The investment was made under the watch of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who was stripped of his rights as a cardinal by the Pope last month
The Vatican invested some donations for the poor and needy in derivatives that bet on the creditworthiness of Hertz, the US car rental company that defaulted on its debts earlier this year, according to documents seen by the Financial Times.
In 2018, Pope Francis said credit default swaps “encouraged the growth of a finance of chance and of gambling on the failure of others, which is unacceptable from the ethical point of view”. The instruments, he said, were “a ticking time bomb”.
But three years earlier, part of a €528 million Vatican portfolio “derived from donations” bought structured notes containing CDS as part of a bet that Hertz would not default on its debts by April 2020, the documents show. The company filed for bankruptcy the following month, giving the Holy See a narrow escape on the investment, which paid out in full.
The investment was made under the watch of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who was stripped of his rights as a cardinal by the Pope last month over what Cardinal Becciu described as an allegation of “misappropriation”.
Money was invested on behalf of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, the Holy See’s powerful central administration office where Cardinal Becciu was second-in-command from 2011 to 2018. The Secretariat has responsibility for administering donations made to the Church by Catholics around the world.
There appears to be no evidence Pope Francis himself was aware of the investment in the CDS-linked notes, which were held directly through a Secretariat account in Switzerland and made by a third-party consultant on its behalf.
Disastrous
Similar CDS trades have proved disastrous for several hedge funds in a wave of US corporate bankruptcies this year.
CQS, the London-based hedge fund run by billionaire trader Michael Hintze, suffered a roughly 50 per cent drop in the value of its flagship fund in the spring, after defaults including Hertz led to large losses on high-risk derivatives.
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Other investments made by managers for the secretariat appointed by Cardinal Becciu include financing the 2019 film Rocketman – a biopic of the musician Elton John – according to fund documents seen by the FT.
The secretariat also bought multiple luxury residential properties in London’s Knightsbridge, and securitisations partly comprising invoices owed by the Italian state to Vatican-controlled hospitals.
Late last month Pope Francis asked Cardinal Becciu to resign – relieving him of his position as the man in charge of overseeing the canonisation of Catholic saints – as a result of allegations about the management of Vatican money. The cardinal has not been charged with any crime by the Vatican. He said he has committed no wrongdoing and vowed to clear his name. He and the Vatican did not respond to requests for comment on the derivatives investment.
Swiss bank accounts
The management of Vatican assets held in Swiss bank accounts during Cardinal Becciu’s watch has come under mounting scrutiny after Vatican police last year raided the offices of the secretariat to seize documents linked to a London property deal.
The secretariat’s investment in the London building known as 60 Sloane Avenue was made through a fund in Luxembourg in 2014 in a deal personally authorised by Cardinal Becciu. In June the Vatican’s state news service reported that Holy See prosecutors believe the investment caused “huge losses”.
Yes, that is correct, race is the great American multi-trillion dollar industry.
Did anyone discuss this?
Nope.
Want to know why?
Because it would mean we would have to address christianity, and no one wants to do that, or do they?
What about islam and its colored stratified history of social standing in the U.S.?
Then, if you are going to talk about judism, which is a subject matter no one dares to broach, including the Ashkenazi, then, you are going to have to talk about the history and Detroit.
If the committee really wanted to address civil rights and civil liberties, do you not think that a good starting point would be to explain the laws and the educational curriculum in our institutions of learning?
Race is taught through what is now called Predictive Modeling Crap.
I got one even better.
How about the committee talk about the foreign operatives who have infiltrated our law enforcement & law making institutions with their #coloredrevolution fairies?
Perhaps, it has something to do with cloaking why a civil rights legacy is not afforded due process, but, hey, what do I know?
I know no one has yet to define race, but like I always say, "Just as a scientist uses science, a racist uses race."
