the last stage of the campaign, packing rallies in town squares up and down Italy.

"He's the only real new element in a political landscape where we've been seeing the same faces for too long," said Vincenzo Cannizzaro, 48, in the Sicialian capital Palermo.

Italians started voting at 8 a.m. (0700 GMT). Polling booths will remain open until 10 p.m. on Sunday and open again between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Monday. Exit polls will come out soon after voting ends and official results are expected by early Tuesday.

Snow in northern regions is expected to last into Monday and could discourage some of the 47 million people eligible to vote in Italy to head out to polling stations, though the Interior Ministry has said it is fully prepared for bad weather.

Monti and his wife cast their votes at a polling booth in a Milan school on Sunday morning and centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani, the leader opinion polls suggest will have to form a new government, voted in his home town of Piacenza.

A small group of women's rights demonstrators greeted former prime minister Berlusconi when he voted in Milan. They bared their breasts in protest at the conservative leader, who is on trial at present for having sex with an underage prostitute.

Whichever government emerges from the election will have to tackle reforms needed to address problems that have given Italy one of the most sluggish economies in the developed world for the past two decades.

But the widespread despair over the state of the country, where a series of corruption scandals has highlighted the stark divide between a privileged political elite and millions of ordinary Italians, has left deep scars.

"It's our fault, Italian citizens. It's our closed mentality. We're just not Europeans," said Luciana Li Mandri, a 37-year-old public servant in Palermo.

"We're all about getting favors when we study, getting a protected job when we work. That's the way we are and we can only be represented by people like that as well," she said.

FRUSTRATION

Final polls published two weeks ago showed center-left leader Bersani with a 5-point lead, but analysts disagree about whether he will be able to form a stable majority that can make the economic reforms they believe Italy needs.

While the center left is still expected to gain control of the lower house, thanks to rules that guarantee a strong majority to whichever party wins the most votes nationally, a much closer battle will be fought for the Senate, which any government also needs to control to be able to pass laws.

The euro zone's third-largest economy is stuck in deep recession, struggling under a public debt burden second only to Greece in the 17-member currency bloc and with a public weary of more than a year of austerity policies.

Bersani is now thought to be just a few points ahead of media magnate Berlusconi, the four-times prime minister who has promised tax refunds and staged a media blitz in an attempt to win back voters.

Think-tank consultant Mario, 60, who was on his way to vote in Bologna, said Bersani's Democratic Party was the only serious grouping that could help solve the country's economic woes.

"They're not perfect," he said. "But they've got the organization and the union backing that will help them push through the structural reforms."

A strong fightback by Berlusconi, who has promised to repay a widely hated housing tax, the IMU, imposed by Monti last year, saw his support climb during a campaign that relentlessly attacked the "German-centric" austerity policies of the former European Union commissioner.

"I won't vote for Monti, and I don't think a lot of people will. He made a huge blunder with IMU," said 35-year-old hairdresser Marco Morando, preparing to vote in Milan.

But the populist frustration Berlusconi's campaign tapped into has also benefitted Grillo and many pollsters said his 5-Star Movement, made up of political novices, was challenging the center-right for the position as second political force.

"I'm very worried. There seems to be no way out from a political point of view, or from being able to govern," said Calogero Giallanza, a 45-year-old musician in Rome, who voted for Bersani's Democrats.

"There's bound to be a mess in the Senate because, as far as I can see, the 5-Star Movement is unstoppable."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...-inappropriate

23 Feb UK

UK's top cardinal accused of 'inappropriate acts' by priests

Three priests and former priest report Cardinal Keith O'Brien to Vatican over claims stretching back 33 years

Three priests and a former priest in Scotland have reported the most senior Catholic clergyman in Britain, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, to the Vatican over allegations of inappropriate behaviour stretching back 30 years.

The four, from the diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, have complained to nuncio Antonio Mennini, the Vatican's ambassador to Britain, and demanded O'Brien's immediate resignation. A spokesman for the cardinal said that the claims were contested.

O'Brien, who is due to retire next month, has been an outspoken opponent of gay rights, condemning homosexuality as immoral, opposing gay adoption, and most recently arguing that same-sex marriages would be "harmful to the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of those involved". Last year he was named "bigot of the year" by the gay rights charity Stonewall.

