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Monday, February 19, 2018

THE FBI DISTURBING RECORD OF IGNORING INFORMATION ON TERROR AND MASSACRE PLOTS - Judge Jeanine Pirro's scathing indictment of the FBI - The bizarre case of the Garland plot against freedom of speech demonstrators, where the FBI encouraged jihadis and then did nothing to stop the attack

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The following video by Judge Jeanine Pirro is a scathing indictment of the FBI's repeated failures to protect US citizens from terror and massacres, even in cases when it has plenty of information available to prevent the attack.
 
VIDEO - Judge Jeanine Pirro:
The FBI needs a complete overhaul

A few months ago this blog published the astonishing case of how the FBI got involved in a plot to murder activists at a freedom of speech rally in Garland, Texas.  An FBI agent even drove to the site where a jihadist attack was to occur - and waited for it to take place.  The attack was thwarted by two alert local policemen - while the FBI agent looked on.  This is even more bizarre than it sounds, once you learn the details.   

Continue reading and watch Garland related video

Saturday, February 3, 2018

THOUSAND TIMES WORSE THAN WATERGATE - THE SEDICIOUS GOVERNMENT PLOT to prevent or to overturn TRUMP'S ELECTION - THE MEMO - clearly explained on short video

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  • Remember back in 2001 when we were told that we failed to "connect the dots" leading to the 9/11 Muslim terror attacks? 
  • Failing to connect the dots can be done inadvertently or by design.
  • As the media is currently flooded with news and opinions related to the FBI scandal, we need to connect the dots that lead to nothing less than a plot involving sedition by top government officials sympathetic to the Democrats.  
  • Their illegal and unethical acts are spun and excused by media and politicians because they favored the Democrats.  But these abuses could also be perpetrated in the future by Republicans against Democrats. 
  • Thus, this plot needs to be thoroughly investigated, and strict measures implemented to prevent any similar reoccurrence. 
  • It will be an arduous task, since the media, top intelligence officials, and Democrats have closed ranks to counterattack the current Congressional investigation.   
 
  • We need to understand the tortuous path of this plot aimed at preventing the American people from electing Donald Trump as president, and - if that failed - at facilitating his impeachment once in office. 
  • Here are two excellent short videos that clearly explain it.  And remember, the evidence so far is just the tip of the iceberg.  Much, much more, will be revealed in the coming weeks and months, none of it good for former Obama administration officials. 
VIDEO - HANNITY:  This is one thousand times bigger than Watergate - THE MEMO SHOWS how the FBI purposely deceived a federal court
 
Continue reading, see another video and more cartoons

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

THE FBI-CLINTON-OBAMA CONSPIRACY AGAINST TRUMP --- MUCH WORSE THAN WATERGATE - clearly explained by HANNITY in 15 minute video

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  • While you and the entire nation are distracted by the "Russia Collusion investigation" a real  government conspiracy that took place during the Obama administration is being covered up.  
  • Important clues were exposed in 2016, but they were quickly dismissed and buried by the mainstream media's ongoing relentless and obsessive anti-Trump campaign aimed at undermining his administration and driving him out of office. 
  • Additional details now exposed by a Congressional investigation and confirmed by government documentation, demonstrates how fragile are the foundations of the USA when corruption seeps deep into the Executive and intelligence agencies.  And this exposure is just beginning.  The swamp is deep and full of shocking secrets. 
  • Trump's eccentric personality has served the conspirators and their accomplices well, as the media focuses daily on his tweets, his controversial comments, and the Mueller investigation - while keeping you distracted and ignorant of the real scandal behind the scenes:  The Obama-Clinton-FBI conspiracy to prevent American voters from electing a president that threatened  to "drain the swamp".
  • The following 15 minute video by Sean Hannity clearly explains the machinations and corruption by high officials and most trusted intelligence agencies during the Obama administration - and the ongoing coverup by Obama holdovers in government agencies.    As you CONNECT THE DOTS, you will be alarmed, regardless of whether you are a Democrat or a Republican.  Something much more important than mere partisan politics is at stake for the nation.
WATCH VIDEO - THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY
Hannity: The conspiracy to obstruct justice  
Video VIA Whatfinger
Recommended website
 