Always remember, Black Lives Matter, because the acquisition of goods, or rather stealin' the children, land & vote, is only done in the name of the tax exempt god to maximize the best interests of the child these foreign corporations own, in pilfering a national treasury, in need of Medicaid cost reimbursement and Faith Based Funding.
What about black supremacy?
Yes, there is black supremacy and it is not very pretty because there seems to be a strong presence in the Child Welfare System, but Rashida made a mockery of this fact in her dismographied, cloaking tale of a "racial attack about two foster kids".
Since Rashida raised foster care, I thought this to be an opportune moment to introduce "Targeted Populations" no one wants to talk about, particularly the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, considering this is her District, and all, ya know.
Gerrymandering: Congress makes the law, where police enforce the law, because those in power create the law, and we all know how political campaigns are funded.
This is about Parental Rights, where the resegregation is the latest financial grifting craze.
For those of you who will not be able to watch and understand the entire discussion, allow me to sum it up for you.
Stealin' or rather Gerrymandering.
Yes, foreign interests are taking over the United States by dumbing down the people of the United States by publishing and uttering lies for the purposes of stealin' the children, land & vote.
If I have found this foreign corporation to be the wrong one promoting the bleachbitting and resegregation of the U.S. educational system, then, please, correct me in the comments, below.
I sent an email asking for their articles of incorporation, because I could not find any.
I will update if and when they respond.
Not once did one single person present how one measures race.
Not once did on single person #sayhisname as a working example of bleachbitting history.
Ben Carson knows better because he has a school and the constitution protected the industry of human trafficking, too, but none of the speakers want to talk about that.
Children and land are fungible under christian property law.
For a history of the nonprofits that will be dissolved, or have already been dissolved and they just do not care, you can search, here.
If you can terminate parental rights of an individual, where, corporations are individuals, too, well, in the spirit of a fuchsia laced transposable model, you can terminate the parental rights to keep and bear the arms of the State of Michigan.
Always remember, children and land are fungible under chattel law and it all started in Detroit.
Ten Michigan organizations with similar-sounding names to large nonprofits like the American Cancer Society and United Way are fraudulent and should be dissolved, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Friday.
The department recently submitted a complaint to dissolve 10 organizations created in 2018 by Ian Richard Hosang in Ingham County Circuit Court. The Attorney General’s office claims none of Hosang’s organizations are legitimate charities, as they don’t solicit contributions, distribute charity or provide educational services.
With names like the American Cancer Foundation of Grand Rapids, American Cancer Society of Michigan, United Way of Detroit and American Red Cross of Michigan, prospective donors might be misled into thinking they were donating to a well-known charity organization, Nessel said.
“Anyone who chooses to donate – no matter how large or small the contribution – should not have to sift through fraudulent entities before finding a reputable one to support,” she said.
The department reports Hosang and other individuals connected to the entities in question, Claudia Stephen and Lincoln Palsey, are not Michigan residents. None of the entities are registered with the Attorney General’s Charitable Trust Division.
Hosang has also registered organizations with similar names to the United Way, American Red Cross and American Cancer Society in California, Wisconsin, Ohio, Georgia, New York, Florida and Maryland, according to the Attorney General’s office.
The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs initially referred two of his Michigan organizations, ACS of Michigan and ACS of Detroit, to the Attorney General’s office in January after learning the entities were not connected to the national organization.
In light of the #coloredrevolution in its toppling of statutes honoring this nation's foundation, for representing the residuals of the peculiar institution, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Member, Louie Gohmert introduces a House Resolution to dismember the Democratic Party, and its other cohorts.
I know that if people are going to take down statutes representing the U.S. system of chattel law (a.k.a. slavery), well, then I demand taking down all legal decisions Pre-Emancipation Proclamation.
"Instead of canceling our culture and history, it’s time to #CancelDemocrats," Rep. Gohmert stated.
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, of Tyler, is calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to ban Democrats and any "organization or political party that ever publicly supported slavery or the Confederate States of America.
