‘Fifteen, 50 years, it could be anything’: Toronto police say their St. Michael’s College investigation is open to historic complaints

There’s no limit on how far back the investigation at St. Michael’s College School into incidents of alleged sexual assault and assault among students will go, Toronto police say, and they are interested in hearing from anyone who has been a victim — no matter how long ago the crime occurred.

“Fifteen, 50 years, it could be anything,” said Constable Caroline de Kloet with the Toronto Police Service, who said the police are interested in hearing about incidents at any other schools, too.

Two weeks in, and little has changed in the scandal at the elite all-boys school; police continue to investigate six incidents at the private Catholic institution at Bathurst St. and St. Clair Ave. W. These include two alleged sexual assaults, three alleged assaults and one incident involving threats being made.

The crisis began when two videos surfaced on social media, one showing an alleged sexual assault in a locker room, the other a young teen being thrown into a fountain by a group of other teens.

Six boys were charged with assault, gang sexual assault and sexual assault with a weapon last week in the episode shown on the locker room video. Police said the video, itself, meets the definition of child pornography. Those charged are cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

There haven’t been any charges in any of the other incidents police are investigating. De Kloet said it’s taking inspectors some time to identify the people in the videos, and work with the school.

“We’ll go where the evidence takes us,” she said.

Inspector Domenic Sinopoli of the sex crimes unit, who was not available for an interview, has previously said more than 50 witnesses have been identified in the investigation.

De Kloet said anyone with information can contact the Child and Youth Advocacy centre at 416-808-2922 or Crime Stoppers.  (more...)

‘Fifteen, 50 years, it could be anything’: Toronto police say their St. Michael’s College investigation is open to historic complaints

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St. Michael’s scandal a humbling experience for Basilian Fathers

Newspaper repeatedly promoted hatred against women, Jews, Crown alleges

AKA Dmitri the lover

TORONTO -- A free newspaper sent unasked to hundreds of thousands of people is filled with articles and imagery that promote hatred toward women and Jews, an Ontario court judge heard Wednesday.

At the opening of the trial of James Sears and LeRoy St. Germaine, the prosecution said Your Ward News makes statements about the two groups that are "vile and degrading in the extreme."

"The defendants have tended to promote hatred against Jewish people and women," prosecutor Robin Flumerfelt said.

Sears, 55, the editor-in-chief, and St. Germaine, 77, the publisher, pleaded not guilty to two counts each of willfully promoting hatred against identifiable groups.

With a circulation of about 300,000, Your Ward News has drawn a barrage of complaints from recipients in and around Toronto and as far as Ottawa. The federal government temporarily barred Canada Post from distributing the publication in 2016 and recently made the ban permanent.

The publication, Flumerfelt said, demonizes feminists as "dangerous people" and calls women "tri-orificed chattels." It brands most feminists as "satanists exhilarated by abortion," claims women are inferior, are "natural liars with no sense of justice," and that feminist behaviour encourages rape..  (more...)

Newspaper repeatedly promoted hatred against women, Jews, Crown alleges

Southern Ontario has had to reach a bit for suitable mayoral candidates:

A play in three acts: pic.twitter.com/BA9h79Vl12

— (((Anti-Racist Canada))) (@ARCCollective) October 14, 2018

Seems "free speech" has become a magic incantation for closet Nazis. Are lifeys willing to die on this hill?

Prolife-ists hot under the collar -- don't mess with their closet Nazis: 🤯https://t.co/KibYUCB84x

— Jonah in Nineveh (@jlaws) November 27, 2018

Don't confuse CLC with KKK, or conservatives with incels, or Catholics with Cathevangelics:

Cross-dressing Nazis: A German artist found so many photos of them he published a book

Over years of collecting amateur photography from the Second World War, German artist Martin Dammann kept noticing something odd: An awful lot of soldiers fighting for Nazi Germany seemed to enjoy dressing up like women.

“If the photos did not exist, you would not believe it,” Dammann told the German news magazine Der Spiegel earlier this month.

Cross-dressing among soldiers happened on all sides in both world wars. Most photos of the phenomenon are as a result of a theatre performance put together by troops: With no women around to play Ophelia or Celia Peachum, a man would be enlisted to fill the role for laughs...

But the phenomenon seemed to happen way more in German ranks, according to Dammann. This may be due to a longstanding German tradition of carnival cross-dressing.

Where many countries celebrate Mardi Gras with drinking and sexualized costumes, some German communities have a centuries-long tradition of treating it as a celebration of gender-bending.

In Cologne, one of the central mascots of the Carnival parade is “the virgin,” a pigtailed maiden that has been played by a man since the 1820s.  (more...)

Cross-dressing Nazis: A German artist found so many photos of them he published a book

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From Germany: Paedophilia is 'fate, not a choice', leading scientist claims

Toronto secondary school teacher facing sexual exploitation charges

A Toronto secondary school teacher has been charged in connection with a sexual exploitation investigation.

Police allege that throughout the month of September, a teacher had “inappropriate conversations of a sexual nature” with a male student on school property.

The teacher, police said, is employed at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute. The school is located near Greenwood and Danforth avenues.

Members of the Child and Youth Advocacy Centre were contacted and conducted an investigation.

