Previously, we have documented these uncommon high-profile corporate shakeups which were highlighted by the Pontifical Resignation early this year. Massive CEO resignations are still continuing.

Most peculiar is this array of resignations from mining, transport, telecommunications, and even the pharmaceuticals, suggesting that these critical components of the real economy are experiencing the crunch in hard terms.

But we have yet to witness the royal resignation of the bogus Queen of England.

To all The Awakened around the world: Keep pushing. We’re almost there!

VATICAN, INC.

VATICAN CITY — We are living historic times, whereby we will see the final destruction of the Vatican just as the prophesies foretold. Already, we are seeing the Catholic Church being left desolate right before it goes up in flames forever, and unprecedented events are taking place.

WORLD FINANCE

SYDNEY–Barclays Australia chief executive officer Cynthia Whelan has resigned from the bank, a person familiar with the matter said.

The resignation wasn’t linked to recent job cuts at the U.K.-based investment bank. It was her own decision, the person said.

Jeffrey Deck, the current vice chairman of Barclays Asia, will act as interim CEO until a successor is named.

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Alfredo Saenz resigned as CEO of Banco Santander, a move that marked an end of his controversial tenure at the bank. WSJ’s David Enrich assesses Mr. Saenz’s record, which included a conviction for making false criminal accusations in 2009.

MADRID— Alfredo Sáenz, who helped turn Banco Santander SA SAN.MC -0.77%from a provincial lender into a global banking power, quit his job as its chief executive Monday after a legal and political controversy over his criminal conviction for pressure he put on four debtors nearly two decades ago.

Santander, the largest bank in the euro zone by market value, announced his resignation following a wave of criticism of the Spanish government after it relaxed standards of conduct for bankers in a move that allowed Mr. Sáenz to keep his job.

Mr. Sáenz stepped down following discussions with officials at the Bank of Spain, the country’s central bank, according to people familiar with the talks. Two people said the central bank had indicated to Mr. Sáenz it was likely to conclude he didn’t belong in a senior role at the bank.

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The Co-operative Bank’s head of banking Barry Tootell resigned after rating agency Moody’s suggested that the British government may have to bail out the lender.

Moody’s downgraded the lender’s debt ratings after flagging up a hole in the bank’s capital.

Rod Bulmer takes over from Tootell and will serve as the acting CEO of the Banking Group and a director of The Co-operative Bank until a permanent replacement is found, the bank said.

The Moody’s downgrade comes just weeks after the bank dropped its bid to acquire over 600 branches from Lloyd’s Banking Group.

Moody’s Investors Service had downgraded the bank’s deposit and senior debt ratings to Ba3, from A3, following its lowering of the bank’s baseline credit assessment (BCA) to b1 from baa1. The equivalent standalone bank financial strength rating (BFSR) is now E+ from C- previously, Moody’s said in a statement

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JOHANNESBURG – First Rand Limited on Wednesday announced that Michael Jordaan would step down as FNB CEO at the end of the year after 10 years in the job.

He will be replaced by Jacques Celliers who is currently the CEO of FNB’s business banking and head of its India expansion.

The bank said Jordaan first indicated in 2010 that he would step down at the end of 2013.

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The head of Austrian bank Raiffeisen has resigned over a series of personal property deals.

Herbert Stepic denied wrongdoing in using front companies in the Caribbean and Asia to buy flats in Singapore in 2006 and 2008, but said he was stepping down to spare his bank from negative publicity .

The deals – which were exposed by the Offshore Leaks investigative journalism project – are now under investigation by Austria’s central bank, its Financial Market Authority watchdog and Raiffeisen, to see if any law or internal guidelines were violated.

Stepic, who has very much been the public face of the bank, told a news conference that the Singapore property deals were above board because he had made the investment with money taxed in Austria and had also paid tax on revenue from a sale.

He insisted he did not need to notify his bank or regulators about three apartments in Singapore he bought via ‘project companies’ set up with the help of Swiss bank UBS in the British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong.

As he announced his resignation, the 66-year-old said he was proud of what he had accomplished in four decades at Raiffeisen, creating tens of thousands of jobs in the former Communist East and making 800 million euros in profit over the past five years as the financial crisis raged.

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Atul Kumar Rai, CEO and managing director of state-owned financial institution IFCI ,  has resigned from the company following differences with the government. Rai, whose term was till June 2017, has tendered his resignation, sources said.

He joined IFCI in July 2007 after his predecessor RM Malla was elevated as chairman and managing director of SIDBI.

Before joining IFCI, Rai, an IES officer, worked for over 20 years in various positions in the government of India (GoI). He was re-appointed by the board in June, 2012 for a period of five years.

However, sources said the government was not happy with his performance. Rai could not be reached for his comments on the development.

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ubsidiary of auto lender Ally Financial Inc works its way out of bankruptcy.

Marano, who joined ResCap in 2008, will remain as a member of the board.

Marano spent more than 25 years at now-defunct investment bank Bear Stearns & Co, where he was the global head of mortgage and asset-backed securities. Marano was managing director at Cerberus Capital Management before moving to ResCap.

ResCap filed for bankruptcy in May 2012 to protect its parent from mortgage liabilities that threatened to swamp the company. Ally is 74 percent-owned by the U.S. government after a series of bailouts.

Marano resignation comes at a time when creditors are awaiting a report from a court-appointed examiner, Arthur Gonzalez, about ResCap’s relationship with Ally.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc , a ResCap creditor, asked the judge overseeing the ResCap bankruptcy for an investigation of what it called “potentially improper” pre-bankruptcy transactions between ResCap and Ally.

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Country Bird Holdings (JSE:CBH) has announced the resignation of Jeff Wright as a director and CEO of the Company, effective June 30 2013.

CBH states that Wright leaves “having met the strategic objectives set when he joined the Group Five (JSE:GRF) years ago, including market penetration, operational efficiencies and growth into Africa.”

Wright is leaving to pursue private business interests.

Marthinus Stander has been appointed as the new CEO, effective July 1 2013. Stander is an Engineer B.Eng (US), MSc (UCT) and has furthered his studies in business management at the University of Stellenbosch Business School.

He has held senior executive positions at Pioneer Foods and Rainbow Chicken (JSE:RBW), operated a KFC franchise for four years and until recently consulted to the Shoprite Group, focusing on their Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) brand.

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MANAMA: Naseej’s board of directors yesterday announced that Christopher Sims has resigned as the company’s chief executive effective May 28.

Mr Sims has quit to pursue his career elsewhere, the company said in a statement yesterday.

“I have proudly grown Naseej over the last three years, from inception through to a dynamic and successful real estate company,” Mr Sims said.

“I leave the company with a solid foundation and a bright future,” he added.

The company’s project and investment committee chairman and board member Mohammed Khalil Alsayed has taken charge as interim chief executive and managing director with immediate effect.

Mr Alsayed, a seasoned professional with extensive experience in the public and private sectors in project investments and development of large real estate and capital projects, is actively involved in the operations of the company.

“Chris’ departure does not change the primary objective or Naseej’s positive prospects for the future,” Mr Alsayed said.

“Naseej will continue its strategic focus on growing revenues and on the imminent conclusion of the public private partnership transaction with the Housing Ministry, together with the realisation of other developments in Bahrain and elsewhere,” he added.

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By Kanga Kong

SEOUL–The head of South Korea’s state-owned Woori Finance Holdings Co. (053000.SE) resigned Sunday, describing as “regretful” the failure to privatize the banking giant three times in as many years, as the government plans to try a fourth time to sell its 57% stake in the bank, which is worth around $4.8 billion.

