He is my Maltese K-Nig-Hit because he contracts with himself, to advise himself, to do the job he is getting paid to do as a school superintendent.
He is lots of fun.
He gets shy around my camera and runs away.
I wanted to see how he makes pretty pictures on shiny paper with all that predictive modeling crap, but I think he thinks I, the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed, is not worthy of engaging in such discourse!
So, I went ahead and went diving for those pearls of wisdom, all by myself.
Now, I guess, considering that this was supposed to be a livestream, but it went badly and he is not going to redo it, I could ask about the promulgation of a flu shot, without any parental input.
Oh, wait!
I just did.
So, in providing in person education to their specifically targeted population they so passionately purveyed in the public square, I would like to know how these students, who are from traumatizing histories of the Michigan Child Welfare System, are supposed to be reinstitutionalized in what seems the most restrictive environment?
I told you to get rid of that corporal punisher Neocia Butler.
You only brought her on so you can check the Medicaid cost reimbursement box to show your investors that you are going to make that revenue maximization level with those phantom programs and services.
The school has become a living socioeconomic petri dish.
No, seriously, you know they have some dirty ass longitudinal data cost reimbursements going on in one or another of their tiny humans trusts.
You need to treat your staff better.
I just adore this school and I bet if everyone took a few moments out of their inextricably busy life, you should experience the joy with me.
His "incurable disease" probably had to do with his failure to break his vows to renounce the centuries of belief that the residuals of the peculiar institution of trafficking tiny humans in the name of the tax exempt god was lovely.
With profound regret the Grand Magistry announces the death of His Most Eminent Highness the Prince and 80th Grand Master Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, which took place in Rome a few minutes after midnight on 29th April, following an incurable disease diagnosed a few months ago. According to article 17 of the Constitution of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Grand Commander Fra’ Ruy Gonçalo do Valle Peixoto de Villas Boas has assumed the functions of Lieutenant ad interim and will remain head of the Sovereign Order until the election of the new Grand Master.
Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto was born in Rome on 9 December 1944. He graduated in Literature and Philosophy from the Sapienza University of Rome, specializing in Christian archaeology and art history. (a.k.a. Stealin' the children, land & vote) He held academic positions in the Pontifical Urbaniana University, teaching classical Greek, and also served as chief librarian and archivist for the university’s important collections. He has published a range of academic articles and essays on aspects of mediaeval art history.... based upon crap he made up.
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Admitted to the Sovereign Order in 1985 as Knight of Honour and Devotion, Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto took his solemn vows in 1993. From 1994 to 1999 he was Grand Prior of Lombardy and Venice and from 1999 to 2004 a member of the Sovereign Council. He was elected Grand Commander at the Chapter General of 2004 and on the death of the 78th Grand Master, Fra’ Andrew Bertie, in February 2008 he became Lieutenant ad interim. From 2008 to 2017 Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre held the position of Grand Prior of Rome. Upon the resignation of the 79th Grand Master, Fra’ Matthew Festing, the Council Complete of State of 29 April 2017 elected him Lieutenant of the Grand Master for a year. In the subsequent Council Complete of State of 2 May 2018 he was elected 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta.
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A man of great spirituality and human warmth, Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto always personally assisted the disadvantaged, serving meals to rough sleepers in the Termini and Tiburtina railways stations in Rome. He participated in numerous Order of Malta international pilgrimages to Lourdes and national ones to Loreto and Assisi. He showed great joy in taking part in the Order’s international summer camps for young disabled people where he was greeted with great affection by the young volunteers and guests.
As Grand Master, Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre carried out numerous official and state journeys. Only last January he made a state visit to Benin and in July last to Cameroon. More recently, he travelled to Germany, Slovenia and Bulgaria for meetings with their respective authorities. During these journeys he always made a point of visiting the Order’s social-health facilities to greet personally both the staff and the patients.
A marked humanity and a profound dedication to charitable works have always inspired the 80th Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, who will be remembered by all who knew him for his human qualities and his cordial and affectionate manner.
