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 REALAUDIO 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 […]

Five acquitted over Calvi death

BBC NEWS A court in Rome has acquit­ted all five defen­dants of mur­der charges in the 1982 death of Rober­to Calvi, known as “God’s Banker” for his Vat­i­can ties. Mr Calvi, the chair­man of a pri­vate Ital­ian bank, Ban­co Ambrosiano, was found hang­ing from scaf­fold­ing under Lon­don’s Black­fri­ars Bridge in 1982. A British inquest ruled […]

The many secrets of ‘God’s Banker’by Chris­t­ian Fras­erBBC NEWS After 25 years, two inquests and a very lengthy tri­al — the mys­tery remains. The ver­dict of the court was that Rober­to Calvi was mur­dered — but the evi­dence against the five accused, said the judge, was insuf­fi­cient and at times con­tra­dic­to­ry. Despite the var­i­ous motives […]

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

The pol­i­tics of Opus Dei per­vade the Vat­i­can, from influ­enc­ing Pope Bene­dict to the beat­i­fi­ca­tion of past Vat­i­can poten­tates, the order wields a pro­found influ­ence.

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 MP3 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 […]

Mason indicted over murder of ‘God’s banker’

By John Phillips in Rome Mag­is­trates inves­ti­gat­ing the death of the Ital­ian banker Rober­to Calvi under Black­fri­ars Bridge in Lon­don in 1982 are focus­ing on Licio Gel­li, the for­mer “grand mas­ter” of the ille­gal P2 Mason­ic lodge that plot­ted against Ital­ian democ­ra­cy in the 1970s. Mr Gel­li denies he was involved but has acknowl­edged that […]

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

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

AFA 17–21: Who Shot the Pope?

A major intel­li­gence-relat­ed con­tro­ver­sy of the late Cold War, the shoot­ing of Pope John Paul II in 1981 was wide­ly and mis­tak­en­ly blamed on the Sovi­et Union.