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Sunday, January 26, 2020
Russian History
By Anna Von Reitz
I am in a railroad car in the wee hours of the morning and it is very cold outside. Even with a couple propane heaters you can see your breath inside. There is one bare light bulb of no great wattage, myself, a middle aged woman, a student desk, and a large Russian man in the middle of a trainload of paperwork, much of which has not been opened for decades.
This is the history of Imperial Russia and if certain people knew where it was, they would try to destroy it even now.
What it demonstrates, among many other things, is that both the Russian Tsar and the German Kaiser were honorable men throughout the events leading up to World War I —- and the British King was a rat.
That is, I suppose, granted all the history we know about, not a surprise by now.
It is however made clear as a honed knife-edge as we stand here in the middle of the night, knotting our hands against the cold.
The man is Russian but he grew up in Alaska as a part of a dissident Christian group who came here after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He reads and speaks Russian fluently and his deep voice has a bell-like clarity as he slowly reads page after page.
None of us feel like we can stop. There is a hypnotic quality to the night and the job before us. The woman who is transcribing stops to wipe her eyes. She can’t stop crying. I am aware of the cold in my heart as well as my feet. I wonder if I can cry anymore?
Has my long trek to the truth left me with no more tears? Nothing but a vast emptiness as the digit counters in my mind fall and I tick off the facts.
The British King owed both his Cousins a lot of money. His proposal? That the Russians attack Alaska using a. bogus treaty violation as a provocation and use our land and resources to repay his — the British King’s — debts to Russia.
This, the Tsar gently refused to do, writing, “As a Christian man and as the leader of my country, I cannot consider such a course.”
Enclosed with this letter is a similar letter from the Kaiser, turning down a similar suggestion that he should attack France and split the spoils with Britain.
Although Germany did eventually invade France it was clear that the Kaiser was loathe to take any such action and it was only because the British Monarch refused to pay his debts that Germany was placed in such a bind.
And ultimately, that circumstance also involved America.
While we slumbered on, thinking that all was well, a Scottish Commercial Corporation doing business as “The United States of America”—- Incorporated, had borrowed vast amounts of assets from both the Tsar and the Kaiser, and then declared bankruptcy, leaving both Russia and Germany to pick up the pieces.
It wasn’t the clueless American’s fault. It was, as the Kaiser said, “A dirty and deceitful business with the hands of British bankers all over it.”
Archduke Ferdinand was an innocent third party trying to negotiate a private settlement.
The criminality and injustice of his assassination at the hands of British Agents was the final straw for the Kaiser.
“We have criminals at work in Great Britain, and some of them are our relatives,” he wrote to Tsar Nicholas in November 1910.
All this had been going on in the background for years before the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
So if you never understood how the murder of one European Aristocrat could provoke something as egregious as the First World War—— now you know.
That was just the cherry on the top of the British manure pile.
Both the Tsar and the Kaiser held America harmless. They blamed Britain and the Popes for deceitful misadministration and Breach of Trust — which is exactly what it was.
It is a great and terrible irony that we ever fought against Germany in the First World War and that we did not come to the Tsar’s assistance when he needed our help to alleviate the suffering of Russian workers —suffering caused by the Scottish Commercial Corporation’s default and bankruptcy, while doing business in our name.
Britain and the Popes used us as the Straight Man and manipulated investments based on our assets, to benefit themselves at the cost of everyone else involved, the Germans and the Russians most of all.
And there we sat, dumb as steers in a feedlot, chewing our cuds, wondering why the crazy Europeans got so upset over the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, while the King’s stooge, Woodrow Wilson, sold us even further down the river.
And here they are, again, the same Bad Actors letting crooked bankers have a hey day and imagining that none of this is ever going to catch up to them.
Nobody is ever going to look into the past hard enough to divine the future. Nobody is going to be smart enough to point the guns at the actual criminal masterminds responsible for all this theft and death and suffering.
That’s what they think.
But in a lonely rail car surrounded by wooden boxes bearing the Imperial Seal of Russia, sit two women, one of them crying so hard she can hardly work, one of them staring grimly out into space, and a man, who continues to read line by line, page by page.
I think I have heard enough for one night.
