Wednesday, November 28, 2018

HOUSE OF PEDOPHILES CATHOLIC CHURCH CRAWLS IN BED WITH CHINESE DICTATORS

More Accusations Of Child Sex Abuse By Priests In Illinois Uncovered In Report



Accusations of child sex abuse against at least 500 Roman Catholic priests and clergy members in Illinois have never been made public, a preliminary investigation by the state's attorney general has found.
That brings the total number of members in the Illinois dioceses who have been accused of sexually abusing minors to about 690, according to the report released Wednesday. The church previously had made public the names of only 185 accused priests, 45 of whom were added after Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office started investigating in August.
Madigan started her investigation into the Catholic Church after a sweeping grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania uncovered more than 300 "predator priests" statewide who committed "criminal and/or morally reprehensible conduct."
The report out of Pennsylvania was scathing:
"Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all."
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro called it a "systematic cover-up" and a "failure of law enforcement," NPR previously reported. Additionally, the grand jury investigation named the accused priests, something the Illinois attorney general's report did not.
Madigan wanted to see if the same thing was happening in her state. Her office said in a statement that it reviewed thousands of pages of documents voluntarily turned over by each of Illinois' six dioceses and set up a hotline where people could report allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
As Susie An reported for NPR's Morning Edition, Madigan said "one of the things we've seen is that the church really took any opportunity it thought it could not to investigate."
Madigan's office found dozens of examples where the Illinois dioceses "failed to adequately investigate an allegation of clergy sexual abuse it received from a survivor," according to the report.
The investigation revealed that, of the allegations the Illinois dioceses have received, they only "deemed twenty-six percent as 'credible' allegations, meaning seventy-four percent of the allegations were either not investigated, or were investigated but not substantiated."
The reasons the dioceses didn't investigate accusations varied, according to the report. Sometimes the accuser wished to remain anonymous, or the accused priest had left the country, but the most common reason was that the accused had either died or resigned.
The dioceses often discounted allegations that came from just one accuser and "sought to discredit a survivor's allegations based upon the survivor's personal life," according to the investigation.
The archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, responded to Madigan's initial findings in a statement:
"I want to express again the profound regret of the whole church for our failures to address the scourge of clerical sexual abuse. It is the courage of victim-survivors that has shed purifying light on this dark chapter in church history. ... There can be no doubt about the constant need to strengthen our culture of healing, protection, and accountability. While the vast majority of abuses took place decades ago, many victim-survivors continue to live with this unimaginable pain."
Cupich said it was "difficult to discern" which of the report's findings apply to the Archdiocese of Chicago but defended its efforts to mitigate sexual abuse, claiming to have been at the "forefront of dealing with the issue of clergy sexual abuse for nearly three decades."
He also said in the statement that all reports of sexual abuse are investigated, whether the accused priest is alive or dead, and that, starting in 2002, they have reported all allegations of child sexual abuse to civil authorities, including "historical allegations."
The Diocese of Joliet also responded to the attorney general's report, saying in a statement that the investigation doesn't distinguish between dioceses and that they have received "no formal or informal indication from the Attorney General that we failed to adequately investigate any allegation of abuse and/or report it to authorities."
The attorney general said in a statement that the investigation isn't finished and that her office has asked the state's dioceses for additional information.
But some sexual abuse survivors don't think the preliminary investigation goes far enough, according to An, who was reporting for NPR.
"I don't know what to believe out of the Catholic Church. I really don't, because everything's been so secretive and hidden," Larry Antonsen, a leader with the Chicago branch of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, told NPR.
Decades ago, Antonsen reported a priest who had sexually abused him as a child, but he says he's still waiting for the church to publicly list the man's name. He said he hopes Illinois will launch its own grand jury investigation.

Chinese Civil Rights Activist: Vatican-China Pact Is ‘a Deal with the Devil’



Children prepare to take part in a mass on the eve of Christmas at the South Cathedral official Catholic church in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Estimates for the number of Christians in China range from the conservative official figure of 23 million to as many as 100 million …
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China’s most famous civil rights activist has joined the chorus of critics who have denounced the recent deal between the Vatican and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a “betrayal” of Chinese Catholics.