One of the complainants, it is understood, alleges that the cardinal developed an inappropriate relationship with him, resulting in a need for long-term psychological counselling.

The four submitted statements containing their claims to the nuncio's office the week before Pope Benedict's resignation on 11 February. They fear that, if O'Brien travels to the forthcoming papal conclave to elect a new pope, the church will not fully address their complaints.

"It tends to cover up and protect the system at all costs," said one of the complainants. "The church is beautiful, but it has a dark side and that has to do with accountability. If the system is to be improved, maybe it needs to be dismantled a bit."

The revelation of the priests' complaints will be met with consternation in the Vatican. Allegations of sexual abuse by members of the church have dogged the papacy of Benedict XVI, who is to step down as pope at the end of this month. Following the announcement, rumours have swirled in Rome that Benedict's shock move may be connected to further scandals to come.

The four priests asked a senior figure in the diocese to act as their representative to the nuncio's office. Through this representative, the nuncio replied, in emails seen by the Observer, that he appreciated their courage.

It is understood that the first allegation against the cardinal dates back to 1980. The complainant, who is now married, was then a 20-year-old seminarian at St Andrew's College, Drygrange, where O'Brien was his "spiritual director". The Observer understands that the statement claims O'Brien made an inappropriate approach after night prayers.

The seminarian says he was too frightened to report the incident, but says his personality changed afterwards, and his teachers regularly noted that he seemed depressed. He was ordained, but he told the nuncio in his statement that he resigned when O'Brien was promoted to bishop. "I knew then he would always have power over me. It was assumed I left the priesthood to get married. I did not. I left to preserve my integrity."

In a second statement, "Priest A" describes being happily settled in a parish when he claims he was visited by O'Brien and inappropriate contact between the two took place.

In a third statement, "Priest B" claims that he was starting his ministry in the 1980s when he was invited to spend a week "getting to know" O'Brien at the archbishop's residence. His statement alleges that he found himself dealing with what he describes as unwanted behaviour by the cardinal after a late-night drinking session.

"Priest C" was a young priest the cardinal was counselling over personal problems. Priest C's statement claims that O'Brien used night prayers as an excuse for inappropriate contact.

The cardinal maintained contact with Priest C over a period of time, and the statement to the nuncio's office alleges that he engineered at least one other intimate situation. O'Brien is, says Priest C, very charismatic, and being sought out by the superior who was supposed to be guiding him was both troubling and flattering.

Those involved believe the cardinal abused his position. "You have to understand," explains the ex-priest, "the relationship between a bishop and a priest. At your ordination, you take a vow to be obedient to him.

"He's more than your boss, more than the CEO of your company. He has immense power over you. He can move you, freeze you out, bring you into the fold … he controls every aspect of your life. You can't just kick him in the balls."

All four have been reluctant to raise their concerns. They are, though, concerned that the church will ignore their complaints, and want the conclave electing the new pope to be "clean". According to canon law, no cardinal who is eligible to vote can be prevented from doing so.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...t_vatican.html

Italian Media Tell Story of "Underground Gay Network" at the Vatican

Pope Benedict XVI is a little more than two weeks away from beginning his retirement at the Castel Gandolfo, but his final days as head of the Catholic church don't look like they're going to be quiet ones. Unsourced reports coming out of Italy suggest that the pope decided to call it quits not because of his old age but instead to avoid the fallout that could come from a secret 300-page dossier compiled by three cardinals he tapped to look into last year's leak of confidential papers stolen from his desk.

Those papers, widely known as the "VatiLeaks," raised questions of financial impropriety and corruption at the Vatican. The investigation that followed, however, may prove even more uncomfortable for church officials.

The secret dossier allegedly details a wide range of infighting among various factions in the Vatican's governing body, known as the Curia. But the headline-ready takeaway from today's report from La Repubblica concerns the existence of one faction in particular, a network of gay church officials. Just in case that weren't enough to pique international interest, the Italian newspaper also reports that some of said officials had been blackmailed by outsiders. According to the report, the pope got his first look at the dossier—"two folders hard-bound in red" with the header "pontifical secret"—on Dec. 17, and decided that same day to retire.

