Treason in the U.S. Senate

TREASON IN THE U.S.A. SENATE

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 6:17

SOTN Editor’s Note:
 
 
An historic vote has just taken place in the U.S. Senate which amounts to nothing less than treason.  By a vote of 53 to 44 the Senate voted to reject auditing the Federal Reserve. That means there are at the very least 44 traitors in the Senate who have revealed their true loyalties.  Where were the other three non-voting senators, especially Ted Cruz.

The Federal Reserve Banking System currently functions as an international crime syndicate foisting its monetary dictates upon the USA and beyond.  It has always operated under the veil of complete secrecy because of the fraudulent banking practices and manipulative monetary policy that it conducts on a daily basis.

In other words if there is one bank that requires a massive audit, and subsequent overhaul, it is the Federal Reserve Bank (FED).  It may even be that the FED needs to be shut down … forever!  In that way the U.S. Department of Treasury can rightfully take back its fiduciary responsibilities to the American people.

Then there is the proverbial sixty-four thousand dollar question.  Who really owns the FED?  Some of the best financial sleuths of all time have tried to figure that one out … and even they aren’t close to findng out who the TRUE owners are.

When the American people don’t even know who their real bankers are, something is very wrong.  Is it any wonder that they (the moneychangers) are now universally known across the Internet as the 'banksters'? 

The Federal Reserve has been forced to execute their treasonous schemes under the cloak of utter secrecy. Only is this way have they succeeded in bankrupting the U.S. Government, Inc.

However, the original American constitutional republic that was established by the U.S. Constitution, is not liable for the upwards of $19 trillion national debt.   

The Federal Reserve Bank actually is for the fraud that they have perpetrated on the USA since its very inception.  By the way, is the federal debt really only $19,000,000,000,000?

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Senate shoots down ‘audit the Fed’ proposal

Senate shoots down ‘audit the Fed’ proposal

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RT.com

A proposal to audit the Federal Reserve failed to pass in the US Senate. The bill, proposed by Kentucky Republican Rand Paul, was opposed by the Democrats, the White House, and the business lobby.

The procedural motion on the bill required 60 votes to pass, but managed to get only 53.

“Both Republicans and Democrats agree that it is absurd we do not know where hundreds of billions worth of our money is going,” Paul said ahead of the vote, according to The Hill.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent currently vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, voted in favor of Paul’s proposal.

“Requiring the Government Accountability Office to conduct a full and independent audit of the Fed each and every year would be an important step towards making the Federal Reserve a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of ordinary Americans rather than the billionaires on Wall Street,” Sanders said in a statement following the vote.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, running for the Republican nomination, reportedly did not show up for the vote. He had previously voiced support for the proposed audit.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, often criticized for missing important votes, made an appearance and backed Paul’s bill.

Paul’s initiative ran into fierce opposition from the Federal Reserve, the White House, the Democratic party and the US Chamber of Commerce.

The bill would have required a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of the Federal Reserve – a private entity entrusted with managing the US monetary policy – and potentially expose the secret interest rate deliberations of the Federal Open Market Committee, according to Bloomberg.

The White House has called Paul’s proposal "dangerous."  “What that bill is about is about Congress supplanting its judgment as to what monetary policy should be,” said Jason Furman, chairman of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. “Congress shouldn’t be telling the Fed what to do with monetary policy.”

Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen sent a letter to Senate leadership last week saying that she opposes the bill. If signed into law, she said it would be “a grave mistake, detrimental to the economy and the American people.”

Critics have also dismissed Paul’s proposal as a political stunt. The Kentucky senator is seeking the GOP presidential nomination, but is currently polling in single digits and may be excluded from the next debate.
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https://www.rt.com/usa/328685-fed-audit-fails-senate/
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DID YOU NOTICE.... JCS SITTING UP FRONT?

            DID YOU NOTICE ....

JCS SITTING UP FRONT?