In an op-ed Monday, Chen Guangcheng, a blind scholar and human rights advocate, used the harshest language to describe China under communist rule, calling it an “extraordinarily dictatorial and authoritarian nation” where many kinds of freedoms that are taken for granted in the West are “routinely and often violently repressed.”
“Human rights activists and lawyers disappear and are tortured, while alternative political parties are crushed,” he said. “Calls for justice are met with the iron hand of the state.”
Because of his firsthand knowledge of the brutality of the Chinese communist state, Chen said he watched the Vatican’s rapprochement with China take shape with “intense shock and dismay.”
“What we currently know of the agreement is that the Vatican will cede selection of bishops in China to the Communist Party,” he said. “In exchange, the CCP will recognize the pope as the official head of the Catholic Church, and regular relations between the two states will be renewed.”
The Vatican’s acceptance of these terms “is a slap in the face to millions of Catholics and other faithful religious people in China who have suffered real persecution under the CCP,” said Chen, who was arrested in 2005 and detained for years for exposing China’s forced sterilization of women to carry out its one-child — or two-child — policy.
“Over the past decade, the CCP has been aggressively attacking underground Catholic and Protestant house churches, first going after banned religious symbols and dismantling crosses,” he said. “More recently, they have been destroying churches openly.”
The CCP has been “arresting priests, threatening congregants, and searching churches and places of worship,” Chen wrote. “Many have disappeared and been tortured while under the regime’s control, refusing to relinquish their beliefs to a degraded, intolerant political party, and proving the power of their faith.”
In his essay, Chen contends that the CCP only allows certain religious practices and churches as “a façade of religious freedom to satisfy the West,” while in reality, it despises religious believers and uses the concessions to gain ever tighter control over its citizens.
The CCP is even preparing its own edition of the Bible, titled The Chinese Christian Bible, Chen said, whose purpose is “to force its socialist, secular values into the text while presenting a fiction of religious tolerance to the outside.”
The Vatican decision to cede selection of Catholic bishops to the CCP is “simply preposterous,” he added, and the agreement is “a blatantly political move designed only to serve the CCP’s interests.”
The pact represents a major decline for the Vatican, but more importantly, it equates to “bowing before evil, of selling God to the devil,” he argues.
“This will become yet another shameful episode whose stain the Catholic Church will be unable to cleanse,” Chen warns.



UP YOURS RED CHINA!


those who control the words control the narrative


Outcry as Chinese erotic writer jailed for more than 10 years over gay sex scenes in novel

  • Sentence provokes shock and outrage as critics point out many rapists face lighter sentences than pornographers
  • Novelist fell foul of pre-internet ruling that people who sold more than 5,000 erotic books should serve more than a decade in prison


An erotic writer in China has been sentenced to over a decade in prison for writing and selling a gay porn novel, sparking shock and outrage over the severity of her sentence.
The writer, surnamed Liu but better known by her internet alias Tianyi, was handed a 10-and-a-half year jail term for “producing and selling pornographic materials” last month, according to a television report on Friday.
The book that landed her into trouble was a 2017 novel named Occupy, which sold 7,000 copies through the internet.
The novel, about a forbidden love affair between a teacher and a student, was said to be filled with “graphic depictions of male homosexual sex scenes” tinged with violence, according to a television station in Anhui.

China’s obscenity watchdog steps up online pornography crackdown

Pornography is illegal in China, but the hefty sentence given to Liu has ignited an uproar on social media.
According to the country’s criminal law, sentences for producing and disseminating obscene material for profit can vary wildly from a few years to life depending on the perceived severity of the offence.
The heavy sentence imposed in this case ignited an uproar. Outraged social media users were quick to point out that many serious crimes, including rape, violence and manslaughter, carried a lower sentence.

Under mainland China’s criminal law, many rapists are only liable to serve a jail term of between three to 10 years.
One case cited by critics was that of an official in Yunnan province who was sentenced to five years in prison for abducting and raping a four-year-old girl. Following a public outcry the sentence was increased to eight years.
Another was a man who was sentenced to 6½ years in jail for beating his wife to death in Beijing in 2009.

Gay-themed drama is latest victim of China’s drive to purge ‘harmful and obscene’ content from web

The legal basis of Liu’s sentence is a judicial interpretation issued by China’s supreme court.
According to the statement, selling more than 5,000 copies of pornographic books or making more than 10,000 yuan (US$1,400) from their sale is regarded as an “especially serious circumstance”, which carries a sentence of “imprisonment for not less than 10 years or life”.
Not only did Liu sell more than 5,000 copies, she also made a profit of 150,000 yuan (US$21,600) by doing so.
However, the judicial interpretation was issued in 1998, and critics argue it is outdated.
“It might have been difficult to sell 5,000 copies in 1998 – there was no internet back then. But now it is almost effortless,” said one of the most liked comments on Weibo.

