Mitt Romney’s wealth hidden in off shore accounts

The Vancouver Province is reporting on Mitt Romney’s off shore and Swiss bank account tax havens. That guy’s obsession with the Bush family was the big red flag. The Associated Press is also reporting for nearly 15 years, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's financial portfolio has included an offshore company that remained invisible to voters as his political star rose.

Based in Bermuda, Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd. was not listed on any of Romney's state or federal financial reports. The company is among several Romney holdings that have not been fully disclosed, including one that recently posted a $1.9 million earning — suggesting he could be wealthier than the nearly $250 million estimated by his campaign.

Sankaty was transferred to a trust owned by Romney's wife, Ann, one day before he was sworn in as Massachusetts governor in 2003, according to Bermuda records obtained by The Associated Press. The Romneys' ownership of the offshore firm did not appear on any state or federal financial reports during Romney's two presidential campaigns. Only the Romneys' 2010 tax records, released under political pressure earlier this year during the Republican primary campaign, confirmed their continuing control of the company.

In contrast, one blog reader sent me a link some articles about the Robin Hood tax. We forgot about that. It made the press when occupy movement started but we haven’t heard much about it since. No wonder. That’s about as popular as nationalizing the oil reserves. The greed wouldn’t allow it.

Although I think the Robin Hood tax is a good idea, I think the first thing we need to do is address the epidemic of bank fraud that is collapsing world economies. Speaking of which, we already heard the Greek financial crisis was the result of investment fraud. What was public money became private money then disappeared. Well, it turns out that Spain’s banking troubles are also the result of fraud. Imagine that.

We need to stop the fraud. Deregulation has opened the flood gates for criminals to steal from banks then demand tax bailouts. This is not only affecting our pensions and our standard of living, it is affecting our liberty.

Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance

This is a cold case, in more ways than one, that has returned to the spotlight when a mobsters body was exhumed in Rome two months ago. In 1983, 15 year old Emanuela Orlandi was kidnapped after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay employee of the Holy See.

Enrico De Pedis a member of Rome's Magliana mob, was killed in 1990. His one-time girlfriend has reportedly told prosecutors that De Pedis kidnapped Orlandi, and an anonymous caller in 2005 told a call-in television show that the answer to Orlandi's disappearance lay in his tomb. Public protests erupted May 27 2012 and the body of De Pedis was exhumed. No word yet on any discoveries. I’m not a big fan of exhuming bodies. I don’t even like autopsies. I think the dead should be left to rest in peace. Yet there are many elements of this case that are worth examining.

In 2008, Italian news reports quoted De Pedis' ex-girlfriend as telling prosecutors that Orlandi had been kidnapped by the Magliana gang on the orders of Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the late US prelate who had headed the Vatican bank and was linked to a huge Italian banking scandal in the 1980s. Marcinkus had always asserted his innocence in the scandal and the Vatican at the time of the allegation said the woman's claims had "extremely doubtful value".

First of all, we know that Paul Marcinkus was a bad man. He was in charge of the Vatican Bank when Pope John Paul I was murdered and when $1.2 billion were embezzled from Banco Ambrosiano through the Vatican Bank. There’s even talk about this case having something to do with the assassination attempt of Pope John Paul the Second.

Speculation has long swirled around the location of De Pedis' tomb, since it is buried in a prominent church alongside important Catholics - an unusual final resting place for a reputed local mobster.

One of the things I find strange is the tip that an answer to the girl’s disappearance will be found in De Pedis tomb. If a mobster ordered the murder of someone’s daughter, why on earth would they burry the girl's body in the same tomb? When the tomb was recently opened, investigators found some 200 containers with bones near De Pedis' tomb in the ossuary, and that they would be tested in the coming days and weeks. Still no word on what that was about.

Calgary shooting

4 people were shot in a Vietnamese restaurant in Calgary just after 2:00 AM Sunday morning. 2 men are in serious condition, one man is dead. Police say it was a targeted shooting. Police said their investigation will draw on experience from a similar shooting - the gang related 2009 New Year's Day triple murder at the Bolsa Vietnamese Restaurant.