              Date: Thursday, JAN 14, 2016

[The first sentence below refers to my post "I had a weird idea: Trump and Sanders should agree that, if nominated, each would select the other as running mate", in response to which the reader sent this email. I felt this response deserved a separate thread.] From reader DA: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. What many do not understand and aren't getting here is there is no more "business as usual." I will go way out on a limb and state that there will be no cabal vote- stealing election held in November. Absolutely none of the current crop of candidates cuts it in any way. They don't have solutions.  They have rhetoric much like we heard from Obama during the SOTU address. Just more useless droning. While many think Trump is a darling, he is controlled opposition. No way in hell is he going to be elected. Many of us already KNOW that Obama is CEO of Cabal USA. He is not a real president. FED is broke.  The economy globally is in shambles. Baltic Dry index proves it. Nothing is moving in the Atlantic. Radical changes are coming to wake up slumbering people who will be absolutely shocked when these changes are announced. Radical market shifts are due to the Chinese Elders shaking up status quo with planned devaluations of the Yuan. How do you introduce asset-backing to the world? You do it in a series of market soft crashes. This is what you're observing in real time. We call that a "Global Currency Reset in progress. So much fear porn out there because people aren't getting the real understanding of what is transpiring right under their noses. I don't listen to or follow any MSM propaganda. I do my own research. Right now the real Intel is what you're seeing happen in the markets. Yuan devaluations are done for specific reasons. To unwind the derivatives, to force Cabal USA to accept asset-backing, since we are on "Plan B" with the rest of the world bypassing the rats using AIIB, CIPS replacing SWIFT transfers. RV/GCR first, then announcements of the Restoration of the Republic, NESARA, then announcements of ET disclosure by the very Galactics themselves. There is a Plan.  There is a process at work here behind-the- scenes. Get used to seeing the name General Joseph Dunford, current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff.  Did you notice he was up front and closer at SOTU address? And yes, when Obama started speaking, it was 9:11 on the clock above his head. POSTERS COMMENT: WHY IN THE HEE HAW ARE WE STILL PLAYING THE CABALS GAME AND BOWING DOWN TO KISS THEIR HIND ENDS??  THE CHEMTRAIL (NOW SPRAYING LITHIUM DAILY) AND THE MULITIPLE HAARPS ARE STILL WAGING WAR AGAINST US... THE JOINT CHIEFS NEED TO EXPLAIN!!  THERE IS A LOT OF US THAT SMELL A LOT OF B.S.....

HEEEEEERRRRREEEEE'S JOHNNY...

HEEEEEERRRRREEEEE'S  JOHNNY...

 

Lynch to institutionalize Obama gun laws

U.S. attorney general to 'institutionalize' Obama gun laws

 

Effort to make immigration orders permanent also underway

 

 

Jan 13 2016Leo Hohmann

 

 

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch became the latest Obama appointee to admit that one of her top priorities is to make sure Obama’s policies live on long after she and her boss leave power.

Lynch is quoted in the latest issue of New York Magazine saying: “My goal is to position the [Department of Justice] where it will carry on in all of these issues long after myself and my team have moved on.”

She was speaking specifically about Obama’s executive orders on gun control which he announced last week.  Lynch made the comment in response to a question about how she planned to prosecute gun sellers under the new executive actions.

Leading Republican presidential hopefuls Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Ben Carson all vowed to overturn the Obama orders if elected. But if Lynch gets her way, that will be easier said than done.  And Lynch is not the first Obama appointee to make such a comment.

WND reported in April 2015 Obama’s top domestic adviser, Cecilia Muñoz, said she was also working to institutionalize Obama’s policies. Only in the case of Muñoz, her focus would not be on gun control but on immigration.

Muñoz, a former executive with the National Council of La Raza, said it was her job “to make sure we build this really into the DNA across the federal bureaucracy, at a leadership level, but much more importantly to make sure that when political appointees like me are no longer here this (immigration strategy) is built into what those agencies do and think about every day.”

Muñoz said it was important for all 18 federal agencies to standardize, set benchmarks and “measure successes,” ensuring states and localities create the desired “welcoming communities” for refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants of all types, including those not in the country legally.

Writing for Breitbart, Ben Shapiro, author of “The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against The Obama Administration,” said these efforts by Obama bureaucrats across the board offer a sobering backdrop for the next president, even if it should be Trump, Cruz or some other leading conservative.

“For all those who revel in the fact that there are 374 days until Obama finally gets the hell out of the White House, a cautionary note: Obama and his colleagues are rigging the bureaucracy so that their unique brand of ‘hope and change’ extends far beyond their tenure,” Shapiro wrote.

Lynch has already made an imprint for Obama on the nation’s law enforcement.  She “spent time opening federal cases on the Baltimore Police Department after the in-custody death of Freddie Gray and against 14 officials in international FIFA corruption as though Americans care deeply about the nature of corrupt international soccer,” Shapiro writes.

Lynch also threatened to prosecute those who use “anti-Muslim rhetoric” that “edges toward violence” and said that her “greatest fear” is the “incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric.”

Those fears apparently keep Lynch up at night more consistently than the fears of another jihadist attack against American citizens, such as those that took place in 2015 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and San Bernardino, California, leaving a total of 19 dead.