Now's a good time to take a step back and offer a few disclaimers. For starters, the Vatican has repeatedly dismissed the reports as baseless. The story from La Repubblica that is driving the allegations is unsourced, so it's difficult to tell how much stock to put into the whole thing. (There's also the fact that, it being an Italian-language paper, there's always a chance of some of the details getting lost in translation.) Still, it appears as though at least one other Italian newspaper, the weekly Panorama, has a similar report—although its unnamed sources could very well be the same as La Repubblica's. A third Italian paper, Corriere della Sera, alluded to the existence of the secret dossier soon after Benedict announced his resignation earlier this month, describing its contents as "disturbing" but providing few details.

La Repubblica, which has the largest circulation among Italy's general-interest dailies, promised that today's report would be the first of a series on the topic, so it would appear as though we may have more information soon. Here's the Sydney Morning Herald with a translation of a few relevant details from today's report*:

The cardinals were said to have uncovered an underground gay network, whose members organise sexual meetings in several venues in Rome and Vatican City, leaving them prone to blackmail. The secret report also delves into suspect dealings at the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), the Vatican's bank, where a new chairman was appointed last week after a nine-month vacancy, La Repubblica said, without going into details.

The newspaper said Benedict would personally hand the confidential files to his successor, with the hope he will be "strong, young and holy" enough to take the necessary action.

And here's the Guardian with a quick refresher on some of the Vatican's recent history when it comes to homosexuality:

In 2007 a senior official was suspended from the congregation, or department, for the priesthood, after he was filmed in a "sting" organised by an Italian television programme while apparently making sexual overtures to a younger man. In 2010 a chorister was dismissed for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting. A few months later a weekly news magazine used hidden cameras to record priests visiting gay clubs and bars and having sex.

The Vatican does not condemn homosexuals. But it teaches that gay sex is "intrinsically disordered". Pope Benedict has barred sexually active gay men from studying for the priesthood.

Given the unsourced nature of the Italian reports, many U.S. outlets have been understandably cautious in reporting the story. But speculation on this side of the Atlantic began to heat up somewhat after the Vatican announced today that the pope had decided to transfer a top Vatican official to Colombia. That development gave outlets the opportunity to marry the announcement with the more sensational allegations. Here, for instance, is the lede from CBS News this afternoon:

The pope has transferred a top official from the Vatican's secretariat of state to Colombia amid swirling media speculation about the contents of a confidential report into the Vatican's leaks scandal.

Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, insisted Friday that the transfer of Monsignor Ettore Balestrero had been months in the works and had nothing to do with the leaks investigation or what the Vatican considers baseless reporting.

Still, even in that report, the network waited until the seventh paragraph to mention the allegations of "a homosexual lobby among church officials within the Curia." Meanwhile, most U.S. outlets have been more interested in the story of the pope quitting Twitter.

22 Feb


and more here:

http://www.aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/...zis-mafia.html

POPE, RENT BOYS, CIA, NAZIS, MAFIA...

Pope Paul VI, allegedly a gay Marrano Jew. Allegedly, under Pope Paul VI, Jewish and Freemason influence increased within the Catholic church.

How might the CIA, Mossad, the Mafia, and the top oligarchs, control the Papacy?

La Repubblica has reported the existence of an underground gay network at the Vatican...

In April 1976, in an interview with the Italian magazine Tempo, gay French author Roger Peyrefitte, wrote that Pope Paul VI was gay.

"He is homosexual... It is known that a boyfriend of Paul VI was a certain movie star, whose name I will not give."

(Paul VI's Homosexuality: Rumor or Reality?)

John Paul II. Yaakov Wise, researcher in orthodox Jewish history and philosophy, said that the late Pope John Paul II's mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were apparently Jewish. The Pope was Jewish says historian). Apparently, John Paul's mother Emilia Kaczorowski - Emily Katz in English - was Jewish.

The Vatican and the CIA reportedly worked together on Operation Paperclip, which brought many Nazi scientists into the CIA.

