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VATICAN SUGGESTS ONE ALL-POWERFUL BANK RUN BY ONE ALL-POWERFUL GLOBAL ENTITY
By Richard Walker -
With increasing fear among ordinary people about financial elites and their manipulation of money markets, the Vatican has decided to make matters worse by adding its own bizarre twist to the problem: It has proposed a supranational authority to manage a new global bank. Not only would financial power rest in the hands of a world body like the UN, but the Vatican would like all countries to cede some of their sovereign powers to it.
One of the great ironies of the Vatican concept of a super authority is that it meets the very criteria the Bible warns against in the Book of Revelation, such as the emergence of a world financial system.
None of this troubles the pope, however, perhaps because his Vatican Bank does business worldwide. It is known to have investments scattered across the globe, some of which are hidden behind multilayered shell companies. The Vatican Bank’s ability to move large sums of money in and out of Vatican City and between private banks is legendary. In 2010, it was caught with its hands in the criminal cookie jar when Italy’s economic intelligence investigators discovered it was secretly moving tens of millions of euros into a JPMorgan account in Frankfurt, and between private banks elsewhere.
The best-known example of criminality by the Vatican Bank, formally called the Institute for Religious Works (Istituto per le Opere di Religione), was its 1982 role in the $3.2 billion collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, a private bank in which it held the major stake. Banco Ambrosiano chairman Roberto Calvi was later found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London. Cardinal Paul Marcinkus, a former American football player who was the Vatican’s man at Banco Ambrosiano, was never prosecuted because the Vatican claimed he had diplomatic immunity. Before his 2006 death in Arizona, Marcinkus refused to explain how Banco Ambrosiano became a laundering house for international crime syndicates.
Pope John Paul I may have been alerted to some of Banco Ambrosiano’s activities as early as 1978, but he died mysteriously 33 days after being elected pope. While the Vatican attributed his death to a heart attack, some thought otherwise, claiming he had posed a major threat to powerful interests in the Vatican and outside it because he had threatened to investigate the Vatican Bank and its dealings with Banco Ambrosiano.
Perhaps it is understandable that the Vatican, which is a powerful world body, is advocating the creation of a super committee to control global finance. Presumably the pope’s bankers, who pretend their focus is on faith and morals, would wish to be represented on the board of such a new world bank and the supranational authority overseeing it.
The Vatican’s financial proposals came in the form of a document issued by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. It condemned the fall of Lehman Bros. that preceded the recent financial collapse and said the decision to let Lehman Bros. fail was the result of “a liberalist approach, unsympathetic toward public intervention in the markets.” The council also called for a community of nations to meet the growth of globalization with “one public authority having universal jurisdiction.” Its creation would not happen without “anguish and suffering,” the council warned.
The pope’s financial mandarins were careful not to spell out in detail how each country would be required to transfer some of its powers to the world authority or which powers they had in mind. Nevertheless, they took a sideswipe at the International Monetary Fund, implying it could no longer fulfill the role of a global financial guide.
It is unlikely the Vatican Bank will become any more transparent about its inner workings than it has been to date. After all, it still refuses to open its files to those who would like to know what it did with the hundreds of millions of gold coins secretly and illegally moved into its vaults by the Croatian State Treasury at the end of World War II.
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http://www.infowars.com/leading-muslim-scholar-calls-for-united-nations-to-criminalize-speech/
Leading Muslim Scholar Calls for United Nations to Criminalize Speech
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 19, 2012
Infowars.com
September 19, 2012
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, an influential Muslim scholar and a professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia, has called for the United Nations to end free speech.
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah.
The UN Human Rights Committee has declared the right to free speech and expression may be subjected to restrictions that are “strictly necessary and proportionate.”
In December, according to Forbes, the United States voiced its support for UN resolution 16/18, an initiative of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation that seeks to limit speech that is viewed as “discriminatory” or which involves the “defamation of religion.”
“We ask everyone to ponder the ramifications of provoking the feelings of over one billion people by a small party of people who desires not to seek peace nor fraternity between members of humanity,” bin Bayyah wrote in a public declarationin response to the anti-Islam video that has provoked massive demonstrations and several deaths across the Muslim world.
“This poses a threat to world peace with no tangible benefit realized. Is it not necessary in today’s world for the United Nations to issue a resolution criminalizing the impingement of religious symbols? We request all religious and political authorities, as well as people of reason to join us in putting a stop to this futility that benefits no one.”
The public statement is titled a “Declaration Regarding the Offensive Video to Muslims.”
The video, purportedly the work of a network of neocons trying to provoke Muslims and rekindle the clash of civilizations agenda, is widely condemned.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times argued in favor of restricting the First Amendment in response to the inflammatory video, citing Schenck vs. United States. In the landmark case, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote that the First Amendment “would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”
Pornpimol Kanchanalak, writing for The Nation, says “the world is toiling to find the right balance between free speech and its restrictions” and cites instances of government censorship ranging from a French court ruling against the distribution of semi-nude photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge to laws in Europe designed to prevent speech in conflict with the official version of the Holocaust. “While the United States may be unwilling to set limits on the freedom of expression,” Kanchanalak writes, “other countries may disagree or be unwilling to treat such freedom as absolute and pious.”
