Showing posts with label money laundering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money laundering. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Who Runs HUD/FHA? Certainly not the Beard Secretary on Medication Ben Carson - Eating Raoul

https://splinternews.com/heres-ben-carson-revealing-his-staggering-ignorance-abo-1834927123



Where are the Ludes Ben Carson ???

Government employees are half bums and the other half covering for bums like Ben Carson who is not with us on the same page in time and space and reality. Reminds me of working in the mortgage business in Arizona at HUD that was still trying to clean up the mess of the Savings and Loan Scandal of the Keating Five in the late eighties. The Government never fully legislated the con parts away of that scandal that protected Cindy McCain's Trophy (Beard) husband in the form of Senator John McCain in the one of the most corrupt states in the Union, they have their own DOJ prosecutor section assigned to one state, Texas has to share their Fed Prosecutor with other states believe it or not, or it used to be that way. Never proper cleaning up that mess to protect McCain led to the Housing Bubble Collapse on 2008 that took its model from the S &L 80s M.O.. Anyway Carson is a Con. Who is loaning government money to R/E developers to build affordable apartment rental buildings in this country or is all that cash being laundered into gated communities with pools and golf courses masquerading as affordable housing on their loan applications to HUD? All through his show and tell with a House Committee I was waiting for ole' Ben, a good ole' boy, to ask the questioners "Where are the ludes dude?"- that line popped into my mind and I guess his con job, his front as a Secretary "in charge" reminded me of the con game played in "Eating Raoul" that 80s cult classic about crime in a swinger's apartment building etc.

Eating Raoul 


(Warning - brief nudity)





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Thursday, July 26, 2018

Impeach TEA PARTY TRAITORS Mark Meadows 11th North Carolina and Jim Jordan 4th Ohio




Tea Party Rep Mark Meadows 11th North Carolina, fresh from slimy jerk off hands on the 2013 Government Shutdown and a Shout Out at a Trump Rally in 2016 Winston - Salem Rally of "Burn that Witch Hillary" coded down to "Lock Her Up" like all closeted bigots and women haters  - AND -

Tea Party Jim Jordan 4th Ohio fresh from a humble refusal of the House Republican Dennis Hastert Lifetime Achievement Award for Disservice to Kiddies regarding his onetime Assistant Wrestling Coach JOB at Ohio State before dipping his toes in Tea Party anti-humanist politics - AND -

Both willing to take a bullet, metaphorically and Michael Cohen like speaking, both for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have sponsored an Impeach the DOJ Bill in the House for doing its patriotic job against traitors and child abusers on the border domestic and foreign comrade in the baby selling adoption Russian end of that same related mob racket - SHOULD -

Should be impeached and removed from office from their seats in the U.S. 
House of Representatives.





Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Raleigh RC Cathedral Buys Stained Glass at Fire Sale Prices From Philadelphia Temple Closed / Tossed Aside in Inner City


Architectural Rendering - New RC Raleigh Cathedral


$50 million in Pledges for the new RC Raleigh Cathedral. Stained glass recycled out of a dead Harrowgate Kensington Church, a true city on a hill structure in its day amidst the factories of Kensington. They let the roof go for years, decades. The factories closed, the whites ran to the burbs and the ‘po folks, the feared blacks and Hispanics have moved in to compete with the majority numbers in the old Irish neighborhood.

The ultimate decline of Ascension Parish took it final hits while Cardinal Rigali mismanaged everything in sight while he slept mostly in Rome with Philly as his second or third home. AD of Philadelphia obsessed on Abortion (never mind Birth Control) since Humane Vitae instead of race relations or anything remotely Christian led in part in my opinion to a racially divided Philadelphia to this day.

Rigali still exists, unpunished,  as a house guest of the Bishop of Knoxville Tennessee, a “protégé” who is also building some sort of hundred million dollar Cathedral in the burbs where the white Catholic money is these days.

Cathedral building and pledges of millions of dollars is the new pet project of American Bishops to show financial power and laundering abilities and to move onto a RNC approved red hat appointment.