The Knights of Malta are a Catholic order, reportedly linked to freemasonry

full story at link

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UK main stream media continuing to cover this sexual abuse cover up story written up by the 'alternative' media, implicating many high profile hames.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...candal-1726771

24 Feb UK

Council bosses failed to investigate VIP child abuse scandal despite warnings


Richmond Council staff were told when allegations were made about the guesthouse being used as a paedophile brothel - but no action was taken


Bosses at Richmond Council failed to investigate a VIP child abuse ring despite senior figures being warned about abuse, according to Exaro investigative website.

Former staff confirm abuse at the notorious Elm Guest House was brought to their attention three decades ago when allegations were made about the guesthouse being used as a paedophile brothel.

But no action was taken - sparking fears of a high-level cover-up involving council officials and other senior figures, the Sunday People can reveal.

The guesthouse is being investigated by officers from Operation Fernbridge, who are investigating claims boys were trafficked there from nearby care homes.

The latest revelations - made by former head of children’s services Terry Earland to Exaro and the Sunday People - lend weight to the claims there was a cover-up involving key council figures.

Mr Earland revealed that on at least two occasions he referred complaints of sexual abuse from children to police and colleagues at the council.

But he said that they were not properly investigated even though he is certain that the complaints were genuine.

Mr Earland said: “I would say, almost certainly, of course it was discussed within the council.

“It has been something in my head all the time that I was at Richmond. I am pleased that it has come out again.”

Scotland Yard officers have taken a statement from at least one of those victims, and regards him as a very credible witness and crucial to their current investigation under Operation Fernbridge.

Since November last year, the Met has been investigating allegations that boys in care were sexually abused at Grafton Close children’s home, which was run by Richmond council, and at Elm Guest House nearby in Barnes, south-west London.

Police are investigating whether MPs and other VIPs sexually abused boys at the guest house.

Mr Earland also revealed that in 1982 the police even told the council that they were planning a raid on the guest house because of allegations that boys were being sexually abused there.

From the start the Saturday night raid did not go to plan. After an elaborate surveillance exercise, four police officers infiltrated the Edwardian house by posing as homosexuals when a party of 30 men was expected.

One officer pretended to have a broken arm, and a radio transmitter was concealed in the plaster cast to call in the raid.

However, it is understood that the transmitter triggered early and the raid was called in prematurely.

And Mr Earland confirmed the force found no boys at the guest house who were in care.

Mr Earland’s testimony is one of several that show how the London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames was aware of allegations that boys in its care were sexually abused by a paedophile ring centred on the borough three decades ago.

Mr Earland, who was head of children’s services at the London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames between1981 and 2003, told how claims that VIPs – including a Tory cabinet minister– were sexually abusing boys at the guest house were well known within the council from the time of the raid in 1982.

Disgraced MP Cyril Smith, former spy Anthony Blunt have been named as visitors to Elm. Rumours have also linked Jimmy Savile to the property.

He said: “We talked about people in high-profile places being involved in this,” he said. “It was senior politicians and judges.”

“The use of children in care at the Elm Guest House was something that went around,” he continued. “It was a rumour that kept on going, really. And we could never adequately resolve it.”

“When one social worker bought a child to me to say, ‘This child is saying this,’… we referred it again to the police. The police certainly have investigated this on at least one, if not two, subsequent occasions after 1982.”

“My modus operandi at that time was always that if there was an allegation of abuse, it was referred to the child-protection unit.”

Following the interview, detectives travelled to see Earland at his overseas retirement home on Thursday to take a full statement.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe...755785271.html


About $50bn left Russia 'illegally' in 2012

Outgoing central bank chief calls for urgent legislation that would allow banks to close down "dubious" accounts.

Sergei Ignatyev, Russia's central bank chief, has said that nearly $50bn, or 2.5 percent of the national income, was sent abroad illegally in 2012, much of it controlled by a single group of people - whom he did not identify.

The study by the Bank of Russia appeared to amount to an indictment of lawlessness and corruption in the system of "Kremlin capitalism" that has taken hold under President Vladimir Putin.

The report found that more than half the flows involved firms linked to each other.

In a front-page interview, Ignatyev, who retires as bank chairman in June after 11 years largely free of controversy, told the Vedomosti newspaper: "You get the impression that they are all controlled by one well organised group of people,"

"With a serious concentration of efforts by law enforcement agencies, I think it is possible to find these people."

Ignatyev, 65, said that $14bn was part of illicit trade operations while the rest left Russia through "dubious" cash schemes.

