The tag 'Vatican' is associated with 86 posts.

RIP Charles Higham

Charles Higham, author of impor­tant exposés about fas­cism, has passed. His work high­lighted Nazi Fifth colum­nists in the west, includ­ing Amer­i­can indus­tri­al­ists and financiers and the 1934 coup attempt against FDR.

FTR #748 Update on the Rewriting of World War II History

Eston­ian cel­e­bra­tion of the Nazi inva­sion of World War II as ‘lib­er­a­tion’ and in Bel­gium, too, the past is being rewritten.

Seymour Hersh: Joint Chiefs of Staff Dominated by Knights of Malta, Opus Dei

“New York Times” jour­nal­ist Sey­mour Hersh main­tains that U.S. Joint Chief­sof Staff are dom­i­nated by offi­cers belong­ing to, or sym­pa­thetic to the Knights of Malta and/or Opus Dei.

Gay Theologian Expounds on the Church’s Homophobia and Shift to the Right

Com­ment: A recent Spiegel arti­cle recorded the obser­va­tions of  David Berger, a gay for­mer Catholic priest. Berger dis­cussed homo­pho­bia in the Church and among its pow­er­ful sup­port­ers, as well as the Church’s polit­i­cal lurch to the right. Inter­view With Gay The­olo­gian David Berger: ‘A Large Pro­por­tion of Catholic Cler­ics and Trainee Priests Are Homo­sex­ual’”; Spiegel Online; [...]

FTR #724 Wiki of the Damned

Wik­iLeaks king­pin Assange appears con­nected to pow­er­ful mind-control cult; Aus­tralian intel­li­gence involved with the cult? Mem­bers die their hair blonde, have mul­ti­ple iden­ti­ties, pass­ports, birth­dates. Pos­si­ble Third Posi­tion ori­en­ta­tion of the group.

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 [...]

Links Between IHH (the Flotilla Sponsor) and “neo-Ustache” in Croatia

Com­ment: The Balkans offices of IHH–the Turk­ish NGO that spon­sored the Flotilla inci­dent in May–are in Zagreb, Croa­tia. In that loca­tionl, the orga­ni­za­tion was able to coor­di­nate the attack against the Serbs with the Croa­t­ian “neo-Ustache” of Franjo Tudj­man. Lis­ten­ers are encour­aged to access the vast vol­ume of infor­ma­tion about the Balkans wars to flesh [...]

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. [...]

FTR #720 Update on the Pan-Turkist Movement

Seek­ing a return to Ottoman Empire glory, Tur­kic peo­ples have been used by the Axis and then West­ern intel­li­gence to pro­mote fas­cism and desta­bi­lize the for­mer USSR, mod­ern Rus­sia and China. Pan-Turkist alliances with fas­cist ele­ments loom large today.

FTR #704 Interview with John Loftus

Early 20th cen­tury Rob­ber Barons embraced total­i­tar­ian sys­tems; “Good for Busi­ness”; fas­cism, the Axis pow­ers, World War II, and 9/11 result from this; Obama gov­ern­ing from the cen­ter and tak­ing heat for it.