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Originally posted by smallpeeps
115. [...] and he then stated that the UN was "in the process of confiscating Trillions and Trillions of Dollars in assets within the next couple of months and no one could do anything about it."
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Notary whistleblower on foreclosure fraud found dead as trial begins
LAS VEGAS (KSNV MyNews3) -- The notary who signed tens of thousands of false documents in a massive robo-signing scandal case was found dead in her home on Monday.
The notary, 43-year-old Tracy Lawrence, was supposed to be in court at 8:30 Monday morning for her sentencing hearing. When her attorney did not hear from her for more than an hour, Sr. Deputy Attorney General Robert Giunta asked for a bench warrant to be issued for Lawrence. The judge denied the request.
Police were sent to Lawrence's house to check on her after her lawyer expressed concern for her client's well-being. They found her body inside her home.
Metro Homicide Detectives are working currently the case. It is unclear if her death was due to natural causes, or if it was a suicide.
Detectives said this afternoon that they have ruled out homicide as a cause of death.
Last Monday, Lawrence pled guilty to only one criminal charge of notary fraud.
Lawrence came forward earlier this month and admitted that she had notarized around 25,000 fraudulent documents as part of a foreclosure fraud scheme.
So to promote the slavery of others, I should buy into homes which people should struggle to pay me to live in. If you can close yourself off to their feelings of sufferings you can enjoy your fake riches. If the world's people should strive for riches over the lives of others then they are headed for the destruction of the earth. Life was not made to worship money! Governments whom we do not know require taxes and worse when they tax you for your souls treasures without you knowing. -- Nueroactive 1 day ago
Criminal charges will be filed this week in New Jersey in a $1 trillion robbery case that implicates top officials of the World Economic Forum (Davos) top UN officials including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and members of the Italian P2 Masonic Lodge, according to top US law enforcement officials and lawyers for the owners of the over $1 trillion in stolen financial instruments. The individual directly responsible for stealing the funds, P2’s Daniele Dal Bosco was recorded asking Giancarlo Bruno “Head of the Financial Services Industry” at Davos to have myself and three other individuals murdered. In addition, Joe Bendana, the man who assisted in the case within the US on behalf of Neil Keenan and also provided affidavits to other governments and Interpol was also threatened directly by Dal Bosco 4 days before he was found murdered in his residence, Newark, New Jersey, last Saturday, September 4, 2010. Police are treating the death of Bendana as a homicide because of the threats and because there was a security breach at his residence the night he died.unitednationsoffilm.com...
Propaganda Due
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Propaganda Due (Italian pronunciation: [propaˈɡanda ˈduːe]), or P2, was a Masonic lodge operating under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient of Italy from 1945 to 1976 (when its charter was withdrawn), and a pseudo-Masonic or "black" or "covert" lodge operating illegally (in contravention of Italian constitutional laws banning secret lodges, and membership of government officials in secret membership organizations) from 1976 to 1981. During the years that the lodge was headed by Licio Gelli, P2 was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries, including the collapse of the Vatican-affiliated Banco Ambrosiano, the murders of journalist Mino Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi, and corruption cases within the nationwide bribe scandal Tangentopoli. P2 came to light through the investigations into the collapse of Michele Sindona's financial empire.[1]
P2 was sometimes referred to as a "state within a state"[2] or a "shadow government".[3] The lodge had among its members prominent journalists, members of parliament, industrialists, and military leaders—including Silvio Berlusconi, who later became Prime Minister of Italy; the Savoy pretender to the Italian throne Victor Emmanuel; and the heads of all three Italian intelligence services.
When searching Licio Gelli's villa, the police found a document called the "Plan for Democratic Rebirth", which called for a consolidation of the media, suppression of trade unions, and the rewriting of the Italian Constitution.[4]
Outside Italy, P2 was also active in Uruguay, Brazil and in Argentina, with Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Argentina's interim president (between July 13, 1973 to October 12, 1973) during the height of the "Dirty War" among its members. Emilio Massera, who was part of the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla from 1976 to 1978, José López Rega, minister of Social Welfare in Perón's government and founder of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance ("Triple A"), and General Guillermo Suárez Mason were also members.[5]
The Vatican Bank is under new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize €23m (£19.25m) in September.
The Vatican calls the seizure of assets a "misunderstanding" and expresses optimism it will be quickly cleared up. But fresh court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately flouted anti-laundering laws "with the aim of hiding the ownership, destination and origin of the capital". The documents also reveal investigators' suspicions that clergy may have acted as fronts for corrupt businessmen and Mafia.
The documents pinpoint two transactions that have not been reported: one in 2009 involving the use of a false name, and another in 2010 in which the Vatican Bank withdrew €650,000 from an Italian bank account but ignored bank requests to disclose where the money was headed.www.independent.co.uk...
