Watford, sunny Watford, has changed the hitherto secretive Bilderberg conference forever. In a freshly strimmed corner of the grounds of the Grove Hotel, half a mile from the most important international policy conference in the world, something remarkable happened: the mainstream press showed up. In droves.
Reuters, AP, Channel 4 News, the Times, the Telegraph, the Press Association, London Tonight. The BBC had at least three radio reporters here.
While they talked and reported, on the first day of the four-day event, politicians and businessmen sped past behind blacked-out windows: the guest list, published for the first time, includes George Osborne, Ed Balls, the founder of Amazon, chairman of Google and the chief executives of both BP and Shell.
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This Week’s Analysis:
A Scandal a Week at the White House
Immigration Bill’s Hidden Secrets
Syria–Everyone has Arms Except the “Good Guys”
More on Death of SEAL Team Six in Afghanistan
Pentagon Plans to Share Missile Secrets with Russia
Obama to Announce Nuclear Force Cut
Russia Expels US Diplomat
A SCANDAL A WEEK AT THE WHITE HOUSE
The most corrupt presidency in US history is finally getting the negative spotlight that it deserves. Obama, with the help of powerful protectors in high places, has previously been successful at deflecting huge scandals relative to his foreign birth, his phony Social Security card, and the “Fast and Furious” gun running fiasco. Now, four more scandals have emerged to taint the White House and Obama’s handlers are working overtime to present the alien-in-chief as an indignant protector of justice, shocked about things that are happening on his watch! It is probably only because these latest scandals are less threatening to Obama directly that the media—ever protective of the government side of events—is giving them considerable coverage. Even with the broad, negative coverage, core truths are still being omitted or downplayed—the standard way for the press to assist in a cover-up.
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Scandal #4: Sexual Abuse in the Military:
Obama claims to be outraged by the latest Pentagon report on the epidemic of sexual assault in the military. His outrage in feigned just like the other scandals surfacing this week. And, like the other scandals, they aren’t going away despite the claimed anger of the Commander-in-Chief. As CBS reports,
In the last two weeks, two service members have been accused of sexual misconduct. In both cases, the men had been in charge of preventing those type of crimes. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY said,
“We have arguably 26,000 assaults a year, but only about 3,000 are even reported, and only a handful go to trial and result in a conviction,” Gillibrand said. “So what we need to do is change the system, so victims know that they can receive justice.”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said, “We’re losing the confidence of the women who serve.” [as they should] and claimed that the increases in sexual assault were linked to “the strains of war.”
Nonsense. Having been a military officer in the Marines, I can tell you that the problem is the culture of sexual promiscuity that is fully imbued in military service. There is no morality in the armed services except “don’t get caught” and “don’t embarrass us.”
Military officers have fully acquiesced to the long-held and flawed psychological garbage that military men at war can’t be expected to control themselves sexually, and thus a long litany of unwritten policies have evolved to control the damage.
When I joined my first fighter/attack squadron in the Marines, the shops and aircraft maintenance offices were wallpapered with pornography. And, it wasn’t just the enlisted Marines. The officers held their own stag parties with prostitutes and strippers. I eventually had to resign from the Marines after getting an “Unsatisfactory” Fitness Report from my outfit over my refusal to attend such parties.
I must note, however, that in my day, the infantry Marines next door on the base ran a much tighter ship and didn’t allow such open displays of shoddy morality. Still there were drug problems spilling over from the Vietnam conflict and a complete toleration for whatever sexual perversions Marines wanted to engage in when on shore leave. Of course, all of this was before the Tailhook scandal where officers were found guilty of sexually abusing women (including female officers) as they passed through a gauntlet of drunken officers.
Tailhook was the rowdy annual convention of Naval Aviators (tailhooks, used to arrest carrier landings are only part of Navy aircraft) that more represented an orgy than a civilized celebration of top military aviators. The convention had become more raunchy each year until they finally went too far. As the NY Times reviewed it this week,
In 1992, a young Navy lieutenant named Paula Coughlin said she had been sexually assaulted at the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas. Her complaints revealed an ugly side to the annual convention for “Top Gun” aviators: 83 women and 7 men were later found to have been assaulted during the raucous party weekend in September 1991. The resulting scandal forced the resignation of the secretary of the Navy, the censure of several admirals and the enactment of a reform agenda that stressed a “zero tolerance” policy.
