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How Councils Blow Your Millions: Channel 4 Dispatches...
Parliamentary committee chairman calls for inquiry into £15bn of risky bank loans taken out by councils across the country
Clive Betts, the Chairman of the parliamentary committee which
scrutinises local government has called for an inquiry into £15bn of
risky bank loans taken out by more than 200 councils across the country.
These risky and complex loans are known as LOBOs. Some councils like
Newham and Cornwall are being charged interest rates of more than 7% on
tens of millions of pounds of these LOBO loans at a time when base rates
are at a historic low.
Expensive exit fees imposed on councils by banks like RBS and Barclays mean that councils can’t get out of these loans which can run for up to 70 years.
Dispatches estimate that banks made more than £1bn in upfront profits on these local authority loans.
A former trader at Barclays Capital told Dispatches he
had “deep moral qualms” about LOBOs and didn’t feel they were “fair” on
councils.
For the past three months, Channel 4 Dispatches has been
investigating the books of town halls across the country. How Councils
Blow Your Millions: Channel 4 Dispatches, airs tonight (Monday 6th July).
Dispatches presented its evidence to Clive Betts, who said: ‘I think the committee will want to look at this very seriously indeed’. He said he would question ‘whether should these loans be continued, is there any way they can be unravelled and councils given loans at a fair interest rate. ‘
Calculations suggest that if councils could refinance at today’s rates they could save taxpayers £145m this year alone – or almost three quarters of a billion pounds across this parliament.
Betts has also called for the Financial Conduct Authority to investigate the City firms that give specialist financial advice to town halls on their borrowing.
Dispatches uncovered evidence that some council advisers were not
only paid by the local authority, but earned commission from City
brokers if town halls took out these risky loans. Betts described this
potential conflict of interest as “outrageous”.
What are LOBO loans?
Few outside a council's finance department or the City of London know
about the existence of these LOBO loans. While these loans might look a
bit like a fixed-rate mortgage they are long-term loans tied to complex
interest rate derivatives set up by the banks.
LOBO stands for Lender Option Borrower Option and unlike a fixed-rate mortgage they have three key twists:
· The loan contract runs for between 40 and 70 years
· Councils have to pay huge exit fees if they want to move to a better deal
· Banks have the option of raising the rates at regular intervals
Most LOBO loans were taken out between 2003-2011 when council
officials believed interest rates would stay high. As base rates have
hit rock bottom and stayed low, many local authorities have been left
counting the cost.
Research suggests about 240 local authorities across the UK have taken out about £15 billion of LOBO loans.
In some cases local authorities have taken up to half a billion
pounds of these loans, borrowing from private banks including Barclays
and RBS.
MP calls for investigation into LOBO loans
Labour MP Clive Betts told Channel 4 Dispatches that he wants his
committee to investigate these loans and would like to explore whether
there are grounds to unravel these deals.
He has also called
for the Financial Conduct Authority to investigate the behaviour of City
firms that offer local authorities specialist financial advice.
Dispatches has obtained evidence that as well as being paid by councils
some of these firms earned commission from City brokers if a council
took out a LOBO.
Betts told the programme: “That's
outrageous. In the end a council appoints and pays for an independent
outside advisor to come in they expect that advice to be independent and
not to be paid for by somebody else who is gaining a profit from these
loans being set up. I mean that really is scandalous if that's
happened.”
He added: "I think the FCA now ought to investigate this, and if
it hasn't got the powers then the government ought to consider giving
it the powers to regulate this in the future.”
Expensive ‘inverse floater’ LOBO loans
There are a number of different types of LOBO loans but currently the
most expensive for councils is known as the "inverse floater". These are
LOBO loans taken out by councils that have tied interest payments to a
complex formula designed to reduce a council's interest payments if
rates go up.
However, as base rates have fallen and stayed low some councils have ended up paying high rates of interest.
Channel 4 Dispatches has established that at least 12 councils
which have the most expensive LOBO loans include Cornwall and Newham.
Most of these have "inverse floaters" taken out with RBS.
The
council with the biggest portfolio of LOBO loans is the London Borough
of Newham which has £563m of these risky loans. Channel 4 Dispatches has
obtained a council document which shows that this year the local
authority has been paying rates of up to 7.6% on these loans.
