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		<title>At Least 800 Scientists Say: Cannabis Can Kick Cancer’s Ass</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HailMaryJane.com Actually it’s the cannabinoids  (the chemicals in cannabis) that fight cancer cells. In the past nine years, there have been over 20 major studies that<br /><br /><a href="http://truthisscary.com/2012/05/at-least-800-scientists-say-cannabis-can-kick-cancers-ass/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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<p>Actually it’s the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid" target="_blank">cannabinoids</a>  (the chemicals in cannabis) that fight cancer cells. In the past nine years, there have been over 20 major studies that these cannabanoids actually arrest cancer growths of many different forms of cancer, including brain, melanoma and breast cancer. <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cannabis-science-publishes-list-of-over-800-peer-reviewed-cannabis-and-cancer-references-from-scientists-around-the-world-2011-11-21" target="_blank"> There is  evidence that cannabinoids cause direct anti-tumor activity.</a></p>
<p>The side effects associated with cannabis, compared with all other current drug therapies, is classified as “low risk”.</p>
<p>You’d think that if 800 well respected Scientists concur that indeed, cannabis does have medicinal value, our Federal Government would support it’s medical use and further research, but sadly they are not. The greatest danger associated with medical marijuana is its illegality.</p>
<p>What can the governemt do to show it’s citizens that are stricken with illnesses such as cancer, MS and Chron’s Disease? Reschedule and decriminalize Marijuana (Cannabis) would be a great start! Did you know that it’s because of cannabinoid research that scientists know how cancers develop? These facinating cannabinoids exhibit  anti-tumor properties and inhibit tumor growth.  It’s chemical co-partner,  THC has shown to eradicate malignant brain tumors, prolong life. Prolonging LIFE! That’s HUGE people! Yet, the DEA still classifies cannabis as having no medicinal use.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hailmaryjane.com/at-least-800-scientists-say-cannabis-can-kick-cancers-ass/" target="_blank"><strong>Read Entire Article HERE</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Tila Tequila: &#8217;3 Dark Man-Made Greys&#8217; Sent to Scare Her</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[in5d On her Facebook Fan wall, reality TV star Tila Tequila wrote about how three &#8220;man-made&#8221; Grey aliens were sent to scare her, although one<br /><br /><a href="http://truthisscary.com/2012/05/tila-tequila-3-dark-man-made-greys-sent-to-scare-her/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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<p>On her Facebook Fan wall, reality TV star Tila Tequila wrote about how three &#8220;man-made&#8221; Grey aliens were sent to scare her, although one can only infer that this was related to her exposing the Illuminati in her recent past.</p>
<p>Never forget me for my love for you has always been true no matter what happens I don&#8217;t care anymore I already died 7 times. Might as well let them finish the rest im not scared anymore. Lucky for me I saved 2 anti-seizure meds so swelling slowly coming down now but it hurts so bad. stop threatening me im not scared of u anymore. Come on then. Finish it off. fuck off you KNOW who&#8217;s almost here and they are NOT happy with what u did to us at all! UR JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING FASTER THAN U REALIZE! I&#8217;m one of the FEW who actually remembers &#8220;MY CONTRACT&#8221; before entering here. So I always knew before I was even born! You have always been there throughout my life watching haven&#8217;t you&#8221; I remember you but Im not scared anymore. As for your litte gimmicks sending over 3 &#8220;DARK MAN-MADE&#8221; &#8220;GREYS to scare me: HA! u think I&#8217;m that dumb? well now the joke&#8217;s on you! Your FAKE MAN MADE WANNA BE &#8220;GREYS&#8221; wont do shit. But at least I am friends with REALLLLL ONES FROM THE GOOOD LIGHT WHITE SIDE. THEY ARE REAL! Give it up with your pathetic fake greys! People are becoming a lot more stonger and smarte than you realize. They are cming for you and you know they are not happy. You cant keep BLOCKING THEM OUT of &#8220;GOOGLE EARTH&#8221; for much longer by using some lame dark square in attempts to keep the public from knowing the truth which they have a right to know! Ur all fucked anyway so I dont care. Come on baby! Ur real followers will chear you and welcome you back with open arms. Then together we, only the good ones will start our new life together at &#8220;NEW EARTH&#8221;</p>
<p>You still might be able to see the Google cache version <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HVe4K-udOXYJ:www.facebook.com/Tila/posts/10150886141218211+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us" target="_new">here</a></p>
<p>In an earlier post that has been scrubbed from her blog, Tila allegedly exposed the Illuminati, to which some suspect led to her brain aneurysm:</p>
<p>Hello Dear Ones,</p>
