helemon
2nd September 2005, 02:34 PM
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0507/S00222.htm#a
It is highly significant, though, that Diebold's former COO, Wesley Vance, was a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as a graduate of church-funded Brigham Young University.
Vance, for several years was in charge of Diebold's global operations, including research and development, manufacturing, sales and purchasing. He was paid $787,000 in 2003 as COO and had 10,000 Diebold stock options -- with 10% of his annual income likely tithed to the LDS church. Vance died in the spring of 2003 at age 45 while piloting his own plane, crashing southeast of Columbus, Ohio.
Are there other key Diebold associates who are LDS in the mix of 14,000 employees? Without a doubt.
Vance was also in charge of human resources for Diebold, and it is known that the LDS, as a socially-conscious organization, looks out for its own.
As Sally Denton and Roger Morris point out in their book, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America:
". . . the Mormon organization has a great deal in common with the Mafia . . . Strictly hierarchical. Great rewards for loyalty. Great rewards for keeping your word. They take care of their own."FMR Corporation -- Fidelity Management & Research Corporation -- is Diebold's largest shareholder, with 5.7 million shares worth over $313 million. FMR's former president, Robert Pozen, aside from having served as associate general counsel to the SEC, was secretary of economic affairs for Massachusetts governor/LDS celebrity Mitt Romney. Romney is a frontrunner for US president on the Republican 2008 ticket.
Fidelity is the world's largest mutual funds company. It is in the hands of a major Boston family --father and daughter, Ned and Abby Johnson -- with Steve Jonas running things for the Johnsons. (Click here: DBD: Major Holders for DIEBOLD INC - Yahoo! Finance )
Fidelity, has in the past organized fundraisers for Romney, as has the syndicate's venture capital firm, Bain Capital of Boston, which Romney founded in 1984 and where he served as CEO for 17 years.
And the Boston Mormon money connections don't stop there.
Kim B. Clark, long-time dean of America's premier breeding pool for entrepreneurs -- Harvard Business School -- has just become the new president of Brigham Young University in Idaho.
During his time at Harvard, Clark simultaneously served as bishop of the LDS congregation in Cambridge. Prior to Harvard, Clark played a role in the US Department of Labor in the Ford administration, so it is likely he would be a Romney supporter. In fact, BYU has its own Romney Institute established in honor of Mitt Romney's father, the former auto exec and governor, George Romney.
The Mormon church has a history of playing politics, putting up its own prophet, Joseph Smith, for a US presidential run in 1844.
Smith was initiated into the Masons by Abraham Jonas, a Jewish politician (a distant relative of Fidelity's Steve Jonas??), who himself was running for office and hoped to secure the Mormon vote by bringing Smith and his followers into the brotherhood. Smith's "sublime prince of the royal secret" Masonic honors were rushed along in less than the required 30 days, after which Smith persuaded his followers to join. The ranks of the Masons swelled by a third from 2,000 to 3,300 after the Mormon initiation.
According to Brigham Young's wife number 19, Anna Eliza Webb Young, Brigham referred to the Mormon temple endowment ceremony as "Celestial Masonry" because there were such close parallels to the "tokens, signs and penalties" of the Masons -- including the Mormon and Mason secret handshakes.
The question is: When will the Mormon secret handshakes, smoke & mirrors and buck stop?
The financial grip of the LDS behemoth on America is profound. The church, which takes tithes from its members, no-questions-asked, established Zions Bancorp, for instance, in 1873. Brigham Young called it Zions Savings Bank and Trust Company. It now has 400 branches in eight states including Texas, although the church has sold majority control.
And there have been others that have left teethmarks -- including "Jack Mormon" Parry Thomas's Bank of Las Vegas, which Sally Denton and Roger Morris note the FBI referred to as "the Mob's bank". Denton and Morris also cite the Eccles, one of the richest banking families of the 20th century, channeling "enormous, sometimes untraceable sums" to Thomas's Bank of Las Vegas in the 1950s. The Eccles owned First Security bank in Salt Lake City. One of the Eccles brothers served as chairman of the Federal Reserve for over a decade and was an architect of the US banking system. The University of Utah's genetics center now bears the Eccles name.
Then, of course, a private planeload of cash left Las Vegas -- "millions of dollars earned and tithed in the city" -- every Monday for the LDS treasury in Salt Lake City, according to Denton and Morris:
Directly or indirectly, the use of LDS (Latter-day Saints) church money or simply the funds of predominantly Mormon family and business depositors to finance Las Vegas gambling -- to say nothing of aid and stimulation for an international criminal network -- would have been a fateful revelation then and later.
As long as the LDS can keep up the pretense that it is a religion rather than a cash cow (France has forbidden LDS commercial sales there), there will be runaway profits for the "Saints" that will continue to compromise America's political process, as in the Diebold debacle.
