Saturday, May 26, 2012

Pope's butler arrested after leaked church documents revealed allegations of corruption and power struggles with Vatican bank

So, more arrests...

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Pope's butler arrested after leaked church documents revealed allegations of corruption and power struggles with Vatican bank

Posted by Charleston Voice, 05.26.12
  • Documents also show how contracts were awarded to favoured people
  • Paolo Gabriele has been at the Pope's side for six years
  • Furious Pope appointed senior cardinals to investigate the leaks
By Nick Pisa
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Vatican police have arrested Pope Benedict XVI's personal butler following an investigation into the leaking of sensitive church documents, it emerged today.


In a scenes worthy of a Dan Brown thriller, the butler identified as Paolo Gabriele, 46, was held by gendarmes after a special commission of three top senior cardinals had been appointed by a furious Pope Benedict to identify the source of the leaks which have caused severe embarrassment.


Gabriele, who has been at the Pope's side for six years, is one of the German born pontiff's closest members of his inner circle which totals just four lay people and four nuns and he is always at his side - he is so close that he and the nuns who look after him are described as the 'pontiff's family'.
The Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele (bottom L) has been at the Pope's (right) side for six years. He has been arrested on suspicion of leaking internal documents
The Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele (bottom L) has been at the Pope's (right) side for six years. He has been arrested on suspicion of leaking internal documents

It is believed that Gabriele, who is known by the nickname Paoletto (little Paul) was held as he arrived for work at the Papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace behind St Peter's and tonight he was being held in custody - the first time in years the Vatican jail had been used.


Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said a man had been detained with 'documents in his possession' adding that he was not supposed to have them and he went on to describe him as 'a lay person and not a member of the clergy'.
The arrest of Gabriele comes just days after author Gianluigi Nuzzi published a book on the leaked documents called Sua Santita (His Holiness).

The Vatican had condemned the book as 'criminal' and the printing of the documents were a violation of the Pope's privacy it said.
The Vatican said it has arrested a man caught in possession of secret documents in a bid to crack down on the source of the leak scandal
The Vatican said it has arrested a man caught in possession of secret documents in a bid to crack down on the source of the leak scandal


Nuzzi hit back and said that the files were not private and were documents between states and he added they had been given to him by people who work inside the Vatican and in a reference to the Bible, he said the sources wanted to 'get the moneylenders out of the temple'.

Today's arrest came just a month after Pope Benedict turned detective and appointed a special commission to investigate the series of damning and embarrassing leaks of sensitive Catholic Church documents from the Vatican as it still tries to recover from the priest sex abuse scandal.

Dozens of documents including private letters to the Pope have found themselves into the hands of the Italian media in what has been dubbed, unsurprisingly, Vatileaks.


The documents show how contracts were awarded to favoured companies and individuals and also highlight allegations of internal power struggles with the Vatican's bank known as the Institute for Religious Works.
Dozens of documents including private letters to the Pope have found themselves into the hands of the Italian media in what has been dubbed Vatileaks
Dozens of documents including private letters to the Pope, right, have found themselves into the hands of the Italian media in what has been dubbed Vatileaks

By coincidence on Thursday the head of the bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who is already under investigation for money laundering resigned after a vote of no confidence and initially there were rumours that he was the person responsible for the leak of documents.

The scandal began in January with the publication of leaked letters from the former deputy governor of the Vatican City archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, in which he pleaded not to be transferred after he had exposed what he said was corruption over the awarding of contracts.

Archbishop Vigano was deputy governor from 2009 until last year when he was moved to Washington DC to be papal nuncio in the United States. He had written to the Pope protesting the fact adding that it would bring an end to his efforts to 'clean up' the Vatican.

Earlier this year there was even a report leaked which claimed a plot to assassinate Pope Benedict had been uncovered although this was dismissed as "absurd" by Father Lombardi who threatened to take legal action against the TV station that screened the documents.

The Pope was said to be 'shocked and saddened' at the constant leaks and it led to him appointing the cardinal commission which worked with the Vatican gendarmes and lead to the arrest.
Paolo Rodari, an expert on Vatican affairs with newspaper Il Foglio,believes Paolo Gabriele, pictured, has been made a scapegoat
Paolo Rodari, an expert on Vatican affairs
with newspaper Il Foglio,believes Paolo
Gabriele, pictured, has been made a scapegoat
Vatican prosecutor Nicola Picardi was questioning Gabriele and the news was dominating Italian media with many describing the arrest as an 'earthquake within the Holy Sea' although some questioned if he was perhaps being made a scapegoat.