Only after conservative media outcry and pushback from prominent GOP political figures such as former New York Gov. George Pataki, did Lynch walk back her comments about prosecuting Americans for anti-Muslim speech. She later said she would only prosecute “deeds, not words.”

Lynch and the FBI waited more than five months to determine that the Chattanooga shooter, Mohammad Abdulazeez, was indeed an ISIS sympathizer engaged in an act of terror when he shot four Marines and a sailor in May 2015.

Lynch then refused to tell Americans after the San Bernardino terror attack whether the perpetrators, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, were engaged in Islamic terrorism.
 

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/u-s-attorney-general-to-institutionalize-obama-gun-laws/ 

 

'RAPEAGEDDON' Headed To America

'RAPEAGEDDON' Headed To America - Time For Women Across This Nation To Arm Themselves And Prepare To Defend Their Lives

Susan Duclos
All News PipeLine
Jan 11 2016


A new alert was posted at Steve Quayle's website and linked on his front page, with the header "RAPE IS A FORM OF CONQUEST,THAT IS TAKING PLACE BEFORE A WORLD THAT DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THE GLOBAL ENSLAVEMENT AND BRUTALIZATION OF WOMEN WORLD WIDE.  I HAVE COINED A NEW TERM ‘RAPEAGEDDON'".

What a perfect descriptive term for what we are watching happen all across the globe with ISIS terrorists capturing women and female children throughout the Middle East, brutalizing them, raping them and killing them.

And across Europe we see report after report finally coming out about the mass rapes and abuse of women by Muslim "migrants" aka refugees, yet the silence in regards to this "Rapeageddon"  from the so-called "feminists" here in the U.S. that are constantly bemoaning the "war on women,"  in regards to equality, equal pay, job opportunities, etc... is deafening.

Those same feminists had better start paying attention, better jump off the gun-control bandwagon and start arming themselves along with every other of-age woman in America and learn how to safely handle a weapon and prepare to defend themselves because - NEWFLASH ladies - the "Rapeageddon" is on its way and with the amount of "refugees" being imported into America increasing each year, we are about to become Europe!

We'll start with the full Quayle alert:

‘RAPEAGEDDON’ IS UNDERWAY.  WHEN I RUN OUT OF TERMS TO DESCRIBE THE OUTRIGHT DENIAL OF HORRIFIC WORLD EVENTS AND A TOTALLY 'WHOREIFIED' INTERNATIONAL PRESS, I ESTABLISH NEW WORDS THAT ARE MORE DEFINITIVE THAN THE REDEFINED POLITICALLY CORRECT LANGUAGE OF SURRENDER.

THE FACT THAT EUROPE HAS BEEN CONQUERED BY THE MUSLIM ‘INVASIONISTS’ AND THE PUPPET RULERS OF THOSE COUNTRIES COMES  IS NO SURPRISE, AND ITS HEADED TO AMERICA.  THAT ALL AMERICAN WOMEN BE ARMED IS MY DESIRE AND PRAYER.

IF THE 'MEOW MEN’ IN EUROPE WON'T PROTECT THEIR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS, THEN THE WOMEN OF AMERICA MUST.  LADIES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT NOT TO BE RAPED AND BRUTALIZED OR MURDERED, AND BEING ARMED AND TRAINED WILL HELP PREVENT THE HORRORS OF EUROPEAN COWARDICE NOT BE AT YOUR EXPENSE.

THE KURDISH WOMEN HAVE PROVEN WHAT A GROUP OF WOMEN CAN DO WHICH IS SOMETHING THE WEST WILL LEARN THE HARD WAY - HUSBANDS GET YOUR WIVES WEAPONS AND THE CORRECT INSTRUCTION TO DEFEND THEMSELVES WHICH WILL ENABLE THEM TO WITHSTAND THIS EVIL,THATS COMING TO AMERICA.
 

EVEN JESUS STEPPED BETWEEN THE MEN WHO WERE GOING TO STONE THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY AND STOPPED THEM BY MOST LIKELY DRAWING IN THE SAND THE WOULD BE STONERS SIN, MOST LIKELY THEY HAD BEEN VISITING THIS WOMAN IN THE NIGHT!  HE SAVED HER LIFE.  IT’S NOT WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? IT’S LOOK WHAT JESUS DID.   SINCE WE ARE NOT JESUS, IF GOD DID NOT ALLOW SELF DEFENSE, HE WOULD BE CONDONING SUICIDE - WHICH HE DOESN’T.