RALEIGH — The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh is still months away from breaking ground on its new cathedral off Western Boulevard, but already it has bought the windows. 
 Forty-two stained-glass windows are being removed from a church in Philadelphia and painstakingly restored so they can be installed in Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral in Raleigh. The 85-year-old windows from Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church tell the story of Jesus’ life, from the angel’s visit to Mary to the resurrection and ascension, in vivid colored glass held together by lead. 
 Ascension of Our Lord closed Oct. 1, one of countless once-thriving churches and synagogues in the Midwest and Northeast whose congregations have shrunk as members move to the suburbs or beyond. Their buildings are often filled with ornate windows, statues, carved woodwork and other works of art that sometimes find new homes in the growing churches of the South.


Deceased Ascension Church Philadelphia -  Photo by: Bradley Maule











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Monday, October 21, 2013

Bill Donohue/Catholic League Shilling For Conservative Telemarketing Penny Anty Scam Web Site – NewsMax – Front for Out of Work (no wars going) Neo-Con Executives?


I hear the Confections in Iran are far superior to North Korean Sweets.
But we won't know until we contract out there, will we?

Like I said the other day about how neo-cons get to land in easy cushy no show jobs in between American Global Wars of Genocide and Profit for White Republicans, like St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe Pa., Bill Donohue over at Catholic League has a nasty article about NYC mayoral candidate that thumbs his nose at Catholic Cuddling that Bill has come to expect sitting at the feet of American high level clerics and giving them free pedicures too I hear (bishops and above only – holy foot fetish, don’t ya know, lol).  And lets not forget the unofficial Catholic views on male waxing

I go into Bill's least offensive sounding “defen$e” of Catholicism tax free web site article at Catholic League that leads to a (wink,nod) link to NewsMax, a west Palm Beach neo-con News sites that supposedly makes over 24 million a year, doing what? I have to wonder why a tax free Catholic employee at the Catholic League is hanging out at a right wing political "newspaper".


Makes you think that maybe separation of church and state and the tax free jerk off thing does not matter anymore in the shiny city on a hill republic of Ronald Reagan that now has sunk into the adjoining swamp land below? When it comes to the Catholic League and Doctor Donohue that is. Quack! Quack!


Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Discounts to Cardinals Bishops and Clergy at Msgr Kevin Wallin’s Land of Oz Sex, Bong and Fantasy Shop in Bridgeport Connecticut




What is this fascination with gay priests and Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz and the Ruby Slippers?



As Cardinal Egan of New York' right hand man when he was Bishop in Bridgeport in the late nineties, the only thing Monsignor Wallin needed once he left St Augustine’s Cathedral parish there on sabbatical recently was Money Laundering for his Meth empire.



Without the cover of legitimate Vatican sponsored money laundering at St. Augustine's, Wallin needed the sex shop to launder his profits. Free Market Capitalism (bow your heads).



Both for religion and drugs, you need a front business to launder the profits.

20% discount to the Clergy on the Ruby (Cardinal) Slippers. One can dream, can’t one?





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Thursday, December 27, 2012

RC Cheyenne WY Bishop’s Franchise – How Much is the Buy-in? - Follow the Money



I fear the money laundering scheme set up by the God Emperor General Wojtyla aka JPII is still up and running and still collecting cash to defeat the Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe.

Of course the cold war is over and there is no need to launder cash but hey, once set in motion, an object tends to continue in motion. (“The evil that men do lives after them.”)

I would wonder looking at how poor boys like Bishop Etienne of Cheyenne, who obviously approves of the local Knights of Columbus raffle for guns scam, what his cut of the action is?

That no doubt the check for $54,000 raised from the Gun Raffle for the old priest’s home above in 2011, it must be deposited in the Vatican Bank that handles all charities and funds for all religious orders, even charties run by local dioceses. 

It is a way of monitoring funds held by religious orders and dioceses. It is also a two edged sword whereby funds deposited there can then be drawn down from a legitimate banking source such as the Vatican Bank. 

One has to wonder if a legitimate audit trail of funds existed to be examined, how a check for $54,000 from gun sales/charity gets deposited first in a K of C account for the Cheyenne Diocese or some other account in Rome under Cheyenne’s name.






One has to wonder if some accounting error might occur and somehow a zero gets added and $540,000 gets deposited in Rome, then $540,000 would have an audit tag of the Vatican Bank under the heading of Charity. 

One might also wonder if the checks drawn on $540,000 goes out on the check heading of Diocese of Cheyenne or Local council whatever of the K of C or the Heritage Foundation etc. ? 

One would have to wonder too the source of the accounting error might come from the mysterious cash difference of $486,000 and where the heck did that come from?????  

All just a money laundering theoretical scenario.