Did it make a difference? More than two decades later the news remains extremely discouraging. Last week the Pentagon released a report estimating that 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted in the 2012 fiscal year, up from 19,000 in 2010. Making matters worse, the officer in charge of sexual assault prevention programs for the Air Force was arrested in Arlington, Va., and charged with sexual battery.
And the problem hasn’t gone away. It has only been exacerbated by putting a lot more women in close quarters with men on ships, planes and in the Army. But none of the news articles will criticize the politically-correct notion of “women in combat.” At the unit level there pervades an undercurrent of small talk about women with men eagerly fantasizing about what they are going to do next. You’ve seen it in tens of war movies. It’s a lot worse in real life, especially now that these men are placed in close quarters with women everyday.
Navy Petty Officer Jenny McClendon tells an interviewer of the abuse she faced years after the supposed Tailhook reforms were adopted: “I presumed that I was going to join a group of people who were my comrades. When I got to the ship, it was a while before – was probably a couple of months before we went from harassment to – to the groping, and the groping eventually culminated in several physical assaults and a couple — — a few rapes.”
And, most of these rapes go unreported. That’s because the entire military chain of command is built around protecting the top commander of the unit from embarrassment. If you report a rape, it’s going to cause hours of paperwork, a court-martial, and even a messy trial. People are going to have to be shipped home and that means more work and hassle for everyone. Also in the military, there exists the presumption that everything that happens in a unit is ultimately the responsibility of the commanding officer, so the risk of getting sacked for not controlling your men is high—but only if it gets out in public (hence, the motivation to not prosecute).
Finally, forget about claims that Obama is going to be impeached over this. Impeachment is dead after the Clinton fiasco, and the Republicans are too controlled to do the job. All these scandals will be softened over time and the public pacified by more lies about reform.
Millionaire Founder Of ‘Hot Yoga’ Accused Of Rape And Human Trafficking
The suits paint a cult-like atmosphere at the training camps. Trainees were allegedly told that Choudhury is on the same level as Jesus Christ or Buddha, that Bikram yoga can cure cancer and that practitioners will be able to live to 100 years old.
Another Islamic cleric has gone public to announce a fatwa that permits US-backed FSA rebels to rape non-Sunni women in Syria as part of a “sexual jihad” that has seen girls as young as 14 transported into the country to service the needs of anti-Assad militants.
“Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-‘Ajlawni, a Jordanian of origin who lived in Damascus, Syria for 17 years, posted a YouTube video last week where he said he was preparing to issue a “legitimate fatwa” making it legal (in the eyes of Islam) for those Muslims fighting to topple secular president Bashar Assad and install Sharia law to “capture and have sex with” all non-Sunni women, specifically naming Assad’s own sect, the Alawites, as well as the Druze and several others, basically, all non-Sunnis and non-Muslims,” reports Human Events. http://www.infowars.com/islamic-cleri…
“They’re [our military leaders] not looking at anything but sex.”
– Kay Griggs
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From: redicecreations.com
Kay Griggs – Sleeping With The Enemy
Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel’s Wife, Talks Again About Military Assassin Squads, Drug Running, Illegal Weapon Deals And Sexual Perversion Deep Within The Highest Levels Of U.S. Military And Government
For 11 long years, Kay Griggs heard all the messy details from her military husband, usually while he was drinking before going into one of his drunken stupors. First going public in 1998 in an eight hour video interview with a truth-seeking Michigan pastor and FM radio broadcaster, she now is back after 9/11 to warn Americans to beware of the evil lurking within the highest levels of government, bound and determined to destroy America. July 25, 2005
Katharine ‘Kay’ Griggs knows what it’s like to have a gun pointed in her face. She knows what it’s like to have her face slapped, her bones broken and her nose bloodied by her former bully of a husband, an active Marine Colonel and a man who she claims is “above the law and literally gets away with murder.”
Virginia court documents and photos of her battered arms and legs tell the sad and brutal physical story of her failed marriage, a tumultuous 11 year roller coaster ride ending in 1999.
But the real story for public consumption isn’t the private divorce court details. It is the secret military information about drug running, weapon sales, sexual perversion and assassination squads she learned firsthand from her husband, U.S. Marine Corps Col. George Raymond Griggs, now remarried and living in Mirror Lake, NH.