"For I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me
drink, a Stranger and you welcomed Me, naked and you clothed Me, ill and
you cared for Me, in prison and you visited Me."
The Principalities, more recognizable as Archdioceses, were maximizing revenues by laundering real estate they stole from fake ass tax and mortgage foreclosures, after they contractually snatched and sold the kids through Foster Care & Adoption, used them as financial leverage to take out mortgages, then wipe them out in quiet title, three, seven, ten times, through the Detroit Land Bank Authority, then, bundle and flip, causing the entire REPO market of these toxic assets, because the titles are fake, to crash.
The Maltese Civil Court has ordered the seizure of €29.5m of assets belonging to the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR, or Institute for the Works of Religion), commonly referred to as the "Vatican Bank."
The order came after Maltese companies Futura Funds and Futura Investment Management, jointly with Luxembourg-based company Cougar Real Estate, instituted court proceedings before Malta's Civil Courts against the IOR.
The Maltese and Luxembourgish firms are seeking damages for IOR's alleged blocking of a sale of shares which Futura Funds SICAV holds in Cougar, as well as the sale of shares which the latter holds in the Hungarian company, Tozsdepalota, the owner of the iconic historical building, Budapest Stock Exchange Palace.
The Malta court order marks the latest developments in an ongoing Court saga started by IOR, which is trying to renege on a €24m investment obligation in Futura Funds SICAV, entered into in 2013, only a few weeks before the unprecedented resignation of Pope Benedict XVI."
A court order was issued today directing that money or property of the IOR be seized.
In 2013, the IOR entered into contractual commitment to invest €41m in the refurbishment of the scheme. Futura is seeking financial compensation for losses related to delays on the deal and reputational damages after the IOR defaulted on its contractual commitments relating to this investment.
In security for this claim against the IOR, Futura Funds SICAV filed a garnishee order for the sum of €29.5m, which was upheld on 13th March by the Maltese Civil Courts.
The Malta court order marks the latest developments in an ongoing Court saga started by IOR, which is trying to renege on a €24m investment obligation in Futura Funds SICAV, entered into in 2013, only a few weeks before the unprecedented resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.
The election of Pope Francis led to major changes within the Vatican Bank, including, since 2013, the replacement of three chairmen, two director-generals, most of the internal senior functions and members of the Cardinals.
This is why Mayor Pete Buttigieg is proposing The Douglass Plan, a comprehensive and intentional dismantling of racist structures and systems combined with an equally intentional and affirmative investment of unprecedented scale in the freedom and self-determination of Black Americans.
I am quite certain Chike is not very well versed on the SIGTARP audit report, below, #coloredrevolutionary legal material, or his candidate's responsibilities as a mayor.
Buttigieg is obviously not very sophisticated in the realms of governance because he has Chike as his muse.
I just thought I would share what is going on with the State of Indiana's Secretary of State UCC site because it reminded me of what happened to Michigan LARA.
What has not been reported is that a contractor's personal home, KTR Kleaning To Renovations, Inc. was also raided by the FBI, but what do I know?
I guess you could say that these DNC candidates will do the darnest things when it comes to the prevention of the fall of the heavens, so I called the City Clerk of South Bend, Indiana to find out why I could not find any information, or municipal codes on the Board of Elections.
Kareemah Fowler,
officially resigned as South Bend, Indiana
City Clerk, July 31, 2019.
I needed to find out how Buttigeig got elected because he is not a politician, but an operative for some nefarious individuals.
My spidey fraud senses were tingling because I saw the word "Authroity" and I can smell gerrymandering from a mile away.
I was greeted by a lovely young lady by the name of Morgan Gonsoski, who identified herself as the PR intern for City Clerk and Common Council.
She was so kind to tell me that there are no municipal codes on the Board of Elections to be found, or anything else dealing with elections, but she did let me know the office was dealing with the situation of the resignation of the City Clerk, Kareemah Fowler.