CONTINUE READING about the FBI's newly discovered anti-Trump SECRET SOCIETY, and see more related articles and cartoons

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

PUERTO RICO TRUCK DRIVERS ARE ON STRIKE AND REFUSE TO DELIVER RELIEF SUPPLIES - Thousands of containers with life-saving supplies still sit on the docks in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria - while opportunistic media and Democrats blame Trump

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UPDATE October 4: 
San Juan 'booming' while rest of Puerto Rico's in darkness
Hurricane-scarred Puerto Rico has become a tale of two islands - with malls, restaurants cinemas and even a stirp club reopening in the capital while the starving poor huddle in darkness just a few miles away. The city's trendy Plaza Las Américas mall is once again a hive of activity, with residents flocking to Cheesecake Factory, Mr Pretzels and Starbucks to sip espresso and stream TV on high speed WiFi. Travel beyond the city limits however and the semblance of normality quickly fades to desperation and misery. The disparity is shockingly evident in Loiza, a coastal city to the east of San Juan and one of the island's most impoverished communities.


An Alliance Made in Heaven:  The leftist mayor of San Juan and CNN - The mayor blames the Federal Government - that is, TRUMP - for failure to distribute aid already on the island! - Trump responded that the mayor wanted the government to do everything for them.
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Houston, TexasVolunteer men organized a flotilla to save thousands of people stranded by hurricane floods.
Puerto Rico:  Truck drivers go on strike demanding higher pay and refuse to distribute life-saving supplies to starving victims of hurricane.  Self-organizing relief efforts almost non-existent.
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Puerto Rico is a textbook case of what can happen when an area is so ravaged by disaster that there is not even the most basic infrastructure to distribute help to those who need it.  Seaports and airports mostly destroyed, roads covered in debris, and cellphone communication impossible.
 
And as people run out of food, water, and fuel, and hospitals are barely function or not at all due to the lack of fuel to run generators, THOUSANDS of containers full of supplies have been sitting on the docks since the hurricane because unionized drivers on strike refuse to transport them.


 
Why are thousands of containers still sitting there?  Because Puerto Rican drivers are on strike.
 
As the infrastructure is getting patched up a dirty little secret the mainstream media won't tell you is that Puerto Rico unionized drivers are demanding higher pay and on strike since before Hurricane Maria struck the island.  Now they expect to profit from a desperate situation.  The governor issued a public plea asking them to deliver aid sitting in the docks, but there was no response. 
 
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Gas stations selling fuel are being looted.
Police too are conspicuous by their absence.  With numerous bands of looters roaming the island, it is dangerous to drive any sort of vehicle full of goods without police or military protection.  
 
Gas stations that had been provisioned are being looted by criminals. 
 
In the meantime the left-wing mayor of San Juan has been ranting hysterically on CNN and blaming the federal government for Puerto Ricans starving and dying.
 
VIDEO - Dishonest media call Hurricane Maria "Trump's Katrina"  
 
More Rebel Media Videos

MEDIA and Democrats WEAPONIZED Puerto Rico's tragedy against TRUMP

The mainstream media, particularly CNN, along with Democrat politicians, have WEAPONIZED the Puerto Rican disaster.   They tried to do the same thing in Texas and Florida, but they failed due to effective Federal response to the disasters. 
 
So the media are using Puerto Rico.  They did this by hiding the sad truth about this island:  it is culturally different from the mainland, and so thousands of containers with food, water, and life-saving medicine are still sitting at the docks, because Puerto Rican drivers are on strike, and able bodied men have failed to organize themselves.  
Los oficiales de infantería, por su parte, serán asignados al patrullaje preventivo y a las escoltas de combustible, agua y comida. (horizontal-x3)
A few National Guard patrol the streets


Police have disappeared.  Looters have been busy operating since the hurricane moved on.  Now the local government has resorted to a few National Guard to keep order.  
 
That is the reality.  Lack of distribution is not Trump's fault, or alleged racism, or neglect.  The Federal government has done enough, but it cannot do everything.   
 