Despite calls to limit freedom of expression to protect the religious and political sensitivities of others, a recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey concludes that 72% of poll respondents believe the freedom of speech is more important than assuaging the hurt feelings of Muslims. “Only 15% consider it more important for the United States to make sure that nothing is done to offend other nations and cultures,” Rasmussen explains.
“The thing that makes this particularly difficult for the United States is that … we treat what most of us would refer to as hate speech as constitutionally protected speech and Americans don’t appreciate, I think, how unusual this position seems in the rest of the world,” Lawrence Rosenthal, a professor at Chapman University’s School of Law in Orange, California, told the Associated Press.
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah and other Muslim clerics, however, believe the United States should ignore the Constitution and censor offensive speech.
“To our Western neighbors … we are extremely concerned with a small active minority in your countries that seeks to perpetuate a state of conflict and war,” bin Bayyah wrote. “We estimate that such objectives do not serve the general interest. Therefore, it is our hope that you reconsider and criminalize the denigration of religious symbols, as such provocations do not serve the principles of free speech, principles that you and us both seek to uphold.”
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/19/us-gulag-prisons-aim-to-liquidate-dissidents/
US gulag prisons aim to liquidate dissidents
Prisoner of the State
By Gordon Duff and Press TV
This week, President Karzai of Afghanistan demanded that the US turn over the last 600 prisoners held on Bagram Air Force Base outside Kabul. 3000 prisoners held there had been recently released to the custody of the Karzai government but the US had clearly violated the intent of the agreement.
What is being forgotten is that there never has been an accounting for prisoners held in this prison, at Bagram and at other prisons, Afghanistan, perhaps some in Pakistan, certainly massive prisons in Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, in fact no one has a clue to how many prisons America has in how many countries.
It is even believed that “enemy combatant suspects” are being held in secret detention centers at US embassies in Western Europe and even in local county jails across the United States along with American who have ended up with jail sentences for failing to pay fines related to credit card debt or government levies.
The story goes further, not just the “Gulag Archipelago,” as described by Russian author Solzhenitsyn in his two novels of that name. American prisons are like islands, imprisoning untold numbers of Muslims, some citizens of America and other western nations, some kidnapped suspects, bought from criminal gangs, like Dr. Aafia Siddiqui of Pakistan, now serving an 87 year prison sentence in the US after years of illegal detention at Bagram.
Then, if we refuse to look backward, we miss the 6000 Taliban prisoners of war executed by Americans with the help of the Northern Alliance in 2003 or the endless thousands of Iraqi POWs consigned to the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib.
Prison is a business of profit for the United States, not just imprisoning Muslims, militant fighters, cooks, women kidnapped off the streets with their small children; all are just “numbers” to fill the ranks of “terrorists” when it comes time to ask congress for funding.
Supporting the worldwide network of prisons are friendly despots, glad to accept and torture for “foreign aid.” It doesn’t stop with torture, with no accounting; no Red Cross or Red Crescent oversight of condition, with no legal representation, a hundred, a thousand, even a million can simply disappear, limited only by how large a hole in the desert the heavy machinery can build.
Behind this still is a network of private airlines, some contracted to the CIA, some nameless and unsupervised. These planes can hold dozens or hundreds, they can hold prisoners and they can hold tons of narcotics shipped around the world, part of the $80 billion dollar industry American Envoy Richard Holbrooke helped build to “stabilize Afghanistan.”
The result of a planet flooded with cheap heroin has been millions of addicts, Russia and the United States have suffered most but no nation has been immune. With addiction comes crime and with crime comes prisons.
In America, prisons, already filled to capacity with the poor, with minorities and with war veterans, are now filled, up to nearly 80% with those whose crimes are directly related to cheap heroin produced in Afghanistan after the US occupation, heroin shipped by the US government, sold to the children of the US for “lunch money” and leading to 15 million Americans in prison or under custodial supervision.
Much of this “supervision” and imprisonment, far more of it in “Abu Gharib” type conditions, something that would surprise many, is done by private corporations who pay the government generously to keep the narcotics flowing, narcotics that keep police, courts and even heads of state in office.
In the United States, one dollar in three that is spent on political campaigns comes from the sale of narcotics, money brought into the US in accordance with a highly controversial 5/4 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States called “Citizens United.”
All a narcotics kingpin has to do is hire an American lawyer and they can send millions into any political race, no matter how small or large, without any oversight as to whether the money was laundered through drug production, blood diamonds, illegal weapons sales, human trafficking or terrorism.
Asking is now considered a “restraint on freedom of speech.”
What it is, of course, is legal bribery intent on making the United States a police state, something the US has been doing to the world since 9/11.
No politician, military or intelligence officer, law enforcement official, no judge, no legal authority, no educator has been able to openly discuss the many glaring inconsistencies with 9/11, things Kevin Barrett and Jim Fetzer and so many others have fought for.
The issues are many, issues of international treaties including the long ignored Geneva Convention, issues of human rights, something the UN was created to protect but does so only when convenient to favored members of the Security Council.
Even the International Criminal Court at The Hague is voluntary. The United States withdrew from its authority years ago though dozens of former American officials, American and British, men like Dick Cheney, Tony Blair and George W. Bush are no longer free to travel unless special consideration is made to protect them from arrest for war crimes.
We began this discussion with Karzai, 11 years late and thousands of lives snuffed out by drones, torture, mass murder, government through foreign occupation, bribery and deceit, now suddenly as the Taliban and it’s militant allies are filling the news every day with their victories, battles won that too often mean the deaths of my fellow countrymen, my “brothers at arms,” we turn our backs on the basic questions.
The war in Afghanistan is not the “good war” on terror; it is as false as the invasion of Iraq. None of the claimed rationales for attack were ever proven to be true though the lie machines of the press and the blithering of political hacks playing to the ignorant and misguided are still able to garner a degree of support.
Controlling a humanity enslaved by ignorance isn’t so difficult, not when you have organizations like Facebook and Google, not when you can destroy the mind from within with mythological news and those who refuse to believe are fodder for the hundreds of drones operating in nations around the world.
Today we talk of prisons, of lives cut short, of law that never existed being used to oppress people who should never have been subjected to them.
Each individual imprisoned needs to be accounted for. Each individual “disappeared” needs also to be accounted for and, if necessary, those responsible for their unilateral decisions to end the lives of others because of their twisted beliefs need to be called to account.
Perhaps it is time that more of those who do the imprisoning began to enjoy some of the hospitality they have generously offered others for so very long.
Muslims aren’t the only ones ready to support this cause, I think it is ready to become a worldwide movement and all that is needed is to strike the match.
If it hasn’t happened already, it may well happen any moment.
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The Federal Reserve, a Privately Owned Banking Cartel, Has Been Given Police Powers, with Glock 22s and Patrol Cars
September 17, 2012 |
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By mid morning on Monday, September 17, as Occupy Wall Street protesters marched around the perimeter of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, all signs that an FRPD (Federal Reserve Police Department) existed had disappeared. The FRPD patrol cars and law enforcement officers had been replaced by NYPD patrol cars and officers. That decision may have been made to keep from drawing attention to a mushrooming new domestic police force that most Americans do not know exists.
Quietly, without fanfare or Congressional hearings, the USA Patriot Act in 2001 bestowed on the 12 privately owned Federal Reserve Banks, domestic policing powers.
Section 364 of the Act, “Uniform Protection Authority for Federal Reserve,” reads: “Law enforcement officers designated or authorized by the Board or a reserve bank under paragraph (1) or (2) are authorized while on duty to carry firearms and make arrests without warrants for any offense against the United States committed in their presence…Such officers shall have access to law enforcement information that may be necessary for the protection of the property or personnel of the Board or a reserve bank.”
The police officers are technically known as FRLEO, short for Federal Reserve Law Enforcement Officer. The system has its own police academies for training, their own patch and badges, uniforms, pistols, rifles, police cars and the power to arrest coast to coast without a warrant. They have ranks of Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain and a recruitment ad campaign with the slogan: “It’s about respect and recognition from your peers. It’s you.”
According to a former St. Louis Federal Reserve Law Enforcement Training Instructor, the officers are trained on pistol, rifle, auto-rifle, sub-gun and shotgun with manufacturers encompassing Smith & Wesson, Glock, Remington and Armalite.
The FRLEOs employed by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. are considered employees of the Federal government since the Board is a government entity. Each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, as settled law under Lewis v. United States confirms, is a private corporation owned by commercial banks in its region. An email to several of the Federal Reserve Banks confirmed that they regard their FRLEOs to be privately employed by the bank.
The San Francisco Fed ran an ad for Captain Specialist, noting that “you will be charged with gathering and disseminating law enforcement intelligence information to the District.” It also noted that the individual would need to “obtain and maintain top secret clearance.” Typically, that clearance level is reserved for only the highest positions in the Federal government.
A recruitment ad for the Richmond Fed indicates their FRLEOs would be plugged into the nation’s criminal databases: “The Law Enforcement Unit has an immediate opening for a Communications Center Operator, reporting to the Center leadership team in Richmond, Virginia. The pay is $32,458 — $40,573…[the officer will query] “information from a variety of law enforcement data bases for information, wants/warrants, intelligence, driver’s license and vehicle information, etc.” The Cleveland Fed notes that the job “may include, but would not be limited to: use of deadly or non-lethal force…”
FRLEOs now even have their own Federal Reserve Policemen’s Benevolent Association, Local 385. The group’s Facebook page carries the statement that it is a “government organization.” The site says the group “was established to create a fraternal organization for its membership and to act on behalf of the members as a liaison between the New Jersey State PBA and all other police agencies within the state and the country.” The connection to New Jersey likely stems from a now deceased police officer, James Rose, from Moonachie, New Jersey, who was a FRLEO in New York and helped to establish Local 385. In addition, the Regional office of the New York Fed is located in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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