The Financial Services Commission is now expected to push for a swift privatization after saying earlier this month that it hoped to reveal a new privatization plan by the end of the first half of the year, analysts said.

Lee Pal-seung, the chairman and chief executive of Woori Finance, said in a statement Sunday that he would step down once his replacement was appointed, a process the company said is likely to take around two months. “There were three attempts until last year to privatize Woori Finance, but all failed, which I find regretful,” he said.

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Jon Erik Engeset, president and CEO of SafeRoad, has resigned. Saferoad is a Nordic Capital portfolio company. Engeset will leave SafeRoad with effect from July 1st 2013.

PRESS RELEASE

SafeRoad has over the last years made several add-on acquisitions abroad, which have led to a subsequent build-up of head office functions in Oslo. Following this, Jon Erik Engeset, the President and CEO of SafeRoad, has had to commute between Ørsta and Oslo on a weekly basis. For private reasons, he has now decided to seek new opportunities closer to his home.

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DEFENSE

15 February 2013 

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Italy: Media reports from Italy say the chairman and chief executive of Italy’s largest defense firm has resigned following corruption allegations.

The head of Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, said he was leaving his post in a letter to a magistrate at an Italian court. Earlier this week the businessman was arrested as part of a police investigation into the selling of helicopters from the firm to the Indian government.

It is alleged that the company’s AgustaWestland subsidiary used bribes to win the order for ten helicopters. The contract is thought to be worth $750m (~€483m). Orsi denies any wrongdoing.

New Delhi has now begun cancelling the defence contract and is investigating how the deal occured. The company is being run by another board director.

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HEALTH / MEDICINE / PHARMACEUTICALS

The chief executive of Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge resigned suddenly Thursday after its Japanese parent company, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., moved to fold Millennium’s big Cambridge-based cancer research unit into corporate research and development.

Deborah Dunsire, 50, who has been president and chief executive of Millennium since 2005 and helped engineer its $8.8 billion sale to Takeda in 2008, is one of the best known women in the biomedical industry. She will be replaced as Millennium’s president by Anna Protopapas, 48, a longtime colleague who has worked at Millennium for 16 years, most recently as executive vice president and head of global business development, according to Takeda.

The move was disclosed in a statement issued from Takeda headquarters in Osaka, Japan. Separately, the Japanese drug giant reported operating income had been weaker than hoped for and that it was moving forward with an efficiency plan that includes integrating Millennium’s research center, which had overseen worldwide cancer drug development.

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Online health information company WebMD Health Corp. significantly narrowed its first-quarter loss said its chief executive, Cavan M. Redmond, has resigned, after only one year at the helm.

New York-based WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD) said David J. Schlanger, the company’s senior vice president of strategic and corporate development, will become interim CEO while the company searches for a permanent replacement.

In addition, Chief Financial Officer Anthony Vuolo will be replaced by Peter Anevski, currently a senior vice-president of finance. Vuolo will continue with the company as senior vice president focusing on strategic projects.

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Joseph Swedish, CEO of Livonia-based Trinity Health since 2004, announced he will leave the 47-hospital Roman Catholic health system next month to become CEO of investor-owned Wellpoint Inc., the nation’s largest health insurer with 35 million policyholders in 14 states.

Larry Warren, a Trinity board member and former CEO of University of Michigan Hospital, has been named interim CEO.

“Trinity Health is a progressive and dynamic ministry, and it has been my honor to help pursue its mission for eight years,” said Swedish in a statement.

During Swedish’s tenure, Trinity Health’s revenue has increased to $8.9 billion in 2012 from $5.7 billion in 2005. Swedish became CEO in December 2004.

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TECHNOLOGY / TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen has resigned after the telecoms hardware manufacturer posted substantial losses for the fourth quarter of 2012.

Ben Verwaayen took over at the firm in 2008 when he stood down as CEO of BT, hoping to bring Alcatel-Lucent back into profitability.

Alcatel-Lucent posted quarterly losses of just over €1.37bn, which included restructuring charges of €247m, an impairment charge of €894m and €514m in deferred tax.

Revenues did increase quarter on quarter to reach almost €4.1bn, but this was still down by 1.3% year-on-year.

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Video game giant Electronic Arts has announced that CEO John Riccitiello is to resign from the company. In a letter to chairman of the board Larry Probst, Riccitiello conceded that forthcoming quarterly results are likely to fall short of expectations and that he is “100 percent accountable”. The industry veteran will step down on 30 March with Probst appointed as executive chairman until a permanent replacement is found.

After taking over as CEO in February 2007, Riccitiello has overseen a turbulent period in the history of EA. Stock value plunged amid the global financial meltdown of 2008, and has never recovered to the 2005 peak when shares were worth $70 each. Like most publishers in this sector EA has suffered due to a decline in retail software sales but has fought to improve its digital business, investing in social gaming companies such as Playfish and Popcap and extending its reach into Facebook and smartphone titles.

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Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard.

Flynn resigned effective immediately “to pursue entrepreneurial investing activities,” according to a news release on Wednesday from Fusion-io. The company’s co-founder and chief marketing officer, Rick White, has also resigned, Fusion-io said.

Robison has been named chairman, CEO and president, effective immediately. Robison has been on Fusion-io’s board of directors since 2011. From 2002 until 2011, he was executive vice president and chief strategy and technology officer at HP, and before that he held a similar position at Compaq Computer, which HP acquired in 2002. Fusion-io cited his industry relationships, international experience and understanding of the company’s business in naming him to the top posts.

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The chief executive of Swedish telecommunications company TeliaSonera has resigned following an independent review of business dealings with a partner in Uzbekistan.

In a statement on February 1, TeliaSonera CEO Lars Nyberg said the review found his company had failed to carry out proper background checks and conduct due diligence on its Uzbek partner, Takilant.

That company is believed to have links with Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan’s president.

The review, carried out by law firm Mannheimer Swartling, rejected persistent allegations that TeliaSonera paid bribes in Uzbekistan.

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Saudi Telecom Co’s chief executive Khaled Al-Ghoneim has resigned after less than a year in the job, the latest senior management executive to quit as the former monopoly tries to arrest a sustained profit slump.

Al-Ghoneim was appointed in June 2012 following the resignation of his predecessor Saud Al-Daweesh two months earlier, while the heads of the state-controlled firm’s domestic and international operations have also quit over the past 12 months.

STC has spent billions of dollars on foreign acquisitions in the past decade, according to Reuters calculations, buying into many markets including Turkey, Indonesia, Kuwait and Bahrain. Yet it remains reliant on home, with the kingdom providing 68 percent of revenue in 2012.

The company’s shares have fallen 5.8 percent this year, underperforming the main Saudi index, which is up 3.7 percent.

STC said it had accepted Al-Ghoneim’s resignation, according to a statement on Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange website, but did not name a replacement or say when Ghoneim would leave his position.

The Gulf’s second-largest telecom operator by market value made a net profit of 7.28 billion riyals ($1.94 billion) in 2012, down 43 percent from a 2006 peak as tougher competition from home and write-offs from foreign units weighed on the bottom line.

Al-Ghoneim joined STC from Riyadh-based Al Elm Information Security Company, a firm far lesser in size and scope than the state telco. – Reuters

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Jameel Abdullah Al-Molhem, CEO of STC KSA Operations, tendered his resignation to the telecom operator yesterday.

Saudi Telecom Co. (STC) is a Saudi-based telecommunications company that offers landline, mobile and Internet services.

Confirming the resignation, an official from the STC told Arab News that the reasons for his resignation were not known.

Al-Molhem’s resignation follows a string of resignations that occurred last year.