Carlo Rossi, 61, of Vaughan was taken into police custody on Tuesday and was charged with sexual exploitation and invitation to sexual touching.  (more...)

Toronto secondary school teacher facing sexual exploitation charges

The global financial crime wave is no accident

British Virgin Islands

Financial crime is a feature of our global financial system not a bug, pioneering economist Susan Strange recognized. Her message is more urgent than ever.

There was a little bit of good news this month for those worried about a tidal wave of McMafia-style financial crime. A new UK government agency tasked with fighting it – the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) – opened its doors.

I say “little” because financial crime is far more deeply rooted in our financial and political systems than we like to acknowledge.

From the LIBOR-rigging scandal to the offshore secrets of the Panama Papers and ‘dark money’ in the Brexit vote, it is everywhere. In my recent work with anti-corruption group Global Witness, I saw first-hand how ordinary people in some of the world’s poorest countries suffer the consequences of corruption and financial crime. We exposed suspicious mining and oil deals in Central Africa, in which over a billion dollars of desperately-needed public finances were lost offshore. The story is about the West as much as Africa. The deals were routed through a dizzying web of offshore shell companies in the British Virgin Islands, often linked to listed companies in London, Toronto and elsewhere. Even if the NECC is given enough resources and collaborates widely, it has got its work cut out.

One reason all this financial crime is tolerated is that thinkers who shine a light on its systemic nature have been erased from the record. Top of my list of neglected economic superstars is Professor Susan Strange of the London School of Economics, one of the founders of the field of international political economy. In a series of ground-breaking books - States and Markets, The Retreat of the State and Mad Money - Strange showed how epidemic levels of financial crime were a consequence of specific political decisions.  (more...)

The global financial crime wave is no accident

One may recall that the Mafia put Mussolini into power. Organized crime and politics have a long history of collusion.

'I was cut, bruised and scraped': UCC graduate says he was devastated by hazing ritual at elite boys school

A former Upper Canada College student who claims he was sexually assaulted by fellow students at the prestigious Toronto private school more than 30 years ago says the recent allegations at St. Michael's College School have prompted him to go public.

"I think the more people that are able to speak out about it shines a light on the things that happen and makes it easier for other people who have been through it to come forward," said Stuart Cowan, who is in his 50s today.

Police laid criminal charges last week against six students in connection with an alleged gang sexual assault at St. Michael's College School, an all-boys private Catholic school in Toronto. The principal and president of the school have resigned.

Cowan attended UCC in the 1970s and 80s. He described the environment as "dog eat dog" and said bullying was rampant throughout the elite, all-boys school.

He said he excelled academically and was an accomplished athlete, playing on the football and hockey teams. Still, he said, he was more of a non-conformist, didn't want to belong to a clique, which made him a target for bullying.

"Constant name-calling, physical attacks, grabbing your backpack, stealing your lunch, you know, Movie of the Week kind of stuff," he said.

He said, for him, turning to teachers for help wasn't really an option, as he witnessed many of them exhibiting similar bullying behaviour, name-calling and picking on students.  (more...)

'I was cut, bruised and scraped': UCC graduate says he was devastated by hazing ritual at elite boys school

Related:

'This is heinous': St. Mike's scandal a teaching moment for private schools

Private school teacher jailed 3 years for abusing boys

One may note that St. Mike's and UCC are located near to each other and serve substantially the same population. It shouldn't be surprising to find the same culture at both schools.

Canadaland Commons: Corruption in Canada

This season, Commons will be focusing on stories at the intersection of money, influence and politics in Canada.

Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold

In the book Gold Warriors by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave the authors reveal one of the most shocking secrets of the 20th century the amazing story of a vast treasure that Japan managed to loot across Asia which is today worth hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars, the concealment of this treasure in hundreds of sites, and the secret recovery of much of this treasure by what would become the CIA. America would help Japan cover up this vast fortune fooling the world into believing that Japan was bankrupt after the war and was unable to pay reparations for their mass murder of tens of millions of civilians or the massive profits they generated from slave labor and the global heroin trade. The treasure much of it buried in the Philippines would fuel the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos. Most of this vast fortune would remain in the hands of fascist Japanese war criminals and would for decades be used to prop up Japan’s corrupt one party democracy ruled by the Liberal Democratic Party with the CIA and the Yakuza pulling the strings behind the scenes. It would be controlled by men like Allen Dulles, John J. McCloy through their Black Eagle Trust which managed both Japanese and Nazi War loot. The Gold would be deposited in the Federal Reserve, The Bank of England, Union Banque Suisse (UBS) in Switzerland, Citibank, HSBC and other major banks who often stole it for themselves. The gold was also used to manipulate the entire global economy , finance assassinations and covert ops bribe politicians and finance right wing political movements like the John Birch Society domestically.