That shooting invovled the FOB (Fresh of the Boat) and the FK (FOB Killers). In the 2009 shooting, Mann, 22, was a known gang member and Bendle, 21, was an associate and had been kidnapped and used as bait to lure Mann to the restaurant. Su'a, a bystander, was also killed. Nathan Zuccherato and Michael Roberto were found guilty on three counts each of first-degree murder for their roles in the triple slaying on New Year's Day 2009.

The Red Scorpions, the Independent Soldiers and the UN have also come to Calgary. In Calgary, the Red Scorpions and the Independent Soldiers appear to be aligned with the FOB while the UN appears to be aligned with the FK.

Tragically, just like the New Years shooting back in 2009, this shooting killed an innocent bystander.

New Podcasts about the Hells Angels and 911

I finally finished my next two podcasts. One is about the Hells Angels and the Canadian Drug trade while the other is about 9/11 inconsistencies. I’m not trying to imply the Hells Angles were in any way responsible for 9/11. Those are two separate podcasts.

The Podcast about the Hells Angels and the Canadian Drug trade zeros in on Winnipeg and the recent family photo from Stony Mountain. That pictures shows the Hells Angels continued support for the Zig Zag crew’s drug trafficking.

The Podcast about 9/11 simply raises three points. The fact that the third tower collapsed into it’s own blueprint at freefall speed when no planes hit it. The fact that the Twin towers were half full of asbestos and the Port Authority were denied a permit to demolish them and had to pay for the manual removal of the asbestos. The fact that Operation Northwoods was real and was implemented in Europe as Operation Gladio. That’s it.

World cup on Commercial Drive

When Spain and Italy were squared off at the world cup I shuddered to consider the result. Both countries take their football / soccer very seriously. When I heard Spain won, I knew there would be mourning on Commercial Drive. Yet someone sent me a link to this photo in the Vancouver Sun of an idiot strutting down commercial drive rubbing their noses in it. He’s wearing a Support 81 Nomads shirt. That’s rather bizarre. My condolences Italia.

The CIA collapsed the Nugan Hand bank in Australia

We have already talked about how Earl W. Brian embezzled $50 million from Nesbitt Thompson’s clients for the CIA and helped fund the October surprise. We’ve already talked about how Al Martin was instructed to commit investment fraud for the CIA to fund raise for Iran contra. It’s clear that pattern is not only repeating itself but escalating out of control as Banksters are continuing to rob us blind.

Judith A. "Jami" Miscik from the CIA’s involvement in the collapse of the Lehman brothers bank is yet another example along with the CIA’s involvement in the collapse of BCCI and the Nugan Hand Bank in Australia. This disturbing pattern needs to be addressed.

The Godfather 3

When we were discussing the money laundering allegations at the Vatican bank and the $1.2 billion the Vatican bank embezzled from Banco Ambrosiano, Freddy mentioned the movie Godfather 3. Seemingly that movie ties in the murder of Pope John Paul I with the bank scandal.

Paul Marcinkus was an American archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was best known for his tenure as President of the Vatican Bank from 1971 through 1989. He was also involved with Michele Sindona, who had links with the Mafia.

Paul Marcinkus was president of the Vatican bank when it embezzeld $1.2 billion from Banco Ambrosiano. In 1984, the Vatican Bank agreed to pay US$224 million to the 120 creditors of the failed Banco Ambrosiano as a “recognition of moral involvement” in the bank's collapse. That really did happened.

Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano. Licio Gelli was an Italian financer involved in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal connecting that scandal to Operation Gladio which involved the Italian and the US secret service.

Paul Marcinkus was presiednt of the Vatican bank living in the US from 1971 through 1989. Pope John Paul I was murdered September 28, 1978. Marcinkus was named as a suspect in the Pope’s murder by David Yallop in his book In God's Name.

I still have a copy of that book. I bought it years ago but couldn’t get past the Masonic thing. A Masonic lodge existing at the Vatican wasn’t a big deal to me. The Catholic Church has a rule that Catholics can’t be Masons because they have their own similar group, Knights of Columbus. Masons don’t have a rule saying Catholics are not allowed in. You just need to have a belief in God. The Orange Order is more of a kick the Pope break off group.