One other thing I noticed was that the article said they were detained by "Italian financial police". Countries now have "financial police" Makes you wonder what others kinds of police countries have ...
LONDON: A former Swiss banker today handed over documents of 2,000 high net worth people from US, Britain and Asia to WikiLeaks that he claims would expose attempts by these business leaders and lawmakers to evade tax payments.
Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Swiss-based Bank Julius Baer, said the account holders include celebrities, business leaders and lawmakers articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com...
Today, Rudolf Elmer, a former COO of one of the biggest Swiss banks, Julius Baer, may have just nailed the last, and with that set off a chain reaction that will force a huge outcry against pervasive global tax fraud (but likely achieve nothing ultimatel). According to the Guardian, tomorrow Elmer will hand over details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals and corporations" to WikiLeaks which will make him "the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history." And since among those exposed will be "approximately 40 politicians" expect all hell to break loose as photos of Assange having a underage orgy with Al Qaeda members are suddenly made public to diffuse what is bound to be another huge (if brief - after all human kind cannot bear very much reality).
zero hedge
British and American individuals and companies are among the offshore clients whose details will be contained on CDs presented to WikiLeaks at the Frontline Club in London. Those involved include, Elmer tells the Observer, "approximately 40 politicians".
Elmer, who after his press conference will return to Switzerland from exile in Mauritius to face trial, is a former chief operating officer in the Cayman Islands and employee of the powerful Julius Baer bank, which accuses him of stealing the information.
He is also – at a time when the activities of banks are a matter of public concern – one of a small band of employees and executives seeking to blow the whistle on what they see as unprofessional, immoral and even potentially criminal activity by powerful international financial institutions m.guardian.co.uk...
Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by smallpeeps
Ok, more found. The P2 is real.
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Luciano Leggio: In 1945 he was recruited by the Mafia boss of Corleone, Michele Navarra, to work as an enforcer and hitman. [...] While behind bars in the late 1940s he met Salvatore (Toto) Riina, who was then aged 19 and starting a six-year sentence for manslaughter. The two eventually became accomplices in crime after Riina's release. [...] in 1956 the Leggio faction went to war with Navarra and his followers. [...] Leggio spent the 1960s and early 1970s increasing the strength of the Corleonesi, murdering anyone who got in its way. In particular, he wanted control of the refining and trafficking of heroin that soon provided a huge source of income to the Sicilian Mafia.
Propaganda Due
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[...] P2, was a Masonic lodge operating under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient of Italy from 1945 to 1976 (when its charter was withdrawn)
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Fascist suppression
In 1925, Benito Mussolini initiated a campaign to destroy the Mafia and assert Fascist control over Sicilian life. [...]
As prime minister, he visited Sicily in May 1924 and passed through Piana dei Greci where he was received by the mayor, Mafia boss Francesco Cuccia. At some point Cuccia expressed surprise at Mussolini’s police escort and whispered in his ear: "You are with me, you are under my protection. What do you need all these cops for?" After Mussolini rejected Cuccia's offer of protection, Cuccia instructed the townsfolk to not attend Mussolini's speech. Mussolini felt humiliated and outraged.[39][40]
Cuccia’s careless remark has passed into history as the catalyst for Mussolini’s war on the Mafia. When Mussolini firmly established his power in January 1925, he appointed Cesare Mori as the Prefect of Palermo in October 1925 and granted him special powers to fight the Mafia.[39] Mori formed a small army of policemen, carabinieri and militiamen, which went from town to town, rounding up suspects. To force suspects to surrender, they would take their families hostage, sell off their property,[41] or publicly slaughter their livestock.[42] By 1928, over 11,000 suspects were arrested.[43] Confessions were sometimes extracted through beatings and torture. [...]
Mori's campaign ended in June 1929 when Mussolini recalled him to Rome. Although he did not totally crush the Mafia as the Fascist press proclaimed, his campaign was nonetheless very successful. As the Mafia informant Antonino Calderone reminisced: "The music changed. Mafiosi had a hard life. [...] After the war the mafia hardly existed anymore. The Sicilian Families had all been broken up."[49]
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[...] As the Mafia informant Antonino Calderone reminisced: "The music changed. Mafiosi had a hard life. [...] After the war the mafia hardly existed anymore. The Sicilian Families had all been broken up."[49]
Sicily's murder rate sharply declined.[50] Landowners were able to raise the legal rents on their lands; sometimes as much as ten-thousandfold.[44] Many mafiosi fled to the United States. Among these were Carlo Gambino and Joseph Bonanno, who would go on to become powerful Mafia bosses in New York City.
