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Dec. 13, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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The Reality of Child Trafficking Rings

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	Before I start this video, I just want to apologise that my PC has died and I'm back on my five-year-old laptop that I had when I started up my Patreon.
	If you can hear a low background humming noise, that's what that is.
	I apologise, and because of Christmas, I don't think I'm going to be able to get a new computer until the next I have been asked many times why I haven't spoken about Pizzagate, and the answer is very simple.
	There is no proof.
	I can't make a video about Pizzagate, because it would just be conjecture based on circumstantial evidence.
	Because as of the time of my recording this video, there is no hard evidence to connect any of these people to ritualistic child abuse.
	Given the gravity of child sex abuse allegations, I think it is irresponsible to make allegations based on conjecture and circumstantial evidence.
	I've been following the Pizzagate investigations on Reddit and on YouTube, and I think that there is definitely a case of echo chamber mentality occurring there.
	People are talking themselves up into a frenzy over things that are not proven.
	In fact, they don't even seem to have been alleged by any victims themselves who claim to have been abused by any of these people.
	So I'm afraid until there is some hard evidence, or even just a victim alleging that they were the victim of this, we have to treat this as if it is not true.
	In the rest of this video, I will be addressing those people who, because there is no hard evidence to prove that Pizzagate is a real thing that is happening, think therefore it must be a ridiculous thing.
	A thing so absurd that the people who are alleging this might be something and want an investigation are simply tinfoil hats conspiracy theorists who have no legitimate cause for concern.
	You are wrong.
	But worse than that, you are contributing to a culture of silence by suggesting that this is outside of the bounds of reasonable thought.
	That the very idea that people in high places would abuse their power by molesting children is a reality.
	And I am going to categorically prove this to you throughout the course of this video.
	And then I'm going to show you what that reality looks like for the victims.
	Last month, Norwegian police uncovered a massive paedophile ring, leading to the arrest of 51 men and the seizure of 150 terabytes of data, including photos, videos and chat transcripts.
	You might think, wow, 51 people, that is a huge number.
	No, that's actually a surprisingly small number.
	Last year, European police agency Europol uncovered a massive online paedophile ring, which led to the arrest of 184 people and the recovery of 230 abused children.
	An internet paedophile ring with up to 70,000 members, thought to be the world's largest, has been uncovered by police a security official said on Wednesday.
	The European police agency Europol said in a statement that Operation Rescue had identified 670 suspects and that 230 abused children in 30 countries had been taken to safety.
	More children are expected to be found.
	This was a colossal international child sex trafficking network.
	Unsurprisingly, these people met through the use of an internet forum and then would proceed to message each other and continue their activities that way.
	And the forum that this website was on was operated from a server based in the Netherlands.
	In 2004, Portugal was rocked by a child sex abuse scandal that is known as the Casapia scandal.
	It has already been billed as Portugal's trial of the century, a child abuse case involving a state-run orphanage, as well as TV personalities and diplomats that has horrified the nation.
	The Casapia affair, which has shaken the very foundations of the Portuguese state, finally goes to trial on Thursday.
	Former presidents have been accused of turning a blind eye to complaints about systematic abuse over more than a decade.
	As a result of this investigation and trial, five men were convicted and jailed of the abuse of over 100 boys and girls from this orphanage.
	This was one of the longest running trials in Portuguese history, and it started when few of the victims came forward and alleged that there was a sex trafficking operation operating from within these orphanages, and alleging that there were politicians, diplomats, and media personalities who were involved in a paedophile ring and actively covered this up to protect themselves.
	It should come as no surprise that authorities investigating the disappearance of Madeline McCann believe that she may have been snatched by a paedophile ring to order.
	According to an email sent by the Metropolitan Police, a child abduction ring based in Belgium placed an order for a young girl.
	Three-year-old Madeline was spotted while on holiday in Portugal by someone connected to the gang who took a picture of her.
	The photograph was sent back to Belgium where the paedophile ring agreed that she should be abducted.