AS THE PROPHET NAHUM SO RIGHTLY DEFINED THE MEN OF HIS DAY (BEHOLD THY PEOPLE IN THE MIDST OF THEE ARE WOMEN:THE GATES OF THY LAND SHALL BE SET WIDE OPEN UNTO THINE ENEMIES :THE FIRE SHALL DEVOUR THY BARS-NAHUM 3:13), GOD BLESS THE ARMED MEN AND WOMEN IN AMERICA!  -SQ

Spot on... Europe has been conquered and rape is being used, as it has been throughout history, as an act of war.

As highlighted in an article on Sunday titled -" 'The Final Play': Rape, Pillage And Plunder As The Globalists Take Us Under - Hell On Earth As Cities Burn Throughout The World, " we are seeing coordinated attacks upon women across Europe, specifically Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland and Austria. This is not a new problem as we also discovered that the "migrant" crime in Austria, Germany and Sweden were being covered up, but the simultaneous News Years Eve attacks were so widespread, the cover-up imploded and it became international news.

In Germany alone there were 600 criminal complaints filed against "migrants"  from the New Years Eve "Rapeageddon."

SEXUAL VIOLENCE USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR

Quayle was right on the mark with the statement "Rape is a form of conquest" -  Historically, as you will see in the graph and multiple links that will be provided, sexual violence and rape have been used as a weapon of war, to humiliate and demoralize, as part of ethnic cleansing, to terrorize, to control and even to obatin information.

Via Women Under Siege: "Below is a diagram showing a few specific ways sexualized violence has been used and where. There are so many reasons behind rape: Often it’s used to terrorize or humiliate communities, sometimes it’s used to glean information about rebels or to retaliate or exert power. As they say, rape is an incredibly effective—and cheap—weapon. Cheaper than bullets, and more destructive in many cases."



Related Material:

UNICEF - Sexual violence as a weapon of war
WIKI -      Wartime sexual violence

ISLAMIC CULTURE OF RAPE

It is not just sexual violence in war though, as the problem is much deeper than that and while stating this isn't "politically correct," refusing to name the problem is one of the reasons we are facing "Rapeageddon" right here in America....but rather than assimilating into the nation's culture, Islamic "refugees" are instead bringing their culture of rape and abuse of women into western countries.

Make no mistake, I am not claiming that all Muslims rape women and children, but there is sufficient research which indicates that rape and sexual violence is more prevalent within the Islamic culture than almost any other.

In 2013 it was reported by The Atlantic that "Syria has a massive rape crisis. Note the massive influx of refugees into Europe and being imported into the U.S. include a significant amount coming from Syria.

Just today InfoWars highlighted a video from Egypt from 2013, which shows a woman being dragged away by a group of Muslim men before she is brutally raped is an example of ‘Taharrush’.

Via RT:  German police fear repeats of the Cologne New Year’s Eve sexual assaults, saying extra attention will now be paid to fighting similar attacks. Police used the Arab term ‘taharrush gamea’ (collective harassment) to categorize the assaults – causing an angry reaction on Twitter.

The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the main investigative authority in Germany, said in a response to Welt newspaper it knows sexual harassment of women in public is widespread in Arab countries, and that this is exactly what happened on New Year’s Eve in Cologne. Collective harassment is translated as “taharrush gamea” (حرش جماعي).

Examples of abuse towards women can be found all across the Middle East, and what people must understand is it is a culture, it is not the exception to the rule, it is the rule.

In researching this article I ran across an outstanding explanation of the "Muslim rape culture," by  author and columnist Daniel Greenfield. The entire piece is a MUST-READ, but some significant quotes are shown below:

Muslim rape culture did not begin in Tahrir Square and it won’t end there. Not when it actually began in the year 624 when Mohammed came up with an ingenious means of rewarding his followers. In addition to the trophies of war, he made it legal for them to capture and rape married women.

When Australia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Hilaly justified a notorious series of gang rapes by comparing women to uncovered meat left out in the presence of a cat, he laid out the basis of Muslim rape culture. Women are always the guilty party, because they are women. If they refuse to defeminize themselves by putting on a Burka and becoming just another dark ghost haunting the streets of Cairo or Sydney with their lack of selfhood, then they are automatically guilty of their own rape.

It is noteworthy that this mindset and "culture" has not been imported into Germany, but has actually conquered Germany as evidenced by "Police in the Bavarian town of Mering, where a 16-year-old-girl was raped on September 11, have issued a warning to parents not to allow their children to go outside unaccompanied. In the Bavarian town of Pocking, administrators of the Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium have warned parents not to let their daughter's wear revealing clothing in order to avoid "misunderstandings." (Source - Gatestone Institute)

When communicating with Steve Quayle after asking permission to use his newly coined "Rapeageddon" term, he made a statement which he has graciously allowed me to quote in this article - ""WE HAVE RETURNED TO THE DARKEST OF AGES WHERE WOMEN, MOSTLY CHRISTIAN, ARE CHAINED TOGETHER AND SOLD ON THE MID-EAST SLAVE MARKETS, JUST AS THEY WERE HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO-,WHERAS ONCE IT WAS DONE IN SECRET NOW ITS OPENLY FLAUNTED -WHERE IS THE FEMINIST OUTRAGE"?