Last April Saud Al-Daweesh, CEO of Saudi Telecom Company (STC) submitted his resignation and STC’s board of directors accepted it effective Oct. 1.

Last August, the company announced a number of changes within its management structure involving executive positions. The STC Group announced that it had accepted the resignation of Ghasan Hasbani from his role as Group CEO-international operations due to the end of the contractual period.

In September, Dr. Ziad Al-Otaibi group CEO for technical operations also resigned. Otaibi’s resignation was preceded by Dr. Saad Bin Dhafer Al-Qahtani Group CEO for strategic affairs .

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Sanjay Kapoor, CEO (India and South Asia) of Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom service provider both in revenue and subscriber base terms, has resigned from the company in the backdrop of a decline in profits for 12 quarters in a row.

Gopal Vittal, who joined the company last year in April from Hindustan Unilever will take over as the head of Indian operations with effect from March 1. Vittal is currently group director (special projects). He was earlier director (marketing).

Kapoor, who has had a difficult time steering the company in a cut-throat market, will stay on the boards Bharti Global and Indus Towers, a telecom infrastructure company in which Bharti has a substantial stake.

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Dick Costolo, 49, will be replaced by Dublin-based accountant Laurence O’Brien, according to a report by Sky News.

Costolo’s resignation follows the dissolution of UK-based Tweetdeck Ltd, the company that ran the programme used as an alternative way of accessing microblogging website and app Twitter.

Tweetdeck Ltd was struck off by Companies House on May 7 for repeatedly failing to file its 2011 accounts, though its assets were absorbed into sister company Twitter UK and the service remains functional on desktop computers.

Tweetdeck Ltd and Twitter UK were both fined last December for failing to file accounts with Companies House, though Twitter UK, a subsidiary of Irish-based Twitter International, later did so, and the company remains active.

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‘Tis the season for high-profile resignations. From Pope Benedict XVI to Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, the Internet has been abuzz with news of one resignation–or sacking–after another.

Peter Stern, CEO of the URL shortening company Bit.ly, appears to be the most recent addition to a growing list of commanders-in-chief who have stepped down lately.

Bit.ly announced in a cryptic blog post Monday that Stern would be leaving the company to “pursue other interests.” This statement has created speculation as to what interests Stern may be pursuing–and what his motivation for leaving the company might be.

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3Dfx announced on Thursday that its CEO and President, L. Gregory Ballard, is resigning effective October 31. Ballard had a three year tenure at 3Dfx.

As reasons for his departure, he cited a new CEO with a fresh perspective and a focus on the technology hurdles that 3Dfx needs to overcome will be better suited to the coming challenges for 3Dfx.

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The chief executive officer of the National Broadband Network (NBN) construction partner Silcar, Peter Lamell, has resigned, marking two major executive losses for the construction partners of the AU$37.4 billion project since NBN Co announced that it would not meet its June target for premises passed by fibre.

A Silcar spokesperson this morning confirmed a report in The Australian Financial Review that Lamell would leave, but gave no reason for his departure.

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The transformation of Dish Network Corp. continued Monday with a surprise announcement that Charlie Ergen will step down as president and CEO.

Ergen, Dish’s founder and spiritual leader, will remain on as chairman. His successor, Joseph Clayton, will start his new role on June 20, 2011.

Clayton, a 38-year telecom and consumer electronics industry vet, most recently served as chairman of Sirius Satellite Radio (now Sirius XM) and before that, was president of Global Crossing‘s North America division, and president and CEO of Frontier Communications Corp.. On the CE front, he once served as EVP of marketing and sales for the Americas and Asia for Thomson (nowTechnicolor SA).

Clayton said in a statement that his “working relationship with Charlie spans nearly 20 years, and I look forward to building on Dish Network’s legacy of innovation and value in TV entertainment.”

Why this matters

The big move up top comes at a critical point in Dish’s history as it reinvents itself into much more than a satellite TV service company. Dish did not offer a reason for the shift, but it should allow Ergen to focus on the long-term strategic direction of the company while leaving the day-to-day tending and feeding to Clayton.

It’s also the first time Ergen has relinquished the CEO role. Carl Vogel, a long-time cable vet who is still a Dish vice chairman, stepped down as Dish president in 2008.

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Dr Khaled Bin Abdulaziz Al Ghuniem, group CEO at STC Group, has resigned, according to a statement posted on the Saudi Arabian stock exchange website. The statement indicated that the resignation was due to personal reasons.

Ghuneim was appointed group CEO in June 2012, replacing former group CEO, Saud Al Darwish, who announced his resignation from the post in April 2012. Al Ghuniem was previously CEO at Al-Elm Information Security Company.

The resignation marks the latest in a string on management changes at STC Group in the past eight months.

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Chairman of the board of CVM Television, Wayne Chen yesterday announced that Al Edwards has resigned as chief executive officer with immediate effect, following a brief stint.

The board, in accepting Edwards’ resignation, wished him well in his future endeavours.

“Edwards, who joined CVM Television on May 15, is a highly respected media practitioner, who has had an illustrious career in business journalism with both The Gleaner and Jamaica Observer,” CVM said in a release yesterday.

CVM Television is the official broadcaster of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the 2014 FIFA World Cup and is a member of the CVM Television Group that includes HOT 102 FM and CVM Productions.

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This morning Intel Corporation announced that CEO Paul Otellini would step down in May 2013, exactly 8 years since assuming that position in 2005.  While Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s manufacturing capability is currently second to none, Samsung is catching up. Increasingly, new designs favor less expensive process technology, not high performance transistors used in PC CPUs.

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Chunghwa Telecom’s CEO has resigned with immediate effect for unspecified personal reasons, the company has announced.

In a brief statement, the company confirmed that Dr. Shyue-Ching Lu, who was both Chairman and CEO is being replaced in the role by the company President, Dr. Yen-Sung Lee.

Dr. Yen-Sung Lee previously served as the President of Chunghwa Telecom since his appointment in 2012 and has worked at Chunghwa Telecom for 39 years. Prior to becoming President, he served as the Senior Executive Vice President in charge of the marketing and IT departments.

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Mawindi took over from expatriate Aimable Mpore last July. According to an internal mail shown to NewsDay, Mawindi resigned with immediate effect last week.

Telecel Zimbabwe, now the country’s second largest mobile phone company by subscriber base, also announced the appointment of a new general manager in what could signal a major corporate shake-up.

The telecommunications firm is 60% owned by Telecel International, while the Empowerment Corporation — a local consortium of individuals and groups — owns 40%.

“The Telecel Zimbabwe board of directors hereby advises the Telecel employees that Mr Francis Mawindi has decided to pursue other opportunities outside the group and is stepping down from his position as chief executive officer of Telecel Zimbabwe with immediate effect,” said group chairman James Makamba in an internal announcement dated March 27 seen by NewsDay.

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TRANSPORT

The Board of Directors of Kuehne + Nagel International AG accepted the request of Reinhard Lange, CEO of the Kuehne + Nagel Group since 2009, to release him from his duties because of health reasons effective May 7, 2013 (Annual General Meeting). Until the termination of his contract on December 31, 2013, Reinhard Lange will continue to support the Group in a consultancy role.

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The ceo and executive director of Samudera Shipping Lines, David Batubara, has resigned from the company.

Batubara is quitting as chief of the Singapore-listed arm of Samudera Group after three years at the helm. Samudera said he was leaving for “personal reasons”.

Asmari Herry Prayitno, executive director and coo of Samudera will take over as interim ceo pending the search for a replacement.

