The History You Never Get to Read in School

Historian Sean Hross isn't your ordinary Swiss scholar. His take makes for an interesting juxtaposition to recent St. Gallen happenings:

McCarrick's Victim Speaks Out on McCarrick and St Gallen w James Grein

There is much to ponder in these musings:

The Vatican and Switzerland Do a Merry Dance

The Red Scare Luciferians Don't Advertise

It ain't easy being Orange.

Watch for those dodgy anglo-Catholic gingers

Holy Terror

As a sadder but wiser fellow who was active in conservative politics and the pro-life/pro-family movement, I have to acknowledge that these secularists are not completely off the mark. They have as much access to reason as anyone else. And, I've known activists who have not only "snapped", but crackled and popped.

Some questions I wish were addressed are:

1. Is America run by pseudo-religious cults invented by freemasonic scammers?
2. Are we living in a bad dream concocted by the Luciferian Tavistock Institute and deployed by the CIA?
3. Are the Dutch (and Flemish) predisposed by culture and genetics to psychopathy? Or, are they possessed?
4. Could the Tavistock Institute just as readily burden us with Liberal Fundamentalists? Have they?

Until some good answers are found to these questions, I don't believe the secularists are going to provide any effective solutions. America needs a massive exorcism. This is a spiritual problem, not a political one.

Mothers of Darkness Castle:The Most Evil Place on Earth! 1000 Points of Light

Deep in the forest of Belgium is a heavily guarded castle so dark few locals even speak of it. The Chateau Amerois AKA Mothers of Darkness Castle and it is said to be home to some of the Illuminati's darkest rituals, blackmail parties and more. Discover what is hidden behind these forbidden walls!

About those points of light:

Depends what you mean by that:

Marc Dutroux - Serial killer and supplier of children for the satanic elite

Belgium: Into the Heart of Darkness Part I     Part II     Part III     Part IV     Part V

Compare and contrast:

The Word was the true light
That enlightens all men;
and he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had its being through him,
and the world did not know him.

The Mafia, CIA and George Bush

Former reporter for the "Houston Chronicle," Pete Brewton tells of one of the most momentous stories of the past 50 years and how it has been suppressed by the establishment media and the Congress. Pete's book "The Mafia, CIA and George Bush," shows the incredible complexity of the relationships in the operation of the destruction of hundreds of Savings and Loans at the hands of the CIA and the Mafia, stealing many billions of dollars in the process, and leaving the taxpayers to bailout the banks. Big names at the state and national levels of power are involved, including Lloyd Bentsen, the Bush family, and power brokers in Houston. People such as Kenneth Keating and Don Dixon, who are mentioned prominently in the press in connection with the S & L debacle, were merely front men or "cutouts" for the main movers. Keating and his ilk only took millions; the CIA and the Mafia looted billions.

Related:

Good Evening Mr. Bush! I’ll Be Your Server Tonight!

How the CIA Helped Shape the Creative Writing Scene in America

In May of 1967,” writes Patrick Iber at The Awl, “a former CIA officer named Tom Braden published a confession in the Saturday Evening Post under the headline, ‘I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral.’” With the hard-boiled tone one might expect from a spy, but the candor one may not, Braden revealed the Agency’s funding and support of all kinds of individuals and activities, including, perhaps most controversially, in the arts. Against objections that so many artists and writers were socialists, Braden writes, “in much of Europe in the 1950’s [socialists] were about the only people who gave a damn about fighting Communism.”

Whatever truth there is to the statement, its seeming wisdom has popped up again in a recent Washington Post op-ed by Sonny Bunch, editor and film critic of the conservative Washington Free Beacon. The CIA should once again fund “a culture war against communism,” Bunch argues. The export (to China) he offers as an example? Boots Riley’s hip, anti-neoliberal, satirical film Sorry to Bother You, a movie made by a self-described Communist.

Proud declarations in support of CIA funding for "socialists" may seem to take the sting out of moral outrage over covert cultural tactics. But they fail to answer the question: what is their effect on artists themselves, and on intellectual culture more generally? The answer has been ventured by writers like Joel Whitney, whose book Finks looks deeply into the relationship between dozens of famed mid-century writers and literary magazines—especially The Paris Review—and the agency best known for toppling elected governments abroad.