Indeed after reading this book one may well wonder how much of this gold is involved today in financing charlatans like Alex Jones and the rest of the patriot movement since as everyone knows these “Patriot Radio” stations are heavily involved in selling gold and silver. The vast treasure was also one of the largely unknown aspects of the Iran/Contra scandal and was used to fund WACL The World Anti-Communist League two of my favorite obsessions. The book offers a window to the vast and mysterious world of offshore banking and the Gold Cartel. The authors estimate that today the ultra-rich are hoarding over 23 trillion dollars mostly in offshore bank accounts while around the world health and education are being cut poverty and homelessness are on the rise, and the rest of us are constantly told to tighten our belts. Gold Warriors tells a compelling tale of secrecy, greed, treachery, murder and lies. The Seagraves destroy the myth that America reformed Japan after the war revealing the shocking story of the MacArthur occupation and it’s alliance with Japanese Fascists and Gangsters along with Japan’s ruthless imperial family and their huge corporate backers like Mitsui, Mitsubushi, Kawasaki and Sumitomo. They used this loot to finance Japan’s Postwar recovery and meteoric rise. Companies that have since become household names made their fortunes through looting Asia and employing slave labor including American POWS. When the survivors tried to sue for reparations State department officials like Tom Foley with corrupt ties to these Japanese corporations compared the victims to terrorists. Foley’s wife worked for Sumitomo and Foley later became a lobbyist for Mitsubishi.  (more...)

Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold

The Polish Conundrum: "German Arrogance"

BERLIN/WARSAW (Own report) - Poland's ambassador to Germany is raising serious accusations against the Federal Republic. "More than half of the past 100 years of German policy toward Poland have been a disaster," the diplomat from Warsaw declared at a conference in Berlin. He also criticized Germany's dealings with Poland since the 1990s. Germany is pursuing its economic interests in Eastern Europe against Poland, even according to German observers, who themselves are critical of the current Polish government. The German government is also using the EU to achieve its goals against Poland's resistance. Poland's ambassador is now calling for dialog "at eye level" and a new approach to German WWII mass crimes in Poland. Berlin rejects these demands for reparations trying to limit itself to cheap commemoration ceremonies. This also concerns a largely unknown group of Nazi victims - those of the "forced Germanization" of Polish children, who had been abducted to the Reich.

Polish criticism is - however not exclusively - stemming also from its experience at the height of the 2015 wave of refugees into the EU. In September 2015, the EU Council decided to distribute refugees, who were stranded in Greece and Italy, to all EU countries - against the vote of several EU members. Poland refused to abide by this decision, reflecting the attitude of the large majority of the Polish population. According to surveys, in the course of 2016, 52 to 61 percent of the Polish population categorically rejected admitting war-zone refugees. Among young Poles, aged between 15 and 24, the rejection reached 73 percent. The surveys also revealed a very different attitude toward refugees in May 2015, when only 21 percent of the population opposed their admission. However, in the spring of 2015, refugees from Ukraine were the focus of attention, whereas in 2016, it was the refugees from the Arab world. Apparently, for a majority of the Polish population the willingness to aid refugees depends on their country of origin. The EU lawsuit against Poland, subsequent to its refusal to comply with the Council's decision, has merely reinforced these positions. Experts warn of the high "political costs" this power struggle could have.  (more...)

"German Arrogance"

Clearly, the German problem is intractable so long as Germany serves as the proxy of multinational corporate power.  Poles should look past the sock-puppet (or should we say the jackboot-puppet?) and confront the puppet-master:

Sullivan & Cromwell: The Dulles Brothers, Corporate Power and the Birth of the CIA

The Underground Reich: Tracing the Resurgence of Fascism

We are currently experiencing a massive resurgence of fascism. How could an ideology that was so thoroughly defeated and discredited at the end of World War II not only survive but continue to thrive down through the decades? Dave Emory has spent decades researching this question and his work has been invaluable in my research on fascism. I have relied on three of his favorite books to write this article: “The Hitler Legacy” by Peter Levenda, “The Beast Reawakens” by Martin A. Lee and “Dreamer of the Day” by Kevin Coogan.

One key factor guaranteeing the survival of fascism was the role the American empire played in saving fascist war criminals, then hiring them to wage covert wars across the planet. In past articles I have dealt with the role of the Gehlen Organization, the GLADIO "stay behind"  networks, and WACL(The World Anti-Communist League) an international fascist alliance brought together by the CIA. Nazis were not content with this subservient role. They wanted a Fourth Reich. In pursuit of this agenda, and after splintering following their defeat in World War II, they pursued surprising strategies. They forged an alliance with the non-aligned movement. To weaponize religion, they allied with Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus. A few formed alliances with the communist world. They both battled and secretly served the West German government. They also found friends among the American extreme right. A global network of fascists operating on the fringes of society proved to be surprisingly effective in shaping Western politics. While their agenda became mainstream, this history has been widely ignored. Reading about Europe during the 1990’s in Martin A. Lee’s “The Beast Reawakens: Fascism’s Resurgence from Hitler’s Spymasters to Today’s Neo-Nazi Groups and Right Wing Extremists,” I was shocked at how similar the situation in the 1990’s was to events of today, as well as  how quickly the world forgets. Then too, there was a massive anti-immigrant hysteria accompanied by escalating fascist hate crimes.

The Nazis were online long before their was an Internet and have been shockingly effective at spreading their ideology. It is imperative that we begin an offensive against this trend. One of the keys to the success of fascism has been its ability to constantly mutate, to disguise itself, to infiltrate and corrupt efforts to battle imperialism, Zionism and even fascism. Some of the people reading this have been infected with this spirit of hatred. Many are fascists without realizing it. The world is heading for an extremely dark period that the human race may not survive. A war of all against all, balkanization, mass murder, millions of refugees - as has happened in Rwanda, DRCongo, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. This is the inevitable consequence of stoking tribal, ethnic, national, racial and religious hatreds. Is this the future you want? This is precisely what the elite desire - for everyone to be be too busy fighting each other to notice their criminal destruction and  looting of the planet.  The strive to create a world broken up into tiny statelets unable to resist the power of multinational corporations. Their is a war for our minds. The fascists are winning. Only by uniting do we have any hope of defeating them.  (more...)