Great question! Why do we not see the same outrage from feminists that condemned Chrissie Hynde's comments about it being a woman’s fault if she is raped if she dresses provacatively. Where is the condemnation from Feministing who once wrote that victim blaming was "un-funny, unfair and un-feminist." Where are the feminists that were so outraged over the Dolce & Gabbana’s ‘gang bang’ ad?

Back to Mr. Greefield's article:

In Islam, women are objects, not subjects. Physically their entire bodies are considered ‘Awrah’,an Arabic word meaning ‘nakedness’, ‘fault’ or ‘defect’, terms that amply sum up the Islamic view of women. Even their voices are considered ‘Awrah’ meaning that even a fully covered up woman speaking is an immoral thing. A woman exists within Islam as an immoral object. And that gives Muslim men implicit permission to assault her, while holding her very nature accountable for  tempting them to commit the act.

If there is still any doubt about the culture of Islam, read the excuses and justifications from a supposed "moderate" Muslim man who believes that Islamic men have the right to tell women they do not even know how to dress because the way a women dresses can actually be "sexual harassment" against him and others like him!

Let me be frank. As a Muslim man, it is not easy walking through the streets these days. Women's fashion continues to get increasingly sexy and provocative, and, in effect, public spaces are increasingly sexualized. From an Islamic perspective, the harm caused to individuals by this is clear and inarguable. Even from a non-religious perspective, constantly bombarding men with sexiness can be tortuous. Think of men or adolescent males who, for whatever reason, cannot find a sexual partner. Or think of married men being endlessly tempted by strangers as soon as they step out of the house.

Even "moderate" Muslims feel that a woman is the one to be held accountable for "tempting" him... not by flirting with him, not by coming on to him but by simply being in a public space dressed in what HE considers to be a sexual manner. What? Are shorts sexual? A skirt that doesn't go down to the ankles? Are women that do not wear Burqas "tempting" to him, therefore they are sexually dressed and sexually "harassing" him??

Another must-read piece can be found over at American Thinker, titled "Islam, rape, and the fate of Western women."

LACK OF ASSIMILATION IS WHY AMERICAN WOMEN MUST BE ARMED AND PREPARED TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THEMSELVES

Over the years we have seen much debate on how we are a nation of immigrants, a melting pot (oops, that is no longer politically correct!) but immigrants of old assimilated into the country they were migrating to. That no longer applies and it is destroying the culture of the the countries accepting refugees.

A perfect example is Sweden, via Washington Standard, where a young woman learned the hard way why promoting "multiculturalism" over assimilation was deadly... literally.

Elin Krantz was a 27-year-old Swedish model that promoted diversity and multiculturalism. She was young, she was beautiful and now she is dead at the hands of an African “refugee” immigrant.  She was beaten and raped so badly that her injuries included, “burst membranes around the vaginal opening.”

Here’s the sad reality though.  The 23-year-old man that raped and murdered Krantz was an immigrant from Africa to the United States via a marriage to an Ethiopian woman and then immigrated from Virginia to Sweden. Understand that while living in the US, Yohannes “was sentenced to 13 months and 11 days in prison for drunk driving, hit and run and provision of false testimonies. He whined that he’s being mistreated in the USA because he’s black and was granted refugee status in multi - culturalism embracing Sweden. To thank Sweden for what she’d done for him, he raped and murdered one of her natives.”

What must be understood is that it is not only Muslim Extremists or Jihadists that are abusing women across Europe and, most importantly, people must realize that the abuses we are finally seeing reported on are the result of a clash of cultures and a U.S. president that has made it abundantly clear to foreigners that they do not have to assimilate.

The Daily Caller reports that Islam is set to become the second largest religion in America by 2040 and American women have something that European women do not.... access to firearms, the right to buy one, be trained to use it and the ability to prepare and defend themselves.  Recent reports indicate that women buying more weapons and taking training classes is on the rise, but if you are a man and familiar with weapons who has a wife, a mother, sister or  a daughter of age that is not trained and armed.... you should make sure they become so.

"Rapeageddon is heading to America..... lets make sure we are all armed and ready so our nations women do not suffer the same abuses that Europes' woman are suffering through right now.
   

