China: A Jesuit MasterPlan [For Centuries] As Controlers Of The NWO

If there is but one clip [from a series] that explains power today its this one, all others pale by comparison. China has long been mentored by The Jesuit Order and owes much to its elevated success today. Plans for China vs the world, started as long back as the 15Cen believe it or not. All is in the historical record and can be retreived to study. I have long been watching the emergence of this order and the Society of Jesus for decades now, China is to become the last instrument this order will use for its final push to a successful world order, it is key.

Watch the new POPE: A Jesuit through and through and proud of it!!!

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?

On 2008, Father Adolfo Nicolás, a Spanish priest and missionary to Asia, was elected the new Superior General of the Jesuits.

A TIME article notes that Nicolás, also known as the “Black Pope,” holds a “lifetime posting” that “has sway over a network of priests, universities, hospitals and other missionary institutions around the globe.”ⁱ TIME also states that “...the rest of the Church never allowed a Jesuit to be elected to the real papacy for fear of concentrating too much power in the hands of the order.”ⁱⁱ

What TIME doesn’t mention is the incredible global power that the Jesuits already hold. According to historian Dave Hunt, “The Pope has thousands of secret agents worldwide. They include Jesuits, the Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta, Opus Dei, and others.” Jesuits aim at universal dominion. They have rendered themselves indispensable to the Pope and to U.S. governors. They hold revolutions in their hands, and, as it was written by Luigi Descantis in 1865, “it is they who rule the world.”ⁱⁱⁱ

Given the Jesuits’ dominion, how powerful is their Superior General? In 1720, Michael Angelo Tamburini, then General of the Jesuits, said to the Duke of Brancas,  

“See, my lord, from this room—from this room I govern not

 only Paris, but China: not only China, but the whole world, 

without any one knowing how ‘tis managed.”^iv

A conversation with Father Nicolás shows him open, humble, self-effacing, and approachable.^v However, being a nice guy isn’t the equivalent of being a Christian. Jesus says that not everyone who says “Lord, Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 7:21).

Half the homes in the city's Buchanan Gardens have been snapped up already

NEARLY half the homes in a new city centre development have been snapped up in just 10 days, months before the building work is completed.

Rachel Loxton
 Reporter

Friday 26/07/2013

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A total of 24 flats in the 49-home Buchanan Gardens development in the centre of Glasgow have been reserved by house buyers.

The show homes do not open until Monday, but eager would-be buyers who joined the development's Club Q were given access two weeks prior to the development going public.

Prices start at £149,995 for a one-bed flat, while the most expensive, three bedrooms properties cost from £295,000 upwards.

The Evening Times was given an exclusive viewing of the site, including its roof garden, which is part of the £70million Buchanan Quarter development.

As we have previously reported, the homes attracted "unprecedented" interest from across the globe, with people making enquiries from as far afield as India, China and Canada.

So far more than 1300 people, including some famous Scots, have registered an interest in buying properties.

On July 12, the day before the pre-launch, more than 40 people queued outside the marketing offices in Bath Street overnight.

One man was so set on securing his dream home that he was in line at 7pm – 16 hours before the doors opened for business.

The first residents are expected to move in this winter.

Jan Eldridge, sales and marketing manager for the developer, Land Securities, said: "I've been in this business for more than 30 years and I've seen it go through ups and downs.

"And it really has been a very long time since I've seen such a popular development.

"We have had customers reserve 24 properties in the space of 10 days. The anticipation from people has been unprecedented,

"It's very exciting for us and we are very pleased."

Ms Eldridge said she believed the flats were so popular because of their location – atop the Buchanan Quarter retail development – as well as the build quality.

AND she explained: "We had queues of people waiting overnight to see the flats before we opened."

"For Land Securities it's always about location and I think you can't get a better location to live in than these apartments.

"It is close to nightlife, to shops and restaurants and to business.

"But there's also the Sky Garden, which is peaceful and will help create a community for the residents."

Ms Eldridge also said that the development was important for Glasgow.

She said: "The regeneration that has gone on in this part of the city has transformed the area.

"I think anyone would agree that it needed a bit of a facelift.

"I think it's a very important development to the city, as much as it is for Land Securities."

During the tour we were shown the roof garden, a large green space which will eventually feature an apple orchard, a central mulberry tree and bird boxes.

The two showhomes, which each have two bedrooms, have been designed by John Lewis and Bo Concept.

They are immaculate and bosses said the designs represented the standard throughout every property.

One of the key features of the homes is storage space, which is unusual to find in city centre flats.

Calum Miller, of Savills, which is marketing the flats, said: "The quality is extremely high on every single one of the apartments.

"I don't think there is anywhere like this in Glasgow of this quality.

"They have been designed to have storage and each flat will have a personal locker in the communal area for other items."