I lay a gloved hand on the man’s arm and he stops reading. I suggest that we’ve done all we can for one night. The others agree. I reach up, stretching a bit, to turn off the light. In the cold dark behind me I hear the man opening the heavy door. The night wind rushes in.
He jumps out first and I hear the dull thud of his heavy work boots on the frozen gravel.
The transcriptionist is lifted safely down to the ground together with her briefcase, camera, laptop computer and tape machine.
It all has the black and white flavor of old newsreel footage. A vacant grey world. One light bulb inside and one dim yard light outside.
I groan a little, as I swing to one knee and then let both legs dangle before jumping down to the siding. I think I am too old and pudgy for this. I think I ought to work out more. But there isn’t time.
The man shoves the heavy door back into place. I hear it rattle home and then hear the chain securing it. The much younger man asks if I am all right?
Yes, I tell him, though I am in fact disturbed by the coldness— not the coldness of the night, the coldness within me. I am perfectly calm.
He dips his head and shoves his helmet-like fur hat down over his ears before turning to help carry the recording equipment to the car.
I turn and walk the other direction, through the silent rail yard, then down a little alley way and turn a couple more corners to the backdoor of my hotel.
Inside it’s warm and dimly lit. I can smell the faint traces of bygone eras’ cigar smoke still lingering in the grand, faded brocade drapes and ancient Oriental carpet. My great-great grandfather stayed in this hotel in 1855.
I climb three flights of stairs and slip into my room. I don’t turn the lights on. The drapes are still open, as I left them, earlier in the day. The rectangle of the window seems unnaturally bright compared to the darkness. I realize that I am stiff from the cold and stand a couple minutes by the old-fashioned hot water register looking out at the street below.
Tomorrow it will warm up. Tomorrow it will snow. I know I should sleep, but somehow I can’t. In my own way, I have been touched just as deeply as the weeping Transcriptionist, only I am beyond tears.
On my desk is a Night Letter and in it, a hard copy of an email from a friend of Tsar Nicholas’s surviving Grandson. This has been genetically confirmed. The Romanovs are still alive, not wanting to return to Russia, not unhappy with their lives as ordinary people.
I smile and I pull off my winter boots.
I am happy to report that the Romanovs survived and that they are happy. They deserve to be. It is a fitting revenge.
We have a short time in which to wake the world up and short-circuit their plans to stage another economic debacle—- and I want you to remember and share this:
If you have any trouble with your money— any trouble at all— the problem isn’t with the money. The problem is with the bankers. And before we let them get away with anything more, we would be wise to simply line them up and march them off to jail, just as the people did in Iceland.
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Friday, January 24, 2020
Light in the Darkness and Darkness in the Light
By Anna Von Reitz
We briefly discussed the Ancient Religion of Mandamus aka "Magic".
This Celtic Religion defined things in terms of opposites and balancing of opposites around a Zero Point --- the point of creation balancing the Great Dipole, which is endlessly repeated and which resonates throughout all creation, including within each one of us.
DNA is not just a pattern of amino acids. It is an antenna--- a multi-channel trilateral transceiver.
The messages picked up by this antenna lock and unlock a vast number of epigenetic codes and variations operating at different frequencies and different scales (like musical scales) within your biological and electronic organism.
You may think of this -- in analogy -- as involving different kinds of media.
Imagine a machine that can play any kind of media you are familiar with --- CDs and DVDs, Floppy Disks, Cassette Tapes, TV film, MP3s, Live TV, Radio, 8 Track, USB, you name it, this machine can play it. Now imagine that you can
tune this machine into any form of media or source signal you like.
Your DNA receives signals in the same way as this machine, and sends signals out through the entire network of "Ordered Energy Entities" in the Universe, not just to your organism, that is, your space suit and its electromagnetic field, but to all the rest of the Created Universe as well.
Make no mistake. Everything that you see and sense and come to know is created. Rocks are created. Elements are created. It's all math, physics, chemistry, electronics, sound dynamics, magnetism----and vast amounts of energy, and it all derives from interactions among simple "dipolar systems".
Sound (1) or Silence (0) or Neutral (+/-)
Positive (1) or Negative (0) or Neutral (+/-)
Pixel (1) or Anti-Pixel (0) or Neutral (+/-)
You get the idea. Just as binary computer systems speaks a Binary Language of zeroes and ones, a trinary computer system speaks a Trinary Language of zeroes, ones, and neutrals.