In an interview with The Nation, Whitney calls the CIA’s containment strategies “the inversion of influence. It’s the instrumentalization of writing.… It’s the feeling of fear dictating the rules of culture, and, of course, therefore, of journalism.” According to Eric Bennett, writing at The Chronicle of Higher Education and in his book Workshops of Empire, the Agency instrumentalized not only the literary publishing world, but also the institution that became its primary training ground, the writing program at the University of Iowa.  (more...)

How the CIA Helped Shape the Creative Writing Scene in America

The journalist's little helper:

How I Came to Understand the CIA

Paranoid? GangStalking Motives and Tactics ~ A Silent Holocaust

An enlightening interview with an ex-security specialist, ex-gangstalker and whistle-blower. This guy explains who and why someone gets gangstalked. He explains THEIR methods too.

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Gladio gone crazy

Involuntary porn stars: Police continue to watch for anyone possessing or uploading the St. Mike’s video

Months after a scandal rocked the St. Michael’s College School over alleged sexual assault, Toronto police said they are continuing to investigate the video distribution of the original incident.

“Despite the various warnings, we have credible evidence to suggest that people are still in possession of this video and/or have made attempts to upload it on social media,” said Insp. Domenic Sinopoli, the head of Toronto police sex crimes unit, at a press conference Wednesday.

He said police consider the video to be child pornography and altering or cropping it does not change its digital identifiers. The video, which captures parts of the alleged sexual assault that took place in a locker-room on Nov. 7, shows a group of boys holding down a teen boy and allegedly sexually assaulting him with an object that looks like a broomstick.

Sinopoli warned the public that whoever is making these sharing attempts will be caught and charged.

“The video and its distribution is a constant reminder to victims of the trauma they have endured,” he said at the conference. “In many ways, this can be far more detrimental than the assault itself.”  (more...)

Police continue to watch for anyone possessing or uploading the St. Mike’s video

Some folks just gotta look:

The Cybersecurity Swindle: NSA Whistleblower William Binney interviewed by Richard Grove

A 36-year veteran of America’s Intelligence Community, William Binney resigned from his position as Director for Global Communications Intelligence (COMINT) at the National Security Agency (NSA) and blew the whistle, after discovering that his efforts to protect the privacy and security of Americans were being undermined by those above him in the chain of command.

The NSA data-monitoring program which Binney and his team had developed  -- codenamed ThinThread -- was being aimed not at foreign targets as intended, but at Americans (codenamed as Stellar Wind); destroying privacy here and around the world. Binney voices his call to action for the billions of individuals whose rights are currently being violated.

William Binney speaks out in this feature-length interview with Tragedy and Hope's Richard Grove, focused on the topic of the ever-growing Surveillance State in America.

Five St. Michael’s College School Students Charged In Additional Gang Rape

Toronto police charged five St. Michael’s College School students with gang sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, and assault Wednesday as they concluded their investigation into eight separate incidents into the school.

The news comes as six students from the all boys’ school previously charged with gang sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, and assault connected to a different incident were scheduled to appear in court today.

In a press conference held Wednesday morning, Inspector Domenic Sinopoli, unit commander of sex crimes for Toronto police, said four of the students charged with gang sexual assault today were also charged with gang sexual assault on November 19. Additionally, two students were charged Wednesday with assault with a weapon and assault connected to a third incident—both were also charged with gang sexual assault on November 19.

All told, police looked into eight incidents at the school, with allegations ranging from threatening behaviour to gang sexual assault. Three of those incidents are now proceeding as criminal matters—the two alleged gang rapes and the alleged assault with a weapon.  (more...)

Five St. Michael’s College School Students Charged In Additional Gang Rape

NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake

Thomas Drake is a former senior official of the National Security Agency (NSA) whom the Justice Department prosecuted under the Espionage Act. In June 2011, the case against him collapsed, but he endured four years of investigation and faced 10 felony counts after he used internal mechanisms to disclose serious wrongdoing concerning a data collection program called "Trailblazer." That program was costly, wasteful and ineffective; it threatened Americans' privacy rights, and was wholly undeveloped -- despite the availability of a cost-effective, functional alternative that protected Americans' privacy. Ultimately, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped all felony counts against him, and the judge excoriated DOJ lawyers for their conduct.