The Underground Reich: Tracing the Resurgence of Fascism

Interview with Hugo Turner:

Exposing the Underground Reich Part I    Part II    Part III    Part IV

OCDSB facing $25M in lawsuits over sex abuse at Bell High School

Victims and alleged victims of three former teachers accused of sexually abusing students at Ottawa's Bell High School are suing the city's biggest school board for a combined sum of more than $25 million, CBC news has learned.

Three new lawsuits were filed late last week and several more former students say they also plan to sue the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) for negligence in the historical abuse they claim to have suffered from the 1970s to 2000s.

The board said it is "in the process of filing notices of intent to defend" itself against the latest accusations. It has filed a statement of defence in the case of Tim Stanutz, a former Bell music teacher who died in 2017. Statements of defence have not yet been filed regarding the other two teachers.

Former OCDSB trustee Pam FitzGerald said she's "concerned" by the size of the claims, but noted such lawsuits are often settled before going to court.

"So the final numbers are unlikely to be these kind of numbers unless they actually do go to court,"  FitzGerald said.

The claims name a range of damages including guilt, shame, humiliation, addiction, anxiety, depression and loss of enjoyment of life.  (more...)

OCDSB facing $25M in lawsuits over sex abuse at Bell High School

Why Canada Defends Ukrainian Fascism

The Liberal prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, hobnobbed with Nazi notables
including Adolf Hitler, and thought that his British counterpart Neville Chamberlain had not
gone far enough in appeasing Hitlerite Germany

Canada has a reputation for being a relatively progressive state with universal, single-payer health care, various other social benefits, and strict gun laws, similar to many European countries but quite unlike the United States. It has managed to stay out of some American wars, for example, Vietnam and Iraq, portrayed itself as a neutral “peace keeper”, pursuing a so-called policy of “multilateralism” and attempting from time to time to keep a little independent distance from the United States.

Behind this veneer of respectability lies a not so attractive reality of elite inattention to the defence of Canadian independence from the United States and intolerance toward the political and syndicalist left. Police repression against communist and left-wing unionists and other dissidents after World War I was widespread. Strong support for appeasement of Nazi Germany, overt or covert sympathy for fascism, especially in Québec, and hatred of the Soviet Union were widespread in Canada during the 1930s. The Liberal prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, hobnobbed with Nazi notables including Adolf Hitler, and thought that his British counterpart Neville Chamberlain had not gone far enough in appeasing Hitlerite Germany. Mackenzie King and many others of the Canadian elite saw communism as a greater threat to Canada than fascism. As in Europe, the Canadian elite—Liberal or Conservative did not matter—was worried by the Spanish civil war (1936-1939). In Québec French public opinion under the influence of the Catholic Church hoped for fascist victory and the eradication of communism. In 1937 a Papal encyclical whipped up the Red Scare amongst French Canadian Catholics. Rejection of Soviet offers of collective security against Hitler was the obverse side of appeasement. The fear of victory over Nazi Germany in alliance with the USSR was greater than the fear of defeat against fascism. Such thoughts were either openly expressed over dinner at the local gentleman’s club or kept more discrete by people who did not want to reveal the extent of their sympathy for fascism.  (more...)

Why Canada Defends Ukrainian Fascism

Related:

Blowback: An Inside Look at How US-Funded Fascists in Ukraine Mentor US White Supremacists

St. Michael’s graduate disappointed with leadership amid police investigation

A saddened reunion

A former student of St. Michael’s College School says there was “universal disappointment” among alumni at a special meeting Tuesday evening, to discuss allegations of assault and sexual assault involving students.

About 400 graduates of the all-boys private school attended the closed-door meeting, which outlined the administration’s handling of the allegations and the subsequent police investigations.

“There was certainly a mood in the room that suggested we needed a reset the leadership. This is a display of failure of leadership at the school,” Dave Trafford told CTV News Toronto. He graduated from St. Michael’s College School in 1979.

The principal of St. Michael’s College School, Greg Reeves, has come under fire for not notifying police immediately about a video showing an alleged sexual assault. Reeves has admitted he became aware of the video on Nov. 12, but did not inform police until Nov. 14. He maintains that he took this course of action in order to conduct an internal investigation, speak with the victim, and conduct expulsion meetings.

“The reality was I was concerned about that boy. I didn’t know who he was, I didn’t know who the other people were in the video, I wasn’t even sure at that point where it took place and when it took place,” Reeves said at a news conference on Monday. “I made that decision in the best interest of that boy and there’s nothing else I can say.”

Police have said they became aware of the video after being contacted by the media.

“When we left this building as graduates, we were sent out into the world to be leaders and we took goodness, discipline and knowledge with us to do that. They failed on goodness, they failed on discipline and I would suggest they failed on knowledge,” Trafford said.

“There was disappointment among the alumni and there were guys there from classes from 1958 to 2016,” Trafford said. “(It was) universal disappointment.”  (more...)