The East Texas representative released the following statement through an opinion piece on Breitbart News on Thursday:
"Many on the left and their willing accomplices in the media would tell you otherwise, yet a cursory examination of our nation’s factual history and records proves the riots and chaos that have swept across our country in recent months stand as a devastating reminder of the racist policies and values held by the Democratic Party throughout much of its history.
Because of this, I introduced a privileged resolution in the House calling upon Congress to acknowledge the indecorous history of the Democratic Party. I asked that the Speaker of the House be instructed to ban any political organization or political party that ever publicly supported slavery or the Confederate States of America.
Since George Floyd’s tragic killing on May 25, the left which includes their “mainstream” Democrats, have resurrected their push to rid our nation of any entities, symbols, or reminders of the repugnant aspects of America’s past. Statues of American leaders have been torn down, defaced, and destroyed regardless of whether they were a party to improprieties or fought against them. The liberal mob is out in full force demanding that schools, sports teams, music artists, military installations, and even food products change their names if they have the slightest reference to any persons or events deemed unacceptable and offensive to the groupthink of the Marxist left.
Democrats argue that they are compelled to take these extreme actions because of “systemic racism” in America, all while conveniently pinning blame on Republicans and conservatives. This revisionist history tells a story that simply has no basis in historical fact. Their efforts are a veiled attempt to erase the Democratic Party’s own culpability, which for decades, if not centuries, was the ardent political advocate for discrimination and racism in our nation. For instance, when Republicans overwhelmingly supported the 14th and 15th Amendments, which recognized former slaves as citizens and granted them, as citizens, the right to vote, every single Democrat in Congress voted against their passage and, at times, blocked passage to the shame of the good done in our country’s history. Further, as Bruce Bartlett points out in his book, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past, for a century after Reconstruction, “The Jim Crow laws were enacted by Democrat legislatures and signed into law by Democrat governors. It could not have been otherwise, since there were virtually no Republicans in positions of authority in state governments in the South after the end of Reconstruction in 1877.” However, Democrats’ support for slavery and its subsequent support for institutionalized racism did not end in the 1800s. Elected in 1912, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson enacted policies to segregate the federal government. In a letter to editor Howard Bridgman who criticized President Wilson in his publication for his support of segregation, Democrat Wilson voiced support for his administration’s enactment of segregationist policies, stating, “I do approve of the segregation that is being attempted in several of the departments.” He went on to argue that segregation was “distinctly to the advantage” of blacks, which is, of course, an absurd claim steeped in blatant racism. When his administration began requiring that photographs be submitted with each employment application, which was used to discriminate against minority applicants, President Wilson, to whom many current Democrats either point with pride or say nothing, did nothing.
Nearly fifty years later, when Republicans steadfastly supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Democrats filibustered the bill for 75 calendar days. Republicans in Congress expended great effort to protect the basic rights promised to minorities in America by our nation’s founders. During his 14-hour speech filibustering the Civil Rights Act, Democratic Senator Robert Byrd (a known KKK recruiter) proclaimed, “Men are not created equal today, and they were not created equal in 1776. Men and races of men differ in appearance, ways, physical power, mental capacity, creativity, and vision.” This morally bankrupt view is what Democrats held for a majority of the Party’s history. That historically Democrat view is a total corruption of the Biblical view the Republican Party held, that although we may look different, we are absolutely equal in the view of our “Creator,” or “the Almighty” as Republican President Lincoln liked to say. On June 18th of this year, Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the removal of portraits from the Capitol building honoring four previous Speakers of the House—all of whom were Democrats. That was a good start on the job that she should now finish if she is going to avoid blatant hypocrisy.
Throughout America’s history, Republicans have fought to repeal Jim Crow laws, desegregate schools, and promote racial equality in America. In recent years, Republicans, including President Trump, have continued this fight by working valiantly to lift Americans of all races out of poverty through pro-growth economic policies that have done more to help the plight of the impoverished than any administration. Prior to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment rates for minorities were at record lows with employment at record highs.