<p>Now, before you start bashing me for thinking that I am “HATING” on Lady GaGa, let me please tell you first that I am not, nor is this post about that. I just wanted to bring light to something that I have known for a VERY long time. Maybe some of you remember me going on about an hour tweeting about these “secrets” that I know of, a long time ago on my old Twitter account. A lot of people knew what I was talking about and was in awe or shocked that I knew so much about it. Other’s who don’t know much about it just thought I was talking “crazy” and “nonsense.” However I feel as though it is my duty to start bringing to light the truth behind what is going on in our world today. So unless you have an open mind, then I digress for you to not continue reading my post. However if you indeed DO have an open mind, or know of these “HINTS” I am dropping to you, then please continue reading. Just letting you guys know, that I will start posting more and more about this, in bits and pieces, as I don’t want to come out and straight up say the whole thing. But if you follow my posts about this, you shall understand my subliminal message that I want to send you, so you can understand what is happening to you and what “THEY” are doing to you.</p>
<p>Ok first of all, do you guys notice how lately, music video’s have a VERY DARK AND SATANIC vibe to them?? For instance a few years ago, pop music video’s were fun, sexy, cute etc. Sorta like when Britney Spears was at the peak of her career and had fresh pop music video’s like “Stronger” or “I’m a Slave For You” “Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know” etc. You get my point. Compare music video’s from back then until just now. VERY RECENTLY in the past few years. ESPECIALLY once Lady GaGa stepped on the scene, all the music video’s has turned very DARK &amp; SATANIC! I am not joking.</p>
<p>Even Beyonce is now in on it. I don’t want to tell you all of what I know, RIGHT NOW, because “THEY” are watching. As a matter of fact, I had a HUGE battle with “THE OTHERS” for a long time and I must admit, they are powerful. But there needs to be someone, anyone, to stand up against them and for our world to be restored back into peace and harmony once again.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.in5d.com/tila-tequila-man-made-aliens.html" target="_blank"><strong>Read Entire Article HERE</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Video: The Darker Side Of Hollywood</title>
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		<title>Massive Outrage Over Kashi Cereal&#8217;s Deceptive Marketing Techniques</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Mercola A simple sign on a grocery store shelf has gone viral, causing a storm of outrage among consumers who feel they&#8217;ve been misled<br /><br /><a href="http://truthisscary.com/2012/05/massive-outrage-over-kashi-cereals-deceptive-marketing-techniques/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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<p>A simple sign on a grocery store shelf has gone viral, causing a storm of outrage among consumers who feel they&#8217;ve been misled by cereal maker Kellogg&#8217;s claims about its Kashi cereals. A Rhode Island grocer posted a note on the shelf where Kashi was supposed to be, saying he&#8217;d learned it wasn&#8217;t 100 percent natural after all, and therefore wasn&#8217;t carrying it anymore.</p>
<p>It turns out the soy in Kashi cereals comes from genetically modified Roundup-ready soybeans, which have a gene inserted in them that allows the crop to withstand otherwise lethal doses of the weed killer.</p>
<p>USA Today reported that consumers felt duped into believing that Kashi was all-natural when it&#8217;s not<sup>i</sup>. Their complaints were initially brushed off by Kashi general Manager David DeSouza, who told USA Today that since the FDA doesn&#8217;t regulate the term &#8220;natural,&#8221; the cereal maker has done nothing wrong by defining &#8220;natural&#8221; as minimally-processed with no artificial flavors, colors, preservatives or sweeteners.</p>
<p><strong>Were You Duped by Kashi&#8217;s Wholesome Brand Identity?</strong></p>
<p>People generally tend to believe that the word &#8220;natural&#8221; refers to foods grown &#8220;in a natural way,&#8221; which really amounts to organic farming methods, or close to it; sans harsh chemicals, and most definitely not something that has been genetically engineered. Unfortunately, that&#8217;s not what the &#8220;natural&#8221; label represents at all. In fact, the &#8220;natural&#8221; label is unregulated, and companies can define it as they please.</p>
<p>But most food manufacturers are well aware of this general misperception of what the label means, and frequently misuse it to lure health conscious consumers into spending more. This is known as &#8220;green-washing&#8221; and it certainly applies in this case.</p>
<p>Adding insult to injury, the company appears to have made a poor attempt to save face by <em>further misleading</em> consumers about the accuracy of the information that led the Rhode Island grocer to not carry the Kashi brand anymore.</p>