Having worked in the back office of legitimate, well regulated, regularly audited banks in my life, if it seems too good to be true, it usually is not. Beware.

But getting back to a poor boy like Bishop Etienne and the promissory note of sorts he had to in theory sign to get promoted from parish priest in Indianapolis to Bishop of Cheyenne. In other words look the other way and or sign off on all diocese deposits held in the Vatican Bank? For the greater good of Holy Mother Church and more importantly future promotions?

Whatever.

There also seems to be emerging from my POV a certain ratline, of musical chairs of certain dioceses (no money down franchises?) in the United State where poor boys from the heartland can rise all the way to red hat in a matter of years through these farmland sci-fi vortexes. Cash and not spirituality count in the new global spreadsheet reality. So true.

Also, the call for religious freedom from the church ladies of the RC church in America want to protect universities, hospitals and charities from Obama’s godless call to contraception. Again whatever.

Speaking of abused Charities, I am reminded of Bishop Zubik of Pittsburgh coming from Green Bay to make way for Bishop Ricken to move out and make room in Cheyenne for Father Bishop Etienne.


Bishop Etienne’s primary consecrator as bishop was none other than the magical mystical Vatican multi-tasker Chuck Chaput of Philly and secondary consecrator Bishop Ricken whose own personal bishop’s primary consecrator was none other than the late “great” JPII.

Surprisingly, Bishop Etienne’s Wikipedia bio conveniently does not have an audit trail mention of his episcopal lineage. An oversight?



Whatever. 


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Friday, December 21, 2012

Three Most Influencial American Roman Catholics in the Global Arms Race – Wayne LaPierre, Antonin Scalia, Carl Anderson?

Wayne LaPierre NRA - Antonin Scalia SCOTUS, Carl Anderson Knights of Columbus/Vatican Bank

Seeing the recent death of the toxic piece of American History aka Robert Bork reminded me of Carl Anderson of the Knights of Columbus/Vatican Bank and his salad days in the Reagan White House as the Catholic (Vatican) go-to guy and exclusive handler of Bork’s failed nomination to the Supreme Court.

Carl has gone on to head one on the past’s great benevolent Catholic organizations aka the Knights of Columbus, now the monied arm of the GOP and with all of it’s indifferent coded Pro-Life rhetoric. Sadly, the charity work of misguided American Catholics makes it to the Vatican Bank care of a kind and stupid American Public allowing tax free status on the K of C despite its current toxic domestic and global political activities.

Antonin Scalia is Antonin Scalia. SCOTUS. Get over it. He has the Second Amendment as a cheap mistress to interpret, slap her around, beat her up, according to the money laundering needs at the Vatican Bank/Knights of Columbus “Charity” financing global arms dealers along with servicing financial needs of the South American drug cartels making heavy contributions to their local bishops? Wink. Nod.

Wayne LaPierre of the NRA does not list his religion in his Wikipedia Bio. Agnostic? Or he does not want his redneck Baptist base to know that an undercover Pape is pulling their strings along with pulling in their fear based paranoid donations? Wayne went to two private RC colleges btw.

All in all the top three RC men, American men, who  might be the most influential and powerful men in America and globally when to comes to the lives and safety of children worldwide and have an interest as well as conflict of interest when it comes down to money, politics and guns, armaments, drones over the benefit of living human beings like kids, with instructions and daily PR talking points coming out of Corporate Tax Haven and HQ Vatican City, Rome Italy? 

In any case, hide your children. LOL

Whatever. 

Have a nice day.

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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Paul Ryan’s Deadbeat Bishop Morlino Wants Names for Inquisition - Priests and Lowly Catholic Serf Subjects – Black Helicopters Ready to Roll on the Catholics in Madison after Election?



Black Helicopters - Practice Run - Madison Diocese


Paul Ryan’s deadbeat Bishop “Porkpie” Morlino commissioned a survey regarding his desired for quarter of a billion dollar cathedral, complete with underground parking and acres and acres of exclusive mausoleum vaults.

The firm that took confidential information from priests and Catholic Parishioners in the Madison Diocese refused to turn confidential information over to the diocese to see who hates Bishop “Pork Pie” as they call him behind his back.

There is a trend now among the White Trash American bishops these days, even a competition you might say, to build these proposed 60 and 70 million dollar new cathedrals with costs that mushroom out of control with construction costs and kickbacks in cash to the bishops and the Vatican that tithe payers are burdened with paying under penalty of losing their place in heaven. 