Efforts by Democrats to destroy all public traces of their own history of supporting slavery, the Confederacy, and segregation in an attempt to shift blame onto Republicans must no longer go unchallenged. It is time for Democrats to play by their own rules, and accept the standards they have forced onto everyone else. They must divest themselves of their name that has denied so many the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Their recent actions demand nothing less. Instead of canceling our culture and history, it’s time to #CancelDemocrats."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REPLACEMENT OF BUST OF ROGER BROOKE TANEY WITH BUST OF THURGOOD MARSHALL.
(a) Findings.—Congress finds the following:
(1) While sitting in the United States Capitol, the Supreme Court issued the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision on March 6, 1857. Written by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, whose bust sits inside the entrance to the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol, this opinion declared that African Americans were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in Federal courts. This decision further declared that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
(2) Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s authorship of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the effects of which would only be overturned years later by the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, renders a bust of his likeness unsuitable for the honor of display to the many visitors to the United States Capitol.
(3) As Frederick Douglass said of this decision in May 1857, “This infamous decision of the Slaveholding wing of the Supreme Court maintains that slaves are within the contemplation of the Constitution of the United States, property; that slaves are property in the same sense that horses, sheep, and swine are property; that the old doctrine that slavery is a creature of local law is false; that the right of the slaveholder to his slave does not depend upon the local law, but is secured wherever the Constitution of the United States extends; that Congress has no right to prohibit slavery anywhere; that slavery may go in safety anywhere under the star-spangled banner; that colored persons of African descent have no rights that white men are bound to respect; that colored men of African descent are not and cannot be citizens of the United States.”.
(4) While the removal of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s bust from the United States Capitol does not relieve the Congress of the historical wrongs it committed to protect the institution of slavery, it expresses Congress’s recognition of one of the most notorious wrongs to have ever taken place in one of its rooms, that of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s Dred Scott v. Sandford decision.
(b) Removal Of Bust Of Roger Brooke Taney.—Not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the Library shall remove the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol.
(c) Replacement With Bust Of Thurgood Marshall.—
(1) OBTAINING BUST.—Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the Library shall enter into an agreement to obtain a bust of Thurgood Marshall, under such terms and conditions as the Joint Committee considers appropriate consistent with applicable law.
(2) PLACEMENT.—The Joint Committee on the Library shall place the bust obtained under paragraph (1) in the location in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol where the bust of Roger Brooke Taney was located prior to removal by the Architect of the Capitol under subsection (b).
SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF CERTAIN STATUES AND BUST.
(a) Removal.—Not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the Library shall remove the statue of Charles Brantley Aycock, the statue of John Caldwell Calhoun, the statue of James Paul Clarke, and the bust of John Cabell Breckinridge from any area of the United States Capitol which is accessible to the public.
(b) Storage Of Statues.—The Architect of the Capitol shall keep any statue and bust removed under subsection (a) in storage until the Architect and the State which provided the statue or bust arrange for the return of the statue or bust to the State.
SEC. 3. REQUIREMENTS AND REMOVAL PROCEDURES FOR STATUES IN NATIONAL STATUARY HALL.
(a) Requirements.—Section 1814 of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 2131) is amended by inserting “(other than persons who served as an officer or voluntarily with the Confederate States of America or of the military forces or government of a State while the State was in rebellion against the United States)” after “military services”.
(b) Statue Removal Procedures.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—
(A) IDENTIFICATION BY ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL.—The Architect of the Capitol shall identify all statues on display in the United States Capitol that do not meet the requirements of section 1814 of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 2131), as amended by subsection (a); and
(B) REMOVAL BY JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY.—The Joint Committee on the Library shall arrange for the removal of each statue identified by the Architect of the Capitol under subparagraph (B) from the Capitol by not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
(2) REMOVAL AND RETURN OF STATUES.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subparagraph (C), the Architect of the Capitol shall arrange to transfer and deliver any statue that is removed under this subsection to the Smithsonian Institution.
