Man was removed from ministry after three cases of reported sexual abuse against young girls

por Steve Watson, Infowars.com

TSA agents get ready to screen people before taking their flights.

A former Catholic priest who was defrocked after it was discovered he had sexually abused young girls is now working as a security screener for the TSA it has been revealed.

The CBS 3 I-Team in Philadelphia reports that Thomas Harkins, a priest in South Jersey until 2002, is now working at a security terminal at Philadelphia International Airport.

Although his main duty is to screen baggage, part of Harkins’ job with the TSA also involves screening passengers passing through body scanners and conducting patdowns where necessary.

“The Diocese of Camden removed him from ministry because it found he sexually abused two young girls. Now, in a new lawsuit, a third woman is claiming she also is one of Harkins’ victims.” the CBS affiliate reports.

Details of the new lawsuit filed in a federal court against Harkins were revealed by the CBS team and they do not make for pretty reading. It says that he sexually abused an 11-year-old girl up to 15 times in the early 1980s when he was a priest at Saint Anthony of Padua parish in Hammonton, NJ. The CBS team tracked Harkins down and confronted him over the allegations. He refused to answer questions and sought refuge in a restricted TSA security area.

“They should know who they’re hiring,” Karen Polesir, a Philadelphia spokeswoman with the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) told CBS.

“As the public, we are screened to our underwear getting on a plane, and yet they hire a man like that.” she added.

Watch the CBS report: The TSA claims that it puts all its employees through background checks, and that Harkins was not flagged because criminal charges were never brought against him.

However, as we have repeatedly noted, this is not an isolated case. In fact, the TSA has consistently hired violent criminals and even pedophiles, indicating that the agency does not follow through on background checks.

Last month, a television station in Atlanta reported that the TSA is so swamped with background checks it is now hiring just about anybody to grope and irradiate the public.

“In a move that could affect security at airports around the nation, the Transportation Security Administration confirmed Wednesday it had such a backlog of background security checks, airport employers were allowed to hire any employee needed,” WSBTV reported. “TSA officials said the background checks are delayed, but they are processing them as fast as they can.” Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com.

In other related news: Obama administr­ation backs Vatican in pedophile case The Obama administration in a brief to the Supreme Court has backed the Vatican’s claim of immunity from lawsuits arising from cases of sexual abuse by priests in the United States.

The Supreme Court is considering an appeal by the Vatican of an appellate court ruling that lifted its immunity in the case of an alleged pedophile priest from Oregon. In a filing on Friday, the solicitor general’s office argued that the Ninth Circuit court of appeals erred in allowing the lawsuit brought by a man who claims he was sexually abused in the 1960s by the Oregon priest.

The unnamed plaintiff, who cited the Holy See and several other parties as defendants, argued the Vatican should  be held responsible for transferring the priest to Oregon and letting him serve there despite previous accusations he had abused children in Chicago and in Ireland. AFP

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Many professionals in restaurants and eateries are using or consuming the entire lemon and wasting nothing.

How can you use the whole lemon without waste? Simple…place the lemon in the freezer section of your refrigerator. Once the lemon is frozen, get your grater, and shred the whole lemon (no need to peel it) and sprinkle it on top of your foods.

Sprinkle it into your whisky, wine, vegetable salad, ice cream, soup, noodles, spaghetti sauce, rice & fish dishes. Lemon gives these foods an unexpectedly wonderful taste; something you may not have tasted before. Most of us think only of lemon juice and vitamin C. Not anymore!! Now that you’ve learned the lemon secret, you can use lemon even in instant cup noodles.

What’s the major advantage of using the whole lemon other than preventing waste and adding new taste to your dishes? Health – Lemon peels contain as much as 5 to 10 times more vitamins than the lemon juice itself and that’s what we’ve been wasting.

But following this simple procedure of freezing the whole lemon, then grating it on top of your dishes, you can consume all of those nutrients and get even healthier. Lemon peels are health body cleansing rejuvenators that eradicate toxic elements in the body. Lemon (citrus) is a miraculous product to kill cancer cells. It is 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy.