Demolition began at the site in February 2011 and the shop units in the development, which include fashion stores Forever 21 and Gap, opened in March this year.

Most of the properties have terraces and balconies, while a communal gym is also available to residents.

Mr Miller added: "I think it is an accessible development for people of all ages, including first time buyers.

"We've seen all kinds of different people. On the first day there were more than 100 sets of people here to view them.

"We're expecting a surge of people when it opens to the public."

rachel.loxton@eveningtimes.co.uk

China’s Buyers in a New York State of Mind

Juwai

A screenshot shows some of the New York real estate listings targeting Chinese buyers on Juwai.

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The American dream is alive and well among China’s property buyers.

The U.S. ranks tops among mainland Chinese looking to buy homes outside their country, with New York being the most popular city, according to a survey of searches on Chinese-language property portal website Juwai.

The site, which posts sales listings for homes from 53 countries, also said that owning real estate abroad is becoming increasingly a middle-class affair. Previously, Chinese buyers were more likely to be wealthy families seeking pricey a pied-à-terre in America’s toniest neighborhoods, but today, the ranks of the upper-middle-class are swelling as they seek homes for investment, the company said.

“There’s just a bigger appetite for the U.S., and New York in particular,” said Andrew Taylor, a founder and co-chief executive of Juwai in Hong Kong.

“And what’s changing is that they’re now looking for lower-priced properties instead of just searching for the ultra-luxury homes. People are looking for yield, and they want to diversify out of China. It’s not just the wealthy who are buying: The upper-middle-class are searching for properties under US$1.1 million and the real sweet spot is under US$750,000.”

Juwai launched in 2011 and lists 2.4 million properties. It helps real estate agents translate their listings into Chinese and posts them on the site for a flat advertising fee. It also hosts a call centre to field inquiries from prospective buyers who can access the site and use the service for free.

The U.S. was an overwhelming favorite destination to buy, garnering more than triple the searches than second-place Australia. The U.K., Singapore and Canada made up the rest of the top five.

Within the U.S., New York was the most-searched city for Chinese real estate buyers, followed by four Californian cities to round out the top five — San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles and Orange County.

Realtors on the U.S. west coast also noted the ranks of the Chinese upper-middle-class buyers are growing.

“It started with the trophy homes and the big properties, but increasingly, the spectrum of buying has broadened,” said Joel Goodrich, an agent in San Francisco with Coldwell Banker who estimates about 15% of the deals he does involves mainland Chinese buyers. “A trend we’re seeing is more and more buying high-rise units with all cash and renting it out for a 3% to 4% return. They’re also looking beyond the typical Chinese neighborhoods to homes in places like Silicon Valley.”

Juwai’s Mr. Taylor said he’s noted a sharp increase in recent months on the web site of lower net-worth Chinese buyers looking at cheaper European properties, seeking to pick up a house in a country that offers a resident visa in return for investment. Greece, Cyprus and Portugal have all launched programs to grant visas to those who purchase homes over a certain amount – as little as  €250,000, in the case of Greece.

Mr. Taylor also noted that Chinese buyers are adventurous and willing to buy in remote or lesser-known locations. A block of new apartment units in Sofia, Bulgaria were marketed and sold to Chinese investors on the site, he noted, adding that Chinese buyers made deals on houses in rural Australia and New Zealand.

Still, the U.S. remains the biggest draw, thanks in large part to pop culture. “Call it the Hollywood factor,” Mr. Taylor said. “So much of what Chinese people know of the U.S. is still from movies and television and that’s the image and lifestyle they want to buy.”

–Jason Chow. Follow him on Twitter @jjasonchow

China’s dark and dirty “Drug War

Pick of the week: China’s dark and dirty “Drug War”

Pick of the week: Hong Kong action legend Johnnie To visits the mainland for a violent, atmospheric crime thriller

BY ANDREW O'HEHIR 

Louis Koo in "Drug War"

I don’t know for sure whether the phrase “Drug War” carries the same dark ambivalence in Chinese as it does in English, but veteran Hong Kong director Johnnie To’s new film of that title certainly does. To has made more than 50 movies in many different genres, including romances and comedies, but remains closely identified with violent crime dramas, including the international hits “Election” and “Triad Election.” This is To’s first production in mainland China — the Hong Kong film industry remains autonomous, even 16 years after reunification – and the big budget and big social canvas have called forth one of his best movies, a dense and involving police procedural with a dash of the grotesque and a persistent undertone of doom.

