Monday, Dec. 22 2008 @ 6:51AM
Sorry for not noticing this earlier: in November, Orange
County Register reporter Teri Sforza wrote a puzzling post on the Reg's
OC Watchdog blog noting that the Catholic Diocese of Orange had nicely
recovered from all the payouts courts forced them to give to the
victims of its rapin' employees over the years. "What is it they say
about confession being good for the soul? Perhaps it's good for the
bank account as well," Sforza wrote, adding, "We commend the Diocese
for this startling bit of financial transparency" for allowing people to comb through their financial statements, making it seem as if it's a new development.
All together now: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown must be working overtime burning votive
candles for some good words--any good words--in the press. Sforza calls
the diocese's financial rebound "heavenly" but somehow didn't get
around to interviewing parents at St. Mary's, St. Boniface, and Our Lady of the Pillar in SanTana,
who had their parish schools shuttered because Brown was whining about
there not being enough money 'cause of those pesky sex-abuse victims. Sforza also didn't add the obvious note at the end of her Valentine--too
bad Brown isn't as transparent with his pedo-priest files as with his
purse, something that the Orange diocese has been posting on their
website since at least 2004. And an even more obvious point--the Orange
diocese never was in financial straits, no matter how much Brown has cried to the contrary. Otherwise, he wouldn't have proposed a
new cathedral, buy a multimillion-dollar house for himself while keeping his old one,
and all the other signs of avarice (you want transparancy, Toddie? Howzabout releasing your diocese's property holdings?) Brown and his crew seem to enjoy
flashing as if it were a Rosary. Sforza ain't no hack--OC Watchdog makes for entertaining reading--but something in the water cooler over at Grand
Street make Reg reporters blind to the sins of Brown. Not only that, congratulating the Orange diocese for rebounding from its sex-abuse scandal is like congratulating countries and companies for a great financial turnaround after paying restitutio for Holocaust victims. O, Steve Greenhut: where are you?
Albino Luciani says:
Ever notice that Tod 'Boy' Brown wear's the same La Cosa Nostra issued sun glasses, as most of the other pedophile enabling, aid & abetting Roman Curia & USCCB (Unremoved Sexual Criminal Cabal Bishops)?!
OK, no 'blog within a blog' today, the 22nd of December, from 'Ask A Murdered Pope?!', but rather at little Church history on the former Winter Solstice.
On December 25th, 386 AD, St. Chrysostom delivered a homily in Antioch (no, not the one in California, but Greece, and hence the roots of clergy serial male sodomy and pedophfilia orgies to the present day), which are the origins of 'covering' the pagan holiday, with the bait & switching, to the Christ child's birth.
So we close today's thoughts, with apologies in advance to Clarke or Livingston, or whomever, wrote the original...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Church,
Not a ped enabler was stirring, not even the scores of Bisho & Cardinals Perps,
The denials where hung by Tod & Rog on their cathedral doors,
In hopes RICO would not be enacted, or enforced, anymore...
The children remained endangered and fearful in their beds,
While visions of rapes, sodomiesoral cpoulation, murder, mental torture and physical maimings remained in their heads,
And mama with her shovel, and I with a cuffs and a sack,
Had just stopped donating all monies to this
band of pedo hacks,
When outside arose a creepy clatter,
Away to our window we flew in a flash,
Opened our shutters, and suspected what was the matter!
When what to our eyes appeared,
But A Roman Catholic Bishop In Drag,
With Several Dozen Lawyers & Clerical
Peds & Queers!
We knew in a moment what to do!
I cuffed each, bagged them, and Mama
buried them, very deep,
So finally we all could get some restful sleep
and peace!
And I heard the shrilled and muted cries of
the guilty miter, as we dropped him
in: "Pray, Pay, & Obey, and we'll absolve
you of all sins!"
So what is the moral of this little ditty?
Caveat Emptor! & 'Stop Donating Laity!"*
* St. Peter Damien
Ciao, Pace, & Buon Natale!
Albino Luciani,
MURDERED POPE,
NOT Smiling, From Heaven
Posted on Monday, Dec. 22 2008 @ 11:46AM
FYI says:
FINANCE: Crisis Pits Vatican Against Offshore Bankers
Analysis by Lucy Komisar*
NEW YORK, Dec 22 (IPS) - The financial crisis has the U.S. swirling with charges about the immoral greed of some corporate executives who recklessly bet their companies' futures to line their own pockets. The popular fix for this international calamity stops at the nation's borders: decouple top-line salaries and bonuses from stock prices and institute more transparency and regulation.
However, last month, the Vatican, in a groundbreaking statement, linked the financial crisis to a much deeper problem largely ignored in discussions of the crisis here. It underlined the need to consider carefully "the hidden but crucial role of the offshore financial system in light of the emergence of the global financial crisis".
The Nov. 18 statement, drafted by the Papal Council for Justice and Peace and endorsed by the Vatican Secretariat of State which speaks for the Pope on foreign affairs, called offshore markets "an important link, both in the transmission of the present financial crisis, as well as in maintaining a host of mad economic and financial practices."