A Good American: A story of the treasonous mafia of the mediocre

A Good American tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution. The tool was perfect - except for one thing: it was way too cheap. Therefor NSA leadership, who had fallen into the hands of industry, dumped it - three weeks prior to 9/11. In a secret test-run of the program against the pre-9/11-NSA database in early 2002 the program immediately found the terrorists. This is the story of former Technical director of NSA, Bill Binney, and a program called ThinThread.

Student's mother blasts Sudbury teacher for sex crimes

The mother of the student whom Damir Bulic victimized said the past eight years have been very hard on her son and the rest of the family.

“We had to watch him self-destruct,” she said, her voice breaking at times as she read from her victim impact statement. “He turned to drugs and alcohol to numb his shame. He became a sad, depressed, secluded boy who views his family members as the enemy “

“We felt helpless because we could not take (his) pain away or fix what was wrong. He pushed everybody away. He has lived like this for eight years.”

Bulic, 46, was convicted July 16 of four counts of performing an indecent act and one count of invite sexual touching, all involving the same male minor, from Sept. 1, 2010, and Sept. 30, 2011.

The mother said her son had looked up to Bulic.

“My husband, I and (son) were all deceived,” she said. “The fact he would find his behaviour funny sickens me.”  (more...)

Student's mother blasts Sudbury teacher for sex crimes

Svali Comes Out of the Shadows

Background:

A Further Interview with Svali, an Illuminati Defector

I give space to this woman -- very distrustful of neo-Catholics and unaware of the traditional remnant -- because I came up against this cult in my earliest years at university and have had to deal with its interference in my life and that of my family. They never lose sight of you. They never quit. They fear a faithful, incorruptible Catholic family more than anything.

If you read no other part of this, look at What My Healing Journey Has Been Like. It details the devastation of Svali's family life. It is poignant testimony of how the family is the ultimate battleground in the war of evil against God's plan for His beloved children.

Police now investigating eight incidents at St. Mike’s

A month after being rocked by allegations of assault and sexual assault, St. Michael’s College School announced Thursday who will be part of an independent committee looking into the school’s culture, as police revealed they are now investigating two additional incidents, bringing the total to eight.

The “respect and culture review” committee will look at social and cultural practices, and at the school’s policies, protocols and practices when it comes to addressing sexual, physical or verbal abuse and hazing.

“The important work of this committee — and its recommendations — will benefit both current and future students,” said Michael Forsayeth, chair of the board of directors at the prestigious all boys’ private school in Toronto. “This review is our board’s highest priority, reflecting our commitment to turn the pain of recent events into an opportunity for learning, healing, and long-term change.”

Committee members have no prior connection to the school and the final report is due in the summer. It will be chaired by Mark Sandler, a lawyer experienced in systemic reviews of this nature. And it will include Debra J. Pepler, a psychology professor at York University who researches aggression, bullying, and victimization involving children and adolescents; Bruce Rodrigues, a former Ontario deputy minister of education; and Priti Sachdeva, former legal counsel at the province’s Office of the Children’s Lawyer, which represents children in court cases.

The announcement comes as Toronto police say they are now looking into eight incidents at the school.  (more...)

Police now investigating eight incidents at St. Mike’s

Resources:

SMCS Respect and Culture Journey

Mini-website: Our Respect and Culture Journey

Sprigeo -- Safety in Numbers

Where is Honey Sherman’s will?

In the weeks following the discovery of Honey and Barry Sherman’s bodies last December, there was a vigorous search for an important document — Honey Sherman’s will.

No one reported being given it for safekeeping, and when police returned access to the family home where the billionaire couple was murdered, no last will and testament of hers was discovered.

Today, a year after the founder of generic drug giant Apotex and his wife were slain, the revelation that the financial affairs of one of Canada’s wealthiest couples were not in order when they died is just one of a string of mysteries in the case.

A fear of “kidnapping and violence” prompted the Sherman family to seek — and be granted — a court order completely sealing information on the couple’s estate, including the amount and distribution of assets. The lack of a will by Honey Sherman is just one part of that.  (more...)