<p>The Cornucopia Institute released a report, Cereal Crimes, back in November of last year<sup><a name="_ednref2" href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/19/kellogs-kashi-brand-with-ge-soy.aspx?e_cid=20120519_DNL_art_1#_edn2"></a>ii</sup>, which details the presence of genetically engineered grains in a number of leading &#8220;natural&#8221; cereal brands, including Kellogg&#8217;s Kashi brand. Shockingly, many of the products tested were found to contain high amounts of <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/22/natural-breakfast-cereals-contain-pesticides-gmo.aspx">genetically engineered grains</a>—some, including Kashi, containing 100 percent genetically engineered grains!</p>
<p>The report also mentions a class action lawsuit filed against Kellogg/Kashi on August 31, 2011, &#8220;for allegedly misleading consumers with its &#8220;natural&#8221; claims. One Kashi® product in particular, GoLean® Shakes, is composed almost entirely of synthetic and unnaturally processed ingredients, according to the plaintiff.&#8221;</p>
<p>The report contrasts these findings with tests of certified organic cereal products, which by law are not allowed to contain any genetically engineered ingredients or synthetic pesticides. While some were found to be mildly contaminated with genetically engineered ingredients, overall, the report highlights the fact that the ONLY way to ensure you&#8217;re not buying a genetically engineered product is to buy a product bearing the USDA 100% Organic label.</p>
<p><strong>When Greenwashing Attempts Finally Backfire&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Once the grocer&#8217;s sign went viral and angry consumers began overloading the Kashi telephone lines, the company switched to a recorded message stating they were temporarily unable to accept calls. Then, according to an April 26 report by Cornucopia Institute<sup>iii</sup>:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;When the company again began accepting calls, a Kashi consumer affairs employee, Rick Duran, told a Cornucopia staff member that &#8220;no actual testing&#8221; of their cereal products had been performed. This mimicked the analysis also offered in a response by the company in an online video posted that same afternoon on the Kashi Facebook page. The video spokesperson called Cornucopia&#8217;s information &#8220;scientifically inaccurate and misleading because it was not based on actual testing of Kashi products.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/19/kellogs-kashi-brand-with-ge-soy.aspx" target="_blank"><strong>Read Entire Article HERE</strong></a></p>
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		<title>14 Sad Facts About How Americans Are Ridiculously Overworked</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the recession and mass layoffs, Americans are working harder than ever to keep their jobs. American worker productivity has increased 60 percent in the<br /><br /><a href="http://truthisscary.com/2012/05/14-sad-facts-about-how-americans-are-ridiculously-overworked/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since the recession and mass layoffs, Americans are working harder than ever to keep their jobs.</p>
<p>American worker productivity has <a href="http://visual.ly/overworked-american">increased 60 percent</a> in the past 20 years. Wages have stagnated. That means workers are doing much more for less.</p>
<p>All the extra hours and responsibilities are leading to health consequences: both physical and psychological. Chronic illnesses and obesity are on the rise.</p>
<p>Here are some crazy facts that show the toll work is taking on Americans.</p>
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<li>39 percent of people work more than a typical workweek (40 hours)</li>
<li>The average American gets 90 minutes less sleep than they should, and the number of sleep disorders has skyrocketed in recent years</li>
<li>Americans are literally working themselves to death — as job stress contributes to heart disease, hypertension, gastric problems, depression, exhaustion, and a variety of other ailments</li>
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<div><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/americans-are-overworked-2012-5#" target="_blank"><strong>Read Entire Article HERE</strong></a></div>
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		<title>Agenda 21: Is The U.S. On The Verge Of &#8220;Takeover&#8221;?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Businessinsider NDAA&#8217;s indefinite detention provisions have been temporarily blocked by a federal judge in New York. (See David&#8217;s interview yesterday on RT about the ruling<br /><br /><a href="http://truthisscary.com/2012/05/agenda-21-is-the-u-s-on-the-verge-of-takeover/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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<p>NDAA&#8217;s indefinite detention provisions have been temporarily blocked by a federal judge in New York. <em>(See David&#8217;s interview yesterday on RT about the ruling below.)</em></p>
<p>But just as quickly as one unconstitutional weed has been pulled from the garden by a loose alliance of Tea Party activists, Occupiers, and civil liberties-minded journalists, something even weirder has emerged: Agenda 21.</p>
<p><strong>Do you know about this one? We&#8217;re about to venture into <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/glenn-beck">Glenn Beck</a> / Alex Jones / late-night radio territory, so buckle your seatbelts.</strong> Folks like Jones and Beck have gained tremendous credibility in the wake of the NDAA and &#8220;anti-protest law&#8221; H.R. 347, and in the wake of news that the U.S. government is, indeed, constructing a <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1" target="_blank">$2 billion data center</a> in the Utah desert to log and <a id="itxthook0" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/agenda-21-is-the-us-on-the-verge-of-takeover-2012-5#" rel="nofollow">analyze</a> Americans&#8217; phone calls and emails.</p>