Post-Fascist revival
In 1943, nearly half a million Allied troops invaded Sicily. Crime soared in the upheaval and chaos. Many inmates escaped from their prisons, banditry returned and the black market thrived.[12] During the first six months of Allied occupation, party politics in Sicily were banned.[51] Most institutions, with the exception of the police and carabinieri,[52] were destroyed, and the American occupiers had to build a new order from scratch. As Fascist mayors were deposed, the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT) simply appointed replacements. Many turned out to be mafiosi, such as Calogero Vizzini and Giuseppe Genco Russo.[53][54] They could easily present themselves as political dissidents,[55] and their anti-communist position made them further desirable. Mafia bosses reformed their clans, absorbing some of the marauding bandits into their ranks.[56]
[...]
In the 1950s, a crackdown in the United States on drug trafficking led to the imprisonment of many American mafiosi. Furthermore, Cuba, a major hub for drug smuggling, fell to Fidel Castro. This prompted the American mafia boss Joseph Bonanno to return to Sicily in 1957 to franchise out his heroin operations to the Sicilian clans. Anticipating rivalries for the lucrative American drug market, he negotiated the establishment of a Sicilian Mafia Commission to mediate disputes.[61]
[Propaganda Due] [...] operating illegally [...] from 1976 to 1981.
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Sterling's first book revisited the 1948 death of Jan Masaryk, the Czechoslovak foreign minister, which she blamed on Soviet or Czechoslovak Stalinists.[1] More controversial were her books The Terror Network (1981) and The Time of the Assassins (1984). In the former book, which was translated into 22 languages, she claimed that Soviet Union was a major source of backing behind terrorist groupings around the world. The book was read and appreciated by Alexander Haig and William Casey, but its arguments were dismissed by the CIA's Soviet analysts. Sterling was the first to claim (in a September 1982 article in Reader's Digest) that the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John II had been ordered by the Bulgarian Secret Service, a theory that became known as the "Bulgarian Connection."[6][7] The Time of the Assassins dealt with the assassination attempt and advanced this theory.[8] Her last two books dealt with the Sicilian Mafia and post-Communist globalized organized crime, respectively.[1]
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Anyone who wants to get a head start on this can read Claire Sterling's fine book "Thieves World" which is available at any library in the US. I'm pretty stoked to post some good stuff from it here. She essentially explains that we today live under the power of the "Pax Mafiosa" which is the "peaceful" drugging and destruction of the world which was arranged in Aruba in th early 1990s. I'm looking forward to posting more.
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^^^ How funny is it that truth is valued at .01 cents used? Haha, nobody cares about sad truths I guess.
Originally posted by burntheships
Alright, I can start to see the connections here. It all fits together like a puzzle.
LONDON: [...] attempts by these business leaders and lawmakers to evade tax payments.
Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Swiss-based Bank Julius Baer, said the account holders include celebrities, business leaders and lawmakers articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com...
Originally posted by burntheships
And to word it differently...
(from your zerohedge link
expect all hell to break loose as photos of Assange having a underage orgy with Al Qaeda members are suddenly made public
British and American individuals and companies are among the offshore clients whose details will be contained on CDs presented to WikiLeaks at the Frontline Club in London.
Those involved include, Elmer tells the Observer, "approximately 40 politicians".
[...] Elmer, who after his press conference will return to Switzerland from exile in Mauritius to face trial, is a former chief operating officer in the Cayman Islands and employee of the powerful Julius Baer bank, which accuses him of stealing the information.
[...] one of a small band of employees and executives seeking to blow the whistle on what they see as unprofessional, immoral and even potentially criminal activity by powerful international financial institutions
Originally posted by jefwane
the Market Ticker, is linking to a German source saying at least some of the bonds are real.
Google Translate of article from Welt Online
Original German article from Welt Online
At least a portion of bonds worth 96 billion €, who wanted to smuggle two men over the Italian border to Switzerland, is probably genuine.
Photo: KEYSTONE
Chiasso border crossing: Two Japanese wanted to smuggle billions in loans from Italy to Switzerland
The representative of the Italian financial police said on Saturday Como. To the Fund owns ten so-called Kennedy bonds, each one billion dollars (715 million euros) and 249 U.S. government bonds with a par value of $ 500 million (approximately € 358 million).
. The owners traveling by train to Switzerland - which, after two Japanese men over 50 - were taken into custody.
"Seem to regard the authenticity of the Kennedy-bonds, we still have doubts, but U.S. government bonds worth some 358 million € credible. They are made of filigree paper of excellent quality," said Colonel Rodolfo Mecarelli. To argue that the papers of an extensive Bank in the original documentation in.
