"My God - they killed him!"
The streets are filled with vipers who've lost all ray of hope
You know it ain't even safe no more in the palace of the Pope
- Bob Dylan
Is everything a conspiracy? No. Just the important stuff.
Since there's a lot of speculation these days about who will succeed Pope John Paul II, it seems a good time to recall the circumstances of the last papal succession. Because Luciani Albini, Pope John Paul I, was almost certainly murdered, by an international network of fascists and money launderers, with ties to far-right elements within military and intelligence agencies. (And isn't it just amazing, how often we find that convergence?)
He only served 33 days; what could he have done in that short time to deserve death? What kind of Pope was he becoming?
To the second question, there's the suggestion of an answer in this passage from David Yallop's In God's Name:
On August 28, the beginning of his papal revolution was announced. It took the form of a Vatican statement that there was to be no coronation, that the new pope refused to be crowned. There would be no sedia gestatoria, the chair used to carry the pope, no tiara encrusted with emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds. No ostrich feathers, no six-hour ceremony.... Luciani, who never once used the royal "we," was determined that the royal papacy with its appurtenances of worldly grandeur should be replaced by a Church that resembled the concepts of its founder. The "coronation" became a simple Mass. The spectacle of a pontiff carried in a chair...was supplanted by the sight of a supreme pastor quietly walking up the steps of the altar. With that gesture Luciani abolished a thousand years of history.... The era of the poor Church had officially begun.
That right there would have been enough to make the Vatican's power elite nervous, but surely not enough to seek the Pope's death. Not even his expressed interest in reconsidering the Church's position on birth control would have been enough for that. What was enough, was his intent to overturn the tables of the corrupt Vatican Bank, and purge the Vatican of the P2 Lodge.
This is one of those things that make being a "conspiracy theorist" seem entirely superfluous. Just try imagining P2: an elite, ultra-secretive, neo-fascist, Masonic cabal, involved in money laundering, assassination and false-flag terrorism. (The "Strategy of Tension," to discredit Italy's Communist Party. For instance, the engineering of Aldo Moro's kidnapping and murder, and the Bologna train bombing.) P2 counted among its members the future Italian President Silvio Berlusconi, and reputedly boasted honourary members like Henry Kissinger, George HW Bush and arch-neocon, Michael Ledeen.
I mentioned P2 last August, with regard to Ledeen's long history with the Italian far right and the linchpin of Italian military intelligence to the Niger "Yellow Cake" forgery. [For more on the significance of P2 to US intelligence and the "Octopus," refer to David Guyatt's excellent articles "Operation Gladio", "Holy Smoke and Mirrors" and "The Money Fountain."]
Licio Gelli was P2's Grandmaster, and can't even be called a neo-fascist. He was Old School: a member of the Italian Black Shirt Brigade which fought for Franco in the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, he spied on partisans in his native Italy for the Nazis, and obtained the SS rank of Oberleutenant. This same Gelli was a honoured guest of George HW Bush after the 1980 inauguration, and there is evidence that Gelli and P2 played a role in the October Surprise; even that Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered on Gelli's orders because he'd refused to provide Swedish cover for the covert transfer of money and arms. In her October Surprise, Barbara Honegger writes that a P2 informant claimed to her that before Palme's death, Gelli sent a message to former Republican National Committee advisor (and also alleged "honourary" P2 member) Philip Guarino, assuring him that "the Swedish tree will be felled," and to "tell our good friend Bush."
Your head exploding yet? There's more. GHW Bush's reputed code name for October Surprise was "The White Rose," which was also the name of a far-right Cuban exile group with which the CIA's Bush was reportedly engaged during the ramp-up to the Bay of Pigs. Honneger reports that when Italian police uncovered the P2 control cell responsible for terrorism in Italy, they learned that its code name was "The Rose of Twenty." Gelli seems to have had a weakness for the flower.
And this may mean nothing, or I know what you did: in 1988, on the 25th anniversary of John F Kennedy's murder, Ted Kennedy marked the occasion in Runnymede England by placing, at the foot of his brother's memorial, a single white rose.
Gelli's network financed itself in part by purchasing and plundering banks, thanks to the likes of P2 brothers Michele Sindona and "God's Banker," Roberto Calvi. Mafioso Sindona, in 1968, had become a financial advisor to Pope Paul VI; Calvi was running Banco Ambrosiano; and another P2 member, American Bishop Paul "You can't run the Church on Hail Marys" Marcinkus, who bore the nickname "the Gorilla," was heading the Vatican Bank. For a while, it was a sweet operation.
Clockwise, from top right: Calvi, Marcinkus, Sindona and Gelli
As cardinal of Venice, Albini had butted heads with the bankers. As Pope, he could finally do something more. Most revelatory, he became privy to the secret list of Freemasons in the Vatican. For the first time, he learned of P2's penetration of the Church.
Yallop again:
If the information was authentic, then it meant Luciani was virtually surrouded by Masons.... The secretary of state, Cardinal Villot, Masonic name Jeanni, lodge number 041/3, enrolled in a Zurich lodge on August 6, 1966. The foreign minister, Monsignor Agnostino Casaroli. The cardinal vicar of Rome, Ugo Poletti. Cardinal Baggio. Bishop Paul Marcinkus and Monsignor Donato de Bonis of the Vatican Bank. The disconcerted pope read a list that seemed like a Who's Who of Vatican City.
Here's a good summation of what happened next:
With his bright intelligence and naive fearlessness, John Paul I penetrated to the heart of this maze of corruption within weeks of his coronation. On the evening of September 28, 1978, he called Cardinal Villot, the leader of the powerful Curia, to his private study to discuss certain changes that the Pope proposed to make public the next day.... Among those whose "resignations" would be accepted by the Pontiff the following day were the head of the Vatican Bank, and several members of the Curia who were implicated in the activities of Sindona and P2, and Villot himself. Moreover, Villot was told that John Paul I would also announce plans for a meeting on October 24 with an American delegation to discuss a reconsideration of the Church's position on birth control.
When Pope John Paul I retired to his bedroom on the evening of September 28, clutching the paperwork that would expose the Vatican's financial dealings with the Mafia and purge the Curia of those responsible, a number of very ruthless individuals had a great interest in seeing to it that he would never awaken to issue these directives.
When the Pope's housekeeper knocked at his door at 4:30 a.m., she heard no response. Leaving a cup of coffee, she returned fifteen minutes later to find the Pope still not stirring. She entered the bed chamber and gasped when she saw the Pope propped up in bed, still holding papers from the night before, his face contorted in a grimace. On the night table beside him lay an opened bottle of Effortil, a medication for his low blood pressure. The housekeeper immediately notified Cardinal Villot, whose first response to the news was to summon the papal morticians even before verifying the death himself or calling the Vatican physician to examine the body. Villot arrived in the Pope's room at 5:00 a.m. and gathered the crucial papers, the Effortil bottle, and several personal items which were soiled with vomit. None of these articles were ever seen again.
Although the Vatican claimed that its house physician had determined myocardial infarction as the cause of death, to this day no death certificate for Pope John Paul I has been made public. Although Italian law requires a waiting period of at least 24 hours before a body may be embalmed, Cardinal Villot had the body of Albino Luciani prepared for within 12 hours of his death. Although the Vatican refused to allow an autopsy on the basis of an alleged prohibition against it in canon law, the Italian press verified that an autopsy had in fact been performed on one of the Pope's predecessors, Pius VIII. Although the conventional procedure for embalming a body requires that the blood first be drained and certain internal organs removed, neither blood nor tissue was removed from the corpse; hence, none was available to assay for the presence of poison.
There's an old Kris Kristofferson song, entitled "They Killed Him." I learned it from a Dylan cover, on almost certainly his weakest album, Knocked Out Loaded. To be honest, it's pretty lousy. (If you haven't heard it, all you need to know is it has a children's chorus.) And yet, it chills me.
A verse:
Another man from Atlanta, Georgia
By name of Martin Luther King
He shook the land like the rolling thunder
And made the bells of freedom ring today
With a dream of beauty that they could not burn away
Just another holy man who dared to make a stand:
My God, they killed him!
My point here hasn't been to rehash the case for assassination. My point, I suppose, is simply my exasperation: that My God - they killed him, too!
This material can lead to despair. If they can whack the Pope, and get away with it, what hope do we have? I don't find it consoling to know of what they're capable; that they are, as Dylan sang in another song, "bound and determined to destroy all the gentle." That's not about justice. That's about being forewarned, and forearmed. And these days, that's almost as important as justice.
But it is a consolation of sorts to remember that these people are flesh, just as we are. Gelli is still alive, but since his extradition from France in 1998, he has been serving a 12-year sentence for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano affair. Marcinkus received Vatican immunity from Pope John Paul II, when it became apparent Italian authorities intended to prosecute him for his criminal stewardship of the Vatican Bank, and eventually left Rome for Sun City, Arizona. (A fascinating glimpse of Marcinkus today, here.) Sindona died in prison drinking poison coffee, possibly the same administered to the Pope. Calvi, after his string played out, met a peculiarly Masonic fate, hanging from a rope beneath London's Blackfriar's Bridge, his hands tied behind his back and 12 pounds of bricks stuffed in his pockets. (Naturally, originally deemed a "suicide.")
The suicided Calvi
Our advantage is that there are more of us than there are of them.
Our greatest disadvantage: most of us still can't admit there is a them.
You know it ain't even safe no more in the palace of the Pope
- Bob Dylan
Is everything a conspiracy? No. Just the important stuff.
Since there's a lot of speculation these days about who will succeed Pope John Paul II, it seems a good time to recall the circumstances of the last papal succession. Because Luciani Albini, Pope John Paul I, was almost certainly murdered, by an international network of fascists and money launderers, with ties to far-right elements within military and intelligence agencies. (And isn't it just amazing, how often we find that convergence?)
He only served 33 days; what could he have done in that short time to deserve death? What kind of Pope was he becoming?
To the second question, there's the suggestion of an answer in this passage from David Yallop's In God's Name:
On August 28, the beginning of his papal revolution was announced. It took the form of a Vatican statement that there was to be no coronation, that the new pope refused to be crowned. There would be no sedia gestatoria, the chair used to carry the pope, no tiara encrusted with emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds. No ostrich feathers, no six-hour ceremony.... Luciani, who never once used the royal "we," was determined that the royal papacy with its appurtenances of worldly grandeur should be replaced by a Church that resembled the concepts of its founder. The "coronation" became a simple Mass. The spectacle of a pontiff carried in a chair...was supplanted by the sight of a supreme pastor quietly walking up the steps of the altar. With that gesture Luciani abolished a thousand years of history.... The era of the poor Church had officially begun.
That right there would have been enough to make the Vatican's power elite nervous, but surely not enough to seek the Pope's death. Not even his expressed interest in reconsidering the Church's position on birth control would have been enough for that. What was enough, was his intent to overturn the tables of the corrupt Vatican Bank, and purge the Vatican of the P2 Lodge.