<p>Agenda 21 is described by <em>The Huffington Post</em> as the U.N.&#8217;s &#8220;program of recommended <a id="itxthook1" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/agenda-21-is-the-us-on-the-verge-of-takeover-2012-5#" rel="nofollow">sustainability</a> measures adopted in 1992.&#8221;</p>
<p>In recent days, Republican-led lawmakers in both Kansas and New Hampshire have <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/un-agenda-21-new-hampshire-ban_n_1524285.html" target="_blank">advanced measures</a> to block Agenda 21&#8242;s execution.</p>
<p>How scary is Agenda 21? Well, you can read it for yourself <a href="http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a> on the U.N. web site &#8212; that&#8217;s the Agenda 21 &#8220;RIO DECLARATION ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT&#8221; from June 1992.</p>
<p>Despite being an old document, the U.N. <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/" target="_blank">claims</a> that &#8220;the <strong>full implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Commitments to the Rio principles, were strongly reaffirmed</strong> at the World Summit on <a id="itxthook2" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/agenda-21-is-the-us-on-the-verge-of-takeover-2012-5#" rel="nofollow">Sustainable</a> Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 26 August to 4 September 2002.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my take: at first the document reads like something out of a high school student government assembly&#8230; It&#8217;s extraordinarily vague and idealistic. Keep in mind, the recent issue with NDAA&#8217;s indefinite detention provisions, and with cybersecurity bill CISPA, stemmed from the vague language within those bills.</p>
<p>It starts to get creepy further down, however. &#8220;Women have a vital role in environmental management and development. Their full participation is therefore essential to achieve sustainable development,&#8221; the document affirms under Principle 20.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/agenda-21-is-the-us-on-the-verge-of-takeover-2012-5" target="_blank"><strong>Read Entire Article HERE</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Video: Google’s New Search Tool to Use CIA and World Bank as Sources for ‘Facts’</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Blair/TruthTheory Google is making a big change to how it displays results in its dominant search engine.  It is rolling out a new feature called the<br /><br /><a href="http://truthisscary.com/2012/05/video-googles-new-search-tool-to-use-cia-and-world-bank-as-sources-for-facts/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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<p>Google is making a big change to how it displays results in its dominant search engine.  It is rolling out a <a href="http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html">new feature</a> called the Knowledge Graph which breaks from the traditional practice of matching keywords with webpages.</p>
<p>According to an article on <a href="http://www.blogtips.com/">Blog Tips</a> about <a href="http://www.blogtips.com/2012/05/google-knowledge-graph-search-tool.html">Google’s Knowledge Graph</a>, immediate answers or “facts” from pre-selected sources like the CIA Factbook, Wikipedia, and the World Bank will be provided in search results along side the organic results:</p>
<p>Instead of using the typical search strength of a particular answer, this new feature will draw ‘facts’ from places like Wikipedia for historical information, CIA World Factbook for geopolitical answers, the World Bank for economic facts, Freebase for information about people and other predetermined sources.</p>
<p>This move by Google seems eerily similar to Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in that search results, or “answers and facts”, will no longer be gathered based on the algorithmic popularity of content, but rather selected by Google.</p>
<p>Sure, most would argue that Wikipedia does a pretty good job through its open-source format to nail down basic facts.  However, the CIA and the World Bank are organizations with agendas sometimes counter to the truth, and making them the authority on facts gives them tremendous power to shape public knowledge.</p>
<p>Google also explains how it will collect data on you using the Knowledge Graph:</p>
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		<title>When Global Corporations Sue Governments, Guess Who Usually Wins</title>
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<p>In a world turned upside down, when governments forbid companies from dumping toxic waste or warn their citizens of the dangers of tobacco, large multinational corporations sue them in secret courts, where unelected judges, acting without juries, usually force the governments to cease their efforts and pay large fines to the corporations. It sounds like the voiceover for the trailer of a dystopian science fiction movie. But this is not fiction, science or otherwise; this is the reality of International Law in the early 21st century.</p>