Banking whistleblower speaks out
A former banker with Barclays Capital, Rob Carver, has spoken out about his "deep moral qualms" with LOBO loans.
Carver used to work on Barclays Capital's Exotic Interest Rate
Derivative Desk . He didn’t deal with councils directly, but millions of
pounds of Lobo contracts passed across his desk.
He says: “I
didn't feel that the trading we were doing was fair. I didn't feel that
they [councils] understood the business that they were getting in to,
and I didn't think ultimately it would be a very good deal for the - the
local taxpayers of that authority."
‘Conflict of interest’?
Channel 4 Dispatches also hears evidence that some City consultants
giving councils specialist financial advice on their borrowing earned
commission on LOBO loans that a council took out.
We’ve learned that as well as being paid by councils, some advisors
earned commission from city brokers if the council took out a lobo.
Mark Pickering previously worked for Sector, a firm of council advisers which earned these commissions.
He felt this was a potential conflict of interest.
Asked
whether Sector earned commission on LOBO deals, Mark Pickering says:
“Yes, it did go on during my time at Sector…. I felt pretty
uncomfortable and that’s why I sought to do something about it by
setting up an independent alternative."
Mark Pickering left
Sector and set up a rival firm, which doesn’t take commission. His firm
, Arlinglcose, does not advise councils to take out LOBO loans.
He said: "it's rare to find a situation which the balance of the benefits have seen to fall favourably on the local authority."
Capita, which owns Sector, told the programme:
they ‘strongly refute any allegations of inappropriate business activities’
We provided ‘generic, factual, comparative information to local authorities regarding their funding options’
‘We did not and do not direct local authorities to seek funding from any specific organisation”
Right to Replies
A Barclays spokesperson told Channel 4 Dispatches that these loans have helped councils:
‘ build new schools, roads and parks. They are straightforward, fair and easily explained’
‘The average interest rate was about 4.5 %, typically cheaper than the public sector loans available’
‘It is untrue lobo loans work against the best interest of the local authority’
At RBS recent AGM, Channel 4 Dispatches asked the banks chairman, Sir
Philip Hampton, if he could justify charging councils, high interest
rates for LOBO loans.
Sir Philip Hampton says:
‘It's very difficult to talk about specific interest rates attached to specific asset classes… the rates go up and down, sometimes we do quite well with interest rates spreads and sometimes we do really badly - that's the nature of banking. So I don't think, we don't have any mechanisms for separating out councils for any particular treatment, I don't think we've got the market power to do that.’
Councils say the LOBOs they took out had lower interest rates than government loans and that on average that’s still the case.
Newham council told us it’s made ‘£65 m of savings’ on its borrowing since 2002 and that it’s ensured its ‘ borrowing protects the council’s finances from ...different interest rates’. It added that after refinancing its debts between 2002 and 2009 its interest payments were halved. They also say they comply with accounts and audit regulations.’
Cornwall Council told us they take expert financial advice and: ‘We are happy our portfolio provides value for money and protects against the risk of fluctuating interest rates ..two LOBO rates are higher... due to the extended period of extremely low interest rates that could not have been foreseen.’
The Local Government Association say that LOBOs are legitimate for
councils to use but should be assessed as part of their overall
portfolio and not judged in hindsight.
How Councils Blow Your Millions: Channel 4 Dispatches, Monday 6th July at 8pm
Notes to Editors
Press contact: Peter Heneghan, Channel 4 Press Office
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
More Of Creepy Podesta's Art Collection #PizzaGate
John Podesta Art -
https://odysee.com/@QuantumRhino:9/The-Podesta-Art-Collection:8
Monday, December 19, 2016
@Rachael_Swindon: 124,000 Homeless Children: Merry Christmas From Th...
Sage of Quay Radio - Sofia Smallstorm - Pedophilia: Domain of The Beast ...
Sage of Quay Radio – Sofia Smallstorm – Pedophilia: Domain of The Beast (Dec 2016)
VIDEO:
Sofia Smallstorm returns to the show. Sofia will offer her insights into the dark occulted world of what she refers to as “The Club” and how this parasitical entity is behind the systematic desecration of humanity through crimes such as pedophilia.