Morgan also explained the process of replacing the City Clerk.
It was explained to me that the Democratic Caucus, a private corporation, will privately meet to pick the successor as there is no electoral process on record for the people, which means there are no codes, laws, or statutes for a municipal special election.
How special these great democratic gods be! (extreme sarcasm intended because I used fuchsia).
I always thought municipal elections were non-partisan, but in this instance, it seems the Democratic powers in Indiana control local government, which just so happens to include land banks!
Yes, that is correct, I found the Detroit Land Bank Authority transposable model of gerrymandering.
I will not get into the absentee voting ballots and vacant properties fraud scheme that probably got Buttigieg and Fowler elected in the first place, so as not to confuse my #Superfans with Detroit.
Typically, like in Detroit and Hamtramck, the Board of Elections is comprised of the Mayor, City Clerk, Corporate Council and sometimes Chief of Police, under state law.
Well, it may very well seem that Buttigieg has a substantial conflict of interest when it comes to the integrity of the 2016 election, but hey, what do I know?
The South Bend Housing Authority was closed without warning Wednesday, as FBI agents appeared
"Look over here, not over there.", said The Butti Man
for unspecified reasons at both the housing authority’s offices and at least one home owned by the agency.
Several agents were seen going in and out of an employee entrance at the rear of the building on Alonzo Watson Drive, just south of Western Avenue. Two trucks with trailers were parked nearby. A uniformed St. Joseph County police officer was also at the scene.
At the main entrance of the housing authority’s offices, a sign was posted that read: “Closed for day. Re-open 8-1-19 8:00 AM.”
FBI agents also visited another property on the city’s south side Wednesday morning. Neighbors, including Shelly Jackson who lives across the street, said agents showed up at 1980 E. Thornhill Dr. home around 9 a.m. According to property records, that home is also owned by the housing authority.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jim Keszei said he could not comment and referred questions to a spokesman for the office of the U.S. attorney for northern Indiana.
The spokesman, Ryan Holmes, said Department of Justice regulations prohibited him from confirming or denying the existence of an investigation, but that he could “confirm there is federal law enforcement activity going on in the South Bend area.”
County Sheriff Bill Redman said the FBI had asked his department to provide a uniformed officer, but said he could not discuss the operation further and was not sure whether anyone had been arrested.
Attempts to reach housing authority Executive Director Tonya Robinson were unsuccessful Wednesday. The agency’s office was closed, and a man who answered the door at her home declined to provide a phone number where she could be reached.
Virginia Calvin, the president of the housing authority’s board of commissioners, did not immediately return a call Wednesday.
The purpose of the FBI activity was not clear. But the housing authority has faced criticism over mismanagement in recent years, including federal government reports which, between 2013 and 2014, found the agency was plagued by financial woes and owed $500,000 in misused funds that should have been distributed to poor families.
At that time, the federal government reported the housing authority’s board of commissioners had inadequate knowledge of the agency’s finances, failed to monitor operations to catch the misuse of money and did not provide sufficient oversight of day-to-day staff.
The findings led the government to classify the housing authority as “troubled,” and in early 2015 South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg replaced the entire board. The mayor appoints the board of the housing authority, which is funded through federal dollars, and that board of commissioners oversees the agency’s executive director and staff.
More recently, an audit of the housing authority for the years 2016 and 2017 found “inadequate controls” over financial reporting and mismanagement of its tenant waiting list, and that the agency improperly mixed streams of federal money and had documents missing from tenant files.
In fall 2018, Buttigieg appeared at a meeting of the agency’s board and criticized the housing authority for financial problems, unaddressed safety issues and poor communication. Some board members said they were disappointed the mayor did not speak with them about his concerns before raising the issues publicly.
At the time, Robinson said the agency was “working hard to correct our deficiencies” and had already made improvements since the 2016-2017 audit. In 2017, the federal government upgraded the housing authority from “troubled” status to “substandard.”