Why do we not know this?

Because the laboratories interested in making synthetic lemon scented products that will bring them huge profits. You can now help a friend in need by letting him/her know that lemon juice is beneficial in preventing the disease. It’s pleasant tasting and doesn’t not produce the horrific effects of chemotherapy.

How many people will die while this is kept a closely guarded secret so as not to jeopardize the benefits to large multimillionaires corporations?

Citrus trees are known for the many varieties of lemons and limes. You can eat these fruit in different ways: you can eat the pulp, juice press, prepare drinks, sorbets, pastries, etc. It is credited with many virtues, but the most interesting is the effect it produces on cysts and tumors.

The lemon plant is a proven remedy against cancers of all types. Some believe it is useful against all variants of cancer. It is considered also as an anti microbial spectrum against bacterial infections and fungi, effective against internal parasites and worms, regulates high blood pressure and an antidepressant that combats stress and nervous disorders.

The source of this information is fascinating: it comes from one of the largest drug manufacturers in the world which says that after more than 20 laboratory tests since 1970, the of the lemon extracts revealed that: It destroys the malignant cells in 12 cancers, including colon, breast.­

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­by the El Reportero’s news services

Tania D’Amelio

Venezuela will hold next June 1 to 11 the presidential nominations process for the elections of October 7, said senior director of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Tania D Amelio.

This process, established in the schedule of the CNE, has no extension and the terms must be respected, the CNE director said in statements to Venezolana de Television.

D Amelio said that although the procedure is automated, there will be staff and equipment necessary for candidates wishing to run in council facilities.

The official also explained that last month it was carried out a first internal simulation of the voting process, for which a first station was placed where voters checked if they vote at the polling place or otherwise, they would be informed about the polling center where they belong.

“We are working to improve the process on the issue of accessibility of citizens to the polls,” concluded the director of the CNE.

Teachers general strike in Honduras

Honduran teacher union leaders confirmed that thousands of educators around the country are participating in the general strike called today to force the government to meet outstanding payments for the sector.

The administration of Porfirio Lobo promised to make payment of pending wages on May 20, but it has not fulfill that yet, according the newspaper La Prensa.

­The existing ministerial authorities wielded political interests behind the work stoppage and said that there will be no deductions for teachers, but extension of the school year.

The big problem we have in the education sector is a mix between unionism and politics, I would not say it, but I think this is the reality of what is happening right now, said the minister, Marlon Escoto.

The Honduran Association of Parents of Honduras asked the Minister of Education the results of research on teachers who allegedly collected their wages illegally.

Cuban Private Sector at World Tourism Forum

The 2nd International Tourism Studies Conference CietCuba-2012 will have the participation of the Cuban private sector this time, said the president of the Organizing committee Ramon Martin.

According to Martin, the initiative aims to boost the contribution of the self-employed workers to the development of tourism in the Caribbean country.

In a statement to local press, Martin said that it is a project in tune with the guidelines of the 6th Congress of the Communist Party, related to the update of the Cuban economic model.

The participation of the self-employed workers in the country’s economy has increased in the last few months, who total about 380,000 in almost 180 activities, chiefly in selling food, transporting passengers, and renting houses and rooms.

Martin said that the agenda of the meeting scheduled for June 18-22 at Havana’s Conference Center will include debates on topics of tourism and its relation with the environment, the new technologies, the crisis, among others.

About 240 delegates from Argentina, Spain, and México, among others, are expected to attend the forum.

by Alex Newman
New American

GOP leadership in the House of Representatives announced that legislation to thoroughly audit the se2cretive Federal Reserve, a wildly popular measure pushed by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) for decades, will come up for a floor vote in July. Honest-money advocates and pro-transparency activists celebrated the news as a historic opportunity to rein in the central bank, which has come under heavy fire — especially in recent years — for debasing the U.S. dollar, manipulating markets, and showering big banks with trillions in bailouts.