Among them it said were the movement of money to evade taxes and recycle profits from illegal activities and also gigantic capital flight.
The Holy See issued its "note" on the causes and consequences of the world financial crisis on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly Conference on finance and development in Doha. Its prescription: "a drastic reduction of offshore financial practices".
Dr. Flaminia Giovanelli of the Papal Council in Rome told IPS that this is the first time it has made such a statement.
She explained that the Council had been studying the problem of financing for development at the moment that the financial crisis occurred. She said the statement talked about tax havens because the Council's study connected the fact "that many companies don't pay taxes" to both financing for development and the financial crisis.
The Papal statement was published in Observatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. Dr. Giovanelli said there have been "positive reactions from Catholic development organisations" around the world.
The statement asked, "How have we arrived at this disastrous situation, after a decade in which speeches have multiplied on the ethics of business and finance, and in which the adoption of ethical codes has spread?"
A few weeks later, on Dec. 8, in ironic counterpoint, 17 major U.S. corporations signed on to a list of ethical practices. Their statement, which appeared aimed at assuaging public displeasure at corporate misbehaviour, was built on non-controversial hot-button issues -- in essence, "we won't bribe, we won't despoil the environment". The issue of offshore money flows and tax evasion was nowhere to be seen.
The Vatican came to its knowledge of offshore painfully. Italy's Banco Ambrosiano, of which the Vatican was the main shareholder, collapsed in 1982. Its CEO Roberto Calvi, in collaboration with Bishop Paul Marcinkus, the U.S. national who headed IOR, the Vatican Bank, had siphoned off multi-millions of dollars to offshore accounts.
Ambrosiano lost 3.5 billion dollars of customers' deposits. Calvi, who fled Italy, was murdered and found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London. Marcinkus was protected from Italian indictment by the Church and later returned to the U.S. where he lived until his death in 2006.
A few years later, in a 1985 essay on morality and economics, Cardinal Ratzinger -- the future Pope Benedict XVI -- warned that the decline of ethics "can actually cause the laws of the market to collapse".
Ethics and offshore. The Vatican now gets it, but U.S. corporations don't. The U.S.-based multinationals that signed on to yet another ethics pledge included General Electric, The Hartford, Pepsi, Wal-Mart, Accenture, Dell, and United Airlines. Their prescription: comply with laws against fraud, corruption, and bribery; practice transparency; avoid conflicts of interest; be accountable to customers and protect the environment.
Ethics, according to the 17, does not include rejecting the use of the offshore system to evade regulation as well as taxes. Like the Vatican, U.S. corporations have experience with offshore. It's understandably a sensitive issue.
General Electric cuts its taxes drastically by selling its exports to offshore subsidiaries which then sell them to the real customers. That's called "transfer pricing". The corporation transfers profits offshore. GE spokesperson Gary Sheffer declined to comment on ethics and taxes or on the ethics of GE transfer pricing.
Dell, the computer company, has moved patents on intellectual property developed in the U.S. to subsidiaries in Ireland where no taxes are charged on royalties. Regarding Dell's view of ethics and taxes or the ethics of avoiding taxes on patents, Michele Glaze, spokesperson for Dell on corporate social responsibility, said, "I don't know the answer." She didn't obtain it.
PepsiCo, the global soft drink company, has 10 subsidiaries in Luxembourg, a notorious tax haven. However much soda Luxembourgers drink, that market would not seem to require ten Pepsi companies to serve it. Such companies are routinely used for financial transactions that launder profits. PepsiCo declined to discuss the purpose of its Luxembourg subsidiaries or the degree to which using offshore companies to reduce taxes is consistent with an ethics pledge. Public relations spokesperson Dave DeCecco provided a written statement: "PepsiCo manages its tax affairs in a prudent and lawful manner."
The ethics pledge was organised by Alex Brigham, founder and head of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance of the Ethisphere Institute. He said that paying fair taxes "wasn't an issue that we brought up with these companies in large part because we're focusing on a lot of non-financial items."
He explained, "We're looking at the conflicts of interest; that's a huge problem for companies." He added, "I agree that off balance sheets assets are a major problem in the financial services sector. I know Citigroup moved massive amounts of assets off their balance sheet, but I don't know if it was offshore."
He said that the business ethics project did not anticipate taking on tax issues "either now or in the foreseeable future". The Ethisphere approach to offshore tax evasion is typical of U.S. corporate-financed "corporate social accountability": they ignore it.
However, the issue may get some attention when U.S. President-elect Barack Obama takes office. The amounts at play are huge. The Vatican cited estimates of the wealth held in offshore centers as close to 255 billion dollars. U.S. tax losses from corporations are said by Senator Carl Levin, co-sponsor with Obama of the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, to be 50 billion dollars a year.
