Catholic leaders shirked duty in sex abuse cases

via:The American Statesman

Here is an excerpt from a powerful article about clergy abuse written by a Catholic and former seminarian, documenting his own history of abuse which was handled in the typical pattern of collective denial and victim blaming by Church hierarchy ...

Whenever priest abuse happened in the seminary, it was covered up. One professor was a serial abuser. He just disappeared one night. Rumor had it he was transferred to New Mexico for therapy and then to a parish, as was the custom. Perhaps. The point is, the authorities never told us anything, never counseled us, never worked with us to understand the enormity of the transgression and its effects on victims. Nor did they ever tell us of any adverse consequences to the priest. We assumed there were none.

This was the same when I finally had the courage to report my abuser, who even stalked me. It was frightening, but I feared I would pay a price for reporting him. Others had experiences much worse than mine, but the officials' reaction was always the same and typical. The message they telegraphed was not the message they should have taught: Don't do it, and, if you do, there are consequences for the abuser and for the victim.

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Pope's brother linked to new claims of child abuse by clergy

For the context necessary to understand the significance of this article, refer to CatholicMonarchy, a site dedicated to exposing the close connection between priest pedophilia cases and US military trauma-based brainwashing programs. In order to raise awareness of this issue, the site owner has organized a benefit CD featuring 21 Chicago area bands doing renditions of traditional Catholic hymns. Please purchase a CD if you are able to, so that this information, including interviews with survivors, can reach a wide audience and promote healing for those who have been harmed by the abuse.

Here are some choice quotes from the article:
via:The Independent

"Reports of systematic historical abuse by clergy have surfaced at three schools in the Regensburg diocese in Bavaria. One of them is the much-heralded Regensburger Domspatzen, a thousand-year-old male choir and boarding school, whose choral master for 30 years was the Pope's older brother, Georg Ratzinger..."In many schools there was a wall of silence allowing for abuse and violence," said Ms Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a prominent critic of the church. She pointed to a Vatican directive from 2001 which required that even the most damaging allegations should be first investigated internally and then reported to the authorities...Franz Wittenbrink, a German composer who lived at the school until 1967, described the school as being run by "a sophisticated system of sadistic punishments in connection with sexual lust". He was also quoted by Der Spiegel as saying that it was "inexplicable" that the Pope's brother knew nothing of what was happening."

Priest says he was bullied into taking fall for Pope in abuse scandal

via:The Local: Germany's News in English

The church official who initially said it was his fault that a paedophile priest was given succour in Pope Benedict XVI’s former diocese has broken ranks, alleging he was bullied into taking responsibility to protect the pontiff. Gerhard Gruber was Joseph Ratzinger’s general vicar in Munich during the 1980s, when Ratzinger, now Pope, was Archbishop.

Ratzinger chaired the meeting which decided to offer paedophile priest Peter H., a safe haven in Munich. The priest was also given further positions of trust in the church, and was later convicted of further child abuse.

Gruber’s friends have told Der Spiegel news magazine that when the story came to light last month, he was under immense pressure to take responsibility for the decision in order to shield the Pope from accusations of having helped a paedophile.

The magazine wrote that he was urgently "requested" to take full responsibility in order to take the Pope "out of the firing line."

He wrote in a letter to a friend that he had been faxed a statement that he was to make, though he had been given the opportunity to suggest changes.
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French woman sues Opus Dei, claims brainwashing

via:AFP

The thing that some MK Ultra researchers are missing is that the mind control techniques formalized by the US and British intelligence community are ultimately based in ancient occult practices that have been preserved and studied for centuries by religious organizations, with the Vatican chief among those groups most frequently named. What differentiates MK Ultra and Monarch Project techniques from those practiced by both the Egyptian priesthood and Roman Catholic Inquisitors is that they are informed by science, with input from rigorously trained psychiatrists and programmers who have access to the cutting edge of expensive, newly developed technologies. However, the core of the program can be found in books like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which codifies methods of drugging, hypnosis and physical torture, techniques that were then cataloged and maintained by occult organizations, including mainstream religious institutions.

Because many will remain dubious of these claims, I will provide several examples with the warning that these first hand accounts contain graphic descriptions of sexual violence, so anyone who has a history in programs of this variety is urged to proceed with caution. Here is a link to an account from Illuminati-news, similar to the disclosures of Maria Monk, as well as another story from the David Icke forum, accounts so horrifying that I'm not sure I would believe them without having had friends who've been through the exact same type of cult activity. For the third link, just scroll down the page to the posts by Nobodyswife to see an example of exactly what the Roman Catholic pedophila scandals are all about, namely, a highly organized network of child traffickers who believe they have been given immunity from the law. The purpose of this post is not to attack Christianity but instead to encourage people to find common cause in exposing and eradicating those networks wherever they are found, in Christian, occult and secular worlds alike.