These New Cathedrals once built are cash cows on the indoor parking fees and the mausoleum vaults can also be used also to hide Cash, Cartel Drugs and Arms in the business related worldwide Vatican Bank money laundering empire.

He commissioned a confidential report. Stiffed (deadbeat) the Survey Taker for not surrendering confidential names and information and is now being sued for the Fascist Dictator he really is.

With his being a chaplain with the School of the Americas South American Military Training (and Torture) Institute, it will no doubt make it easy for the Black Helicopter division of that Institute to swoop down and disappear and silence his critics in Madison after Paul Ryan is elected Vice President.

Bishop Morlino BTW does not endorse Uber Catholic and Patriot Paul Ryan for Vice President.

A fundraising firm hired by the Madison Catholic Diocese to gauge support for rebuilding St. Raphael Cathedral says Bishop Robert Morlino insisted the firm turn over confidential information gathered from surveys and interviews, including the names of priests who complained about Morlino.
The firm, Phoenix Fundraising Counsel of Madison, says it refused to disclose the confidential data on priests and parishioners and now can’t get the diocese to pay its bill.
It has sued the diocese in Dane County Circuit Court for payment of at least $350,000, which includes work on a feasibility study and a planned capital campaign.

Bishop "Porkpie" Morlino of Madison Wisconsin

MORE! MORE! MORE!


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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Vatican Bank IOR Under Investigation as Mafia Front for Money Laundering




http://www.rt.com/news/vatican-mafia-laundering-money-716/ 
The Vatican Bank is under media fire as reports emerge that Italian prosecutors suspect it of laundering Sicilian mafia bosses’ riches. 
The Institute for Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican Bank, has so far refused to disclose details of an account held by a priest in connection with a money laundering and fraud investigation. 
Father Ninni Treppiedi was sacked from serving as a priest after a series of church funds transactions made by his parish came to anti-mafia prosecutors’ attention this spring. The dealings, involving millions of euro, date back to 2007-2009. 
Prosecutors suspect Treppiedi was involved in money-laundering operations linked to Matteo Messina Denaro, a Mafia Godfather on the run. The cleric’s former post in Aclamo, near Trapani, is said to be the richest parish in the Mafia stronghold of Sicily. 
Trapani prosecutor Marcello Viola made the request to disclose Treppiedi’s account details over six weeks ago. But the Vatican, though confirming the request has been received, maintains the issue is not mafia-related.The first reports on the scandal emerged in the Italian media two weeks after the head of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, was ousted after receiving a unanimous vote of no-confidence from bank overseers.
The banker is under investigation for another case of alleged money laundering. But there is speculation that the actual reason behind the no-confidence vote is that Tedeschi was aware of possible mafia links and leaked names and accounts details to police.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Gotti Tedeschi, Vatican Banker, is a Dead Man Walking? – Institute for Religious Works

Blackfriars Bridge London.  Where all Vatican Bankers eventually go.

If history repeats itself, and it is likely to, the lay man outsider Gotti Tedeschi, former head of the Vatican Bank is an apparent dead man, doomsday dossier or not.

His leaving his sacking meeting at the Vatican Bank before it was finished no doubt gave him a few minutes to escape the Vatican before being arrested by the Swiss Guards.  He is no doubt just another scapegoat for all the corruption at the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), same as Roberto Calvi before him.  Cardinals don’t commit crimes, money launder or go to jail for money laundering. Pity.