When Hollywood gets around to the inevitable remake, a team of writers can certainly repurpose the central plot about the tense relationship between meth lord Timmy Choi (suave Hong Kong star Louis Koo, whose dialogue is dubbed into Mandarin) and Captain Zhang (Sun Honglei), an enterprising cop who uses Timmy to pry open an immense trafficking ring. Timmy is arrested, with burns all over his face and body, after crashing his car into a restaurant; a meth-lab explosion has killed his wife and her two brothers, and his life and business are in ruins. Under normal Chinese law, he’s subject to immediate trial and certain execution (with no waiting around for a Supreme Court appeal or anything), so he bargains with Zhang using the only currency he’s got, his deep knowledge of China’s drug trade and the respectable-seeming men who run it. It may be more than narrative coincidence, by the way, that the villains in “Drug War” are mainly supposed to be Hong Kong Chinese, fatally tainted by colonial-era capitalism (as opposed to the nationalistic new variety).

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As played by the terrific Sun, Zhang comes off at first as a rigorous, by-the-book cop, who sees an opportunity in Timmy but knows better than to trust him. Eventually, Zhang lures himself into a gambit that’s both daring and dangerous: Since the buyer and seller in this deal have never met, he impersonates both of them. When the buyer – a giggly, sinister fellow known as “Haha” – is in town, he’s the stone-faced seller, and when the real seller shows up, Zhang becomes Haha. (To prove his authenticity, Zhang-as-Haha has to do three stiff rails of the seller’s cocaine, presumably the first time he’s ever gotten high.) This allows Sun to show off the flexibility that makes him one of the Chinese film industry’s best actors, but more to the point we gradually see Zhang becoming an actor too, one so seduced by his roles that he loses control of the situation.

No American remake is likely to duplicate To’s relentless forward momentum or his refusal to waste time on the jokey character byplay Hollywood audiences are used to. Maybe it can simulate this movie’s noirish blend of stoicism and fatalism – qualities arguably borrowed from classic American crime cinema in the first place – but there’s no way in hell it will end on the same chord of cataclysmic, even nihilistic violence To strikes in “Drug War.” All this daring and initiative and skullduggery, on the part of cops and criminals alike, leads to the same destination. In fact, “Drug War” comes about as close to social criticism as a mainstream Chinese filmmaker can go in the contemporary climate, engaging issues like the death penalty (routinely handed out to mid-level drug dealers), police misconduct and official corruption. Some critics who follow the Chinese film world have even suggested that To took this assignment partly to see how much he could get away with. He gets a wider berth than others might, I’m guessing, partly because he’s a big name from Hong Kong, and partly because he’s making a thriller and disavows any specific political agenda.

Which brings us to the biggest thing the Hollywood remake of “Drug War” won’t have: China. To and his longtime cinematographer, Cheng Siu-keung, set free from the vertical and constricted landscape of Hong Kong, have embraced both the enormous physical scale of the mainland and its ruthless economic dynamism. In between the shootouts and tense surveillance scenes, “Drug War” is also a road movie with a social-realist streak. We follow Zhang and his detectives from city to city on high-speed rail, witness a police sting operation staged at a turnpike tollgate, trail a pair of crackhead truck drivers to an impromptu roadside café in the middle of nowhere, and visit a privately owned port where a fleet of ships stands ready to transport dope of all varieties to Korea, Japan and beyond. Then there’s Timmy Choi’s meth-cooking lab in a distant provincial city, provided over by a pair of sweet-faced deaf brothers who turn out to be deadly in a gunfight. (There’s nothing especially Chinese about that, but To’s longtime fans will appreciate finding a few bizarre, gothic details amid this largely businesslike film.)

If the “good guys” win at the end of “Drug War,” they do so only in the most nominal and technical sense. I’m actually a little surprised that To got away with the climactic gunfight and the wrenching final scene (don’t worry, I’m not telling), both of which depict things rarely or never seen on screen in mainland Chinese films. At least as To and his collaborators tell the story in this terrifically atmospheric thriller, China’s drug war has yielded much the same lessons as America’s: If the drug trade is evil, the attempt to stop it is arrogant, wasteful and doomed. Everybody loses, and the whole society is cheapened and corrupted.

“Drug War” is now playing at the IFC Center in New York. It opens Aug. 2 at theSundance Sunset Cinema in Los Angeles; Aug. 9 in Chicago, Montreal, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; Aug. 16 in Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Portland, Ore.; and Aug. 23 in Minneapolis and Austin, Texas, with more cities and home video to follow.

Black Money in Vancouver from China

Canada Loses Luster as Destination for Corrupt Chinese Cash

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Canada may soon become a harder place to park illicit cash.

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Chinese fugitives who touched down in Vancouver or Toronto with suitcases of illicit cash might find it harder to keep their fortunes.

Canada became the first country to reach a deal with China to share forfeited assets in an effort to target international organized crime, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Once the pact is signed, one country will be able to get money back if a fugitive transfers illegal assets to the other, according to Xinhua.

“Canada is not, and will not be seen as, a safe haven for the proceeds of crime,” said Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird in a news release about the pact.

Canada is one of the top destinations forChinese high-ranking corrupt officials, according to a report published by China’s central bank in 2011. Up to 18,000 corrupt officials and employees of state-owned enterprises have fled with more than $123 billion from mid-1990s, according to the report.

