This is my first boomantribune diary. Lots of fun weirdness in this one:
So, it turns out that Neil Bush, Pope Benedict XVI, and a handful of other colorful characters founded The Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue back in 1999. Neil Bush founding an Interreligious organization? Yup!
The charter members of the board were all well-known international religious figures, except for Bush and his close friend and business partner, Jamal Daniel, whose family has extensive holdings in the United States and Switzerland, public records show.
So who else is involved? Let’s take a look…
Besides then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, founding board members included Rene-Samuel Sirat, the former chief rabbi of France; Jordan’s Prince Hassan, a Muslim dedicated to religious dialogue; the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, another prominent Muslim; Olivier Fatio, director of the Institute of the History of the Reformation; and foundation president Metropolitan Damaskinos, a Greek Orthodox leader.
Gary Vachicouras, a theologian and foundation official in Geneva, would not explain in a telephone interview yesterday why Bush, who has no clear public connection to religious causes, was on the first board.
So, aside from our boy Ratzinger and good ol’ Neil , his buddy Jamal Daniel and His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal stand out the most.
You might remember Jamal Daniel from his involvement with New Bridge Strategies, the uber-connected war-profiteering firm that caught some flak some time back. I wonder what Jamal was doing with Neil on an obscure International Interreligious Group’s board? Did he find Jesus?
How about this fellow, His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal, Prince of Jordan and President of the Club of Rome. “The Club of Rome”, you ask, “what’s that?”. Well, according to their website:
The Club of Rome’s mission is to act as a global catalyst of change that is free of any political, ideological or business interest.
The Club of Rome contributes to the solution of what it calls the world problematique, the complex set of the most crucial problems – political, social, economic, technological, environmental, psychological and cultural – facing humanity.
It does so taking a global, long term and interdisciplinary perspective aware of the increasing interdependence of nations and the globalisation of problems that pose predicaments beyond the capacity of individual countries.
Well that doesn’t sound so bad. Does everyone agree with this assessment of the Club’s mission? Nope. The Club of Rome is considered to be one of those Shadowy Organizations of the Global Elite, much like the Annual Bilderberg Conference, that works behind the scenes, shaping policy via their members’ vast wealth and influence in the political and economic spheres. When people talk about the New World Order, these are the groups they’re talking about.
Of course, this is all nonsense, right? The notion that such groups exist in our world without our Free and independent press making it front page news is just crazy talk. I mean, that would almost be as if news about the Vatican and mob ties hit on the same day as the election of a new pope, and it was just a blip in the news.
Lol, told ya this diary was going to get weird. Was it fun? I hope so 😀
It’s totally fun, glooperoo. But all the info is so foreign to me that I need to reread it … but, after my first read, i can say that it’s astonishing how Bushes keep popping up everywhere, particularly in ventures of the global sort.
If you want to freak yourself out, look into the links between J. Peter Grace and the Bush family and the Papacy.
I have my tin-foil hat in the closet, but have fun if you are so inclined.
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especially the dressing you serve is not fit for consumption. You provide a lot of innuendo and very little substance. I do not see dates of their memberships, or information of projects or conferences. You toss in addition some more “secretive” conferences like the Bilderberg, co-founded by Prince Bernard of the Netherlands. I think you provide a mix with little knowledge of its content. Sorry.
If you read the bio on Joseph Ratzinger and understand the ecumenical movement, you offer absolutely nothing, except for the membership of Neill Bush and Jamal Daniel. These two names and their relationship is dynamite, and offers much more to investigate. I know the PropaGannon team is very interested and have done research already.
But please do not smear Pope Benedict XVI in a manner as is done by Britain’s boulevard press, I find that a bit tasteless. He is a religious leader and has a message for his followers, 1.1bn Catholics throughout the world.
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
The hardest part of trying to understand all this stuff is simply having the knowledge since the general topic is “how does the world REALLY work”. Having said that, I’m still wary about this new Pope. He has a message, and it scares me. I also find his involvement with this ecumenical group somewhat troubling, as Neil Bush and Jamal Daniel are a couple of sketchy characters to say the least.
Am I speculating? You bet! I’m in one of those “omg, the world appears to be very different from what I’ve been told and I’m not sure what to believe” stages in life, where up sometimes appears down and groups that I’ve never heard of before, like the Club of Rome, start looking very powerful and potentially sinister. That’s why I throw this stuff out there, to see what other people can contribute and your contribution is most welcome and helpful. Thanks!
was a gradual movement, taking years partitioned in distinct steps. Only in recent weeks, the ability for same sex couples to adopt children has been proposed for a change by Law.
For Spain and the majority of Catholics, the change under a Socialist administration is still a bit of a shock. Zapatero is moving his political agenda at a fast pace. The Church as a rock on which it was founded, a bit immobile to changes in society.