Our discussion is based on two of Sofia’s recent newsletters – her October newsletter where she take us through The Club and it’s pervasive influence within society and also her November newsletter where she shares her thoughts on the John Podesta emails and Comet Ping Pong which many researchers believe is a glimpse into the sordid world of elite pedophilia. Sofia’s newsletters are subscriber based. Please visit her website at SofiaSmallstorm.com for details on subscribing.
** The views expressed during this show are opinions and observations based on the information available to us at the time of this recording. We are not accusing anyone of criminality. We are simply expressing our thoughts as free thinkers. **
* Sofia’s website / blog: http://www.aboutthesky.com/
* Sofia’s store: http://www.avatarproducts.com/
RELATED LINKS:
* Sage of Quay Radio – Sofia Smallstorm – Biological Darkness and The Sepsis Agenda
* WikiLeaks Podesta Emails: WikiLeaks Site is down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3yJM562wOs
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Sage of Quay Radio - Sofia Smallstorm - Biological Darkness and The Sepsis Agenda (Nov 2016)
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Criteria - A Dictionary Definition.
A standard or criticism.
A rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.
Means for judging, standard, from krites "judge,"
A standard, rule, or test on which a judgment or decision can be based.
Bench mark A standard or touchstone against which to measure; a criterion or test.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating A proverbial admonition against passing judgment on something without first examining the evidence or facts; often shortened to the proof of the pudding. Another popular proverb conveying basically the same message is the imperative don’t judge a book by its cover.
What Is Wrong With Frankincense Oil ?
I have burnt it, bathed in it and used it as a deodorant.
Two years ago, I noticed a change.
The scent was not as powerful and the aroma dissipated quickly.
No longer as uplifting to my senses nor calming to my mind.
I have bought cheap Frankincense and the most expensive.
All are the same – different from before.
The wise men would not be amused.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Bloody Nose Bleeding.
I am stressed – yet again – by all that is going on and my nose has atarted to bleed.
Bloody blood pressure through the roof again.
I had news earlier this evening that today was the funeral of an old friend.
Fly high, John.
I also have had to listen to the wife reciting bullshit from a bullshitter.
And I have made myself a promise….
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Complaint To The LGO Wales Re Gwynedd Council.
I did not count the amount of pages sent but it was considerable, including the parents complaint from 2010 in which all points were upheld by the Independent Investigators.
Many people have advised that I am wasting my time but I am hopeful that the LGO will come to the same conclusion that I and many others, including Councillors, my MP and my AM have reached - that there is something very, very wrong with the way that criteria for services is being interpreted by certain officers and their staff.
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Thursday, December 08, 2016
Wednesday, December 07, 2016
Abby Martin Exposes John Podesta (Empire Files) #PizzaGate
Abby Martin John Podesta Pizzagate -
The Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes John Podesta -
Video can be viewed here -
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x50vikm
.'Pizzagate' Shooter to Serve Four Years in Jail...
The man who fired an assault rifle inside a Washington, D.C. pizzeria in December was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon and transporting a firearm over state lines.
At the time of the incident, the North Carolina resident, Edgar Maddison Welch, said he was “self-investigating” a claim that Hillary Clinton and her then-campaign chief, John Podesta, were running a pedophilia ring out of the restaurant’s back rooms. The conspiracy theory was likely generated by a white supremacy Twitter account before gaining traction across various online message boards and fake news sites leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
In what he believed was an attempt to rescue child sex slaves, Welch entered the restaurant, Comet Ping Pong, before 3:00 p.m. on December 4, 2016 and fired multiple shots. Court documents later revealed that Welch was intent on “[sacrificing] the lives of a few for the lives of many.” Upon finding no evidence to support his theory, Welch ultimately surrendered to police without causing any injuries. The story, which earned the nickname “Pizzagate,” was later cited as a cautionary tale of the gravity of fake news.
“What happened today demonstrates that promoting false and reckless conspiracy theories comes with consequences,” the restaurant’s owner, James Alefantis, said following the incident. “I hope that those involved in fanning these flames will take a moment to contemplate what happened here today, and stop promoting these falsehoods right away.”
But, in the hours after the shooting, Michael Flynn Jr., the son of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, continued to tweet about it. “Until #Pizzagate [is] proven to be false, it’ll remain a story,” Flynn Jr. said, adding: “The left seems to forget [the] #PodestaEmails and the many ‘coincidences’ tied to it.” At the heart of the conspiracy theory was the idea that Podesta’s many references to “pizza” in the WikiLeaks emails were code for pedophilia.