The IOR was founded in 1942 by Pius XII to sort through and make profit from all the Nazi gold being funneled through the Vatican Bank from all over Europe, money laundering, before being presented to the rest of the world as legitimate funds through "religious works".
From the Internet 2010:
Vatican City – This is no ordinary bank: The ATMs are in Latin. Priests use a private entrance. A life-size portrait of Pope Benedict XVI hangs on the wall. 
Nevertheless, the Institute for Religious Works is a bank, and it’s under harsh new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize euro23 million ($30 million) in Vatican assets in September. Critics say the case shows that the “Vatican Bank” has never shed its penchant for secrecy and scandal. 
The Vatican calls the seizure of assets a “misunderstanding” and expresses optimism it will be quickly cleared up. But court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately flouted anti-laundering laws “with the aim of hiding the ownership, destination and origin of the capital.” The documents also reveal investigators’ suspicions that clergy may have acted as fronts for corrupt businessmen and Mafia. 
The documents pinpoint two transactions that have not been reported: one in 2009 involving the use of a false name, and another in 2010 in which the Vatican Bank withdrew euro650,000 ($860,000) from an Italian bank account but ignored bank requests to disclose where the money was headed. 
The new allegations of financial impropriety could not come at a worse time for the Vatican, already hit by revelations that it sheltered pedophile priests. The corruption probe has given new hope to Holocaust survivors who tried unsuccessfully to sue in the United States, alleging that Nazi loot was stored in the Vatican Bank. 
Yet the scandal is hardly the first for the centuries-old bank. In 1986, a Vatican financial adviser died after drinking cyanide-laced coffee in prison. Another was found dangling from a rope under London’s Blackfriars Bridge in 1982, his pockets stuffed with money and stones. The incidents blackened the bank’s reputation, raised suspicions of ties with the Mafia, and cost the Vatican hundreds of millions of dollars in legal clashes with Italian authorities. 
On Sept. 21, financial police seized assets from a Vatican Bank account at the Rome branch of Credito Artigiano SpA. Investigators said the Vatican had failed to furnish information on the origin or destination of the funds as required by Italian law.
The bulk of the money, euro20 million ($26 million), was destined for JP Morgan in Frankfurt, with the remainder going to Banca del Fucino. 
Prosecutors alleged the Vatican ignored regulations that foreign banks must communicate to Italian financial authorities where their money has come from. All banks have declined to comment. 
In another case, financial police in Sicily said in late October that they uncovered money laundering involving the use of a Vatican Bank account by a priest in Rome whose uncle was convicted of Mafia association. 
Authorities say some euro250,000 euros, illegally obtained from the regional government of Sicily for a fish breeding company, was sent to the priest by his father as a “charitable donation,” then sent back to Sicily from a Vatican Bank account using a series of home banking operations to make it difficult to trace. 
The prosecutors’ office stated in court papers last month that while the bank has expressed a “generic and stated will” to conform to international standards, “there is no sign that the institutions of the Catholic church are moving in that direction.” It said its investigation had found “exactly the opposite.” 
Legal waters are murky because of the Vatican’s special status as an independent state within Italy. This time, Italian investigators were able to move against the Vatican Bank because the Bank of Italy classifies it as a foreign financial institution operating in Italy. However, in one of the 1980s scandals, prosecutors could not arrest then-bank head Paul Marcinkus, an American archbishop, because Italy’s highest court ruled he had immunity. 
Marcinkus, who died in 2006 and always proclaimed his innocence, was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s character Archbishop Gilday in Godfather III.
The Vatican has pledged to comply with EU financial standards and create a watchdog authority. Gianluigi Nuzzi, author of “Vatican SpA,” a 2009 book outlining the bank’s shady dealings, said it’s possible the Vatican is serious about coming clean, but he isn’t optimistic. 
“I don’t trust them,” he said. “After the previous big scandals, they said ‘we’ll change’ and they didn’t. It’s happened too many times.” 
He said the structure and culture of the institution is such that powerful account-holders can exert pressure on management, and some managers are simply resistant to change. 
The list of account-holders is secret, though bank officials say there are some 40,000-45,000 among religious congregations, clergy, Vatican officials and lay people with Vatican connections. 
The bank chairman is Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, also chairman of Banco Santander’s Italian operations, who was brought in last year to bring the Vatican Bank in line with Italian and international regulations. Gotti Tedeschi has been on a very public speaking tour extolling the benefits of a morality-based financial system. 
“He went to sell the new image … not knowing that inside, the same things were still happening,” Nuzzi said. “They continued to do these transfers without the names, not necessarily in bad faith, but out of habit.” 
It doesn’t help that Gotti Tedeschi himself and the bank’s No. 2 official, Paolo Cipriani, are under investigation for alleged violations of money-laundering laws. They were both questioned by Rome prosecutors on Sept. 30, although no charges have been filed. 
In his testimony, Gotti Tedeschi said he knew next to nothing about the bank’s day-to-day operations, noting that he had been on the job less than a year and only works at the bank two full days a week. 
According to the prosecutors’ interrogation transcripts obtained by AP, Gotti Tedeschi deflected most questions about the suspect transactions to Cipriani. Cipriani in turn said that when the Holy See transferred money without identifying the sender, it was the Vatican’s own money, not a client’s. 
Gotti Tedeschi declined a request for an interview but said by e-mail that he questioned the motivations of prosecutors. In a speech in October, he described a wider plot against the church, decrying “personal attacks on the pope, the facts linked to pedophilia (that) still continue now with the issues that have seen myself involved.” 
As the Vatican proclaims its innocence, the courts are holding firm. An Italian court has rejected a Vatican appeal to lift the order to seize assets. 
The Vatican Bank was founded in 1942 by Pope Pius XII to manage assets destined for religious or charitable works. The bank, located in the tower of Niccolo V, is not open to the public, but people who use it described the layout to the AP. 
Top prelates have a special entrance manned by security guards. There are about 100 staffers, 10 bank windows, a basement vault for safe deposit boxes, and ATMs that open in Latin but can be accessed in modern languages. In another concession to modern times, the bank recently began issuing credit cards. 
In the scandals two decades ago, Sicilian financier Michele Sindona was appointed by the pope to manage the Vatican’s foreign investments. He also brought in Roberto Calvi, a Catholic banker in northern Italy.
Sindona’s banking empire collapsed in the mid-1970s and his links to the mob were exposed, sending him to prison and his eventual death from poisoned coffee. Calvi then inherited his role. 
Calvi headed the Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in 1982 after the disappearance of $1.3 billion in loans made to dummy companies in Latin America. The Vatican had provided letters of credit for the loans. 
Calvi was found a short time later hanging from scaffolding on Blackfriars Bridge, his pockets loaded with 11 pounds of bricks and $11,700 in various currencies. After an initial ruling of suicide, murder charges were filed against five people, including a major Mafia figure, but all were acquitted after trial. 
While denying wrongdoing, the Vatican Bank paid $250 million to Ambrosiano’s creditors.
Both the Calvi and Sindona cases remain unsolved.
 Source: Associated Press, December 2010