	Met Officer John Shaud wrote the email to Leicestershire Police on March 4th which was passed to Operation Task, the British end of the investigation.
	It said, Intelligence suggests that a pedophile ring in Belgium made an order for a young girl three days before Madeline McCann was taken.
	Someone connected to the group saw Maddie, took a photograph of her and sent it to Belgium.
	The purchaser agreed that the girl was suitable and Maddie was taken.
	Belgium has long had problems with child sex trafficking rings being ignored, as this article all the way back in 2002 will show us.
	A Belgium television station has broadcast a clandestine interview with the paedophile murder suspect Mark Dutroy, who is awaiting trial on charges of abducting, raping and killing four girls.
	He was arrested in 1996 in a case which rocked the nation.
	Two of the children he abducted starved to death in makeshift dungeons under his house.
	He also said that he had been part of a wider paedophile network, but said the justice system did not want to pursue it.
	There is a well-grounded paedophile ring, he said.
	I maintained regular contact with people in this ring.
	However, the law does not want to investigate this lead.
	The BBC's correspondent in Brussels said that the interview was bound to fuel conspiracy theories that the delay in bringing Dutreau to trial is because of a cover-up by members of the Belgian establishment allegedly linked to paedophile activities.
	Which is something that the BBC themselves have been accused of on multiple occasions.
	For example, by Jill Dando, the murdered television presenter who tried to alert her bosses to a paedophile ring at the BBC involving big name stars.
	The friend and retired BBC worker said the late CrimeWatch host was told DJs, celebrities and other staff were involved in organised abuse, but the anonymous source says no one wanted to know when Miss Dando raised concerns about the alleged ring and other sexual abuse claims at the BBC.
	She is said to have passed a file to senior management in the mid-1990s, but they never carried out an investigation.
	This is of course all old news in Britain, as the Jimmy Saville scandal has broke and prompted a flood of calls to abuse victims groups from people who claim to have been abused by him.
	Widespread allegations of sexual abuse against Sir Jimmy Saville, which Scotland Yard confirmed stretch back six decades, have seen victims groups swamped with pleas for help.
	The case has dredged up painful memories for the victims of child abuse who are also now coming forward in the hundreds to seek counselling.
	Pete Saunders, chief executive of the National Association for People Abuse in Childhood, said its hotline received 1,400 calls in the last 10 days, seven times the normal amount.
	Jimmy Saville had a long and distinguished career in broadcasting in Britain, and was a very popular figure in British media, until of course this scandal broke.
	And after this scandal broke, the floodgates opened.
	This scandal reached the very top of the BBC with major entertainment figures like Gary Glitter, Max Clifford, Rolf Harris and radio DJ Chris Denning being convicted of child sex offences over a period of 30 years.
	And as you can see as we go through the rest of this video, all of this is maintained by a conspiracy of silence by people who are afraid of the power of the people taking part in these activities.
	Only last month did the football industry receive its own pedophilia scandal of how football has been shaken to its core by tales of sexual abuse by monsters in track suits.
	Stories of historic sexual abuse and youth football have emerged this week.
	Former crew player Andy Woodward was the first to give his account.
	He spoke of his ordeal at the hands of paedophile Barry Bennel.
	This is not something that is isolated, and it's not something that's confined to Europe.
	In total, 1,400 child abuse suspects have been identified.
	Of the 1,433 suspects identified, 216 are now dead, and 261 are classified as people of public prominence, with 135 coming from TV, film or radio.
	Of the remainder, 76 suspects are politicians, 43 are from the music industry, and 7 come from the world of sport.
	A total of 666 claims relate to institutions with 357 separate institutions identified.
	Of these, 154 are schools, 75 are children's homes, and 40 are religious institutions.
	They also include 14 medical establishments, 11 community institutions, 9 prisons, 9 sports venues, and 28 other institutions, including military groups and guest houses.
	This is a widespread problem, and it reaches from the very bottom to the very top of our society.
	As I said, this is not an isolated problem.