This is one of those things that make being a "conspiracy theorist" seem entirely superfluous. Just try imagining P2: an elite, ultra-secretive, neo-fascist, Masonic cabal, involved in money laundering, assassination and false-flag terrorism. (The "Strategy of Tension," to discredit Italy's Communist Party. For instance, the engineering of Aldo Moro's kidnapping and murder, and the Bologna train bombing.) P2 counted among its members the future Italian President Silvio Berlusconi, and reputedly boasted honourary members like Henry Kissinger, George HW Bush and arch-neocon, Michael Ledeen.
I mentioned P2 last August, with regard to Ledeen's long history with the Italian far right and the linchpin of Italian military intelligence to the Niger "Yellow Cake" forgery. [For more on the significance of P2 to US intelligence and the "Octopus," refer to David Guyatt's excellent articles "Operation Gladio", "Holy Smoke and Mirrors" and "The Money Fountain."]
Licio Gelli was P2's Grandmaster, and can't even be called a neo-fascist. He was Old School: a member of the Italian Black Shirt Brigade which fought for Franco in the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, he spied on partisans in his native Italy for the Nazis, and obtained the SS rank of Oberleutenant. This same Gelli was a honoured guest of George HW Bush after the 1980 inauguration, and there is evidence that Gelli and P2 played a role in the October Surprise; even that Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered on Gelli's orders because he'd refused to provide Swedish cover for the covert transfer of money and arms. In her October Surprise, Barbara Honegger writes that a P2 informant claimed to her that before Palme's death, Gelli sent a message to former Republican National Committee advisor (and also alleged "honourary" P2 member) Philip Guarino, assuring him that "the Swedish tree will be felled," and to "tell our good friend Bush."
Your head exploding yet? There's more. GHW Bush's reputed code name for October Surprise was "The White Rose," which was also the name of a far-right Cuban exile group with which the CIA's Bush was reportedly engaged during the ramp-up to the Bay of Pigs. Honneger reports that when Italian police uncovered the P2 control cell responsible for terrorism in Italy, they learned that its code name was "The Rose of Twenty." Gelli seems to have had a weakness for the flower.
And this may mean nothing, or I know what you did: in 1988, on the 25th anniversary of John F Kennedy's murder, Ted Kennedy marked the occasion in Runnymede England by placing, at the foot of his brother's memorial, a single white rose.
Gelli's network financed itself in part by purchasing and plundering banks, thanks to the likes of P2 brothers Michele Sindona and "God's Banker," Roberto Calvi. Mafioso Sindona, in 1968, had become a financial advisor to Pope Paul VI; Calvi was running Banco Ambrosiano; and another P2 member, American Bishop Paul "You can't run the Church on Hail Marys" Marcinkus, who bore the nickname "the Gorilla," was heading the Vatican Bank. For a while, it was a sweet operation.
Clockwise, from top right: Calvi, Marcinkus, Sindona and Gelli
As cardinal of Venice, Albini had butted heads with the bankers. As Pope, he could finally do something more. Most revelatory, he became privy to the secret list of Freemasons in the Vatican. For the first time, he learned of P2's penetration of the Church.
Yallop again:
If the information was authentic, then it meant Luciani was virtually surrouded by Masons.... The secretary of state, Cardinal Villot, Masonic name Jeanni, lodge number 041/3, enrolled in a Zurich lodge on August 6, 1966. The foreign minister, Monsignor Agnostino Casaroli. The cardinal vicar of Rome, Ugo Poletti. Cardinal Baggio. Bishop Paul Marcinkus and Monsignor Donato de Bonis of the Vatican Bank. The disconcerted pope read a list that seemed like a Who's Who of Vatican City.
Here's a good summation of what happened next:
With his bright intelligence and naive fearlessness, John Paul I penetrated to the heart of this maze of corruption within weeks of his coronation. On the evening of September 28, 1978, he called Cardinal Villot, the leader of the powerful Curia, to his private study to discuss certain changes that the Pope proposed to make public the next day.... Among those whose "resignations" would be accepted by the Pontiff the following day were the head of the Vatican Bank, and several members of the Curia who were implicated in the activities of Sindona and P2, and Villot himself. Moreover, Villot was told that John Paul I would also announce plans for a meeting on October 24 with an American delegation to discuss a reconsideration of the Church's position on birth control.
When Pope John Paul I retired to his bedroom on the evening of September 28, clutching the paperwork that would expose the Vatican's financial dealings with the Mafia and purge the Curia of those responsible, a number of very ruthless individuals had a great interest in seeing to it that he would never awaken to issue these directives.
When the Pope's housekeeper knocked at his door at 4:30 a.m., she heard no response. Leaving a cup of coffee, she returned fifteen minutes later to find the Pope still not stirring. She entered the bed chamber and gasped when she saw the Pope propped up in bed, still holding papers from the night before, his face contorted in a grimace. On the night table beside him lay an opened bottle of Effortil, a medication for his low blood pressure. The housekeeper immediately notified Cardinal Villot, whose first response to the news was to summon the papal morticians even before verifying the death himself or calling the Vatican physician to examine the body. Villot arrived in the Pope's room at 5:00 a.m. and gathered the crucial papers, the Effortil bottle, and several personal items which were soiled with vomit. None of these articles were ever seen again.
Although the Vatican claimed that its house physician had determined myocardial infarction as the cause of death, to this day no death certificate for Pope John Paul I has been made public. Although Italian law requires a waiting period of at least 24 hours before a body may be embalmed, Cardinal Villot had the body of Albino Luciani prepared for within 12 hours of his death. Although the Vatican refused to allow an autopsy on the basis of an alleged prohibition against it in canon law, the Italian press verified that an autopsy had in fact been performed on one of the Pope's predecessors, Pius VIII. Although the conventional procedure for embalming a body requires that the blood first be drained and certain internal organs removed, neither blood nor tissue was removed from the corpse; hence, none was available to assay for the presence of poison.
There's an old Kris Kristofferson song, entitled "They Killed Him." I learned it from a Dylan cover, on almost certainly his weakest album, Knocked Out Loaded. To be honest, it's pretty lousy. (If you haven't heard it, all you need to know is it has a children's chorus.) And yet, it chills me.
A verse:
Another man from Atlanta, Georgia
By name of Martin Luther King
He shook the land like the rolling thunder
And made the bells of freedom ring today
With a dream of beauty that they could not burn away
Just another holy man who dared to make a stand:
My God, they killed him!
My point here hasn't been to rehash the case for assassination. My point, I suppose, is simply my exasperation: that My God - they killed him, too!
This material can lead to despair. If they can whack the Pope, and get away with it, what hope do we have? I don't find it consoling to know of what they're capable; that they are, as Dylan sang in another song, "bound and determined to destroy all the gentle." That's not about justice. That's about being forewarned, and forearmed. And these days, that's almost as important as justice.
But it is a consolation of sorts to remember that these people are flesh, just as we are. Gelli is still alive, but since his extradition from France in 1998, he has been serving a 12-year sentence for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano affair. Marcinkus received Vatican immunity from Pope John Paul II, when it became apparent Italian authorities intended to prosecute him for his criminal stewardship of the Vatican Bank, and eventually left Rome for Sun City, Arizona. (A fascinating glimpse of Marcinkus today, here.) Sindona died in prison drinking poison coffee, possibly the same administered to the Pope. Calvi, after his string played out, met a peculiarly Masonic fate, hanging from a rope beneath London's Blackfriar's Bridge, his hands tied behind his back and 12 pounds of bricks stuffed in his pockets. (Naturally, originally deemed a "suicide.")
The suicided Calvi
Our advantage is that there are more of us than there are of them.
Our greatest disadvantage: most of us still can't admit there is a them.
posted by Jeff Wells at 3:07 p.m.
66 Comments:
Wow-- what a great post.
I had no idea about this story (but as a non-Catholic I'm fairly clueless about Vatican politics). While we may feel powerless over over this sort of evil, the one power we have is in spreading the information. I think it is incredibly important for you to get stories like this out in the public domain. Thanks.
Spooked
Right now I just feel sick in my stomach. For me it´s very hard to handle this information.
I heard vaguely about the Bank Ambrosia scandal and I knew that there is sometimes corruption within the Church. There has been often during the ages. It would not shake my faith.
I also knew about the P2 and Berlusconi.
But this, the Church being riddled by Free Masons, many of them in the Vatican, being able to kill the Pope....
Free Masons are supposed to be atheists, aren´t they. Some even say, they are kind of Satanists.
How for God´s sake is this possible?
People can sin, that´s human, priests can sin, even fall into serious sin, sometimes even crimimnal sins. It´s sad, but it happens.
But to join an anti-christian organisation, is more than falling for a temptation. It is deliberate.
How can a person after the committment he takes to become a priest, sacrificing a normal life, turn around and do something like this?
What psychological means do those organisations use to get priests to join them?
I´m still shocked and sick, but I want to know.
If we know how they work, maybe they can be stopped (at some future time, probably, if there is still some of humanity left).
I'm not a Catholic, but I find this very distressing material, too. It also contributes to my growing, regretable persuasion that there is a spiritual/occult dimension to what we find ourselves up against.
An interesting quote here from Malachi Martin, especially in light of some of the earlier posts re ritual abuse and pedophilia:
"Most frighteningly for Pope John Paul II, he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’. . . an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia—rites and practices— was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites." (p. 632. The Keys of This Blood)
http://www.tldm.org/news/martin.htm
The following < eye-widening > paragraphs are an excerpt from the website:
http://www.plim.org/Freemasonp1.htm
Captain Morgan of Batavia New York was the first person to reveal some of the inner secrets of Freemasonry, which resulted in the Masons murdering him (in 1826). He revealed the initiation rites of the lower degrees or the Blue Degrees, which included rituals, passwords, and secret oaths. William T. Still wrote in his book 'New World Order': “The concern over the influence of secret societies in the United States grew steadily until an anti-Masonic explosion erupted in 1826, after the murder of one Captain William Morgan, of Batavia New York. Morgan was killed by Masons shortly after obtaining a copyright for an expose on Masonry. Morgan’s crime was that he was the first to publish the complete rituals, including the oaths and secret passwords of the first three degrees of Masonry, known as the Blue Lodge (p. 98).”
Now Captain Morgan’s book touched off a firestorm. According to William T. Still in 1826 there were 50,000 Masons in America. After the publishing of this book 45,000 left the Masons and resulted in as many 2,000 lodges closing between 1830-1840. As the result of this scandal, a political party called the Anti-Mason party was formed. It got 130,000 votes in the 1832 presidential election and carryied the state of Vermont. William T. Still quoted William J. Whalen’s writing in 1958, who explained: “…Rhode Island and Vermont passed laws against blood oaths. Thousands of Masons burned their aprons. In a few years time, membership in the New York lodges dropped from 30,000 to 300 as a direct result of the Morgan incident( p. 108).”