VIDEO - The Ugly Truth About Puerto Rico Wanting U.S. Statehood - By Stefan Molyneux
More Videos by Stefan Molyneux
 
Puerto Rico was a dysfunctional society long before it was hit by hurricanes.
  • Island political leaders have been demanding USA statehood;
  • No call for independence because that would entail taking responsibility for their debts and other shortcomings.
  • They want statehood not because they love the USA, but to obtain bankruptcy protection. 
  • Puerto Rico has $49 BILLION in pension liabilities on top of other debts to a grand total of $129 BILLION
  • It receives over $20 BILLION in aid a year.
  • Its domestic product is $100 billion.
  • Half of the Puerto Rican population is on public assistance.
  • Those holding jobs work mostly for the government.
  • The unemployment rate is 14%.
  • There are ONE THOUSAND murders a year.
  • Many of those murders are related to the growing illicit drug trade.
  • Organized crime corrupts the political system at all levels.
  • Puerto Rico is tops in public corruption cases.
  • School tests score show students performing below basics in math and reading.
  • The average state of health is poor, with too many suffering from diabetes and assorted disabilities.
  • One in three Puerto Ricans claim some kind of disability
  • However there is a high level of fraud in disability diagnosis because of corruption in the medical system.
  • Lack of English language skills qualifies as a disability in Puerto Rico.
Continue reading this and other related articles, and see references -  More UPDATES being added

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

FAKE SCIENCE - How a sting operation exposed fraud in scientific publications - And how an imaginary DR. FRAUD got so easily published

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  • We know that the scientific establishment's group-think determines what ideas get approved and published.
  • We also know that there is deliberate fraud in just about all branches of science.
  • And yet, politicians and activists  - usually of the left - routinely try to bolster their theories by invoking science, and will automatically reject any notion that questions their 'science'. 
  • The history of fraud in science is embarrassingly long.
  • Deliberate deceit by the pharmaceutical industry has caused countless tragedies in patients who trustingly consume approved medication whose research has been tampered with, or whose true side effects are minimized or hidden from the public.
  • Facts about vaccines are routinely hidden or misrepresented in order to promote the ever growing mandatory number of shots imposed on infants and children.
  • GMOs have a seal of approval in spite of proven evidence that they have detrimental consequences for the environment and those consuming them.
  • Wind turbines cause serious health effects on those living nearby, such as farmers, but this industry keeps growing.
  • Not long ago it was revealed that the sugar industry paid corrupt researchers to blame fat for health problems that were actually caused by sugar.  Remember when authorities told you that even eggs were bad for you, while ice cream was part of the four food groups allegedly good for you? 
RT - The sugar industry paid Harvard researchers in the 1960s to bury research linking sugar intake to heart disease and to instead make fat the culprit, according to a study of archival documents. “These internal documents show that the Sugar Research Foundation initiated coronary heart disease research in 1965 to protect market share and that its first project, a literature review, was published in the New English Journal of Medicine without disclosure of the sugar industry’s funding or role,” stated the study.   
The internal sugar industry documents were found in public archives by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. The documents showed the sugar industry was aware of evidence in the 1960s that linked sugar consumption to high blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels and was thought to be risk factors for coronary heart disease.  The sugar industry paid the Harvard scientist the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars for their fake research.
  • Even without fraud, scientific knowledge is evolving daily.  In five or ten years many of our most sacred scientific theories will make the world laugh. 
  • Science must not be treated as a cult or a religion, with scientists as a clergy often wearing those authoritative white coats, upholding their holy theories as gospel. 
  • The following articles explain how a group of scientists fed up with fake science decided to create an imaginary scientist who managed to publish all sorts of rubbish in several respectable scientific journals.

Imaginary "Dr. Fraud" gets published
The researchers created a fake web presence for their “doctor,” along with a fake resume listing fake research publications and no editorial experience.
 

Sting Operation Reveals
Science's Insane Fake News Problem



If someone applied to a top position at a company, you’d hope a hiring manager would at least Google the applicant to ensure they’re qualified. A group of researchers sent phony resumes to 360 scientific journals for an applicant whose Polish name translated to “Dr. Fraud.” And 48 journals happily appointed the fake doctor to their editorial board.
 