	Almost every entertainment industry seems to have some variant on this story, especially when it comes to dealing with child stars.
	I was molested and passed around, says Corey Feldman, as he describes his ordeal at the hands of a Hollywood paedophile ring, and said Corey Haim was just 11 years old when he was first raped.
	In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Feldman discusses how he was repeatedly molested by adult males in the industry, saying these men would pass many young stars back and forth to each other.
	He also reveals that his closest friend Corey Haim was raped when he was just 11 by a producer, the start of a long cycle of sexual abuse that Feldman believes led to his friend's problems with drugs and alcohol in later life.
	Haym would struggle with drugs up until his death in 2010 at the age of 38, a death that Feldman blames on the men who abused the actor.
	I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia.
	That's the biggest problem for children in this industry.
	The casting couch even applies to children.
	Oh yeah.
	Not in the same way.
	It's all done under the radar.
	Nobody talks about pedophilia.
	It's the big secret.
	And it's widespread?
	Oh, yeah.
	I was surrounded by them when I was 14 years old.
	Surrounded.
	Literally.
	Didn't even know it.
	It wasn't until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted and what they were about and the types of people that were surrounding me until I went, oh my god, they were everywhere like vultures.
	I'm saying that there are people that were the people that did this to both me and Corey that are still working, they're still out there and they're some of the richest, most powerful people in this business.
	And they are.
	And they do not want me saying what I'm saying right now.
	Are you saying that they're pedophiles?
	Yes.
	And that they're still in this business?
	And that's what you were saying in your book.
	When you talk to parents.
	Corey.
	They're dead.
	And this isn't just one person saying this either.
	Elijah Wood has said something very similar.
	In an interview for the Sunday Times, he said that child actors are regularly preyed upon by vipers in Hollywood.
	He said, he never went to parties where that kind of thing was going on because his mother protected him from interacting with people who could take advantage of him.
	But he says, I have been led down dark paths to realize that these things are probably still happening.
	We are also aware that there are paedophile rings operating within Western governments.
	In Britain, ever since the 1980s, there have been a long trail of allegations that there is a paedophile ring at the heart of the British establishment.
	The claims are of a VIP Westminster paedophile ring operating from the heart of the establishment from the 1960s onwards and has led to allegations of a massive cover-up across Whitehall spanning decades, pressure on the police and prosecutors not to pursue cases and the apparent disappearance of key dossiers and files detailing claims of child abuse and alleged attackers.
	Now that these people are getting old and dying, the truth is emerging about the systematic sexual abuse by members of the British government and how that was covered up.
	In 1983, a controversial MP Jeffrey Dickens made a series of incendiary claims about active paedophiles in the corridors of power.
	He handed a file containing the names of alleged perpetrators to Leon Britton.
	Publicly, the authorities shrugged off the claims and no trial or prosecution would follow.
	The dossier mysteriously disappeared.
	A journalist who was investigating this dossier was confronted in his office by a furious member of parliament who threatened him and demanded the documents.
	He says he was frothing at the mouth, really shouting and spitting in my face.
	He was straight at me like a raging lion, ready to knock me through the wall.
	The editor's resistance was futile.
	The following morning, police officers from the counter-terror and intelligence unit known as the Special Branch burst into the newspaper office, seized the material, and threatened to have Hale arrested if he ever reported what had been found.
	Ex-Thatcher Minister Lord Tebbit said that this was probably a political cover-up of this child abuse to protect the system, as it emerged that 114 more documents were lost.
	Former Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Tebbit says he believes there may well have been a political cover-up over child abuse in the 1980s.
	Norman Tebbit, who served in a series of ministerial posts under Thatcher, said that the instinct of the people at the time was to protect the system and not delve too deeply into uncomfortable allegations.
	Naturally, the people involved with the system, even if they weren't involved with this kind of thing, wanted to maintain the status quo and prevent this kind of scandal from breaking out.