Where is Honey Sherman’s will?

More coverage:

Judge seals estate files of murder victims Barry and Honey Sherman to protect heirs

Barry and Honey Sherman: Duelling investigations, high drama and still no answers

Has anyone checked on Honey's alumni association? I was resident in her college and can affirm that it walks and quacks like this:

A Further Interview with Svali, an Illuminati Defector

Demonic duck

A Further Interview with Svali, an Illuminati Defector

The Illuminati is a group that practices a form of faith known as “enlightenment”. It is Luciferian, and they teach their followers that their roots go back to the ancient mystery religions of Babylon, Egypt, and Celtic druidism. They have taken what they consider the “best” of each, the foundational practices, and joined them together into a strongly occult discipline. Many groups at the local level worship ancient deities such as “El”, “Baal”, and “Ashtarte”, as well as “Isis and Osiris” and “Set”.

This said, the leadership councils at times scoff at the more “primitive” practices of the anarchical, or lower levels. I remember when I was on council in San Diego, they called the high priests and priestesses the “slicers and dicers”, who kept the “lower levels happy”. This is not to offend anyone, it only shows that at the leadership levels,they often believe they are more scientifically and cognitively driven. But they still practice the principles of enlightenment.

There are 12 steps to this, also known as “the 12 steps of discipline’ and they also teach traveling astral planes, time travel, and other metaphysical  phenomena. Do people really do this, or is it a drug induced hallucination ? I cannot judge. I saw things that I believe cannot be rationally explained when in this group, things that frightened me, but I can only say that it could be a combination of cult mind control, drug inductions, hypnosis, and some true demonic activity. How much of each, I cannot begin to guess. I do know that these people teach and practice evil.

At the higher levels, the group is no longer people in robes chanting in front of bonfires. Leadership councils have administrators who handle finances (and trust me, this group makes money. That alone would keep it going even if the rest were just religious hog wash). The leadership levels include businessmen, bankers, and local community leaders. They are intelligent, well educated, and active in their churches.Above local leadership councils are the regional councils, who give dictates to the groups below them, help form the policies and agendas for each region, and who interact with the local leadership councils.

At the national level, there are extremely wealthy people who finance these goals and interact with the leaders of other countries. The Illuminati are international. Secret? By all means. The first thing a child learns from “family, or the Order” as they are called, is “The first rule of the Order is secrecy”. This is why you don’t hear from more survivors who get out. The lengths that this group goes to, to terrify its members into not disclosing, is unbelievable. I have seen set ups (oh, yes, they set up fake deaths, etc. ) where a person was “burned alive” to teach the children not to tell. They are told that this is a traitor, who disclosed,and now he is being punished. (The person wasn’t really a traitor, and is in a flame proof vest, but the vision of a person on fire and screaming remains with 3 and 4 year old children for a lifetime). And, when they are adults, even if they DO leave, scenes such as this mean they won’t tell many people for fear of being traced and punished.

Because I helped create a lot of set ups as an adult trainer, I became somewhat cynical, and have chosen to disclose as a result. Although I do fight intense fear even now at times. Try being buried in a wooden box for a period of time (it may have been minutes, but to a four year old it is an eternity), and then when the lid is lifted, being told, “if you ever tell, we’ll put you back in forever”. The child will scream hysterically that they will NEVER EVER tell. I was that child, and now I am breaking that vow made under psychological duress. Because I don’t want any other children to go through what I did, or have seen done to others. Yes, the Illuminati are organized, secretive, and extremely wealthy at its upper levels. They are not stupid, or poor people running around dabbling with witchcraft. To see them as this is a huge misconception.  (more...)

Excerpted from an 18-part interview with Svali

See also:

Svali Speaks

Related:

Interview with Svali Illuminati Defector

Here you have a clique that descended on me in my undergraduate university years. They seemed to think I had a future with them. I disagreed.

MK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada

Mind control experiments on human subjects at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute were investigated by The Fifth Estate.

Starting in the late 1980s, both the CIA and the Canadian government became embroiled in lawsuits related to the programs and reached compensation settlements with many of the victims.

Teacher who worked at 2 Newmarket schools among accused in child sex abuse probe

One of the 122 people charged in a provincewide child sexual abuse probe was a music teacher who taught at two Newmarket schools.