So, in such a system, there are three states of being --- symbolized by the Maid, Mother, and Crone (one side of the Dipole) and the Boy, Man, and Sage (the other side of the Dipole) and now you come to the "direction" of the energy --- toward the light or toward the darkness--- or as the Celts put it, the "Right-hand Path" or the "Left-hand Path".
Now depending on how you are talking about this, it can sound like sorcery or it can sound like advanced physics, but not advanced physics as we have been taught in school.
Notice a couple of things --- (1) this system is set up to maintain an eternal balance, a complete Zero Point overall, and (2) all movement in this system is an illusion.
What creates the illusion of constant movement in the presence of eternal stillness is a doughnut-shaped "torroidal" electromagnetic field twisted into the form of a Mobius strip. It's a closed loop with all force vectors zeroed out at the center, but kept in constant flow by magnetic constants.
Those who are familiar with math will now be slapping themselves: a 3D infinity symbol. Those familiar with physics will also be leaping ahead, but what we want to notice next is what the Ancient Peoples of the Earth noticed.
The Zero Point is "a time without a time and a place without a place", because otherwise, time is location. The Zero Point is a portal outside of time and place.
The other notable take home message is that while in transition from one extreme to the other, light and darkness "pollute" each other to a greater or lesser extent, as they translate one into the other, until they come to a tipping point when they are completely balanced.
It is that position of neutrality which is the ultimate position of power.
In terms of the Celtic Wheel, the Queens of High Summer are ironically the Queens of Death and Cold. Why? Because they turn the corner heading into darkness. Just as ironically, the Queens of Mid-Winter are the Queens of Life and Warmth. It's exactly the opposite of what you might suppose.
In the same way, you might think that the position of power within the sequence of Maid, Mother, and Crone would be either the "Maid" in full potential, or the "Crone" unleashing potential ---- but again, it's the Mother who holds the secret to both the "Maid" and the "Crone" and it is the neutral, middle position that guards all the rest, by being able to wield both hot and cold.
So in the realm of Celtic Religion you begin new enterprises under the New Moon (the Maid) and you finish them under the Full Moon (the Crone) and in between the cycle that mirrors the Great Dipole, is either "waxing" or "waning" as the light grows in the darkness, or the darkness grows in the light -- and that whole process on both sides of the cycle is ruled by the Great Mother, who gives birth and substance to both the light and dark.
All of this mirrors the physics and math underlying our existence, the same way a fable or a parable reveals an eternal truth. So however you come to the truth, through the math or through the parables of an extremely ancient religion, you still arrive at the truth.
All this has been preserved for us, generation to generation, season to season, by the Ancient Religion of the Celts, and most notably, as it is still practiced in Western Ireland, Scotland, and the Outer Islands. Who knew? The Secrets of the Universe were hidden in plain view, discussed over tea, and shared by schoolchildren at recess.
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Playing With A Full Deck
By Anna Von Reitz
It doesn't take rocket science to figure out what
is going on in the world, you simply have to step back far enough to observe
what is going on. Don't get lost in the detail. Figure out who is
who. Then you know what is what.
Why is China suffering the outbreak of a dangerous
1918 Influenza-type viral epidemic? It's their payback for signing a new
trade deal with Trump--- a love letter from Bill Gates and the other Ubermensch
who incubated the virus at Texas A and M and patented it for profit.
The proof is right there in their patent
application, including the "revolving" genetic key that makes the virus mutate
at a rapid rate. A virus, you must understand, is just a small bit
of self-replicating DNA that inserts itself into our own cell system DNA and
hijacks the machinery to produce nasty side
effects.
They thought they could make the virus mutate fast
enough to cover their tracks--- that is, by the time we recovered "the bullet",
the ballistics would have changed so as to look like it came from a different
source.
Surprise, surprise, surprise, as Gomer Pyle would
say.
When this sort of thing -- biological warfare -- is
carried out by "private" corporations as a mercenary operation in retaliation
for trade deals, it's time to shut those corporations
down.
It's time to put an end to the Bill Gates hegemony
at Microsoft. And put Gates in a nice mental
hospital.