Sources said that sensitive Vatican documents had been recovered from father of three Gabriele's home inside the Vatican.

But Paolo Rodari, an expert on Vatican affairs with newspaper Il Foglio, was sceptical of his involvement and said: 'I know Gabriele. He is a nice guy but I don't think he would be behind this. I think he may have been imprudent and taken the odd document home but he is not the main person.

'If you ask me he has been made a scapegoat just to satisfy the media. The documents found at his house were from the Pope's personal correspondence but a lot of the leaked documents have come from the Secretary of State's office and he would not have had access to those.

'This is all part of a plot to discredit Pope Benedict and Cardinal (Tarcisio) Bertone (Secretary of State) and I think it has been ordered by senior figures from within the Curia who may have exploited Gabriele but I personally don't think he is the driving force behind Vatileaks.'

A Vatican spokesman added that the Vatican did have cells but said he had 'no idea when they were last used'. Source The Daily Mail

A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama

A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama

Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles. He inhaled. A lot.posted 

1. The Choom Gang

1. The Choom Gang
A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning "to smoke marijuana."

2. Total Absorption

2. Total Absorption
As a member of the Choom Gang, Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends. The first was called "TA," short for "total absorption." To place this in the physical and political context of another young man who would grow up to be president, TA was the antithesis of Bill Clinton's claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled.

3. Roof Hits

3. Roof Hits
Along with TA, Barry popularized the concept of "roof hits": when they were chooming in the car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.

4. Penalties

4. Penalties
When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang for marijuana, meaning "numbing tobacco") instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around. "Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated," explained one member of the Choom Gang, Tom Topolinski, the Chinese-looking kid with a Polish name who answered to Topo.

5. The Choomwagon

5. The Choomwagon
[Choom Gang member] Mark Bendix's Volkswagen bus, also known as the Choomwagon. … The other members considered Mark Bendix the glue, he was funny, creative, and uninhibited, with a penchant for Marvel Comics. He also had that VW bus and a house with a pool, a bong, and a Nerf basketball, all enticements for them to slip off midday for a few unauthorized hours of recreation...

6. Interceptions

6. Interceptions
Barry also had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted "Intercepted!," and took an extra hit. No one seemed to mind.

7. Slippers

7. Slippers
Choom Gang members often made their way to Aku Ponds at the end of Manoa Stream, where they slipped past the liliko'i vines and the KAPU (keep out) signs, waded into waist-high cool mountain water, stood near the rock where water rushed overhead, and held up a slipper (what flip-flops are called in Hawaii) to create an air pocket canopy. It was a natural high, they said, stoned or not.

8. Ray The Dealer

8. Ray The Dealer
He was a long-haired haole hippie who worked at the Mama Mia Pizza Parlor not far from Punahou and lived in a dilapidated bus in an abandoned warehouse. … According to Topolinski, Ray the dealer was "freakin' scary." Many years later they learned that he had been killed with a ball-peen hammer by a scorned gay lover. But at the time he was useful because of his ability to "score quality weed."
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In another section of the [senior] yearbook, students were given a block of space to express thanks and define their high school experience. … Nestled below [Obama's] photographs was one odd line of gratitude: "Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times." … A hippie drug-dealer made his acknowledgments; his own mother did not.

9. Pumping Stations

9. Pumping Stations
Their favorite hangout was a place they called Pumping Stations, a lush hideaway off an unmarked, roughly paved road partway up Mount Tantalus. They parked single file on the grassy edge, turned up their stereos playing Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult, and Stevie Wonder, lit up some "sweet-sticky Hawaiian buds" and washed it down with "green bottle beer" (the Choom Gang preferred Heineken, Becks, and St. Pauli Girl).

10. Veto

10. Veto
One of the favorite words in their subculture revealed their democratic nature. The word was veto. Whenever an idea was broached, someone could hold up his hand in the V sign (a backward peace sign of that era) and indicate that the motion wash not approved. They later shortened the process so that you could just shout "V" to get the point across. In the Choom Gang, all V's were created equal.

11. Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud And Kona Gold:

11. Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud And Kona Gold:
In the Honolulu of Barry's teenage years marijuana was flourishing up in the hills, out in the countryside, in covert greenhouses everywhere. It was sold and smoked right there in front of your nose; Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud, Kona Gold, and other local variations of pakololo were readily available.

12. The Barf Couch

12. The Barf Couch
The Barf Couch earned its name early in the first trimester when a freshman across the hall from Obama [in the Haines Hall Annex dorm at Occidental College] drank himself into a stupor and threw up all over himself and the couch. In the manner of pallbearers hoisting a coffin, a line of Annexers lifted the tainted sofa with the freshman aboard and toted it out the back door and down four steps to the first concrete landing on the way to the parking lot. A day later, the couch remained outside in the sun, resting on its side with cushions off (someone had hosed it clean), and soon it was back in the hallway nook.

13. The Annex Olympics

13. The Annex Olympics
(The main hallway at Haines Hall was called the Annex,) home to the impromptu Annex Olympics: long-jumping onto a pile of mattresses, wrestling in underwear, hacking golf balls down the hallway toward the open back door, boxing while drunk. There were the non-Olympic sports of lighting farts and judging them by color, tipping over the Coke machine, breaking the glass fire extinguisher case, putting out cigarettes on the carpet, falling asleep on the carpet, flinging Frisbees at the ceiling-mounted alarm bell, tasting pizza boxes to the floor, and smoking pot from a three-foot crimson opaque bong, a two-man event involving the smoker and an accomplice standing ready to respond to the order "Hey, dude, light the bowl!"
http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama 

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Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - May 25, 2012

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Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - May 25, 2012
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Date: Friday, 25-May-2012 22:26:13