Mayor Pete Buttigieg issued a statement through his spokesman Mark Bode.
Earlier today the Mayor’s Office became aware through local media reports of today’s law enforcement action at the Housing Authority. While the Housing Authority is not part of the City administration, the Mayor is concerned and will be closely following the situation.
The Mayor is in touch with the Board of Commissioners and has asked that they keep him informed on what they learn from federal officials. In the meantime, he has offered the City’s assistance to help ensure residents are not negatively impacted by this situation. He has been advised that normal operations will continue.
Inquiries concerning Housing Authority matters, including this case, should be directed to the Board of Commissioners.
I know LeAnn Kirrmann says this is fake news, but have no fear, I have provided her with direct contact information to the Detroit FBI and Detroit Free Press to correct the record.
If you have any information about this story, please, reach out to the Detroit FBI 313-965-2323 or phoward@freepress.com.
Detroit needs more cocktails & popcorn because we are just getting started.
Paul Whelan of Novi, imprisoned in a czarist-era Russian prison on spy charges, would attract the notice of any seasoned intelligence team, a former CIA covert operations officer told the Free Press on Thursday.
"As long as there are nation states, there will be espionage. It is a very real threat and even more so today," said retired agent Valerie Plame, now an author who was famously outed as a spy during the second Bush administration.
"The Cold War was a bipolar world. We had one big enemy. Now, with the rise of nuclear terrorism, rogue nation states and a very active Russia and China, in the espionage realm," said Plame, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Plame, who noted she was a little sore from hiking the Grand Canyon, described an unpredictable international landscape where anything is possible and everything must be considered.
Whelan, 48, an executive with the auto parts manufacturer BorgWarner in Auburn Hills, was picked up by Russian authorities on Dec. 28 on suspicion of spying. His twin brother said the ex-Marine, whose military record included a larceny conviction, was in Russia for a friend's wedding. The Russians indicted Whelan on Thursday.
Russian media said Friday he was arrested in a Moscow hotel after receiving a flash drive with the names of workers at a classified security agency.
"There do seem to be real question marks around this story, at least in the public domain," Plame said. "That he was discharged from the military, from the Marines, dishonorably. That he's got this big interest in Russia; he travels there a lot. Huh? He's an auto parts guy? Really? I don't know. He could be completely innocent. The Kremlin could be trying to be provocative. Or there could be something there."
As a career CIA agent who can't safely confirm publicly the length of her undercover career, Plame said international threats are real. And Americans must take them seriously.
"By and large, I am quite alarmed at the intensity and depth that Russia has gone to disrupt all of our systems," she said. "They have sown chaos and they have done it really well. They have sown doubt in our electoral system. I think that is very serious. It goes to the very heart of our belief in our democracy and our way of life."
Plame expressed concern about America's ability to navigate the geopolitical situation with so much transition in Washington, including the government shutdown. She said the U.S. State Department has "really atrophied and really suffered under this presidency."
"For all we know, the people that might be in that office might not be reporting to work because of the government shutdown," Plame said.
She hoped that State Department officials were communicating regularly with the Whelan family.
"They're probably best advised to say nothing right now. The situation is so muddy that I think adding to it would be detrimental to Mr. Whelan's eventual release from captivity."
Is it possible he could be a spy? "It is not inconceivable," Plame said.
She noted, "There are many Americans that seek to serve their country in various ways. That's probably all I should say."
History of spying
Spy agencies in America have a history of relying on global companies to assist with intelligence collection, say historians who specialize in espionage.
To date, no evidence has been made public that ties Whelan to the CIA or the National Security Agency. The American, who had a work history in law enforcement, faces up to 20 years behind bars if convicted of espionage.
He has been a security specialist for the automotive parts supplier BorgWarner since 2017.
Previously, he worked for Kelly Services, a temporary staffing agency that touts itself as a “global leader” with an ability to place workers “in top companies across a variety of industries” across the world since 1968.
