Clergy abuse victim Francesco Zanardi featured on CNN exposing Vatican Crimes in Italy
CNN's
Dan Rivers has just released an excellent report exposing the crimes
committed by the criminal catholic church in Italy. Francesco Zanardi,
who has been continuously reporting about these crimes here on Vaticancrimes.us has just been featured on this CNN news report.
The world is finally waking up to the fact that this global organization known as the Vatican - aka The Catholic Church - is the most criminal organization in existence. Francesco Zanardi has presented CNN and media worldwide the statistics of global crimes that Vaticancrimes.us, in collaboration with the Protect Your Children Foundation, has compiled (www.jh.to/organizedcrime). He has also shared his personal testimony of having been abused by an Italian Catholic Priest in Savona, Nello Giraudo.
Francesco Zanardi has long been working to expose the crimes committed by the Vatican in Italy. He represents the Rette L'Abuso (Abuse Network) in Italy and was the diligent and brave soldier to conduct a historic Hunger Strike in Rome to speak out against clergy abuse.
Take a look a the CNN report released today where they investigates a Catholic Church abuse case, exposing coverup high in the Vatican:
The world is finally waking up to the fact that this global organization known as the Vatican - aka The Catholic Church - is the most criminal organization in existence. Francesco Zanardi has presented CNN and media worldwide the statistics of global crimes that Vaticancrimes.us, in collaboration with the Protect Your Children Foundation, has compiled (www.jh.to/organizedcrime). He has also shared his personal testimony of having been abused by an Italian Catholic Priest in Savona, Nello Giraudo.
Francesco Zanardi has long been working to expose the crimes committed by the Vatican in Italy. He represents the Rette L'Abuso (Abuse Network) in Italy and was the diligent and brave soldier to conduct a historic Hunger Strike in Rome to speak out against clergy abuse.
Take a look a the CNN report released today where they investigates a Catholic Church abuse case, exposing coverup high in the Vatican:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/world/2013/03/10/cnni-pkg-rivers-conclave-coverup.cnn
Pope’s Personal Income: $200 Million Annually
Pope
Benedict XVI receives roughly $200 million annually for his personal
use, money which is not counted as income to the government of the
worldwide Catholic Church (the Holy See) nor the government of the
Vatican City State, an independent country in which St. Peter’s Basilica
and the Vatican offices, residences, library and museums are located.
It is his alone.American Catholics are asked to contribute to the pope’s “works of charity” by a special collection taken during Mass once a year. This money is sent directly to Benedict as part of the worldwide donation called Peter’s Pence. The practice began in 1871 when the then-pontiff lost his last sovereign territory (before the creation of the Vatican City State in 1929), the Papal States, along with the income from this wide swath of land across the center of the Italian peninsula.
In 2006, the Peter’s Pence total was $101.9 million, 2007 $79.8 million, 2008 $75.8 million and 2009 $82.5 million. The last year (2006) in which the sum was broken down by country and made public, people in the U.S. were the largest donors providing 28 percent of the total. (The Vatican has not yet released financial information for 2010.)
All the profits from the IOR, the Institute of the Works of Religion or Vatican Bank, are also given to the pope as his private income. According to Vatican expert, Sandro Magister, these profits amount to 70 to 80 million euro annually ($103.8 – $118.6 million) for the pope’s “works of charity.”
Additional gifts are rarely disclosed but here a few I could find:
Money was raised at the first National Catholic Prayer Breakfast held in Washington D.C. in 2004. An expected $100,000 was donated to Pope John Paul II and the Religious Sisters of Life.
An organization of wealthy American Catholics called The Papal Foundation (see below), presents an unspecified annual gift from their group of million-dollar donors to the pope “to support and help him with his requested programs and missions throughout the world.”
When Pope Benedict XVI visited the U.S. in April 2010, the American bishops gave him a check for $870,000 “to support his charitable works” without explanation of where the money came from.
“The expression in Rome is opera de carita: ‘We’re making an offering for your works of charity.’ In fact, you don’t know where the money is going,” stated a priest who “steered” cash payoffs from the Legionaries of Christ to Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, Pope John Paul II’s secretary and the man closest to the pontiff. In his interview with author, Jason Berry, the priest continued, “It’s an elegant way of giving a bribe.”
Not all “offerings for your works of charity” given to Catholic Church officials are bribes, but it is true that you won’t know for sure where the money is going since all Church financial disclosure is voluntary and unverifiable.
There isn’t much information about what Benedict does with his fortune. For an organization with an official and semi-official global media empire second to none and which never hesitates to toot its own horn, reports from Catholic news sources of papal charity are few and far between.
Sometime in 2010, the pope gave $50,000 of his own money to Caritas Haiti, a member organization of Caritas Internationalis (see below) and $250,000 for rebuilding the school of Saint François de Sales in Port-au-Prince.