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StandardAero president and CEO Rob Mionis has resigned. The independent engine and airframe MRO services provider named Firoz Tarapore as interim president and CEO as it searches for a permanent successor.

Tarapore has served as a director and member of the executive committee of StandardAero since 2007. He will continue to serve on the board.

The board of directors also named current director David Smoot as vice chairman. Smoot is CEO of Dubai International Capital.

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The embattled chief executive officer of the Capital Area Transit System since late 2009 resigned Monday afternoon.

Brian Marshall provided little explanation for his decision in a one-page letter of resignation to the CATS board, but his departure comes amid recent harsh, public criticism of the bus agency’s performance.

“It is my opinion, that the current environment is not conducive to building a sustainable system,” Marshall wrote. “Therefore, effective immediately, I resign as the CEO of the Capital Area Transit System.”

Marshall, in a phone interview, said he did not want to comment further.

Marshall spent most of the letter defending his record as the bus system’s leader, stressing that CATS is on schedule to deliver the services residents were promised in an April 2012 tax election, including more routes, buses and shorter wait times by 2014.

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The incoming CEO of Lockheed Martin announced his resignation Friday after admitting to an improper relationship with a subordinate.

Kubasik, 51, was the defense contractor’s chief operating officer and was slated to take over current-CEO Bob Steven’s position in January.

However an internal investigation revealed he was having an improper relationship with a female employee – the circumstances of which was not disclosed.

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ENERGY / POWER GENERATION

Only days after signing a deal to expand ABB’s activities in PV, CEO Joe Hogan has resigned from his post. Hogan cited “private reasons” for his departure.

Electrical engineering conglomerate ABB has been making major moves into the renewable energy sector in recent years, driven by CEO Joe Hogan. Its most recent move was the acquisition of inverter manufacturer Power-One. However Hogan is now set to leave the Swiss-based company, although a date for his departure has not been set.

“Joe is a great and successful CEO and has done a remarkable job of leading the company through the deepest economic crisis in living memory. ABB today is in a much better position than it was when he joined five years ago,” said Chairman Hubertus von Grünberg, in a statement announcing the move. “I know this has been a tough and difficult decision for Joe and the Board sincerely regrets that Joe will be leaving the company.”

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After two years at the helm, R.B. Sloan has tendered his resignation as CEO of Pedernales Electric Cooperative, the cooperative’s board said Monday.

Sloan’s resignation will be effective March 15, and chief financial officer Frank Skube will serve as interim CEO until a new leader is chosen, according to a written statement from Kathy Scanlon, PEC board president.

Sloan was named CEO of Pedernales — the nation’s largest member-owned electric utility with more than 200,000 members — in February of 2011. His appointment came in the wake of a a years-long scandal at Pedernales that involved excessive salaries, questionable spending and undemocratic procedures.

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Struggling project developer and PV distributor, Phoenix Solar is to close or divest a number of loss making operations in a bid to return to profitability after several years of heavy losses.

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MINING

The boss of mining giant Rio Tinto Tom Albanese has resigned over a $14bn write-down, after admitting ‘accountability’ for the loss of assets following bad deals.

Rio Tinto revealed the losses in connection with its two most significant acquisitions in recent years. Immediately the company`s chief executive Tom Albanese left after more than 30 years working for the company.

Rio Tinto bought Canadian aluminum company Alcon in 2007, right before the start of the global economic recession. Some have called the $38 billion deal “disastrous”. In 2011 the company reported a 59% drop in profits followed by a $8.9 billion write-down on the value of the aluminum assets. As the results went public chief executive Albanese said he would not take his annual bonus.

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AFTER months of speculation, BHP Billion announced on Wednesday that Marius Kloppers is stepping down as CEO and director of the world’s largest diversified resources miner.

Mr Kloppers had won kudos for leading BHP through the global financial crisis in much better shape than its peers, but disappointed investors with his expensive bid for shale-gas assets in the US, which led to $2.8bn in write-downs and cost him his bonus last year.

He is the third head of a major mining conglomerate to step down in recent months, following the resignations of Rio Tinto’s Tom Albanese and Anglo American’s Cynthia Carroll.

The announcement came as BHP Billiton released its financial results for the half-year to the end of December, saying underlying earnings before interest and tax fell 38.3% to $9.8bn, while attributable profit, excluding exceptional items of $5.7bn, was down 43.4%. It took $3bn in write-downs on its aluminium and nickel assets, in line with market forecasts.

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Pan African Resources CEO Jan Nelson has quit his post at the company, according to announcement posted to the JSE on Wednesday, sending the stock’s share price down close to 6% by the end of trade.

On the LSE, where the company has its primary listing, the sell-down in Pan African’s shares was even more pronounced as the stock traded 8.5% lower late afternoon.

In its announcement, Pan African said Nelson’s resignation, both as chief executive and member of the board, will take effect on Friday (1 March).

The statement makes no mention of the reason for Nelson stepping down, but it is thought he is leaving due to personal reasons.

Nelson wasn’t immediately for comment.

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OTHERS

ALAMEDA — Amy Trask resigned from the Raiders on Saturday, ending her tenure as the only female CEO in the NFL and as one of the highest-ranking women in American professional sports.

A fierce advocate for late owner Al Davis, Trask found her role reshaped under Mark Davis, who took over for his father upon his death in October 2011.

Since the arrival of general manager Reggie McKenzie in January 2012, Trask’s primary duties were to generate revenue through marketing and ticket sales and help the organization in its quest for a new stadium.

The Raiders are in the final year of their lease at O.co Coliseum. Trask has publicly pushed for a new stadium on the current site, with

File: Oakland Raiders CEO Amy Trask talks during a press conference at the Oakland Coliseum. (Nick Lammers/staff 11/2/05)

no deal on the horizon.

In an email to reporters, Trask said, “Earlier today, I informed Mark Davis of my decision to leave the Raiders. Having honored a commitment that I made to effectuate a smooth transition and transfer of control, I no longer wish to remain with the organization.

“For over a quarter of a century, it was my honor and my privilege to work for the Raiders. I will forever appreciate the opportunity afforded me by Al Davis.”

Trask joined the Raiders in 1987 in the legal department with the club in Los Angeles and was named CEO in 1997.

The Raiders, who have restructured both the football and business side of the organization since the death of Al Davis, acknowledged Trask’s departure with a statement

on the club website:

‘Mark Davis, Carol Davis and the rest of the Raider family would like to thank Amy Trask for her valued contributions to the Raiders over the past 25 years. The Raiders wish her the very best in her future endeavors.”

Neither Trask nor Mark Davis could be reached for comment.

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PORT Adelaide Magpies chief executive Brian Leys has resigned.

The Magpies premiership player has left the SANFL club after noting the challenges at Alberton were forcing him to make too many sacrifices at home where he has three young children.

Leys was appointed to the Magpies’ administrative role in March last year.

“I’ve been discussing my position with club chief executive Keith Thomas for the last couple of months and I’ve come to the resolution that I want to spend more time with my young family,” Leys said.

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The train wreck that was Ron Johnson’s tenure at J.C. Penney (JCP) is over.

Johnson has stepped down from the top spot nearly 18 months after charging in with big plans to overhaul the retailer and its long-established business model.

His predecessor, Myron Ullman, is returning to lead the company. Investors initially applauded the move, sending shares up more than 12% in after-hours trading Monday. Later in the evening, shares fell back to an 8% loss.

Johnson’s resignation brings to an end one of the more extraordinary business upheavals in recent memory. He made a name for himself leading the retail efforts ofApple (AAPL) and also held a top management position at Target (TGT). He was envisioned as a savior of sorts, and promised to return Penney to profit and make it a fashionable and exciting place to shop.