 

U.S.Treasury Will Track 'Secret Buyers' of Luxury Real Estate

U.S. Will Track Secret Buyers of Luxury Real Estate ($1 mil and over)

LOUISE STORY 

JAN. 13, 2016

 

Concerned about illicit money flowing into luxury real estate, the Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would begin identifying and tracking secret buyers of high-end properties.

The initiative will start in two of the nation’s major destinations for global wealth: Manhattan and Miami-Dade County. It will shine a light on the darkest corner of the real estate market: all-cash purchases made by shell companies that often shield purchasers’ identities.

It is the first time the federal government has required real estate companies to disclose names behind cash transactions, and it is likely to send shudders through the real estate industry, which has benefited enormously in recent years from a building boom increasingly dependent on wealthy, secretive buyers.

The initiative is part of a broader federal effort to increase the focus on money laundering in real estate. Treasury and federal law enforcement officials said they were putting greater resources into investigating luxury real estate sales that involve shell companies like limited liability companies, often known as L.L.C.s; partnerships; and other entities.

Future investigations, they said, will focus increasingly on professionals who assist in money laundering, including real estate agents, lawyers, bankers and L.L.C. formation agents.

Officials said the new government efforts were inspired in part by a series last year in The New York Times that examined the rising use of shell companies as foreign buyers increasingly sought safe havens for their money in the United States. The investigation found that real estate professionals, especially in the luxury market, often do not know much about buyers. Until now, none of them have been legally required to.

The use of shell companies in real estate is legal, and L.L.C.s have a range of uses unrelated to secrecy. But a top Treasury official, Jennifer Shasky Calvery, said her agency had seen instances in which multimillion-dollar homes were being used as safe deposit boxes for ill-gotten gains, in transactions made more opaque by the use of anonymous shell companies.

“We are concerned about the possibility that dirty money is being put into luxury real estate,” said Ms. Calvery, the director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Treasury unit running the initiative. “We think some of the bigger risk is around the least transparent transactions.”

The department will focus on sales that are both paid for all in cash and conducted using shell companies.

The government is requiring title insurance companies, which are involved in virtually all sales, to discover the identities of buyers and submit the information to the Treasury.

The government will put the information into a database for law enforcement.

The Treasury’s program will affect billions of dollars in real estate transactions.

 

In Manhattan, the initiative requires buyers in sales of more than $3 million to be reported; in Miami-Dade County, it requires reporting on sales of more than $1 million. In Manhattan, 1,045 residential sales cost more than $3 million in the second half of 2015, worth some $6.5 billion in aggregate, according to PropertyShark, a real estate data company.  

In addition to starting in only two markets, the requirement runs from March through August. If Treasury officials find that many sales involved suspicious money, Ms. Calvery said, they will develop permanent reporting requirements across the country.

A senior Federal Bureau of Investigation official, Patrick Fallon, said the anonymity possible under existing shell companies had stymied investigations and the Treasury initiative would help trace illicit money.

“We fully intend to encourage expansion of it, so, not only to different geographic areas but as far as the time frame as well,” said Mr. Fallon, chief of the bureau’s financial crimes section. “We think it’ll prove its worth.”

In its investigation, The Times found that nearly half of homes nationwide worth at least $5 million are purchased using shell companies. In Manhattan and Los Angeles, the figure is higher.

In New York, The Times examined a decade of ownership at a prominent condominium complex near Central Park, the Time Warner Center, and found a number of hidden owners who had been the subjects of government investigations. They included former Russian senators, a former governor from Colombia, a British financier, and a businessman tied to the prime minister of Malaysia, who is now under investigation.

In Florida, The Times uncovered a condominium in Boca Raton tied to Mexico’s top housing official, who recently stepped down and is now a leading contender for the governor’s office in the southern state of Oaxaca.

Ms. Calvery said the findings helped convince the Treasury that more scrutiny of high-end buyers is needed.

“It’s easier to talk about it with people who aren’t specialists in our area when they read about it in the newspaper,” she said.

Indeed, last spring, New York City’s Finance Department began requiring shell companies buying real estate to report their members to the city. That rule, however, is less far-reaching than the Treasury action.

Real estate is becoming a larger target for law enforcement as well. According to two people with knowledge of cases at the Justice Department, lawyers there have begun to shape cases directly around money laundering in real estate deals rather than adding such transactions to other cases.

The F.B.I. has in recent months created a new unit to focus on money laundering, and real estate will be one main focus. The unit, which has 10 agents, will help the Justice Department delve into shell companies and the people involved in money laundering, F.B.I. officials said.