However, it is clear that this P2 lodge were up to bad things and were expelled from the order as a result. They continued under their own umbrella. It’s pretty clear that Paul Marcinkus was a bad guy. It’s pretty clear that Michele Sindona was a bad guy.

Sindona was an Italian banker and convicted felon. Known in banking circles as "The Shark", Sindona was a member of Propaganda Due. Licio Gelli was involved in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal and was the Venerable Master of the clandestine Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2).

So if Robert Calvi, Michele Sindona and Licio Gelli were all members of P2 and if Licio Gelli was the Venerable Master of the rouge lodge, then it’s pretty clear Calvi wasn’t a lone wolf who ripped off the mob. It’s pretty clear he was a scape goat to help cover up where the embezzled money went. It went to fund another secret black op called Operation Galdio. A stay behind operation sponsored by the CIA.

Surrey says no to RCMP bar

The tsunami of insanity continues to flood the earth locally and globally. Today the Surrey Leader is reporting that City Hall just turned down the RCMP’s application for a new giant bar in their new Headquarters in Green Timbers but did recommend a liquor license for special events. What are they thinking?

Bob Poulson is supposed to help fix the RCMP’s disastrous problems with alcohol and sexual harassment in the workplace. The RCMP making an application for a giant bar in their new Headquarters is absolutely absurd. It makes you think they really don’t give a shit about the public and we are left with no alternative but to pull the plug on that broken and disgraced circus and create a Regional Police force. I thought we could save it. Evidently not.

Vicileaks Toews thinks it’s a great idea to give the RCMP a liquor license for a giant bar in their HQ. Isn’t that special? The Christian adulterer who had an affair on his wife and fathered a child with a younger woman thinks it’s a great idea. No wonder.

We are still reeling from the offensive injustice of transferring that drunken pig with a long rap sheet of sexual harassment and drinking on the job being sent to BC. What are we going to do, send him to Surrey and give him a giant bar? God help us. These people are maliciously insane.

Advertising for the Port Mann Bridge

Again stupidity reaches new heights in the Campbell Clark government. The Surrey Leader is reporting that the provincial government is spending $400,000 on an advertising campaign to promote the new Port Mann Bridge. Blair Lekstrom says he thinks it’s money well spent. The Georgia Straight doesn’t think the BC Liberals are showing much fiscal restraint.

We remember the Port Mann bridge scandal. First they were going to twin it since the existing Port Mann bridge is one of the newer bridges and is in good shape. Instead Gordo wanted a huge Rames bridge that would cost way more money. Tearing down a perfectly good bridge isn’t fiscally responsible. Neither is turning it into a park.

One voter posted a rant on craigslist about the stupidity of the Clark government spending so much on advertising for the new bridge we all know is being built. Too bad the public can't find the moron(s) who approved this and hang them from the bridge to show how much time it will save.

John Doyle pointed to a lack of transparency about over $80 billion worth of B.C. government contracts in private-public-partnerships or P3s, ranging from independent power producers to construction of the new Port Mann Bridge.

Banksters are robbing us blind

Banksters are bigger criminals than the Hells Angels and the Oil Companies put together. The tsunami of bank fraud that is sweeping the globe right now is astounding. Back in the day bank robbers would storm into a bank with guns drawn to rob it. Now, executives in suits working for the bank are robbing the banks and the world blind. This is the road to Corporate Communism.

Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008. Judith A. "Jami" Miscik rose from the analytic ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency to become Deputy Director for Intelligence, the Agency's seniormost analytic post. In 2005 she left CIA to become Global Head of Sovereign Risk for the now-bankrupt financial services firm Lehman Brothers. Miscik is currently Vice-Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. in New York. On December 24, 2009, Ms. Miscik was appointed to President Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board.

She was wrong about WMD in Iraq and she helped crash the Lehman Brothers. I guess it’s about time we found a women to highlight for the gangsters out web site. A woman tied to the CIA and to bank collapse. Imagine that.