Message from the Galactic Federation of Light by Greg Giles - May 25, 2012
The Mystery of the Bermudian/Atlantean Hotel
Our mystery begins deep below the coral bedrock of the area of your world known as the Bermuda Triangle, beneath the crystal clear waves where a deep underground, sprawling hotel has been created by those of your world who have taken their money that they spend on such luxuries from your pockets. This hotel that has been a secret up until now is 50 stories in height and it is 30 stories in breadth. It is massive as far as hotels are concerned in your world. It was designed and it was built by those of your world with great minds and quite expanded vision. This hotel, a playground for the rich, the famous and the successful was built from taxpayer money and secret black projects that have embedded great amounts of wealth within the pockets of those who today garner the title of world controllers and operators.
They do not have an open door policy or a welcome mat in front of their sunken entrance way. Instead, only those whom they consider ‘A list’ clients are permitted to grace this spectacular hotel’s hallways, dining areas, tennis courts, beautiful gardens and luxurious staterooms. All other trespassers are taken into custody and their silence is promised through intimidation, incarceration, and even through the last resort of death.
We tell you this today at the risk of stretched credibility for our channel, because we want you to know that there are many great secrets that have been kept from you and there are many great secrets that will now be revealed to you. What we are attempting to accomplish is the expansion of your consciousness to better avail you to new information, concepts and ideas that today so many of you limit yourself to being beyond the veil of possibility. There is really no limit to what is possible, and there has been virtually no limit to what is possible here in your world for many eons of time.
What has been going on here is a masquerade. A charade where the wool has been pulled over the eyes of the unsuspecting and the naively trusting, to blanket you in a reality that is based on antiquated vision and scope for your systems, your processes, your architecture, your sciences, your communications, your transportation, your health, your diets and exercise, your literature, film, music, arts, the games that you play to entertain yourselves and to stay in shape and as youthful as you can be. What is in reality possible for you is so far beyond what you have come to know as the boundaries of your possibilities that the introduction of these concepts to you will be very striking and unsettling for many of your world.
Uprooting a being’s reality is not a gentle and unsettling process. We, the Galactic Federation of Light, aim to achieve the end result of offering advancements to the worlds that we visit, but offer these gifts slowly and carefully when introducing and infusing them into the collective consciousness of a society. At this period in your history, we wish to introduce many gifts to you, but we must be as gentle and as subtle as we can in their presentation as to not rock the boat of the reality of many of you who have not yet demonstrated their talent for receiving and assimilating new ideas very well.
We monitor your society, but we do not in any way monitor the thoughts of any of you who have not first given us your full permission and consent for participation in our many studies. We wish to be clear about this, as we honor and respect the privacy of each and every one of you no matter your position in life, even if you are members of our organization when you are not incognito, walking within the body of a human being. We will only monitor your thought patterns and reactions to our stimuli and the stimuli you may or may not receive through other catalysts outside our motivating actions. We do monitor certain processes of those of you who have met with us and have agreed to assist us in our ongoing evaluation of the human consciousness levels, their expansion, and improvements in the processing of your mental functions and capabilities.
We ask for more volunteers at this time to help us understand better the human being at this time of such importance and great change. We wish to move ahead on our schedule and begin to implement some new concepts and systems into your world. We are hesitant to do this, as we wish to make certain that there is a strong enough foundation of those of your world who can accept these new concepts and fully integrate them into your minds and into your way of life and help us further integrate these systems into the way of life of others around you who may at first be unable to accept these new ideas that we offer as gifts. Will you do this for us? Will you allow us to gently read your thought patterns as we integrate new ideas into your collective consciousness?
What we do precisely is monitor the thought waves that emanate from your mental, emotional and physical systems located in your bodies and your temporal area of your brain. We read the output of this information as a chart or a graph that gives us a clear indication of how readily or unreadily you are accepting these new ideas, concepts and information that his is being seeded into your collective consciousness through our work with channels and even other means that we seed information into your world. If you agree to participate in our program we will be very appreciative, and we will reciprocate by offering sooner to your people better ways to do certain things and to get certain jobs done faster and more efficiently than when we will be able to without the participation of an adequate number of you in order to receive enough data to make qualified decisions based on this data.
This is what we ask of you at this time. Please do not feel any pressure to agree to participate, as we are confident will we will receive responses from sufficient numbers of you to collect the data we feel will lead to the findings we seek. If you do not feel comfortable with this process it is very understandable to us, and we would not look at this in any way negatively towards any of you. This process is a relatively small area of our overall operation, but nonetheless, we feel important enough to initiate this program. We will be beginning the initial phases of this program immediately and if you wish to participate simply say “I wish to participate in the program where my thought patterns are read by qualified scientists and researchers of the Galactic Federation of Light.” This is all it will take, and we can get started immediately.
The means in which we collect this data from your thought processes is unobtrusive, and will not harm you in any way, shape or form. You are in very safe and capable hands when you are working with us, and your health and well-being is of paramount importance to all of us throughout every area of our organization and operations. We thank those of you willing to participate in our program, and we look forward to receiving this data from you and implementing the new systems that are the goal of this program.
Until then, we invite those of you who have agreed to participate in this program to continue reading our messages sent through our channels and we will remotely read your thought processes while you are reading our words and new information about certain systems that we feel would be a great benefit to your society. We hope to find sufficient numbers of you who readily accept these new concepts, and we will post for you the data that we collect in the form of charts and graphs, but we will not divulge the identities of anyone of you that has participated in this program. Again, your safety and security is of utmost importance to us, and we as always will do everything that we can to protect your privacy.
We are the Galactic Federation of Light.
As channeled through Greg Giles
http://ascensionearth2012.blogspot.com/-

Friday, May 25, 2012

LET THE POTS AND PANS BRIGADE BE HEARD AROUND THE WORLD

 
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Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’

May 25, 2012 12:54pm

Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’


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Young Barack Obama
Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale.
In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke “in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.”
He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere.
Now a soon-to-be published biography by David Maraniss entitled “Barack Obama: The Story” gives more detail on Obama’s pot-smoking days, complete with testimonials from young Barry Obama’s high school buddies, a group that went by the name “the Choom Gang.” Choom was slang for smoking marijuana.
Maraniss portrays the teenage Obama as not just a pot smoker, but a pot-smoking innovator.
“As a member of the Choom Gang,” Maraniss writes, “Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends.”
The first Obama-inspired trend: “Total Absorption” or “TA”.
“TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled,” explains Maraniss. Here’s how it worked: If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, “you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.”
As one of Obama’s old high school buddies tells Maraniss: “Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated.”
Another Obama innovation: “Roof Hits.”
“When they were chooming in a car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.”
Maraniss also says Obama was known for his “Interceptions”: “When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!,’ and took an extra hit.”
Although Obama himself wrote that he and his pot smoking buddies were a “club of disaffection,” Maraniss says that’s not really true.
“In fact, most members of the Choom Gang were decent students and athletes who went on to successful and productive lawyers, writers and businessmen,” Maraniss writes. One notable exception was Ray, the group’s pot dealer who, known for his ability “to score quality bud,” would years later be killed by a scorned gay lover armed with a ball-peen hammer.
Obama himself managed to be a pretty good student despite all the pot smoking and unconventional study habits.
“He told his Choom Gang mates that the trick was if you put the textbook under your pillow the night before you would perform better on an exam,” Maraniss writes. No way, dude!
Back to the pot smoking.
Hawaii of the early 1970s was something of a pot-smoking Mecca.
“It was sold and smoked right there in front of your nose; Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud, Kona Gold, and other local variations of pakalolo were readily available,” writes Maraniss.
Obama’s pal Mark Bendix had a Volkswagen microbus known as “the Choomwagon.” They would often drive up Honolulu’s Mount Tantalus where they parked “turned up their stereos playing Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult and Stevie Wonder, lit up some ‘sweet-sticky Hawaiian buds’ and washed it down with ‘green bottled beer’ (the Choom Gang preferred Heineken, Becks, and St. Pauli Girl). No shouting, no violence, no fights; they even cleaned up their beer bottles.”
Of course, smoking, drinking and driving on mountain roads could also be a little dangerous. Especially the night they tried drag racing.
The race to the top of Mount Tantalus pitted the “Choomwagon” against another friend’s Toyota. Obama was in the Toyota. The Choomwagon made it to the top first. When the other car didn’t show up, those in the Choomwagon drove back down to find them. Here’s how Maraniss describes what happened next:
“On the way down, they saw a figure who appeared to be staggering up the road. It was Barry Obama. What was going on? As they drew closer, they noticed that he was laughing so hard he could barely stand up.”
His friend had rolled the car. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. And, amazingly, they avoided trouble by leaving the driver alone to deal with the police by claiming it was just an unfortunate “mishap.”
Maraniss concludes his chapter on Obama’s high school years by looking at a note Obama had written in his high school yearbook in a section reserved for students to give a line or two giving thanks to those who helped along the way.
Obama had written this: “Thanks Tut [his grandmother], Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times.”
Maraniss notes: “Ray was the older guy who hung around the Choom Gang, selling them pot. A hippie drug dealer made his acknowledgements; his mother did not.”
The White House told ABC News that it has no comment.
See more photos of Barack Obama as a child and teen HERE.

ASSASSINATION CZAR? PERHAPS HE WILL ONLY TARGET FOREIGN TERRORISTS?

Media Blackout As Obama Appoints First Ever Assassination Czar

Corporate news blackout as Obama appoints John Brennan as the sole person in charge of designating people to be assassinated.

John Brennan, Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor was a name that you did not see on the Mainstream media today as they continue to run stories that serve to distract the masses from stories that matter.
Most recently he publicly spoke about the drone program calling it moral and ethical and just.
According to reports from the Associated Press, John Brennan has now seized the lead in choosing who will be targeted for drone attacks and raids after Obama delegated him as the sole authority to designate people for assassination under the United States top-secret assassination program.
Yes, if it such a secret program then why is the Associated Press running a story on it? Because it is only a “top-secret” matter of National Insecurity when the public and organizations such as the ACLU request more details on it than is revealed int the propagandized reports the public is fed through the corporate media.
While this story deserves to have been put before the eyeballs of every U.S. citizens it was merely a side note ran by the Associate Press that didn’t make corporate news headlines anywhere.
According to the AP, under the new plan, Brennan’s staff compiles the potential target list and runs the names past agencies such as the State Department at a weekly White House meeting.
At the same time ACLU lawsuits and requests for information about the decision-making process behind the government’s assassination program repeatedly get denied with the government claiming the programs are so top-secret that they can neither confirm nor deny the programs even exist.

 http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/23/media-blackout-obama-appoints-assassination-czar-137181/

AND WE ARE TOLERATING THIS WHY?