	The missing dossier was compiled by Dickens, is thought to have detailed allegations of 1980s Westminster paedophile ring and is now known to be one of the 114 potentially relevant Home Office files that were destroyed, lost or missing.
	It has emerged.
	This issue is still going on with the Home Office under fire over this lost dossier in 2014.
	The Home Office said that a 2013 review found the credible elements of the dossier which had realistic potential for further investigation were sent to police and prosecutors while other elements were either not retained or were destroyed.
	This had all the hallmarks of a cover-up and was so investigated in turn.
	One allegation is that an inquiry involving an operation targeting young men in Dolphin Square near Westminster was stopped because officers were too near prominent people.
	Another involves a document found at an address of a paedophile which originated from the houses of parliament and listed a number of highly prominent individuals, MPs and senior police officers, as being involved in a paedophile ring where no action was taken.
	And it will come as no surprise to you that nothing came of any of this.
	All of this just disappeared.
	The journalists involved in investigating this believe that there was a cover-up.
	Former Daily Mirror crime correspondent Jeff Edwards has recently been contacted by the police.
	He says he was told by a detective in the 1980s an investigation into paedophiles was closed on the orders of a senior politician.
	I think this was a cynical cover-up, he said.
	There was no doubt in their minds that the way that they could deal with this was to simply expunge it from the record.
	As far as they were concerned, they could make it go away forever.
	Britain is of course not the only country in which this has happened.
	Survivor of alleged elite paedophile ring, including former Prime Minister, speaks out.
	A woman claiming to be the victim of a VIP paedophile ring, which involved three former Prime Ministers, has alleged she was prostituted to paedophile parties at Parliament House in Canberra.
	Speaking to media in Sydney, Fiona Barnett detailed her alleged abuse by the alleged elite paedophile ring 40 years ago.
	The 45-year-old said that she was abused by the ring, which included high-ranking politicians, police, and members of the judiciary at the age of five, and claimed there were thousands of other victims.
	My experiences were horrific beyond words, she said, but the way I've been treated for reporting the crimes I witnessed and experienced has been far worse than my original abuse experiences.
	And yes, there have been Australians who have been jailed for their parts in paedophile rings.
	David Glenn Ketchin, a member of paedophile Shannon McCool's child exploitation website, was jailed for seven years and five months.
	McCool, a former government carer in South Australia, is serving a 35-year sentence for the sexual abuse of multiple children.
	One of the Adelaide members of this global website, Ketchin30, had previously pleaded guilty to possessing, accessing, and disseminating child exploitation material.
	The district court previously heard Ketchin use the name Kinder Surprise on the website and regularly disseminated child exploitation material according to the requirements of his VIP membership status.
	And yes, there are paedophiles who operate at the very upper echelons of political power in the United States.
	Billionaire hedge fund mogul Jeffrey Epstein became a free man five years after he was first accused of sexually abusing underage girls.
	After months of reporting, the Daily Beast reveals the exclusive details of the investigation and the legal wrangling that saved him from a long-term prison sentence.
	During Epstein's term of house arrest, he made several trips each month to his New York home and his private Caribbean island.
	In the earlier stage of his sentence for soliciting prostitution for a minor, 13 months with the Palm Beach Stockade, he was allowed out to his office each day.
	Meanwhile, Epstein had settled more than a dozen lawsuits brought by the underage girls who were recruited to perform massages at his Palm Beach mansion.
	Seven victims reached a last-minute deal this week, days before the scheduled trial.
	Each received well over a million dollars, an amount that will hardly dent Epstein's 2 billion net worth.
	The Palm Beach Police Department identified 17 local girls who had had contact with Epstein before the age of consent.
	The youngest was 14 and many were younger than 16.
	And that was just one of Epstein's many homes around the world.
	He also owned property in New York, Santa Fe, Paris, London and the Caribbean.
	The subsequent investigation by the FBI, reaching as far back as 2001, identified roughly 40 victims, whom not counting Nadia Marcinkova, whom Epstein referred to as his Yugoslavian sex slave because he had imported her from the Balkans at age 14.