(B) STORAGE OR DISPLAY OF STATUES.—The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution shall follow the policies and procedures of the Smithsonian Institution, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act, regarding the storage and display of any statue transferred under subparagraph (A).
(C) STATE REQUESTS.—A statue provided for display by a State that is removed under this subsection shall be returned to the State, and the ownership of the statue transferred to the State, if the State so requests and agrees to pay any costs related to the transportation of the statue to the State.
(3) REPLACEMENT OF STATUES.—A State that has a statue removed under this subsection shall be able to replace such statue in accordance with the requirements and procedures of section 1814 of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 2131) and section 311 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001 (2 U.S.C. 2132).
(4) AUTHORIZATION AND APPROPRIATIONS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—There are appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $5,000,000 to carry out this section, including the costs related to the removal, transfer, security, storage, and display of the statues described in paragraph (1)(A), of which—
(i) $2,000,000 shall be made available to the Architect of the Capitol; and
(ii) $3,000,000 shall be made available to the Smithsonian Institution.
(B) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated under subparagraph (A) shall remain available until expended.
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
In addition to the amounts appropriated under section 3(b)(4), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act, and any amounts so appropriated shall remain available until expended.
SEC. 5. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by reference to the latest statement titled “Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation” for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.
Passed the House of Representatives July 22, 2020.
Attest:
Clerk.
116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 7573
AN ACT
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library and to remove certain statues from areas of the United States Capitol which are accessible to the public, to remove all statues of individuals who voluntarily served the Confederate States of America from display in the United States Capitol, and for other purposes.
If Betsy DeVos, et. al, does not get that school money, then what is going to happen with all those Social Impact Bonds?
Dare I say a global collapse in the bond markets?
She has got her teachers, staff, administration, policy think tanks, hedge fund managers, and any other financial creature hissing and grimacing behind her back if she does not get that money, as they have already advanced predictive modeling crapping generated Medicaid cost reimbursements under COVID 19 Post Traumatic Stress Training CARES Act.
Just go ask my favorite Maltese K-nig-hit!
Oops, did I just say that!?!
If there is no more schools, then, that means there is no more Medicaid Targeted Case Management, which means the Archdiocese of Detroit is going to have to start dissolving its privatized foster care and adoption agencies, unless they got that PPP, but that has nothing to do with the revenue maximization schemes which target populations... like Black Lives Matter does..which is how they make their money....through Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare...
Detroit — An attorney for a national civil rights organization will seek a court order to shut down summer school in Detroit's public schools, alleging the district is unprepared to mitigate COVID-19 dangers and is putting students and staff at risk.
Shanta Driver, national chairwoman of By Any Means Necessary and a civil rights attorney, said she will be filing a request for a preliminary injunction in the Court of Claims on Tuesday to stop the Detroit Public Schools Community District from opening 23 school buildings for its first week of in-person summer school.
DPSCD did open buildings on Monday for the first day of summer school for about 500 students, according to a Twitter post by superintendent Nikolai Vitti, marking the first time since mid-March that students entered schools for face-to-face instruction.
"COVID is not going away," Vitti tweeted. "Many of our children need face-to-face, direct engagement. We should not make that requirement for all children and families. Parents should be able to choose face-to-face or online."
Earlier Monday, BAMN demonstrators picketed in front of the district's westside bus terminal on Greenfield Road, blocking any buses from leaving to pick up students who needed transportation to summer school.
Driver said the bus drivers her organization spoke to said they were not given COVID-19 safety training for themselves or the children they are picking up.
"They have no hand sanitizers on board. They were not told of social distance measures. They have no masks themselves and have no masks for students," Driver said.