This sting operation was the first systematic analysis on editorial roles in science publishing, adding concrete evidence to a problem past stings have shed light on.
 
There are a whole lot of “predatory” scientific journals out there, journals that take advantage of scientists’ need to produce articles by publishing anything for a fee, without checking to make sure the paper is actually new research, worth publishing, and not completely inaccurate.
 
CONTINUE READING this article, and one stating that only 1% of all scientific papers adheres to the scientific method.

Sunday, February 19, 2017

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE UNITED NATIONS? Here is the answer in a short and fact-filled VIDEO by Anne Bayefsky at the Oxford Union Debate on the subject of the UN as a failing institution

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The United Nations has failed its mandate.  It is rife with corruption, and it has allowed itself to become ideologically weaponized by an alliance of despotic states that vote in unison in favor of an agenda promoted by oil-rich Arab countries.

As part of the Oxford Union Debate on the subject of "This House Believes the UN is a Failing Institution" last November, Professor Anne Bayefsky succinctly described exactly why it is true.
 
VIDEO:   


Welcome to 2017 at the United Nations, where the following regimes are among those chosen to define, promote and protect human rights for the world: 
UN WATCH
https://www.unwatch.org/en/
https://twitter.com/UNWatch
 
A SCANDAL:  UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency servicing Palestinian refugees, has continued to stretch its “temporary” existence for 66 years. This distinct refugee agency for Palestinians manages virtually no refugees anymore, but instead handles services for 5.4 million children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of people who left Palestine in 1948.
 
The UNRWA staff stands at 30,000, or 3.5 times the staff that the rest of the world gets for actual refugees. It services only 13% of the people that UNHCR assists helping all other world refugees.
Read more further down this page.

 Amid Tsunami of Scandals, UN Ignores Massive Corruption

Excerpts from extended article of July 25, 2016 by Alex Newman for The New American


Caption reads: We hereby approve the declaration "Zionism is racism"!  Also the declaration "War is Peace," "Terrorism is freedom," and "Dictatorship is democracy". 

The findings of the UN Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) highlighting widespread fraud, corruption, and impunity across the UN system, among other problems, represent another devastating blow to the embattled global organization.
 
CONTINUE READING

Sunday, August 14, 2016

GEORGE SOROS' EMAILS HACKED - They reveal how he finances organizations dedicated to the demonization and undermining of ISRAEL - Leaked e-mails also reveal Puppet Master Soros giving orders to HILLARY CLINTON, to whom he has been donating millions for years - Soros is also behind ANGELA MERKEL'S DISASTROUS OPEN BORDERS POLICY

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  • George Soros seems more like an evil character from the James Bond series than an elderly Holocaust survivor. 
  • As a Jewish youngster he happily collaborated with the Nazis during the persecution and annihilation of the Jews.
  • He called his time with the Nazis the most exciting and happy of his life.
  • Having enriched himself he has dedicated his money to undermine Europe, the US, and Israel.
  • He funds the hate group Black Lives Matter, whose members incite violence against white people and against cops. 
  • He is the author of the Open Borders policy of Angela Merkel, one of his many puppets in high places.
  • Leaked emails reveal that he is also the puppet master behind Hillary Clinton's agenda.  Chilling.
  • New hacked emails also expose he gives millions of dollars to anti-Israel organizations. 
  • The names of the these organizations (also funded by European countries) are misleading, since they appear to have humanitarian purposes. 
  • Their true goal, however, is to undermine the State of Israel through activities such as international boycotts, disinformation, breaking the law, inciting Arab and leftist violence in Israel, and demonizing Israel abroad.  The damage they do is incalculable. 
 
DC Leaks publishes George Soros' files showing millions contributed to anti-Israel causes

Jewish Hungarian-American business magnate George Soros, whose company files were hacked by the same outfit that in June hacked the DNC computers, was a major contributor to anti-Israel and anti-Zionist causes, as appears from an archive of leaked documents of the DC Leaks website.
 
The DC Leaks website describes him:  George Soros drives more than 50 global and regional programs and foundations. He is named as the architect and sponsor of almost every revolution and coup around the world for the last 25 years. Soros sponsors Hillary Clinton and hundreds of politicians all over the world. 
 