This isn’t the first time Griggs is going public with her story about government mob-like hit squads and the sexually perverted secret “cap and gown and skull and bone society” her husband belonged to along with other high-ranking Marine officers and pubic officials [like George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush – editor]. […]
Pastor Strawcutter’s 1998 Taped Interview
Besides running a ministry in Adrian, MI., Strawcutter’s main passion is truth-telling, his philosophy turning out to be a perfect match for Griggs when she finally contacted him one morning in 1998 as he broadcasted live during drive-time on his pirate FM radio station.
“I remember one morning getting this call during a commercial break and then we put Kay on live for about 45 minutes. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,” said Strawcutter this week by telephone from his Michigan church. “After the show, I arranged for Kay to come to Michigan with her documentation and photos of the story.”
When Griggs arrived with her husband’s diary and photos providing credible documentation for some of what she claimed, Strawcutter taped her story for over eight hours.
After the taping session, he recalls out of all the controversial stories he worked on, the Griggs story was one of the most troubling and difficult to deal due to the sensitive nature of the allegations and the number of high-ranking names involved.
Finally, after sitting on the story for a year, Strawcutter decided to release it in two forms, the first being a 2 hour edited video version of the interview which he distributed under the title of “Sleeping With The Enemy” and the other being simply the longer unedited eight hour version.
And like Griggs recounted this week from her Virginia home, the Strawcutter tapes are even more detailed about how members of The Brotherhood operate in a world of treachery, deceit, lies, murder, drug running, sex slavery and illegal weapon sales, all in the name of forming a new world order.
Scandals surround the Catholic Church and Retired NYC Detective JIM ROTHSTEIN will take us into those dark corners where pedophilia lurks and share what he uncovered in his investigations. …
Today’s Show is Audio Archived at: February 28, 2013 (hour 1) – News LIVE with host Joyce Riley February 28, 2013 (hour 2) – Guest Retired NYC Detective Jim Rothstein takes us into those dark corners where pedophilia lurks and shares what he uncovered in his investigations. February 28, 2013 (hour 3) – Continuation of NYC Detective Jim Rothstein + Guest Adam Lock shares what’s new in “Water In the News”
On the heels of a new military survey that the number of reported violent sex crimes jumped 30 percent in 2011, with active-duty female soldiers ages 18 to 21 accounting for more than half of the of the victims, we speak with Trina McDonald and Kori Cioca, two subjects of “The Invisible War,” a new documentary that examines the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the U.S. military, which won the Audience Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
“Not only was I astounded by the numbers, but when I started talking to the women and men who had experienced this, I was just so devastated by their stories,” says the film’s Academy Award-nominated director, Kirby Dick. “These are women and men who are very idealistic. They joined the military because they wanted to serve their country. They were incredible soldiers. And then, when they were assaulted, they had the courage to come forward, even though many people advised them not to,” Dick says.
Wrong man tasered at Walden Galleria 24 Dec 2010 | 8:17 am Infowars WIVB News | In Cheektowaga, an apparent case of mistaken identity led to the wrong man being tasered at the Walden Galleria.
Apollo Swoops In On Bank’s Fire Sale 24 Dec 2010 | 7:30 am Infowars The Wall Street Journal | Credit Suisse Group is selling a $2.8 billion portfolio of soured commercial-property loans to Apollo Management LP for $1.2 billion
Distorting the Tax Policy Debate 24 Dec 2010 | 7:29 am Infowars Ron Paul | Far too many Americans truly believe that tax cuts represent a government giveaway, indistinguishable from an outright subsidy or entitlement payment.
Wikimania and the First Amendment 24 Dec 2010 | 7:17 am Infowars Ralph Nader | Jefferson said that “information is the currency of democracy” and that, given a choice between government and a free press, he’ll take the latter.
Two Parcel Bombs Hit Embassies in Rome 23 Dec 2010 | 12:46 pm Infowars Wall Street Journal | Parcel bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean Embassies in Italy’s capital on Thursday, injuring two people.
Scientists Defend $700k ‘Cow Burp’ Greenhouse Gas Study 23 Dec 2010 | 12:34 pm Infowars ABC News | A team of scientists who study pollution’s role in global warming are outraged at a GOP Senator who, they say, has maligned their work as wasteful and petty by describing it as a study of “cow burps.”