“We’re going after the facilitators of the money laundering,” Mr. Fallon, of the F.B.I., said. “They’re the bankers, they’re the accountants, lawyers, folks who are setting up L.L.C.s, they are setting up foundations, folks who are setting up nonprofits, real estate investment trusts, etc.”

The new scrutiny is likely to increase headaches for the real estate industry, in part because shell companies are not easy to penetrate. Buyers often mask their identities by layering companies on top of other shell companies. Buyers also commonly fill out L.L.C. formation papers using the names of lawyers or other place holders, often called “nominees,” instead of their own names.

The Treasury is looking for the actual owners behind shell companies, often referred to as the beneficial owners. “We’re not looking for nominees,” Ms. Calvery said.

In its order, the Treasury defined beneficial owners as “each individual who, directly or indirectly, owns 25 percent or more of the equity interests” of the entity that bought the property. Once title companies identify those people, they are required to copy driver’s licenses or passports and also pass the individuals’ names to the Treasury Department.

Stephen Hudak, a spokesman for the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, said any title companies or purchasers who provided false information could face penalties. The American Land Title Association said in a statement that it would help its members comply with the Treasury’s new naming requirements.

Under the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Treasury is already authorized to require real estate companies to scrutinize real estate buyers, but the department has in the past faced fierce lobbying against issuing such rules. The department already requires mortgage lenders to scrutinize buyers. But cash buyers have been a big hole in the government’s oversight of the market, Ms. Calvery said.

“Repeated anecdotal information where we see criminals of different stripes putting money into real estate all suggest to us that this is an area we need to pay attention to,” she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/us/us-will-track-secret-buyers-of-luxury-real-estate.html?_r=0 

 

2017: Obama running the UN is a frightening thought

Will Obama Move from US Dictator to World Dictator in January 2017?

January 13, 2016

Dave Jolly

 

 

 

Ever wonder what presidents do after they leave office? Some go into teaching, some into judicial roles, some take up socio-political activities and yet others just retire and enjoy their grandkids. With Obama’s free lease on the White House expiring a year from now, have you ever wondered what he’ll do once he loses his current office and prestige?

 

Step back and take a look at his last seven years in office and you may get a glimpse of what comes next. Many people including myself have pointed out that Barack Obama has acted more like a tyrannical dictator instead of the top elected representative of an entire nation.

Obama openly violated the US Constitution and federal laws that he swore to uphold. He repeatedly bypassed Congress, created and changed laws, refused to secure our borders and protect the American people and let criminals go free from prosecution because they were this friends. In fact, Obama has done more illegal things in office than he’s done legal things.

So if Obama can no longer legally be the dictator of the United States, then where else can he be dictator?  If you listen to some of the rumors circulating around, all Obama will need to do is pack up from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington DC and fly an hour north and take up residence in New York, NY 10017.  In case you’re not familiar with the NY address, it’s the home of the United Nations. 

Here’s the scenario:

On January 20, 2017, Obama is officially kicked out of the White House. On December 31, 2016, just 21 days before Obama loses his job, Ban Ki-moon’s term as UN Secretary General ends.

There is no secret that the United Nations has aspirations of becoming the governing body for the entire world. What better place for Obama to step in and take over as the new Secretary General and put his plan of being dictator of the world into action?

If that’s not scary enough, imagine Obama as leader of the UN and Hillary Clinton as the new occupant of the White House? If you really think about it, it’s much more scary than you may imagine and, what’s more, the thought is making others a little scared, also.

According to one source:

“According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, ‘informed sources’ tell them Obama has already floated the idea of running for Secretary-General with some Democrats, Republicans, and Jewish officials in the US, although none has gone on record of discussing such a possibility.”

“Al-Jarida claimed this information set off alarm bells in Tel Aviv, where government officials view Obama as being responsible for allowing Iran to achieve a path to nuclear weapons.”

“The sources claimed that once Netanyahu got wind of Obama’s plans, the prime minister began to make efforts to torpedo what he has referred to as ‘the Obama project.’”

“‘Wasn’t eight years of having Obama in office enough? Netanyahu is quoted as telling associates. ‘Eight years during which he ignored Israel? And now he wants to be in a position that is liable to cause us hardships in the international arena.’”

“Tensions between Obama and Netanyahu have been no secret over the years as the US has moved farther away from supporting Israel's positions on a multitude of issues. That being said, some analysts doubt that a newspaper in Kuwait, a country who had no direct ties with Israel, would be privy to such inside information from Israeli sources.”

“However, a recent editorial in Canada's National Post has suggested that many of Obama's policies towards Islam have been made with this larger agenda in mind. Barbara Kay and Robert Cutler make some startling suggestions in their piece.”