The Almoner’s Office, “tucked into a courtyard on the north end of Vatican City,” distributes more than $2 million each year as charity to pay such things as medical or utility bills and rent to applicants screened and approved by their local pastor. The archbishop in charge advised an American reporter that “Pope Benedict told him to ‘never let our charity be lacking’ and to come to him personally if he needed additional funds.”
It was reported that this past Christmas, Benedict hosted a Christmas dinner in Rome for 250 homeless persons. We’ll assume that “hosted” meant he picked up the tab in addition to showing up.
None of the official Vatican charities, all managed by the dicastery (department) known as The Pontifical Council COR UNUM for Human and Christian Development, state they receive money from the pope, although the dicastery’s function is “To assist the pope and be his instrument for carrying out special initiatives in the field of humanitarian actions.”
The Vatican website lists four separate funds under the auspices of COR UNUM which donated $9.35 million in 2009 for such things as disaster relief, schools in Africa and building Catholic facilities. All are financed by donations from the “faithful” and the Italian Bishops Conference.
Probably the best-known Catholic charity is Caritas Internationalis, a highly-regarded “confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories.”
Like its US member, Catholic Charities USA, Caritas Internationalis-affilitated agencies are funded by governments, non-governmental secular organizations and private foundations, as well as individual donations.
Caritas was a mostly autonomous organization nominally under the authority of COR UNUM but the Vatican is planning to take greater control beginning with its finance and personnel. In order to further the agency’s now-restated first goal of “promoting the Church’s social teaching” (i.e. abortion, population control, the family and “gender politics”) and secondly “helping those in need,” supervision of the charity is being shifted to the Vatican Secretariat of State.
Although Catholic hierarchs contribute little if any of their own funds, a Vatican official stated, “Local Caritas organizations depend on local dioceses and the true stakeholders of Caritas are the bishops and the pope.” As I previously wrote, US bishops spending the money donated by American Catholics to help the needy for reconstructing churches and seminaries in Haiti and Cuba may be what this official has in mind.
I guess because it has 162 separate member-agencies, I couldn’t find a total for the combined distribution of the entire Caritas network. The umbrella organization had income of close to 7 million euro in 2009, although in the two prior years the amount was less than 3 million. CharityNavigator shows Catholic Charities USA income as a little more than $23 million in 2009 (the last year available). However, Catholic Charities USA is also an umbrella organization for close to 200 local diocesan Catholic Charity agencies.
In the name of the pope, the U.S.-based Papal Foundation “has given close to $70 million in grants for the building of churches, seminaries, schools, hospitals and other projects for the care of the poor around the world.” The Foundation’s website shows that of 65 grants, only 5 were for the “care of the poor.” On May 5, 2011, Benedict praised members of the Foundation “for your involvement in projects aimed at integral human development, your encouragement of the apostolic activities of dioceses and religious congregations throughout the world, your concern for the education of the Church’s future leaders and your support for the activities of the Holy See.” (emphasis added)
Forbes Magazine – which bills itself as the leading publication for the world’s business leaders – listed Pope Benedict XVI as its fifth most powerful person in the world (ahead of the British and German prime ministers) in 2010. With all the official relief agencies of his bishops in the worldwide Catholic Church now more firmly under his control, can the pope improve his standing?
http://notocbcp.weebly.com/2/post/2013/03/popes-personal-income-200-million-annually.html
MONTI PASCHI SUICIDE SPARKS BANKER TERROR
Bernanke terror bankrupts US Fed Reserve
Events in Italy and the US are suggesting that the end of the road may be near
The suicide note (I’m serious) said something along the lines of ‘bullsh*t’, but whether it was ‘my bullsh*t’ or ‘it’s all bullsh*t’, I have to observe that Rossi – by all accounts a very bright man – was clearly of sound mind when he went.
In last night’s post, you may have detected that a strong whiff of bullsh*t had affected my tone of voice. It’s clear that the lunatics intend to leave the asylum they’re burning only at the very last minute, but events like Rossi’s jump show that sometimes events evade their control. ‘Unforeseen’ is easily the most inaccurately and over-used word in the spin lexicon in 2013 so far, but this tragic end to a high-achiever’s life really wasn’t on anyone’s radar. What it does do, however, is underline the fact that Italian scandals aren’t going away, Spanish bank insolvency isn’t going away, and she in Berlin who snaffles the fridge when leaving home faces some pretty unedifying choices at the moment when it comes to Spain and Italy.
The last few weeks in those two countries have come close to making the terms PIIGS and ClubMed redundant: from here on, the fate of the euro in general (and the CDU in particular) lies entirely in the hands Manuel and Luigi. Neither has any intention of being pushed around any longer, and as the Left gains ground across the region, the battle lines are reverting to the traditional ones of exploiters versus exploited.