French woman sues Opus Dei, claims brainwashing

By Dorothee Moisan (AFP) – Jun 28, 2011

PARIS — A French woman claiming to have been brainwashed by the secretive Catholic society Opus Dei is suing it for allegedly keeping her illegally as a domestic servant, she told AFP Tuesday.

Catherine T., who asked not to be identified by her family name, said she joined a hoteliers' school in northeastern France in 1985, aged 14, which she later discovered was run by associates of Opus Dei...."You were forbidden to talk about it to your parents." She said the group compelled her to take vows of obedience, poverty and chastity and for the following 13 years gave her jobs with organisations that her lawyer Rodolphe Bosselut said were linked to Opus Dei.

She said she was made to work 14-hour days, seven days a week, cleaning and serving. Staff paid her a salary and then reclaimed money from her by making her sign blank cheques, supposedly to pay her room and board, she alleged.

She added that staff accompanied her wherever she went, including on visits to the doctor. On these occasions she was taken to see an Opus Dei doctor who prescribed tranquilisers that left her "senseless".

Catherine weighed only 39 kilogrammes (86 pounds) in 2001 when her parents rescued her from the group. more...

The Sunday Morning Herald just published an article about how Princess Charlene had her passport confiscated by palace officials after repeatedly trying to return to South Africa to avoid her upcoming marriage with Prince Albert II. As with the case of Britney Spears, it is always disturbing to see a grown woman who is literally not allowed to make her own decisions. I can't say I know exactly what is going on here but her situation does seem like a pretty clear indication that arranged marriages are not exactly a thing of the past.

On a related note, a former FBI operative and employee of Albert's is threatening to come forward with an expose of the prince's indiscretions. Here are some choice quotes from a relevant article in The Sunday Times:

"Everyone wants to make friends with Albert, the prince of Monaco, the fairytale, Mediterranean mini-state whose balmy weather and strict banking secrecy have turned it into the playground of choice for tax exiles from all over the world...With its casino culture, gleaming yachts and luxury real estate, the tiny territory wedged between France and Italy has for long been a magnet for money of dubious origins...One of Eringer’s constant concerns was the penetration of Monaco by freemasons. According to the lawsuit, he briefed Albert “on the three masonic lodges in France and their overlap with organised crime, including links to Monaco.”

Former FBI agent Elringer went on to reveal how Albert continually became involved with businessmen accused of various illegal activities while making plans to establish a freemason lodge in Monaco. Here is an excerpt from the article about Princess Charlene.

Princess 'tried to flee three times'

Princess Charlene of Monaco tried to flee home to South Africa three times before her marriage to Prince Albert II, according to reports in French newspapers.

Fairytale turns sour

The couple's glittering religious wedding drew crowds of thousands to the Mediterranean principality on Saturday and the guest list included a host of heads of state, European royals and stars of the fashion and sports world.

But sources cited by Le Journal du Dimanche said the former Charlene Wittstock, 33, tried to take refuge in her country's embassy in Paris when she went to the French capital in May to try on her wedding dress.

Instead palace officials confiscated her passport and persuaded her to take part in the weekend's nuptials.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/princess-tried-to-flee-three-times-20110704-1gxwa.html#ixzz1RL9srwt4

Occult Symbolism in Food Processing Industry Logos

Since the subject of occult symbolism in the entertainment industry has been done to death, both here and elsewhere, I figured I would focus on something a lot less glamorous but far more fundamental to all of our day-to-day lives. What got me started on the subject was stumbling across an Abovetopsecret thread on how the Nabisco logo resembles the pontifical cross of Lucifer, a symbol that has traditionally been used for occult rituals of the Left Hand Path. The original poster pointed out that, since the circle and the infinity symbol can both be interpreted to mean eternal life, the meaning of these two images could be the same. Before you die laughing at the idea of the undoubtedly stuffy and unfashionable Nabisco CEO engaging in Luciferian rituals, remember that there really is a conspiracy to convince Americans to eat toxic garbage, and that conspiracy has everything to do with centralization of food production into the hands of a few companies whose owners most likely belong to the occult fraternities so prominent in global politics.