Two states, New York and Massachusetts, began an investigation of the Masons. The findings of these states showed the power the Masons had over the press at this time and the influence of the Masons in the political arena. Bill Still lists their findings below:
• The New York State Senate in 1829 began an investigation of the Masons. Its findings revealed that Masonry was “composed of powerful and wealthy men whose members held office in almost “every place where any importance.” They also criticized the role of the press, thereof, saying the press had been “...silent as the grave. This proclaimed sentinel of freedom, has felt or has been smitten with the rod of its power.”
• Five years later, in 1834, a joint Committee of the Massachusetts legislature investigated the Craft. “It found that Freemasonry was a distinct independent government within our own government, and beyond the control of the laws of the land by means of its secrecy.”
It there is any doubt of the Masons’ influence in this country an incident with one the U.S. President should clarify the point. This incident is not in most history books. If it is, the most important facts are left out. The U.S. Congress tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson because he pardoned Albert Pike, who was a General in the Southern Army when they fought against the North in the Civil War.
After the Civil War, Pike was tried for treason, found guilty, and sent to jail. Many of the Mason brothers used their influence to get Pike pardoned for he was the Grand Master of the Southern District. Now President Andrew Johnson, being a Mason, pardoned Pike April 22, 1867, but did not inform the press for nine months. Because of the Anti-Mason fervor in this country, Congress impeached President Johnson in March 1867. During this impeachment hearing President Johnson, Albert Pike and General Granger had a meeting for three hours in the White House. The General was summoned by the house Judiciary Committee and asked about this meeting. William Still’s book stated that the General said the following. “They [President Johnson and Pike] talked a great deal about Masonry. More about that than anything else. And from what they talked about between them ... I understood from the conversation that the President was [Pike’s] subordinate in Masonry (p. 123).”
Shortly thereafter, President Johnson was given the fourth through the 32nd degrees of the Scottish Rite Masonry in his bedroom in the White House. Now this shows the power and the influence of Masonry and its shows that the President of the United States is subordinate to the Grand Master of Freemasonry.
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*Please Note: There are other sources which cite Freemasonry involvement in President Lincoln's assassination and document the Masonic ties of John Wilkes Booth.
clarification to the previously listed excerpt:
Andrew Johnson's impeachment, trial & aquittal occurred during spring 1868.
(the source website had a typo -- "1867")
gee this is interesting ,I am led to believe that the Illuminati were a jesuit infiltration of masonry 1776
and suprise,masons infiltrate the vatican 1963.
great post!!
What psychological means do those organisations use to get priests to join them?I dunno but I suspect the short answer is blackmail and the long answer is "Crimen Sollicitationis".
Perhaps you know it... A real expert on this stuff is, as far as I can judge, emad from DU. Apparently she has very indepth inside knowledge of a lot of sinister and interesting things (regarding the pope, Calvi-Gelli, BCCI, ...).
One of her more wild claims was that the current pope was married .
She responds to PM.
gandalf
Great article once again, however 2 of the photos are not loading properly. Evil conspiracy or simple technical error?
Thanks!
Since you fellows don't seem to know. Masonry is a form of Gnostic Christianity. Not an Athiest, or Satanic cult. You guys, man, why dont you just go join them and read their books? You might learn who they are or at least were... You really should get out more.
St. Germaine
It's not that surprising that a pope's murder could be covered up, given the secretive and insular nature of the Vatican and its Curiae.
How about the murder of a US president in public broad daylight in a major US city, or the murder of 2,500 and the destruction of several billions of dollars of real estate, while cameras roll live? Compared to these tour de forces, the murder of Pope John Paul I was a trivial thing to handle.
As bad as anyone can imagine it to be, it's probably worse than that.
Careful. When you decide to take the blue/red pill (sorry, forget which one it was), the truth will not only not set you free, but it will cause profound anxiety.
sofla
I am just so confused. Pope John I was my grandfathers cousin, and I can remember him telling me, "my cousin was murdered" yet I had no clue. Years later, checking on the current popes condition, I find about Pope John Paul I. Why they think he was murdered and I makes alot of sence to me. Also, I live with a man that I love and adore who is a Mason...I feel mixed feelings right now.....
D. Luciani
To St. Germaine, I have the impression, too, that freemasons are generally a harmless sort of religiously oriented social club, akin to the Elks, Jaycees, Lions, etc. I think my grandfather was clubmember, too. However, secret clubs also seem to lend themselves to infiltration by people with sinister intentions and agendas. Take a look at this Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due) entry on the P2 lodge which mostly corroborates the information by Jeff, above.
As interesting as all of this information is, I'm not surprised at the thought that the previous pope was assassinated. It's clear that any organisation that holds such a power over an estimated billion people is susceptible to corruption, if not doomed to it immediately. However, given the nature of the church, catholic or otherwise, I fear that corruption happened at its founding, or, in other words, its founding was based on an impulse to control a theology whose influence was growing rapidly. So, basically, the killing of the new pope was not an attempt to acquire greater control of the powerful organisation, but rather, to ensure that the purpose of the church was not compromised... Let's not pretend that a stranglehold over the minds of millions was originally a 'noble' endeavor by the devout...
All power is based on currency.
All revolutions are based on lack of currency in the peoples hands.
The cycle is repeated over and over and nobody seems to learn.
The only solution is to eliminate currency. The only way to do this is to become self empowered and work with your neighbors for your common good.
Planting the seed of this idea, even if it appears impractical at the moment is of absolute importance because it is the only solution for society.
neoconevil? pedophiliac communist homosexuals? save the males? are people like this sent to spin the spin till it all falls off the table?
Did *they* whack the pope?
Does a bear shit in the woods?
All this horrified response presupposes a pope surrounded and supported by a protective network with *his* best interests at heart. The pope is a prisoner and a puppet; a representative, not of God nor the people, but of the organisation that profits from the status quo. Nobody easier to whack than the pontiff, if he steps out of line.
Jeff, I like your intellect and I think your intuitive instincts are good. But it's important to DIG, and that entails searching out more details and authoritative bibliographic sources, and not appearing to give them equal weight in the course of considering all the written material on the topic of organizations like the P2 Lodge.
The Weird Speculations offered by both yourself and your respondents about the innate nature of Masonry are all well and good, in their place. But for that, we have Freemasonry Watch, and I think merely reiterating their metaphysical critique is unnecessary. It's also wide of the mark when considering specifics of criminal misconduct.
For the record, Licio Gelli did hold the rank equivalent to Lieutenant in the Waffen SS. The Waffen SS was different from the Totenkopf SS. The Waffen SS was a multinational force that consisted largely of non-German members of the Axis, mashalled into legions as paramilitaries. There were units representing a variety of European ethnicities, including non-national groupings such as the Walloons and the Galicians. Gelli was in the Italian force, stationed in northern Italy in Trieste. He evidently had a lot of dealings with the Ustashi Croatians under Pavelic. In fact, when the police raided his Tuscan mansion, the Villa Wanda, in 1998, they found $$$ millions in gold bars from the treasury of old Croatia buried in the geranium pots on the terrazzo. Gelli also helped to run the Nazi ratline out of Trieste to Argentina. But he made sure to do some favors for the Communist partisans at the end of the war as well. Such is the nature of the intelligence game, and power brokering...
Gelli is NOT in an Italian prison. He's back in Italy, following yet another hasty departure from Italy in 1998, when he was eventually picked up on the French Riviera and extradited. I think (need to check this) that he was under house arrest in Italy for a while afterwards, but I think that he's won his latest round of appeals and is currently a free man!
English-language records of Gelli's life and career are in short supply on the Internet. Here is an interview with him that appeared in the Italian newsmagazine La Repubblica not too long ago, Sept. 28, 2003. I managed to archive a rough but mostly understandable Italian translation from Yahoo!- http://tools.search.yahoo.com/language/translation/translatedPage.php?tt=url&text=http%3a//www.repubblica.it/2003/i/sezioni/politica/gelli/gelli/gelli.html&lp=it_en&.intl=us&fr=FP-tab-web-t
Incidentally, I read Power On Earth. Well worth the while, as long as one understands that Michele Sindona is a master disinformationist. With that caveat, there are some prescient details in that book. For instance, Sindona gives the best lecture I've read anywhere on the state of the art of money laundering in the 1980s era...then Sindona goes on to make insinuations about the network that is now in retrospect known to have been involved in all of those Asian gold trades, as per the info of David Guyatt and Sterling Seagraves...
(did I mention that this can get confusing?)
But by far the best book I've read on Gelli and the Propaganda 2 Lodge is Puppetmasters:The Political Uses of Terror In Italy, by Philip Willan.(That's Willan with two "l"s, not one "l", the way it is mistakenly printed in the bibliography of Martin Lee's book The Beast Reawakens. Lee's the only author I've known to reference the book.) Puppetmasters was published by Constable House, and yes, I believe that, like Power On Earth (and Penny Lernoux's invaluable In Banks We Trust), Puppetmasters is out of print. I first got my copy out of the UC library system- a total of one copy for the entire UC system, it's in the stacks at Berkeley.
One of the data points included in Willan's book is the statement that while his actual wealth is unknown, Gelli's fortune was estimated at around $200 million USD circa 1990. Admittedly, only a guess...
By the way, reknowned sometime conspiracy speculator Robert Anton Wilson is a lightweight on the topic of Gelli and the P2 Lodge, and in my opinion much of what he's had to say about the subject should be put aside to consider more concrete evidential trails.
As for Barbara Honegger, I regard her October Surprise book as one-source hearsay. As such, I consider it much less reliable than either Puppetmasters, In Banks We Trust, or The Calvi Affair, by Larry Gurwin. Those are the best books I've found on the topic.
David Yallop's In God's Name, which you've already referenced, doesn't dig as deep into the specifics of the P2 power network. That said, I think that Yallop may well have been on to something. And the I think his views on the clerical infiltration by organized Masonic networks are well worth considering.
(For those with the time and inclination, a point-counterpoint of the contrasting claims in Sindona's memoir Power On Earth and Luigi DiFonzo's St. Peter's Banker might make for an enlightening project. I don't have the energy or expertise for it.)
By the way, I should have my own blogspot blog, Reality Quest, up and running soon. We'll compare notes, Jeff. Here's hoping that neither of us meets the fate of Mino Pecorelli...
Great Post, thanks for helping to keep us informed. I knew there was more to the Papacy and the Church than meets the eye, but this info is outstanding. I will spread the word. I believe that the more people know what is really going on, the better chance we have to make a difference. Keep up the great work!
You can't take a conspiracy author's works at face value. Did you bother to check the "facts" of any of the authors you cited in your posting?
I'm not a catholic or christian by any means but your information seems dubious at best and at worst, grossly irresponsible. This is why bloggers should never get journalistic protection. Free speech protection yes, but journalistic protection?
My advice, enroll at your local community college and take a critical thinking class and afterwards, you may see how flawed your argument is.
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” – Herbert Spencer
Stuff that under your Critical Thinking cap, "skeptic shock."