Continue reading about Soros funding of anti-Israel organizations, and his role as Puppet Master of Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party, and of Angela Merkel and her Open Borders agenda.  Watch VIDEO

Sunday, February 8, 2015

SOCHI OLYMPICS BUILDINGS NOW GHOST TOWNS - Their enormous cost and ongoing expenses being picked up by the taxpayer

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By Will Stewart for MailOnline

A spectacular fireworks display brings the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics to an end on February 23 last year
A $51 billion ghost town: Extraordinary images show  Sochi Olympic park lying desolate and abandoned one year after most expensive games in history.
  • The Winter Olympics of 2014 are a distant memory in the Russian Black Sea resort, with empty arenas left idle  
  • Fisht Stadium, the Bolshoy Ice Dome, the Tulip Inn hotel and the Adler Arena all sit in ghostly silence
  • Skiers may still pack the slopes nearby owing to the collapsing rouble, but few are visiting the Olympic park
  • The Formula One track, which hosted the £99 million Russian Grand Prix last year, stands dusty and unused
  • The company which owns some of the complex is about to go bankrupt, according to the Kommersant newspaper
  • At least two oligarchs involved in building the lavish facilities are dumping their toxic assets on the state 
  • Russian taxpayers are picking up the bill for this 'perfect museum of corruption', according to a local journalist

  • Just three cars are parked outside the Adler Arena.The almost entirely deserted park is a 'ghetto', according to one local journalist
    Just three cars are parked outside the Adler Arena.The almost entirely deserted park is a 'ghetto' due to its iron fences, according to one local journalist  
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    Monday, September 8, 2014

    FIVE DEMOCRATS RECIPIENT OF MUSLIM DONATIONS - Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama

    Bill Clinton and Sheikh Mohammed Al-Amoudi
    Bill Clinton & Sheikh Al-Amoudi
    April 14, 2014 - Money Jihad - Opponents of George W. Bush like pointing out his family’s links to Saudi Arabia. Fair enough, but let’s not lose sight of the high-profile Democrats who have benefited from multi-million dollar campaign contributions, sweetheart loans, and business deals from Wahhabi or Iranian patrons, or both.
     
    The cases of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama.

    Saturday, July 5, 2014

    PEDOPHILE RING AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT - Maybe up to 40 past and present politicians of main political parties may be implicated

    The Palace of Westminster (Reuters / Kieran Doherty)

    A whistleblower who kicked off UK police pedophile probe Operation Fernbridge believes as many as 40 British MPs and peers were involved in or turned a blind eye to child abuse.
     
    Peter Mckelvie, a retired child protection team manager, who has spent more than 20 years compiling evidence of alleged child abuse by people in authority, believes ten current and former politicians are on the list and that there is enough evidence to arrest at least one senior politician, reports the Daily Telegraph.

    Friday, July 4, 2014

    RED CROSS REFUSES TO DISCLOSE HOW IT SPENT HURRICANE SANDY MONEY - SAYS IT'S TRADE SECRET - The many past and present scandals of the Red Cross

    
    Two years after the Haiti quake, only 4,769 new houses have been built, and 13,578 homes repaired, while 520,000 people remain in squalid camps
    HAITI - not much has changed
     

    (NaturalNews) One of the most well-known charities in the world is being intentionally elusive about how it spent more than $300 million in donations it received following Hurricane Sandy.

    The independent news group ProPublica says the American Red Cross has repeatedly denied requests to disclose details about how the Sandy money was spent, claiming that this information is a protected "trade secret."

    The Red Cross is so insistent about keeping this information private that it has reportedly hired posh New York law firm Gibson Dunn to fend off anyone who might try to hold the charity responsible for its donation spending.

    Wednesday, June 11, 2014

    US ARCHBISHOP SAYS HE DID NOT KNOW THAT PRIESTS RAPING CHILDREN WAS ILLEGAL - And Pope Benedict said in 2010 that priests' sexual abuse of children was NOT an absolute evil

    Archbishop Carlson (Wikimedia. Daily Mail)
  • Archbishop Robert Carlson was chancellor of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul in the 1980s
  • He has been deposed as part of a sexual abuse lawsuit in Minnesota involving the archdiocese and the Diocese of Winona
  • In a testimony filmed last month he was asked whether he had known it was a crime for an adult to engage in sex with a child in the 1980s
  • 'I'm not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not,' he responded

  • A St Louis archbishop embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal has claimed he didn’t know it was illegal for priests to have sex with children in the 1980s, according to a court deposition released on Monday.  
     