Pope’s child porn ‘normal’ claim sparks outrage among victims
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.
In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.
“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.
“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than’ and a ‘worse than‘. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”
The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” which brought “humiliation” on the Church.
Asking how abuse exploded within the Church, the Pontiff called on senior clerics “to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred” and to help victims heal through a better presentation of the Christian message.
“We cannot remain silent about the context of these times in which these events have come to light,” he said, citing the growth of child pornography “that seems in some way to be considered more and more normal by society” he said.
But outraged Dublin victim Andrew Madden last night insisted that child abuse was not considered normal in the company he kept.
On May 1, 1989, a “nice Jewish girl”, age 29, appeared on the Oprah Show and said her family was part of a Satanic cult that dates back to the 1700’s.
Although they appear to be upstanding citizens –lawyers, doctors, police officers etc. — they engage in Satanic ritual human sacrifice, incest and cannibalism, often in synagogues. They drink blood and eat babies.
She is describing the Illuminati which originated in the Frankist Movement in the Eighteenth century. Jacob Frank, born Jacob Leibowitz (1726-1791) led a major Satanic heresy that shook the Jewish world. They believed that the Messiah would return if the world went over to evil completely, so they encouraged all sexual licence and Satanic Evil as the ultimate Good. Financed by the Frankist Rothschild banking syndicate, they subverted all religions and national elites by assuming every religious and political hue. They took over Freemasonry and are now in the final stage of establishing their world government a.k.a “globalization.”
The abuse Polin suffered is a textbook example of how Illuminati families –Jews and non-Jews– treat their children. George W. Bush and Barack Obama may have suffered simllar trauma and, (like Polin,) have multiple personality disorder. Vicki is from Chicago and there is no telling how many Chicagoans surrounding Barack Obama are part of this Satanic cult.
THE OPRAH INTERVIEW
Polin told Oprah that she witnessed babies sacrificed and consumed for the “power” this gave.
Vicki Polin talks about her jewish satanic ritual abuse upbringing. This was filmed in 1989. This is more evidence that there is such a thing as satanic ritual abuse used to create DID, something the CIA has been doing for decades.
Vicki is currently the Executive Director of The Awareness Center, a Baltimore area sexual abuse help center.
David Icke is becoming a predominant speaker against child abuse. Even though he is not a victim himself, he has an empathy with the victims and survivors and their horrific experiences, and continuous struggle through life.
This video is a short clip from the footage that Billy & Lilly shot at David’s O2 Brixton Academy event in London on the 11th September 2010.
David invited Pie and Mash Films along, and gave them freedom with their camera to document the day.
Bill interviews many of David’s audience during the breaks that took place through the nine and a half hours of the show. As David ‘cools down’ after his marathon show he makes time for a comprehensive interview with campaigning filmmaker and abuse survivor Bill Maloney. More footage will be available soon.
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“Conspiracy of Silence” is a powerful, disturbing documentary revealing a nationwide child abuse and pedophilia ring that leads to the highest levels of government. Featuring intrepid investigator John DeCamp, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and 16-year Nebraska state senator, “Conspiracy of Silence” reveals how rogue elements at all levels of government have been involved in systematic child abuse and pedophilia to feed the base desires of key politicians….Check this out! Satanic Ritual Abuse:http://mysticalmusingsandpolitics.blogspot.com/2011/12/satanic-ritual-abuse.html
Based on DeCamp’s riveting book, The Franklin Cover-up, “Conspiracy of Silence” begins with the shut-down of Nebraska’s Franklin Community Federal Credit Union after a raid by federal agencies in November 1988 revealed that $40 million was missing. When the Nebraska legislature launched a probe into the affair, what initially looked like a financial swindle soon exploded into a startling tale of drugs, money laundering, and a nationwide child abuse ring. Nineteen months later, the legislative committee’s chief investigator died suddenly and violently, like more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin case.
So why have you never heard of the Franklin cover-up? Originally scheduled to air in May of 1994 on the Discovery Channel, “Conspiracy of Silence” was yanked at the last minute due to formidable pressure applied by top politicians. Some very powerful people did not want you to watch this documentary.