Oh no, the Elvis Clones from the year 2016 are coming to destroy us! And Idaho potatoes are actually space babies whose parents are coming back for them and will destroy the Earth to retreive their children. And the massive global instustrial war complex machine black ops secret society Knights Templar Illuminati Mason Shriners Omega Group Super Secret Council of Steak will be uncovered as actually running the world through divining the future with the left over gristle on their dinner plates. Yeah, that’s it!
Seriously dude, put down the tinfoil and step away from the keyboard. Some skepicism is healthy but your site creeps me the hell out and not because of your 'exposure' of all these 'conspiracies.'
Well I'm off to consult with the Knights Templar Illuminati Mason Shriners Omega Group Super Secret Council of Steak on how to keep the truth from being known! /sarcasm
Love how some of these commenters read this and are like "oh wow thank you! I had no idea that...blah blah blah" like they can read this and beleive it right away without even blinking.
AN example of what is wrong with so many people today - their willingness to beleive The Crazy because it makes their own muddled lives seem less crazy in conparison.
"they can read this and beleive it right away without even blinking"
In my case, that's an unwarranted assumption.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I spent some years intensively researching many of the same topics that Jeff broaches on here, in repeated attempts to find for the Null Hypothesis, trying to debunk and refute "conspiracist" allegations with the tools of informal logic, Occam's Razor, the whole nine yards...
Instead, the more I looked into it, the more the evidence accumulated for long-lived networks of corruption and criminality, intertwining through the highest levels of political and economic power on this planet.
How I wish it weren't so. But facts are stubborn things.
...and that being the case, the facts aren't to be explained away by facile ad hominem attacks.
I am not a Catholic. However, the world has recognized JPII as a man of peace - even among Muslims and Jews. I am afraid that the next Pope will not be as concilliatory toward non-christian ways of life, especially Islam, and will be mum to the expansion of anti-Muslim thought and policies.
a belated kudos for your write up...having been buried by week long %^*%$#^#% concerning the Pope's sayonara ..... (as a long defunct catholic you'd think my guilt ridden sinning compatriots would be happy for the gentlemen considering he'll finally be enjoying the toga party with his supposed maker)..... I thought I'd put things into perspective by finally reading Yallop's book but thought 1st a quick look through google for passive commentary would prove interesting.....
well...interesting it's been although I am somwhat overwhelmed by the extent of it all....
anyways...from a fellow canuck ...accolades and kudos...a great read indeed...
:) elena april 2005
MAKOW is an interesting guy who posts much truth but his focus tends to waver. In one breath he'll label the conspiracy, simply "evil" or "satanic" (both true). But in the next breath he'll be falling back on 50-year-old John Birch fulminations about the commies being the source of all evil.
I like LaRouche's characterization of both the commies and the fascists as really just two branches of the same movement: "Synarchism," part of the ideology of revolution, which Nesta Webster covered pretty well, and which is also covered in James H. Billington's "Fire in the Minds of Men." The old Hegelian dialectic, you know.
And that movement, of course, can be traced back to Weishaupt. (Who in turn, can be traced back to a Jesuit university ... ah, boxes within boxes within boxes, huh?)
I see these Satanists as just a continuation of an age-old system of "occult theocracy."
The ROMAN Catholic Church is simply not any sort of Christian organization or faith--at least not in the sense of Christians as people who follow Jesus Christ. The RCC is first and foremost a political machine by which power, influence and wealth accrue to the elites; and then, a handy religious screen behind which to hide the really nasty, and purely evil, things that some of them enjoy doing. It is really Satanism.
It isn't hard to identify the RCC with the Whore, "Mystery, Babylon the Great" in Revelation 17. From this, and from history, many Bible students see that the RCC is a continuation of the ancient mystery cults, descended from Babylon via Pergamum and Rome, in the guise of Christianity. It really isn't all that hidden--the pagan symbolism is pretty all out there and in your face.
The position of "Pontiff" itself is derived from the mystery cults. You won't find it in the Bible or any other first-generation Christian writings, nor even the idea of hierarchy at all. The Christian assemblies, plural, were local groups who usually met in private homes for worship, fellowship and scripture reading. Most of them being Jews at first, they could also worship at the Temple and synagogues with the other Jews. They were not wealthy, had no "church" buildings and certainly did not think of themselves as a single, centralized global organization. That aspect was borrowed from the pagan collegia and the imperial government, not from any Christian or Hebrew teaching.
Is the Masonic presence in the RCC a "recent infiltration"? The Masons are the modern-day Knights Templar, which was an order created by the RCC. Trace them back to the Prieure de Sion which I believe in turn traces back to the College of Artificers of ancient Rome. These ancient Masons were a branch of the Dionysian mysteries.
These, in addition to the cults of Mithras, Janus, Saturn, and a rich and varied stew of paganism (all undergirded by the secret Mysteries), were merged with Christianity to produce what later became Roman Catholicism.
I do not know who's in charge of it all, except to say that they're pretty evil.
Born Again Christians
The handful of super wealthy bankster families that run this world think nothing of taking even a Pope out of the way, if he goes against their program. There truly are some very evil people in this world, but even they are dupes for their master Satan. It is Satan that is behind all of the evil that is being done in the world. While we can say that it's the Rothschilds or the Rockefellers or any one of the other Illuminati families that's ultimately responsible for many of the evil deeds that have been carried out in recent history, they are still puppets having their strings pulled by the master of evil himself...Satan. And I believe some of them know whoit is that they serve, for they have been promised the world if they do his bidding.
Very good post! To those who take the path of least resistance, i.e., passing this off using the "conspracy nut" formula...I am sorry that your ability to think outside the box has been ripped away from you by years of propaganda, inane TV and controlled society. That method of defense is getting old and stale much like the culprits who first used it to cover the JFK murder. How many times do we have to find the same people (Bush, Kissinger, Rockefeller, etc.) next to the most heinous acts before something is done? Are they truly untouchable? As long as the simple minds support the term "conspiracy nut", I think they are. If they saw it on a Nascar broadcast would they then believe it? As long as there are stupid sheep in the fat land of America, the villans can carry on with the destruction of our world.
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The DEVIL is in the TAX RECORDS for the Rights Of Ways at the THOUSANDS of Illegal Texas Land Developments - It's Christmas in August whoooo hooooo Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos
"It's the Land Deals Stupid"
Don Bolles from beyond the grave
NOPE, the legislative EXCUSE is not what happened. The INTENTIONAL and WANTON Lootings are involved in a much, much, much bigger fleesing of America than the Banking and S&L rules broke down. The Whitewater Model- Campebello Island - Maplewood Farms - Castle Grande - THE ARIZONA MAFIA hit on Don Bolles, The MASSIVE MONEY LAUNDERINGS associated with MAFIA LAND HOLDINGS and MAFIA controlled DOPE INC and even the story of God's Banker and BANCO AMBROSIA have ties to Arizona Catholic Bishop Paul Marcinkus. The movement of CIA SLUSH MONEY and the LAUNDERING of massive diversions, dope money, missle sales proceeds ie Ollie North, John Poindexter, Bill Casey and the 41 and 43 MAFIA ties to the US CIA are quite real. See http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot The Great Texas Bank Job is as they say the linch pin the archiles heal, it's all in the TAX RECORDS folks see: http://www.co.cochise.az.us/treasurer/LandFraud.htm
http://www.co.cochise.az.us/treasurer/LandFraud.htm
COCHISE COUNTY TREASURER’S PROJECT LAND FRAUD
The ARIZONA BOMBING MURDER OF DON BOLLES THE LAND OF OZ
Brian Quig's DEATH in PHOENIX is NO SURPRISE
"God's Bankers My Ass"
Author's Note -
I have NOT checked all the references for Linda Minor's Findings BUT I can tell you Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos
had LARGE LAND HOLDINGS around Lake Conroe TEXAS, imagine that
Every Arizona County and hundreds of thousands of trusting land purchasers were victimized by the rampant land scams of the 1960’s. Artist renditions showed trees and lakes with boating and all the modern facilities: streets, street lights, golf courses, a real piece of the American dream. The true picture was a section of dry Arizona deserts with no development whatsoever. Although Arizona has the reputation of being the worst in the nation, ( TEXAS & )Florida was not far behind and many states had similar swindles take place during the same time period.
FOLLOW THE YELLOW
BRICK ROAD:
FROM HARVARD TO ENRON
PART ONE
by Linda Minor © 2002
Permission to reprint with acknowledgement, granted by author
When Dorothy set out to find her way back to Kansas from Oz, everyone she asked along the way told her, simply, "Follow the yellow brick road. These well-marked bricks will take you to the wizard, and the wizard has the power to get you back home."
Each of us has bricks that we can examine that, when pooled with those of everyone else, will enlarge our understanding of how we arrived where we are in 2002. All that is required is a cursory understanding about how money works in our capitalist system.
This article is intended as an example of how that can be done. Much of the understanding is simply adjusting our perception of what sometimes appears to be complicated, unrelated events in the financial world, keeping in mind some very basic premises. If I put cash into a corporation, it can be in two forms. I can get stock (equity) in that corporation, or I can get the right to be paid back in full at a later date (debt). These are very simplistic financial models available, though there are variations that occur that tend to make the options seem much more complex.
What we want to accomplish is an understanding of who was involved in the creation of Enron, to illuminate the yellow bricks on the path that led to that debacle. The best way to know where to start is to look at what's left of Enron with an understanding of how money works, knowing that it will show us where to start in our examination.
Who is left at Enron?
In the last few months, almost all the directors of Enron have resigned with one very notable exception--Herbert Simon "Pug" Winokur, Jr. A man in the shadows whose name may not have made an impression on most people who read headlines. Why is he still around, and where did he come from? This is a good place to start.
Pug Winokur’s family
Pug was born in 1943 in Columbus, Ga. (where Fort Benning is located), while his father (married to Marjorie Lipman in 1942) was serving in the U.S. Army Air Force, attaining the rank of Major during his 1942-45 enlistment. He was awarded the Order of the Cloud and Banner (China), indicating his involvement in the China Burma India Theatre. The military decoration Major Winokur received was an honor presented from the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek, who fled to Taiwan when the Red Chinese took over China. There were more than 30 of these decorations, for example. awarded to the Flying Tigers of Clare Chennault. The American troops in the China-Burma-India Theatre were commanded by General Joseph Stilwell, who was the Deputy Allied Commander under Lord Mountbatten of Great Britain—the last viceroy of the British colonial empire in India, who was then assigned to Burma. There have been numerous books written about the involvement of these groups in opium smuggling. An overview of that information can be found at http://www.drugtext.org/books/McCoy/book/29.htm and at http://www.ruby-sapphire.com/burmese_politics.htm
With this military background, according to information in Who's Who, Pug’s father returned to his interrupted career in consumer finance--first at Federal Loan Co. and also to Rettews Money Loan beginning in 1958, and Executive Consumer Discount in 1967--all in Philadelphia. These work relationships ended in 1974, followed by his short association with George S. May International in Park Ridge, Illinois, the same city, coincidentally, where Hillary Rodham grew up. In 1975 Winokur, Sr. began a management consulting firm in Wayne, Pa.