	Now 24, she had become a member of the household and is alleged to have participated in the sexual contact with underage girls.
	There are some heavy allegations surrounding politicians and royalty who spend their time with a convicted paedophile.
	For the first time, Jeffrey Epstein's Island of Sin is seen, showing where teenage sex slaves were allegedly abused by the banker and some of the world's most powerful men.
	Brought in on the billionaire's private jets, nicknamed by locals as the Lolita Express, numerous girls were allegedly taken to his 78-acre Little St. James hideout in the US Virgin Islands.
	It is claimed that they were made to take part in depraved orgies.
	The island is where Epstein's alleged sex slave Virginia Roberts claimed he made her take part in orgies, including one where she alleged the Duke of York was there for.
	Virginia claimed she and other girls were ordered by the banker to assemble at the Kamana by the pool.
	According to flight logs, Prince Andrew paid at least one visit aboard Epstein's private jet to the island, although former staff claimed he frequented Little St. James several times.
	Court papers claimed visitors included prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister and other world leaders.
	The flight logs also show that Bill Clinton went to Jeffrey Epstein's island fucking frequently.
	The flight logs show that he went there 26 times in three years.
	The most powerful people in the world are doing this with impunity because nobody has the power to stop them.
	And when they are, like Epstein, finally brought to trial, he simply pays off the victims and escapes the sentencing.
	But as I said, this stretches from the very top right down to the very bottom of society.
	As this 2005 article on the BBC will show us about child abuse sex gangs in France.
	France has been shocked by the scale of abuse revealed at the Angers paedophile trial, where 65 adults were accused of sexually abusing 45 children.
	The abused were aged from 6 months to 14 years, and some of them were prostituted and raped by their own parents and grandparents in a poor district of the town in western France.
	The accused were mostly from deprived backgrounds, and many of them were unemployed and had learning difficulties.
	Some were illiterate and appeared not to fully understand the charges they faced.
	A number said that they themselves had been sexually abused when they were children.
	Everything we've seen so far has been words and numbers regarding these pedophile rings.
	We haven't taken a look at the damage they do to the victims of their activities.
	And that's what we're going to look at now, and I have to warn you in advance, this is not going to be pretty.
	And I'm not going to pull any punches.
	In their ceaseless search for new victims to present to the world, the Progressive Press did a round of articles on a woman called Kim Noble, the woman with a hundred personalities.
	Kim 50 has disassociative identity disorder, DID.
	She is, in effect, scores of different people, the exact number is uncertain, wrapped up in one body.
	These personalities are all quite distinct with their own names, ages, and quirks of temperament.
	Some are children and some are male.
	Kim was born in 1960.
	Her parents, stuck in an unhappy marriage, were factory workers and the care of their daughter was farmed out to friends and local acquaintances.
	The details of what happened are hazy, but it seems from an early age, somewhere between one and three, Kim suffered extreme and repeated abuse.
	At this point, her mind, traumatised beyond endurance, shattered into fragments, forming myriad separate identities.
	The brakes were clean, most of the principal personalities had no memories of abuse and no flashbacks.
	Thus, she was protected from what had happened.
	In her late 20s came a period of relative stability.
	With the immensely capable Haley personality predominant during the work hours, Kim was able to hold down a job as a van driver for five years, but one day something must have caused a switch, and a disturbed personality called Julie suddenly found herself driving the van.
	She plowed straight into a line of parked cars.
	This led to another mental health section and a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
	Eventually, Kim re-emerged from the hospital, and her story took another dramatic twist.
	She somehow found herself exposed to the activities of a paedophile ring.
	In the book, we are told that when she reported it to the police, she received anonymous warnings to be quiet.
	Threats of retaliation escalated until one day, a man threw acid in her face, and someone tried to set light to her bed with her in it.
	Kim got out, but the house was gutted.
	Under one of her personalities as Patricia, she began art therapy in 2004, and more than a dozen personalities have started to paint regularly and prolifically.