The man who might be thought most likely to grow his power as a result of this is the French Socialist President Francois Hollande, because he has far more credibility for the ClubMed Left. But he too faces an insoluble problem: default would solve the EU debt, but exacerbate France’s. It’s exposure to Greece and Italy is massive, and not far off being critical re Spain as well. As Merkel must also be mainlining imodium at the thought of Spanish default (Germany’s exposure to empty cajas is mind-boggling) once again the two founder-nations find themselves pulled together by adversity. And once again, it seems to me, the floodlight turns enticingly towards the young leader of the Greek Syriza leftists, Alexis Tsipras.
Tsipras’s hour, one senses, is coming. He speaks fluent Italian, would be sympathetic to Italian rejection of Brussels lunacy, and is widely admired by the Left in Spain. But perhaps more important than any other factor, he should – all things being equal – wind up in the right place at the right time once the Dollar-euro contagion becomes a two-way street.
The signs that the US Federal has run out of road are now, I think, near-impossible to deny. And while those in charge didn’t jump off the ledge yet, they seem to be heading for a suicide so multiple, only the larger jumping-windows will suffice. On February 26th last, Bloomberg ran a story of complete factuality. It reported that the top risk assessment company MSCI had just completed a stress test on the U.S. Federal Reserve System itself. The test found that the market losses incurred from QE would be some $547 billion over three years. That is many times the value of the Fed’s capital, and thus technically, the US Federal Reserve is bankrupt.
It would be the job of only a minor-league spin doctor to rubbish the report, were it not for the fact that MSCI is the company used exclusively by the Fed itself to undertake stress tests on the Big League U.S. banks. I’m afraid there just ain’t no wriggle-room for Ben Barberbeard here, and this will make his next appearance before Congress a less than happy one. GOP Senator Bob Corker did indeed fire off a public corker to Valium Ben the following day, asking him to rate the chances of avoiding Fed insolvency on a scale from zero to minus fifty-four. To the best of my knowledge, that is completely unprecedented.
So too is the crazy existence of a $1.5 quadrillion derivatives Thing sitting out there somewhere.
Most of it – around 80% – isn’t real derivative use at all, but rather the use of derivatives for borrowing after other bets already went bad. Bill Gross of Pimco is now calling this “the creation of a hyperinflationary firestorm with no end in sight”. That’s an odd way to end his thoughts on the subject, given that such things mean, in the end, everyone is flat broke and burned to a crisp; but you can see where he’s going with it. This is the world’s biggest bond trader opining that we’re in Dresden, and the RAF is twenty minutes away.
It is in the face of all this horrendous outlook that values and stock prices and gold falls and libor rates have been manipulated to such an extent, there isn’t a single fundamental left on the planet that has any meaning….and the smart rich are piling into top-end glitz brick property as being the only physical asset whose worth isn’t a negative or positive sham. It is because of all this that Italian big-hitters are jumping off banks and the Fed has rendered itself technically skint. And it is because of all the insane and increasingly desperate attempts to hide the truth, that within two years only those leaders capable of showing clean hands to the populace will be taken seriously.
Alexis Tsipras is a man shaping up for that destiny. I’d love to hear his thoughts on it. In a few months I want to go to Greece and get an interview with the bloke, because he looks to me like the nearest thing we have to a potential Wise Man. If you’re in a position to do so, I’d be grateful if Greek readers of The Slog could get this piece in front of him. Mainly, I’d like your help in getting me in front of him.
If you can help in this regard, please contact me at jawslog@gmail.com
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/monti-paschi-suicide-sparks-banker-terror/
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US Air Force scrubs drone strike data from reports
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| Maintenence personel check a Predator drone operated by U.S. Office of Air and Marine (OAM). (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP) |
As the US military continues to court scrutiny regarding drone use, the Air Force has stopped sharing information on the number of drone strikes in Afghanistan. Going one step further, it has removed those statistics from prior reports on its website.
The Air Force's Central Command began keeping track of drone weapon releases in October 2012, according to the Air Force Times. The move was described at that time as a bid to “provide more detailed information on [drone] ops in Afghanistan,” said Central Command spokeswoman Capt. Kim Bender, the magazine reports.
Statistics were recorded as part of the policy for November, December and January. But when February's numbers were published on March 7, there was only a blank space where the drone statistics were normally placed.
And beyond that, the monthly reports posted to the Air Force's website had the drone data removed from them in recent weeks, with the data still being posted as late as February 16.
The data wipe comes as drone-use has fallen under close scrutiny in connection with the nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA. Brennan faced fierce opposition in the Senate, though he was ultimately approved, because of his defense of drone use while acting as President Barack Obama's national security adviser.
http://rt.com/usa/air-force-scrubs-drone-data-025/
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