More -
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/06/dcs-pizzagate-shooter-sentenced-to-4-years-in-jail/531381/
Married, With Art -
A quarter-century later, those prints are history, but Podesta is counted among the nation’s most important contemporary art collectors. Inside the elite Chelsea galleries, he and his wife, Heather, are gossiped about, deferred to and ushered toward the choicest works. All the art stars know their names.
In Washington, the couple is recognized, too — for very different reasons. Podesta, 60, has ridden a long career on Capitol Hill to his current perch as a top-tier lobbyist and co-chairman of PodestaMattoon, an outfit that took in $11 million in revenue last year from high end clients such as Altria and eBay. (It counts among its clients The Washington Post Co., which in 2003 paid the firm $60,000.)
Political candidates eagerly tap Podesta’s mojo, too: He spearheaded President Clinton’s successful 1996 Pennsylvania campaign, and Sen. John Kerry has hired him to work the same magic for him in the Keystone State this year. Heather, 26 years his junior and several shades greener, carved a career aiding Reps. Robert Matsui and Earl Pomeroy; she joined Blank Rome’s law and government relations firm this spring.
Washington power brokers familiar with the couple’s art collection — regular rounds of parties at their two Washington area homes ensure plenty of viewing opportunities — regard the couple’s enthusiasm as something of a personal quirk.
But the Podestas’ stock of artists know well the benefits of securing such politically connected patronage. Uniquely capable of advocating for their artists using the lobbying skills of their day jobs, Tony and Heather can secure access, lend advice and connect artists to curators and coveted museum shows. It’s backing more valuable, at times, than dollars.
In a gray flannel city, Tony and Heather show up in technicolor. Tony arrives in red leather shoes and peacock-bright ties. Stalk-slim Heather, a white streak issuing from a shock of dark hair, favors ensembles by international boutique designers.
When they buy, Tony and Heather buy big. At a given moment, their collection hovers around 900 pieces, higher if a major art fair closed recently. The emphasis is on photo-based works, though sculpture and paintings are also featured.
With more than half their trove currently in storage, Tony and Heather, like notable collectors Eli and Edythe Broad in Los Angeles and Don and Mera Rubell in Miami, are considering buying a public space to show their works. In the meantime, the couple sends as many pieces as possible to traveling museum shows and displays the rest at home. In their Woodley Park and Falls Church residences, pictures hang salon style, floor to ceiling, like very, very expensive wallpaper. Tony started buying art at the annual auctions of Washington Project for the Arts — a local alternative art venue that was once a very hip place but is hardly on par with today’s major galleries. Today, though his habit has grown voluminously, Tony describes the evolution as more a dedicated hobby than an obsession.
“Some people spend a lot of money on golf,” says Tony, who speaks in energetic spurts. “Like they play golf, I play art.”
His is, in part, a gambler’s collection, albeit based on safe bets. The up-and-comers Tony favors travel the international contemporary art circuit, the gold line from Chelsea to the Venice Biennale. Though the works aren’t guaranteed to stand the test of time, many of his artists have logged significant hours on major museum walls. Others, including a few of Tony’s more obscure choices, have given good returns over the long term.
Heather’s first taste of Tony’s art came on their first date, in the fall of 2001, when they stopped at his house to pick up his car before heading to the opera. Passing some of the quirkier selections, Heather recalls Tony remarking, “I don’t know why it is, but I have artworks where the women have no heads.” The next day, she sent him a note signed, “Woman with a head.” They were married last year.
To keep themselves in pictures, Tony and Heather jet to art fairs and biennials from Sao Paolo to San Sebastian — often just for the weekend. Theirs is a life led breathlessly, moving from airport to dinner party. The art is an extravagance that occasionally gives Heather pause.
“401(k)? Art?” she asks, as if weighing the two options. “Tony’s view of investment diversification is multiple artists.”
No wonder Heather worries. Though her childhood was cultured, she was hardly schooled in the high-fashion — and big-money — realm of contemporary art. If Tony’s art infatuation developed gradually, Heather’s blossomed overnight.
“Did I go from zero to 1,000?” she says, referring to her art involvement since meeting Tony. “No. I went from 5 to 1,000.”