Kenshawn Siebert said he will not return to work as a contract DPSCD bus driver until safety measures are in place for himself and students on the bus. Siebert reported for work Monday with his own mask but was not provided training for COVID-19 safety measures, masks for students or sanitzers for riders.
Siebert, who works for Trinity Transportation/National Express, said he was not tested for COVID-19 before attempting to drive the school bus Monday and was not asked to seek a test on his own before reporting for work.
"My company has nothing in place for the safety of the students. None of us have been tested for COVID and they are starting the school bus system," Siebert said. "They are not prepared for it, and there is nothing in place to keep the drivers safe or students safe."
Teachers have contacted BAMN, Driver said, saying they were told by the district if they see a sick student, they are to remove him or her from the classroom, yet they are not being told where to place that student.
"Teachers have been given 10-minute video to watch on how to deal with reopening schools. That is so inadequate," Driver said. "It's so dangerous, and it's so irresponsible. We want to prevent them from opening schools until they can show it is something that can do safely."
Vitti was not immediately available for comment Monday. On Monday, he posted on Twitter a photograph of students inside a classroom wearing masks and sitting at desks that were spaced out.
"DPSCD serving 500 students face to face today. Thank you to all of our employees who made this happen for our students and families. Good to see students in schools this morning," Vitti said on Twitter.
Monday was the first day of summer school classes held in 26 different schools. According to the district's website, students can choose between in-person classes or virtual classes for summer learning.
Precautions the district said it will take include the requirement of masks for students and teachers, self-assessments and temperature checks for everyone who enters the buildings, and negative COVID-19 test results needed to be submitted by all adults working in summer schools.
The district is also requiring a ratio of 10-15 students per 1 adult for each classroom.
Summer classes are scheduled for four hours on Monday through Thursday. The summer semester will end Aug. 6. The district has said that summer learning is on a voluntary basis for students and teachers. DPSCD spokeswoman Chrystal Wilson could not be immediately reached for comment.
On Sunday, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist echoed recent statements by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, saying schools won't reopen in the fall if coronavirus cases have not been controlled.
"The politicization of schools during the coronavirus, it really disgusts me. I mean as a parent of twin 6-year-olds who will be entering the second grade in the fall, I want my kids to be safe, I want every child in the state of Michigan, and frankly, the country to be safe," Gilchrist said.
Monday's bus demonstration, which started at 5 a.m. and lasted until 9 a.m., was organized with By Any Means Necessary, an organization that has held other recent protests.
"There's a reason they're only opening these schools in Detroit and Detroit has had the worst of COVID-19," said Kate Stenvig, one of the BAMN organizers. "We're not going to allow our kids to be guinea pigs in this experiment."
Along with forming a picket line in front of the two exit driveways at the terminal, protesters dug up plants and tree branches and placed them as a barricade in front of the open gates.
BAMN organizers said no buses left the terminal during the protest and at least two school bus drivers publicly quit during the demonstration, saying it was on Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and Vitti.
"We've made so many sacrifices as teachers, to ask us to sacrifice our lives and even our children that we love and care about, it's just not right. We have to draw the line somewhere," said Tracy Brown, a teacher at Mackenzie Elementary and Middle School.
Around 100 people came out for the protest, and at one point, about 10 city police and school police vehicles were present.
"I'm not going back until this pandemic is defeated. There is no safe way to return to school while this virus is spreading uncontained," said Benjamin Royal, a teacher at Maybury Elementary School in Detroit.
"I'm not going to risk my life, and I'm not going to help create a situation where my students would have to risk their lives."
The witnesses of those who have children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) are providing raw testimony to the Members of Congress who have no goddamn clue on poverty in the United States.
This is only the beginning because when the world finds out how Members of Congress personally inure themselves in office off the lives of children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth), there shall be a spiritual implosion.
The best way to get people out of poverty is to stop stealin' the children, land & vote.
There is a reason I do not include the letter "g" in stealin', for it is called gerrymandering and it is constitutional.