From a practical view, it’s most important how persons fulfill their ideals in life and how they act responsibly to their friends, neighbors and strangers.
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
I hope someone will be able to figure out exactly what the foundation does. To print up another addition Abrahamic sacred texts in original languages does not seem like a project that would require an entire foundation, not to mention the intriguing financial arrangements.
I read this article this morning also and was one where I just kinda went, WTF? It just seemed to be such an odd little story. Glad you put this diary up so I can check it out a little more.
Like Susan and Booman mention, the bush name just seems to pop up everywhere doesn’t it.
Like your first diary entry, so let’s have some more.
Jamal Daniel – New Bridge Strategies eh?:
Joe M. Allbaugh, Chairman and Director Joe M. Allbaugh is the CEO of The Allbaugh Company, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based corporate strategy and counsel firm. A native of Oklahoma, Joe served as the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under President George Bush until March 2003. Prior to moving to Washington, D.C., he was Chief of Staff to then-Governor Bush of Texas and was the National Campaign Manager for the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign. [2] (http://www.newbridgestrategies.com/bios.asp)
The New Bridge Strategies Website to Barbour Griffith & Rogers, LLC.
Republican Media Advisor Found Dead
Mr. Stevens, who was an associate of the Washington powerhouse lobbying group Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, also helped orchestrate the firm’s star-studded party for watching the inaugural parade and was known to have deep roots in the Hollywood community.
Now THIS is why I love posting this stuff! So many dots to connect! Now if only we could get all the tin-foilers and blogospheres to collective join forces, we might be able to figure out just wtf is going on in our world.
Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau was a member of the Club of Rome and he was not ashamed of it. So how is that shadowy?
“Shadowy” is probably the wrong word to use. Maybe “questionable”. I am by no means an expert on it. “Barely aware of” is more accurate, in that I’ve seen many alarmist references to but admittedly don’t know much about it. As far as I can tell it’s one of those global elite stomping grounds we never really hear about that, on the outside if focused on the heavy issues of global growth, but upon closer examination (and this is examination I can’t back up in any way, mind you 😉 ), its powerful and influential members say and do some very questionable things.
That Baca organization seems like an elitist cult. I don’t understand why these rich people don’t go more into slum clearance and social programs for inner city chidlren. Thank would change society for the better.
But that’s just me.
You could be right about the Club of Rome, it’s been a while since Trudeau was a member.
If I had to pick one term to describe who’s basically controlling the world, “Elitist Cult” might just be that term. “Elitist Fascist Cult” might be more like it. Don’t forget, Prescott Bush, and his fellow Bonesmen played a crucial roll is funding the Corporations(specifically the Thyssens) that Built German War Machine. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil fed it. The business relationships that enabled this quiet treason were done by members of a secret society. That same one that both candidates belonged to this last election. And even they appear to be just one lodge of a larger secret society. And that’s just one example of these secret, sometimes occultic, and often bizarre societies that all seem to be quietly working together.
And since our media seems to have collectively behave as if this upper echelon of does not exists, these weird elitist cults get to just go about their business, no matter how blatant their influence becomes.
Of course, we are told “broad conspiracies” could never exist.
Even if 90% of what I just linked to is complete bogus, the other 10% is enough to make seriously how many of those weird past power-structures successfully propagated themselves throughout the 20th and now 21st Centuries, and just what the implications of that chilling possibility could be.
Oh, here’s some more on the elite cultist behavior from the best blog around on elite High Weirdness Rigorous Intuition. This Maurice Strong Character, who just stepped as special UN envoy to Korea while his ties to a businessman implicated in the oil-for-food scandal, is an excellent example of this elite cult.
Another interesting tidbit: Turns out one of the two oil-for-food scandal investigators that just stepped down in protest of over how lightly Kofi Annan was treated is David Rockefeller’s granddaughter. It’s amazing how little attention the Rockefellers are given, considering how much influence they appear still wield behind the scenes. And given the connection between Moon, Falwell, Tim LaHaye (author of the Left Behind series), Maurice Strong, David Rockefellers, and the rest of these global elites, you have to wonder how much the rise of the Religious Right was directed by the same folks that controlled the old-school Rockefeller Republicans. I used to view the rise of the “Jesus is coming so fuck everything” Religious Right as a sort of separate social phenomena that supplanted the country-club GOP, but now it’s looking more and more like the military/industrial complex decided to morph into a military/industrial/religious/political complex a couple of decades ago, a move that’s paying off in spades nowadays. Strange times….
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GHW Bush – Gannon & JFK Bay of Pigs 1962 vs. GW Bush – Gannon & JFK SBVT 2004
Why did my last revealing DIARY on JOHN C GANNON die
after just 20 min. on RECOMMENDED List due to dKos DNS Spook?
