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US tags Vatican as a money laundering concern
Associated Press ^
| March 7, 2012
Posted on 03/07/2012 1:36:05 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is for the first time citing Vatican City as a potential hub for money laundering.
The State Department's annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report released Wednesday identifies the Holy See as one of 68 countries or jurisdictions "of concern" for money laundering or other financial crimes.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anticatholic; catholicchurch; clintonlegacy; conspiracy; conspiracytheory; democratscandals; hatedepartment; injusticedepartment; lyndonlarouche; marxism; moneylaundering; religiousfreedom; vatican; waronchristianity
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To: liberalh8ter; All
I think people of all faiths should take notice.. Well except for Islam......
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:02:18 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Ron Paul called Ronald Reagan a miserable failure.....)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep; All
*snip*
“This is a victory for public pressure,” said Mario Staderini, the leader of the Italian Radicals party. “We’ve managed to break down a little bit the wall protecting the Church.”
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Since 2005 church-run organisations have not been considered ordinary commercial structures and have been exempt. According to Corriere della Sera newspaper, tax authorities will judge how much of a property is used purely for religious purposes and tax it accordingly. Thus a church will remain exempt.
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“We think the Church should have to pay the arrears,” said Mr Staderini. “It should make the payment back to 2005. Given how much the Vatican stood to pay with arrears, I think they will not be that unhappy with the result.”
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vatican-told-to-pay-taxes-as-italy-tackles-budget-crisis-6988938.html
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:05:30 PM PST
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity; Free ThinkerNY
Money laundering? Only today, Rush pointed out how Obama’s Presidential campaign is being funded by ... are you ready? ... union dues! That’s right! All those dues paid by union members are “laundered” into campaign funds.
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:06:37 PM PST
by
NYer
(He who hides in his heart the remembrance of wrongs is like a man who feeds a snake on his chest. St)
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:08:00 PM PST
by
NYer
(He who hides in his heart the remembrance of wrongs is like a man who feeds a snake on his chest. St)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Like the Iran/Iraq war. Can’t both unAmericans lose this?
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:08:46 PM PST
by
Clemenza
("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
To: NYer
Chlanna nan con thigibh a so’s gheibh sibh feoil!
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:17:18 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: trisham
? Are my eyes failing me?
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:27:15 PM PST
by
NYer
(He who hides in his heart the remembrance of wrongs is like a man who feeds a snake on his chest. St)
To: NYer
A Scottish battle cry. It's on my home page. :)
Clan Cameron War Cry: "Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil"
(Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh.)
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:35:27 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: kidd
Is there any point at which Secret Service agents would say “We’ve had enough” and walk away from the guy? Or do they blindly obey just like Hitler’s Stazi?
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:45:58 PM PST
by
steve86
(I have Schizoid Personality Disorder and am exercising the privileges thereof)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:48:00 PM PST
by
Mortrey
(Impeach President Soros)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
"The Vatican Bank has been implicated in money laundering. Just a couple of weeks ago Italian investigators indicted four priests." From your linked article: "...the priests were being investigated for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars." (With no mention of the source or purpose.)
Are you serious? Hundreds of thousands is light years away from a "hub for money laundering" in the world wide routine laundering of hundreds of millions and billions in drug, terrorist and political dollars.
Hell, hundreds of thousands isn't even enough to finance walking around money in a city councilman race in Obama's "Sweet home Chicago!"
How many hundreds of millions were laudered into Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign from all around the world? And now with his 2012 campaign gearing up... there's a real "hub for money laundering" - if someone is seriously looking!
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:53:33 PM PST
by
drpix
To: sten
I think barrys former life as a street hustling ChickenHawk’s about to go to roost
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posted on
03/07/2012 3:58:07 PM PST
by
STD
(It Doesn't Take a Real Political Panjandrum to Cut Taxes & Cut Spending Stupid!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Of all the places to go after they choose the VATICAN? After contraceptives and aborticants and Catholic employers, and Fluke and Georgetown?
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posted on
03/07/2012 4:02:21 PM PST
by
PghBaldy
(Once again, Obama proves he is not an honest broker. He can't be trusted.)
To: Raycpa
YOUR choice of photo, and your commentary, are unfortunate and extremely offensive. Mother Angelica, who has hosted many a program on Catholic Network Television EWTN suffered a major stroke at age 88, as seen in this picture. Her eye patch and twisted mouth represents some of the devastating repercussions of her stroke. She is a warm, feisty, kindly woman, and she worked for 65 years in the service to God and her community.
Next time you take a stab at humor, show some class.
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posted on
03/07/2012 4:10:50 PM PST
by
itssme
To: Free ThinkerNY
Our nation completely lacks resolve. Afghanistan is on the money laundering list. We could completely destroy our enemy there. Not by economic sanctions and banking controls. We should be spraying the poppy fields with agent orange followed by salting the fields. Instead Obama is targeting the Holy See.
RINOs and the left have a big problem in target identification.
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posted on
03/07/2012 4:12:15 PM PST
by
ConservativeInPA
(Newt makes me want to become a better American. There are no bounds to greatness.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This from an injustice department that does not like to investigate American mosques funding international terrorism and foreign nations funding a 9-11 ground zero victory mosque.
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posted on
03/07/2012 4:13:06 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
03/07/2012 4:15:11 PM PST
by
AnneM62
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That's what the Vatican gets for not providing free birth control.
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posted on
03/07/2012 4:16:14 PM PST
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do !)
To: SevenofNine
I think Obama been watching Godfather 3 wayyyyyyyy too many times LOL!
Hey - that was going to be my comment!
To: sten
Or how someone who already had a wife could be married (even if he WAS a muslim).
Barack’s parents’ marriage was unlawful.
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posted on
03/07/2012 4:20:26 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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