TVIND ALERT

We’ve been approached by film students making a documentary about DRH Norway school (aka One World College, in Lillehammer, Norway).   If you are a past student, and have a story to tell, please contact us and we will pass your message along.  feedback@tvindalert.com

Controversial door-to-door HIV testing in Zimbabwe gets Mugabe’s approval, but who are the volunteers set to do it?  The programme is being run by a group called TCE (“Total Contol of the Epidemic”) which is a subsidiary of the Tvind Teachers Group/Humana People-to-People.  I just wonder who’s paying for the equipment transport and expenses, and whether some outside donor knows who they’re involved with – and have they checked the accounts?

http://tumfweko.com/2012/01/19/mugabe-orders-door-to-door-hiv-testing-for-zimbabweans/comment-page-1/#comment-71200

And look at this comment posted on the article (and not by us):

Former volunteer of TCE NGO

January 20, 2012 at 5:38 pm

Unbelievable (but totally predictable) that an ‘NGO’ (that is completely 110% FOR profit) as corrupt as Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE) and Mugabe are so intertwined in the Empire they’re creating.

I worked in these countries doing VCT for TCE and most if not all these volunteers (who you’re right will not ever be properly remunerated) are not properly trained to give an HIV+ diagnosis.

If anything, this is a cautionary tale to Zimbabwean residents to beware of the capabilities that could unfold in a country with those 2 entities/empires in power.

We’d like Former volunteer of TCE NGO to get in touch please!

IS THE TEACHERS GROUP A CULT?

According to the leading academic historian of the Teachers Group at Copenhagen University, Jes Fabricius Møller, ‘the answer must be yes’.  This opinion is shared by many observers and cult watchdog organisations around the world.

The five characteristics the Teachers Group shares with better known cults (such as the Moonies or Scientology) are said to include:

1  It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members

2  It forms an elitist totalitarian society

3  Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma

4  It believes ‘the end justifies the means’ in order to solicit funds and recruit people

5  Its wealth does not benefit its members or society.

(Source:  The Cult Information Centre, UK)

In December 1995 an official French parliamentary Board of Enquiry into Cults (Commission D’Enquête sur les Sectes) named Humana France as a cult. The report, Les Sectes en France (Cults in France) was presented to the French National Assembly on 20th December 1995. Humana France was absent from France for many years, but has since returned.

More cult links

Fact File: Humana’s Hot Money

by Michael Durham

Humana People-to-People claims to be a charity, but is really part of a hugely profitable offshore corporation. Its sister ‘humanitarian’ initiatives, Planet Aid, Gaia and U’SAgain, are part of the same ‘hot money’ network. Here’s the story:

It all started as a dream of a more equal world. But by the 1980s the trail of ‘hot money’ was already under way.

The first offshore account was in Grand Cayman. In around 1983, a small group of Danish nationals arrived on the Caribbean island, 150 miles south of Cuba, weighted down with cash. They were seen carrying suitcases of dollars into a local bank, on a tax haven island already notorious for illegal ‘hot money’. Within months, there was enough cash to buy a farm and a luxury beachside villa, with a swimming pool, a fleet of Mercedes cars parked outside, and boats at anchor in the bay.

Who were these wealthy Danes? Where did the money come from? They were not in business – in fact they were self-styled left-wing revolutionaries. They were among the founders of an ‘educational’ movement with global ambitions – which has since become Humana People-to-People……

Read the full article

Here is the Danish TV2 documentary on Tvind broadcast on 21st August 2000, which started an international manhunt for Humana leader Mogens Amdi Petersen.   Danish police launched an investigation the day after this programme was broadcast, which led to a subsequent trial and the current fraud charges against Petersen and four others.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/cyrilmalka/videos/9/

We hope to post an English translation of the commentary from the soundtrack of this video soon.  (We would alo welcome guidance on embedding this video in this website, as we no longer have a webmaster. Can anyone help?)

In 2001 the Danish government sought help from the U. S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with investigating Tvind, identifying assets and properties held in the USA, and locating Amdi Pedersen.  Tvind Alert was recently sent a copy of the FBI file on Tvind (from 2002), which specifically names Planet Aid and IICD as operations in the USA.  Also mentioned are money laundering methods, teachers salaries, used clothing collections, Charity Fraud, Florida properties owned by Chilton Intervest, off shore accounts, and the British government’s actions against Humana in the UK.

The file boldly states, “Humana People To People runs 152 projects in 26 countries in Europe, Asia, United States, and Africa. In each of these organizations the funds are ultimately controlled by captioned subjects who divert the money for personal use. Little to no money goes to the charities.”

Tvind Alert’s website at that time, www.tvindalert.org.uk, was mentioned as an open source of background information on Tvind. Included were several pages from the site! Though we are pleased information was used to help with the FBI’s investigation on Tvind, we can not help but wonder why the FBI’s findings were not shared with other US government agencies, specifically USDA and USAID. These agencies have donated millions of dollars to Planet Aid and other HPP members. Millions more in used clothing has been donated to Planet Aid and the other Tvind clothing collection operations in the USA and Canada.