The family was of the Jewish religion, and Pug’s father was the treasurer of a pawnbrokers’ association and belonged to B’Nai Brith as well as to an association involved with Jewish employment. B’Nai Brith, a Jewish fraternal organization, was the sponsor of the formation of the Anti-Defamation League, the seed money of which was put up by Burton Joseph, whose family was involved with the I.S. Joseph Company in Minnesota. (See http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_cartel_companies.html) Burton Joseph was very closely involved with Meshulam Riklis, whose background will be further explored below.
Pug has a sister named Lisbeth Cload married to Nigel Cload, a Mercedes car dealer in Allendale, N.J. Lisbeth is an attorney at McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney, LLP in Morristown, New Jersey after spending 11 years at Orbe, Nugent and Darcy. She was a 1969 graduate of Boston University, studied at the University of Lyons (France), and received her law degree from Pace University School of Law in 1986.
First and foremost--a Harvard Man
Pug himself went to Harvard, where he received three degrees: A.B. '65 ('64), A.M. '65, and Ph.D. '67. His doctoral degree is in applied mathematics (decision and control theory). His first job out of Harvard was with the U.S. Army, assigned to the Department of Defense in Washington, D.C. That was at the end of Robert S. McNamara’s seven years in that job. McNamara left the office in March 1968 to head the World Bank, with Clark Clifford filling out Lyndon Johnson’s term at Defense.
Sixteen years prior to the JFK assassination, Clark Clifford had written the National Security Act of 1947 (creating the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Department) for President Truman, and he had also advised Truman to recognize the State of Israel created in 1948, a move violently opposed by Secretary of State Marshall. Clifford’s advice about Israel’s recognition was allegedly influenced by Jewish contributions to Truman’s fund-raising efforts which Clifford headed. Nineteen years after Kennedy’s murder (1982) Clifford and his law partner would secure a banking license for BCCI to operate through First American Bancshares of Georgia; Clifford had been representing the foreign investors in BCCI since 1978 when he was also a big fund-raiser for Jimmy Carter.
It is not known whether any contact between Winokur and Clark Clifford—his boss in the Defense Department for only 10 months—continued after 1969, when both men left the government. But when Nixon took office that January, Pug and two other Defense Department analysts started a venture capital firm in Washington, D.C. called Inner City Fund with a black figurehead as president, ostensibly to promote minority entrepreneurship.
At this point we do not know who those other analysts were or where the money came from to invest in this project. It is interesting to note that in the spring of 1968 a report was issued by the Kerner Commission about the prediction for the inner cities, following the race riots in Watts in Los Angeles. Several years after that report, Winokur worked for the man who was in charge of getting the report written--Victor Palmieri. (See http://www.interactivist.net/housing/war.html) Also on that Commission was Charles B. Thornton of California (head of Litton Industries) and the CEO of North American Rockwell, John L. Atwood. Both these companies were represented on the Industry Advisory Council, which was started by Robert McNamara in 1962. It is extremely likely that ICF was funded by this organization, and that there is a thread throughout Pug's career that can be traced back to that group which epitomized the military-industrial complex which President Eisenhower warned of in 1961. (For background on the Industry Advisory Council, see http://www.pir.org/usctrust.html).
The IAC meetings--which Pug may have attended--were usually conducted by the Deputy Secretary of Defense--William Bundy--whose Yale and Harvard and family background was closely aligned with the opium-running Cabot, Lowell and Acheson families, as well as being molded by the Skull and Bones society to which the Harriman and Bush families belonged. (See http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lmharvardpart1.htm and http://www.mishalov.com/Bundy.html)
ICF, ostensibly a venture capital firm, did not finance any minority businesses but was, however, awarded numerous consulting contracts as a sole-source provider without competitive bidding. It reorganized into a consulting group in 1972 and began branching into engineering. We can only assume how it was financed based on the relationships Pug had developed at that stage of his career. ICF Pug left ICF in 1974, the same year that the Industry Advisory Council disbanded because its secret meetings were thereafter required to be open to the public. ICF would issue an initial public offering in 1988, at about the same time it became ICF-Kaiser through a merger with Kaiser Engineering, a spin-off of the company bought by Charles Hurwitz in 1988. At this point we do not know who may have made money from that IPO.
What we do know is that Kaiser Industries, the original parent, was started by Henry J. Kaiser, an automobile manufacturer in Detroit who had become one of the inner circle of the military-industrial complex in California. (See http://www.kaiserair.com/about.html).
We also know that "Tex" Thornton had been Robert McNamara's boss at Ford Motor Co. in Detroit, and that both men had the same background as Pug Winokur; they and eight other people hired in 1945, who answered directly to Henry Ford II were from the U.S. Army Air Corps - Statistical Control. When Pug left Washington, D.C., he went directly to California, where an investment group Thornton headed -- incorporated as Electro Dynamics Corp. -- had purchased and merged into Litton Industries of Santa Clara and began developing equipment in the fields of automatic guidance, instrumentation, computers and controls, and precision electronic components. (See http://www.littongcs.com/history/home.htm and http://www.l-3com.com/edi/ ). Litton built a huge facility in Beverly Hills, and also acquired the former Music Corporation of America Building, later sold to Gary Winnick's Pacific Capital Group (Global Crossing). (See http://www.cerrell.com/releases/189rel.html) The importance of these details will become clearer later in this article.
From the Inner City Fund to the "inner city"--Los Angeles
Henry Kaiser, who bought the Vail Ranch in 1964, began consolidating other land tracts to eventually put together over 80,000 acres, believing Los Angeles would grow south and San Diego would grow north, and because Camp Pendleton would cut the growth on the coast in half, the two would "come together at Temecula," the site for Rancho California, which became a land developing project controlled by Macco Realty. The Macco company was an entity involved in the Penn Central bankruptcy, the relevance of which will be made clear in Part Two. (For a brief history of Kaiser and this area in California, see http://www.temelink.com/crallspace/chiniaeff.htm and http://www.kammeyer.com/firmhistory.htm and http://www.temecula.org/History.asp and http://www.worldcity.com/news/libertyship.html and http://detnews.com/history/pioneer/pioneer.htm and http://www.jailhurwitz.com/cronies/CAST_of_CRONIES/LEONE_William_C/McCULLOCH_OIL/HURWITZ_&_McCulloch-LEONE.txt ).
When Charles Hurwitz began acquiring a company called McCulloch Oil in 1978, the chairman of the company was Charles Wood, Jr.--the man who had designed and engineered the construction of Disneyland in 1955. McCulloch Oil had been founded by Robert McCulloch, a close business associate of Wood. In 1960 McCulloch and Wood began to develop Lake Havasu City near Scottsdale, Arizona around a man-made geyser and the London Bridge, which had been transported across the Atlantic and reassembled. After Disneyland, Wood had gone on to build Freedomland in the Bronx, New York and to work with Toddie Lee and Angus Wynne of the Great Southwest Corporation in building Six Flags in Texas. The Great Southwest Corp., in conjunction with Webb and Knapp had gone into great debt in the early 1960s pursuing these projects and tried to recover by selling the corporate stock to the Penn Central Railroad owned by the Pennsylvania Company, which, at the same time, bought Macco Realty and Arvida.
What is intriguing about this is that McCulloch Oil, the Great Southwest, Macco and Arvida were very rich in land. This fact was no doubt known by David Murdock, who in 1964 had moved to Los Angeles from Phoenix where he had been involved in home construction. Although he was allegedly bankrupt when he arrived in California, he founded a company that made tile to be used in construction and later became a land developer and then a corporate tycoon. We do not know at this point whether Murdock, whose background before that time is extremely sketchy, may have been involved with the Bonanno family which had been involved in real estate development in Arizona. (See http://www.murderinc.com/fam/bonn.html and http://www.newsmakingnews.com/torbitt.htm and http://www.sanfran.com/features/Troubleinthepresidio4.html ).
Pug Winokur went to work for Murdock in 1974, just before Charles Hurwitz began buying stock of McCulloch Oil (which owned up to 12,000 acres of land in Arizona). By this time these assets had been acquired by Kaiser related corporations. Winokur’s future employer, Palmieri, of Kerner Commission fame, had already left Los Angeles in 1969 to work for the Great Southwest Corporation and its parent Pennsylvania Co.—the corporation which had ended up with thousands of acres of land in Texas and California belonging to these corporations that had such elusive connections to Charles Wood.
Who pulled Murdock's strings?
Pug left Washington, D.C. in 1974 and moved to Los Angeles to work in a senior executive position with David Murdock’s Pacific Holdings, at 10889 Wilshire Blvd. in Westwood, Los Angeles. Murdock’s office was across the street from the Occidental Petroleum company and a few blocks south of UCLA. Murdock did not acquire Occidental, however, until almost 10 years later. When Michael Milken moved to California from Philadelphia in 1978 to open his west coast branch of Drexel Burnham Lambert, his office was only a few blocks east of Murdock’s in Century City. Pug would remain with Murdock, who was then 51, until around 1980, the year Pug moved back to Philadelphia to work for Victor J. Palmieri.
In 1974 David Murdock was not known. He had not yet done anything that would make him famous or notorious. It was not until 1982 that his company, Pacific Holdings, announced it had purchase Cannon Mills on the East Coast, the profits of which he used, when he sold the company three years later, to acquire Occidental Petroleum--the oil company created by Armand Hammer, a man very close to the leaders in the Soviet Union. But Occidental, coincidentally, also owned an oil pipeline in the drug-producing country of Colombia. (See http://www.salisburypost.com/2000february/020600d.htm and http://www.essential.org/monitor/hyper/issues/1991/09/mm0991_07.html and http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2002/03/16/news/world/americas/2869995.htm).
David Murdock, who is often painted as a high-school dropout (http://www.forbes.com/global/1999/1011/0220080a.html), hired Pug Winokur, a man with a Harvard Ph.D. in statistical mathematics, the kind used, for example, in calculating gambling odds and setting values on derivative securities. Is it possible that Murdock was a front for what was really going on behind the scenes? Take Zapata, for example.
In 1974 Murdock operated David H. Murdock Development Company and Murdock Investment Co. By 1976 he controlled Pacific Holding which, according to SEC records, owned 29.2% of voting securities of International Mining Company (IMC) and the following year tendered an offer for the remaining shares, to be purchased with 20-year 9% subordinated debentures. At the time IMC owned 64.4% of Pato, a gold dredging company. SEC filings on Zapata in 1979 indicate that IMC of 200 Park Avenue in New York (coincidentally, the same address as the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York; also the current address of Mitsui Global Precious Metals), was the largest shareholder of Zapata with 10% of the common stock. By 1979 Pacific Holding owned all of IMC stock. Murdock became a director of Zapata in December 1979, while Winokur was a Murdock employee.