"This could be payments for deliveries of drugs, [illegal] shipments, bribes and paybacks to officials ... or managers carrying out purchases in big private companies," Ignatyev said. "Or these could be tax avoidance schemes."

He called for urgent legislation that would allow banks to close down accounts being used for dubious purposes and also urged lawmakers to tighten rules for setting up companies.

No names

Ignatyev was citing the findings of a study that the bank said it would publish later on Wednesday.

By lunchtime in Moscow, only Ignatyev's interview had been posted on the central bank's website (http://www.cbr.ru), not the study itself.

In a further indication of its sensitivity, Ignatyev did not touch on the subject of illegal capital flight in testimony on Wednesday morning to the Federation Council, the upper house of parliament. Neither was he asked about it by lawmakers.

Asked by a reporter before his testimony to identify the "well-organised group" he mentioned in the interview that was making half the illegal transfers abroad, Ignatyev declined comment and left the upper house without speaking to journalists.

The Kremlin also did not comment, beyond saying that it thought the figures were exaggerated, and there was no word from the wealthy businessmen known as "oligarchs" who struck it rich after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

Dirty money

Anti-corruption activists say that capital flight can take any number of forms, with some banks shifting money through complex paper trails, shell companies and so-called "encashment" schemes designed to evade regulators.

Big state enterprises in particular are involved in shifting large sums of money abroad, sources say, while many of Russia's oligarchs use offshore centres to safeguard their businesses.

Statistics show that Cyprus is the largest source of foreign investment into Russia. Most of that money coming from the island is itself Russian in origin, bankers say.

The amount of dirty money flowing in and out of Russia has more than doubled over the past eight years, robbing the country of productive capital and driving a huge underground economy, a recent study by a US think tank found.

Global Financial Integrity, based in Washington, estimated that an average of $62bn in money earned from corruption, human trafficking, arms smuggling and other illegal activities has entered or left Russia each year since the start of 2004.

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http://networkedblogs.com/IBWuz

24 Feb US

ERIC SPROTT: REAL 2012 US DEFICIT $6.9 TRILLION- NOT REPORTED ANYWHERE BY THE PUBLIC PRESS!

In the midst of the latest epic cartel paper gold and silver raid this week, legendary precious metals expert Eric Sprott sat down with The Doc for an exclusive, MUST LISTEN interview.

In one of his best and most shocking interviews ever, Eric discusses the latest gold and silver raid, his take on the platinum & palladium markets, the Bundesbank’s recent gold repatriation request and the correlation with massive physical gold buying in Asia, and his view on how the endgame of the Western financial/ debt crisis will play out.

Sprott stated that the Treasury Department’s 2012 GAAP budget deficit report was an astonishing $6.9 Trillion, and this has not been reported in 1 single major news outlet! He also stated that the US government may be exporting German gold from the NY Fed to China, and that despite their recent apparent success, he expects that one day soon the cartel will be brought to their knees simply by traders standing for delivery of physical metal.

Eric Sprott’s full MUST LISTEN audio interview with The Doc is below:

interview and full interview at link

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/histori...idence/5322983

UK

Historic Court Case Against the BBC’s Cover Up of 9/11 Evidence

The BBC is being challenged strongly for its refusal to present to the British public the available scientific evidence which contradicts the official version of events of 9/11. Thank you very much to all those who have sent letters to their MPs asking that the BBC be held to account for withholding this evidence that the public must be allowed to see.

As a further progression of this campaign, a great opportunity has arisen. 9/11 truth documentary maker Tony Rooke has been granted a court hearing where he is challenging the BBC’s support of terrorist activity through supporting the cover up of the true evidence of 9/11. The court case will take place on February 25th at 10.00am at the address below. Real 9/11 evidence has rarely, if ever, been presented in a British court room, so this is a rare opportunity.Any support from the public on the day would be fantastic and will help to send the message that the people want to know, and deserve to know, the truth about 9/11.