Come to that, anyone who believes in "human caused
climate change" based on increased carbon dioxide emissions (that "impact" is on
1/300th of one percent of the atmosphere) is mentally
unbalanced.
Bill Gates qualifies as a mental incompetent for
buying into that rubbish, but more pointedly, by pulling this caper, he
qualifies as an emotional and moral incompetent,
too.
The corporations of the world are allowed to exist
"for any lawful purpose" --- not "any legal
purpose".
This means that when they cross the line and start
killing innocent people and causing vast property damage here, or in any other
country on Earth, they forfeit their right to
exist.
And, as I pointed out the Pope Francis, hiding the
old evil behind new names is no longer an option. These imaginary THINGS
called "corporations" that cause misery on Earth need to be dismantled, and the
men behind them and responsible for them, need to be
punished.
This is as pure and simple and self-evident as rain
falling.
We cannot allow criminals to rampage around ---
whether in the guise of corporations, or in the guise of armed
gangs.
The men directing the criminal actions of these
corporations can't be held harmless and allowed to turn around and spin off new
corporations to continue their activities,
either.
They need to permanently lose their ability to
participate in corporate affairs of any kind, and their personal fortunes need
to be docked for the damage they cause.
If they can't think things through for themselves,
the rest of us will have to do their thinking for
them.
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
WORLD PREMIERE: UNSUSTAINABLE -
The UN's Agenda for World Domination
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Gallant Australia - Hot Off the Presses
By Anna Von Reitz
I know that many of my readers have been following the massive destruction of Australia by weather warfare, manipulation of the Southern Hemisphere Jet Streams and Chemtrail incendiary spray, which kills trees (causing dry wood for fires, deforestation, and depleted oxygen levels) and further sets the stage for massive wildfires, loss of property, loss of life, loss of oxygen and loss of biological diversity.
On the ground in Australia there are actually two horns of the dilemma, because the manipulation of the Jet Stream that causes the tinderbox dry conditions in some areas also means unnaturally wet conditions in other areas, so you have fire and floods going on at the same time.
The madmen creating these conditions --- particularly those at the Vatican who are paying for the Chemtrail spraying and promoting and causing these problems in an effort to sell their bogus human-caused climate change and carbon tax agenda --- really do need to be stopped. With pitchforks and sledge hammers if necessary.
They need to be stopped by actual Catholics waking up and rallying within the Church to oust these criminals and by the governments, especially the Italian Government, enforcing sanctions and taking action to make sure it stops.
I have pointed out that under the ENMOD Treaties of the United Nations Organization, these kinds of geoengineering and weather warfare "tests" can only be carried out against "domestic populations".
This means that the Australians -- including the indigenous people and the animals which are by no means "domestic" with respect to the AUSTRALIAN Government -- are being set up and put through all this by their own politicians and military.
I am calling on the Australian tribal leaders and Animal Rights Activists to pound the United Nations Secretary General and Security Council with demands that these "tests" and the Chemtrail spraying cease immediately.
We should all, on a planetary basis, demand that the Holy See pay to clean up the pollution and reckless environmental damage that their organization has deliberately funded and caused since 1985.
And for what? So that they can find a new excuse to wring more taxes out of people.
They have destabilized the entire Earth Biosphere -- depleted the oxygen, caused the destabilization of the magnetosphere, and now this fire and flood destruction. They have caused the entire problem and all this misery and destruction to provide "evidence" for their ridiculous quasi-scientific claims -- and all to get the brainless people to accept their carbon tax scheme.
Everyone, everywhere, every politician in every country, needs to know that carbon dioxide which accounts for 1/300th of one percent of the atmosphere isn't causing this damage. The Holy See and the Roman Curia are causing this damage. And right now, they are causing it to Australia.
For those who haven't already heard, Chemtrails are proven to contain a veritable cocktail of highly incendiary compounds and elements derived from industrial wastes---Aluminum oxide powder, Magnesium, Barium, Strontium, Lithium, and more. We also have proof that the Vatican minted a coin celebrating Chemtrails as far back as 1985.