Poverty is codified as the crime of abuse and neglect, as failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child, grounds for removal by Child Protective Services, for placement in Foster Care, where Parental Rights will be terminated for Adoption.
Welcome to the world of the residuals of the peculiar institution, where the time has come to dismantle.
Slavery was never abolished, it just slapped a big cross on front of their "Public Private Partner - Ships" and called themselves Child Welfare Services.
Much love to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and crew.
Praise the lord, for there are thousands upon thousands more of these trafficking tiny human operations, but for now, this is just one operation of trafficking tiny humans in Kenya.
These children are orphaned from mothers who died of HIV human lab rat experiments, funded through the U.S. National Institute of Health, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Vatican, specifically Catholic Charities, where the children grow up, sometimes, to be lab rats, to see if the girls can give birth under the age of 11 years, to produce more goods to acquire, where, of course, the process is documented on video.
A Lancaster County, Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today to engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Special Agent in Charge Michael Driscoll of the FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office made the announcement.
Gregory Dow, 61, pleaded guilty to four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, before U.S. District Court Judge Edward G. Smith. Sentencing is set for Sept. 29, 2020.
According to the plea agreement, Dow, an American citizen, traveled to the Republic of Kenya in 2008 to start an orphanage which came to be known as the Dow Family Children’s Home. While running the orphanage with his wife, he sexually abused, on multiple occasions, four minor girls between October 2013 and September 2017. During this time period, he maintained ties to the United States.
The FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office conducted the investigation with assistance from Kenyan authorities and local law enforcement in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Trial Attorneys Lauren S. Kupersmith and Lauren E. Britsch of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy M. Stengel of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania are prosecuting the case.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
The following is their financial money laundering network. Please note the federal funding. Slavery was never abolished, it just slapped a cross on it and called it child welfare, in the name of the tax exempt god. Speaking of tax exempt god, has anyone heard from Betsy DeVos, lately?
A Lancaster man accused of sexually abusing four girls at his Kenyan orphanage between 2013 and 2017 has pleaded guilty to four counts against him, according to U.S. Attorney William McSwain.
Gregory Dow, 61, created the Dow Family Children’s Home back in 2008 when he and his family traveled to the Republic of Kenya to start an orphanage, according to the statement from McSwain’s office. The orphanage was established in Bomet County, and Dow claimed he was a Christian missionary who cared for the children and asked them to call him “Dad."
The home was open until September 2017, when Kenyan authorities suspected that Dow was sexually abusing children in his care, McSwain’s office said. Dow fled back to Lancaster when the allegations came to light.
The FBI then investigated the allegations, determining that he had sexually abused at least four girls between October 2013 and September 2017, according to McSwain’s office. Two of the girls were as young as 11 when the assaults began.
The investigation found that Dow’s wife brought the girls to a medical clinic to have birth control devices implanted into their arms in order for Dow to continue abusing the girls without fear of impregnating them, according to McSwain’s office. <=== lab rats. Michigan christians found out that tiny humans can reproduce as young as 11 years of age. Imagine that the next time you look at a christian adoption.
Dow was charged with these crimes in July of 2019, and on Monday, Dow pleaded guilty to the four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in a foreign place, in front of U.S. District Court Judge Edward G. Smith.
“Gregory Dow hid behind his supposed faith on the other side of the world, hoping no one in the U.S. would know or care about the children he abused. He was wrong,” said U.S. Attorney McSwain. “Holding those accountable who sexually abuse children, no matter where their crimes occur, will continue to be a top priority of my Office and the entire Department of Justice.”
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Web: www.allgodschildren.org
Phone: 800.214.6719
Bethany Christian Services
Headquarters: 901 Eastern Ave NE, P.O. Box 294, Grand Rapids, MI 49501
Web: www.bethany.org
Phone: 800.BETHANY
Letien , KE | Other Funding Some of you may remember hearing about Phil’s trip to Kenya back in 2012. He visited the Dow Family Children’s Home to install cement floors in their school building. He came home talking my ear off about girls who “braided” his hair and how I just had to go see for myself what the Dow’s were doing. And then he showed me the pictures of beautiful children and my heart melted.