Johnson tried nixing sale events in favor of everyday low prices, and almost immediately found resistance from shoppers accustomed to Penney’s couponing and discounting culture. He boldly revised the company’s advertising, eschewing value propositions in favor of sparsely elegant and stylish displays that confused customers because they didn’t show prices.

Investors watched in horror as Penney’s stock price plummeted more than 50%.

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Tuesday Morning Corp. of Dallas said Monday that CEO Brady Churches has resigned after six months on the job.

The 830-store chain that sells closeout home and gift merchandise named Michael Rouleau, 74, a Tuesday Morning board member and former CEO of Irving-based Michaels Stores Inc., to be interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

Churches, 54, will stay on as consultant.

Tuesday Morning’s stock fell $1.20 a share, or 13 percent, to close at $7.78. Still, share value has more than doubled in the past year since Dallas-based activist investors Becker Drapkin Management LP gained control of the board and ousted 12-year CEO Kathleen Mason

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Pandora chief executive Joe Kennedy announced he would step down from his position during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. Shares rose nearly 20 percent on the news.

Kennedy said he will remain at Pandora’s helm — and as its chairman and president — until his successor is named, ending his 10-year run as the online radio company’s top executive.

“I love this business, which I helped create,” Kennedy said in an earnings call with analysts. “But as I approach the end of my tenth year, my head is telling me its time to find a recharging station.”

Under Kennedy’s leadership, the company has grown to take an 8 percent share of the total U.S. radio market, but has failed to regain the $20 per share price that it saw when it began trading publicly in June 2011.

The company did beat analyst expectations, but reported a net loss of 9 cents per share on $427.1 million in revenue. Mobile revenue growth grew 111 percent over the same period last year, outpacing a 70 percent listener hour growth through mobile devices.

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Hulu CEO Jason Kilar announced in a blog on Friday that he’ll be stepping down in the first quarter. While the news was not unexpected, the timing was certainly a surprise.

Rumors started circulating in August that Kilar was on his way out. But the announcement came just days before the Consumer Electronics Show, where Hulu was expected to showcase its Hulu Plus app and its range of original content, and feature the fact that the subscription product is available on nearly every new device at the show.

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ATLANTIC CITY — Kevin DeSanctis, the man who guided Atlantic City’s Revel casino-hotel through its tortuous development, only to see it struggle amid the cutthroat East Coast gambling market, is stepping down as head of the $2.4 billion resort.

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James Piscopo has resigned from his post as CEO of the Labour Party with immediate effect. He is expected to take a senior position at Transport Malta.

The PL thanked Mr Piscopo for his ‘excellent service’ to the party, describing him as instrumental for the party’s electoral victory and for making the party the effective and efficient organisation which it is today.

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VII Photo’s director Stephen Mayes has resigned effective 30 May. Nick Papadopoulos, the agency’s international director, will serve as interim CEO until a successor is named, the agency has announced today.

“It’s very tough to leave this great, talented team, but I feel the need to pursue new creative projects that will combine my experience and passion in many different parts of the photographic world,” says Mayes in a press statement. “It’s been a privilege to work with the world’s greatest photojournalists for the past five years, and what I’ve learned from them has been invaluable and is instilled in me for a lifetime.”

Ron Haviv, one of VII’s founding members, comments: “Under Stephen’s leadership, VII has increased its global footprint and has significantly grown its network of award-winning photographers, whose work appears regularly in the world’s top news media, including Time, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, The Sunday Times Magazine, GEO, The New Yorker and in exhibitions worldwide.”

Read more: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2260493/vii-photos-ceo-stephen-mayes-resigns#ixzz2V2KRsIhP

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We will keep on expanding this article as we go along. In the meantime, keep the fire of the Last Revolution burning.

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One of the significant sources of funds for the Cabal is the healthcare industry which registered a whopping $2.7 trillion in 2011, and is projected to soar to $3.6 trillion in 2016, in the US alone. We believe that this is just a conservative figure.

You can join the fight against the Dark Cabal and accelerate its demise just by boycotting Big Pharma. You can effectively do this by downloading “Towards Healthcare Emancipation“, a fully illustrated do-it-yourself instructional eBook that will help you in implementing all eClinik methods that would negate the use of expensive medicine, avoid radioactive diagnostics and treatments in completely defeating cancer, AIDS and all other parasitic diseases. These methods, when faithfully followed, work 100% all the time. Find out more about this here.

We are very grateful to the following for the love and support they’ve given us for the month of May 2013:

Mabuhay!

There is an undeniable great divide between the Corporate White House and the Pentagon right now.

The International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and State and its allies are also persistently closing in the Vatican, Inc. itself.

We are indeed seeing major offensives against the Cabal from all fronts.

This one just came in.

Thousands blockade European Central Bank in Frankfurt

The entrance of the ECB is blocked by over 3,000 ‘Blockupy’ protesters in a march against austerity. ‘Blockupy’ has announced the coalition has “reached its first goal” of the day.

Anti-capitalist protesters have taken to the streets of the financial heart of Frankfurt a day ahead of Europe-wide gatherings planned for June 1 to protest leaders handling of the three-year euro debt crisis.

“We call up everyone to join our protests.”

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The first batch of S-300 air defense complexes has arrived in Syria, President Bashar Assad said in an interview to Lebanon Al-Manar. Assad also said that Syrian army is battling up to 100,000 foreign mercenaries.

Assad revealed that the rest of the S-300 complexes previewed by a Russian-Syrian arms contract will be coming soon, reports RT Arabic (Rusiya Al Yaum), which has confirmed details of the exclusive interview to be broadcast on the Lebanese TV channel at 9pm local time (18:00 GMT) Thursday.

The president promised that the Syrian army will “immediately react” of a new Israeli aggression of Syrian soil, recalling recent bombings of military objects inside Syrian territory by the Israeli Air Force.

He noted that “The Syrian government will not interfere if some kind of Syrian group starts a war to liberate the Golan Heights,” occupied by Israel since the 1967 War.

During the interview, Assad confirmed the presence of Hezbollah fighters in Syria on the Lebanese border, but stressed, that “it is the Syrian army, not Hezbollah, battling the groups of armed rebels and will continue to do so until total elimination of the terrorists.”

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The US-Russian initiative for a comprehensive peace conference to resolve the Syrian crisis needs honest effort of those involved. But some nations apparently try to undermine the effort to call the meeting, says the Russia’s foreign minister.

On Wednesday, the US, Turkey and Qatar pushed through a UN resolution condemning the Syrian government for the alleged use of foreign fighters against rebel forces in the battle for the strategic town of Qusair.
The document calls for an investigation into the matter as well as more aid access and protections for the civilian population of Syria.
The ‘foreign fighters’ in question are from the Lebanese Shia movement, Hezbollah, which backed Syrian president, Bashar Assad, fearing that if his regime falls, Lebanon will become Al-Qaeda’s next target.

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Russia Warns Obama: Global War Over “Bee Apocalypse” Coming Very Soon

The shocking minutes relating to President Putin’s meeting this past week with US Secretary of State John Kerry reveal the Russian leaders “extreme outrage” over the Obama regimes continued protection of global seed and plant bio-genetic giants Syngenta and Monsanto in the face of a growing “bee apocalypse” that the Kremlin warns “will most certainly” lead to world war.

According to these minutes, released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (MNRE), Putin was so incensed over the Obama regimes refusal to discuss this grave matter that he refused for three hours to even meet with Kerry, who had traveled to Moscow on a scheduled diplomatic mission, but then relented so as to not cause an even greater rift between these two nations.