It is highly significant, though, that Diebold's former COO, Wesley Vance, was a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as a graduate of church-funded Brigham Young University.
Vance, for several years was in charge of Diebold's global operations, including research and development, manufacturing, sales and purchasing. He was paid $787,000 in 2003 as COO and had 10,000 Diebold stock options -- with 10% of his annual income likely tithed to the LDS church. Vance died in the spring of 2003 at age 45 while piloting his own plane, crashing southeast of Columbus, Ohio.
Are there other key Diebold associates who are LDS in the mix of 14,000 employees? Without a doubt.
Vance was also in charge of human resources for Diebold, and it is known that the LDS, as a socially-conscious organization, looks out for its own.
As Sally Denton and Roger Morris point out in their book, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America:
". . . the Mormon organization has a great deal in common with the Mafia . . . Strictly hierarchical. Great rewards for loyalty. Great rewards for keeping your word. They take care of their own."FMR Corporation -- Fidelity Management & Research Corporation -- is Diebold's largest shareholder, with 5.7 million shares worth over $313 million. FMR's former president, Robert Pozen, aside from having served as associate general counsel to the SEC, was secretary of economic affairs for Massachusetts governor/LDS celebrity Mitt Romney. Romney is a frontrunner for US president on the Republican 2008 ticket.
Fidelity is the world's largest mutual funds company. It is in the hands of a major Boston family --father and daughter, Ned and Abby Johnson -- with Steve Jonas running things for the Johnsons. (Click here: DBD: Major Holders for DIEBOLD INC - Yahoo! Finance )
Fidelity, has in the past organized fundraisers for Romney, as has the syndicate's venture capital firm, Bain Capital of Boston, which Romney founded in 1984 and where he served as CEO for 17 years.
And the Boston Mormon money connections don't stop there.
Kim B. Clark, long-time dean of America's premier breeding pool for entrepreneurs -- Harvard Business School -- has just become the new president of Brigham Young University in Idaho.
During his time at Harvard, Clark simultaneously served as bishop of the LDS congregation in Cambridge. Prior to Harvard, Clark played a role in the US Department of Labor in the Ford administration, so it is likely he would be a Romney supporter. In fact, BYU has its own Romney Institute established in honor of Mitt Romney's father, the former auto exec and governor, George Romney.
The Mormon church has a history of playing politics, putting up its own prophet, Joseph Smith, for a US presidential run in 1844.
Smith was initiated into the Masons by Abraham Jonas, a Jewish politician (a distant relative of Fidelity's Steve Jonas??), who himself was running for office and hoped to secure the Mormon vote by bringing Smith and his followers into the brotherhood. Smith's "sublime prince of the royal secret" Masonic honors were rushed along in less than the required 30 days, after which Smith persuaded his followers to join. The ranks of the Masons swelled by a third from 2,000 to 3,300 after the Mormon initiation.
According to Brigham Young's wife number 19, Anna Eliza Webb Young, Brigham referred to the Mormon temple endowment ceremony as "Celestial Masonry" because there were such close parallels to the "tokens, signs and penalties" of the Masons -- including the Mormon and Mason secret handshakes.
The question is: When will the Mormon secret handshakes, smoke & mirrors and buck stop?
The financial grip of the LDS behemoth on America is profound. The church, which takes tithes from its members, no-questions-asked, established Zions Bancorp, for instance, in 1873. Brigham Young called it Zions Savings Bank and Trust Company. It now has 400 branches in eight states including Texas, although the church has sold majority control.
And there have been others that have left teethmarks -- including "Jack Mormon" Parry Thomas's Bank of Las Vegas, which Sally Denton and Roger Morris note the FBI referred to as "the Mob's bank". Denton and Morris also cite the Eccles, one of the richest banking families of the 20th century, channeling "enormous, sometimes untraceable sums" to Thomas's Bank of Las Vegas in the 1950s. The Eccles owned First Security bank in Salt Lake City. One of the Eccles brothers served as chairman of the Federal Reserve for over a decade and was an architect of the US banking system. The University of Utah's genetics center now bears the Eccles name.
Then, of course, a private planeload of cash left Las Vegas -- "millions of dollars earned and tithed in the city" -- every Monday for the LDS treasury in Salt Lake City, according to Denton and Morris:
Directly or indirectly, the use of LDS (Latter-day Saints) church money or simply the funds of predominantly Mormon family and business depositors to finance Las Vegas gambling -- to say nothing of aid and stimulation for an international criminal network -- would have been a fateful revelation then and later.
As long as the LDS can keep up the pretense that it is a religion rather than a cash cow (France has forbidden LDS commercial sales there), there will be runaway profits for the "Saints" that will continue to compromise America's political process, as in the Diebold debacle.