I began working with the Dows helping with administration items last summer. I started following their updates, reading about these abandoned children and how the Dows were stepping in to change their lives. This family truly lives by faith; giving their entire life up to serve children in Letien, Kenya. They not only run this amazing home, but also minister to the community through a school and church. We will never truly know how many lives they have and will touch! Intrigued by what they are doing, I started doing some research. I learned that there are approximately 153 million orphans worldwide! Just in Kenya there are approximately 2.6 million. How does this happen? And how do we sit here unmoved, armed with those statistics? With the help of Phil’s uncle and his company, Doug Lamb Construction, we’ll be visiting the Dow Family Children’s Home on October 25th through November 4th. We’ll be going with a group of 10 people to build a pavilion and play area for the children. With 55 plus children, their eating area is outside. This becomes a problem during their rainy season, so a pavilion will help keep them dry during meal times. The majority of the children are under the age of 5. You could put that in the context of a bunch of Izzy’s running around looking to expel large amounts of havoc energy. They need a play area…and the staff needs a lot of prayer! Other than loving on the kids, supporting staff in any way I can, I’ll also be helping to finalize the administration needs for the Dows as they will be partnering with Brittany’s Hope starting in January 2014. Brittany’s Hope is an organization from little old Elizabethtown, PA who is enacting global change for internationally abandoned children. Their work is amazing and they will be a wealth of support and stability to the Dow Home. (You should check them out, http://www.brittanyshope.org) We need your help in these three areas. Pick one or pick all three but know that we’re calling on you to support in these areas because we believe you can make a difference in the lives of orphaned children with us. Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray for our plane safety and our traveling safeties once we arrive in Kenya. Pray for the funds to come in for the people going and also for the supplies needed for the playground. Pray for travel logistics to fall into place smoothly. Pray for the Dow’s and the children to be encouraged by our visit. Pray that ultimately, the community in Letien, our traveling companions in the air and on the ground, and all who we come in contact would be truly moved by our mission and see Jesus in it all. Give! Phil and I will need to personally raise a minimum of $2,000 to cover our plane tickets, additional travel costs, immunizations and extra baggage fees as we’ll be taking extra things over to the children. Please know that any amount you can give is truly appreciated! Any funds over our minimum amount raised will go directly towards funding the playground project costs and helping with specific needs of the home and children. If helping out with these direct needs sounds intriguing to you, email me at, jleighlamb (at) gmail (dot) com and I’ll pass along the list of things we’ll be collecting closer to the date of travel.
Join Us! Yeah, we know it’s probably a lot to ask you to join us on that 18 hour plane ride; but consider joining us in other ways. Such as learning about the Dow Family Children’s Home at http://www.dowfamilychildrenshome.org and Brittany’s Hope at, http://www.brittanyshope.org . Consider sponsoring a child in Kenya with the Dow’s or maybe in Ethiopia or Viet Nam which are two of the other countries Brittany’s Hope works in. Consider volunteering at Brittany’s Hope’s events, joining their board of directors, or at the very least, go “like” their Facebook page so you can begin to witness the change they are making in children’s lives. 100% of donations go directly to helping children (in thanks to a very generous sponsor who covers the organizations overhead and administration expenses). This percentage is unheard of and should be a relief to know that your monies really will make a difference in the life of an international orphan. We know it’s not easy to give money, or time or even mental & heart space for one more cause. It’s never easy, but it’s always worth it. We love you all and thank you for taking the time to read this! Feed the hungry and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as day. ISAIAH 58:10
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He could have just been ordered to walk home or get picked up, but there are those who justify the shooting as "resisting arrest".
The officer has been fired.
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