Horsham Magistrates’ Court [Court 3]
The Law Courts
Hurst Road
Horsham
West Sussex
England
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This court case is based around Tony making a stand and refusing to pay his TV licence fee under Section 15 of The Terrorism Act 2000 Article 3 which states that it is offence to provide funds if there is a reasonable cause to suspect that those funds may be used for the purposes of terrorism. The BBC has withheld scientific evidence which clearly demonstrates that the official version of events of 9/11 is not possible and could not have been carried out in entirety by those who have been accused by our officials. In addition, the BBC has actively blocked and smeared those attempting to bring this evidence to the public. By doing this the BBC are supporting a cover-up of the true events of 9/11 and are therefore supporting those terrorist elements who were involved in certain aspects of 9/11 who have not yet been identified and held to account. A new and independent investigation is required to determine what really did occur on 9/11, and by whom, otherwise these unidentified terrorist elements will remain free to potentially commit further terrorist activities.

Tony has been charged with a crime for not paying his TV licence fee, however, he has lodged a legal challenge to this charge and has now been successful in being granted an appearance in a Magistrate’s court where he has three hours available to present his evidence to defend himself against the charge. Tony has formed a formidable team to support him in presenting the evidence, including the following two outstanding individuals:

Professor Niels Harrit

Niels Harrit is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen and is one of the world’s leading experts on the scientific evidence which contradicts the official story of 9/11. Professor Harrit’s team of scientists proved that there was nano-thermite residue (high tech military explosive) all through the dust of all three towers and he got this study peer reviewed and published in an official scientific journal. He is also an expert on the other aspects of scientific evidence indicating controlled demolition of the three towers. He was involved in a major interview with the BBC in 2011 where the BBC clearly attempted to harass and discredit Professor Harrit rather than look at the devastating scientific evidence he had to offer. Professor Harrit’s team have video footage of this harassment and highly inappropriate conduct by the BBC both on camera and off camera as part of that interview.

Tony Farrell

Tony Farrell is a former Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police Department. In 2010 he was fired because he felt compelled by his conscience to tell the truth in his official report and state that due to his extensive analysis of 9/11 and the 7/7 London bombings, the greatest terrorist threat to the public did not come from Islamic extremists but from internal sources within the US and British establishment. He is now dedicating his life to helping to expose the truth and he is challenging his dismissal through international court. Tony Rooke has recently produced an excellent documentary called ‘Offensive – the story of Tony Farrell’ based around the story of Tony Farrell. Here is the link to that documentary:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8P0oBseWMRQ

In addition, here is the other documentary that Tony has recently produced called ‘Reasonable Cause’ which gives a good insight into the type of work that Tony has been engaged in and the type of information and evidence that he will be presenting at his court case:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=e_AQMxvqWho

Other members of Tony’s presentation team include:

Ian Henshall: Leading UK author on 9/11 and founder of the UK based group ‘Reinvestigate9/11′
Ray Savage: Former Counter Terrorism Officer who believes the official 9/11 story is not reasonable to believe

As well as these presenters there are detailed written testimonies of evidence and support from our four other 9/11 experts:

Richard Gage: CEO of ‘Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth’
Dwain Deets: Former NASA Director of Aerospace Projects
Erik Lawyer: Founder of ‘Fire Fighters for 9/11 Truth’
Jake Jacobs: Veteran US airline pilot & member of ‘Pilots for 9/11 Truth’

If you happen to be in the UK or reside there, please consider attending this historic court case to support Tony in this rare opportunity to have some of the true facts of 9/11 presented in a court of law and to have the BBC held to account for their support of the cover up of the true scientific evidence of 9/11.

For our friends in the USA, you ALSO have laws prohibiting the funding of terrorism – namely:

18 USC § 2339C – Prohibitions against the financing of terrorism

(a) Offenses.—
(1) In general.— Whoever, in a circumstance described in subsection (b), by any means, directly or indirectly, unlawfully and willfully provides or collects funds with the intention that such funds be used, or with the knowledge that such funds are to be used, in full or in part, in order to carry out—
(A) an act which constitutes an offense within the scope of a treaty specified in subsection (e)(7), as implemented by the United States, or
(B) any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act,shall be punished as prescribed in subsection (d)(1).

Many thanks

AE911Truth -UK Action Group – on behalf of Tony Rooke

[Sabrina]

Another major resignation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21572724

25 Feb UK

Cardinal Keith O'Brien resigns as Archbishop

Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, is stepping down as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.