Heather now talks about conspiring with “Julie” (as in Roberts, a major painter in museum collections worldwide) on a portrait of Tony she commissioned for his birthday. She mentions seeing “Olafur” (as in Eliasson, a Danish-born photographer whom the Podestas hold in depth) at an opening.
Still, Heather recalls the day, just weeks into her relationship with Tony, when she traveled to Chelsea with him to look at art. A gallerist presented a photograph by a well-known German artist, chirping about the work’s reasonable price. The piece cost $45,000.
“There are times when I’m the daughter of an academic, in sneakers,” Heather says of her sticker shock. “I’m just that geek completely out of place. I felt it then.”
Tony and Heather don’t shy away from discomfort — especially when they can inflict it, ever so gently, on others.
The pictures ringing Tony’s ninth-floor office at PodestaMattoon deliver an unusual welcome. A suite of arresting computer-manipulated photographs by Dutch artist Margi Geerlinks serves as a cautionary tale of genetic engineering. One shows a boy seemingly born from a sewing machine. Another finds a young girl knitting her own hair. A third has a naked woman immersed in blood-red liquid.
It’s not hard to imagine the jolt that executives from biotech concerns such as Genentech or Serono get when they walk into the room — and they’re clients.
“Some people think it’s a little weird,” Tony says of his choices. “But that’s their problem.”
Steeped in liberal politics, Tony favors art with in-your-face nudity and social critique.
“We’re not trying to confront sexism and racism in our art collection,” he insists. “Though occasionally they intersect. Some people’s politics are other people’s aesthetics.”
And some people’s aesthetics are other people’s embarrassments. Tony’s younger brother John (yes, that John, Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff and current president of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress) admires his choices in art but recognizes that not everyone gets it. Says John, “I don’t think Tony focus-groups his art.”
Though pictures rotate on and off the walls of the couple’s homes, a piece in the Woodley Park living room stays. Called “Soliloquy VII,” the nearly eight-foot-tall color photo by British artist Sam Taylor-Wood is an update of a late-15th-century painting of the dead Jesus. Taylor-Wood faithfully replicates the original’s composition, here photographing, in vivid color and minute detail, a young man laid out on his back. Just one thing: Taylor-Wood omits the shroud, displaying his subject in all his nakedness.
Though often politely ignored, “Soliloquy VII” is rarely forgotten. Tony and Heather love it. They crane their necks to hear the whispers generated when the pols stop in. Tony often uses the work to launch into a story about Hillary Clinton’s visit, when she ducked and tiptoed around the work lest any photo opportunity capture her alongside the naked figure.
“You’ve got to be pretty secure to have an eight-foot-tall naked man in your living room in Washington, D.C.,” Heather says of her husband’s choice.
What Heather suggests as a badge of her mate’s confidence is a highly intentional statement. After all, Tony’s job is to make an impression. Besides, when the piece isn’t generating blushes, it’s generating conversation.
“At political events, there’s an inevitable awkwardness,” former Clinton administration official Sally Katzen said at a Women’s Campaign Fund dinner at the Podestas’ home this summer. “The art is an ice-breaker. It puts people at ease.”
Not always. Folks attending a house tour in the Lake Barcroft neighborhood in Falls Church earlier this year got an eyeful when they walked into a bedroom at the Podesta residence hung with multiple color pictures by Katy Grannan, a photographer known for documentary-style pictures of naked teenagers in their parents’ suburban homes.
“They were horrified,” Heather recalls, a grin spreading across her face.
If Tony and Heather enjoy in-your-face art, they also reward their artists. The Podestas are eager to assist those they’ve earmarked as promising, and donate time and resources to the cause.
During last year’s Venice Biennale, they threw parties night after night, renting out their favorite restaurant and packing it with artists and a gallerist or two. Here in Washington, they’ve hosted art parties with Patricia Puccini, Cathy de Monchaux, Anna Gaskell, Frank Thiel, Annee Olofsson, Nikki Lee and others. Curators from the Hirshhorn Museum and Corcoran Gallery of Art, top Washington collectors and the city’s best dealers regularly show up. Podesta parties are where connections are made.
“I see lobbying as getting information in the hands of people who are making decisions so they can make more informed decisions,” Tony says. “We do that a lot with museums.”
The couple also donates. About 300 pieces that have passed through Tony’s hands are now in museum collections. Locally, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts have benefited most.