Although Zapata Offshore was a company of modest dimensions, under George H.W. Bush it had a network of subsidiaries which was suspiciously complex. Zapata Offshore filings with the SEC in Washington for the year 1960-1966 were "inadvertently" destroyed by a federal warehouse. During that time, a short profile of the Zapata Offshore corporate substructure researched by a Mr. Allan Mandel was submitted to Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough on October 13, 1964, which showed Zapata Offshore owned 50% of Seacat-Zapata Offshore Company, which operated the drilling rig NOLA III in the Persian Gulf. In addition, Mandel identified the following Zapata Offshore subsidiaries:
A. Zapata de Mexico
B. Zapata International Corporation
C. Zapata Lining Corporation
D. Zavala Oil Company
E. Zapata Overseas Corporation
F. Zapata owns 41 percent of Amata Gas Corporation.
Zapata Lining was the pipe lining concern; it was divested in 1964. Ownership of Amata Gas was shared with the American Research and Development Corporation of Boston. This Boston venture capital firm, closely tied to M.I.T., once had as its Technical Director our current Deputy Secretary of Commerce Samuel W. Bodman, who also worked for Fidelity Investments and the Cabot Corporation. Cabot Corp. was founded by Godfrey Lowell Cabot of the Massachusetts shipping family which made a great deal of money in the early 19th century in the opium trade in the Far East.
The Zapata Offshore filings with the SEC between 1955 and 1959 are cryptic, and the SEC files on Zapata Offshore between 1960 and 1966, when Bush had exclusive control of the company, were destroyed by the SEC either in 1981, when Bush had just become vice president, or somewhat later, in October, 1983, according to various SEC officials. Bush did resign as chairman and CEO of Zapata Offshore in February 1966, when he put his assets into a blind trust controlled by W.S. Farish III, our current Ambassador to the Court of St. James in London.
David Murdock and Zapata 1979
1979 Zapata Corporation SEC filing
William H. Flynn, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Chairman and CEO of Zapata from March 1969 to date. Pres. of Zapata from Feb. 1966 to March 1969 and from Oct. 1974 to date.
J.B. Harrison, President and CEO, Director
President of Zapata Corp. from Jan. 1970 to Sept. 30, 1974. V-P and Gen. Mgr. of International Exploration and Production for Atlantic Richfield Oil Co., NY, an oil and gas producing company from Sept. 1968 to Jan. 1970. President of the Company from Aug. 1972 to date.
W. Dow Hamm, Director
Independent petroleum consultant since December 1967. For the 25 years prior to that date, Mr. Hamm was employed by Atlantic Richfield Co. in various executive positions related to natural resources exploration, during the last three years of which he served as a Director, member of the Exec. Com. and Exec. VP for International Exploration and Production.
A.G. Gueymard, Director
Senior VP and head of the Petroleum and Minerals Dept. of First City National Bank of Houston for more than the past five years prior to his retirement in April 1973. Since that time, he has served as an advisory director of First City National Bank of Houston, and is an independent financial consultant.
Remuneration:
P.E. Baria VP, Gen. Mgr for Europe and Africa
D.S. Hare VP
[Zapata guaranteed payment for various companies. Here are a few references to those guaranties.]
March 29, 1979--Port Clyde Foods, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary, acquisition of sardine and herring processing.
May 22, 1979--Ocean Maid Foods Division of Granby, line of credit from The Toronto-Dominion Bank up to $5 million ($2MM increase), proceeds for working capital.
May 22, 1979--Ocean Maid line of credit from Bank of Nova Scotia up to $100,000 for plant payroll.
June 1, 1979--Zapata Off-shore, wholly-owned subsidiary, credit agreement with Manufacturers Hanover Trust, loans up to $16,700,000 for construction of two self-contained platform oil-drilling rigs.
Item 13. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management. {page 19}
The following persons are known by Zapata to be the beneficial owners, as of December 2, 1979, of more than five percent of any class of Zapata's equity securities.
International Mining Corp. 10% of common--869,004 shares
200 Park Ave., NY
John F. Maher 5.9% common--527,964 shares
2131 San Felipe, Houston
Irving Zwecker 17.9% $6 preferred--12,000 shares
3800 Oaks Country Club Dr.,
Pompano Beach, Fla.
Saul Zwecker 14.9% $6 preferred--10,000 shares
11 Olympic Street
Rockland, Maine
Hugh Smith Haynie 7.9% $6 preferred--5,286 shares
Springfields, Apache Road
Louisville, Kentucky
Grossi Brothers 29.3% $2 preference--12,000 shares
208 S. LaSalle St.
Suite 604
Chicago, Ill.
International Mining Corp. (IMC) filed Schedule 13D with SEC, indicating that IMC also owns Zapata debt securities presently convertible into 4.598 shares of Zapata common stock, not included in the table. IMC is wholly-owned subsidiary of Pacific Holding Corporation, which is in turn a wholly-owned subsidiary of Murdock Investment Corp., all the stock of which is owned by David H. Murdock, 10889 Wilshire Boulevard, L.A., CA. Mur Murdock will reportedly make all investment and voting decisions with respect to the shares held by IMC, and thus is deemed the beneficial owner of such shares.
Directors and percentage of Zapata stock owned (I did not list less than 2%):
David H. Murdock -- 869,004 shares of common; 4,598 conversions for 873,602 total -- 10%
Officers and directors
as a group (22 persons) -- total 12.8% common
Item 14. Directors and Exec. officers.
F. Arnold Daum, director since May 1979, senior partner of Cahill Gordon & Reindel (since 1943); also director of Apco Argentina, Inc., Devon Group, Inc., General Signal Corp., Northwest Energy Company, Tenneco Offshore Co., and Westates-Italo, Inc.
A.G. Gueymard, director since 1973, independent financial consultant in Houston for more than five years; advisory director to First City National Bank of Houston; director of Camco, Inc. and Midhurst Corp.
Sam Israel, Jr., director since 1967; Exec. VP, director and chairman of Exec. Com. of ACLI International Inc. for more than five years; also director of New Orleans Public Service, Inc.
Ronald C. Lassiter, director since 1974; Pres. and CEO of Zapata since 1978.
George A. Lorenz, director since June 1979; retired as general manager of marketing department of Shell Oil Company in 1969 after 34 years service with Shell and subsidiaries.
B. John Mackin, director since 1966; chairman and CEO of Zapata since March 1979; also director of Tenneco. [Does not mention here his previous connection to Baker & Botts law firm]
David H. Murdock, director since December 1979; more than last five years sole proprietor of David H. Murdock Development Co.; owns all of the stock of Murdock Investment Corp; engaged in commercial real estate development and financial investments.
[Other items noted which may be significant]:
Zapata Granby Corp, a subsidiary of Zapata, had a loan outstanding to Rogert P. Taylor, formerly the senior VP of Mining of Zapata and President of Zapata Granby. This was an interest-free loan made to enable Mr. Taylor to purchase a home. Largest aggregate amount of the loan was $44,000 (Canadian). On November 30, 1979 the loan was transferred to Noranda Mines Limited in connection with the sale by Zapata of its Canadian mining assets.
During the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 1979, Zapata had certain amounts of indebtedness owed to First City National Bank of Houston, largest of which was $19,949,576. Director Gueymard is an advisory director of First City.
Since Oct. 1, 1978 Baker & Botts has been paid $611,040 for legal services rendered to Zapata. B. John Mackin, chairman and CEO of Zapata was until March 1979 a senior partner of Baker & Botts. During same period Cahill Gordon & Reindel (NY) also provided legal services. Daum is a senior partner of Cahill. Zapata has not yet received a bill for such services.
(See an interesting reference to Zapata Offshore at http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/diary/1977/d072277t.pdf and
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/1999/04/26/story2.html )
Zapata and United Fruit--the "Octopus"?
Reports in the business section of the Houston Chronicle shed some insight on what was happening with Zapata, even though Bush has alleged that he sold his 6% interest in the company in 1966. According to a Houston Chronicle article by Albert T. Collins on January 20, 1969 (the date Richard Nixon was inaugurated), Zapata Norness, Inc. (formerly Zapata Off-Shore) had been seeking to acquire United Fruit Co. stock by offering to exchange one share of convertible stock for every share of United Fruit stock tendered to it. A competing offer to purchase stock had been made by AMK Corp., which was recommended by officers of the fruit company. The following week, after Zapata had already received almost 31,000 shares, AMK Corp.’s chairman, E.M. Black, and Zapata Norness reached an agreement whereby AMK would pay Zapata $3.8 million to withdraw from competition for United Fruit. AMK would buy all United Fruit stock which Zapata had purchased, in cash up to $3 million and would execute a promissory note for any amount in excess of the $3 million, payable at 6-7/8% interest in 10 equal annual installments.
Eli M. Black, who became the CEO of United Fruit as a result of AMK’s acquisition, in 1975 "fell" to his death from his office on the 44th floor of New York's Pan Am building. A week later it was disclosed he had paid $1.25 million into a Swiss bank account on behalf of the president of Honduras in exchange for a $1-a-box banana export tax reduced to 25 cents. Two weeks later the government of Honduras fell, and the company' stock hit its lowest level of the century. Black’s son, Leon Black, who as of 1996 was head of Apollo Advisors, used to head Drexel Burnham Lambert's mergers and acquisitions department. He once declared his purpose in life was to create the robber barons of the future, according to Mother Jones.
After Eli Black’s death in 1975, Carl Lindner took over United Brands and appointed Max Fisher as chairman. Fisher amassed his fortune as a bagman for the "Purple Gang" that smuggled Sam Bronfman's booze from Canada into the speakeasies of the Midwest. Fisher made his "legitimate" fortune in the oil retail business in Michigan, through Keystone Oil, Aurora Oil, and Marathon Oil and then became one of the first Jewish businessmen who was a major donor and fund-raiser for the Republican Party. In 1984 Cincinnati financier, Carl H. Lindner, who owned 65% of the company, installed himself as chairman, put his son Keith in charge of Chiquita and moved the headquarters to Cincinnati, where he nursed the company back to financial health.
A somewhat different account of those years is evident in an article written by Monica Perin for the Houston Business Journal (see http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/1999/04/26/story2.html ), which is quoted below. It contains no reference to David Murdock, the biggest shareholder, nor does it mention anything about the attempt to buy United Fruit.
Bush had resigned as chairman of Zapata Offshore to run his congressional campaign. When he won, he sold his 6 percent stake in Zapata for $1.1 million. Within 18 months, the stock of Zapata, under new management, doubled in value.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Zapata, under chairman and CEO William Flynn, expanded its business to include subsidiaries in dredging, construction, coal mining, copper mining and fishing.
But by the late 1970s, saddled with weak operations, high debt and low return on investment, the company again began undergoing changes in management and direction. Lead by John Mackin, who succeeded William Flynn, the company began selling off some of those businesses and trying to refocus on offshore oil and gas exploration and production.