In his campaign, Obama spoke out frequently against corporations who don't pay their fair share of taxes. He said he would deny tax benefits to former U.S. companies that reincorporate offshore to avoid paying taxes. He said he would crack down on companies that use operations in offshore jurisdictions to evade taxes.
*Lucy Komisar is an investigative journalist who writes about the offshore system. Her articles are posted at thekomisarscoop.com/.
(END/2008)
Posted on Monday, Dec. 22 2008 @ 3:26PM
yawn says:
Ever notice how whenever Gus gets his Catholic panties in a bunch, it attracts weird posts like the ones seen above? It's always the same old thing.
If forgiveness is the cornerstone of Christianity, do those of us who find all of you religious retards so pathetic a big, gigantic favor. Move the fuck on already. Happy Hanukkah, assholes.
Posted on Tuesday, Dec. 23 2008 @ 9:58AM
Albino Luciani says:
Oh you are so articulate YAWN, but you FAIL to mention where "move the 'expletive deleted' on already" to?
Would that be the systematic criminal RICO Federal prosecution and conviction of multiple hundreds of overtly guilty pedo enabling bishops and cardinals, many perpetrators themselves, and the others hiding their 'in the closet' homosexuality, like Roger Mahony & Tod Brown & Robert Brom, while diverting, and out right stealing, BILLIONS OF LAITY OFFETORY PLATE DOLLARS to their ongoing criminal cover up?!
If not, you have a Happy Whatever also, drinking your Jim Jones Kool Aid.
This is not about forgiveness of sins, this is about the Curia's out and out serial criminality, over decades, and no one causing it, has been punished or removed, Yawn Boy!
"LAITY STOP DONATING!" as St. Peter Damien correctl asserted.
Edmund Burke reminds each of us: "The only condition for the triumph of evil is for good men (or women) to do nothing."
Remember readers, the USCCB (Unremoved
Sexual Criminal Cabal Bishops) & Roman La Cosa Nostra Curia Remains = ISAIAH 28:15!
St. Paul to the Ephesisan, 5:11, is correct whjen sayting: "Do not deal in fruitless deeds of darkness, but expose them!"
Daily vetted & verifed reporting on the financial fleecing of the laity, while the wholesale endangerment of children continues, uncorrected, and with no end in sight, may be found at: www.bishop-accountability.org/abusetracker, or in over 100+ newly published books at www.amazon.com, under 'clergy abuse' from such salient & cogent authors as: Roman Catholic Bishops Jeffery Robinson (Australia), Thomas Gumbleton (US) and in the UK's The Tablet, stern warnings from Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, of Milano, Italy.
Other empirically accurate authors include: Attorney & Legal Scholar Marci Hamilton, Dr. Robert Grant, MD, Fr. Richard Sipe, Jason Berry, Dr. Leon Podles, David Yallop, Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ, Fr./Dr. Howard Bleichner, SS, & Fr./Dr./Canon Lawyer Thomas Doyle, OP, to name only a few.
On film and DVD:
2006: US Academy Award Winning BEST DOCUMENTARY nominated 'DELIVER US FROM EVIL
2007: Cannes Film Festival Winner 'VOWS OF SILENCE'
2008: 'GHOYA'S GHOSTS', an accurate retrospective on the serial sexual abuse of children even centuries ago by the Roman Catholic Church.
Your take away message today, December 23rd, 2008, is it is a MORTAL SIN to be contributing even one penny to these unrepetant, overtly criminal, and absolutely EVIL, unremoved, or punsihed, office holders, pretending to represent CHRIST, and in point of fact, are all clear and present danger agents of THE DEVIL!
Go With God, But Donate No Monies, Lest You Also Wish To Burn Eternally!
Fiat Lux & Veritas!
Albino Luciani,
MURDERED POPE*
NOT Smiling, From Heaven
*Read 'IN GOD'S NAME' by David Yallop, 100% TRUE.
Posted on Tuesday, Dec. 23 2008 @ 11:35AM
TO ALBINO LUCIANI says:
Thank you again for setting the record straight!!!!
Posted on Tuesday, Dec. 23 2008 @ 11:49AM
Diogenes says:
Finally, I have found an honest man in Albino Luciani!
John Paul the First for SAINTHOOD!...though he hardly needs this MORTAL & CORRUPT institution, across the Tiber, to verify what is indeed already a FACT.
It is an utter DISGRACE that a Pontiff of 27 years& Polish nationality, became a pedophile enabler, apologist, aid & abettor (and mariginal two-bit actor with his head henchman Joseph Ratzinger).
Karol Wotyla is NOT anywhere near sainthood!
Even the French nun so-called 'miracle' or cure, was verified to be a FAKE, as part of a curia deflection, pr spin, and rush job campaign!
Just look at Karol's appointments like Tod Brown, and Roger Mahony, as well as many hundreds more, to KNOW how evil, or delusional, he really was (and they remain).
Citizen of the World,
Diogenes
Posted on Wednesday, Dec. 24 2008 @ 10:20AM