‘Obama will still be a young man when he leaves the presidency. His multiple policy failures (which are failures by his own self-imposed yardsticks: Russia, Iran, Israel-Palestine, Syria) will not have diminished the capacious ego that he brought, and which brought him, to the White House.’”

“‘What post-presidency career would Obama consider worthy of his future attention and efforts? Few jobs of Olympian prestige are available, and his self-admittedly vast self-esteem might diminish the list still further. Ambassador to Kenya? We think not. No, we agree with a number of other observers that Obama has his sights set on the office of United Nations Secretary-General.’”

“‘If there is a litmus test for becoming UN Secretary-General, then that is winning the approval of the 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (nearly 30 per cent of all UN members). For seven years, Obama appears to have bent over backwards to avoid hard truths that may offend them.’”

I’m not saying I believe all of the rumors yet, at the same time, I can’t discount them, either. What I do know is that Hillary Clinton is a huge fan and supporter of the United Nations as is Barack Obama. The thought of Hillary running the US and Obama running the UN is a very frightening thought, and I just wanted to put it out there for others to mull over.

http://godfatherpolitics.com/27854/will-obama-move-from-us-dictator-to-world-dictator-in-january-2017/ 

 

The Clinton Scam: Money Laundering at its finest!!!!

Charles Krauthammer explains it - THE CLINTONS:  MONEY LAUNDERING AT IT’S FINEST…….

December 9, 2015  

Paul Williams

It is no surprise that Fox is the only one talking about this!

Krauthammer explains it. Rather long, but rather serious as well…

The Clinton Scam

Recently, Charles Krauthammer alluded that he had no doubt some of the 30k emails Hillary deleted from her private email server very likely had references to the Clinton Foundation, which would be illegal and a conflict of interest.The Clinton Foundation is “organized crime” at ts finest, and we are financing it.

Here is a good, concise summary of how the Clinton Foundation works as a tax free international money laundering scheme. It may eventually prove to be the largest political criminal enterprise in U.S. history. This is a textbook case on how you hide foreign money sent to you and repackage it to be used for your own purposes. All tax free. Here’s how it works:

1. You create a separate foreign “charity.” In this case one in Canada.

2. Foreign oligarchs and governments, then donate to this Canadian charity. In this case, over 1,000 did — contributing mega millions. I’m sure they did this out of the goodness of their hearts, and expected nothing in return. (Imagine Putin’s buddies waking up one morning and just deciding to send untold millions to a Canadian charity).

3. The Canadian charity then bundles these separate donations and makes a massive donation to the Clinton Foundation.

4. The Clinton Foundation and the cooperating Canadian charity claim Canadian law prohibits the identification of individual donors.

5. The Clinton Foundation then “spends” some of this money for legitimate good works programs. Unfortunately, experts believe this is on the order of 10%. Much of the balance goes to enrich the Clinton’s, pay salaries To untold numbers of hangers on, and fund lavish travel, etc. Again, virtually all tax free, which means you and I are subsidizing it.

6. The Clinton Foundation, with access to the world’s best accountants, somehow fails to report much of this on their tax filings. They discover these “clerical errors” and begin the process of re-filing 5 years of tax returns.

7. Net result — foreign money, much of it from other countries, goes into the Clinton’s pockets tax free and untraceable back to the original donor. This is the textbook definition of money laundering.

Oh, by the way, the Canadian “charity” includes as a principal one Frank Giustra. Google him. He is the guy who was central to the formation of Uranium One, the Canadian company that somehow acquired massive U.S. uranium interests and then sold them to an organization controlled by Russia. This transaction required U.S. State Department approval, and guess who was Secretary of State when the approval was granted. As an aside, imagine how former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell feels. That poor schlep is in jail because he and his wife took $165,000 in gifts and loans for doing minor favors for a guy promoting a vitamin company. Not legal but not exactly putting U.S. security at risk.

Sarcasm aside, if you’re still not persuaded this was a cleverly structured way to get unidentified foreign money to the Clinton’s, ask yourself this: Why did these foreign interests funnel money through a Canadian charity? Why not donate directly to the Clinton Foundation? Better yet, why not donate money directly to the people, organizations and countries in need?

This is the essence of money laundering and influence peddling. Now you know why Hillary’s destruction of 30,000 e-mails was a risk she was willing to take. They could be back in the White House in January, 2017. 

Remember, most people are not well informed. You must inform and educate them.

Hillary Clinton For Prison – 2016

God Help America…….

https://pauls2k.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/krauthammer-explains-it-money-laundering-at-its-finest/