So now the Big Mystery about who was funding this massive program to spray unknown crap all over the Earth has been solved. We know the purpose and effect of the Chemtrails, and we know who to blame-- the same people who have set themselves up to rule the entire Earth via the United Nations and an interlocking trust directorate scheme affecting slightly over 700 corporations worldwide.
Pray for Australia. Be thankful for Australia. Hold a vision in your mind of Australia getting exactly the right amount of rain and sunshine to be completely restored and healthy. Picture Australian meadows full of wildflowers and tall grass. Picture groves of eucalyptus trees and sleepy Koala Bears. Picture kangaroos hopping through verdant forests and grasslands. Picture thundering waves and teeming seas and healthy coral reefs. Hold Australia in your heart.
Australia and Australians have been key to the fight in what I call "The War of Deceit" that these monsters have waged against the unsuspecting people of the Earth. It was Australian researchers who first blew the lid on the use of DOG LATIN by Roman Emperors to defraud and mischaracterize people -- a criminal system that was first dreamed up by the Emperor Justinian and which is still in use today: the Roman Curia, again.
It's because of numerous Australian researcher that the people of the world finally know -- "What's up with all these names appearing in all capital letters?" and also because of them that we can stuff it down the lawyer's lying throats when they say, "Oh, it doesn't mean anything, pay no attention to that…."
It's Australian research that also allows us to recognize "PARSE SYNTAX" as just another variation of the same old s#$!$.
One of the ways that we can help our Australian counterparts and ourselves is to become fully informed about The Justinian Deception.
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Be ye not like dumb, driven cattle. Stop being destroyed for lack of knowledge. These men and women have suffered to bring you this startling insight into the actual Evil Empire. The least we can do, is listen and learn.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
The Original Peter's Pence Wasn't Enough For Them
By Anna Von Reitz
The original "Peter's Pence" started in France and England as an Income Tax back in the 1100's to help defray the costs of the Crusades; it was collected every April 15th by black-robed Officers of the Inquisition led by the Dominican Order. If you didn't pay willingly, you got stretched on the rack.
Sound familiar? It should.
Very little has changed. The IRS is still run by the Dominican Order under the Spanish Law of the Inquisition and the "federal" income tax is still collected every April 15th, and if you don't pay "voluntarily" the black-robed executioners will happily take your home or whatever else you've got.
It takes a Big Stick and a lot of hard-won knowledge to stop them.
Taking larger and larger hunks out of everyone's paycheck and forcing everyone to sign their own arrest warrants [1040's] was not enough for these Vermin upon the Earth. Oh, no, they had to start collecting a Second Peter's Pence.
Bearing in mind that while the First Peter's Pence is still being collected as "Federal Income Tax" every April 15, they started another, Second Peter's Pence, collected in June, which really is a more or less voluntary pass-the-hat donation.
The problem is that instead of creating a special fund for the Pope to use to help "victims of war, oppression, natural disaster, or disease" as advertised, the money has been going into (often sleazy) investments and not used for the purposes described to the Faithful.
Ninety percent of this Double Dip Second Peter's Pence "Relief Fund" has been used for speculative investments and slush funds while earthquake and hurricane victims have gone without, children have died of malnutrition and thirst, epidemics have rampaged, and wars for profit have proliferated.
The excuse? Well, you gave us this money, we can't just leave it sitting in a drawer....
Why leave it sitting anywhere at all? Ever? Why not put it to work immediately and directly for the purposes intended?
It isn't as if Catholic Social Services itself couldn't use a hand. Right here in Anchorage, Alaska, the local soup kitchen, emergency food banks, women's shelters, homeless shelters, and hospitals and clinics could all use a shot in the arm.
It isn't as if there is any sudden dearth of victims of war, oppression, natural disaster, and disease --- so that holding onto the money for "future needs" instead of spending it would make any sense.
Just this past year alone in Alaska we have over a thousand people who have lost their homes and/or suffered severe damage to their homes or lost their businesses as a result of wildfires and earthquakes, and that's just the "natural disasters" category in Alaska.
Think of all the people in the Middle East and Africa suffering from everything from plague to water shortages to corporate mercenaries running around killing and pillaging? People in Haiti who never received the aid we sent them, because Hillary Clinton siphoned 90% of it off to benefit her private foundation? Street kids in Delhi? American Indians stuck on Reservations?