St. Michael’s graduate disappointed with leadership amid police investigation

Related:

Alumni call for end to 'bully mentality' at all-boys school

I've known St. Mike's alumni through the Knights of Columbus, am myself a graduate of a Catholic school, and have many relatives who attended Catholic schools, including my son. I can affirm that when a Catholic school fails, the whole community suffers. The pain on these men's faces is something I know all too well.

BREAKING: The president and principal of a Toronto private school resign in wake of sex assault allegations https://t.co/bXo52gEWmD

— CTV News (@CTVNews) November 22, 2018

Neo-Nazis Are Organizing Secretive Paramilitary Training Across America

A neo-Nazi who goes by the alias Norman Spear has launched a project to unify online fascists and link that vast coalition of individuals into a network training new soldiers for a so-called forthcoming “race war.”

Spear, who claims to be an Iraq and Afghan war veteran, is a self-proclaimed white nationalist with a significant online following. His latest act involves bringing neo-Nazis together, regardless of affiliation and ideology, into a militant fascist umbrella organization. His tool for doing this? A social network he calls “The Base,” which is already organizing across the US and abroad, specifically geared toward partaking in terrorism.

Within the confines of a secure chat room viewed by VICE, Spear and his burgeoning global web of terror cells are networking, creating propaganda, organizing in-person meet-ups, and discussing potential violence or “direct action” against minority groups, especially Jewish and black Americans. An extensive online library contains a trove of manuals with instructions on lone wolf terror-tactics, gunsmithing, data mining, interrogation tactics, counter-surveillance techniques, bomb making, chemical weapons creation, and guerilla warfare.

The network's vetting process serves to funnel committed extremists from around the internet into a group explicitly focused on providing users with terroristic skills, in order to produce real-world violence. Members of The Base have made it clear they’re recruiting applicants with military and explosives backgrounds. And in addition to homemade bombs, members have also begun discussing trying to find unexploded World War II ordnance to make improvised explosive devices.  (more...)

Neo-Nazis Are Organizing Secretive Paramilitary Training Across America

Related:

Blowback: An Inside Look at How US-Funded Fascists in Ukraine Mentor US White Supremacists

Just a misunderstanding...

Sullivan & Cromwell: The Dulles Brothers, Corporate Power and the Birth of the CIA

Few realize the role corporate lawyers have played in shaping the past 150 years of world history. Sullivan & Cromwell is perhaps the most infamous example. It oversaw the birth of the multinational corporation and launched coups in third world countries decades before there was an OSS or CIA. It was a key player in building up the German war machine. It helped shape international law allowing the holocaust to occur. Its ties to Germany led it to commit treason helping Germany undermine America’s war effort. It undermined all attempts to reign in corporate power. Its most notorious partners were John Foster Dulles, future Secretary of State, and Allen Dulles, the most influential CIA director in the agency’s history. Even before rising to those heights, the Dulles Brothers helped launch the cold war and helped the Nazis escape justice,  while putting the Nazis’ German corporate backers, who made fortunes off slave labor and the Holocaust (as did their American and European partners), back into power. While in office the Dulles Brothers carried out the will of Sullivan and Cromwell’s clients by launching coups in Guatemala and Iran. Sullivan & Cromwell partners became Senators, Ambassadors, a Supreme court Justice. Sullivan Cromwell partners also sat on the board of directors of their clients the multinational corporations.

Of course Sullivan & Cromwell was only one of the ignominious examples of the revolving door between the government and the corporate world. Other powerful corporate law firms that would provide the architects of the cold war included Carter Ledyard & Milburn (Frank Wisner who ran OPC and the CIA covert ops division) and the Donovan and Leisure firm (where OSS founder William “Wild Bill” Donovan was a partner). The Wall Street investment firm Dillon Read & Co was also highly influential, producing James Forrestal, Paul Nitze, and William Draper. In turn, these corporate lawyers were servants of even more powerful and wealthy robber barons and their heirs, like the Rockefellers and W. Averell Harriman. Their clients included oil cartels, and big investment banks who have been robbing the public for decades, like Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. They also represented the nuclear power industry. Thus it will become clear that despite all the propaganda about freedom and democracy, American foreign and domestic policy has long been about servicing the business interests of multinational corporations.  (more...)

Sullivan & Cromwell: The Dulles Brothers, Corporate Power and the Birth of the CIA

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The St. Michael's secret is out, but only to those who didn't already know

The toxic culture at St. Michael's College School was a secret in the same way that the Harvey Weinstein abuse allegations were a secret or the reports of sexual assault within the Canadian Armed Forces were a secret: If you were close enough, you already knew.

I went to a high school in midtown Toronto that was less than two kilometres from the all-boys private school known as "St. Mike's." We shared the same bleachers when our sports teams squared off against each other, and many of us took the same bus routes home after school.

If you were a girl at my public high school — a five-minute drive but really a world away — it was flattering to get any sort of attention from the sharply uniformed, bombastic boys who would spill onto the bus at the end of the day. A few of my friends actually managed to score an invite to one of their parties, and dutifully reported on it back at school the following Monday. After everyone at the party got high on cocaine, they told us, one boy was made to "engage orally" with someone's faeces.

To this day, I have no idea if that actually happened.