You may find yourself becoming angry or upset while watching “Conspiracy of Silence.” Many people do. However, consider that each of us has at times in our life acted out of selfish motives when it comes to sexuality and ended up hurting others in one way or another. Let us take this information not only as a call to stop this kind of abuse at the nationwide level, but also as a call to examine our own sexual relationships and make a commitment to deep honesty and integrity in our own lives around this most sensitive issue. Thanks for caring and may we all work together to build a brighter future for ourselves and for our world.
A copy of this videotape was furnished anonymously to former Nebraska state senator and attorney John De Camp who made it available to retired FBI Agent Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster in what is revealed by the participants involved.
NOTE; This film had to be reassembled from remaining VHS fragments after an all-out effort was made to block the films release and destroy all extant copies. Every effort has been made to restore it to the original and complete “meant to be broadcast” version.
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE – FRANKLIN SCANDAL 1/7 LONGER CUT
THEFRANKLINFILM — November 25, 2009 — RECENTLY DISCOVERED LONGER, HIGHER QUALITY VERSION OF THE “UNAIRED” 1993/1994 YORKSHIRE TELEVISION INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY “CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE” CONCERNING A NETWORK OF PAEDOPHILE RINGS IN NEBRASKA & WASHINGTON D.C. THAT TRADED YOUNG CHILDREN TO THE POLITICAL, BUSINESS & INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR MOLESTATION, DRUG TRAFFICKING & BLACKMAIL.
It is the story of a cancer at the heart of America and of its continuing cover-up at the highest level. One man is attempting to uncover the full story.
John DeCamp is among the most highly decorated Vietnam veterans. A former republican state senator in Lincoln Nebraska, he is now a lawyer, fighting the legacy of Lawrence King’s abuse of power.
Senator John DeCamp: It’s a web of intrigue that starts in our holy of holies, Boys Town, Nebraska, one of the most respected institutions of the United States, and spreads out like a spider web to Washington DC, right up to the steps of the nation’s capital, the steps of the White House, involves some of the most respected and powerful and richest businessmen in this United States of America. And the centerpiece of the entire web is the use of children for sex and drug dealing and drug couriers, the compromising of politicians, the compromising of businessmen, but worst of all, the corruption of key institutions of government that have the duty and responsibility to make sure these things never happen.
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE – FRANKLIN SCANDAL 2/7 LONGER CUT
Immediately, anonymous threats began.
Senator Loran Shmit: I received a phone call on the floor of the Legislature. The caller did not identify himself, but he said “Loran, you do not want to have an investigation of the Franklin Federal Credit Union”. And I asked who I was speaking to. He said “That doesn’t matter but you shouldn’t have an investigation” And I said “Well, why not?” He said “It will reach to the highest levels of the Republican Party. And we’re both good Republicans.”
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE – FRANKLIN SCANDAL 3/7 LONGER CUT
Alisha’s horrible cry at 1 minute says it all!
Karen Ormiston: The media immediately started discrediting the witnesses. The witnesses came across in the media, in the Omaha World Herald, especially, as the criminals.
Shmit: I was very disappointed with the way the FBI and law enforcement treated the victims. They, in fact, turned them into the offenders, so to speak. And instead of taking the evidence that was delivered to them by the victims, and interrogating the persons whom the victims identified, they seemed to bear down and try to get the victims to change their story.
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE – FRANKLIN SCANDAL 4/7 LONGER CUT
DeCamp: “They [the FBI – ed.], now, in my opinion, in my investigation, are the architects of the cover-up.”
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE – FRANKLIN SCANDAL 5/7 LONGER CUT
John DeCamp is now the only man fighting to help Larry King’s [not the TV personality] victims.
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE – FRANKLIN SCANDAL 6/7 LONGER CUT
DeCamp: Every victim witness who stepped forward in any way, or even was a potential witness that somebody heard about, has either been killed, put in jail under some theory or other, terrified or run out of the state, discredited. Every perpetrator, every perpetrator, even the convicted ones, have been treated as conquering heroes.
DeCamp: Obviously the FBI was protecting something a lot more significant than a bunch of old pedophiles having improper relations with little boys. They were protecting something a lot more significant than bunch of drug peddlers. They were were protecting, in my opinion, they were protecting some very prominent politicians, some very powerful and wealthy individuals associated with those politicians and the political system up to and including the highest political people in this entire country.
…Washington Lobbyist, Craig Spence. Spence took youngsters including Bonnacci on private midnight tours of the White House.
DeCamp: So you were in the White House then?
Bonacci: Yes
DeCamp: And how did you gain access?
Bonacci: I came down with Larry King, but Craig Spencer is the one that arranged the trip for us. And it was a kind of a gift for services we were doing.
Spence’s call boy network was investigated in 1989 by reporter Paul Rodriguez of “The Washington Times”.
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE – FRANKLIN SCANDAL 7/7 LONGER CUT
DeCamp: If you can control three or four key elements, you can totally own a state. You can make right wrong. You can make truth falsehood— falsehood truth. If you control the media, if you control the justice department, if you control the police—you own the system.
DeCamp: The Justice Department, acting through FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Omaha, emerges from the record of the Franklin investigation not so much as a party to the cover-up, but as its coordinator. Rigging grand juries, harassment of witnesses, incitement to perjury and tampering with evidence, federal personnel were seen to apply of those techniques in the Franklin case.
“I name these names so that you can understand who these people are because they’re the same ones over and over and over, again.”
“I’ve known Dick Cheney through Gerald Ford since 1975. He is the most brutal person I’ve ever encountered, personally, by far. But it’s his attitude and his agenda that is so frightening.”
“We need to learn to expand our thinking and realize what is going on. Because when you go outside this country, it’s accepted knowledge that our President [George W. Bush] is under mind-control. It’s accepted knowledge that Dick Cheney is very much in control — and that George Bush, Sr., his closest friend and comrade, has been for a long time.”
“It’s essential that we all gain our strength of spirit in order to be able to grasp the truth. … With that strength of spirit becomes an ability to have inner peace….”
“It is truth that makes us free.”
“Love is the most powerful force in the universe, and it empowers people to have the strength of spirit to stand and make a positive difference for all of us….”
– Cathy O’Brien
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al5Ql0mKJ_E]Cathy O’Brien: America en trance 1/7
Pope Benedict, facing the worst crisis of his papacy as a sexual abuse scandal sweeps the Catholic church, declared today he would not be “intimidated” by “petty gossip”, angering activists who say he has done too little to stamp out paedophilia.
Addressing crowds in St Peter’s square during a Palm Sunday service, the pope did not directly mention the scandal spreading though Europe and engulfing the Vatican, but alluded to it during his sermon. Faith in God, he said, led “towards the courage of not allowing oneself to be intimidated by the petty gossip of dominant opinion”.
As Benedict spoke, the president of Switzerland, Doris Leuthard, called for a central register of paedophile priests to keep them away from children. In Austria, the archbishop of Vienna announced the creation of a commission funded by the church, but without church representatives, to look into Austrian abuse claims.
Benedict came under attack after it was revealed that he had been involved in dealing with two cases of abuse. In the first a German priest in therapy for paedophilia returned to work with children while the pope was archbishop of Munich. In the second, in the late 1990s when Benedict was a senior Vatican figure, his deputy stopped a church trial against a Wisconsin priest accused of abusing deaf boys.
…World War II was the last constitutionally fought war in which America has been engaged. The United Nations was created at the end of WWII, and ever since then, our military forces have increasingly become the “peacekeeping” arm of that evil institution.
Since WWII, American forces have fought major wars in South Korea, South Vietnam (including Laos and Cambodia), Kosovo, the Persian Gulf (Kuwait), Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan–all for the benefit of the United Nations. Add to these major wars lesser conflicts (except to those Americans killed or wounded in them) such as Lebanon, Dominican Republic, Congo (Zaire), Iran, El Salvador, Libya, Grenada, Honduras, Chad, Panama, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia. And this does not take into account the countless CIA-sponsored Black Ops missions that have taken place all over the world.
Yes, American forces have been used to both put people in power and take people out of power all over the world. And as often as not, the people we put in power were counted among the “bad guys,” while the people we removed from power were “good guys.” Remember, our own CIA was the organization most responsible for the rise to power of Osama Bin Laden. And it was the US government that surreptitiously set up the murder of Dr. Jonas Savimbi, who was one of the best friends the United States had overseas. Plus, does anyone remember how the US treated our friend, the Shah of Iran? Yes, some of us are old enough to remember when Iran was one of the best friends we had in that region of the world.
But mind you, not one single war in which American forces have been engaged since WWII has been constitutionally fought. Not one!
Ever since the United Nations was created, its interests have dominated the usage of US forces. In fact, our military today is quickly morphing into the tip of the spear for a burgeoning, global New World Order. To those with eyes to see, the evidence is everywhere. It’s not even being hidden anymore. Have you seen that new US Navy television commercial? It boldly proclaims, “The US Navy: A GLOBAL FORCE For Good.” (Emphasis added.)
This politically correct, UN-dominated New World Order has changed (and is changing) our US military right before our eyes. It has taken the greatest and proudest independent fighting force in the world–one created to defend the people and property of the United States–and turned it into a global military policeman for the evil Machiavellians at the UN.
In order to convert the US military into a true “Global Force,” several changes are being forced upon our fighting men.
First, more and more women are entering the US military.
Currently, women comprise about 20% of military personnel. And for the first time in US history, women are actively engaged in combat units in the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The massive integration of women in combat may serve the interests of political correctness, but it does not serve the interests of combat effectiveness. Neither does it serve the interests of family and child rearing. And I don’t care how old fashioned that sounds!
Wives and mothers are the backbone of family nurturing. To willingly take mothers away from their children–and subject both mother and child to the separation and suffering that military life demands–is both unnatural and cruel.
And there is another stark reality that few people want to discuss: the fact that 30% of all women in the US military are raped. Yes, you read it right: 30%. …
Remember, at any given moment, there might be as many–if not more–mercenaries fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as there are US military forces. For example, according to the Christian Science Monitor, in early 2008, the number of mercenaries fighting in Iraq numbered more than 190,000. Remember, in addition to the benefit of not drafting US citizens to fight these perpetual wars (and thus avoid incurring the wrath and resistance of the American public), mercenaries enjoy the luxury of not having to comply with the military rules of engagement. And the stories of atrocities committed by US-employed mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan are too numerous to list. …
Plus, dare I mention how that many violent gangs in North America are encouraging their members to join the US military in order to learn tactics and skills, which enable them to more effectively inflict their criminality upon the American people? Well, it’s true. And our military brass knows it’s true, and yet they still allow these thugs to enter our military. Hispanic gang members, especially, are entering the US military in droves.
According to a report in The American Conservative magazine, “[R]ecent figures indicate that gang membership in the Armed Forces significantly surpasses civilian levels. Stars and Stripes reported that 1 to 2 percent of the military are gang members, compared to 0.02 percent of the general population.”
According to NPR, “In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, found that 90 percent had been sexually harassed.”
The BBC recently reported on The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict. This book examines the extreme difficulties female soldiers have in serving abroad. …
Another study concluded that 90% of all women serving are sexually harassed. Another one estimates that 90% of all the rapes do not get reported, despite supposedly easier ways to report the crime with confidentiality since 2005. Either way, this appears to be an epidemic that needs to be dealt with.
An online discussion from a former soldier whose identity is being protected had this to say, “At least a rape ends. It’s the day-to-day degradation that eats at you. None of my friends who were raped on active duty reported it. Or if we tried, we were told to shut up for ‘morale.’ Working with your rapist on a daily basis isn’t a lot of fun, believe me.”
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From: SantaUnmasked.com
My miraculous travels with Santa
A journey to the roots of European culture through St Nicholas
Beyond the feast of St. Nichlas lays a rather frightening Indo-European myth; Odin’s army of dead warriors: The Wild Hunt.
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He braught gifts and fertility, welfare, plentiful crops as well as bounties of fruits and nuts. And as tradition has it, he coummunicated through the chimneys, riding his white horse or reindeer through the skies, along with his black faced sidekick, named Black Peter, using his rod of fertility.
Holland played a major role in the spread of the St. Nicholas or ‘Sinterklaas’ cult. Odin’s army still exists not only in myth, but also in ritualistic practices.
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While other investigators studied the subject from behind the books in their libraries, he [Arnold-Jan Scheer] took trains, cars, even helicopters and went climbing in search of remote villages within Europa (some villages before 150 years so isolated, they had almost no contact with the outside world) where still until this day annual primitive and unknown Saint Nicolas rituals are celebrated.
These rituals can strongly differ from the feast rituals in more urban area. Scheer discovered throughout these travels in places in Europe (and even in his own country) the thin lines connecting these rites to the ancestors of Europeans and many Americans.
This myth and ritial forms, annually celebrated by the ancient Europeans, became mixed with other traditions during and after the middle ages through the influence of the Roman Catholic Church with the Bishop of Myra (nowadays Turke; the Bisshop died around 340 AD).
Meanwhile this cult reached Northwestern Europe via the Rhine and the sea, later arriving in Holland and its capital Amsterdam. Much later this cult came with the first Dutch settlers to their colony New Amsterdam (New York), where St. Nicolas (Dutch Sinterklaas) over the ages transformed into todays Jolly Old St. Nick.
Sexual assaults and rapes by US military in Japan lead to a major international incident.
One would hope that behavior that requires the “regrets” of the president of the United States and the secretary of state and the stand-down of United States military forces for “reflection” and retraining in ethics and leadership would be punished severely enough to send a clear signal that the behavior will not be tolerated.
Yet the history of sexual assault and rape of women around US military bases, particularly in Okinawa, reveals a military institutional acceptance of this criminal behavior and a lack of enforcement of military regulations against such behavior by senior military officers.
From: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Testimony of Lisa F. Jackson Documentary Maker and Director of “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”
Before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate
“Rape as a Weapon of War: Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict”
April 1, 2008
Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Coburn, and Members of the Subcommittee, I am honored to be asked to come before you to describe from my own perspective some of what I witnessed and heard in the months that I spent in the Eastern DR Congo in 2006 and 2007 shooting a documentary film. During that time I interviewed many women and girls who had survived sexual violence. I talked with peacekeepers, priests, doctors, activists, international aid workers and, most chillingly of all, with a dozen self-confessed rapists, uniformed soldiers in the Congolese army who boasted to my camera about the dozens of women they had raped. What I heard in the Congo has altered the course of my own life, and I hope I can convey to you here today even a small sense of the profound impact that the women – and men -of the Congo had on me.
The stories are shocking in their simplicity and brutality: A female military recruit is pinned down at knifepoint and raped repeatedly in her own barracks. Her attackers hid their faces but she identified them by their uniforms; they were her fellow soldiers. During a routine gynecological exam, a female soldier is attacked and raped by her military physician. Yet another young soldier, still adapting to life in a war zone, is raped by her commanding officer. Afraid for her standing in her unit, she feels she has nowhere to turn. …
The scope of the problem was brought into acute focus for me during a visit to the West Los Angeles VA Healthcare Center, where I met with female veterans and their doctors. My jaw dropped when the doctors told me that 41% of female veterans seen at the clinic say they were victims of sexual assault while in the military, and 29% report being raped during their military service. They spoke of their continued terror, feelings of helplessness and the downward spirals many of their lives have since taken.
US veterans gathered in Maryland this past weekend to testify at Winter Soldier, an eyewitness indictment of atrocities committed by US troops during the ongoing occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Soldiers spoke of free-fire zones, the shootings and beatings of innocent civilians, racism at the highest levels of the military, sexual harassment and assault within the military, and the torturing of prisoners. While the corporate media ignored the story, we broadcast their voices. [includes rush transcript]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico City has started a women-only bus service to protect female passengers from groping and verbal abuse common on the city’s packed public transportation system.
Natara Garavoy, another psychologist here, says there can be added stress for those who are the only woman in a unit. “They don’t want to stand out,” she says, adding that some try to appear unattractive to ward off male soldiers who might not see another American woman for months.
Whatever their trauma, military women often hesitate to report problems. That’s partly because of the military’s ingrained emphasis on unit cohesion and the unspoken taboo against telling on a fellow soldier. It also stems from the fear of reinforcing stereotypes that theirs is the weaker sex.
“Women do have to prove themselves more,” says VA spokeswoman Kerri Childress, a Vietnam-era Navy veteran. “They have to work really, really hard to look tough.”
All that pressure must go somewhere, Resick says. Men with PTSD often are angry and act out aggressively. Women often turn inward and become depressed, she says. Both men and women “try not to deal with it” and often take years to seek counseling, Resick says.