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29.05.2013 21:10

Friends of Syria meeting held in Tehran

The latest international ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting took place in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, gathering representatives from over 40 countries and international organizations under one roof, to discuss Syria’s future over the course of the day. The motto for the meeting was ‘Political Solution, Regional Stability’. Iran, like Russia, is known as a staunch opponent to any foreign meddling in the Syrian crisis, calling for a diplomatic solution to the current crisis between the government of Bashar Assad and rebel elements. It stresses free and democratic elections and national dialogue. Many have also stressed the importance and benefits of the meeting, including the UN-Arab League Special Envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who said “We should help Syria establish a national government and end people’s sufferings.” A top Iranian foreign ministry official also told reporters that “Today’s consultations can help to the attainment of a political solution to the Syrian crisis, and we hope that these consultations will affect the discussions due to be made in the Geneva conference.” He was referring to the upcoming Geneva conference on Syria, designed to address the above questions and pave the way to ending the bloodshed, which in over two years has claimed some 80,000 lives, according to UN estimates.

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China has dismissed US claims hackers procured blueprints for America’s most advanced weaponry. Beijing stated the allegations underestimate the Chinese people’s intellect and that China is perfectly capable of producing its own weapons.

A US Science Board report leaked this week alleged the Chinese hackers had obtained access to the designs of two dozen major US weapons systems in what amounted to “billions of dollars of combat advantage to China.”

The Washington Post, who saw a copy of the report, intimated that such information could be used by the Chinese government to speed up the development of their military. An unnamed official told the Post that China had saved themselves “25 years of research and development” by stealing the plans.

Beijing reacted with ire, with Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng dismissing the report as ridiculous.

“It both underestimates the Pentagon’s defensive security abilities and the Chinese people’s intelligence,” said Geng in a news briefing.

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(NaturalNews) It has already begun: Japan has just cancelled a large contract to purchase U.S. wheat. “We will refrain from buying western white and feed wheat effective today,” Toru Hisadome, a Japanese farm ministry official in charge of wheat trading, told Reuters.
As many readers well know, I predicted precisely this scenario just yesterday in a Natural News article warning about the consequences of genetic pollution. There, I wrote, “All wheat produced in the United States will now be heavily scrutinized — and possibly even rejected — by other nations that traditionally import U.S. wheat. This obviously has enormous economic implications for U.S. farmers and agriculture.”
Now we’re already seeing the result: the ditching of U.S. wheat by world nations that want nothing to do with GMOs.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040572_Japan_GE_wheat_genetic_pollution.html#ixzz2UsMPQFms One of the significant sources of funds for the Cabal is the healthcare industry which registered a whopping $2.7 trillion in 2011, and is projected to soar to $3.6 trillion in 2016, in the US alone. We believe that this is just a conservative figure. You can join the fight against the Dark Cabal and accelerate its demise just by boycotting Big Pharma. You can effectively do this by downloading “Towards Healthcare Emancipation“, a fully illustrated do-it-yourself instructional eBook that will help you in implementing all eClinik methods that would negate the use of expensive medicine, avoid radioactive diagnostics and treatments in completely defeating cancer, AIDS and all other parasitic diseases. These methods, when faithfully followed, work 100% all the time. Find out more about this here. We are very grateful to the following for the love and support they’ve given us for the month of May 2013:

Mabuhay!

Here’s the latest update [May 30, 2013] re Global Settlements and Nelu’s impending release from unjustified incarceration. Nelu is an authority re Global Accounts. His release would mean our freedom, too.

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Update 31 may 2013: MAJOR OFFENSIVES

The revolution is intensifying, and the revolutionaries are just fine.

Never in the most recent times has the Vatican experienced a massive attack right at its doorsteps. I would consider these actions below as significant because this war is, first and foremost, a war for the Mind. Once the Global Mindset is fully switched off against the Establishment, it becomes history.

The level of awareness just keeps getting higher. Absolutely fascinating.

First, there was this lady featured in one of Bullshit’s episodes of Penn and Teller tackling the Church, Inc., about 3 years ago.

SAVONA, ITALY – The following is a summary of what Kevin Annett and Francesco Zanardi presented before the Italian media in Savona, Italy today May 23, 2013.

“Hello. My name is Kevin Annett, and I am the acting Field Secretary of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State, the ITCCS, which represents over fifty organizations of survivors of church torture in nine countries, including Italy.

It is an honor to be present here today with Francesco Zanardi and the organization Rete L’abuse, at their invitation, and to join with them in an historical campaign to stop forever the religious torture of children.

For years now, Francesco has been conducting a heroic fight here in Italy for the same things that our Tribunal is campaigning for, by exposing child torture within the Roman Catholic church and bringing those responsible to justice. I look forward to working with Francesco and many others in Italy in the months ahead.

I have been authorized by the ITCCS Central Office to issue the following public statement:

1. As a Citizens’ Tribunal of Conscience with standing under international law, we call upon Italian President Giorgio Napolitano to seek the immediate extradition from the Vatican and the arrest of former Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, on the grounds that Ratzinger is a fugitive from justice and a wanted criminal duly convicted of crimes against humanity on February 25, 2013 by an international common law court of justice.

2. We further call upon President Napolitano and his government to abide by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court by giving no further aid, tax exemptions or financial subsidies to an organization guilty of crimes against humanity and children, namely, the Vatican Incorporated, and to cancel and annul the so-called Lateran Treaty between the government of Italy and the Vatican.

3. If President Napolitano fails to abide by international law and refuses to take these measures, our Tribunal, its international affiliates and Italian citizens will commence an international boycott of Italian goods, trade and tourism; and within Italy, we will commence peaceful church occupations, citizens arrests and other direct actions against the Vatican and its officials. This campaign will commence on September 20, 2013, the 143rd anniversary of Garibaldi`s liberation of Rome and expulsion of the papacy.

4. The purpose of this campaign will be to enforce the lawful verdict of the International Common Law Court of Justice of February 25, 2013, which convicted thirty officials of church and state of genocide and a criminal conspiracy, including former Pope Benedict and top Catholic Cardinals. (see www.itccs.org). This verdict sentenced these officials to immediate arrest and imprisonment for a term of twenty five years, and the confiscation of church property and wealth.

5. The Vatican and the Roman Catholic church as a whole represents a clear and present danger to the children of the world because of its standing policy known as Crimen Solictationas, which actively protects child rapists in the church and subverts justice and child protection laws in other nations. The present Pope Francis is actively complicit in this war crime by his position as head of the Church of Rome and his personal involvement in such crimes in Argentina. By this law, the Vatican consitutes a global criminal conspiracy and permanent war waged against the children, the sovereignty and the laws of all nations, and under the Law of Nations (jus gentium) must be resisted and opposed, and its power curtailed, for the wellbeing of people everywhere.

The ITCCS and its affiliates and allies in other governments are committed to doing so. We therefore call upon all citizens of Italy to withdraw their funding and allegiance from the Roman Catholic church, to demand that President Napolitano seeks the extradiction of Joseph Ratzinger and the annulling of the Lateran Treaty, and to join our September 20 campaign to end forever the criminal actions of the Church of Rome.

We also make a formal request to the police forces of Italy to assist Italian citizens in protecting their children and their communities from child-raping catholic clergy by arresting such known and suspected predators, and by refusing to aid or assist the Roman Catholic church and its officials evade justice and prosecution for their crimes.

The government of Italy and President Napolitano have until September 20, 2013 to respond to this statement and abide by its requests, and to a registered communication being sent to the Presidential Office and the Parliament of Italy.