The whole idea that there aren't enough "victims of war, oppression, natural disaster, or disease" in urgent and immediate need to justify a steady stream of Mercy Money from the Holy See, is ludicrous. Those bucks should hardly hit the plate before they are out the door.
The Pope's hands should be hot from the friction as he rushes from one disaster site to another, passing out relief money, supplying hospitals, rebuilding schools, drilling new water wells, extending electrical services, reforesting burned areas in the name of Jesus and God, the Father....and instead, it turns out that these despicable Con Artists have been taking that money and Slush Funding it.
Not only could the Pope have donated a few shekels of the Second Peter's Pence Fund to mitigate the cost of rebuilding and providing shelter for the victims of fires and earthquakes, he could have stopped spending money to spray noxious incendiary elements and compounds --- Chemtrails --- all over the planet, a practice that has contributed to these "natural" wildfire disasters and to deforestation by encouraging conditions favorable to Spruce Bark Beetle infestations. This extra-curricular project of the Vatican has also depleted the oxygen in our atmosphere and destabilized the magnetic pole.
Read that: they are spending money to CAUSE the problems, and then not spending money intended to help alleviate the consequences. Double whammy. Screwed if you do, screwed if you don't.
Do you think that all the fire victims in Australia -- and flood victims, too -- could stand a helping hand right about now?
But, oh, gee, all our Peter's Pence money is tied up in luxury condos and Hollywood film productions right now. Don't have a dime free.
I could throw up, and I'm not even Catholic.
So here's encouraging news. At least some Catholics are showing a backbone. If you are Catholic, and you "in good faith" contributed to Peter's Pence in the innocent expectation that the money would be used as advertised, read on:
(LifeSiteNews) — A Dallas law firm filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for “unlawful, deceptive and fraudulent practices” in promoting and collecting funds for the papal charity Peter’s Pence.
The suit alleges the American bishops “actively” misled Catholics into believing their millions of dollars in donations to the collection would be used to help “victims of war, oppression, natural disaster, or disease,” when in fact much of the money was funneled into private investments, such as Hollywood’s sexually explicit Elton John biopic, “luxury condominium developments” and “hefty, multi-million dollar commissions” to fund managers.
Stanley Law Group filed the lawsuit January 22 in the United States District Court in Rhode Island on behalf of David O’Connell, a parishioner at Sacred Heart Church in East Providence, who is seeking a jury trial, it stated in a press release.
“USCCB must come clean and give back the money it took from well-intentioned people who thought they were giving urgently-needed funds to help the destitute around the world,” said lead attorney Mark Stanley.
“It’s regrettable and tragic that such a trusted and well-respected organization has been taking advantage of the generosity of Catholic donors.”
The firm is also asking American residents who contributed to Peter’s Pence between 2013 and 2019 to consider joining the legal action.
The lawsuit alleges that the USCCB is “liable for common law fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of fiduciary duty” for “misleadingly soliciting millions of dollars in charitable donations that were diverted into private investments,” the press release states.
According to the 23-page complaint, Peter’s Pence is a “special collection taken from Catholics every June” and is described by the USCCB as a fund that “supports the Pope’s philanthropy by giving the Holy Father the means to provide emergency assistance to those in need because of natural disaster, war, oppression, and disease.”
But a bombshell report in the Italian newspaper L’Espresso in October 2019 exposed a very different story.
L’Espresso reported that “secret internal Vatican investigative reports” showed most of Peter’s Pence funds had been “diverted into ‘reckless speculative operations,’ with 77 per cent of the collections” -- “roughly $560 million” -- channeled to the Swiss investment company Credit Suisse, the complaint detailed.
The newspaper also reported that a high-ranking Vatican official asked Italian financier Raffaele Mincione to invest $200 million of the collection, and that Mincione used the money to buy real estate in London “for a luxury apartment development” through a fund he managed, stated the complaint.
When the investment didn’t yield the expected returns, the Vatican pulled out of the fund and bought the property, and Minicone made $170 million on the deal, according to sources cited in the document.
Pope Francis responded in November, stating that the fact that the Vatican invests the money shouldn’t bother anyone, according to Catholic News Services (CNS), the complaint stated.