But had you told me prior to last week that a student was allegedly sexually assaulted with a broom handle by members of the junior football team in the school's locker room, I would've been skeptical about that, too.  (more...)

The St. Michael's secret is out, but only to those who didn't already know

And the allegations keep coming:

Police investigate after receiving videos of another alleged assault from St. Michael's College School

Mind Control - Pedophilia - Project Paperclip - Project Pandora

How Operation Paperclip, MKULTRA mind control, and the Luciferian pedophilia network all tie in together. The only winners in the Cold War were the Nazis.

Background:

MKULTRA Documentary: CIA Mind Control Research Human Experiments in the United States and Canada

John Loftus: America's (and the Vatican's) Nazi Secret

FBI now classifies far-right Proud Boys as 'extremist group', documents say

The FBI now classifies the far-right Proud Boys as an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism”, according to a document produced by Washington state law enforcement.

The FBI’s 2018 designation of the self-confessed “western chauvinist group” as extremist has not been previously made public.

The Proud Boys was founded by the Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes. McInnes has insisted that his group is not white nationalist or “alt-right” but the Proud Boys have a history of misogyny and glorifying violence. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists them as a hate group.

The document also says: “The FBI has warned local law enforcement agencies that the Proud Boys are actively recruiting in the Pacific north-west”, and: “Proud Boys members have contributed to the recent escalation of violence at political rallies held on college campuses, and in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.”

The report, and the FBI’s warning to south-west Washington police agencies about the Proud Boys’ role in escalating violence at these events came in August, two months before the group was involved in an infamous weekend of street violence in New York City and Portland, and not long after they participated in street violence in downtown Portland on 30 June.  (more...)

FBI now classifies far-right Proud Boys as 'extremist group', documents say

But in Ca-Nazi-doh, no problem:

FBI labels Proud Boys as extremist group with ties to white nationalists, but no similar move in Canada

Gimme suma dat Nazi luv!

Proud Boys Captain Gavin McAnus jumps ship ahead of legal shit storm. https://t.co/EsTDyMRVVG pic.twitter.com/iyH62y19WP

— FrankMagazineOttawa (@frankmagonline) November 21, 2018

Pedos Down Under: Hillsong Kids

The Luciferian infiltration of Christianity and child sexual abuse

Why has the problem been so intractable?

We may also ask who Benjamin Levin's OZ contacts were. South Ontario was a major node in the MKULTRA program network.

MKULTRA Documentary: CIA Mind Control Research Human Experiments in the United States and Canada

How psychopaths gave us today's culture

St. Mike's Unmasked: I went to St. Michael’s College. I’m not surprised by the news

Bill Dunphy is a Toronto-based writer.

St. Michael’s College School is a storied, prestigious and expensive Toronto high school run by the Basilian Fathers, that produced hockey greats such as Dave Keon (my teenaged hero) and Frank Mahovlich; and Canadian basketball pioneers like the Rautins brothers, George and Leo.

It’s also my alma mater.

It’s the same all-boy, Roman Catholic private school where, we learned this week, a teenaged boy was allegedly sexually assaulted with an object while members of the football team held him down.

Where another student was bullied, assaulted and humiliated – in some form of water torture? – by members of the basketball team.

I don’t know the victims, but I can imagine they are somehow “other” – brown or black or gay or maybe just thoughtful.  (more...)

I went to St. Michael’s College. I’m not surprised by the news

Related:

Former St. Michael’s student says he endured ‘sexualized initiation’ in the 1980s

St. Michael's College School: A tale of betrayal of the Catholic Faith by the Basilians

Keep'n it clean:

Did that trigger any St. Mike's alumni?

'Toxic masculinity' or 'a brotherhood': St. Mike’s alumni weigh in on life at the school

Some St. Michael’s College School alumni are painting markedly different pictures of the realities of student life at the storied private school after allegations of group sexual assault surfaced this week.

CityNews spoke to a former student who says he attended the all-boys private Catholic school between 2009 and 2013 and described an atmosphere of “toxic masculinity” that still troubles him to this day.

The former student, who didn’t want his name used, said he was verbally bullied throughout all of the four years he attended.

“There’s a lot of big egos at the school and there always has been and people always want to be on top and stand out and there’s very toxic masculinity that goes on there,” he said in a phone interview Thursday. “I was definitely abused verbally.”  (more...)

'Toxic masculinity' or 'a brotherhood': St. Mike’s alumni weigh in on life at the school

A boisterous Fall (from grace) ritual of The Browning of the Broomstick? Not every youthful encounter with broomsticks goes well:

Nonetheless, the school maintains its position atop the McGarrick League.

Terribly disappointing

Final order issued barring mail delivery of tabloid accused of promoting hate

OTTAWA — The federal government has ordered Canada Post to permanently cease delivering a controversial Toronto-based tabloid that has been criticized for promoting hatred against Jews, visible minorities, women and LGBTQ Canadians.

In June 2016, the government issued an interim order to stop delivery of Your Ward News to some 300,000 households through Canada Post’s unaddressed bulk mail.

After considering the recommendations of an independent board of review on the matter, Carla Qualtrough, the minister responsible for the post office, has now made that order final. The public services and procurement minister says her decision is consistent with the law and the government’s support for diversity and inclusiveness.  (more...)