“Tony loves the artists themselves as much as the artworks,” John Podesta says. Earlier this month, the couple held a party and opening at their Falls Church home in honor of 34-year-old District artist Avish Khebrehzadeh.
Tony and Heather liked her work when they saw it at last year’s Venice Biennale, where the artist received one the event’s prestigious awards, so her Washington dealer set up a visit. That day with Tony in the studio, Khebrehzadeh mentioned wanting to work on a large scale but not having adequate studio space. So Tony offered her the keys to his Falls Church home, with its ample basement. Last winter, Khebrehzadeh spent weekdays at the house working.
Now it’s time to show those works and her dealer’s walls aren’t big enough, either. So Khebrehzadeh’s exhibition opened earlier this month at the Podestas’ house, in the very space where the art was made. Visitors may make appointments to see the show.
Other artists have similar stories. For Belgrade-based up-and-comer Vesna Pavlovic, Heather helped secure a show at Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum (Heather once worked for the congressman who represents the area). For art stars Jane and Louise Wilson, the couple pulled some Washington strings to ensure the duo had access to Las Vegas casinos for a video shoot.
“It’s inspiring to meet a collector so involved in his own career and, parallel to that, in the arts as well,” says video artist and painter Sarah Morris, speaking from Berlin, where she opened a show last week. “He’s very committed.”
Morris approached Tony in 2000 with her idea for the film “Capital.” The piece ended up as an 18-minute look into Washington’s corridors of power, much of it thanks to strategy sessions with Tony at which Morris would identify the places she wanted to shoot and Tony would tell her how likely she’d be to get in.
“Tony speaks in percentiles,” Morris explains. “I’d say ‘Cabinet Room,’ and he’d be, like, ’30 percent.’ I’d say ‘Pentagon,’ and he’d say ’60 percent.’ ”
Co-conspiratorial leanings aside, Tony likes to see his artists’ results and will travel to openings to support them. “Sometimes our life feels like an art travelogue,” Tony says of the constant back-and-forth.
“He travels more than any artist I know. And artists travel a lot,” Morris says. “Tony would show up and surprise you.”
But these days, Tony’s focus is the battleground state of Pennsylvania and getting his candidate elected.
South Korea’s Gwangju Biennial, which opened earlier this month, is the kind of show that normally would prompt Tony to get on a plane. “If it weren’t for Kerry, I’d be going,” Tony says with a hint of regret. It’s one of the few times that art has had to slide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43480-2004Sep22_3.html
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Nearly 400 children rescued and 348 adults arrested in Canadian child abuse bust.
The three-year project, named Project Spade, began when undercover officers with the Toronto Police Service Child Exploitation service made contact with a Toronto man allegedly sharing “very graphic images” of child sexual abuse in Oct. 2010, Toronto Police Service Chief William Blair said at a press conference on Thursday.
Police said their investigation revealed an entire child movie production and distribution company in Toronto operating via the web site azovfilms.com.
The site was run by 42-year old Brian Way, according to police, and sold and distributed images of child exploitation to people across the world.
Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins, head of Toronto’s Sex Crimes Unit, said they enlisted the help of the United States Postal Inspection Service since many of the videos were being exported to the U.S. and began a joint investigation.
After a seven-month long investigation, officers executed search warrants across the city of Toronto including at the business, located in the city’s West End.
Investigators catalogued hundreds of thousands of images and videos of “horrific sexual acts against very young children, some of the worst they have ever viewed,” Inspector Beaven-Desjardins said at the press conference.
Police seized over 45 terabytes of data from the $4-million business that distributed to over 50 counties including Australia, Spain, Mexico, Sweden and Greece.
As a result of the investigation thus far, 50 people were arrested in Ontario, 58 in the rest of Canada, 76 in the United States, and 164 internationally.
What was most alarming, Inspector Beaven-Desjardins said, was that many of the arrests were of people who worked with or closely interacted with children.
Among those arrested were 40 school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, six law enforcement personnel, nine pastors and priests and three foster parents, she said.
Citing a particularly egregious example, she said police found over 350,000 images and over 9,000 videos of child sexual abuse in the home of a retired Canadian school teacher. Some of the images were of children known to the man and he was also charged with sexually abusing a child relative.