China orders Tencent to clean up pornography on WeChat

Deng Xueping, a Shanghai-based lawyer at Capital Equity Legal Group, said the judicial interpretation was in need of revision.
“It’s out of touch with all the changes that have taken place in society,” he said.
He also argued that the penalties in the law code were due for revision, saying there were sentencing guidelines for more than 400 offences but it was questionable whether these had been reasonably set.
A former state prosecutor who has handled hundreds of cases ranging from corruption to fraud, Deng said he thought Liu’s sentence was too heavy.
“The social harm of pornographic books might not be as grave as the legislators had thought initially. Nowadays, pornography is ubiquitous,” he said, adding that there was no reason to treat it like “flash floods” or “savage beasts” that could corrupt an innocent mind.
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Outcry as writer of gay porn gets 10 yearS in prison


$ERVANT OF RED CHINA FOR RAW CA$H, $ENATOR FEIN$TEIN’S DRIVER IS A $PY FOR HER CHINE$E PAYMA$TER$!

“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon

A NATION DIES OF OPIOID ADDICTION

AMERICAN BIG PHARMA, RED CHINA and NARCOMEX PARTNER FOR THE BIG BUCKS
“The drug epidemic is the product of capitalism and the policies of the capitalist parties, both Democrats and Republicans. There is, first of all, the role of the pharmaceutical companies, which have amassed huge profits from the deceptive marketing of opioid pain killers, which they claimed were not addictive. Prescriptions for opioids such as Percocet, Oxycontin and Vicodin skyrocketed from 76 million in 1991 to nearly 259 million in 2012. What are the numbers and profits now?


Residential developments are seen in Tianjin City May 10, 2018. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)

Chinese Companies’ Dollar Debts Reach Tipping Point



Strong dollar, a slowing economy, and trade war adding fuel to fire
BY FAN YU, EPOCH TIMES
November 25, 2018 



News Analysis
Domestic debt has long been an issue for the Chinese economy. But one particular corner of the debt market—dollar-denominated debt issued by Chinese companies—looks increasingly in danger of collapse.
Several factors are contributing to the rising risk of default. Rising interest rates, a declining Chinese currency, the ongoing U.S.–China trade dispute, and fast-approaching maturities are causing experts to sound the alarm.
“We will be talking about a major financial crisis—a dollar debt crisis,” Daiwa Capital Markets’ Kevin Lai told the South China Morning Post. Lai is the securities firm’s chief economist for Asia (excluding Japan).
There’s $3 trillion in outstanding dollar-denominated debt issued by Chinese companies, Daiwa estimates; most was issued by subsidiaries of Chinese companies in Singapore or Hong Kong.
So why did China Inc. issue so much dollar debt?
For one, it’s become difficult in recent years for Chinese private companies to issue onshore debt, due to Beijing’s crackdown on leverage. In addition, issuing dollar-denominated debt opens up a whole new group of buyers—foreign investors. Offshore dollar debt also offered companies lower yields than onshore yuan debt. Lastly, dollar-denominated debt is simply easier to use to fund foreign-asset purchases and bypasses Beijing’s capital-flow restrictions.

Increasing Defaults

Defaults on dollar-denominated Chinese bonds stood at $3.4 billion in the first 10 months of this year, Japanese investment bank Nomura wrote in a research note earlier this month, according to CNBC. In 2017, no dollar bond defaults had been recorded through October.
Nomura expects more defaults going forward “against a backdrop of weakening domestic demand, rising credit defaults, a depreciating RMB and Fed rate hikes.”
This is because more bonds are coming due. About $33.3 billion in dollar-denominated Chinese bonds are expected to mature each quarter through the end of 2020, which is a much higher pace than the $11 billion in maturities through Q3 this year.