Follow the money.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Bishops Bransfield Delivers the Goods to Benedict XVI



Vatican Radio 4/19/2012:



“Each year the wish list gets longer and longer..its' really a wonderful opportunity for the Pope and he responds throughout the world! He doesn't restrict it" says Bishop Michael Bransfield of Charleston-Wheeling, West Virginia, President of the US charitable organisation the Papal Foundation. 

They are the lay Catholic men and women from across the US who each year gift the Holy Father a 'wish list', in short the funds to carry out or sponsor charitable works that are particularly dear to him. On Saturday the Foundation members - who are known as Stewards of St. Peter - will meet with the Holy Father and present him a donation of over 8 million dollars to fund projects throughout the world.

Bishop Bransfield who is accompanying the Stewards on their annual pilgrimage to the See of St. Peter, says they “see this as a vocation, they see this as their ability to help the Holy Father to do things that otherwise he simply wouldn’t be able to do”...



Q: Quite a big difference in the case of the Papal Foundation, how did it all begin?
A: “Early in the 1980’s JPII had a lot of charities that he was not able to fund and a lot of concerns in Easter Europe and throughout the world. So Cardinals and Archbishops who were his friends…Cardinal Krol and Cardinal McCarrick got together and set up a foundation, it started in Philadelphia but immediately spread throughout our country because the Archbishops and Cardinals backed them up and brought in members”. 

Q So how does it work? 
A: “They put together this organisation and asked these people, who really are from all over the States, to give a million dollars each that would stay in the United States and the money that came from that, the income and different grants would come to the Holy Father for the poor of the world and for his charities or works that he wanted done. [The Pope] sends a list over and in November we meet in Washington and its reviewed by the grants committee and then again by the board and they approve what they can fund and what they can do for the Holy Father because the wish list gets longer and longer”. 

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Vatican Money Too Dirty Even for J P Morgan – Pot Calling the Kettle Black


Can the Catholic Church’s Vatican banking system be laundering money for drugs, arms and human trafficking?  Good question.  In all likelihood, this Vatican account closed by J P Morgan had to be closed because of Vatican secrecy and refusal to comply with the simplest of banking rules worldwide.