In 1982 chief operating officer Ronald Lassiter assumed the role of CEO -- just in time to preside over a decade of red ink brought on by the collapse of oil prices.
By 1986 Zapata was one of the bad loans that shook the foundations of San Francisco-based Bank of America, with a debt of more than $500 million and a fiscal year loss of $250 million.
The company announced several restructurings during those years and managed to stave off bankruptcy more than once. By the late 1980s, Zapata's oil service operations were consistently chalking up major losses.
In 1990 the oil drilling company proposed selling its entire fleet of offshore drilling rigs to focus solely on fishing. The company had not had a profitable quarter in more than five years.
Still struggling with debt by 1993, Zapata signed a deal with Norex America to raise more than $100 million through a loan and stock sale. But financier Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL franchise and then-owner of 40 percent of Zapata, didn't want his holdings diluted and filed a lawsuit to block the deal.
A month-long standoff and a fierce proxy fight delayed the company's annual meeting. But when the dust settled, Glazer and his son, Avram, were members of Zapata's board. A year later, Malcolm Glazer became chairman of Zapata, replacing Ronald Lassiter, and in 1995 Avram Glazer was named CEO and president of Zapata.
What really did happen at Zapata Offshore after George Bush went to Congress in 1967? Who owned Pacific Holding when David Murdock took it over? And what was Pug Winokur's role in transforming David Murdock's operations from a company that made tiles to one that was involved in secret control of a most suspicious corporation.
Unfortunately, these are only questions at this time. The answers are yet to be discovered. Perhaps you have some of those answers, or can help us find them. We need more help in following this thread that leads to Enron.
Part Two of this series explores Pug Winokur's next employer, and his connections in California and in Philadelphia.
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"My God - they killed him!"
The streets are filled with vipers who've lost all ray of hope
You know it ain't even safe no more in the palace of the Pope
- Bob Dylan
Is everything a conspiracy? No. Just the important stuff.
Since there's a lot of speculation these days about who will succeed Pope John Paul II, it seems a good time to recall the circumstances of the last papal succession. Because Luciani Albini, Pope John Paul I, was almost certainly murdered, by an international network of fascists and money launderers, with ties to far-right elements within military and intelligence agencies. (And isn't it just amazing, how often we find that convergence?)
He only served 33 days; what could he have done in that short time to deserve death? What kind of Pope was he becoming?
To the second question, there's the suggestion of an answer in this passage from David Yallop's In God's Name:
On August 28, the beginning of his papal revolution was announced. It took the form of a Vatican statement that there was to be no coronation, that the new pope refused to be crowned. There would be no sedia gestatoria, the chair used to carry the pope, no tiara encrusted with emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds. No ostrich feathers, no six-hour ceremony.... Luciani, who never once used the royal "we," was determined that the royal papacy with its appurtenances of worldly grandeur should be replaced by a Church that resembled the concepts of its founder. The "coronation" became a simple Mass. The spectacle of a pontiff carried in a chair...was supplanted by the sight of a supreme pastor quietly walking up the steps of the altar. With that gesture Luciani abolished a thousand years of history.... The era of the poor Church had officially begun.
That right there would have been enough to make the Vatican's power elite nervous, but surely not enough to seek the Pope's death. Not even his expressed interest in reconsidering the Church's position on birth control would have been enough for that. What was enough, was his intent to overturn the tables of the corrupt Vatican Bank, and purge the Vatican of the P2 Lodge.
This is one of those things that make being a "conspiracy theorist" seem entirely superfluous. Just try imagining P2: an elite, ultra-secretive, neo-fascist, Masonic cabal, involved in money laundering, assassination and false-flag terrorism. (The "Strategy of Tension," to discredit Italy's Communist Party. For instance, the engineering of Aldo Moro's kidnapping and murder, and the Bologna train bombing.) P2 counted among its members the future Italian President Silvio Berlusconi, and reputedly boasted honourary members like Henry Kissinger, George HW Bush and arch-neocon, Michael Ledeen.
I mentioned P2 last August, with regard to Ledeen's long history with the Italian far right and the linchpin of Italian military intelligence to the Niger "Yellow Cake" forgery. [For more on the significance of P2 to US intelligence and the "Octopus," refer to David Guyatt's excellent articles "Operation Gladio", "Holy Smoke and Mirrors" and "The Money Fountain."]
Licio Gelli was P2's Grandmaster, and can't even be called a neo-fascist. He was Old School: a member of the Italian Black Shirt Brigade which fought for Franco in the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, he spied on partisans in his native Italy for the Nazis, and obtained the SS rank of Oberleutenant. This same Gelli was a honoured guest of George HW Bush after the 1980 inauguration, and there is evidence that Gelli and P2 played a role in the October Surprise; even that Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered on Gelli's orders because he'd refused to provide Swedish cover for the covert transfer of money and arms. In her October Surprise, Barbara Honegger writes that a P2 informant claimed to her that before Palme's death, Gelli sent a message to former Republican National Committee advisor (and also alleged "honourary" P2 member) Philip Guarino, assuring him that "the Swedish tree will be felled," and to "tell our good friend Bush."
Your head exploding yet? There's more. GHW Bush's reputed code name for October Surprise was "The White Rose," which was also the name of a far-right Cuban exile group with which the CIA's Bush was reportedly engaged during the ramp-up to the Bay of Pigs. Honneger reports that when Italian police uncovered the P2 control cell responsible for terrorism in Italy, they learned that its code name was "The Rose of Twenty." Gelli seems to have had a weakness for the flower.
And this may mean nothing, or I know what you did: in 1988, on the 25th anniversary of John F Kennedy's murder, Ted Kennedy marked the occasion in Runnymede England by placing, at the foot of his brother's memorial, a single white rose.
Gelli's network financed itself in part by purchasing and plundering banks, thanks to the likes of P2 brothers Michele Sindona and "God's Banker," Roberto Calvi. Mafioso Sindona, in 1968, had become a financial advisor to Pope Paul VI; Calvi was running Banco Ambrosiano; and another P2 member, American Bishop Paul "You can't run the Church on Hail Marys" Marcinkus, who bore the nickname "the Gorilla," was heading the Vatican Bank. For a while, it was a sweet operation.
Clockwise, from top right: Calvi, Marcinkus, Sindona and Gelli
As cardinal of Venice, Albini had butted heads with the bankers. As Pope, he could finally do something more. Most revelatory, he became privy to the secret list of Freemasons in the Vatican. For the first time, he learned of P2's penetration of the Church.
Yallop again:
If the information was authentic, then it meant Luciani was virtually surrouded by Masons.... The secretary of state, Cardinal Villot, Masonic name Jeanni, lodge number 041/3, enrolled in a Zurich lodge on August 6, 1966. The foreign minister, Monsignor Agnostino Casaroli. The cardinal vicar of Rome, Ugo Poletti. Cardinal Baggio. Bishop Paul Marcinkus and Monsignor Donato de Bonis of the Vatican Bank. The disconcerted pope read a list that seemed like a Who's Who of Vatican City.
Here's a good summation of what happened next:
With his bright intelligence and naive fearlessness, John Paul I penetrated to the heart of this maze of corruption within weeks of his coronation. On the evening of September 28, 1978, he called Cardinal Villot, the leader of the powerful Curia, to his private study to discuss certain changes that the Pope proposed to make public the next day.... Among those whose "resignations" would be accepted by the Pontiff the following day were the head of the Vatican Bank, and several members of the Curia who were implicated in the activities of Sindona and P2, and Villot himself. Moreover, Villot was told that John Paul I would also announce plans for a meeting on October 24 with an American delegation to discuss a reconsideration of the Church's position on birth control.
When Pope John Paul I retired to his bedroom on the evening of September 28, clutching the paperwork that would expose the Vatican's financial dealings with the Mafia and purge the Curia of those responsible, a number of very ruthless individuals had a great interest in seeing to it that he would never awaken to issue these directives.
When the Pope's housekeeper knocked at his door at 4:30 a.m., she heard no response. Leaving a cup of coffee, she returned fifteen minutes later to find the Pope still not stirring. She entered the bed chamber and gasped when she saw the Pope propped up in bed, still holding papers from the night before, his face contorted in a grimace. On the night table beside him lay an opened bottle of Effortil, a medication for his low blood pressure. The housekeeper immediately notified Cardinal Villot, whose first response to the news was to summon the papal morticians even before verifying the death himself or calling the Vatican physician to examine the body. Villot arrived in the Pope's room at 5:00 a.m. and gathered the crucial papers, the Effortil bottle, and several personal items which were soiled with vomit. None of these articles were ever seen again.
Although the Vatican claimed that its house physician had determined myocardial infarction as the cause of death, to this day no death certificate for Pope John Paul I has been made public. Although Italian law requires a waiting period of at least 24 hours before a body may be embalmed, Cardinal Villot had the body of Albino Luciani prepared for within 12 hours of his death. Although the Vatican refused to allow an autopsy on the basis of an alleged prohibition against it in canon law, the Italian press verified that an autopsy had in fact been performed on one of the Pope's predecessors, Pius VIII. Although the conventional procedure for embalming a body requires that the blood first be drained and certain internal organs removed, neither blood nor tissue was removed from the corpse; hence, none was available to assay for the presence of poison.
There's an old Kris Kristofferson song, entitled "They Killed Him." I learned it from a Dylan cover, on almost certainly his weakest album, Knocked Out Loaded. To be honest, it's pretty lousy. (If you haven't heard it, all you need to know is it has a children's chorus.) And yet, it chills me.
A verse:
Another man from Atlanta, Georgia
By name of Martin Luther King
He shook the land like the rolling thunder
And made the bells of freedom ring today
With a dream of beauty that they could not burn away
Just another holy man who dared to make a stand:
My God, they killed him!
My point here hasn't been to rehash the case for assassination. My point, I suppose, is simply my exasperation: that My God - they killed him, too!
This material can lead to despair. If they can whack the Pope, and get away with it, what hope do we have? I don't find it consoling to know of what they're capable; that they are, as Dylan sang in another song, "bound and determined to destroy all the gentle." That's not about justice. That's about being forewarned, and forearmed. And these days, that's almost as important as justice.
But it is a consolation of sorts to remember that these people are flesh, just as we are. Gelli is still alive, but since his extradition from France in 1998, he has been serving a 12-year sentence for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano affair. Marcinkus received Vatican immunity from Pope John Paul II, when it became apparent Italian authorities intended to prosecute him for his criminal stewardship of the Vatican Bank, and eventually left Rome for Sun City, Arizona. (A fascinating glimpse of Marcinkus today, here.) Sindona died in prison drinking poison coffee, possibly the same administered to the Pope. Calvi, after his string played out, met a peculiarly Masonic fate, hanging from a rope beneath London's Blackfriar's Bridge, his hands tied behind his back and 12 pounds of bricks stuffed in his pockets. (Naturally, originally deemed a "suicide.")
The suicided Calvi
Our advantage is that there are more of us than there are of them.