Multitude of Risks

Chinese companies had valid reasons to issue dollar debt: It was inexpensive, and companies enjoyed a good spread between low-cost debt and high-yielding yuan assets, especially when the Chinese real estate market was still hot. It also made sense when the dollar-yuan exchange rate was largely stable. But issuing debt in a foreign currency is difficult to manage and requires complex hedging.
Given that the yuan has fallen about 6 percent against the dollar year-to-date, Chinese companies with dollar debt will be at a disadvantage.
For example, a $100 million bond paying an 8 percent coupon cost a Chinese company 52.8 million yuan in annual interest when the USD–CNY exchange rate was 6.6. If the yuan weakens by 6 percent against the dollar, however, then the annual interest cost would increase by 3 million yuan to almost 56 million yuan per year.
In essence, interest costs have risen for Chinese companies at a time when the domestic economy is sputtering and an ongoing trade war is hurting revenues.
And such context is important. A strengthening dollar on its own isn’t an issue, but foreign exchange headwinds have become another pain point for Chinese companies already facing mounting domestic debt. The problem is especially acute for Chinese property developers, which have gorged on debt—both in dollars and yuan—in recent years. But the industry is facing a high so-called “maturity wall,” or debt becoming due, in 2019.
Data from Dealogic shows that 385 billion yuan ($55 billion) of local-currency debt and $15 billion of dollar debt will come due next year for Chinese property developers, according to a Financial Times report.
But refinancing, which is likely the only option for most developers besides defaulting, has become increasingly difficult and costly.
In past years, property developers were able to tap into funding through the shadow banking industry. But recent crackdowns by Beijing have eliminated most options there.


Capital market funding costs have gone up in recent issuances. Bloomberg data has shown that yields on Chinese below-investment-grade borrowers have reached 4-year highs. Last week, Times China Holdings Ltd. and Hengda Real Estate Group Co. both priced two-year dollar offerings at an eye-wateringly high rate of 11 percent.





U.S. Trade Update: China Has Failed to Modify ‘Unfair’ Trade Practices



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A report from the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) office released this week found that China has failed to fundamentally alter its market-distorting trade practices.

The USTR Office released the most recent update on the results of a 301 investigation into China’s trade practices this week. The report covered China’s “acts, policies and practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property and innovation.”
“We completed this update as part of this Administration’s strengthened monitoring and enforcement effort,” U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said. “This update shows that China has not fundamentally altered its unfair, unreasonable, and market-distorting practices that were the subject of the March 2018 report on our Section 301 investigation.”
The report details China’s use of various tools “to regulate or intervene in U.S. companies’ operations in China in order to require or pressure the transfer of technologies and intellectual property to Chinese companies.” Chinese officials employ methods that restrict transparency and pressure firms on technology transfer.
“Despite the relaxation of some foreign ownership restrictions and certain other incremental changes in 2018, China’s acts, policies, and practices related to forced technology transfer in China persist,” the report states. One section is dedicated to the volume of concerns levied from U.S. and foreign companies and U.S. trading partners.
The USTR report can be viewed in full on a USTR webpage.
Michelle Moons is a White House Correspondent for Breitbart News — follow on Twitter @MichelleDiana and Facebook.


A NATION DIES OF OPIOID ADDICTION
AMERICAN BIG PHARMA, RED CHINA and NARCOMEX PARTNER FOR THE BIG BUCKS
“The drug epidemic is the product of capitalism and the policies of the capitalist parties, both Democrats and Republicans. There is, first of all, the role of the pharmaceutical companies, which have amassed huge profits from the deceptive marketing of opioid pain killers, which they claimed were not addictive. Prescriptions for opioids such as Percocet, Oxycontin and Vicodin skyrocketed from 76 million in 1991 to nearly 259 million in 2012. What are the numbers and profits now?

OPIOID AMERICA: CHINA AND MEXICO PARTNER TO ADDICT AMERICA

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-opioid-war-on-america-chin

 PRINCETON REPORT:

American middle-class is addicted, poor, jobless and suicidal…. Thank the corrupt government for surrendering our borders to 40 million looting Mexicans and then handing the bills to middle America?


WAR PROFITEERS!

SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND PARASITE HUSBAND RICHARD “BRIBSTERS” BLUM


Blum has long handed out bribes in the form of “campaign contributions” to other corrupt Democrat politicians so they keep their mouths shut about the staggering corruption that has profitably followed Feinstein from day one!
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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan  THEAMERICAN THINKER.com

WAR ON THE AMERICA WORKER: FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, OBAMA, and the CLINTON CRIME DUAL

“Senator Dianne Feinstein warned, at the time, they had to solve this crisis now—of immigrants coming in illegally and getting these jobs.”

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/senator-dianne-feinstein-looking-to-buy.html

“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”.  DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE 

BLOG: FEINSTEIN IS AN ADVOCATE OF AMNESTY, OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED. THERE ARE 15 MILLION LOOTING MEXICANS IN HER STATE OF CA.

THE CLINTONS AND RED CHINA:
A MONEY MAKING TRAITORSHIP!
"Ask Jeff Sessions about the charges.  Money was flowing into the Clinton Foundation from all over the world, disguised, rerouted through a Canadian charity, all to obscure its origins."

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