	The styles, palettes, and skill levels vary enormously.
	Some paintings are abstract, others are more representational.
	The paintings of Rhea Pratt, a very disturbed personality, are naive little cameos with whips and cages and wispy stick figures, with the children being raped or abused, painted in lighter colours.
	And it's the paintings of her alter ego Rhea Pratt that we're going to take a look at now, because I suspect that these paintings directly represent things she personally witnessed or had done to her.
	And this is the human cost of these paedophile rings.
	This is a picture of a child who has been chained to the wall, and in the top right of the picture is her disassociated self.
	You can see that the physical body of the child being chained to the wall is entirely opaque, whereas in the top right, I think what's being displayed is the disassociated personality of the child, which is translucent and floating away from the body.
	This is a motif that features throughout the artwork of Rhea Pratt, and you'll also see there is backwards writing on the walls that is always some version of help us or kill us.
	There are many pictures like this of presumably her and many other children who are either just standing in place or hanging from the walls, and they appear to be looking directly at the ground, and often you'll see a child's toy like a teddy bear just sat in the middle of the room.
	As you can see in this picture, this child is being tortured in some way by smiling adults, who are holding the child suspended in what appears to be some method of torture by stringing them up by their wrists and ankles.
	And you'll notice that this isn't just men doing this.
	One of the people in this photo is a woman.
	And you can see the disassociated form of the child towards the top of the picture floating away from the pain.
	This appears to have been a process of systematic abuse by an organized group of adults who and are almost consistently pictured with little smiles on their faces.
	From the pictures, it seems to me that this is a continuous campaign of psychological as well as physical abuse to utterly demean the child, to make them feel as if they are nothing.
	As you can see in this picture, adult men with erection stand around this child, pointing and what appears to be smiling at the child's suffering.
	As I said, women appear in this artwork frequently as well, as well as very tiny children.
	The abuse apparently wasn't limited to just one child at a time, and they seem to have been treated like animals as they busily disassociate themselves from the hell they are going through.
	I have to say, I really find myself disturbed by the smiles on the faces of the adults in these pictures and the way they're treating such young children.
	It's just, this video has been very difficult to make.
	I'm not going to lie.
	This was a really difficult video.
	I'm presenting these pictures from least horrific to most horrific, as I'm sure you can tell by this particular picture.
	And I really just want to stress that this is reality for the victims of these child sex trafficking rings.
	This is what they used to do to them.
	This is what they still do to them.
	What I find really interesting about these pictures is that often she'll picture the adults as disassociating as well as the children, or instead of them.
	I obviously can't be sure of what the significance of that is, but it would seem that she's trying to say that the adults weren't necessarily themselves when they were doing this.
	It seems that the pictures don't just include sexual violence, but also forms of other physical tortures.
	And many of the pictures are basically this happening in dark grey rooms, with bloody handprints on the walls.
	It's just... it's just the most horrific thing I've ever seen in my life.
	It's...
	I...
	I'm honestly horrified to have to do this.
	But I'm sick of those people who are saying, oh no.
	Oh no, this couldn't possibly be happening.
	No.
	What you're saying when you say, I don't believe this is happening, is I personally could never conceive of doing such a thing.
	And I'm sure that you watching this now can't conceive of such a thing.
	I'm sure it's just beyond your own range of imagination.
	But there are people who can and will and do and they do it on purpose.
	They do it with malice of intent, with forethought, with planning, knowing that if this is exposed, that is them done.
	Because this is about the worst thing one human being can do to another.
	Death is preferable to this.
	to Kim Noble or Rhea Pratt.
	Which is why she so often writes, kill us on the walls.
	So in conclusion, Pizzagate is unfounded.
	We do not know that Pizzagate is a legitimate child sex trafficking ring.
	So I suggest if you are a Pizzagate supporter, you stop saying that it's really happening because you don't know.
	But to the people who say Pizzagate is ridiculous and couldn't happen, kindly do everyone a favour and shut your fucking mouths, you ignorant pieces of shit.

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