The tag 'Vatican' is associated with 78 posts.

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.

Vatican Lawyer for Abuse Case Defended the Vatican Bank in Holocaust Suit

Com­ment: In the recently re-aired FTR #508, we exam­ined the ascen­sion of Pope Bene­dict, whose elec­tion came at a time when unfold­ing Vat­i­can scan­dals threat­ened to unravel, reveal­ing that institution’s darker side for the blood-soaked hor­ror show that it truly is. Avail­able evi­dence sug­gests that Ratzinger/Benedict is a prod­uct of the Vatican/fascist axis so exhaustively [...]

New Archbishop of L.A. a Spanish Member of Opus Dei

Com­ment: With Latin influ­ence in the U.S. ris­ing with the growth of the Amer­i­can Spanish-speaking pop­u­la­tion, it is both inter­est­ing and sig­nif­i­cant that the Pope selected a mem­ber of the reac­tionary, fascist-connected Opus Dei to be the Arch­bishop of Los Ange­les. This appoint­ment con­tin­ues a pat­tern of con­ver­gence between the Vat­i­can and Opus Dei dating [...]

Germany Keeping Eichmann Files Secret for 50 (More) Years

Com­ment: Why would this be nec­es­sary? Among the pos­si­bil­i­ties is the polit­i­cal sen­si­tiv­ity deriv­ing from past employ­ment of Eich­mann and many of his subordinates–and supe­ri­ors–by ele­ments of West­ern intel­li­gence, includ­ing U.S. and Ger­man intel­li­gence ser­vices.
The open­ing of these files would also shed light on the Under­ground Reich and its deriv­a­tive, pro­found eco­nomic and polit­i­cal relationships [...]

FTR #677 Update on Global Fascism

The old SS giv­ing rise to new fas­cism in Aus­tria and Ger­many; Mussolini’s heirs move into the Ital­ian main­stream; Con­ti­nu­ity of for­eign pol­icy between the “new” Ger­many and the Third Reich.

A Descent into the Abyss

CIA, Vat­i­can, the Mafia, ele­ments of the mil­i­tary, and the Amer­i­can power elite con­spire to traf­fic in drugs and gold, stage assas­si­na­tions and coups, import Nazi war crim­i­nals, sub­vert the constitution.

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.

Vatican: It’s OK to believe in aliens

by Ariel David
AP
VATICAN CITY—Believing that the uni­verse may con­tain alien life does not con­tra­dict a faith in God, the Vatican’s chief astronomer said in an inter­view pub­lished Tues­day.
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit direc­tor of the Vat­i­can Obser­va­tory, was quoted as say­ing the vast­ness of the uni­verse means it is pos­si­ble there could be [...]