“The sum of Peter’s Pence arrives and what do I do? Put it in a drawer? No, that’s bad administration. I try to make an investment,” CNS quoted the pope as saying.
That was followed by a further bombshell report in December when Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera broke the news that $1 million of Peter’s Pence donations had been invested in the Elton John biopic Rocketman, and more than $3.6 million in the movie Men in Black: International, the complaint stated.
Moreover, Corriere della Sera reported that “millions of dollars” had been sunk into the Malta-based investment company Centurion Global Fund run by Italian financier Enrioco Crasso, “who received ‘millions of euros in commissions’ while losing 4.61 percent of the fund (approximately two million euros) by the end of 2018.”
The complaint also cited a Wall Street Journal December 2019 report stating that for “at least the past five years, only about 10 percent of the money collected—more than €50 million was raised in 2018—has gone to the sort of charitable causes featured in advertising for the collection.”
Meanwhile, in the summer of 2018, plaintiff O’Donnell’s priest at Sacred Heart made a plea from the pulpit at Sunday Mass for donations to Peter’s Pence, the complaint recounted.
“Nothing [O’Donnell] saw or heard, on that day or beforehand, told him or made him understand that his donations to Peter’s Pence would be used for anything other than emergency assistance to the neediest people around the world.”
The complaint asserted that if O’Donnell had known where the money was going, he would not have donated.
But the USCCB “actively concealed the true character and nature of the Peter’s Pence collection and made misrepresentations about the specified purposes of the collection” that “rendered their statements misleading.”
The USCCB “has always known the difference between a donation for emergency assistance and a donation to defray Vatican expenses” but “hid this distinction in its promotion, oversight, and administration of the Peter’s Pence collection in the United States,” stated the claim.
As a result, the USCCB “has effectively profited at the expense of David O’Connell and members of the public.”
The legal action defines USCCB as “composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States.”
It is asking the district court to certify the proposed class, and for an order enjoining the USCCB “from continuing the unlawful, deceptive, and fraudulent practices alleged in this complaint.”
The complaint is also seeking “costs, restitution, damages and disgorgement in an amount to be determined at trial,” an order for the USCCB to pay pre- and post-judgement interest on any amounts awarded, as well as costs and attorney’s fees.
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Virginia Democrats Push Legislation to Make Criticism of Government Officials a Criminal Offense
In the wake of the Virginia gun rights rally on Monday, Democrats in the Capitol are not slowing down their push for tyranny. They are moving a bill through the legislature that would effectively criminalize dissent against Governor Blackface Northam and other state government officials.
House Bill 1627 was introduced by Delegate Jeffrey M. Bourne last week. The legislation “provides that certain crimes relating to threats and harassment may be prosecuted in the City of Richmond if the victim is the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General, or Attorney General-elect, a member or employee of the General Assembly, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.”
Language in the bill explicitly criminalizes free speech, in what would constitute a blatant attack on the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.
“If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, shall use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act, he is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor,” the legislation reads.
The legislation makes it clear that the above provision applies directly to “the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General, or Attorney General-elect, a member or employee of the General Assembly, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia,” which means this legislation effectively criminalizes dissent against public officials.
Tina Freitas, wife of Republican Delegate Nick Freitas, called attention to this intolerable act in a Facebook post on Tuesday night.
“Wow on cue, now they are after the 1A! Dems are trying to set up special rules exclusive to the Elite ruling class, to protect themselves from criticism!” Freitas wrote.
“What is considered harassment? Is Governor Infanticide/KKK Hood trying to avoid being held accountable? Are we no longer allowed to demand justice for the alleged rape victims of LG Fairfax? This is some straight up communist censorship!” she added.
Virginia Democrats were not detracted by the gun rights rally on Monday in the slightest. They moved red flag laws through the legislature just a day later, and subsequently killed pro-gun bills that were introduced by Republicans.
“The governor and the leadership of the democrats have declared war on law-abiding citizens and gun owners and their votes today just confirmed that that’s where we’re going,” said Philip Van Cleave, President of Virginia Citizens Defense League.
Virginia patriots may have to continue organizing locally, with Sheriffs deputizing local patriots and constitutional militias being trained, as a bulwark against the treasonous usurpers leading the state legislature.
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