    Archbishop Robert Carlson, who was chancellor of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul at the time, was deposed as part of a sexual abuse lawsuit in Minnesota involving the archdiocese and the Diocese of Winona. 
     
    In a testimony filmed last month and released by the St. Paul law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates, the Catholic archbishop was asked whether he had known it was a crime for an adult to engage in sex with a child.  
     
    ‘I’m not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not,’ Carlson responded. ‘I understand today it’s a crime.’ When asked when he first realized it was a crime for an adult - including priests - to have sex with a child, Carlson, 69, shook his head. ‘I don’t remember,’ he testified. 
     
    Yet according to other documents released by attorney Jeff Anderson, who is representing an alleged clergy abuse victim, Carlson showed clear knowledge that sexual abuse was a crime when discussing incidents with church officials during his time in Minnesota. 
     
    In a 1984 document, for example, Carlson wrote to the then-archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis - John R. Roach - about one victim of sexual abuse and mentioned that the statute of limitations for filing a claim would not expire for more than two years. 
     
    He also wrote that the parents of the victim were considering reporting the incident to the police.  Carlson’s role at the time was to investigate abuse claims. He admitted in his deposition that he never personally went to police, even when a clergy member admitted to inappropriate behavior.  
     
    In the testimony, Carlson responded 193 times that he did not recall abuse-related conversations from the 1980s to mid-1990s.   Carlson also said that even in 1996 he did not know that pedophilia was a disorder that couldn’t be cured.  “I did not know that, but as a pastor, I was becoming increasingly concerned,” Carlson said.
     
    Carlson left the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul in 1994, and eventually became St. Louis archbishop in 2009.  The Archdiocese of St. Louis said in a statement on Monday that Carlson had given testimony ‘several times many years ago’ about the same allegations. 
     
    ‘In this most recent deposition, while not being able to recall his knowledge of the law exactly as it was many decades ago, the Archbishop did make clear that he knows child sex abuse is a crime today,’ the statement said.  ‘The question does not address the Archbishop’s moral stance on the sin of pedophilia, which has been that it is a most egregious offense.’  The trial against the Twin Cities archdiocese is set to begin in September.
     
     
     
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    Pope says paedophilia not an absolute evil
    December 2010 - Victims of clerical abuse reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s … (he) also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society. “It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than’ and a ‘worse than’. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”
     
     
    Pope Benedict XVI was also a member of the Hitler Youth during the Nazi years.
     
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    United Nations scathing report on Vatican inaction and coverup of decades of priests abuse of children - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/un-scathing-report-against-vatican-for.html
     
    United Nations committee on torture questions Vatican representative on clergy widespread abuse of children - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/vatican-delegate-questioned-by-united.html
     
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    Monday, May 26, 2014

    POPE IN ISRAEL - VATICAN'S DISGRACEFUL HISTORY OF HATE AGAINST JEWS - And the Muslim-Christian Alliance forged for the destruction of Israel

    The pope and terrorist Mahmoud Abbas
    Pope Francis made a speech  in Israel in which he called the Holocaust "a tragedy".
    Merriam Webster - Tragedy:
    1) a very bad event that causes great sadness and often involves someone's death.
    2) : a very sad, unfortunate, or upsetting situation : something that causes strong feelings of sadness or regret.
     3) : a play, movie, etc., that is serious and has a sad ending (such as the death of the main character)
     
    A tragedy?  The Holocaust was a major crime, a genocide.  It was a crime with which the Vatican was heavily involved.  
     
    The following is Janet Levy's review of Giulio Meotti's book The Vatican against Israel.  What makes this review so good is that she deftly summarizes the shocking history of Vatican active involvement in the destruction of the Jews, focusing particularly in the past decades. 
     
    I have highlighted the main points and added subtitles for easier reading.