Clearstream Network Sued for Trafficking Iranian Terror Money

COMMENT: Sur­vivors of the 241 Marines killed in the 1983 Beirut bar­racks bomb­ing have sued Clearstream, a sub­sidiary of Deutsche Borse (itself owned by the major Ger­man com­mer­cial banks and, by exten­sion, the Bor­mann cap­i­tal net­work.)
Chan­nel­ing mil­lions of dol­lars back to the Iran­ian regime, Clearstream is alleged to have sub­stan­tively aided that government’s terrorist [...]

Vatican Bank Chief’s Free-Market Ideology and Opus Dei Background

Com­ment: Ettore Gotti Tedeschi–head of the Vat­i­can Bank–espoused the free-market ide­ol­ogy that led to the crash of 2008. Tedeschi has also advised then Car­di­nal Ratzinger and helped him write an eco­nomic the­sis. (Ratzinger became, of course, Pope Bene­dict.) Not sur­pris­ingly, Tedeschi  is a mem­ber of Opus Dei, the fas­cist lay Catholic order that has been [...]

Vatican Bank Being Investigated for Money Laundering

Com­ment: For many years, we’ve looked at the Vat­i­can Bank–the IOR (Insti­tute for Reli­gious Works.) Long a vehi­cle for the financ­ing of fas­cism and crim­i­nal under­tak­ings, the insti­tu­tion has FINALLY come under inves­ti­ga­tion for money laun­der­ing. (The Vat­i­can Bank was dis­cussed at length in AFA #18.)

“Vat­i­can Bank ‘Inves­ti­gated over Money Laun­der­ing”; BBC News; 9/21/2010.
The head [...]

FTR #675 Interview with Lucy Komisar: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Food Ser­vices Giant Sodexo’s scams cost tax­pay­ers, school chil­dren big bucks; Tim­o­thy Gei­th­ner ignored U.S. Trea­sury bonds naked short sell­ing; Swiss Banks join­ing AIG in off­shore machinations.

Repost: FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Insur­ance giant AIG’s pro­lific use of off­shore scams, cap­tive rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions, aided by high-level gov’t offi­cials and legislators.

FTR #600 The Axis Revisited: Changing the Past and Controlling the Present

Recorded June 10, 2007
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MP3: Side 1 | Side 2
Intro­duc­tion: Ana­lyz­ing the ongo­ing influ­ence of fas­cism in Germany’s Axis part­ners (Japan and Italy), the pro­gram illus­trates that, as nov­el­ist William Faulkner said: “The past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” Begin­ning with the acquit­tal of the accused mur­der­ers of for­mer Vat­i­can finan­cial adviser [...]

FTR #559 The Opus Dei Code – The Vatican Rag Pt. III

Recorded June 18, 2006
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The movie “The Da Vinci Code” has focused pub­lic atten­tion on the Opus Dei order, a reac­tionary Catholic orga­ni­za­tion with strong his­tor­i­cal links to fas­cism. High­light­ing its influ­ence on the cur­rent pope and his pre­de­ces­sor, this pro­gram sets forth some of the areas of influ­ence of this secre­tive orga­ni­za­tion. Play­ing a significant [...]

FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Analy­sis and dis­cus­sion of insur­ance giant AIG and its pro­lific use of “off­shore” scams, AIG’s pio­neer­ing devel­op­ment of “cap­tive” rein­sur­ance com­pa­nies to laun­der prof­its and evade taxes, AIG’s Coral Rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions have been aided by pow­er­ful and influ­en­tial people.

FTR #521 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded August 7, 2005
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTRs 520 and 521 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
Intro­duc­ing new sto­ries and updat­ing old ones, this pro­gram begins by not­ing a grow­ing body of infor­ma­tion sug­gest­ing that the sub­ject of “seis­mic war­fare” is not as whacky as it sounds. After not­ing Yasser Arafat’s business [...]

FTR #508 The Vatican Rag, Part II: Der Panzerkardinal

Ger­man Car­di­nal Joseph Ratzinger—dubbed “Panz­erkar­di­nal” by wags because of his reac­tionary views.