JP Morgan closes Vatican bank's account

Thirty years after it was entangled in a scandal involving the mafia, money laundering and the mysterious death of the man nicknamed "God's banker," the Vatican bank faces fresh controversy. 
The bank - formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion or IOR - has suffered the ignominy of having one of its accounts closed by JP Morgan after stone-walling requests for information.
The sanction came less than two weeks after the U.S. State Department listed the Vatican as being potentially vulnerable to money laundering.
A Milan affiliate of JP Morgan said it will shut the account by the end of the month after revealing Vatican bankers had been "unable to respond" to requests for details about payments into the account. 
A spokesman for JP Morgan in Milan declined to comment, citing client confidentiality.
The Milan branch had been seeking information since 2010, when the Vatican bank was accused by authorities in Rome of contravening money-laundering regulations. 
In an unusual move, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, president of the Vatican bank, was placed under investigation and a judge in Rome ordered a freeze on $30 million held in one of the bank's accounts. 
The scandal prompted the Vatican bank to initiate anti-money-laundering legislation, which is currently being debated by the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy.

My thanks to Betty Clermont’s recent Daily Kos article that shed some well defined light on the above tidbit presented in the global MSM.


The Mightiest SuperPAC of All

Integration in an international monetary network Each bishop, archbishop and cardinal is hand-picked by the pope and each “official” Catholic organization is tied to the pope through its approving hierarch. Also obedient to the pope are lay associations like the Knights of Columbus which, as of 2007, claimed assets of over $14 billion. Supreme Knight, Carl Anderson, former member of the Reagan administration, sits on the Board of Superintendence of the Vatican Bank or IOR (Istituto per le Opere di Religione). They are all part of a world-wide financial network run from the Vatican. 
A popular misconception is that the Vatican itself is sitting on top of some huge fortune. Relative to other hordes, that’s not the case. The IOR itself is reported to hold only $5 billion on deposit.  The art, antiquities and architectural treasures actually cost the Vatican a great deal of money to preserve. The real value comes from having been an unregulated “offshore” tax haven for Italian account holders and a clearing house for the international financial community to move clandestine funds around the globe.
It was reported this week that the Vatican was included in a list of 67 Countries which could be potentially susceptible to money-laundering according to the U.S. Department of State’s annual drug-trafficking report. “To be considered a jurisdiction of concern merely indicates that there is a vulnerability to a financial system by money launderers. With the large volumes of international currency that goes through the Holy See, it is a system that makes it vulnerable as a potential money-laundering center” said Susan Pittman of the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.  
The London Telegraph had reported that the Vatican Bank was the eighth most popular destination for laundered money, ahead of the Bahamas, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The reason for this is that you cannot trace any movement of cash within the bank. “This corruption is continuing on a regular basis in the Vatican,” claimed attorney Jonathan Levy. “There’s no reason for a religion to have a bank that does worldwide commercial activities, dealing in gold, dealing in insurance, dealing in property and then hiding behind the Roman Catholic Church.”

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Pope John Paul I – the last pope – the smiling pope



I was struck by some comment in some blog or in a “progressive” Catholic Newspaper that allows polite dissenting opinion/comments.  In that Newspaper, the response was somehow related in the mind of the commentor to the current Public Relations crisis, not a MORAL crisis, in the American Catholic Church over one of their masonic like, magically politically like, connected bishops, Robert Finn KC/MO stonewalling the public over his criminal mishandling of a typical pedo priest cover up in the Diocese of Kansa City / St. Joseph Missouri. 

The comment was from a female, and she said something to the effect that all the good will and hope and good Christian Catholic vibes that had come out of V2, Vatican II, had died with Albino Luciani and his “murder”, which seems to be a match for the popular meme opinion on the way the Vatican II spirit somehow got hijacked along the timeline thing and got tossed off a cliff.
 
And of course, the murder thing is retro-active revisionism, reflective of Coppola’s Godfather III, similar in fact to how all outer space aliens began to look like what I believe are called the “Greys”, after Spielberg’s landmark flick “First Encounter of the Third Kind”.

While there was a lot of behind the scenes skullduggery going on in the background of John Paul I’s short reign, I feel certain he knew little to nothing about the political forces, Propaganda Due (P2) masonic lodges, and economic forces, Banco Ambrosiano, in which the Vatican was a large shareholder.  I doubt Luciani would have touched the arrangements that Banco Ambrosiano had to launder money for the CIA to the Contras and elsewhere in U.S.’s global eternal cold war against the Soviets.  The church and the U.S.A. had a shared enemy, the U.S.S.R..