Issued May 23, 2013

From the Central Office, ITCCS, Brussels

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Kevin Annett also stressed the following excerpt from Crimen Sollicitationis (fully reprinted at www.hiddennolonger.com, appendix 9)

CONFIDENTIAL

From the Supreme and Holy Congregation of the Holy Office – Instruction on the Manner of Proceeding in the Cases of Solicitation (The Vatican Press, 1962) ….

11. Because, however, what is treated in these cases has to have a greater degree of care and observance so that these matters be pursued in a most secretive way, and, after they have been defined and given over to execution, they are to be restrained by a perpetual silence (Instruction of the Holy Office, February 20, 1867, n. 14), each and everyone pertaining to the tribunal in any way or admitted to knowledge of the matters because of their office, is to observe the strictest (space) secret, which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office, in all matters and with all persons, under the penalty of excommunication, latae sententiae, ipso facto, and without any declaration (of such a penalty) having been incurred and reserved to the sole person of the Supreme Pontiff, even to the exclusion of the Sacred Penitentiary, are bound to observe (this secrecy) inviolably. ….

At an historic press conference yesterday, two groups fighting to end church terror against children formally joined forces and announced the launching of a public campaign commencing in Rome on September 20.

Francesco Zanardi of Rete L’Abuso and Kevin Annett of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) disclosed their joint campaign to Italian reporters and activists at a morning press conference in the northern Italian city of Savona.

“We want to not only prosecute the priests who rape children but change the laws that let them get away with it” explained Francesco Zanardi, to thunderous applause.

Zanardi is himself a survivor of serial rape during the 1980’s by a Catholic priest named Nello Giraudo, who was protected and aided by Cardinal Domenico Calcagno.

Calcagno is now a prominent official in the Vatican Bank and helped elect the present Pope Francis.

“The Lateran Treaty obligates Italy to help the Vatican commit crime. That Treaty has to go” said Zanardi.

On behalf of the ITCCS, Kevin Annett also spoke at the press conference, and pledged the Tribunal’s “total support” to Zanardi and Rete L’Abuso.

Annett presented an authorized letter to Zanardi from the Central Office of the ITCCS that formally affiliated the Tribunal with the Italian group and guaranteed “direct action” throughout Italy in September.

“The Italian government helps a convicted criminal like (former Pope) Joseph Ratzinger evade arrest inside the Vatican, while persecuting a brave and honest man like Francesco Zanardi” said Annett.

“We’ve written to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and demanded that he abide by international law and extradite Ratzinger from the Vatican to face justice for helping traffic children to priestly rapists”.

In a bilingual statement released to the media (see link below), the ITCCS stated that unless the Italian government begins steps to extradite Ratzinger and revoke the Lateran Treaty with the Vatican, civil disobedience actions will begin in Italian catholic churches and four cities on September 20, and will be accompanied by an international boycott campaign against Italian goods, trade and tourism.

Citizen groups in Savona, Genoa, Reggio Emilia and Rome have agreed to participate in these actions.

March Against Monsanto

Kevin Annett will return to Italy in mid-September to help inaugurate the campaign with Francesco Zanardi and local activists at special events in Rome and Savona on September 20.

Hundreds of thousands across the US joined the worldwide rally against biotech giant Monsanto and genetically engineered crops. It comes shortly after the Senate turned down a bill that would allow states to require the labeling of GM foods.

Organizers of the major rally that swept through dozens of nations around the globe on Saturday, urge a repeal of the so-called Monsanto Protection Act, and call for a boycott of Monsanto products.

Monsanto hires infamous mercenary firm Blackwater to track activists around the world

Sunday, May 26, 2013 by: Carolanne Wright
(NaturalNews) Remember the private mercenary army Blackwater that caused such a stir in Iraq during an unprovoked attack in 2007? Apparently, Monsanto and the controversial security firm are in bed together, described by blogger Randy Ananda as “a death-tech firm weds a hit squad.” At this point, you might be wondering what in the world the GM seed giant needs with the services of a ‘shadow army’? It appears as though the corporation found it necessary to contract with Blackwater in order to collect intelligence on anti-Monsanto activists as well infiltrate their ranks.

Protest Monsanto, stalked by Blackwater

Notorious for the Iraqi Nisour Square Massacre, Blackwater “created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq,” reports the New York Times. One of these subsidiaries became Total Intelligence, the company contracted by Monsanto between 2008-2010 to collect intelligence on activists rallying against GMO crops and other Monsanto activities. Journalist Jeremy Scahill states in The Nation:

“… entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents obtained by The Nation. Blackwater’s work for corporations and government agencies was contracted using two companies owned by Blackwater’s owner and founder, Erik Prince: Total Intelligence Solutions and the Terrorism Research Center (TRC). Prince is listed as the chairman of both companies in internal company documents, which show how the web of companies functions as a highly coordinated operation.”

A spokesperson representing Monsanto admits the company hired Total Intelligence for information “… about the activities of groups or individuals that could pose a risk to company personnel or operations around the world which were developed by monitoring local media reports and other publicly available information. The subject matter ranged from information regarding terrorist incidents in Asia or kidnappings in Central America to scanning the content of activist blogs and websites.”

However, what the spokesperson fails to address is that according to documents secured by Scahill, Monsanto was willing to pay a sizable sum (up to $500,000) for Blackwater agents to infiltrate anti-Monsanto organizations.

As the plot continues to thicken regarding Monsanto’s tactics of domination, Ananda aptly notes:

“… Monsanto, by hiring a mercenary army and former CIA field agents, is deadly serious about protecting its deadly products. Yet, this contract further discredits the company. The public can now paint an even bleaker picture of the firm that brought us Agent Orange, PCBs, rBST, DDT, aspartame and, now, hit men.”

Sources for this article include:

http://www.thenation.com

http://digitaljournal.com/article/297701

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com

http://naturalsociety.com
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040492_GMO_activists_Monsanto_blackwater.html#ixzz2UXA1n066

Supreme Court Validates People’s Rights to Establish Common Law Grand Jury

by Drake

NESARA- REPUBLIC RESTORED – Galactic News

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Supreme Court Validates People’s Rights to Establish Common Law Grand Jury

Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:13 PM
Subject: FW: Supreme Court Validates People’s Rights to Establish Common Law Grand Jury

Subject: The Common Law 4th Branch Of Government-Legally Is The Common Law Grand Jury — Voted 6 to 3 Decision In The U.S. Supreme Court– Already started in CA and NY.

Click to listen http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=738152&cmd=apop

Grand Jury How? to and Why? & In a stunning 6 to 3 decision Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, confirmed that the American grand jury is neither part of the judicial, executive nor legislative branches of government, but instead belongs to the people. It is in effect a fourth branch of government “governed” and administered to directly by and on behalf of the American people, and its authority emanates from the Bill of Rights.
This is the solution to taking back our government county by county . . . state by state!

Judge Scalia decision: United States vs. Williams Clck Here To Read: http://www.newyorkcommitteemen.org/judicial/jury/documents/grand%20jury%20status.pdf
What Power Does the Common-Law Grand Jury Hold?