Our greatest disadvantage: most of us still can't admit there is a them.
A series of B.C. companies are being targeted by a group of Filipinos who are seeking a human-rights judgment against the estate of the late Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
The companies are linked to the family of a Marcos crony Jose Y. Campos of Vancouver who has already turned over US$130 million worth of stocks and other assets to Manila
Imelda & Ferdinand Marcos
In a federal lawsuit filed in Fort Worth, Texas this month, the group of Filipinos claims that seven large tracts of land in Tarrant County totaling 4,180 acres, was allegedly bought in the 1970s and 1980s by a third party using money Marcos had stolen from the Philippines.
Tarrant County is located in the north central part of Texas.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed are 9,539 Filipinos who claim they are victims or heirs of victims who were tortured, executed or who disappeared under the Marcos regime.
Marcos governed the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, when he was deposed in the “People Power“ revolution.
His rule was marked by widespread corruption, the extravagance of his wife, Imelda, abuse and political repression.
After Marcos was ousted, he fled to Hawaii, where he died in 1989.
The Philippines government is also seeking the return of nearly US$4 billion dollars it says was pilfered from citizens of the Philippines by the family and friends of the former dictator.
As of 1998, the Philippine government said it had recovered US$941 million, but it is believed that millions of dollars are still hidden in international bank accounts and other investments.
The group, which filed the Texas lawsuit this month, received a US$2 billion judgment in 1995 after filing a class-action lawsuit in 1986 in Hawaii, but that number has grown to US$3.8 billion with interest.
It has been trying to collect from the Marcos estate to pay the judgment.
The Tarrant County land was bought by shell corporations and is beneficially owned by the Estate of Ferdinand Marcos, the new suit alleges.
Included is a 330-acre tract of land that is being considered by its current owner, Ellesmere Corp., and Margaux Development Co. in Dallas, for a 2 million-square-foot shopping center.
In 1986, the Tarrant County land was the focus of another federal lawsuit, filed in Houston by the Philippine government, which is also out to seize the assets of Marcos‘ estate.
Robert Swift, a Philadelphia lawyer who has represented that class action for 19 years, said that lawsuit was “settled quietly“ and the land was not turned over to the Philippine government. As a result, the new court action is to go after those assets, Swift said, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
If successful, the land would be foreclosed upon and then sold, he said.
“This has been hard-fought litigation,“ Swift said.
Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos shows a Colombian-made telephone handset shaped into a shoe during a 1999 interview.
According to the new suit, the local land was bought by Jose Y. Campos, a Marcos confidant and investment adviser beginning in the mid-1950s.
Campos allegedly bought the land using offshore companies. When Marcos was removed from office, Campos asserted his ownership of the property, and members of the Campos family now control it, the suit says.
In addition to the companies planning the shopping mall, the lawsuit claims that the land was bought through several entities, including B.N. Development Co., 921 acres; Jason Development Co., 605 acres; Langley Investment Corp., 358 acres; Pender Investment Corp., 890 acres; Revelstoke Investment Corp., 130 acres; and Vernon Investment Corp., 946 acres.
According to Texas comptroller‘s records, the companies share many of the same directors and officers, including individuals who live in Hong Kong and Vancouver, Canada. The records list Jeffery Campos and Joselito Campos as directors.
Swift said the land is worth more than US$50 million. The Tarrant Appraisal District lists it at more than US$16 million.
Donald Silverman, managing partner at Margaux, one of the companies involved, downplayed the lawsuit as a “fishing expedition“ and said that his company will move forward with its development plans.
“The only thing that connects the property [to the Marcos family] is that the investors are from the Philippines,“ he told the Fort Worth newspaper.
Jose Campos, described as the bagman closest to Marcos, told Philippine investigators tracking the plundered loot that he had organized 40 companies to move millions of dollars of Marcos‘s money around the world.
In a written statement made in Vancouver in the mid-eighties he claimed to have felt betrayed by the Marcos family and surrendered control of millions of dollars worth of real estate in the Philippines.
Philippine investigators also believe that a Toronto apartment complex and an investment in a chain of Canadian drug stores may be owned by associates of Marcos. They have claimed that Marcos cronies had secretly invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Canadian real estate, retailing and oil and gas.
Campos is not the only person who is thought to have fled to B.C. with some of the Marcos loot.
Another Marcos crony is former textile magnate Dewey Go Dee, who lives in Richmond with his wife and four children.
Dee fled the Philippines in 1981, leaving behind some US$85 million in debts and triggering the near-collapse of the country‘s financial system.
He faced 176 criminal charges in the Philippines, including “economic sabotage.“ Court documents claim Dee smuggled hundreds of millions of dollars out of his homeland for Marcos, while some suspect he double-crossed the dictator and took his money.
Dee entered Canada from Costa Rica on a tourist visa and was granted refugee status in 1986 by the Immigration Appeal Board.
Other Marcos associates tracked to Vancouver include two individuals, George Delmas and Toto Mabanta who operated First Vancouver Securities Inc., a company that purchased a seat on the Vancouver Stock Exchange.
Former BC premier Glen Clark had raised the issue of this company in the B.C. parliament when he was in the opposition.
He wanted to know why the then ruling Socred government had not kept its eye on the “Marcos company” which he claimed had arranged financing for 12 other companies before it was shut down.
My father is a Freemason. Many times I've asked him "Just what is Freemasonry all about?" and he refuses to tell me. He just mutters some vague stuff about them being "pillars of the community" but won't elaborate further. Though I know for a fact that they still do have two secret passwords and a secret handshake, or at least something like that because he said "You can tell a man's a Mason when you shake hands with him". Beyond that he won't tell me anything about them. My grandfather and great uncle were Masons too, my great uncle being the Worshipful Master of the local lodge during the 1960s. My opinion, anything in which a father can't even tell his only son what it's about, can't be anything good.
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The Lee Harvey Oswald connection; a conspiracy based upon facts that you can look up for yourselves: I saw something on the History channel the other day about the complete story of Lee Harvey Oswald’s last day or week alive regarding his “wedding ring.” This is when he shot President Kennedy.
There was one thing that stood out. The ring that he left in his old lady’s Russian tea cup. Well, it was his old lady’s mother’s tea cup (who was hooked up with someone from the Russian interior ministry, or something to that effect).
This ring had the Russian sickle and hammer stamped in it (left behind symbolically by Oswald). The Russian sickle and hammer is the equivalent of the Freemason square and compass.
The compass represents God’s intelligent design (the compass, measures angles, degrees, and an imperfect circle according to PI as far as I understand it).
The square represents Man’s architecture, because nature doesn’t build in right angles; as for straight lines, well you could argue that a crystal is a straight line, but built upon natural imperfections. Note: you can gain the proportion of a square from a compass according to Pythagorean’s theorem, because a straight line is 180 degrees, and a right angle is 90 degrees. The “G” is supposedly represents the Great Architect.
In order to have a proper order of operations, the word God should be above the compass, which is above the square. It is not according to “be your own god,” or “do whatever thou wilt.” This plan is specifically against the Catholic Church.
Now take the Russian sickle (agriculture, or God’s intelligent design) and hammer (industry, or Man’s industry) and you can see the connection. The reason why there is no “G” is because the governmental ideology of Russia is communist from the beginning; thus, no freemason structure according to the way the United States manifests the Great Architect’s plan in its “free” people.
The plan is a One World Order with mankind’s enslavement according to the Federal Reserve System here in America. Reportedly, every country in the world is on a One World Order type banking system, with the exception of Iran (Kaddafi was supposedly assassinated because he wanted to back his country’s economy with the country’s own gold). This is what “they” call their manifest destiny; that men are too stupid to run their own world, so they should be enslaved.
This is the thinking behind the Supreme Court’s ruling (here in America) regarding the R.F.I.D. chip, which is currently in the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare), which is a class II transponder system. It is an implantable medical device in the FDA database that is going to contain you records that are life sustaining (your medical records), and your records that are life supporting (your bank records). Note: this is why the A.C.A. was over a thousand pages long; to hide their plan regarding the R.F.I.D. chip, and this is why the current congress is only speaking of repealing Obamacare in part (today is 12/2/2014).
According to this R.F.I.D. chip (which is literally the “mark of the beast,” because it was first used to mark your pets as your property) it is part of the A.C.A. under the “commerce clause” of the United States Constitution (where the judicial branch does not have substantive powers to legislate; much like Obama and his immigration bullshit) as a tax. This is manifest destiny thinking!
(contd. regarding The Lee Harvey Oswald connection; a conspiracy based upon facts that you can look up for yourselves. This is because the Federal Reserve System is a Ponzi scheme utilized to bankrupt America, where the R.F.I.D. chip is based upon the Hollerith machines of Nazi Germany, and the fact that there is a number on the bottom of your birth certificate that is on the stock market (more manifest destiny thinking). Note: Obama’s stimulus package is a giant step towards bankrupting America due to inflation, where you received a one-time payment of 300 dollars, but your prices at the grocery store tripled permanently (so the State can indoctrinate you children to Obama instead of saying the Pledge of Allegiance to their country by having you work two jobs, with no benefits, for the same food; is this Marxist?). Note: Obamacare is also Obama’s second stimulus package.
You do know that Obama is a Marxist President in his ideology don’t you? You should, you elected him. Now back to Lee Harvey Oswald. According to sources, the Freemasons infiltrated Russia in 1917.
Now take this fact with Italics in the 1954 Douay (Catholic) bible (they are not supposed to be there look at the book of Jerimias; I think this book manifests this fact (that they are not supposed to be there, which is due to a lack of purpose). The England version of this Bible uses the word “shew bread” instead of “show bread (which is in the American version of the same year).” Why is Old English (the language) used in a modern Douay Bible?
Maybe it’s Ed Sullivan: “that a really big shew.” Maybe it’s Khrushchev banging his shoe on a podium before the U.N. stating “America we will bury you.” Maybe it’s the fact that Gorbachev won a Nobel Peace prize for dismantling his country. Maybe it’s the fact that Obama won a Nobel Peace prize for being elected President (for dismantling his country before it even happened; more manifest destiny thinking).
So, how does this tie in to Lee Harvey Oswald. Well according to the documentary that I saw, he met with the K.G.B. guy in charge of Assassinations back then, the week before he assassinated President Kennedy, where President Kennedy (in a press conference) told the world press to manifest any One World Order corruption. This is what is the Great Architect’s plan is. I am a “gangstaking” victim, but I paid attention to their attacks over the years. I went to college and learned their ways with the basis that “they” are 100 percent anti-God. This is due to their cruel methods; I am a Catholic.
On one more note: there was a prophecy by Saint Malachy that the “black” Pope would be assassinated with the Russian federation flag flying about the Vatican. Take this and apply this to the movie Stripes. “call me Psycho.” “You call me Francis and I’ll kill you.” I like how Psycho was shooting at that flock of birds with his M-16 don’t you. Maybe this is according to Saint Francis; the Patron Saint of Animals.
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