The contamination of church by the state, virtually little or no separation of it in Italy, began on the political end of it, by young Turks all joining in secret Masonic orders, in the Cold War, to protect the status quo in Italy.  This all no doubt made its way, in a social manner, to zealous seminarians and priests, now senior Vatican officials and bishops worldwide – which is another matter I think but not unrelated to the present Public Relations crisis in the RC church.   All going on in the background noise of John Paul I’s very short reign of 33 days.    Sometimes a heart attack is just a heart attack.


And considering who the next pope was and how a Polish American PAC of sorts helped him to get elected with lots of American funds –


and how Polish Bishop/General Karol Wojtyła (VoyTeeWa) made all the right moves against the Soviet Union (as proxy?), and at the same time hid all the religious changes behind his vision, his march back to the middle ages that Benedict XVI so gleefully agrees with, continues with, I have to think that Albino Luciani, Pope John Paul I, was the last pope before this modern Cult of Personality in the Vatican started under media “Rock Star” John Paul II.

That modern media Rock Star Cult of Papal Authority, of noise, of news sound bites, started in the Cold War which  seems to matter more to JPII’s appointed  lieutenants and Benedict’s too, bishops with whom no common sense, human rights, human decency or human warmth matter.  News at 11.


Who is this Jesus character anyway?  Who does he work for these days?  (Wink. Nod) 


Unemployed?  His own fault!


A bum?




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Friday, July 1, 2011

Benedict XVI and his new Holy Roman Empire

I heard something the other day from a practicing Catholic. It had to do with the present German Pope and his attempt to reestablish the Holy Roman Empire in Europe.


What is this all about? This sounds a bit far fetched at first but if you look at the historic footprints, it is a plausible statement.


The RC church’s long term plan since Napoleon seems to be to have one dominant Catholic political power under a new so called Holy Roman Emperor. Democracy is deemed totally secondary to supreme authority of the church and or the state with the church.


The countries of Europe at present are involved in a European Union. There had recently been a new official job in that political union calling for the office of President of the European Council.


A man who openly campaigned for this new office was former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a recent convert to Roman Catholicism. He didn’t get that appointment but one has to wonder if the Vatican was rooting for Tony in their long, long term plans for a one holy and Catholic Europe.


One of the recent Wikileaks diplomatic documents sheds light on Benedict XVI opposition to letting Turkey, a Muslim country, from joining the European Union. Turkey should have a special relationship with Europe but not be a full member according to that leaked document. Europe should think of itself as a Christian entity and not be mixed with other belief systems in on Benedict’s wish list and his struggle against European secularism.


WikiLeaks cables: Pope wanted Muslim Turkey kept out of EU
 
Of course, as a political and financial entity, the Vatican Bank is currently in the middle of a money laundering scandal with Italian authorities.  Nothing new there.  The Vatican and its bankers are as corrupt as any other political state.



I did run into a blog article that I found interesting about the Vatican’s political swings back and forth over the past two centuries without an official Holy Roman Emperor.  The article implied that Pius XII was already in line to have Hitler, a baptized catholic, establish Roman Catholicism as the official religion under a German controlled Europe.

The Holy Roman Empire, Hitler, and Benedict XVI


Makes you wonder with the present financial turmoil and Germany at the center of a stabilizing financial factor in a declining economic European Union.


It is important to recognize that the Roman Catholic Church had a long term strategy to restore Catholicism and Papal supremacy. In the short run they could tolerate dictators who were not subservient to the Pope if those dictators would create the conditions (by creating authoritarian states and exterminating non-Catholics) that would allow the Popes to end up at the top of the hierarchy.




Thus Europeans found themselves subject to Benito Mussolini in Italy, Adolf Hitler in Germany, General Petain in France, General Francisco Franco in Spain, and a host of lesser Catholic dictators.


In retrospect the Catholic Church lost its great gamble for control of the world. The Protestants (if you include atheists as Protestants) of Great Britain, the United States, and Russia defeated Pius XII (successor to Pius XI), Hitler and crew.
Makes you wonder what Pius XII is heading toward sainthood for – not for savings millions of Jews but for following the long term political gameplan of the Vatican’s great Catholic hope for Europe.
With the Polish Pope and the current Pope, Benedict XVI, we have seen the Catholic Church shed its fake liberalism of the post war period. Liberal Catholics have been mercilessly purged from the Church hierarchy.




Medieval styles of thought have begun to be promoted again. The Church has not openly advocated a return to monarchical government yet, but it has supported a number of right wing Catholic governments in Latin America and authoritarian politicians in Europe…