In the USA, Tvind currently runs 3 non-profits, 2 schools, and 9 for-profit companies. Since 1999, these operations have collectively earned over $300 million from used clothing, student tuition, and government grants.

We received this message today from an Italian would-be student at CICD in England.  But who can help them get their money back?

Hello.   I’m [...] I come from Italy.   I just discovered yestarday your web site and I write you in order to recive information and help.   I wanted to be a volunteer in africa and i found humana people to people organization.

After few month of conctact with the responsable of the school I decided to begin the progam the first day of february of this year, in CICD college in Hull (UK). yesterday i discovered the bad reputation of the project and I decided to do not leave , but the problem is that I already sent 950 pound, (350pounds  for the enrolment fee + 600 pounds for pay of the first part of the course).

Do you know how is possible to get back my money? what do you suggest me to do?  I really don’t know what i can do !!!!.

Mogens Amdi Petersen, founder of Humana People-to-People, Tvind and the Teachers Group, is 73 today.  We think he is most likely spending the day in hiding in his multi-million dollar retreat in Mexico.    We will soon be posting some information from the FBI’s files on him as a special birthday present.

Now Interpol can hunt them
For the last five years they have been wanted – by the Danish Police. Now they can be hunted – by Interpol, which means the police in most countries in the world. The Danish State Attorney have – according to legal changes of law – now made it possible to ask Interpol to go for and arrest the four fugitive topleaders in the Teachers Group, who runs the Tvind-empire, that owns Humana People to People. Amongst them the founder and number one Mogens Amdi Petersen.
The Danish Police have tried to find them in the last five years – since September 2006, when the Danish State Attorney decided to take them to the Danish High Court for tax fraud and embezzlement. Four of them had gone free in a trial earlier that year, one of them, Sten Byrner was sentenced to one year imprisonment. But they all fled Denmark, and the police were therefore unable to deliver the appeal directly to them (one of them, Malene Gunst, was caught in Heathrow Airport, London, October 1 2009 coming in on an airplane from Mexico). The personal delivery of the appeal was – until now – the only legal procedure for an appeal trial. That’s also the reason the Danish police have not could ask Interpol to go for them. Only the police in the Schengen- and EU-countries have since September 14 2006 legally been able to withhold them in airports for instance – but only until an official Danish representative could hand over the appeal warrant.
Now the laws have been changed. And the Danish State Attorney have therefore a couple of weeks ago (July 14) published the appeal in the Danish States magazine for official announcements (Statstidende). That’s sufficient. And that means, that Interpol all over the world can be mobilized to look for and arrest the four Tvind-leaders, Mogens Amdi Petersen, Kirsten Ambrosius Larsen, Christie Pipps, Sten Byrner.
Untill now the Danish Police have only had limited help from Interpol. But that limited help made it possible to withhold one of the original five fugitive Tvind-leaders in Heathrow Airport in October 2009. The police in Mexico informed that same day the Danish Police that Malene Gunst was on a plane from Mexico City heading for London. The British authorities withheld Malene Gunst in the airport until a representative from the Danish state could deliver the appeal personally to her.
The Danish Police had already late 2006 asked Mexico to find out if Malene Gunst and the other fugitive leaders could be found on Tvinds new luxury headquarter in San Juan de las Pulgas, Baja California in Mexico. The Mexican authorities replied in March 2007 that to their knowledge the five Tvind-leaders were not living there. In both February, March, May and July 2008 representatives from the Danish state officially asked the Mexicans for cooperation. The resultat of it was the tip on October 1 2009 that lead to the withhold of Malene Gunst in the London-airport.
In September 2006 the Danish Police also contacted Interpol in South Africa and in Zimbabwe, where Tvinds Humana-organisations official headquarters are placed. Interpol in South Africa reportedin December that year back to the Danish Police about the fugitive leaders travelling by plane between South Africa and Zimbabwe. An official contact from the Danish Police to the Zimbabwean authorities and Interpol in that country asking for help to find the fugitive leaders was made in February 2009. The Zimbabweans never answered the request. Tvind and Humana have always been protected by the Zimbabwean dictatorship lead by Robert Mugabe.
In the first Danish trial there were eight accused Tvind-leaders. There was not raised an appeal against two of them. But there was against Poul Jørgensen, the right hand of Mogens Amdi Petersen taking care of their legal business in Denmark. He was found by the police in Denmark and brought to trial in the High Court, where he was sentenced to two and a half year imprisonment.

The campus building in Etna, California has been sold, the headquarters have been moved, there is no more school, and “TG” has been dropped from the name. But has Campus California really severed ties to the Teachers Group? No. Read the explosive article written by Matthew Smith of the SFweekly…. Read full article here.