Alexander C. Testa, 30, of Bradford, taught music at Maple Leaf Public School and Stonehaven Elementary School in recent years.

Amanda LeBlanc, principal of Maple Leaf, sent out a letter to parents regarding Testa's arrest.

The statement in part said: "Mr. Testa was a teacher at our school last year, however has not been at Maple Leaf PS since June 2018.

"As a school, we take these concerns very seriously. We have been assured by York Regional Police that these charges are not related to any students or staff members at our school."

On Dec. 5, five York Region residents and one person from Bradford were among 122 people charged as a result of a provincewide investigation during the month of November by multiple police agencies into child sexual abuse.  (more...)

Teacher who worked at 2 Newmarket schools among accused in child sex abuse probe

Related:

5 York Region residents charged in provincewide child sexual abuse probe

Judge certifies $600-million class-action lawsuit on behalf of former residents of Ontario’s training schools

An Ontario Superior Court judge has certified a class-action lawsuit seeking $600 million in damages against the Ontario government on behalf of former residents of the province’s training schools.

The certification order, signed by Justice Danial Newton in Thunder Bay and released Tuesday, defines the class as all individuals who resided at 13 of the province’s training school facilities between Jan. 1, 1953, and April 2, 1984.

“This is an important milestone for the boys and girls from the training schools,” said lead plaintiff Kirk Keeping in a statement issued by Koskie Minsky, the law firm representing him and other class members. Keeping alleges he was sexually, physically and psychologically abused while attending Pine Ridge Training School in Bowmanville in 1968 when he was 15.

“We have all lived with this for years and we are glad this case is moving forward,” he said.

Training schools were institutions set up and operated by the provincial government to house and educate thousands of children between the ages of 8 and 16 who were deemed by the courts to be “incorrible” or “unmanageable.” Children sent to training school need not have committed any crimes; transgressions such as petty theft, truancy, or running away from home could land a child in training school. Many children sent to the institutions came from abusive or poverty-stricken homes.  (more...)

Judge certifies $600-million class-action lawsuit on behalf of former residents of Ontario’s training schools

More coverage:

Lawsuit arising from alleged abuse at Ont. training school certified as class action

'I'm a demon inside': Teacher convicted of sex crimes sought treatment

A former music teacher convicted of sexually abusing students at two Ottawa high schools sought treatment from more than a dozen psychologists and psychiatrists — and even asked to be castrated  — all while he continued working with children.

A risk behaviour report filed with the Ontario Court of Justice reveals retired teacher Bob Clarke, now 74, began seeking professional help as far back as 1969.

Clarke taught at a number of Ottawa schools between 1968 and 1992. In March, he pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving eight teenage boys at two high schools, Bell and Sir Robert Borden, during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. He's currently serving a two-year prison sentence.

CBC News has learned Clarke sought treatment over a period spanning 23 years.

"If he was trying to get help, the system failed us. It failed him as well as me and the other victims," said John Myers, one of Clarke's victims at Bell High School in the late 1970s.

The 2017 sexual behaviours assessment, commissioned by Clarke's lawyer and produced by the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, concludes Clarke fell through the cracks.  (more...)

'I'm a demon inside': Teacher convicted of sex crimes sought treatment

Hazing has long history, based on solidifying power, status within group: experts

TORONTO — It’s been called a rite of passage, a bonding ritual, a way to initiate novice members into a fraternity, elite sports team or military unit through physical and mental challenges — with the aim of individuals becoming cemented into the whole.

But hazing can have a sinister side involving physical or sexual abuse and emotional trauma that, for some, can leave deep psychological scars. It’s also led to hundreds of deaths when typically alcohol-fueled indoctrinating pranks go unexpectedly and horribly wrong.

So how did the practice begin and why does it continue, despite a burgeoning number of anti-hazing policies put in place by universities and colleges, within the military and among sports organizations? And how can it be stopped?

Experts say hazing is as old as antiquity, reportedly practised in the time of Plato, referred to by Saint Augustine in his “Confessions,” and promoted by Martin Luther as a means of preparing students for the vicissitudes of life.  (more...)