Appleton Post Crescent 4 Febr. 1959
Caption of AP Wirephoto -Secretary of the Navy
Thomas S. Gates, Jr. (R),
congratulates William Franke, under secretary,
who will succeed him. The resignation of Gates,
effective June 1, was announced by the White House.
Gates will return to private business.
The Enterprise was launched 24 September 1960, and made a lasting impression on “grandson” William Edward Franke, later the architect and financier of the SBVT campaign to sabotage the election of JFK II in 2004!
Read the complete story at dKos:
GHW Bush – Gannon & JFK Bay of Pigs 1962 vs. GW Bush – Gannon & JFK SBVT 2004
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
gloperoo, the real organisation which exerts its power behind all these cover groups is the SPECTRE:
SPECTRE headquarters have been situated at No. 136 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, concealed by the appearance of a reputable charity, and later at Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps.
The members of SPECTRE are known to each other only by their code numbers. The numbers carry no significance other than a secure method of identification, and for added security are advanced two places round the rota each month. All members have a clear managerial record, even after a life devoted to business , this being the highest qualification for SPECTRE.
Most of the Special Executive consist of cells of three, each cell consisting of former members of corporate organisations, from distinct national groups. In addition, there is Blofeld, his right-hand man, and at the time of Plan Omega, two scientists.
everything is disclosed here (full text)
The SPECTRE has been acting for a very long time: as soon as 1848, Marx and Engels mentionned in their “Communist Manifesto”: “A spectre is haunting Europe…”
lol, I KNEW IT! Now I have the proof I need. Thank you kind stranger!
New Bridge Strategies. They planned to jet over to Iraq after our quick and easy victory and then start hauling bags of money home by being the go-betweens for all of the companies that were just dying to get those rebuilding contracts. Well, now it’s looking like, hmmm, not such a good idea.
Their last (and only) entry on their “News” page is almost 2 years old. They have a link to a Google News search that leads to a list of stories about corruption and contractors killed, among other things.
Including this one from today’s Houston Chronicle:
Halliburton reconsidering its $1.2 billion oil field contract
WASHINGTON – Halliburton Co. is reconsidering whether its contract to rebuild southern Iraq’s oil industry is worth all the risks involved.
Last year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded the Houston-based oil field service giant an assignment — initially valued at up to $1.2 billion — to retrofit refineries, repair pipelines and boost oil production in the southern part of the country.
But that work has been hampered by repeated attacks by insurgents, and company officials are starting to wonder whether the project has become too dangerous.
“We are evaluating the scope and all of our options on this contract,” Andy Lane, Halliburton’s chief operating officer, said during a conference call Friday.
The amount of work involved in the contract has been less than company officials had first expected, Lane said. Coupled with the violence, this has created an “unattractive risk-reward profile,” Lane said.
I mean, Jeez, when Halliburton decides 1.2 billion is not worth it. . . . I mean, if Halliburton doesn’t want to be in Iraq, despite the opportunity for obscene profits, how can the R’s keep insisting that we’ve made life better for the Iraqis?
Oh right. They lie.
this topic becomes. Some interesting takes from Ratzinger on the New World Order:
“On the one hand, there have been systems of Marxist orientation that promised the attainment of the desired reign of man by way of their ideologically-driven politics; an attempt that obviously failed. On the other hand, efforts to build the future have been made by attempts that draw more or less profoundly from the source of liberal traditions. Under the title New World Order, these efforts take on a configuration; they increasingly relate to the UN and its international conferences, especially those of Cairo and Beijing that transparently reveal a philosophy of the new man and of the new world, as they endeavor to map out the ways of reaching them.
Such a philosophy is no longer utopian, in the sense of a Marxist dream. On the contrary, it is very realistic: it determines the limits of the well-being sought from limited means for attaining it. This philosophy recommends, for example, without seeking to justify itself, not worrying about taking care of those who are no longer productive nor have any hope of a quality life. Furthermore, it no longer expects that people, used to riches and well being, be ready to make requisite sacrifices, on the contrary, it recommends ways of reducing the number of participants at humanity’s table, so that at least the so called happiness, already acquired by some, will not be touched. The typical character of this new anthropology, which is at the basis of the New World Order, is revealed above all in the image of woman, in the ideology of “Women’s empowerment,” proposed at Beijing. The goal is the self-realization of women for whom the principle obstacles are the family and maternity. Thus woman must be liberated above all from what characterizes her and very simply makes for her specificity: this must disappear before “Gender, fairness and equality,” before an indistinct and uniform human being, in whose life sexuality had no other meaning than as a voluptuous drug that can be used in any manner conceivable.”
Check out the pics of the book at the bottom. Strange, strange times…
a smaller, purer church. 😉