It follows allegations - which he contests - of inappropriate behaviour towards priests dating from the 1980s.

In a statement, he apologised to those he had offended during his ministry.

The cardinal confirmed he would not take part in the election for a successor to the Pope - leaving Britain unrepresented in the election.

The Scottish Catholic Church says Pope Benedict has accepted his resignation.

Cardinal O'Brien said in a statement he had already tendered his resignation, due to take effect when he turned 75 next month, but that Pope Benedict "has now decided that my resignation will take effect today".

He said the pontiff would appoint an apostolic administrator to govern the archdiocese in his place until his successor is appointed.


Church crisis
The cardinal also said: "I have valued the opportunity of serving the people of Scotland and overseas in various ways since becoming a priest.

"Looking back over my years of ministry: For any good I have been able to do, I thank God. For any failures, I apologise to all whom I have offended.

"I do not wish media attention in Rome to be focussed on me - but rather on Pope Benedict XVI and on his successor.

"However, I will pray with them and for them that, enlightened by the Holy Spirit, they will make the correct choice for the future good of the Church."

The resignation of Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric in the wake of allegations of improper behaviour creates a crisis for the Church in Scotland, and represents a heavy blow to the wider Church as it battles to shore up its reputation ahead of the papal election or "conclave".

The conclave is already expected to be difficult in the circumstances created by Pope Benedict's unprecedented resignation.

The Vatican is also struggling to deal with reports of internal corruption and mismanagement.

Cardinal O'Brien's resignation is also a personal tragedy for himself.

Allegations made
His role as Britain's only representative in the papal election next month would have been one of his last acts before he retired.

He said in a BBC interview on Friday that he found the responsibility of helping to choose a successor to Pope Benedict "almost frightening".

The Observer reported that the three priests and one former priest - from the diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh - complained to the Pope's representative to Britain, nuncio Antonio Mennini, in the week before 11 February, when Pope Benedict announced his resignation, of what they claimed was the cardinal's inappropriate behaviour towards them in the 1980s.

The former priest claims Cardinal O'Brien made an inappropriate approach to him in 1980, after night prayers, when he was a seminarian at St Andrew's College, Drygrange.

The complainant says he resigned as a priest when Cardinal O'Brien was first made a bishop.

He reportedly says in his statement: "I knew then he would always have power over me. It was assumed I left the priesthood to get married. I did not. I left to preserve my integrity."

A second statement from another complainant says he was living in a parish when he was visited by O'Brien, and inappropriate contact took place between them.

A third complainant alleges dealing with what he describes as "unwanted behaviour" by the cardinal in the 1980s after some late-night drinking.

And the fourth complainant claims the cardinal used night prayers as an excuse for inappropriate contact.

Cardinal O'Brien missed celebrating Sunday Mass in St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh, which marked Pope Benedict's eight years in office, ahead of the pontiff stepping down this week.

Outspoken views
In resigning his post at the head of the Scottish Catholic Church, Cardinal O'Brien blights the end of an illustrious career only a few weeks before he was due to retire.

The development is understood to have been prompted by a concern to protect the Church from further destabilizing speculation during the papal election.

That process is already overshadowed by allegations against a number of the cardinals who are taking part, over their connection with their handling of the Church's sex abuse scandal.

Cardinal O'Brien will be remembered in particular as a forthright defender - occasionally in outspoken and colourful terms - of Catholic teaching on abortion, euthanasia and homosexuality.

Last week Cardinal O'Brien said he believed priests should be able to marry if they wished to do so.

He said the new Pope could consider whether the Roman Catholic Church should change its stance on some issues, not of divine origin.

"For example the celibacy of the clergy, whether priests should marry - Jesus didn't say that," he said.

The cardinal was named Bigot of the Year last year by gay rights charity Stonewall for his stance on gay marriage.

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You know you are onto something big when links very quickly start to disappear from the internet! I think about some of the amazing youtube videos that were available a few years ago that a no where to be found now. Pictures that were available a few years ago that are taken down as fast as they are put up now.

I don't know how so many people are incapable of seeing the similarities with the rise of the Nazi fascist regime. Everything is happening just like it did before Hitler's rise to power. Even the collapse of the dollar is pinnacle in there bringing about the NWO.