“The grand jury is an English institution, brought to this country by the early colonists and incorporated in the Constitution by the Founders. … “to provide a fair method for instituting criminal proceedings against persons believed to have committed crimes.” [Costello v. United States, 350 U.S. 359 (1956),]

16 Page Pdf File how to set up a Constitutional Grand Jury

http://newyorkcommitteemen.org/judicial/jury/documents/How%20to%20save%20the%20Republic.pdf

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Saturday, May 11, 2013
INITIATION FOR THE ORDERS OF WE THE PEOPLE

We THE People

And as Interim President, 12 May 2013

Initiate the orders of We THE People

We THE People who are the Civilian Authority with superior lawfull position over the U.S. Corporation and U.S. Military acting under the Original Jurisdiction of the United States Constitution 1789, Bill of Rights 1791 with the original 13th Amendment=”which removes persons who has an entitlement from holding public office” as the United States of America, Republican form of Government, standing as the true form of Government is proud to announce the following effective IMMEDIATELY.:

As Interim President=Commander in Chief of the Republic it is the duty of this de jure office to ensure the orders issued to the United States Military , Secretary of the Treasury, Provost Marshall and its Public Servants are carried out within the proper time as required by We THE People of The United States of America.

This announcement is for We THE People of the United States of America and our Friends World Wide and

To Chief of Staff of Joint Chiefs, Field Generals, Admirals, Office of General Council for Pentagon, Secretary of the Navy, Trustees of the Constitution and Office of the Inspector General, Provost Marshal, Flag Officers and Secretary of the People’s Treasury;

This announcement and order is to the Secretary of the Peoples Treasury Mr. Jack Lew, the Flag Officers assigned to The Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Jack Lew and the Provost Marshall,

You are hereby ordered to use any force including EXTREME PREJUDICE toward any and all public officers including any and all people in the U.S. Corporation=Internal Governmental Departments=Agencies, Individual Corporations=Organizations, and any other Entity=sentient beings WHOM are delaying=derailing= holding up=stopping any other delaying manipulation tactic on the execution of the following announcements and orders:

1. The Flag Officers assigned to The Secretary of the Peoples Treasury Mr. Jack Lew and Provost Marshall is ordered to commandeer all main stream television and radio broadcasting companies and start the announcements that have been prerecorded to inform the Nation:

a. The Republic being re-set, shutdown of the US Corporation (founded in 1871),

b. The shutdown of the Federal Reserve (99 Year Contract Ended),

i. All Debt caused from the US Corporation and / or Federal Reserve is not the responsibility of We THE People of the United States of America

ii. The collector of this debt shall look to and upon US Corporation and its CEO / Presidents, their staff including Legislative and Judicial holders plus the Executives of the Federal Reverse to repay ALL DEBT from their wealth which they stole from the We THE People

iii. Furthermore, the US Corporation Past and Present President, Vice President, staff, Legislative and Judicial are classified as Corporate Contractors or Actors who do not have the lawfull standing for the positions they currently occupy. Therefore, they are trespassing upon We THE People’s rights and liberties and are subject to our Constitutional Laws for Fraud, Treason, Misrepresentation, Embezzlement of our Currency, Unlawfull taxation and more. All damages shall be paid to We THE People by Seizing their assets and freezing their funds on-shore and off-shore bank account, safe deposit boxes, Precious Metals stashes, any storage, and depositing all recovered items back into the Peoples Treasury.

c. The shutdown of the Internal Revenue Service=IRS (taxation was repealed by Congress in 1939 and has been in operation fraudulently and while working for foreign agents it has fraudulently told the American people that is a department of the Treasury)

d. To Immediately begin broadcasting the educational=truth of this nation’s true history

2. The Secretary of the Peoples Treasury Mr. Jack Lew is established and operating under the Republican form of Government as the true Treasury

3. The Secretary of the Peoples Treasury Mr. Jack Lew will

a. Conduct a forensic audit of the IRS, freeze all assets, shut down all IRS operations and return all stolen funds to We THE People of The United States of America by depositing the returned funds in the Peoples United States Treasury.

b. All bankruptcies of the United States to date are terminated.

c. All debt tied to the social security numbers shall be set to zero.

i. Due to corrupt and unlawful banking practices and corrupt and unlawful government activities ALL injured parties shall be notified immediately following these actions and public announcements on all major media outlets shall commence immediately.

d. Remove=Terminate all unlawful taxation on all privately held property=land=labor.

e. Remove=Terminate all private personal income tax and private business taxation.

f. The return all government agencies CAFR=off book accounts and all court CRIS account funds to the Peoples United States Treasury.

i. CAFR=Consolidated Annual Financial Report

ii. CRIS=Court Registry Investment System

g. Restore financial privacy to all private sentient beings.

h. Introduce the United States Treasury currency (UST) backed by Gold and other Precise metals replacing the Federal Reserve Note effective IMMEDIATELY.

i. Release the 1.5 Trillion dollars of the Wanta-Regan-Mitterrand Protocols into the United States Treasury for We THE People

j. Announce the largest banks in United Sates of America are now Basel 3 Banking Regulations complaint along with several hundred mid-size banking institutions.

i. Basel 3 – A comprehensive set of reform measures designed to improve the regulation, supervision and risk management within the banking sector.

ii. Basel 3 – Largely in response to the credit crisis, banks are required to maintain proper leverage ratios and meet certain capital requirements protecting the end customer.

4. The “Fines & Penalties”, Foreign Currency Revaluation, Prosperity Packages, the Global Settlements Program, Prosperity Packages, Native American Claims, Humanitarian funds are to be paid out simultaneously effective IMMEDIATELY.

5. The Secretary of the Peoples Treasury Mr. Jack Lew will oversee the delivery Sunday 12 May 2013 to all recipients of the Farm Claims=Fines and Penalties=Farm Claims Class Action Law Suit Settlement=Bank Claims=Resolution Trust proceeds to the people;

a. The Farm Claims shall be moved to the Royal Bank of Canada for complete delivery=disbursement effective IMMEDIATELY.

b. The Farm Claims Lawsuit shall be unsealed and made part of the public record with=by publication, posting on the internet which is freely accessible to the public at large and=or full disclosure to all claim participants. The executive order that has kept this information hidden was done with the intent to defraud the people and has delayed the execution and delivery of the settlement.

c. These claims shall be delivered using any of the following methods of delivery or all of them together; National Guard, County Sheriffs, Bonded Couriers, Registered Mail, and the Organized and Unorganized State Militias.

d. There shall be NO taxation, NO fees, NO NDAs, NO hidden=misleading language, NO terms or condition or forms that create a contract causing loss of value through BANK FRAUD=MANIPULATION against the private citizen’s.

6. The Secretary of the Peoples Treasury Mr. Jack Lew shall conduct the release of the foreign currency exchange to all tier three foreign currency holders known as the “U.S. Treasury Hold” on the participating banks Sunday 12 May 2013 and

a. To communicate on all main stream media channels that the global re-set has occurred every hour for the next seventy- two (72) hours.

b. All banks are to make the hours of operation from 07:00 AM to 24:00 PM daily for the next ninety (90) days.

c. All tier three foreign currency holders shall be given VIP=Group rates with NO taxation, NO fees, NO NDAs, NO hidden=misleading language, NO terms or condition or forms that create a contract causing loss of value through BANK FRAUD=MANIPULATION against the private citizen’s when they exchange their currency.

7. The Secretary of the Peoples Treasury Mr. Jack Lew will release the Global Settlements Program, Prosperity Packages, Native American Claims, and all other programs and claims of a similar nature on 12 May 2013.

It is Ordered, sentenced, and decreed by the Political Will of the People~

Date:
Autograph:
Appellation:

Interim President
The United States of America

Reference: Contempt of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence circa 1776 and 2012, Orders #1-10

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Global Settlements

Keenan on the other hand is in his final legalwork for the release of Martha Wibawa [Nelu], an Indonesian patriot critical to the release of the Collateral Accounts that would be used to finance global eradication of poverty and environmental destructions.

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