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Then the third link confuses the first two because it says he was a "former chief operating officer in the Cayman Islands and employee of the powerful Julius Baer bank" so what are they saying? Can "the Cayman Islands" themselves, be operated under a corporate personage? And if so, would that corporate personage have the typical corporate triad structure with beneficiaries and Chief Operating Officers and so forth?
Originally posted by burntheships
Originally posted by smallpeeps
Then the third link confuses the first two because it says he was a "former chief operating officer in the Cayman Islands and employee of the powerful Julius Baer bank" so what are they saying? Can "the Cayman Islands" themselves, be operated under a corporate personage? And if so, would that corporate personage have the typical corporate triad structure with beneficiaries and Chief Operating Officers and so forth?
Actually, the Cayman Islands are like a second Switzerland in comparison as tax "havens" maybe
a thing of the past soon, but still a destination place for all things to remain hidden from the tax-man.
And yes, I think that many of the corporations there are very suspect like, lines blurred between
much. I dont place any credence with Assange, as I think he was drawn in to a certain degree
and became an operative.
The legal action drew the attention of the US Internal Revenue Service, who contacted Elmer. He is co-operating with the IRS, and with financial specialists in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the district attorney of New York; and with the powerful sub-committee on investigations chaired by Senator Carl Levin, which has a track record of probing offshore havens.
Elmer's disclosures follow the emergence of similar whistleblowers. One recently testified in the United States against the Swiss bank UBS, and another sold British and European authorities the contents of computer files from Liechtenstein bank LGT.
Elmer says his interest is in the network of tax havens. "People don't know how the system works. They may hear of some case, but the big picture always disappears into bank secrecy, professional secrecy with lawyers and accountants, and tax secrecy. But they need to know that this is a system which undermines our society, our democracy." He has lodged copies of files with Jack Blum, a veteran lawyer in Washington DC and an outspoken critic of the behaviour of tax havens.
Blum told the Guardian: "What Elmer is doing is extremely valuable in the process of educating people of the need for major reform. This is a system for enabling a certain class of people to avoid their societal duty, which is to pay tax."
Originally posted by burntheships
zero hedge
Spalding_Smailes
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Oh... , gold will be down over the next few year, maybe up again 2018-20. Read up on some Jim Rogers he will help you with this question, I'm not a 40 year commodity guru like Rogers.
....... "Gold is “overdue for a rest” and probably will fall after a decade of gains that sent prices to a record, said Jim Rogers, the chairman of Rogers Holdings who predicted the start of the global commodities rally in 1999.
While gold “may go down for awhile,” the metal is “going to go over $2,000 in this decade,” Rogers, who owns gold, silver and rice, said today during a presentation to business executives in Chicago. Gold touched a record $1,432.50 an ounce in New York on Dec. 7. The price closed today at $1,387. " ..................
Sun, 01/16/2011 - 16:39 | Link to Comment Hephasteus
Oh. You got Jim Rogers to fold. He's like our shepard and we'll follow him. You have no idea what your fighting and you will beat the bush expecting the leaves to fall out and nothing will happen.
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So what is it Mr. Smells. What's the price that turns chinese students laughing at geihtner into chinese special forces stabbing the [CENSORED] out you. What were the terms of agreement for handing over the throne. What is the listed price of the handover. And what constitutes a violation of the agreement between the "gentlemen". Or shoud we just keep gold bugging you until something [CENSORED] snaps.
Sun, 01/16/2011 - 17:15 | Link to Comment Spalding_Smailes
Everyone is on the same page. Henry made sure of this many moon's ago.' Don't fight the tape. Ever.
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The chances of a military strike against Iran this year are receding because of the success of a joint Israeli-US cyberattack on the country's nuclear facilities, according to officials and analysts with knowledge of the clandestine operation.
The New York Times reported today that Israel, with US help, had set up a model of the Iranian nuclear process at Dimona, the Israeli nuclear arms development centre in the Negev desert, to test a sophisticated destructive programme.
A computer worm, Stuxnet, was known last year to have been inserted into the Iranian nuclear operation and Iran admitted its programme had been delayed. [...snipped...]
Sun, 01/16/2011 - 17:20 | Link to Comment Hephasteus
Is it made with the finest in microsoft and intel products. Becasue we all know they aren't [CENSORED] ups.
Don't you ever get the feeling you need 100 million gallons of fear juice and all you got is one [CENSORED] slurpee. You stupid [CENSORED] ups.
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WASHINGTON -- News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch threw his weight behind Congress' attempt to restrict the Internet, personally lobbying leaders on Capitol Hill Wednesday for two measures that purport to combat piracy.
Murdoch's media empire is among some 350 large corporations that have come out in favor of the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House, as well as the Protect IP Act in the Senate.
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