While BorgWarner has customers all over the world and employs 29,000 people in the U.S., Europe and Asia, none of the company's international sites is in Russia, said company spokeswoman Kathy Graham.
International analysts have suggested that Whelan is being held hostage by Russian President Vladimir Putin in hopes of negotiating the freedom of a Russian cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller in the ongoing investigation into U.S. election manipulation. Whelan is being held in Lefortovo detention center, built in the late 1800s and later used as a KGB prison.
Whelan was apprehended during a vacation trip, not work. Professionally, he is not responsible for cybersecurity nor was he in charge of industrial espionage duties as part of his job description.
He was responsible for the security of facilities, assets owned by the company and its people, Graham confirmed. Whelan did not work in information technology, Graham said.
In a 2013 deposition in an age discrimination suit against Kelly Services, he described his role this way: “Kelly Services is a global company, and we work with federal agencies all the time ... at the foreign embassies, or we work with HUD or DEA, FBI, ATF, whomever in the United States. We work with federal agencies in Canada, and what have you, all over the place. So we come in contact with federal agencies and officers all the time.”
'Whelan is being framed'
However, Chris Costa, executive director of the International Spy Museum, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., said, “My analysis suggests that this individual Paul Whelan is being framed” by Russia's Federal Security Service, known as FSB.
The spy museum collects and shares intelligence artifacts and stories to provide a global perspective on an all-but-invisible profession that has shaped history and continues to have a significant impact on world events.
“From a historical standpoint, whether we’re talking about the FSB or former KGB, our museum puts stories together that illustrate the cat-and-mouse game of counterintelligence,” he said. “The FSB is very, very pervasive and a solid security service. They’re very adept at dirty tricks."
Costa, like others nationally and internationally, including Plame, suggested that Putin could be "looking for leverage" in hopes of swapping the American for the Russian Maria Butina, who has pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered agent of Russia.
“The Russians are going back to their playbook that they used throughout the Cold War. They’re very aggressive,” Costa said. “They’re taking shots at the United States.”
The claim that a businessman could actually work as a spy is not lost on fans of novelists John Le Carré or Robert Ludlum. History shows that the scenario is plausible.
Globally, corporations do passively work with intelligence services, Costa said. It may be a simple question during a crisis, and “of course, companies are going to cooperate in most cases.”
Not only have companies cooperated in the past, but they’ve been essential.
Finding people who can speak a foreign language fluently, cultivate cultural resources and develop social contacts was, and continues to be, important, said Professor Brian Hayashi, chairman of the Department of History at Kent State University in Ohio.
Whelan may be a logical target because he fits the profile, said Hayashi, author of an upcoming book being published by Oxford University Press about the little-known recruitment of Americans who were of Chinese, Japanese and Korean descent who worked as U.S. spies during World War II.
The book documents corporate cooperation with the intelligence community, too.
“Western Union was heavily involved in the transmission of telegrams,” he said. “They were able to get different radio companies involved with American intelligence.”
The U.S. government would scan for coded messages in telegrams going abroad, particularly between Berlin and Tokyo, Hayashi said. “In some cases, they allowed for American intelligence to look at the telegrams.”
He continued, “American intelligence will go to various communications companies, in the past and even today, and try to get information.”
Missionaries as spies
Apart from formal cooperation, American intelligence can filter communications by capturing keyword searches and targets using technology.
“You never really know what’s going on,” Hayashi said. “We just don’t know.”
Top CIA agents have been journalists, religious missionaries and English teachers, he said. More and more, “sad to say,” nongovernmental organizations are included too — “the CIA may try to slip somebody in there.”
The automotive industry isn't immune, Hayashi said.
“It included one of the spies that the Office of Strategic Services — the predecessor to the CIA — used during World War II in China," he said. "One of the automotive executives went to China, and slipped in and was ostensibly working to re-establish the American car industry in China. In reality, he was there as an agent for the OSS.”
In that case, the agent double-crossed the U.S. to serve British interests. He was Canadian and his boss was an influential executive whose work led to the creation of the American International Group (AIG) in finance and insurance, Hayashi discovered.