The legislation, H.R. 459, already has over 225 co-sponsors in the House including an impressive roster of senior Democrats and Republicans, some of whom chair important committees.

In the Senate, however, a similar bill has only about 20 co-sponsors so far, forcing Audit-the-Fed activists to wage a massive campaign aimed at exposing Senators who refuse to support transparency at the shadowy central bank.

Polls in recent years revealed that four out of five Americans support auditing the Fed.

“The Fed has proven it cannot be trusted and must be audited. While the banksters’ dangerous schemes have been going on for years, the bailouts exposed the trillions being stolen from the American people,” noted Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY.), a sponsor of the Senate legislation and the son of Congressman Ron Paul. “It is time to Audit the Fed. Time to shine a bright spotlight on the largest theft in American history.”

But victory in what Sen. Paul called this “vital effort to rein in the Federal Reserve” will not be easy, he noted. The establishment is already fighting back hard against the plan in an effort to shield the controversial institution from public scrutiny. And as the battle heats up, the Fed and its supporters will not give up easily.

“As we enter this critical time, we have an unprecedented chance to finish this fight and finally hold the Fed accountable for all it has done to wreck our economy and endanger our nation,” Sen. Paul concluded.

“Don’t let this opportunity slip away.”

Experts and economic analysts have long said that if citizens understood what was really going on behind closed doors at the privately owned central bank, a tsunami of outrage would almost certainly force politicians to shut down the Fed and restore honest money once and for all. Even a watered-down audit, passed as part of the broader Dodd-Frank financial-reform bill, exposed blatant conflicts of interest among top Fed officials as well as some $16 trillion in Fed bailouts to big banks around the world.

Public outrage was unprecedented. Millions of Americans who had never even seriously contemplated the institution or its functions demanded reform. And lawmakers, political candidates, and grassroots organizations — realizing that there was no way the cat was going back in the bag — eventually jumped on the bandwagon, too.

“This historic moment is only possible thanks to your relentless pressure. Now we must turn up the heat to secure victory — first in the House and then in Harry Reid’s U.S. Senate,” wrote Vice-President Matt Hawes of the freedom-promoting Campaign for Liberty, one of the organizations leading the public battle for an audit that is planning a huge operation to make sure the legislation becomes law.

­“Now, we just need to show Congress the American people demand action on the Audit the Fed bill.”

With the looming vote, officials will soon have the chance to demonstrate whether their loyalty lies with the American people or with the mega-banks that literally own and control the Fed system. “You see, with the piling up of trillions of dollars in reckless bailouts of Wall Street and international bankers, even many politicians in Washington, D.C. want to show you they’re ‘being responsible,’ ” Hawes explained.

“What better way for Congress to do this than by auditing the Federal Reserve to account for the trillions stolen from the U.S. taxpayers?”

The Fed, of course, has fiendishly resisted an audit — going so far as to hire a lobbyist to defend its interests on Capitol Hill while producing pro-central bank propaganda aimed at children — all under the guise of maintaining its supposed “independence.” But activists and monetary-policy experts suspect something far more sinister is going on.

“They know coming clean with Congress and the American people on what they’ve done to our money would result in an anti-Fed firestorm,” noted Hawes, echoing comments made by a vast array of experts and policy makers who support sound money. “So can you imagine the impact of a full-scale audit?” According to Hawes, the Campaign for Liberty, and numerous economists, auditing the Fed would expose the destructive economic consequences of centrally planning interest rates and manipulating the supply of currency. It would also show that the central banking system leads to the destruction of the middle class, the destruction of the currency, and eventually, chaos.

“You and I have seen the damage the out-of-control Fed can cause, especially during a time of crisis. As you know, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department, and their cronies on Wall Street have for nearly four years been engaged in the worst plundering of a country’s wealth in the history of civilization,” Hawes explained in a letter to supporters soliciting help for the battle ahead.