Many in the Chinese public regard Canada as a haven for corrupt officials. A number of high-profile criminals with millions in assets fled there, including Lai Changxing, who Chinese officials considered the primary suspect in a multibillion-dollar smuggling operation, and Gao Shan, former president of a Bank of China branch in northern city of Harbin accused by Chinese officials of fraud.

Legal or illegal, Chinese love to park their wealth in Canada, sometimes flying there with suitcases full of cash. According to documents provided to The Wall Street Journal by the Canada Border Services Agency Officials, Toronto and Vancouver airports seized around $13 million in undeclared cash from Chinese nationals from April 2011 through early June 2012.

Part of the reason that Canada has been a hiding place for Chinese economic criminals is that the North American country doesn’t have an extradition treaty with China. Canada doesn’t support the death penalty, which China is often accused of abusing. Many countries with diplomatic relations with China haven’t signed extradition treaties with the country due to distrust to China’s legal system, including the U.S.

Still, many indicted criminals, including Messrs. Lai and Gao, have come back to China – Mr. Lai was deported and Chinese media has said Mr. Gao turned himself in. According to the official Xinhua News Agency, prolonged legal battles and financial sources have been critical issues for fugitives. Draining their financial resources could limit their ability to live abroad.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Canada’s Mr. Baird said the agreement “will hopefully facilitate people not being able to take the proceeds for their crime into Canada and somehow feel immune from state action.”

Roughly $2.83 trillion illicitly flowed out of China from 2005 to 2011, according to research conducted by the organization Global Financial Integrity.

The amount partly explains why China has stepped up its effort to chase the corrupt officials and the assets in recent years. Chinese government has signed extradition treaties with Spain, Portugal, Italy, Australia and France among other developed countries where wealthy criminals usually choose as hiding places. To get the fugitives back to Chinese courts, China has promised not to execute the criminals in many cases.

China does not have an asset sharing pact with the United States, but was a recipient of shared asset from the U.S. according to the State Department.

–Xiaoqing Pi and Brian Spegele

phallic headquarters

China's People's Daily newspaper mocked over its new, phallic headquarters

Unamused Chinese censors have been at work to stop people sniggering over the new Beijing headquarters of the People's Daily newspaper, which bears an unfortunate resemblance to part of the male anatomy.

The People's Daily office building Photo: REX FEATURES

Agence France-Presse in Beijing

9:53AM BST 03 May 2013

Photos of the imposing tower, which is still under construction, had Internet users tittering away, especially given one of Beijing's other landmarks - the China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters, nicknamed "The Big Underpants".

Some comments about the new home for the Communist Party paper managed to sneak through. "Of course the national mouthpiece should be imposing," said one user of Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter.

"It seems the People's Daily is going to rise up, there's hope for the Chinese dream," said another, referring to a political slogan that has been used in recent months to encourage national pride and rejuvenation.

But a search on Sina Weibo for "People's Daily" and "building" resulted in the message usually shown when keywords have been blocked: "In accordance with relevant laws, regulations and policies, search results cannot be displayed.

Horrific murder

Horrific murder prompts China to issue warning about Canada

June 5, 2012. 3:30 pm • Section: B.C. Education Report, STAFF

Posted by: 
Janet Steffenhagen

China has issued a warning about Canada following the murder and dismemberment of Lin Jun, a Chinese student who was attending Concordia University in Montreal.

“The Chinese Embassy in Canada reminds Chinese citizens travelling to Canada, as well as students and the staff of Chinese organizations in Canada, to improve their self-protection [and] awareness, and to strengthen their personal security,” the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa said in a statement, as reported by the Globe and Mail.The warning, written in Chinese only, has encouraged a debate in China about whether Canada is a safe place for students and tourists, the newspaper says.

It is the second murder of a Chinese student in 12 months, the article says, noting the slaying in April 2011 of York University students Liu Qian.

Leaving aside the horror of the crimes allegedly committed by Luka Rocco Magnotta, this warning about Canada will undoubtedly create worries for K-12 and post-secondary schools that are trying to attract Chinese students to their international students program.

James Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, suggested China has reached the wrong conclusion about Canada. “I think it’s a bit of an over-reaction,” he told Bill Good during an interview on CKNW. But he had other concerns about Canada’s efforts to attract more fee-paying international students. “Canada is one of the richer countries in the world,” he said. “There is something fundamentally wrong with trying to strip less-developed countries of their best and brightest.

“We’re encouraging a kind of brain drain that doesn’t help other countries.”

This is the second time in recent years that China has issued a warning affecting Canada. The last time was after a Vancouver Sun investigation in 2006 found that Kingston College in Vancouver was scamming international students. The college was eventually ordered closed, as was its sister institution Lansbridge University.

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