The inspector said an indispensable aspect to the success of the operation and the rescue of 386 children from child exploitation was the expansive cooperation between Toronto police and organizations worldwide.
“[This] confirms that when we work together regardless of the borders that divide us we can successfully take down those who not only prey on our most vulnerable but also profit from it,” she said.
Police said the children were “rescued from child exploitation” but did not give more details.
Way was charged with 24 counts, including possession of, distribution of, and importing and exporting child pornography.
The investigation is ongoing and more arrests could be made, police said.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/nearly-400-children-rescued-348-adults-arrested-canadian-child-pornography-f2D11599561
Baby Skeletons Found as Human Trafficking Probe Widens in Bengal.
Monday, December 05, 2016
Michelle Daly's Warrior Mums - Learning Disability/Autism : Liverpool City Council Tender Adults with a Learni...
NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails.
- Money laundering
- Child exploitation
- Sex crimes with minors (children)
- Perjury
- Pay to play through Clinton Foundation
- Obstruction of justice
- Other felony crimes
- Abedin forwarded classified and top secret State Department emails to Weiner’s email
- Abedin stored emails, containing government secrets, in a special folder shared with Weiner warehousing over 500,000 archived State Department emails.
- Weiner had access to these classified and top secret documents without proper security clearance to view the records
- Abedin also used a personal yahoo address and her Clintonemail.com address to send/receive/store classified and top secret documents
- A private consultant managed Weiner’s site for the last six years, including three years when Clinton was secretary of state, and therefore, had full access to all emails as the domain’s listed registrant and administrator via Whois email contacts.
Sunday, December 04, 2016
PizzaGate Traced to Fairfax County, Virginia.
Stunning Report From SGT Radio
The Monika Weslowski Case
Congressman Frank Wolf
“Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. Not only is it an affront to human dignity, but it is an insidious criminal enterprise. Approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year, according to the U.S. State Department. This figure does not include the thousands who are trafficked annually within countries, including the United States. While the hidden nature of trafficking makes reliable numbers difficult to come by, we do know traffickers prey on the most vulnerable. Traffickers can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year selling women and children, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project, one of the leading anti-trafficking organizations in the country…”
“People often think trafficking takes place overseas in places like Thailand. In reality, it takes place right here in Virginia. The links below show how close to home trafficking takes place:Click here (dead link) to read a piece from Washingtonian Magazine about human trafficking in Fairfax County.Click here (dead link) to read about the sentencing of the owner of an Annandale-based massage parlor to 30 months in prison for transporting women to work as prostitutes and laundering the proceeds from the illegal activity.Click here (dead link) to read court documents involving a Georgia man who pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria in 2013 of trafficking young girls in northern Virginia. Be sure to read Section 15 on page 6 to see the names and locations of hotels in the region where the young girls were prostituted.Click here (dead link) to read about how local gangs are finding trafficking women and young girls is more profitable than trafficking drugs.Click here (dead link) to read about gang members indicted for racketeering, sex trafficking, robbery, cocaine distribution, and multiple acts of violence.” End quote from Congressman Wolf’s website.
“Ms. Kramer,It is my understanding that you are representing Ms. Wesolowski. The Department would like to schedule a meeting with you and your client so that we can discuss the case and moving forward. The Department has some concerns about Ms. Wesolowski’s radio appearance this past weekend and would like to discuss that with you and your client. Please let me know when you and Ms. Wesolowski would be available for such a meeting. Thank you for your attention to this matter. I look forward to working with you.Chris M. Christopher SiglerAssistant County AttorneyFairfax, VA”
“My therapist said that DFS Social Worker Magda Alarcon told her that I was “unstable” because I contacted the media and was on your show. Magda had said that people left comments about the show that place Dylan in harm and danger as the comments stated that people wanted to hurt and threatened the lives of the foster parents. She said that Magda stated that my actions to go to the media did not factor in threats to DFS and therefore I am “unstable.” She also said that Magda told her I would not be getting more visitation time with my son because of this”.
Dave Hodges Interviews Two Anonymous Former Virginia CPS Workers
Thursday, December 01, 2016
Labour councillor quits alleging ‘bullying’ and ‘racial discrimination’.

DEATH OF SENATOR SCHAEFER LINKED TO COMET PIZZA PEDOPHILE RING.