More recently, the Daily Mail of Britain reported in August 2015 that "enemy spies" were attempting to recruit civil servants in a bid to steal Britain’s secrets by "befriending" them on LinkedIn, the social network site for hundreds of millions of professionals.
Secret agents working for countries including Russia and China created fake profiles on the site to lure unsuspecting victims, British intelligence warned.
News reports have noted that Whelan had an active Russian social media account and had connected with Russian soldiers.
These days, coverage of the Whelan case has inspired countless press calls to BorgWarner from throughout the U.S., England, Russia and France, Graham said.
News of the Russian police action didn’t actually surprise Hayashi, he said.
“I know something of the KGB — I had to deal with them in my book,” he said. “I can assure you, if the FSB is similar to its predecessor, the KGB, then the wider issue of Russian interference in American elections and politics is nothing new. The KGB had an entire section devoted to such activities. ... They got as high as the next prime minister of the Labour Party to Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.”
Meanwhile, America hasn’t had a lot of trouble getting its own agents inside Russia because the new, younger generation opposes old-school KGB thinking that Putin, a former agent in the spy agency, represents, Hayashi said.
“I doubt Mr. Whelan was there to spy but, still, one does not know for sure without seeing any evidence," he said. "The likelihood is that he is innocent but happened to be in Russia at the wrong time. It is also possible he might have stumbled onto something accidentally and the Russians may want to cover that up.”
As it all unfolds, BorgWarner — which builds products that make vehicles move, from clutches and friction plates to transfer cases to turbochargers to electric motors and parts for combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles — is quietly awaiting the return of its executive.
Aaron Retish, a Wayne State University professor who has taught modern Russian and post-Soviet history for 16 years, is in England now, and watching the Whelan case.
It's unusual for the Russian government to arrest any American visiting the country on a tourist visa, Retish said.
Butina connection?
“Russia has arrested some people for coming in on a wrong visa or not registering. But this, the Russian media reports, was a spy sting," he said. "So something must have happened. Who knows? They’ve done this a couple of times with some U.S. diplomats and some British diplomats, but they were all eventually deported and not arrested.”
There is wide speculation that Whelan’s arrest in Russia could somehow be tied to Butina, who was trying to influence American political groups, including the National Rifle Association, but Retish said it’s too soon to make any such connection.
“I know that American news outlets have been trying to link the two, saying that this is some setup for a swap, but … there are so many other moving wheels,” Retish said, in the geopolitical landscape.
Butina, he noted, was not charged with espionage, which the Russian government alleges against Whelan.
“She was arrested for being a foreign agent," Retish said. "That makes it a lot different."
Comparisons are being made, he said, between Butina and the Russian spy Anna Chapman, who was arrested in the United States nearly a decade ago and pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.
“She was a Russian woman who was married and living in the United States and was also kind of this classic spy. She was living the normal life, but she was also spying for Russia and then she was eventually caught,” Retish said. “Even her husband supposedly didn’t know about it. She was eventually released and came back to Russia for a while and became a celebrity. She was praised by Putin.
“That’s kind of where the similarities end between the two. Chapman was a spy. Butina was a foreign agent, an unregistered foreign agent. It could be eventually that Butina actually has more significance on the political field because of all the connections that she had, than Chapman. But that is the only other big swap that you had.
“This is just a weird case with Whelan because Putin just came out saying … he hoped to have neither conversation and a meeting with Trump. And you could see that there could be a potential upswing in U.S.-Russian relations, especially with the U.S. pulling out of Syria, which is also something that Putin praised.
“It’s an odd time to arrest someone, but you never know what is happening behind the scenes. This is also how Putin works. When you least expect it, something like this happens.”
Contact Phoebe Wall Howard: phoward@freepress.com or 313-222-6512. Follow her on Twitter @phoebesaid. Free Press staff writer Kristen Jordan Shamus contributed to this report.