Agricultural centralization is a problem equally as important as anything occurring in the cultural sphere because of its potential for causing widespread famine, disease and ecological catastrophes that can destroy human habitats. To cite one example, the clearcutting of forests necessary for monocropped industrial farms mean that any violent storm systems occurring in the region will cause an exponentially greater amount of hardship for surrounding communities, since the absence of wind blocks in the form of trees allows for an unimpeded course of destruction. There are, however, ancient horticultural methods that can render these destructive and wasteful practices obsolete, as we shall soon see.

In recent centuries, industrial agriculture has relied on tilling the soil, in addition to the widespread application of chemical fertilizers, despite the fact that these measures have been scientifically proven to result in only a short term rise in soil fertility. In the long run, destruction to soil pathways through tilling leads to compaction and erosion, resulting in poor soils that cannot support the plant life we all need to thrive. Additionally, synthetic fertilizers, which only supply the bare minimum of nutrients, need to be applied in greater and greater amounts which means more profit incentive for agricultural supply cartels and less independence for small farmers. The singular focus on monocrops also means the annihilation of a complex ecosystem that has taken thousands of years to evolve. This web of life is what prevents single organisms from acquiring a monopoly on natural resources in any given bioregion.

As a consequence of this artificial reversal of biological principles, our food supply has become increasingly vulnerable to pests and diseases, since the natural checks and balances that minimize these problems, such as beneficial, predatory insects that consume agricultural pests, as well as plants guilds that fix nutrients in the soil, increasing resistance to disease, have been all but eliminated. The loss of ecological complexity has, however, reaped windfall profits for the producers of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, in addition to those multinational food-processing conglomerates which have a vested interest in suppressing the rise of local food movements. This problem returns us to the issue of the New World Order of food production and the occult agenda of depopulation that underlies its policies.

Above are the logos of Dole, the world's largest fruit company, and Sunkist Grower's, Inc. The image of the sun is a symbol of enlightenment, another symbol for which, the Eye of Providence, is pictured on US currency. The sun's path through the Zodiac also represents the underlying mythology that unites both Abrahamic and polytheistic faiths in the esoteric fraternities of the global establishment.

Featured prominently on the General Mills Logo is a stylized "G", an important emblem in freemasonry, in part because of its association with gnosticism which is said to be the origin of the sect.

The Walmart logo contains a Hagalaz rune, which ancient Germanic cultures interpreted as a symbol of crisis, catastrophe, impersonal power and destructive elements of nature. Because Hagalaz was the ninth rune, it was considered to be an especially important one on account of the meaning of nine as perfection and completion. Hagalaz was also inscribed on the rings of Nazi SS members, enclosed by a hexagon. On a possibly related note, Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, was a Captain who worked for Army intelligence.

Targeting Starbucks will be easy for me since they have done more than any other company to put independent coffee shops out of business, meaning that, once a year or so, I inevitably succumb to the temptation of iced green tea and end up in the maw of its awful corporate-seeming atmosphere listening to bland soft rock against my will. The Starbucks logo, along with three pentagrams, contains the image of a twin-tailed mermaid. In the ancient world, this image would have been linked to Melusine, a heraldic figure that was frequently depicted on coat of arms for the nobility. Melusine, a half-woman and half-serpent being was said to be the daughter of Godfroi de Bouillon, former king of Jerusalem and founder of both the Knights Templar and the Priory of Sion.

Returning to the Nabisco logo, one can see quite a bit of resemblance to the Cross of Lorraine, yet another heraldic figure associated with the Knights Templar, along with the Merovignians. According to the book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the Merovignians are one of the primary families associated with both occult fraternities and international politics.

Grupo Bimbo is one of the largest baking companies in the world. Their logo displays a hexagon, an occult symbol employed to invoke the planetary sphere of influence, as opposed to the pentagram which symbolizes the elemental or terrestrial sphere of influence. Western occultism also associates hexagrams with the planet Saturn, which astrological systems interpret as the planet of structure, technical knowledge, ambition and old age. Maybe the Bimbo product designers chose the insignia for Saturn because regular indulgence in Bimbo products induces premature aging. ;)

Along with corporate control of the food supply is the accompanying draconian legislation of regulatory agencies that seek to eliminate small farmers through layers of bureaucracy that make it nearly impossible for them to compete with large-scale agricultural enterprises. This process is accomplished through licensing fees, arbitrary bans on home production of marketable food items, government subsidies to agricultural supply companies, and outrageously high fees for organic certification. The purpose behind this legislation is to commodify the organic food movement into an easily controlled market that can be repackaged as compatible with neoliberal globalization, leaving behind the emphasis on localism and sustainability that characterized the organic foods movement from its origins. Walmart, for example, has recently jumped on the organic bandwagon, yet all the farmers they've contracted with are, due to the comparatively lower profit margins of working with small farmers, either large-scale enterprises or located in foreign countries, where workers can be more easily exploited.