<div>According to a recent report released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (<a href="http://unctad.org/en/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">UNCTAD</a>), at the end of 2011 there were at least 450 active lawsuits brought against governments by companies invoking clauses in bilateral investment treaties (BITs). These are only the known cases; most are kept secret. BITs are treaties that establish the conditions for investment by companies of one country in another nation, and were often forced upon small countries by large countries at the behest of corporations seeking to avoid regulations wherever they do business.</div>
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<div>Although BITs have been around for years, it was only after the turn of the century that corporations started ramping up their use of them to frustrate regulations they don’t like. In 1999, the total number of known BIT suits exceeded 100 for the first time, and has steadily increased since, usually to the detriment of the nations being sued. Last year, for example, <a href="http://www.allgov.com/nation/Ecuador" target="_blank">Ecuador</a> was forced to pay fines of $78 million to U.S. oil company Chevron, which claimed the country’s efforts to protect the Amazon from pollution have negatively affected business.</div>
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<div>Overall in 2011, corporations won 40% of the cases decided, with countries winning 30% of the time, and 30% resulting in settlements. Given the corporations’ rate of success, and the fact that only they may sue under the BITs, while countries may not, it is likely that those settlements were highly favorable to the multinationals.</div>
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		<title>Vatican Slams New Book of Leaked Documents as ‘Criminal’</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[RT The Vatican is threatening to take legal action against those responsible for publishing a new book of leaked internal documents. The book sheds light<br /><br /><a href="http://truthisscary.com/2012/05/vatican-slams-new-book-of-leaked-documents-as-criminal/">Continue Reading </a> &#187;]]></description>
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<p>The Vatican is threatening to take legal action against those responsible for publishing a new book of leaked internal documents. The book sheds light on power struggles and corruption inside the Holy See and the thinking of its embattled top banker.</p>
<p>Pope Benedict XVI has already appointed a commission of cardinals to investigate the “Vatileaks” scandal. It erupted earlier this year with the publication of leaked memos alleging corruption and mismanagement in Holy See affairs and internal squabbles over its efforts to comply with international anti-money-laundering norms.</p>
<p>The publication Saturday of “His Holiness” by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, added fuel to the fire, reproducing confidential letters and memos to and from Pope Benedict and his personal secretary which, according to the Vatican, violated the pope&#8217;s right to privacy.</p>
<p>Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement Saturday the book was an <em>“objectively defamatory”</em> work that <em>“clearly assumes characters of a criminal act.”</em> He warned the Holy See would get to the bottom of who “stole” the documents, who received them and who published them. He warned the Holy See would seek international cooperation in its quest for justice, presumably with Italian magistrates.</p>
<p>The Vatican had already warned of legal action against Nuzzi after he published letters in January from the former second-highest Vatican administrator to the pope. In those letters the administrator begged not to be transferred for having exposed alleged corruption that cost the Holy See millions of euros in higher contract prices. The prelate, Monsignor Carlo Maria Vigano, is now the Vatican&#8217;s US ambassador.</p>
<p>Nuzzi, author of Vatican SpA, a 2009 volume laying out shady dealings of the Vatican Bank based on leaked documents, said he was approached by sources inside the Vatican with the trove of new documents. Most of them are of fairly recent vintage and many of them painting the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in a negative light.</p>
<p>Much of the documentation is fairly Italy-centric: about a 2009 scandal over the ex-editor of the newspaper of the Italian bishops&#8217; conference, a previously-unknown dinner between Benedict and Italy&#8217;s president, and even a 2011 letter from Italy&#8217;s pre-eminent talk show host Bruno Vespa to the pope enclosing a check for 10,000 euro for his charity work and asking for a private audience in exchange.</p>
<p>But there are international leaks as well, including diplomatic cables from Vatican embassies from Jerusalem to Cameroon. Some concern the conclusions of the pope&#8217;s delegate to the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order. In a memo sent to the pope last autumn he warned that the financial situation of the order, beset by a scandal over its pedophile founder, <em>“while not grave, is serious and pressing.”</em></p>
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