Final order issued barring mail delivery of tabloid accused of promoting hate

Background:

Your Ward News Publishes New Edition, Continues Attacks Against Jews

Wanted: Montreal police issue warrant for alleged neo-Nazi 'Zeiger'

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a Montreal man accused of being an influential neo-Nazi.

Gabriel Sohier Chaput – who goes by the alias “Zeiger” online – is wanted for the willful promotion of hatred, according to the arrest warrant issued last month. He is also accused of hate speech and attempting to recruit others to join the neo-Nazi movement.

In May, an investigation by the Montreal Gazette revealed that Zeiger was an IT consultant in his early 30s living in Montreal. Zeiger was a prolific writer on online neo-Nazi forums and for the Daily Stormer, a popular U.S. right-wing website.

Chaput was identified as the man behind the pseudonym after he was spotted at the now-infamous white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. in August 2017.  (more...)

Wanted: Montreal police issue warrant for alleged neo-Nazi 'Zeiger'

Background:

Alt-right in Montreal: Efforts to unmask key neo-Nazis make waves

Major neo-Nazi figure recruiting in Montreal

Blowback: An Inside Look at How US-Funded Fascists in Ukraine Mentor US White Supremacists

Last month, an unsealed FBI indictment of four American white supremacists from the Rise Above Movement (RAM) declared that the defendants had trained with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia officially incorporated into the country’s national guard. The training took place after the white supremacist gang participated in violent riots in Huntington Beach and Berkeley, California and Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.

The indictment stated that the Azov Battalion “is believed to have participated in training and radicalizing United States-based white supremacy organizations.”

After a wave of racist violence across America that culminated in the massacre of twelve Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the revelation that violent white supremacists have been traveling abroad for training and ideological indoctrination with a well-armed neo-Nazi militia should cause extreme alarm.

Not only are white supremacists from across the West flocking to Ukraine to learn from the combat experience of their fascist brothers-in-arms, they are doing so openly — chronicling their experiences on social media before they bring their lessons back home. But U.S. law enforcement has done nothing so far to restrict the flow of right-wing American extremists to Azov’s bases.

There is one likely explanation for the U.S. government’s hands-off approach to Azov recruitment: the extremist militia is fighting pro-Russian separatists as a front-line proxy of Washington. In fact, the United States has directly armed the Azov Battalion, forking over anti-tank rocket launchers and even sending a team of Army officers to meet in the field with Azov commanders in 2017.

Though Congress passed legislation this year forbidding military aid to Azov on the grounds of its white supremacist ideology, the Trump administration’s authorization of $200 million in offensive weaponry and aid to the Ukrainian military makes it likely new stores of weapons will wind up the extremist regiment’s hands. When queried by reporters about evidence of American military training of Azov personnel, multiple U.S. army spokespersons admitted there was no mechanism in place to prevent that from happening.  (more...)

Blowback: An Inside Look at How US-Funded Fascists in Ukraine Mentor US White Supremacists

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FBI: Neo-Nazi Militia Trained by US Military in Ukraine Now Training US White Supremacists

LOS ANGELES — According to a recent FBI indictment, several American white supremacists were allegedly radicalized by and received training from Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which receives funding from the current government of Ukraine as well as the U.S. government. The group has also received weapons from the Israeli government.

The indictment, filed in Los Angeles, California last month, asserts that four American members of the “Rise Above Movement” (RAM) — RAM co-founder Robert Rundo as well as Robert Boman, Tyler Laube and Aaron Eason — had “violently attacked and assaulted counter-protestors” at several white nationalist and white supremacist events throughout the U.S., including the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville last year.

The named individuals are alleged to have “used the Internet to coordinate combat training in preparation for the events” and to have celebrated “their acts of violence in order to recruit members for future events.”

Court documents refer to RAM as a “white supremacy extremist group” while the group self-represents as “a combat-ready, militant group of a new nationalist white supremacy/identity movement.”

The recent indictment gives special attention to Rundo’s more recent activities, particularly his trip to Europe earlier this year where he traveled to Germany, Ukraine, and Italy “to meet with members of European white supremacy extremist groups.” The FBI became aware that one of the individuals with whom Rundo had met during this trip was Olena Semenyaka, a leader of the International Department for the National Corps, a Ukrainian political party that was formed as an offshoot of the Azov Battalion in 2016.  (more...)

FBI: Neo-Nazi Militia Trained by US Military in Ukraine Now Training US White Supremacists

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Church of Secrets

It was nearly 8 p.m. and dead quiet on a typically hot and muggy evening near the coastal community of Batangas City in the Philippines.

Until the hum and rattle of an approaching motorcycle broke the silence.

It was June of this past summer, and Luzie Gammon was in the kitchen of the dream home she built with her Canadian husband, Barry Gammon, when the hum was replaced by the piercing and unmistakable sound of a gun being fired, over and over and over again.

She ran to the front porch to see her husband, 66, struggling to close their gate on an intruder. "We're pushing together, and he just keeps shooting and shooting," she said during a recent interview with The Fifth Estate.

And then, she said, "my husband drops." Gammon paused as she struggled to recall the details. And then she continued.

"His face, his blood on the floor and … he's bleeding. At that moment, it's just like, this is not real, what's going on? I'm acting and doing, but it's not registering in my mind. Is this real?"

She snapped suddenly back to reality when she realized their seven-year-old son, JJ, was standing behind her, frozen.

"I grabbed my son and pushed him … inside the house," she continued.

"'Stay here, and I'll get some help,'" she recalled telling JJ. "But he didn't want … it's just really … heartbreaking. He told me, 'We need to help daddy.'"

She told him to stay put.

"'No, Mommy. I'm going to come with you,'" he said. "We will die all together."

Barry Gammon died on that June 24 evening in the Philippines. Luzie and JJ survived. Five weeks after the fatal shooting, they left the Philippines for Canada.  (more...)

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Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity

The late Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a much-respected scholar of Western esoteric traditions, most famous for his book The Occult Roots of Nazism (1985). In this he traced the völkisch and racist nationalist currents of esotericism and ‘Ariosophy’ in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Germany and Austria, which fed into the early days of Nazism via the Thule Society.

Prior to Goodrick-Clarke’s book, the influence of occult ideas on Nazi Germany had been wildly overstated in pulp fiction and non-fiction. This book acted as a solid reference point to reign in the febrile popular imagination. But it was as important for how it affirmed the influence of esoteric notions on the cultural climate of Nazism.

I read The Occult Roots of Nazism as part of my research into polar myths — the North and South Poles, and the pole star, figure prominently in the far-right imagination. I also looked into Black Sun, a follow-up intended to chart the continuation of Nazi esotericism and religious thinking after 1945. I thought I’d re-read it now in the light of current events.  (more...)

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Welcome to the mad world of closet Naziism. These were the types of people who inhabited my undergraduate years. The popular myth is that the 60s and 70s were about stoned hippies abandoning modern life, science and technology, middle-class values and bodily hygiene. The truth is far darker. Those cartoon lefties were the invention of Hitler's next generation -- evil chemists, mad doctors, mind-controlling torturers, and weapons designers -- my STEM classmates. And, beneath a thin film of twisted Judeo-Christianity, they concealed a demonic affinity to Darwin. Anyone shocked that the University of Toronto could spawn a Faith Goldy or a Paul Fromm don't know my alma mater. This book is a realistic course calendar for Canada's elite university.

Idolatry of Money, Corruption in the Church

#BREAKING: @Pontifex this morning: Christians should "respect churches as the house of God and not turn them into marketplaces of money and worldliness." (See Thread)#Meanwhile, this happened the day before the end of his #Synod18.https://t.co/vVhWjhz2em#CatholicTwitter

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 9, 2018

1) .@VaticanNews reported on @Pontifex's words at Mass, this morning. https://t.co/pG3x0KauPc

Interesting #FridayReads on individuals he surrounds himself with...who are very much involved in financial corruption--or turning the House of God into "marketplaces of money"...

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 9, 2018

2) Connection of financial corruption regarding #PapalFoundation, consequently run by pederast #sexual #predator, #McCarrick--along with scandal ridden @Cardinal_Wuerl of DC:https://t.co/kt0rE7MiJm#CatholicTwitter #FinancialCorruption #Scandals

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 9, 2018

3) Interestingly, one of the close "advisors" to #PopeFrancis is Archbishop Paglia--he was placed as President of the Pontifical Pope John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family.
He also used funds to immortalize himself in this:https://t.co/AkK73rurRe

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 9, 2018

4) Let's not forget ++Maradiaga, the head of #PopeFrancis' "Council of Nine". Rumored to be his chief advisor, this Cardinal is embroiled in both the #sexabuse #scandals rocking #Honduras, as well as allegations of deep-pocketed #financialcorruption:https://t.co/RO3ubQACOg

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 9, 2018

5) VERY important to note, re ++Maradiaga: He is connected to @georgesoros through a number of organizations--Faith In Action, under their "international organization"--PICO and Caritas. BOTH of these orgs are linked to funding #MigrantCaravan from his home country of #Honduras.

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 9, 2018

6) #Recall PRIOR to the #PresidentialElection, #PopeFrancis visited the US. It has been proven that ++Maradiaga connected @georgesoros to @Pontifex, through PICO. $650,000 was exchanged for this access. The #pope later spoke in favor of PICO...https://t.co/XfJj6rj7dl

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 9, 2018

7) As facts exposed the #financial and #moral #corruption of ++Maradiaga, the #Catholic Cardinal went on a #media blitz, targeting the person of one of the #investigativejournalists--labeling him a "hitman". Similar verbiage has been used by @Pontifex:https://t.co/cHHCqMmxRo

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 9, 2018

8) As the #MigrantCaravan moves north, #journalists should investigate the financial trail between ++Maradiaga, Cardinal of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; the Honduran leftist politician behind the #caravan, Bartolo Fuentes; Funding from PICO, Caritas and Pueblos Sin Fronteras (@Soros).

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) November 9, 2018

From Argentina to Panama to Honduras to Vatican using Red Cross International and it’s humanitarian boxes to move money around. IOR aka Vatican Bank now controles by a company that has ties to Soros. There are other schemes the rumors says involved with Abortion. pic.twitter.com/QwVdRPFgMv

— Denise (@Denise08928892) November 10, 2018

Well, what happens when you get too chummy with Nazi bankers?

Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and The Swiss Banks

Happy Armistice Day!