The possibility of resource descent from topsoil loss and aquifer depletion may end in widespread social inequality if collective stewardship of these resources is not pursued. Native American tribes are being labelled as terrorists because of their peaceful demonstration against shale oil extraction in their local watershed. Shale oil drilling has already resulted in poisoned water supplies and evacuation of entire neighborhoods. Despite environmental problems so severe that the Louisiana coast loses the equivalent of one football field an hour due to soil erosion, right wing conspiracy theorists have suggested that environmental destruction is a total falsehood concocted by the New World Order. While it may be true that the idea of peak oil is propaganda spread by oil companies looking to raise prices, any superficial observation of yellowed plants growing in disturbed soil by the highway reveals the immediate consequences that oxidized fossil fuels leave in their wake. As the species solely responsible for catastrophes such as last year's Gulf oil spill, we have a responsibility to the web of life which connects us to the rest of creation. Earlier cultures provided a system by which we can minimize our negative impact on the earth, through a philosophy which emphasizes the sanctity of the environment as well as its human caretakers.

Look at the garden above. On an intuitive level, isn't it more aesthetically pleasing than the endless rows of monocrops that define the modern industrial farm? In this case, your senses verify the ecological principle of complexity, which simply states that as a newly emerging ecology increases in complexity, there is also a corresponding increase in productivity. To the horticulturalist, this productivity translates to an abundant, diverse harvest. The ancient but recently-named system of permaculture aims to harness the principle of complexity through a cultivated ecology that uses diverse polycultures to closely mimic the intricately interwoven plant guilds found in nature. Mature permaculture settlements are small-scale systems composed of dense layers of forest gardens, efficiently designed housing and livestock integrated in a cohesive whole.

Permaculture philosophy also emphasizes the importance of localism, not only in food production, but also in bioregional government and economics, with limits to speculation and centralization of bureaucracy. Taken together, these principles form the basis of an environmental movement structured in such a way that it provides one of the only truly effective methods of resistance against heavily centralized global governance. Many in the patriot and truth seeker communities, recognizing the flaws in global food production systems, have focused on survivalism, stockpiling non-perishable goods and, typically, ammunition as well. Yet these avenues provide no tenable solutions for creating an improved society in which resources are more equitably distributed, meaning that impoverishment and food riots are a distinct possibility in the latter stages of the American Empire. Intensive study and practice in horticulture will demonstrate that no single family can create all the resources necessary for true self-suficiency. Scientific studies have also shown that soils vary tremendously in vitamin and mineral content from one spot to another, so relying on one small area for all your food needs is a strategy sure to lead to malnourishment, even assuming that the means to produce and maintain your own food are in place. So, true autonomy from authoritarian governments means, instead of the inherent competition and violence of unmitigated self-sufficiency, a return to small-scale systems of production backed by interdependent communities. Permaculture and all its sub-disciplines provide a way out of a grim future through an emphasis on local community and sustainability beyond the globalist paradigm.

source: The Vancouver Sun

The missing element to this article is Project Paperclip, the OSS project started with the expressed intention of shipping Nazi war criminals to the US for scientific research. One of the primary focuses of that research was trauma-based mind control which had been perfected through Nazi torture methods. These techniques would later be utilized by the CIA and the military on both foreigners as well as American citizens, a history that can now be uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act. A very informative article about this process, specifically linking the research of Nazi war criminals to MK Ultra, can be found at Conspiracyarchives. Relevant information from FOIA documents has also been assembled over at wanttoknow.info.

Vatican, Red Cross aided Nazis' flight, book charges

Author says Canada was one of many haven countries where war criminals took refuge after conflict

By Randy Boswell, Postmedia News

A new book claims thousands of potential Nazi war criminals and collaborators escaped justice in the years after the Second World War with help from the Vatican and Red Cross, using false documents and altered identities to emigrate undetected to a host of haven countries -including Canada.

Gerald Steinacher, author of Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Escaped Justice, probes newly opened files from the International Committee of the Red Cross and other war-era archives to reconstruct the strategies of evasion and routes to freedom used by potential war-crimes suspects, including SS officers, National Socialist Party officials and other possible perpetrators of Holocaust-era atrocities. As many as 8,000 ex-Nazis, whose wartime activities should have been probed by Allied authorities, reached Canada or Britain by questionable means...