Hazing has long history, based on solidifying power, status within group: experts

What father would want his son to marry a girl that has been passed around a sports team, fraternity, or motorcycle club? What father would want his daughter to be that girl?

McCarrick's Victim Speaks Out on McCarrick and St Gallen w James Grein

What is the connection between the St Gallen Mafia meeting in Switzerland and the early studies of ex Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in Sankt Gallen Switzerland? Informed Catholics know that the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis were tied to the Saint Gallen Mafia, but McCarrick's victim James Grein breaks open the story. Dr Taylor Marshall interviews "James" Grein from the New York Times story, and reveals how the young Theodore McCarrick made connections with his family in Sankt Gallen Switzerland and how this event shaped McCarrick's ecclesiastical career and the movement against Pope Benedict XVI with his eventual resignation. Archbishop Vigano's testimony and the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI make sense now in light of this discovery of McCarrick's historic connection with the city of Sankt Gallen Switzerland. James Grein also explains the importance of McCarrick as a fundraiser and the importance of the Vatican Bank in the pontificate of John Paul II. If you are interested in the resignation of Pope Benedict and the unusual election of Pope Francis, you must see this video to connect the dots.

Related:

📺 Why did Pope Benedict Resign? Vigano and the Vatican Bank 

📺What is the Saint Gallen Mafia and Who is in it?

This is not the first instance when Switzerland figured prominently in this blog:

Ramifications

Deutsche Bank, Trump, and Russia

Early Thursday morning German authorities raided the global powerhouse Deutsche Bank in relation to a money laundering investigation. The raid was reportedly spurred by information garnered from the Panama Papers — the 2015 document leak that revealed how wealthy international figures hide their riches via offshore bank accounts and shady shell companies. The new House Democratic leadership may also investigate.

At WhoWhatWhy, we’ve been watching Deutsche for quite a while — particularly its activities in the United States, its involvement with Russia, and its ties to Donald Trump.

Here’s our Deutsche primer:  (more...)

Deutsche Bank, Trump, and Russia: A WhoWhatWhy Primer

Dave Emory interviews Russ Baker: Family of Secrets

How did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps most important-have those forces really been vanquished by Obama's election? Award-winning investigative journalist Russ Baker gives us the answers in Family of Secrets, a compelling and startling new take on the Bush dynasty and the shadowy elite that has quietly steered the American republic for the past half century and more. Baker shows how this network of figures in intelligence, the military, oil, and finance enabled-and in turn benefited handsomely from-the Bushes' perch at the highest levels of government. As Baker reveals, this deeply entrenched elite remains in power regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.

Family of Secrets offers countless disclosures that challenge the conventional accounts of such central events as the JFK assassination and Watergate. It includes an inside account of George W.'s cynical religious conversion and the untold real background to the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. Baker's narrative is gripping, sobering, and deeply sourced. It will change the way we understand not just the Bush years, but a half century of postwar history-and the present.

The story behind a Palm Beach sex offender's remarkable deal

Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, despite sexually abusing dozens of underage girls according to police and prosecutors. His victims have never had a voice, until now.

Family of Secrets -- The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years

This is one of the most important, and dangerous books on the market today.

This is the book that should have the Bush family keeping their bags packed, and the tanks topped off on the getaway plane, because the information in this book links the Bush family, especially George H.W. (Poppy) Bush, who precipitated the writing of this book by insisting he can't remember where he was on the day of November 22, 1963.

If you want to get the real story about JFK's assassination, Bay Of Pigs, Watergate, Vietnam, Iraq, Iran/Contra, and every other dirty, criminal deal, this is the book to read. There's also well researched information about George W. Bush, and his going AWOL from the National Guard, as well as all of his dirty, criminal deals.

It doesn't matter where you stand on political issues of today. It doesn't even matter if you're American, or were even alive at the time of JFK's assassination. The information in this book should be of interest to anyone interested in American, or world politics, as well as anyone interested in the truth about what were once regarded as unsolvable criminal mysteries.

Russ Baker deserves an award for his hard work researching the information for this book, and making an important contribution to the legacy of American politics. This book should be what touches off a movement to have the Bush family, and all of their partners, and accessories arrested, an put in prison, where they belong.

‘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

Related:

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...)

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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

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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:

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