21-06-2009, 05:08 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Pete, re the Vatican. Yes, in my experience they have some of the grubbiest hands of all sovereign nations when it comes to these sorts of financial shenanigans. There are dozens of stories out there where the IOR (or members of the Vatican hierarchy) have been deeply mired in financial criminality. This involves trading in fraudulent US securities back in the 1980’s (ish?), laundering Yugoslavian gold plundered by Ante Pavelic’s Crotatian nazi’s (the Ustache) at the conclusion of WWII, insurance scams and many more scams besides. The Vatican was also very heavily involved in helping their faithful Catholic, Ferdinand Marcos, launder some of the gold he recovered on the Philippines after the war. The list goes on and on, in fact.
So the Vatican news outlet angle is very interesting.
I guess the CC has a built-in spy apparatus - the confessional :listen:; a world-wide structure, some with vows of silence and allegience to el Papa.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass