Table of Contents
- Examples of governments being linked with organized crime
- Examples of businesses and recognized organized crime groups working together
- Recent Crimes associated with the Catholic Church
- Crimes associated with the Catholic Church throughout history
- Major Nobility Clans that have been closely connected with the Catholic Organization
- Role in History of the Major Religions of Today
- Ethnicities of the officials of the Catholic Church
- The History of secretive societies and orders
- The Jews
- Universities
(P1) Examples of governments being linked with organized crime
🇷🇺 Semion Mogilevich - Ukrainian mobster linked with drug trafficking, international prostitution and trading in nuclear material. Russian defector and Ex KBG member Alexander Litvinenko claimed that he had a good relationship with Vladimir Putin.
🇺🇦 Hennadiy Kernes - Former Mayor of Kharkiv—alleged to be a former organised crime boss in the region. Former officer of the Ukrainian organised crime control, Yevgeny Zhilin, was held in a detention centre under suspicion of blowing up Kernes' car. Zhilin would later be gunned down by a hitman in an elite restaurant.
🇯🇵 Shinzo Abe - In this photo you can see Abe with Arkansas' governor mike Huckabee and Icchu Nakamoto of the Yamaguchi Gumi Yakuza clan.
🇯🇵 Shin Kanemaru - Shin Kanemaru was a top Japanese politician who resigned from parliament due to a scandal exposing links between the Japanese government and organised crime.
🇮🇹 Silvio Berlusconi - Has numerous links to the Mafia. According to a Mafia informer He was in contact with Stefano Bontade, a top Mafia boss. There's also the Graviano brothers, who were the bosses of the Palermo Mafia. They allegedly made deals with Berlusconi through a middle man. Vittorio Mangano was a Sicilian Mafia member and a stable keeper for Berlusconi in the 70s. During this time he was suspected of arranging the kidnapping of a friend of Berlusconi's. According to one informer, both Mangano and Dell'Utri assisted in sending money to the Sicilian Mafia.
🇮🇹 Marcello Dell'Utri - Forza Italia cofounder Marcello Dell'Utri was sentenced to 9 years for having associations with the mafia.
According to another mafia informer, both Dell'Ultri and Silvio Berlusconi were in direct contact with Salvatore Riina, head of the Sicilian Mafia in the 80s and 90s.
🇮🇹 Nicola Cosentino - Nicola Cosentino was an under secretary in the Italian economy ministry in 2008 to 2010. In 2010 he was involved in a scandal related to wind energy systems. This was related to the disclosure of the new P2 Masonic lodge, of which Berlusconi was a member. Cosentino was also related to the boss of the Casalesi clan, and he was alleged by the boss of the Camorra to have permitted the illegal treatment of toxic waste in exchange for a fee.
🇮🇹 Giulio Andreotti - According to an informer Italian prime Giulio Andreotti exchanged a kiss with Salvatore Riina, head of the Sicilian Mafia. He is also alleged to have arranged the assassination of an Anti-Mafia-Fighter and a journalist. He went to trial in 1993, accused of exchanging favours withe the Sicilian Mafia, but he ended up being acquitted in 1999. After a retrial in 2001 he was sentenced to 24 years, only to be acquitted again by the Italian supreme court in 2003.
🇺🇸 Donald Trump - He tried to build a casino in Sydney Australia in the mid 80s, but his bid to do so was refused after police expressed concerns over his links with the Mafia.
In New York one of Trumps mentors was Roy Cohn, a lawyer who had ties to local Mafia figures, including Tony Salerna, an underboss in the Genovese family, Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonano family, and John Gotti, boss of the Gambinos. Another of his clients was Aristotle Onassis. Another was the catholic arch archdiocese of New York.
In the 80s the subcontract for Trump Plaza was awarded to SNA Concrete, a company believed to be partially owned by Tony Salerno. Trump bought the property for his casino in Atlantic city through intermediaries from Salvator Testa.
🇺🇸 Barack Obama - His government provided guns to the Mexican drug cartels. This was involved with an operation with the stated goal of tracking the guns to the higher ups in the drug cartels. These guns, including military grade weapons include to be found at the scene of crimes related to the cartels. These instances actually started in the late Bush years, but Obama has invoked executive privilege when it comes to certain documents in relation to these incidents. In other words he's got something to hide.
In 2007 and 2008, Obama received over 150000 in campaign contributions, seemingly coming from Tony Rezko. Rezko co founded Rezmar Corporation, which in 1990 offered Obama a job, and in 1999, Obama would receive some of his first contributions from Rezko. In a high profile court case in 2008 Rezko was sent to prison on several charges including fraud and soliciting corruption.
In 2007 Alexi Giannoulias arranged a fundraiser for president Obama. Giannoulias has tons of reputed mob ties, including Michael Giorango who has been convicted of book making and encouraging prostitution.
🇺🇸 George H.W. Bush - George H.W. Bush has an older brother called Prescot Bush Sr. Prescot is know to have given investment advice to a firm connected with the Japanese Yakuza, in particular Susumu Ishii who was then chairmen of the Inagawa-kai, Japan's second largest Yakuza organisation. The firm in question was under the control of Ishii.
🇺🇸 The Clintons - Bill Clinton has a brother names Rodger. Back when bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, he pardoned Rodger after e was charged with a possession fo cocaine.
A former top FBI official has referred to the Clintons as an influence peddling crime family.
In 2007, Hillary Clinton met with Giovani Gambino, a cousin of the former head of the Gambino crime family.
🇺🇸 Richard Nixon - Richard Nixon's early campaign manager was Murray Chotiner, a lawyer known for defending the mafia. And it's through Chotiner that Nixon is alleged to have exchanged favours with major world figures.
L.A. gangster Mickey Cohen is known to have made major contributions to Nixon's political campaigns.
Nixon was known to be friends with James Crosby. Crosby was in the gambling business, and the chairman of a firm connected to major mob figures.
In 1972, two members of the Nixon campaign administration admitted to plotting to kill journalist Jack Anderson by poisoning, and that they were under orders from a top aid of the president. This plot was aborted when these two were arrested in relation to the watergate scandal. After his death decades after this incident, the FBI went through Anderson's papers and confiscated anything that they deemed classified.
🇺🇸 JFK - President John F. Kennedy was rumoured to be connected to Sam Giancana, a former head of the Chicago Outfit.
🇺🇸 Rudy Giuliani - Rudy Giuliani was mayor of new york from 94 to 2001. His father Harold had associations with the Mafia, and had been convicted of felony assault and robbery. Harold worked as an enforcer for his brother in law Leo D'Avanzo.
🇺🇸 Jim Mason - Jim Mason, a member of the Tewksbury Bureau Council was revealed in pictures taken in 2009 to have been a full patched member of the Outlaws biker gang. The Outlaws are generally considered to be an organised crime group by police forces around the world, and they're known to have been in violent conflict with members of the Hell's Angels.
🇮🇳 India - In India the Russian mafia is said to be ver active in the region f Goa on the western coast, with the Goan government reportedly looking the other way when it comes to their activities.
🇮🇳 Mukhtar Ansari - Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian mafia don who joined the government. He's been accused of killing another political actor, Krishnanand Rai.
🇮🇳 Saradha group financial scandal - In 2014, many prominent people were arrested in connection with the Saradha group financial scandal. This included two members of Indian parliament and a former West Bengal director general of police—also Madan Mitra, a former minister in charge of sports and transportation in West Bengal. This scandal was caused by the collapse of a ponzi scheme run by the Saradha group.
🇮🇳 Narendra Modi - Priminister of India, seen in picture sitting down with higher ups in the liquor mafia, the same mafia that has produced bad liquor which has killed and blinded people.
🇮🇳 Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam - In the Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam, several top government people have been alleged to have siphoned off massive amounts of money from the national rural health mission. At least five people have been known to be killed in an attempt o cover up this scam.
🇮🇳 Truck driver bribes - In 2011, an Indian truck driver was allegedly assaulted for refusing to pay a bribe to transportation department staff. He died shortly afterwards from his injuries. Truck drivers having to pay these kinds of bribes to transportation officials and police is so commonplace in India that an estimated 40M dollars in bribes is paid daily.
🇨🇳 Liu Han - In China the business man Liu Han was convicted of murder running a mafia style group and other charges and executed in 2015. Liu Han had founded the Hanlong group and was close with Zhou Bin, a son of Zhou Yongkang who was then a senior leader in the Chinese communist party. Yongkang was expelled from the party in 2014 and arrested presumably due to charges of corruption.
Yongkang was also known to be close to Jian Jiemin, who was previously the head of the China national petroleum corporation. Jiemin was arrested in 20123, shortly after getting a job in the Chinese government, and according to media sources in China, he was sentenced to 16 years for having accepted bribes.
🇰🇷 Park Geun-hye - In Korea, former president Park Geun-hye was forced out of office in 2007 after being accused of corruption. She was close with Choi Soon-Sil, the daughter of Choi Tae-min, who was the leader of christian sect in Korea, and who was known to be a mentor to Park, until his assassination in 1979.
Choi Soon-Sil was accused of receiving bribes in exchange for government favours given out by Park. The result of this was Choi-soon-Sil being given a prison sentence.
🇰🇷 Errand Men - South Korea has a reputation for having so called errand men, who will do things for business and government people that the police won't, such as chasing away squatters and street venders, and they're linked to organised crime groups in South Korea.
🇻🇳 Năm Cam - Năm Cam who was executed by firing squad in 2004 was known as the godfather of Vietnam. He was a former soldier and ship builder, and his operation was based out of Ho Chi Minh City. He ran gambling dens, hotels and restaurants that were fronts for brothels, and he was said to be so close with the local police that they had to bring in authorities from other regions just to arrest him. Before being executed he was put on display in a large show trial in which 153 of the other people being charged along with him were high ranking members of the communist party.
🇹🇭 Somchai Khunpluem - In Thailand Somchai Khunpluem was the long-time mayor of Saen Suk. His son was the minister of culture under prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, and was the tourism minister under Thaksin Shinawatra. Both of these prime ministers were effectively removed from their positions by a cue and charged with abuse of power. Somchai is recognised as an organised crime boss and is referred to as the godfather of the east by Thai media. He as been in smuggling during the Vietnam war and the Cambodian Civil war, and he is said to have made most of his fortune in construction and real estate.
🇹🇭 Vatana Asavahame - Vatana Asavahame was once known as the godfather of Pak Nam and once had many connections with business and government. Vatana himself had been in many senior government positions such as the interior minister and the prime minister's office minister. In 2008, Vatana was sentenced to 10 years in jail in Absentia on charges related to corruption in relation to the Klong Dan wastewater treatment project, and he's said to have never been seen in Thailand since. His son has done jail time in relation to electoral fraud.
🇰🇭 Hun Sen - Hun Sen. His birth name was Hun Bunal but he changed it two years after joining the Khmer Rouge. Hun was a commander for the Kamer Rouge and later became a leader in the rebel army that defeated them, and since then been in various senior positions in the Cambodian government. Hun Sen's government has leased out 45 percent of Cambodias land mass, primarily to foreign investors, which has threatened an estimated 150000 Cambodians with eviction.
🇰🇭 Teng Bunma - Teng Bunma was one of Cambodia's wealthiest businessmen. He has been described as a significant figure in Cambodia's international drug smuggling trade. He's also been called a trigger happy tycoon because of his habit of brandishing handguns. In once incident he shot out the. tire of an airplane after complaining about the airline service.
Bunma has alleged ties with Hun Sen and other top government officials, and he is said to have provided members of the government with large funding.
🇹🇷 Recep Erdoğan - Under his government the country is alleged to have received oil tankers from Isis controlled territory, and the membership of Turkish parliament is said to include family members of organised crime groups. Furthermore, the only crimes not sanctioned by this greater family are prosecuted by the full force of the state. His son Bilal is suspected by judges in Italy of being involved in money laundering.
🇹🇷 Susurluk Scandel - Back during the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in the mid 90s, a close relationship between the Turkish government and organised crime was revealed after a car crash in what's been called the Susurluk Skandal.
🇹🇷 Matthew Guy - In Australia a member of the government named Matthew Guy met with and alleged mob boss named Tony Madafferi at a restaurant, and according to transcripts of phone calls leading up to this meeting, it was meant to be kept confidential.
Members of the Australian Government are reportedly linked with and and exchanging favours with the Calabrian Mafia, (AKA the Ndrangheta) and Mafia clans like the Sergi, Barnaro and Papalia are known to have been active in Australia through their affiliates for quite some time.
🇩🇪 Matthew Guy - In Germany, the government in general has been criticised for not cracking down on Italian Mafia clans. These clans are said to have infiltrated the German construction industry, and in general Germany for them is said to be a place for money laundering, and for getting involved in more white collar crime. According to investigators, the Sicilian Mafia is particularly active in the Rhineland, and that back in the 80s in Berlin an network between organised crime figures and government officials was revealed in a big scandal.
🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán - He has been connected with Semion Mogilevich, having reportedly having received bribes from Mogilevich and the Russian mob in the 90s.
🇭🇺 Sándor Pintér - Sándor Pintér is (was) the Hungarian government's minister of the interior and a former top police official, and he too is said to have received money from Mogilevich in the mid 90s.
🇨🇭 Switzerland - According to a statement by the now dead Muammar Gaddafi, Switzerland is a Mafia State. He went on to say that the country is a haven for large scale money laundering, and that laws allowing for assisted suicide are used as a cover for the assassination of rich foreigner with Swiss bank accounts in order to get ahold of their money.
🇨🇭 Hells Angels - In Zürich, despite accusations of racketeering and attempted kidnapping, the local hells angels have been declared not to be a criminal organisation.
🇨🇭 Calabrian Mafia - In 2014, a high level meeting of the Calabrian Mafia was recorded in a small town in Switzerland.
🇫🇷 Marie-Jeanne Bozzi - Marie-Jeanne Bozzi was the mayor of the Corsican commune of Grosseto-Prugna-Porticcio from 2001 to 2002 when she was convicted of being the madam of a prostitution ring. She again became mayor in 2005 but resigned again after being convicted of ta fraud. She was assassinated in 2011 in what was suspected to be a score settling between mafia factions.
🇫🇷 Francois Hollande - Francois Hollande was alleged and all but confirmed to have been having an affaire with actress Julie Gayet, and that they would have ron-des-vous at a property connected to the Corsican Mafia.
🇫🇷 Nicolas Sarkozy - Another former French prime minister, Nicolas Sarkozy has also been accused of having ties with the Mafia, and in articular, his government's interference with corsica has been accused of serving mafia interests.
🇪🇸 Spanish Dirty War - In Spain in the late 90s a former interior minister was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement in what's known as the Spanish dirty war. The court found him and other members of the government guilty of misuse of public funds and kidnapping. The organisation of security forces and assassins they are said to have formed is alleged to have killed at least 28 people, with may of their targets having no connectinon to the vast seprtatists they were supposedly fighting.
🇪🇸 José Ramón Barral - José Ramón Barral was for 18 years the mayor of Pontevedra City. He resigned in 2001 after being detained for smuggling tobacco, and for allegedly laundering the proceeds through the British Virgin Islands.
🇪🇸 Alberto Nunez Feijoo - Alberto Nunez Feijoo is the president of Xunta De Galicia, a position he was chosen for by King Juan Carlos I. He as admitted to traveling with convicted smuggler Marcial Dorado in the mid 90s.
🇸🇪 Carl XVI Gustaf - Carl XVI Gustaf is (was) the Current King of Sweden. He is alleged in his younger years to have frequented mafia run clubs. People named in these allegations include the Serbian gangster Mille Marković, who himself claimed it to be true before his death from gun shot wounds in 2014. Three suspects were arrested in connection with his death but all three were released. Allegedly as good sum of money was paid to another night club owner in order to get him to retract his claims about the king, and money was paid to other mafia figures to get them to silence Marković.
🇳🇱 Hell's Angels - The government of Amsterdam has been criticised for employing Hell's Angels members, and the government claimed it intended to weed out Hell's Angels members after a city employee and Hell's Angels member were sentenced for 8 years for placing a live hand grenade underneath a car.
🇳🇱 Johan Fisco - A Dutch prince Johan Friso renounced his claim to the thrown after the government refused to support his marriage. The reason being, his bride was connected to the dead gangster Klaas Bruinsma. According to a former bodyguard of Bruinsma, the two were very close, and she was a regular guest to Bruinsma's yacht at night time. Although by her own account the two were only slightly acquainted.
🇬🇧 Lord Boothby - In the UK evidence has come to light about a relationship between Lord Boothby who was a member of the government and Ronnie Kray of the criminal Kray twins, a relationship with a homosexual element to be exact. During his lifetime Boothby received a libel payout after similar allegations were made.
🇬🇧 Sadiq Khan - Khan is known to have been in circles with the likes of Yasser al-Siri, a militant who was given the death sentence in Egypt but received asylum from the english government. Khan has also been seen talking to Babar Ahmad, who has been accused of providing materiel support to militant groups through a website that he set up in the UK, and ahas spent a total of 11 years in prison.
🇨🇦 Rob Ford - Former mayor of Toronto Rob Ford has been linked to several organised crime groups. In one instance he posed in a picture with Hell's Angels, which they put up on their Toronto Website. Ford is more famous for a video of him smoking crack, the drama over which has led to government employees resigning and at least one death. There was also a clip of him apparently speaking in Jamaican Patois about his counter surveillance measure, and yet another of him talking about he needs 10 minutes to make sure somebodies dead.
🇨🇦 Frank Zampino - Frank Zampino is the former chairman of the executive committee of the Montreal government. Zampino allegedly received 300000 Canadian dollars from Paolo Catania in exchange for Catania being able to buy a parcel of city land valued at 5M Canadian dollars for just 5M. Catania is alleged to have given Zampino other favours, such as a 25000 dollar kitchen renovation for free, and that this exchange of favours was an ongoing thing. In 2012 Zampino was charged with fraud after the investigation based on these allegations.
Paolo Catania's father Fransesco Catania was close with former mob boss Nicolo Rizzuto, and Paolo is said to have used his close tied to the Sicilian Mafia to build his own personal fortune.
🇨🇦 Gérald Tremblay - Former Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay resigned after allegations were made that he was receiving money from Mafia linked construction firms in exchange for municipal infrastructure contracts.
🇲🇽 Enrique Peña Nieto - Has alleged ties to the Juárez Cartel., and under his government key Cartel figures have been suspiciously released from prison, and after an investigation it was said that the Juárez Cartel helped to fund Nieto's party campaign, in part by using a company called Monex to fund thousands of cash cards.
🇲🇽 Tomás Yarrington - Tomás Yarrington, a former member of Neito's institutional revolutionary party has been accused of laundering money for the Gulf Cartel in Los Zetas.
🇻🇪 Tarek Al Asami - Tarek Al Asami is (was) the current Vice president of the Venezuelan government. There's been allegations of him being involved in money laundering drug trafficking and corruption. According to the US government treasury department, Asami has a history of drug trafficking throughout his previous positions in the Venezuelan government, having facilitated shipments of narcotics leaving Venezuela above air and sea, in particular shipments destined for the Los Zetas in Mexico. He's also alleged to have offered government protections to dug lords Walid Makled and Daniel Barrera Barrera.
🇵🇭 Duterte Family - Former president of the Philippines and former mayor of Davao. According to the claims of former self confessed assassin, Edgar Matobato, Duterte had ordered death squads to kill certain criminals and opponents of his in the government.
Rodrigo's son Paolo is (was) the current vice mayor of Davao city, and he has been since 2013 when Rodrigo was still mayor. Paolo is also alleged by Edgar to have ordered numerous extrajudicial killings, including the killing of business man Richard King, who Rodrigo has said was in the drug front.
Paolo has been named during an inquiry about a large amount of money smuggled through the Philippine Bureau of customs, with Paolo being alleged to have been involved with the transactions of a certain Davao group.
Rodrigo's daughter Sara Duterte is the current (former) mayor of Davau City. In a Facebook post she has thanked tattoo artist Edwin Miraflores for a Triad tattoo. Paolo is also alleged to have a Triad tattoo, and that money in question was smuggled in to the country from China.
🇿🇦 Jacob Zuma - Zuma has been in countless scandals and is said to be turning south Africa into a mafia state, mostly in reference to his connections with the Indian Gupta family, including business investments with the company Oakbay Investments, and they've employed members of Zuma's family in some of their various companies in South Africa, all presumably in exchange for government favours. It's too the point that this family gets refered to as the shadow government of South Africa. The Gupta family has also been accused of running a criminal enterprise in South Africa and engaging in racketeering and money laundering with Jacob Zuma.
🇿🇦 Vito Roberto Palazzolo - Vito Roberto Palazzolo has been given a sentence of 9 years for charges related to mafia association. He is alleged to be a mafia treasurer and linked to the Sicilian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, who has been given a life sentence along with his predecessor Salvatore Riina. Vito Roberto Palazzolo has spent years living in South Africa, having arrived using a fake passport which he allegedly obtained from a fellow inmate at a prison in Switzerland. While in South Africa he obtained a new name and passport, he was known as Robert von Palace Kolbatschenko, essentially claiming to be from a German nobility clan. According to investigations into this, he invested more than 25M into businesses into South Africa and Namibia, and he was close with many members of Zuma's African National Congress party, and he was allegedly linked with, among other companies, the Anglo-Cape Diamonds company.
🇧🇷 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was president of Brazil from 2011 to 2013. During this time, he granted refugee status to Cesare Battisti, who has been given a life sentence in Italy after being connected to four assassinations, two of which e allegedly carried out himself, and all of which were part of the activities of the Armed Proletarians for Communism (PAC) group.
🇦🇷 Mauricio Macri - In Argentina, president Mauricio Macri has stated that drug cartels operate with total impunity.
🇦🇷 Jose Ramon Granero - Former drug chief Jose Ramon Granero has been accused of facilitating the importation of massive quantities of ephedrine, which can be used for the production of methamphetamine, and the amounts imported were well above what official pharmaceutical operations required in the country.
🇦🇷 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner also has alleged ties to both Granero and the pharmaceutical companies that were also implicated in this.
Granero's private secretary Miguel Zacarías, who is said to have managed these imports also reportedly has ties Kirchner"s family and he has a brother names Maximo Zacarías, who has been accused of importing 1000kg of ephedrine for Mario Segovia, an associate of the Sinaloa Cartel.
🇰🇵 Office 39 - The North Korean government is said to have run a production operation of Meth, Opium and other drugs out of a department called Office 39, with the drugs being intended for export, but it's also been claimed that the consumption of Meth inside the country is fairly commonplace, and that the government is more of less complicit with the operations of local drug dealers.
In Australia in 2004, a ship named the Pong Su was sieged along with it's North Korean crew, most of whom were deported, with the ship being said the have been engaged in importing Heroin into the country.
(P2) Examples of businesses and recognised organised crime groups working together
🇷🇺 Tambov Gang - In Russia in 2001 Boris Gryzlov, who at the time was the interior minister, made the claim that the Tambov Gang controlled up to 100 industrial enterprises in Saint Petersburg, including the Petersburg Fuel Company and four major sea ports, and in 2007, the prosecutor general of Russia Yury Chaika announced that the Tambov gang had recently taken over over thirteen large enterprises in Saint Petersburg.
🇷🇺 Dmytro Firtash - Dmytro Firtash is a Ukrainian businessman who has worked as a middleman for the Russian national gas giant Gazprom. He reportedly told a US ambassador that he required permission from Semion Mogilevich in order to do business in Ukraine in the 90s. Firtash himself has been accused of bribery and creating a criminal organisation.
Russia supplies 30% of Europes gas and the largest pipeline in Europe is called the Bratstvo, (meaning brotherhood) and it's a popular term for organised crime in Russia.
An Israeli Lawyer named Zeev Gordon, who has represented Mogilevich for over 20 years, created Eurotrans gas (ETG) in 2002, and reportedly registered the company in Dmytro Firtash's name. ETG was suspected of being a front for Gazprom, and had bank accounts in Vienna. Afterwards Gazprom and ETG Established RosUkrEnergo (RUE) which was registered in Switzerland Mogilevich was alleged to have been involved in RUE, and by some accounts has been the man in charge.
🇺🇸 Henry Ford - In the US the famous auto industry tycoon Henry Ford reportedly relied on mafia thugs in order to prevent his employees from forming a labor union, and according to an FBI file, he had links to several organised crime figures of his day. His right hand man, Henry Bennett was also known to be close to the Mafia.
🇺🇸 Wall street - According to Micheal Franzese who is known as the Yuppie Don and is the alleged former head of the Columbo crime family in New York. The people on Wall street collaborate often with mafia figures.
🇺🇸 Hollywood - Hollywood's connection to organised crime are basically and open secret. In this picture you can see the prominent actor and director, Sean Penn meeting with the Mexican drug lord El Chapo Gooseman.
John Rosselli was an organised crime figure nick named the Henry Kissinger of the mob. He was associated with the Chicago outfit as well as the Italian LA crime family. Rosseli was also connected with major Hollywood figures including alleged connections with frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Lana Turner and Betty Hutton.
🇺🇸 Corn - The adult film industry has been linked to a scam carried out by members of the Gambino crime family, and there are alleged ties between content being produced and mafia controlled prostitution rings.
Robert Dibernardo was a subordinate to John Gotti, and was purported to control a large portion of the adult film industry in the US. He was an associate of Ruben Stirman, who was known as the Walt Disney of porn. In this business, Stirman is alleged to have had protection and support from the highest levels of the Cosa Nostra.
🇮🇹 Vito Nicastri - In Italy, it's been said that the mafia is the countries biggest business enterprise, and in recent years, they've also been called Italy's number one bank. In the Italian energy business, Vito Nicastri is known as the lord of the wind. Nicastri has been linked with organised crime figures including Matteo Messina Denaro, who is alleged to be the unchallenged godfather of the Sicilian Mafia after the death of Salvatore Riina in 2017. These links were revealed in an investigation into whether Nicastri was engaged in money laundering.
Major government subsidies have gone into the wind and Solar industries, which according to Italian prosecutors have been deeply infiltrated by the mafia for years, especially in Sicily. Organised crime is also reportedly in control of Italy's agriculture and food businesses, and allegedly the fake oil scams like the ones revealed in operation muma mia were thought up and executed by organised crime members.
🇩🇪 Germany - In Germany the resources going to the police for the purposes of dealing with organised crime have dramatically decreased in recent years, and few investigations into reported cases of organised crime are undertaken.
🇩🇪 Deutsche Bank - The Deutsche Bank, a German global banking and financial services company has been implicated in the grand laundry matt scheme, where billions of dollars were laundered out of Latvia. This money is said to have been of criminal origin.
🇯🇵 Music Industry - In Japan the Yakuza have a great amount of control over the entertainment industry, and many of the major talent agencies are known to be connected with them. This industry is also said to have a strong drug and casting couch culture, similar to Hollywood.
🇯🇵 Susumu Ishii - Susumu Ishii was they head of the Inagawa-kai Yakuza gang, when in 1985 he set up a property development company which became known as the gangs business activities bureau. He bough heavily into blue chip Japanese steel companies like Nippon Steel, Mitsui Metals and Tokyo corp. Other Yakuza gangs are said to have followed his example.
🇯🇵 Itoman - In 1990 it was revealed that Yakuza members were involved in the Itoman trading company. A Korean business man named Ho Yong Chun, who was known to have extensive Yakuza connections, bought a 19% stake in the company.
🇯🇵 Banks - The three biggest banks in Japan have been investigated over alleged ties to organised crime after Mizuho Financial Group reportedly loaned over 2M dollars to people with Yakuza ties. This led to the resignation of the chairman of Mizuho, Takashi Sugimoto.
🇯🇵 Fukushima - The cleanup of the Fukushima Daiichi after the 2011 tsunamis is alleged by a whistle blower to be managed by a chaotic system of subcontractors with organised crime connections. These subcontractors reportedly often ignore safety rules such as radiation exposure guidelines, and organised crime groups are said to be involved in extortion and blackmail in relation to these operations.
🇰🇷 Kim Seung-Youn - In South Korea there are a handful of massive industrial conglomerates known as chaebols, with many of them being family run. These families, which are basically Korean nobility are often said to be involved with organised crime groups. As one example Kim Seung-Youn reportedly kidnapped some bar workers with the help of body guards and some organised crime group members and beat them down for having beaten his son's face.
🇰🇷 Samsung - The Chaebol Samsung has be referred to as the main Mafia of south Korea and several Samsung executives have been convicted for bribing members of the government. According to one whistle blower, this company has a 200M dollar slush fund for buying people off.
🇦🇷 Ibar Pérez Corradi - In Argentina, Ibar Pérez Corradi who has been involved in the pharmaceutical industry, has been extradited to the US and arrested in relation to charges related to Ephedrine trafficking. He has also had a warrant for his arrest issued in connection to the triple crime, which refers to the murder of three men connected to the Argentine Pharmaceutical business. Allegedly, the reason for these killings was to prevent these three from entering the Ephedrine trafficking business.
🇨🇳 Li Qiang - In China, a man named Li Qiang, who is an alleged crime boss, has been sentenced to 20 years on charges related to running a criminal enterprise and bribing officials during the Chongqing crime trials. He is said to have based his gang around his transportation company Chongqing Yuqiang Group, and had them support his business interests in the outside by doing things like causing traffic jams and putting illegal buses into use in the city in order to dominate the transportation market.
🇨🇳 ICBS - The industrial and commercial bank of China or ICBS has had many senior managers in it's Madrid branch arrested, and Spanish prosecutors have accused the company of being involved in laundering funds from tax fraud and smuggling carried out by criminal organised stations
🇮🇳 Coal Mafia - In India there exists a recognised mafia raj of government officials, business men, NGOs, organised crime and so on. The Indian coal mafia for example has been claimed to exist within the Ministry of Coal by P.C. Parakh, who was at the time the Coal secretary. He has also said that the industry is fully under the control of mafia.
Suresh Singh is known as the coal king of India, and the head of the coal mafia of Dhanbad, until he was assassinated by gun fire by three men while attending a wedding ceremony, with the assassination being a killing between rival coal clans.
🇮🇳 Sand Mafia - There is also a sand mafia which is destroying beeches and river heads, along with the livelihoods of people in nearby communities, in order to make money supplying India's construction ministry.
🇧🇷 Odebrecht - Based out fo Brazil, the company Odebrecht is Latin America's biggest construction firm. It is said to have paid out over 800M dollars in bribes between 2001 and 2016. Marcelo Odebrecht, who is the former CEO of Odebrecht, has been sentences to 19 years in prison on charges related to bribery, money laundering and organised crime.
In 2017 Marcelo, his father and brother were named in the paradise papers, which was a release of confidential documents relating to offshore investments to have used at least one offshore company as a vehicle for paying bribes in connection to Operation Carwash.
🇧🇷 Operation Carwash - Operation Carwash is an ongoing investigation which started in 2014 to investigate money laundering, but has since already highlighted allegations of corruption at the Brazilian government controlled oil company Petrobras. According to this investigation, a group of Petrobras officials colluded with an organised Cartel of 16 companies to overcharge Petrobras for construction and service work in exchange for bribes and kickbacks, with the bribes said to total up to three billion dollars. People implicated included the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as well as Eduardo Cunha, who was in the government position called president of the lower house and was sentenced to 15 years. After protests, former president Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from her position.
🇬🇧 BAT - Antonio Messicati Vitale is known to be a high ranking member of the Sicilian Mafia, where he is said to be the boss of the Villabate crime family. He is said to have colluded with Zimbabwean businessmen to smuggle half a billion dollars worth of diamonds out of the Chiadzwa mining company. He was also been charged with murder, illegal arms trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, drug dealing and other crimes which he allegedly did through a company called Zimbabwe Diamond Opportunity.
British-American Tobacco (BAT) reportedly claimed in an internal document in 1993 that only 5.4% of their business in China went through legal channels. Allegedly it was the Triads that were behind an operation to smuggle billions of cigarettes into China and Taiwan from Hong Kong Singapore and the Philippines. In 1995 former BAT director Tommy Chiu was killed in a Singapore harbour in what was said to be a triad style, and that an alleged triad member was sentenced to 27 years in connection to this murder. Chiu had spoken to police and claimed that there was high level corruption as BAT, and it is believed that this killing was a message to others who might do the same.
Another company that is said to be at the centre of this operation was the Hong Kong company giant island, which was founded in the mid 80s to export cigarettes.
🇬🇧 London - The city of London is notorious for money laundering. Even Osei Tutu II, the emperor of Ashanti, who has been called the King of Ghana, has been accused of laundering 350 pounds of cash in the city.
A bank official named Mark Arthur, who lost his job as a result of these allegations claimed that he was unable to say no because it would offend the King.
According to the national crime agency, hundreds of billions of US dollars of criminal origin will almost certainly continue to be laundered through UK banks.
Several recognised organised crime groups are involved in money laundering in the city of London, and the London property market is reportedly built upon laundered money.
(P3) Recent Crimes associated with the Catholic Church
The pope, who is considered the absolute monarch of the Vatican state, along with the Catholic organization he represents, has connections to top government officials, officials from other government organizations and so on. The Catholic church is said to be the largest non governmental provider of education and healthcare services in the world. The church is just another for of government.
Sexual abuse scandals - Members of this organization are provided with certain privileges, especially the more well connected ones, and some of them use that to engage in predatory behavior. What basically happened when this whole thing broke was that there was a lot of whistle blowers, which forced them to throw several priests under the bus, while at the same time there are many incidents where the church has seemingly protected offenders from consequences, such as shuffling predatory priests around when ever rumors start spreading about them locally, and cases where the Vatican government has claimed to be handling these incidences internally, and more or less just go silent on the matter. And then there's the claims that a certain graveyard fund is actually intended as hush money for victims and those around them.
Gay sex orgy - Vatican police are said to have broken up a gay sex orgy at the home of a secretary to one of the Pope's main advisors. The location belonged to the Vatican's congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. Illegal drugs are also said to have ben found at the location. The Vatican Church's connection to the drug trade go much deeper than that though.
Cartels - In Mexico Cartels have reportedly offered money to the Church in order to fund public works and other activities.
Plaque - In 2010 a plaque thanking an alleged king pin of the Zetas Cartel was seen at a church in the Mexican city of Pachuca.
Roberto Calvi - Roberto Calvi, referred to as god's banker, is alleged to have been linked with Pablo Escobar. Calvi had close ties with the Vatican bank and was found hanged under the Blackfriars bridge in London after a scandal broke involving the P2 Masonic lodge and the Mafia.
Show of honor - In 2014 Pope Francis announced that the mafia was excommunicated from the Vatican church, but only a few weeks later, a religious procession carrying the Madonna took a detour to the home of a convicted minister under house arrest in what was called a show of honor.
Southern Italy - In southern Italy especially, the Catholic Organization and the mafia are known to be deeply intertwined, with local priests said to often be complicit in criminal activities, and mafia buildings are often covered in catholic symbols and objects.
Vatican Bank - The institute for religious works AKA the Vatican bank reportedly shut down over 4500 accounts in 2013 after Pope Francis took the throne. Many of these accounts are implied to have been involved in tax evasion and money laundering schemes, and some of these accounts area also rumoured to be connected with the Spatola and Inzerillo crime families.
Forza Italia - Members of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party (connected) are also close with the Vatican. Three members of that party are also members of the Catholic sect Comunione e Liberazione.
Edoardo Scordio - The Catholic priest Edoardo Scordio, along with the 'ndrina clan of the Calabrian mafia and a Catholic volunteer group called 'Mercy' have been said by members of the Italian police to have skimmed millions from a government migrant fund.
According to the writings of Emma Mclachlan who was a former catholic priest in the Franciscan order, American gangsterism during the prohibition era was a largely roman catholic monopoly.
(P4) Crimes associated with the Catholic Church throughout history
Slavery
According to a document that was the product of the third Lateran council in 1179, christians who aided in the war efforts of the saracens could have all their possessions confiscated and could be turned into slaves.
according to the Papal Bull Dum Diversas, issued in 1452, the Portuguese had the right to attack conquer and subjugate saracens, pagans and other so called enemies of Christ where ever they were found. They were also permitted to take over the lands that these people inhabit, seize their possessions and render them into perpetual slavery.
In 1545 Pope Paul III affirmed that the inhabitance of Rome were permitted to publicly buy and sell slaves of both genders. This is alleged to have been due to a shortage of slaves in Rome.
Prostitution
Church Tax - Pope Sixtus IV for example was known to collect a church tax on prostitutes and charge priests for keeping mistresses. By one account there ware 6800 public prostitutes in Rome in 1490, which was a huge number in proportion to the population.
Banquette of Chestnuts - Pope Alexander VI' son Cesare Borgia reportedly held what was called a banquette of chestnuts at the Papal palace. The account of this event describes there being 50 prostitutes that were made to crawl on their hands and knees picking up chestnuts, and that it later turned into a competition of who could have sex with the prostitutes the most often.
Pope Leo X - Pope Leo X was said to be exceedingly devoted to the flesh and to have saw the Papal court as a centre of amusement. He is said to have engages in excessive luxuries and drained the papal treasury during his time as Pope. To make more money he began selling indulgences. Basically this meant that Catholics were told that they could be forgiven for their sins in exchange for a fee.
War, Genocide and general brutality
The best known catholic military crusades, those into the so called holy land, produces a death toll estimated at around 2M, which included people identified as Jews, christians and Muslims.
The Northern Crusades - The Northern Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries were sanctioned by the Pope and they included...
The Wendish Crusade of 1147, where the tribal Wendish people of northern Germany, AKA the Polabian Slavs were forcibly subdued and made to identify as Catholics, while their lands were made part of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Stedinger Crusade of 1230, where a group of peasants were labelled as Heretics by the arch bishop of Bremen. He convinced the pope to summon a crusade that proceeded to massacre them.
The Livonian Crusade, where mostly Germans of the Holy Roman Empire and Danes invaded Latvia and Estonia.
The Cathar Crusade - The Cathars, AKA the Arians, were a competing ideology in the early history of the catholic church. In 1208, Pope innocent III launched the Albigensian Crusade, AKA Cathar Wars, where the Crusaders employed mass indiscriminate slaughter to inspire terror in those who might appose them. They seized and brunt many cities in souther France and committed unspecified atrocities.
Ultimately not much is known about the Cathars because they aren't around anymore. This crusade has been called an act of Genocide.
Waldensians - The Waldensians were a group expelled from the Roman Catholic Church in the 12th century. This was allegedly over a dispute about how the bible should be read to people, and it led to over 80 of them being burned to death in Strasbourg France.
Bosnian Crusade - The Bosnian Crusade was launched in 1221 against people said to be sympathetic of the Bigomilism Sect, which was allegedly similar to Catharism. The crusaders failed to conquer all of Bosnia, but the Dominican Order took control of the Catholic Church in that area, and the arch Bishop of Bosnia, who was accuse of sheltering heretics was replaced by a German Dominican.
Oldcastle Revolt - The Lolards of England had a revolt against the Catholic Church and the English King Henry IV in 1414. This revolt was crushed and reportedly all but one militant was burned at the stake or hanged after being charged with treason and heresy.
Spanish Inquisition - The Spanish Inquisition, which when on from around 1478 to 1834 was led by a Catholic agent with the title of grand inquisitor. There are conflicting accounts of what went on during the inquisitions. But by conservative estimates around 2000 people were burnt at the stake, often part of a public ritual called the act of faith.
New Spain - Catholic agents absolutely took part in the acts of genocide against Native Americans. In the colonial region designated as new Spain, the native were concentrated into what were called the Indian reductions, where they could be better controlled, taxed and have the ideology pushed on them. Most of their original villages in these regions were destroyed. These Native tribes had their original cultures destroyed as they were made to mix with people from far away tribes and made to identify as Catholic—similar to what was done to the Wendish tribes of Northern Germany.
German Peasants - The German Peasants War which lasted 1524 to 1525 is considered by historians to have been the largest popular revolt in Europe before the French Revolution. It was part of the Protestant reformation which was basically a break away movement from the Catholic organisation. This peasants war failed and resulted in 100 to 300 peasants and farmers being slaughtered.
Huguenot Wars - The Huguenot Wars ware another bloody event of the protestant reformation where the death toll was estimated at 3M. This was is best known for the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, in which there were a number of targeted assassinations and rampant Catholic mob violence directed against those identified as Huguenot Protestants.
30 Years War - The 30 Years War is considered by historians to be deadliest European religious war, with the estimated death toll around 8M.
Goa Inquisition - The Goa Inquisition was proposed by the Jesuit Francis Xavier in 1546 to the King of Portugal. This inquisition, which lasted from 1560 to 1820 involved many trials and executions including burnings at the stake, but most of this inquisition's records were burned by the Portuguese involved, although victims are known to have been at least in the thousands, and by some Indian accounts in the millions.
Before these inquisitions even began Portuguese troops destroyed around 300 Hindu temples, and Indians who had been made to identify as catholic were accused of practicing crypto Hinduism by Jesuit clergy.
Catholic missionaries reportedly burned any books written in local languages that they could find, and families were ordered to send their children to the Jesuit college of St Paul to be Baptised. These inquisitions also targeted local muslims as well as other Christian sects, people identified as Jews and even Catholics who were accused of sympathising with Hindus.
Francoist Spain - The Francoist Spain Period refers to Spain from the years 1936 to 1975, when Fransisco Franco was the head of the Spanish government. This period began with the Spanish Civil War, and ended with Franco handing over the head position to King Juan Carlos I upon hid death. This civil war was said to be supported by Catholics, and later on Catholic clergymen were given certain legal privileges in Spain that had been previously abolished by the mid 19th Century. A catholic charity called Caritas oversaw foodstuffs being sent from the US during the reconstruction period. By Contrast the privileges for those identifying as protestants were restricted, with public activity and announcements being prohibited, and there were reportedly occasional acts of violence against their meeting places. The catholic organisation also integrated itself into the framework of Spanish public education in the 40s and 50s.
(P5) Major Nobility Clans that have been closely connected with the Catholic Organisation
House of Farnese
The Farnese family is said to have first become prominent in the early 15th century, when Renuncio Farnese was commander and chief of the republic of Siena's troops, who defeated those of the Orsini Clan members at Pitigliano and gained territory for the family.
Alexandro Farnese, better known as Pope Paul III, occupied the throne from 1534 to his death in 1548, and is best known for his sanctioning of the Jesuit Order.
Members of the Farnese were the Dukes of the Duchies of Parma and Castro in Italy, both of which were basically created by Pope Paul III for the benefit of his family. Leading up to the wars of Castro in the mid 17th Century, Odoardo Farnese who was then the Duke of Parma, and who's mother was a member of the Aldobrandini Clan, got into a dispute with Pope Urban VIII of the Barbini Clan. Basically the Barbini family wanted to take the Duchy of Castro for themselves. This was is said to have ended in a stalemate and a treaty between the two families. Odoardo's son Renuncio II Farnese, who inherited the title of Duke of Parma, refused to pay any reparations for the war and war blamed for the murder of newly appointed Bishop of Castro. As retribution, Pope Innocent X sent troops to destroy the capital city of Castro and the family's Palazzo Farnese.
In 1714 Elizabeth Farnese became the Queen of Spain by marrying King Philip V of the Bourbon family. Their son Charles III, who had inherited the title of Duke of Parma, became the next King and founded the house of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. He also married the daughter of Polish King Augustus III. And Charles III's son Philip founded the house of Bourbon-Parma. Currently Prince Carlos, who is the head of the Bourbon-Parma family claims the title of Duke of Parma as a descendent of the Farnese. He is a nephew of former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, and he has worked for ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam. Prince Pedro the Duke of Calabria and Prince Carlo the Duke of Castro are the disputed heads of the Bourbon-Two Sicilies family, and all three are the disputed heads of the sacred military Constantinian order of St George. All three are also Knights of Malta.
The current (former) King of Spain is also a descendent of the Farnese, and he has met with the grandmaster of the order of Malta. Henry, the current Grand Duke of Luxembourg is a member of the Bourbon-Parma. He's also a Knight of Malta
Fidel Castro's father emigrated to Cuba from the Galician region of Spain, and based on his surname, his family very likely has some connection with the Duchy of Castro, and by extension the Farnese family. Fidel looks similar to depictions of the Farnese Pope.
Given the Farnese family's historical connection with the Jesuit order, and the fact that their most prominent descendent are connected with the military order of Malta, it's interesting to note that the US department of defence's Pentagon has a similar design to the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola.
House of Borghese
The Borghese family are said to have become prominent in Rome in 1605, when Camilo Borghese became pope Paul V. This Pope founded the bank of the Holy spirit, which at the turn of the millennium merged with a couple banks to form the Capitalia Bank, which has since been bought out by UniCredit. After Camilo became Pope, the family became major land owners in the Roman Campania Region, which surrounds Rome and where they had monopolies on things like mill and grain, and permission to run inns. They also acquired quite a number of titles which have been passed down in this family.
During the Napoleonic wars, another Camilo Borghese married Napoleon Bonaparte's sister pauline, and he was made a prince of the French Empire. The current head of the family is Scipione, the 14th prince of Sulmona, 15th Prince of Rossano and so on. He married Barbera Massimo of the Black Nobility Massimo family.
The Borghese family have intermarried with several Black Nobility families, including the House of Torlonia.
A George Borgesi is said to be a high ranking member in the Philadelphia crime family.
House of Aldobrandini
The black Nobility Family when Ippolito Aldobrandini became Pope Clement the 8th. Before becoming Pope, Ippolito was a cardinal stationed in Poland, where he is said to have secured the release of Maximilian III, who was the third arch duke of Austria and the grand master of the Teutonic Order, and who had been imprisoned while trying to claim the Polish throne. In doing this, he gained the favour of the Habsbourg family, who occupied the throne of the Holy roman Empire. As pop Clement VIII he issued the Congregatio de Auxiliis, which settled a dispute between the Jesuit and Dominican orders.
The Aldobrandini intermarried with many of the major other Black Nobility clans. An Olimpia Aldobrandini married a Paolo Borghese in 1638, and a year after a year after his death she married a Camillo Pamphili, who was a nephew of Pope Innocent X. According to historians, she was the soul heir of the family fortune, and thus her property passed on into the Pamphili family when she died. She had several children with both men.
The Aldobrandini was picked back up by Don Camillo Borghese Pr Aldobrandini, who was born in 1816 and was a descendent of the formerly mentioned Olimpia Aldobrandini.
Another Olimpia Aldobrandini married David René de Rothschild in 1974. The current head of this family is named Prince Camillo Aldobrandini and his heir is named Don Clemente Aldobrandini.
House of Orsini
The black Nobility Orsini family is believed to had originated from the older Bobone family of Rome, and the Orsini claim to descend from the Julio-Claudian family of ancient Rome. The Orsini have had at least five Popes and at least 34 cardinals in the Catholic organisation, and are known to have has positions in other governments. The Orsini have had a rivalry the with Colonna family which lasted for centuries, which was allegedly ended by a Papal Bull in 1511, and in 1571 the heads of both families nieces of Pope Sixtus V of the Peretti family.
Matteo Rosso Orsini, not to be confused with a cardinal of the same name, was the father of Pope Nicolas III who he basically single handedly brought to that position. Mateo was a senator of the city of Rome, and had enough influence to disregard being excommunicated by Pope Celestine IV. He was also said to have been a personal friend of St Francis of Assisi, and supported the Franciscan order that St Francis had founded. This order is alternatively known as the Order of Friars Minor or the Seraphic Order.
The Orsini have intermarried with major nobility families from outside of Italy, like the Juvenal des Ursins in France and the Bohemian Rosenberg family which later spread to Austria and Germany. With the latter example, the Orsini-Rosenberg family of Austria were said o be subject only to the court of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Orsini affair, which was connected with Freemasonry and the Young Italy Movement, involved Felix Orsini and three others throwing bombs under the carriage of French emperor Napoleon III in 1858. It is one example of a member of these noble families taking part in these various orders that pop up all the time, and which these families are often shown to be backing.
The current head of the Orsini family's Dukes of Gravina line is Don Benedetto Orsini. Don Benedetto is recognised as the prince of Vallata, which is the Capital city of the Island of Malta, from which the Order of Malta gets its name. He is also a Neapolitan patrician, Venetian patrician, Genoese patrician and has other titles.
An Edgar Orsini has been charged with conspiracy and distribution of Cocaine after an investigation, which allegedly connected him to the network involving the militant group Hezbollah
House of Medici
The Medici are another major black Nobility Family and they've had three Pope. In 1478 members of the Pazzi family including Pope Sixtus IV attempted to assassinate Lorenzo de' Medici and his brother Juliano who were the rulers of Florence. This plot failed with only Juliano being killed, and as a result the Pazzi were banished from Florence.
The Medici family have often been noted for their wealth in association with banking. They created the Medici bank which was the largest in Europe during the 15th Century, and managed the fortunes of members of several royal families. They even issued their own currency called the Florin which as accepted throughout Europe.
A handful fo federal reserve buildings in the US including the federal reserve bank of New York have a similar design to the Palazzo Medici in Florence. Given the Medici's strong historical connection with banking, it's definitely possible that this family and or their descendants have some level of influence over these banks.
The main house of Medici officially ended in 1737 after having mixed with several other major nobility clans like the former French royal House of Bourbon, the Orsini's and the Habsburg.
Among several branch families the princes of Ottajano are considered the closest descendants to the mainline today.
The Princes of Ottajano have been prominent in the kingdom of Two-Sicilies and have included one Pope. The current head of the princes of Ottajano is Giuliano de' Medici di Ottajano, who is the president of the International Medici Association.
Breakspear
The Breakspear family is said to have first become prominent when Nicolas Breakspear became Pope Adrian IV in 1154. Adrian IV who was the only English pope issued the Papal Bull Laudabiliter which urged the Angevin King Henry II of England to invade and govern Ireland.
Boso Breakspear, an Italian cardinal, is said by some sources to have been a nephew of Nicolas Breakspear. While other accounts say he was born in Tuscany.
There is a theory that a branch of the Lancellotti, or Lanzarotei, family of Italy became the Breakspears of England to gain influence on that island, which might help explain Pope Adrian IV seeking to gain catholic control over Ireland through an English king control. Rotte means broken and lance means spears in Italian.
The Lancellotti have intermarried with several Black Nobility families including the powerful Massimo family.
Currently a Micheal Lancolloti is known to be a capo in the Philadelphia crime family. Cindy Breakspeare is a former Ms World who had relationship with the Bob Marly, which produced a son named Damion Marly. She has claimed descent from the Breakspear Pope. A Mark Breakspear, who was born in Oxford, is a visual effects person who has worked on many major Hollywood movies, and a Micheal Breakspear has written several papers on computational psychology, and has studied the effects of things like facial expressions in films in relation to things like human behaviour and mental illness.
House of Sforza
The Sforza were the rulers of Milan for about a century before losing that position to the Spanish Habsbergs. The also controlled some other areas and a few members moved to Rome to create the branch family called the Sforza Cesarini.
In 1837 Duke Lorenzo Sforza Cesarini married an Englishwoman called Caroline Shirley. One of their sons named Fransesco Sforza Cesarini became a senator of the kingdom of Italy, and allegedly, he and his brother had allowed guns to be stored in their palaces to support the new kingdom, which caused the Papal government to confiscate all their properties for a while. Fransesco married Vittoria Colonna Doria of the Black Nobility Colonna family. Fransesco's son, Lorenzo Bosio Sforza-Cesarini married Maria Torlonia of the Torlonia nobility family.
A Marino Torlonia, who was born in 1961 and was the 4th prince of Civitella-Cesi is said to have been a descendant of Ludovico Sforza who was a duke of Milan, and the current (former) and seventh prince of Civitella-Cesi is named Giovani Torlonia. Geovani is the grandson of Infanta Beatriz of Spain, who was the grand aunt of the current (former) King of Spain. The Torlonia are best known for having administered the finances of the Vatican, starting in the 18th century.
Prince Alessandro Torlonia, who lived from 1925 to 2017 was one of the two recognised prince assistants to the Papal throne, which is a position that was held by the head of the Orsini until 1958. Since this position is considered hereditary, it will presumably go to his first born son, Carlo Torlonia. Alessandro was also the president of the bank of Fucino
The Villa Torlonia in Rome was rented by the family to Benito Mussolini for one lira a year from the year 1920 until it was abandoned until 1945.
Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg is a Torlonia on her mother's side. Duke Leopoldo Torlonia ir reportadly the president of St peters circle, better known by it's Italian name, Circolo S. Pietro.
The actress Brooke Shields is the granddaughter of a Donna Marina Torlonia.
Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza is a population geneticist and a professor at Stanford University.
The Forza Italia party, connected with Silvio Berlusconi and the Sicilian Mafia is said to be named after the Sforza family. Theres a picture going around which is said to be Berlusconi's front lawn with a Biscione symbol on it. It's the Villa of Macherio, which Berlusconi is associated with. This Symbol is also found on the Sforza coat of arms and is associated with Milan.
House of Barberini
The Barberini family, which is said to have originated in Tuscany, reached it's height and prominence when Maffeo Barberini became Pope Urban VIII. Pope Urban VIII was educated by the Jesuits and canonised the major jesuit figures Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier. As Pope he is said to practice nepotism on a grand scale, and many members of his family became wealthy, simply because of his position.
He launched the wars of Castro, that ultimately led to the Capital of that Farnese controlled Duchy being destroyed. He was interested in military affairs and aggressively extended Papa Territory. In 1627 Mafeo's nephew Taddeo Barberini married Anne Cologne. Taddeo had been given the positions of Governor of the Borgo, Commander of Sant'Angelo and Prefect of Rome by his uncle. He was also made commander of the Papal army for a while. When the next Pope Innocent X took the throne, Taddeo and his brothers were forced into exile, but Anna Colonna is said to have convinced this pope to allow him to keep his property.
The current head of the Barberini is Benedetto Francesco Barberini, Prince of Palestrina who was born in 1961. Urbano Barberini Riario Sforza Colonna di Sciarra is an Italian actor. The Barberini have also mixed with the Este family.
Conti
The Barberini family, which have had four Popes. Many members of this family have had military commanders such as Torquanto Conti, who was a general field martial of the Holy Roman empire during the 30 Years War.
House of Colonna
The Colonna family claim to trace their lineage past the Counts of Tusculum to the Julio-Claudian Dynasty of the ancient Roman Empire. The symbol on their coat of arms is a column, which Colonna can also be translated to mean. In 1417 Oddone Colonna became Pope Martin V, and is said to have authorised a crusade into Africa the next year in relation to the slave trade. Prosparo Colonna Doria who was born in 1858 married a Maria Massimo, mixing those two families. Going back up their family tree the 15hundreds we see a Colonna marrying a member of the Doria family. A prominent member of the Doria family named Francesco Doria was a banker at Saville and financed Christopher Columbus's expeditions into the new world.
Christopher Columbus was not the name the man actually went by. His Spanish name was Cristóbal Colón, while his name in Italian was Cristoforo Colombo . He is believed to have been born in Genoa, and is a possible descendant of Peter Peter "de Columna" who founded the Colonna family, which would explain a Doria family member backing his venture, as the two families have intermarried. Columbus's son Diego Columbus married María De Toledo, who is said to have been the highest ranking noble in America in the 16th century. Their son, Luis Colón de Toledo married Ana de Castro Osório of the Orsini family
The order of the Knights of Columbus is named after Christopher Columbus. There are three people with the last name Colonna associated with this Catholic order: a Prosparo Colonna born in 1858 was they mayor of Rome for two separate turns, including the duration of WW1, and he was a Knight of Malta; Guido Colonna di Paliano is a former EU commissioner and a member of the Trilateral Commission. In the 30s he was a vice council for Italy and has been described as a diligent Fascist; Jerry D Colonna is an adviser at Webalo incorporated and he co founded Flatiron Partners venture capital firm. In 2002 Jerry was named a partner with JP Morgan Partners.
Jean-Jérôme Colonna was an alleged godfather of South Corsica. Ivan Colonna is a Corsican who was convicted for the assassination of Claude Érignac, a prefect of Corsica.
The Julia Colonna Epoxidation is a chemical reaction which has been reported on originally by Sebastian Julia, and later further elaborated on by Julia and Stefano Colonna. The reaction has since been scaled up to industrially useful levels and is in use most notably by the German Pharmaceutical giant, Bayer, and Evonik industries, which is also based in Germany, and which is said to be the largest specialty chemicals company in the world.
A man named João Doria is the 62d mayor of São Paulo Brazil.
House of Chigi
The Chigi are a black nobility family said to be descended from the counts of Ardenghesca of southern Tuscany. The Roman branch of the family was founded by the prominent banker and Sienese ambassador to Rome, Mariano Chigi in the 15th century. Mariano's son Agostino Chigi became an even more prominent banker, and is said to have leant huge amounts of money to Pope Alexander VI as well as other monarchs of his day. He was also the treasurer of Pope Julias II, and had the salt monopoly in the Papal states in the Kingdom of Naples. He was said to be indisputably the richest man in Rome, and he had a villa built that later became known as the Villa Farnesina after the Farnese family took it over, and which later went to the Bourbons.
In 1655 Fabio Chigi became Pope Alexander VII. Fabio supported the Jesuits and before becoming Pope he was an inquisitor on the island of Malta. Like most, if not all Popes, he heavily engaged in nepotism. He made his family into Roman patricians and gave his nephew, Augustino, the titles of prince of Farnese and Duke of Erisia. Augustino was also made a prince of the holy roman empire by emperor Leopold I. In 1735 another Augustino Chigi married Giulia Albani of the venetian patrician Albani family, which is said to be of Albanian origin. From then on the family has been known as the Chigi albani family.
The Albani family are themselves said to have originally gone by the name Chigi, suggesting the two families were originally one well before this marriage. The Albani also had one Pope named Pope Clement XI. Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, who was born in 1866 was the grandmaster of the sovreign military Order of Malta from 1931 to 1951, in other words the entire duration of WW2 with padding on both ends. He married a Donna Anna Aldobrandini.
The current head of the Chiggi-Albani family is Mario Chigi Albani della Rovere, who inherited the titles of Prince of the HRE, Prince of Farnese, Prince of Campagnano and prince of Soriano. He was born in 1929. The Heir to the headship is his son Flavio Francesco Chigi Albani della Rovere, who's grandmother is a Torlonia.
The Polazzo Chigi at the Via del Corso in Rome is the official residence of the Italian Prime Minister.
Somáglia
One branch of the Somáglia are known to have been a patrician family of Milan. There was a Corona Cavazzi Somaglia who lived in the early 16th Century. She married as Camillo Borromeo of the ancient Borromeo nobility clan of Lombardi. A Charles Borromeo was appointed as Catholic arch Bishop of Milan in 1564 within the Papal government. He was also appointed supervisor of the Franciscans' Carmelites and knights of Malta. He had an uncle named Julias Caesar Borromeo, and another uncle named Giovanni Angelo Medici who became Pope Pius IV.
Giulio Maria della Somaglia was a secretary of state under Pope Leo VII, and alter became secretary of the inquisition. He was also given the title of patriarch of Antioch, and is said to have been considered seriously as a candidate for Pope.
Gian Luca Savazzi Somaglia was born in 1841 and was a Knight of Malta. He married Gwendolina of the Doria-Pamphili-Landi family.
Gian Giacomo Cavazzi della Somaglia, born in 1869, was a senator of Italy and was president of the Italy red cross during the First World War. He was a knight of the then reigning Italian house of savoy's order of St Maurice and Lazarus, and a patrician of Milan.
They appear to have mixed with the Trivulzio family, and following that line, a possible head of the Someglia family is Gian Giacomo Attolico-Trivulzio Dei Conti di Adelfia, who was born in 1953. A Gian Giacomo Attolico Trivulzio (Probably the same person) is on the board of directors of the Banca Leonardo, which is founded in Milan and which was founded in Milan and which is in the wealth management business in Italy and Switzerland. The Somáglia family lent their name to the Villa Somaglia-Balconi in the Italian town of Brugherio in Milan.
In Verona there is a family known as the Somaglia di Stoppazzola. A Cesare Somaglia di Stoppazzola is a senior consultant at the CONSIDI management consultant firm.
House of Caetani
The black nobility Caetani family (AKA Gaetani) had two popes and reportedly had roman and Gothic Origins. They are also said to descend from the Getae Indo-European tribe which was similar to the Goths. They had disputes with the Colonna family during the 14th and 15th centuries that caused a few civil wars. Members of this family are noted to have been prominent in government and in education during the 19th and 20th centuries. The main Gaetani line has allegedly died out and the current head of the Gaetani Dell'Aquila d'Aragona branch family is Don Bonifacio Gaetani Dell'Aquila d'Aragona who was born in 1950. Galacio Gaetani D'Aragona is involved in the wine business and founded "Net Wine Italy" which is described as the first national network of small and medium sized companies in the wine sector.
Ivana Trump, who was born in Czechoslovakia and was the first wife of Donald Trump, is known to have later dated Prince Roffredo Gaetani Dell'Aquila d'Aragona.
Salvatore D'Aquila was born in 1873 in Sicily and emigrated to the US in 1906 where he became a captain of the Morello crime family of East Harlem. He went on to form the D'Aquila crime family and became the new boss of bosses. The D'Aquila crime family would later become known as the Gambino family. (Donald Trump has been connected with Rory Cohn, who was an associate with former Gambino Boss John Gotti.)
House of Pamphilj
The black nobility were at their most prominent in the 16th and 17th centuries. They are said to have originated in Umbria, and in 1644 a Giovanni Battista Pamphilj became Pope innocent X. Giovani's nephew Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphili married an Olimpia Aldobrandini in 1647. The Polazzo Doria Pamphilj was built in the 17th century, and contains one of the most valuable painting collections in the world. This palace was also used as a headquarters of the famous Italian General and honorary grand master of the Free Masonic Grand Orient of Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi. A Filippo Andrea V Doria Pamphilj, who was born in 1813, was the second mayor of Rome, holding that position from 1870 to 1871. He was also a knight of the order of St Maurice and Lazarus.
Filippo Andrea VI Doria Pamphili became the Mayor of Rome in 1944 right at the end of the Nazi occupation of Italy. The current representatives of the family are Princess Gesine Pogson Doria Pamphilj, and Prince Jonathon Doria Pamphilj, who was adopted. Jonathan is said to have a Brazilian boyfriend and two children from surrogate mothers. Princess Gesine allegedly tried to take him to court to make it so his children couldn't have his inheritance by using a technicality in Italian law.
An Olimpia Pamphilj who was born in 1672 married a Filippo Colonna.
Schiaratura
The black nobility, but their related surnames Schiari and Schiara are. members of the Schiaratura family have been. Members of the Schiaratura have been the counts of Piemonte, Sassocorvaro and San Donato. Domenico Schiaratura who was born in 1860 is considered a member of the black nobility, a count of the Papal nobility, and he was a Knight of the Golden Spur.
Silvian Schiaratura, who was born in 1982 is a member of the Belgian branch of this family. The last male member of the line of Giuseppe and the heir of the surname Schiaratura of France is Jimmy Schiaratura.
House of Massimo
The Massimo family are said to have produced two Popes in the first Millennium AD. They are considered one of the oldest noble families in Europe, and according to the historian Onofrio Panvinio, they descend from the Maximi or Maximi or Maximus clan, also known as the Gens Fabia of Ancient Rome. The Gens Fabia themselves are noted as being one of the most ancient and prominent patrician families of ancient Rome.
Marcus Fabius Ambustus was the Pontifix Maximus, meaning the high priest of Rome. When the city was taken over by the Gauls of Brennus in 390BC, his three sons were sent as ambassadors to the Gauls. Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus occupied high positions in the Roman government and commanded Roman troops during the Samnite Wars. Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus was a roman general in the third century BC who was involved in the second Punic War. The Massimo are said to be one of the most powerful noble families over all and have mixed with many other nobility families.
A Donna Giuseppina Massimo who was born in 1799 married Ottavio Lancellotti the Prince di Lauro which started the Massimo-Lancellotti. Massimiliano Camillo Massimo born in 1770 married Cristina di Sassonia who was a daughter of Xavier of Saxony, who was Prince of Poland and Lithuania, and the younger son of King Augustus III of Poland. A Camillo Vittorio Massimo born in 1803 married princess Maria of Savoy-Carignano of the Savoy family, which included the royals of Italy from 1861 until they went in exile at the end of WW2. Don Fabrizo Maximo born in 1868 married a Princess Beatrice of Bourbon. Currently the family is said to be represented by Fabrizio Massimo-Brancaccio, prince of Arsoli and prince of Triggiano born in 1963, as well as Stefano Massimo, prince of Roccasecca dei Volsci born in 1955, who is a fashion photographer, and who is involved in so called reportage photography. Stefano's father Prince Vittorio Emanuele Massimo married the British born Hollywood actress Dawn Adams.
A Prince Prince Carlo Massimo Lancellotti was for 20 years the sovereign military order of Malta's ambassador to Arab Republic of Egypt. In 1937 he gave the Discobolus sculpture to Hitler, who had allegedly paid 5M Liar to the Italian foreign minister of affairs for. And it was later returned in 1948. Buyin expensive art is known to be a popular method for money laundering.
Vallario Massimo di Roccesecca and Edward Spencer Churchill are both co founders of SCM Capital and Auctus Industries. Edward Spencer is the son of the Duke of Marlborough and is related to the former UK Priminister Winston Churchill and by extension the UK Royal Family. You can see him standing next to Cara Delevingne, who is related to English nobility.
A Fabrizio Massimo is reportedly the CEO of the Belgian based technology Company HITALTECH and a co founder of LED Italy. A Joseph Massimino is allegedly the current underboss of the Philadelphia crime family.
House of Borgia
The Borgia Black nobility family had two Popes with two more being closely related, and they are said to have originated in the region of Aragon in Spain. Rodrigo de Borgia better known as Pope Alexander VI issued the Papal Bulls Eximiae devotionis, Inter caetera and Dudum siquidem, which basically authorised the Kings of Castile and Leon to colonise much of the new world. Rodrigo's second son, Cesare Borgia is said to have been the inspiration for a work called The Prince written by Niccolo Machiavelli.
Cesare had a daughter called Louise Borgia, who married a Philippe de Bourbon. Lucrezia Borgia was another daughter of this Borgia Pope, and she married a Giovanni Sforza, an Alfonso of Aragon, and an Alfonso I of Este, who her brother Cesare may have had murdered. The Borgia family is connected to the Jesuit order. A Francis Borgia, born in 1510, provided them with financial support, and was their third superior General, or Black Pope. He was descended from King Ferdinand of Aragon on his mother's side. Juan de Borja y Castro born in 1533 was the top servant in the household fo. the Empress in of the Holy Roman Empire. He also married Lorenza de Oñaz y Loyola, the niece of Ignatius of Loyola, the first black Pope. Jean was given several titles in Spain and Portugal, and was made president of the council of Portugal and a member of the Spanish council of state.
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos is a former president of Equator, and is said to be a direct descendent of Pope Alexander VI. He is known to have been close with former US president George bush Jr.
Odescalchi
The Odesalchi family are said to have originated in the Como Commune of Lombardy. They founded a bank in Genoa in 1619 and became prominent bankers, and later got involved with the Catholic organisation. In 1676, Benedetto Odescalchi became Pope Innocent XI. A claim made by Historians for Centuries was Pope Innocent XI secretly funded William III of Orange of the Netherlands, who was identified as Protestant and who became the King of England Scotland and Ireland after invading and deposing King James II who identified as Catholic.
Carlo Odescalshi, who was born in 1785, was appointed by the Pope as grand prior of the order of Malta, and later became a Jesuit. The current head of the family is Carlo Odesalchi, who is prince of the HRE and was born in 1954. His grandfather, also named Carlo was a member of the Board of Gants which was then Hungary's largest industrial enterprise, and his father Paul worked for IBM, for which he ran a training centre in the Netherlands. A Domonic K Odescalshi, who reportedly works at IBM as a manager; a Vita Odescalchi, who reportedly works of Worked at IBM; a Daniel Odescalshi is president of Strategic Advantage International. Princess Lucia Odescalchi is involved in the Jewellery business.
Ruspoli
The Ruspoli family are said to originate from Florence and have been bankers and merchants. They also claim descent from the Mariscotti of Bologna, which includes Marianus Scotus, who was born in Scotland and who was a general under Charlemagne in the 8th century. Scotus comanded troops against the Germanic Lombards in Italy.
Members of the Ruspoli Family have the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Bartolomeo Ruspoli, who is born in 1496 moved to Rome and married Maria Ardinghelli, who's uncle was a close associate of Alessandro Farnese, who would become Pope Paul III. From there on, the Ruspoli became members of the Papal Court and intermarried with different Black Nobility families, including the Farnese and the Sforza, which they tend to use as a first name. They have several princely title sin Italy and Spain. Costantino Mario Ruspoli, the 4th Prince of Poggio Suasa was born in Brazil and is commander of the sovereign order of Fraternal Integration Italio-Brazilian.
Carlo Ruspoli (followed by a paragraph of titles) was born in Italy, and he is a knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, headed by members of the Farnese. Carlo is also a knight of Malta and a knight of the Papal Order of St Gregory the Great, and he is associated with the foundation for sustainable development.
Carlos Ruspoli was the Duke of Alcúdia, Duke of Sueca and Count of Chinchón, and a knight of Malta. He is also a member of the Maestrante or Rural Militia of Grenada.
Enrique Jaime Ruspoli, the 9th count of Bañares was born in Spain and he is a Maestrante of Granada, a knight of Malta, a Papal Gentleman which means attendant to the Pope and a noble guard, meaning the Pope's personal guard. (which is really more of a sign of privilege with the Vatican)
Francesco Ruspoli, who was born in Rome is the prince of Cerveteri, Marchese of Riano, and Conte of Vignanello. He was been involved in banking in Rome, Paris and London. Francesco's father, Alessandro Ruspoli was heavily involved in the film Industry, and was close with many of its big names in the 50s and 60s.
(P6) Germanic Nobility Families
House of Este
The Este family is believed to have a Frankish origin and is named after the region of Este in Northern Italy. They have an older branch called the house of Welf. In 1771 Maria Beatrice D'este married Archduke Ferdinand, who was the son of the Holy Roman Emperor. This created the Austria Este family AKA the Habsburg-Este.
The current head of the Austria Este is Prince Lorenz of Belgium, who is considered a member of the Belgian Royal Family. Lorenz is a Knight of the Golden Fleece and has worked at various banks in London, Paris and Rome. His Heir Amedeo is also very involved in banking and currently working at the Gutzwiller bank in Basel, which is located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet.
House of Welf
The House of Welf was founded by Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, who was a member of what's called the elder house of Welf, which was related to Charlemagne's Carolingian Dynasty. The House of Hanover is considered the last surviving Branch of the House of Welf.
Queen Victoria, who was the queen of the UK from 1837 to 1876, was the last UK monarch of the house of Hanover. She married her first cousin Albert of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family, who have been the royals of the UK ever since. The current head of the Hanover family is Prince Ernst August, who was born in 1954, and is alleged to have beaten a man with a knuckle duster. He married princess Caroline of Monaco, who is the daughter of Rainier III, Prince of Mónaco and the actress Grace Kelly. His son and heir, also named Prince Ernst August has worked at the first energy bank in Bahrain and London.
House of Glücksburg
The House of Glücksburg, which is actually the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, is a Branch of the House of Oldenburg, which was founded by a count of the Oldenburg region of Lower Saxony. Margrethe II of Denmark, Norway King of Norway, Constantine II of Greece, Queen Sofía of Spain and Charles the Prince of Wales are all members of branch families of the house of Oldenburg. Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein is the current head of the elder branch of the Glücksburgs, and and technically the head of the entire Oldenburg family. He is a co founder and the chairman of the advisory board of GLC Glücksburg consulting group, which is involved in agriculture, forestry and real estate.
House of Romanov
The Romanov family reigned over Russia from 1613 till 1917 when Tsar Nicholas II abdicated. Charles Frederick of the Holstein-Gottorp, which is a branch family of the Oldenbergs, married Petrovna of Russia, and from then on the Romanovs have also descended from the Oldenbergs. Currently there are two disputed heads of the house of Romanov. One is Maria Vladimirovna, who is a knight of Malta, and the other is named Prince Andrew Romanoff. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is the head of the Bernadotte branch of the Holstein-Gottorp.
House of Fürstenberg
House of Fürstenberg family are most likely descended form a Frankonian family called the Unruochinger, who had established themselves in Italy. Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, born in 1588, was. a war lord of the German Catholic league during the 30 years war. He married an Anna Maria of the Hohenzollern family. One of their sons, Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, was prime minister for the Archbishop of Cologne. A Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, born in 1670, was involved int eh formation fo the league of the Rhine, which was made up of more than 50 German princess, and was said to be primarily intended to weaken the position of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor. A Maximilien de Fürstenberg, born in 1904, was a Cathlic Cardenol, and a military Chaplin for the duration of WW2, and after that became an apostolic delegate to Japan, and later to Australia new Zeeland and Oceania. Heinrich was grandmaster of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and a knight of the Belgian Order of Leopold II. Heinrich Fürst zu Fürstenberg is involved in the company GmbH & Co, along with other formerly royal families in Germany. He's also knight of Malta. Prince Egon Von Fürstenberg was born in 1946 in Switzerland, and was a banker, a fashion designer and an interior decorator, and he was openly bisexual. His son, Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg was born in the US, and is on the board of directors of the Bermuda based management firm W.P. Stewart & Co., and the U.S. based internet conglomerate, interactive corp, or IAC. Alexander is also a partner and director at Diane von Furstenberg Studio, and he is a former chief investment officer at Arrow investments. Alexander's sister Tatiana is involved in the film industry.
Barry Diller is the chairman and senior executive at IAC and Expedia, former chairman and CEO of Fox, and former chairman and CEO at Paramount pictures. He married Diane von Furstenberg, who was previously married to Prince Egon Von Furstenberg, and is the mother of Alexander and Tatiana. Diane is the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
Esterházy
The Esterházy family originated in Hungary as a branch of the Salamon clan. Nicholas Esterház, who was born in 1583, was made Palatine of Hungary, which was the highest government position in the kingdom of Hungary by the Holy Roman Emperor, and he was also a Knight of the Habsburgs' Austrian order of the Golden Fleece. His son, Prince Paul I Esterházy was a field martial and a Commander in Chief of the military frontier of Southern Hungary, and is said to have participated in 16 battles against Ottoman Troops, and later in battles to put down Hungarian rebel factions. He was a Knight of the Golden Fleece and made a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, a title which extended to his descendants, who went on to become the largest land owners in the Habsburg Empire. Count Móric Esterházy, born in 1881, was a prime minister of Hungary and was one of the five biggest land owners in the country, and his son, peter Esterházy was a writer, and commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and was given many awards in different countries. József Antal Eszterhás is a Hungarian born writer who has worked on Hollywood films. His father István was investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that he was involved in writing propaganda for the Hungarian Nazi government. Count Janos Esterházy is receiver of the common treasurer of the order of Malta. He is a founding member of the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Gesellschaft organisation of Switzerland, a former board member of the German American Chamber of Commerce, and he went to the Jesuit, St. Blasien College.
A very possible relative of the Esterházys is Josephine Esther Mentzer, who was born in New York, and who's parents were Hungarian immigrants. She married Joseph Lauder, who she co founded the cosmetics company Estée Lauder with. Their son Ronald was a deputy assistant secretary of defence under Ronald Reagan, and was a U.S. ambassador to Austria. She was a Knight of the French Legion of Honor, which was originally established by Napoleon.
Rothschild
The Rothschild family has origins in the Bacharach family of the Rhine Palatinate region of Germany. Rothschild means red shield, and this family, formerly referred to as court Jews, deal with a lot of exposure while handling the finances of the higher ups. For example N M Rothschilds and Sons is the family's UK banking branch, and was founded in the UK's city of London in 1811. The financial advisory devision of this bank is known to serve members of the British nobility, as well as the British Royal family. This bank's non executive chairman, Evelyn Rothschild was said to be a personal financial advisor of Queen Elizebath II, who made him a Knights Bachelor. Evolyn is also a former director of IBM United Kingdom Holdings, and De Beers consolidated mines. Evolyn's wife Lynn Forester, is the CEO of EL Rothschild, and she has publicly supported political actors like Hillary Clinton. Leopold David de Rothschild was a partner at the families uk bank and was a knight of the British Empire. David René de Rothschild is the chairman of the Rothschild continuation holdings company, which is based in Switzerland. He's also reportedly a former chairman of N M Rothschilds and Sons, former vice chairman of Rothschild Bank AG, former vice chairman of Rothschild & Cie Banque which has employed Emanuel Macron, the curren president of France. David René is also on the board of the French mass retailer group Casino, on the board of De Beers group, and chairman of the governing board of the world Jewish congress. He married Olimpia Anna Aldobrandini.
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild is reportedly a member of the Council for the Duchy of Cornwall for the prince of Wales, a member of. the international advisory board for the Blackstone group, and chairman J Rothschild Capital Management. He is said to have been close with Dianne the Princess of Wales, and he is an associate of Henry Kissinger and many prominent people in government, banking and business. Jacob is a Knight of the British Empire. Jacob's heir, Nathanial Rothschild, is on the International advisory board of the Barrick Gold Corporation, which is the largest gold mining company in the world. He's also on the international advisory committee for the Washington DC based Brookings Institution, and he is chairman of the advisory business JNR limited, and former co chairman of Asia resource minerals PLC. He has generally been involved in investments and in commodity industries such as coal, oil and metals.
Members of the Rothschilds who have died under mysterious circumstances:
Salomon James de Rothschild, born in 1835, died at the age of 29, allegedly from the excitement of gambling on the stock exchange.
Alphonse James de Rothschild, born in 1827, had a letter bomb sent to him, although this assassination attempt failed, and the bomb instead injured the chief clerk at the de Rothschild Frères office.
Oscar Ruben von Rothschild, born in 1888, died at the age of 21 of alleged suicide.
Leopold De Rothschild, born in 1845, was shot was shot at with a revolver by a man named William Tebbit in 1912, although he survived.
Nathanial Charles Rothschild, born in 1877, is said to have cut his own throat in 1923 in order to end his suffering from Encephalitis.
Amschel Mayor James De Rothschild, born in 1955, was reportedly found hanging in his bathroom at the hotel Bristol in Paris in 1996.
Raphael De Rothschild, born in 1976, allegedly died of a heroin overdose in the year 2000.
Hohenzollern
The Hohenzollern family originate from the Hohenzollern Country of the Holy Roman Empire. They supported both the Hohenstaufen and the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors, and were given many titles like Burgrave of Nuremberg. They were also the Margraves of Brandenburg, which in the 17th century gained the duchy of Prussia in modern day Poland, and later became the kingdom of Prussia and then the German Empire.
German Emperor Friedrich Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern was also the last King of Prussia. He went into exile at the end of WW1 and spent the most of the rest of his life at Doomn in the Netherlands, from where he sent a telegram to hitler expressing his wish to have the monarchy restored after the Netherland government surrendered to the nazi. George Frederick Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia is the current head of the Hohenzollern family. George married Sophie of Isenburg, which is another family which controlled territory in the former Holy Roman Empire. As the Head of the Hohenzollern, George Frederick is the sovereign of the Prussian Order of the Back Eagle, and seven other orders. He is involved with the Princess Kira of Prussia Foundation, and a firm that reportedly focuses on helping universities bring innovations to the market. Princess Maria Theresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was his grandmother, and his grandfather Franz Joseph was a nazi party member and a member of the SS.
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, who was born in 1932, was a director general of the Bavarian state painting collections, and president of the Concert Society Munich. He married princess Birgitta of Sweden, who is the sister of the current King of Sweden. He was a knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George, and a Knight of Malta.
Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern, born in 1952 is the head of the princely house of Hohenzollern, and allegedly the head of the royal house of Romania. He is the chairman and owner of the prince of Hohenzollern Corporate Group, which is primarily involved in real estate, forestry and investments into steel, engineering and wine. Karl is a Knight of the black eagle, and he married Countess Alexander Schenk of the Stauffenberg family, who were Counts of the Holy Roman Empire.
Micheal I was the last official King of Romania, and a member of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family. He married Princess Anne of the Bourbon-Parma family.
House of Liechtenstein
The Liechtenstein family have been advisors to the Habsburg royals of the HRE, and are named after Castle Liechtenstein in lower Austria. In 1719 HRE Charles VI united Vaduz and Schellenberg, creating the Principality of Liechtenstein, named after his servant, Anton Florian of Liechtenstein. This family continues to be the Royals of what is now the country of Liechtenstein. Francis Joseph II was the reigning prince of Liechtenstein from 1938 to 1989, and during this time, the country was reportedly left out of the carnage of WW2. He was the fist monarch of Liechtenstein to live in the country full time, and oversaw many large companies coming to the country, partly due to low corporate tax rates. He was a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, a knight of the Teutonic order, and a Knight of the Golden Fleece. The current monarch of Liechtenstein is his son Hans Adam II who currently owns Liechtenstein global trust or LTG banking group and an extensive art collection. Hans is a Knight of the golden Fleece. Hans has threatened to leave the country is he wasn't granted the official position of absolute Monarch, and apparently the people voted in favour of the idea. This could be interpreted to mean that without this family and their connections, Liechtenstein could no longer continue to be a tax haven, and many of its citizens know it. His brother, Philipp von Liechtenstein is the chairman of LGT and has formerly worked at the bank Rothschild in Paris. He is a founding member of the European Centre for Austrian economics foundation, and governor of the European financial Forum in London.
In 2008 LGT and several other banks in Lichenstein were investigated in connection to reports of Tax evasion and money laundering. these investigations occurred mainly in Germany but also countries like the US, Uk, Finland and Spain. One of the several bank groups Liechtenstein is Bank Frick and Co. In 2014 Jurgen Frick who was the CEO of the ban was shot dead in an underground parking garage, reportedly by a former fund manager named Jürgen Hermann.
Blumenthal
The Blumenthral is said to have originated from Brandenburg Prussia. They have also claimed descent from the Roman Emperor Florianus. George von Blumenthal, born in 1490, was a Catholic Bishop and. aPrince who was privy councillor of the Hohenzollern Margraviate of Brandenburg. George was reportedly the last Catholic sovereign in Northern Germany.
Ludwig I Blumenthal born in 1666 was made a count in the Holy Roman Empire, and was a Chamberlain to King Frederick II Hohenzollern of Prussia. Joachim Christian, Count von Blumenthal, born in 1720, succeeded his uncle Ludwig as president of the Prussian General War and Finance Directory, and was a Knight of the Black Eagle. Gustav von
Blumenthal, Born in 1879, commanded what are the three columns of German troops during the Maji Maji rebellion in German East Africa. (modern day Tanzunia)
James Arnold-Baker, who is a member of the Blumenthal family is a former CEO of BBC enterprises and Oxford University Press. He also was the founding chairman of the UK's leading medical website.
Ulrich von Blumenthal i a former supervisor of the United Nations legal department.
House of Orange-Nassau
The royal family of the Netherlands known as the House of Orange-Nassau is a branch of the house of Nassau, which is named after the Rhine Castle in the Palatinate region of Germany. The Orange part of their name comes from Claudia of the Chālon-Orange family of French Burgundy, who was born in 1498 marrying Henry III of Nassau Breda. The Orange-Nassau have been councillors generals and stag holders of the Habsburgs. In 1581, during the Dutch war of Independence against the Habsburg empire, the republic of Seven United Netherlands was established. This was apart of the Protestant reformation, with an estimated hundred thousand Dutchmen dying. William I of Orange is said to be the main leader in the revolt. Before the war he was a member of the court of the governor of the Habsburg Spanish Netherlands named Margaret of Parma, who was an illegitimate daughter of the HRE.
Like all major nobility clans, the Orange-Nassau have in intermarried with many others, including the Hohenzollern, the Stewart family of the Uk and the Romanov family.
In 1841, William IV of Orange became King William I of the Netherlands. This was reportedly, largely made possible by the prestige that his ancestor gained in the family during the war of independence. He was also the Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
Currently this family is rumoured to have a large stake in Dutch Royal Shell, Philips electronics company, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and the Holland America line cruise ship company. The current head of the family is King William alexander of the Netherlands. He has been appointed as chairman at the United Nations' Secretary Generals Advisory Board on water and sanitation. He's also a former honorary member of the world commission on water for the 21st century, and patron of the global water partnership. William Alexander is also a former member of the supervisory board of the Dutch Central Bank, and he has held high positions on the Netherlands' high royal Airforce, Navy and Army. His mother, former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands reigned for exactly 33 years. The number 33 has significance in secretive societies like the free Masons. Beatrix married Prince Claus, who was a soldier in the German army during WW2, and before that was a member in the Hitler Youth. She is a Knight of Malta, a Knight of the Golden Fleece, a Knight of the Royal Victorian Order, a Knight of the Garter, a Knight of the Japanese Order of the Chrysanthemum, and several other orders.
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau was the chief financial officer for the Uranium enrichment company Urenco, a vice president at Goldman Sachs International in London, a managing director of the investment and advisory firm Wolfensohn & Co., and he was involved with the Netherlands organisation for applied scientific research, and the world wide management consulting Firm McKinsey & Company. This is the same Prince Friso who was kicked out of the Royal House for marrying a woman who had alleged connections with a Dutch drug baron.
The Netherlands trading society (NHN) is a trading company established by King Willem I of the Netherlands, and was involved in trade shipping and agriculture, and over the years developed a large international branch network and got heavily involved in banking. This led to the establishment of the ABN AMRO Bank, which reportedly has. a40% stake in the Saudi Hollandi Bank, which is now known as Alawwal or first bank.
Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Parma is the son of Princess Irene of Orange-Nassau. He has worked for ABN AMRO in Amsterdam and was reportedly involved in preparations for the introduction fo the Euro Currency. He has also worked as a public affairs consultant for the company European Public Policy Advisors.
Prince Carlos has a brother from the same parents named Prince Jaime of Bourbon Parma, who has been the Dutch Ambassador to the Holy Sea since 2014, and a Knight of Malta.
House of Habsburg
So the Habsburg family, AKA the House of Austria, were the royal family of the Holy Roman Emperor for by far the longest time. They are named after Habsburg castle in Switzerland, and developed into two main branches, one in Austria and the other in Spain.
Karl von Habsburg is the current head of the family. Like his father he is known as an advocate of the Pan European Movement, and he is a former member of the European parliament for Austria. He has been president of the Austrian branch of the Pan European Union, which predated the European Union, and which had as its founding president Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, who was the product of a marriage between the Austro-Hungarian Coudenhove-Kalergi noble family and the wealthy Japanese Oyama family.
In 2002 Karl was appointed as the director general of the unrepresented Nations and peoples Organisation (UNPO) which is an NGO. Carl is the grand master of the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece, and the Order of St. George, and he is a Knight of Malta and a Knight of the Teutonic order.
George von Habsburg is a former president of the Red Cross in Hungary, and former Hungarian ambassador extraordinary to the European Parliament. He is known to be in support of the enlargement of the European Union. He's also a knight of the Golden Fleece. Walburga Habsburg Douglas is ice president of the Pan European Union, and a board member of the Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. She's also a member of the board of the Arab International Media Forum in London, and a Knight of Malta.
Eduard Habsburg Lorraine is ambassador of Hungary to the Holy sea and the sovereign Military Order of Malta, and he is a Knight of the Golden Fleece. Edward's father Micheal von Habsburg Lorraine is a former ambassador of the Order of Malta to Hungary. He is a Knight of Malta and has also been an ambassador of Austria to Hungary.
House of Fugger
The Fugger family who today are occasionally called the "Huggers" or the "Fudgers" (Their original name was "Fucker") are said to have originated in the Swabian city of Augsburg, and they became prominent as bankers. They took over many of the assets of the Medici family and financed the Habsburg family while they were on their way up. They were also the first German Trading house in a direct business relationship with the Roman Curia. Jacob Fugger, born in 1459, is said to have financed the rise of Habsburg HRE Maximilian I, as well as his successor Charles V, and funded the marriages which gained the Habsburgs the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Hungary. Jacob also financed the initial recruitment of the Swiss Guard for the Pope, which is today one of the oldest military units in the world. The first Fugger private bank, which was founded in 1945, is said to be maintained by all members of the Fugger family today.
Carl Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött, born in 1859, was president of the imperial council of the crown of Bavaria, and Royal Colonel Marshal of the Kingdom of Bavaria. He was chairman of the supervisory board of the Bayerische Hypotheken-und Wechsel-Bank. He was a knight of the order of St. Gregory the Great. Prince Hubertus Fugger is the current head of the Fugger-Babenhausen family, and owns the Barnsley Garden Resort in the U.S. State of Georgia. Information of this family online is scarce. But given the fact that they were said to be one of the richest families in the world in the renaissance era, and that they had connections to both the Holy Roman Emperors and the Vatican, it seems possible that they're a lot more powerful today than they let on.
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
This family originated as a cadet branch of the Saxon Wettin family, which reigned over the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The current head of the original Duchal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is Prince Andreas, who was born in Germany and is a first cousin of the King of Sweden. Andreas has been involved in the forestry industry in Germany and the Mitsui & Co.general trading company in Japan, which was originally established in 1876 by the son of a Hakodate Bugyō, meaning something similar to a commissioner under the Tokugawa Shogunate. Andreas has also been commissioner under the Coburg Family Foundation, and protector of theGerman shooting society. His grandfather, Charles Edward was notorious for his connections to the Nazi government. Charles Edward was also a prince in the United Kingdom and a Knight of the Black Eagle.
Before Charles Edward, the Duke of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was his uncle Alfred, who was a son of Queen Victoria of the UK and the Duke of Edinburgh. Alfred was a commander of various fleet sin the British navy, and was stationed in Malta for several years. He was Admiral of the Fleet, which is the highest rank in the British Royal Navy. He was a Knight of the Garter, a Knight of the Bath, Knight of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight of the Black Eagle, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Knight of the Austro-Hungarian order of St Steven, Knight of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword, a privy councillor to the monarch of the UK, and a Knight of the Golden Lion of Nassau. He’s also said to be the first European prince to visit Japan, where he met with Emperor Meiji. The current head of the Belgian line of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is King Philippe of the Belgians. He has been chairman of the Belgian Foreign Trade board, and its successor, the Foreign Trade Agency. He is a Knight fo the Golden Fleece, Knight of Malta, Knight of the Bath, Knight of the Chrysanthemum, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, and Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. The UK line of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha renamed themselves to the Windsors because hey wanted to mask the fact that they are closely related to the German nobility during WW1.
Queen Elizibeth II of the UK, and many of the British Crown slave states, is (was) the head of this line and the Grand master of the Order of the Bath, the Order of the Garter, the Royal Victorian Order, the Order of Canada, the Order of Australia, the order of New Zealand, the Order of Burma, the Order of the Star of India, and many more. She is supreme governer of the Church of England, the Commander in Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces, the head of the New Zealand Defence Force, and the Commander in Chief of the British Armed Forces. She is a Knight of the Spanish Golden Fleece, a Knight of the Chrysanthemum, Portuguese Order of St James of the Sword
The current head of the Bulgarian Branch of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is Simeon, who is the former Tsar and former prime minister of Bulgaria. Simeon has been the chairman of the Spanish subsidiary of Thomson, which is a French technology and defence group. He is a Knight of the Golden Fleece, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Knight of the Sacred military Constantinian order of St George, and a Knight of Malta. There is also an extinct Portuguese branch of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who were the royals of Portugal from 1853 to 1910 when the monarchy was abolished. The last King of Portugal was Manuel II. He was a Knight of the Garter, Knight of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight of the Golden Fleece and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. He died suspiciously.
Luxembourg
The Luxembourg family originated in the Holy Roman Empire. In 1312 a member of this family became Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII after the previous Habsburg King was Assassinated. He died a little over a year after becoming emperor, and he had also been the King of Italy and the Count of Luxembourg and Arlon. In 1355 another Luxembourg member became HRE, and King of Italy Charles IV. He was also King of Bohemia. The third. and last Luxembourg HRE was Sigismund, who was born in 1368, and who was also King of Hungary, Croatia, Germany and Bohemia. He was a Knight of the Garter and he founded the Order of the Dragon, which is said to have flourished during the first half of the 15th Century. Many European nobles, especially in Germany and Italy were knights in this order. This family intermarried with a branch of the Nassau-Weilburg, which is considered a branch of the Bourbon-Parma, to create the grand Duchal family of Luxembourg, who are currently the royals to what is now the country of Luxembourg. The current head of the family is Henry, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who is a first cousin of the King of Belgium. He has been the chairman of Luxembourg's Board of Economic Development. He is a Knight of Malta, a Knight of the Spanish Golden Fleece, Knight of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight of the Chrysanthemum, and a Knight of St. James of the Sword.
(P7) Major Families in the United States
Johnson
The Johnson family are best known for the pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson, which is based out of New Brunswick New Jersey, and was founded by the brothers, Robert James and Edward Johnson. The origins of this family are fairly well hidden, but one theory is that they are a branch of the Germanic House of Hanover. New Brunswick is named after Brunswick in Germany, where the House of Hanover has reigned. The House of Hanover were originally called the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and they have reigned over Great Britain as well. Many locations around the world are named after Brunswick, and especially places associated with the British Empire, like the Canadian Province of New Brunswick.
Robert Wood Johnson IV, who is a grandson of Robert Johnson, is the US ambassador to the UK. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, (CFR) and he is chairman and CEO of Johnson Company, which is a private investment firm. He has given over a million dollars and engaged in fund raisers for political actors
Clinton
The Clinton family are said to be of English and Scottish descent and have family lines going back to the original 13 colonies. Bill Clinton was inducted into DeMolay International, which is an international fraternal named after Jack DeMolay, who was a Grand Master of the Knights Templar. This organisation is connected with Free Masonry. Bill and Hillary's daughter, Chelsea Clinton is on the board of IAC, which again is a US based conglomerate of connected with the Fürstenberg family. Chelsea is also on the Board of the Clinton Foundation Clinton Global Initiative and Common Sense Media.Bush
The Bush family is one of the most prominent families in North America, and they are said to be mostly of English and German descent. Their specific origins are, once again, fairly well covered up, but there is an old Busche nobility family that has origins in Germany, and in particular, the Rhine land region, which has many branch families. From the 17th to 20th centuries, many Rhinelanders made the trip to North America, and a few of these Busche's are known to have been among them. Baroness Gösta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen was the mother of Prince Claus who had nazi associations, and who married Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Baroness Gösta spent WW2 in Tanzunia, where her husband was the manager. ofGerman British Tea and Sisal plantations.
Prescot Bush, born in 1895, was a banker, and was close with Nelson Rockefeller. Like many in that family, he was a member of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University, and later became a member of the Yale Corporation. He was on the board of directors of Columbia Broadcasting Systems. (CBS) He was also a founding member and one of the directors of Union Banking Corporation, which was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi Leaders.
Jonathon Bush, born in 1931 founded J Bush and company, which provided discreet banking services for the Washington DC's embassies of foreign governments for may years. In 1997, Riggs Bank bought J bush and company, and made this Bush CEO and president of Riggs investment, a firm based in New Haven Connecticut. He was also a member of Skull and Bones.
George H.W. Bush is the son of Prescot Bush and Dorothy Walker of the Walker family, and is named after her father. George is the former director of the CIA and a Knight of the Bath. He is a skull and bones member, and is chairman of the first international bank of Huston. He has also been the U.S. ambassador to the UN, the chief of the U.S. liaison office to the People's Republic of China, the US Vice President, and the US President. He's also been a director of the CFR. His grandfather on his mother's side, George Herbert Walker Sr was a director of Union Banking Corporation, and president of the W.A. Harriman & Co. investment firm. He was also a director of companies like American international corporation, Georgian Manganese Corporation, American Ship and Commerce corporation, Missouri Pacific Railroad, and Texas and Mexico Railroad. He was also a president of the United States Gold Association, and was involved in building the 1925 version of Madison Square Garden. One of his Grandsons, George Herbert Walker III was the U.S. ambassador to Hungary from 2003 to 2006, and George Herbert Walker IV is the CEO of the Neuberger Berman group investment firm.
William H.T. Bush is the brother of George Bush Sr. He has been on the board of Engineered Support Systems, which is an engineer contractor that has worked for the Pentagon in Iraq and Afganistan. William is the founder and CEO of Bush O’Donnell & Co.
George W. Bush is a member of Skull and Bones, and was involved in the Oil Industry, before becoming president. His mother is Barbara Pierce of the Pierce family. His Sister Dorothy Married Robert P Koch of the Koch family, who is involved in the alcohol Industry. Another sibling of George Jr is Marvin Bush, who has worked for the insurance company Tokyo Marine HCC. He was also on the board of directors of SECURACOM, which sold security related equipment to the New York Port authority for the World Trade Centre. Another Sibling, Jeb Bush is a former Governer of Florida.
(P8) African Nobility Families
House of Solomon
The House of Solomon in Ethiopia is named after King Solomon of the Kingdom of Israel, who lived in the 10th century BC. They claimed descent from this king and the Queen of Sheba, who by some accounts was Ethiopian. According to this tradition, their child Menelik I was the first Solomon emperor of Ethiopia.
The restorer of the most recent Solomonic Dynasty was Yekuno Amlak, who was king from 1270 to 1285. He is said to have traced his ancestry to the last king of Aksum, which was an ancient empire located in present day Eretria and Ethiopia. This Empire was regarded as one of the four great powers of its day, along with Rome, Persia and China.
During the scramble for Africa period in the 19th century, only Ethiopia and Liberia are said to have remained independent. Liberia, on the west side of Africa, was a settlement set up by the American Colonisation Society, for migrating former slaves and free born blacks to the continent of Africa.
Ethiopia was the only real African country said to have remained Independent, and by 1974 was one of only three countries where the head of government was called the emperor. The other two being called Iran and Japan. Haile Selassie was the last emperor of Ethiopia, and is perceived as a messiah in the Rastafari ideology which began in Jamaica, which was then still an official colony of the British Empire. Haile Selassie was chairman of the organisation of African Unity, and he was a Knight of the Bath, a Knight of the Garter, a Knight of the Royal Victorian Order, a Knight of the Tower and Sword, and a Knight of the House of Savoy’s Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus. He was emperor when in 1935, Italian troops invaded Ethiopia, and he ended up going into exile. In 1936 Benito Mussolini declared Ethiopia to be a province of the new Italian Empire, and the head of the house of Savoy, Victor Emmanuel III was proclaimed as the new Emperor of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, Haile spent most of his exile in England. During this conflict, the nazi German Government provided material to the Ethiopian Troops. The Italian occupation of Ethiopia ended in 1941 during the East Africa campaign of WW2, and Haile returned. In 1974, Haile was deposed and his grandson and two former prime ministers were executed. During a revolution said to have been backed by the Soviet Government. Many of the members of the House of Solomon went to London. The first president of Ethiopia was Mengitsu Haile Mariam. His mother is alleged to have been the illegitimate daughter of a noble man, who was crowned counciler to Emperor Haile, and who himself was suspected of being the Illegitimate son of Emperor Menelik II.
The current head of the House of Solomone is acting Crown Prince Zera Yacob Amha Selassie. He is the sovereign of several orders, including the order of St. Mary of Zion, which he founded. He is a Knight of the French House of Orléans’ Order of St. Lazarus, Knight of the Rwandan Order of the Drum, and Knight of the Russian Order of St. Andrew. He wen tot Oxford university and has worked as a banker in the U.S.
Another member of this family is Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie, who is a former governor of Welega Province, and heir to the throne of the former Welega Kingdom, and president of the Crown Council of Ethiopia. He is a Knight of the Bourbon-Two Sicilies’ Order of Francis I, a Knight of the Grand Priory of England’s Order of St. Lazarus, and a Knight of the Drum, and he’s been involved with charity organisations and NGOs.
House of Dlamini
The House of Dlamini are the Royals of Swaziland. Ntfombi of Swaziland is the joint head of state with the title of queen mother. She was one of the reported 110 wives of the last King Sobhuza II, who was a Knight of the British Empire. Her son Mswati III is the current King and considered the current administrative head of government. Mswati has attended the diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, and the wedding of her grand son, Prince William and Kate Middleton. He has been criticised for having an annual house hold budget of 61 million, while 63% of Swazis make less then a dollar 25 a day.
‘Alawi Dynasty
The ‘Alawi Dynasty are the royals of Morocco, and they claim descent from Fatima, who was the daughter of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. This family are said to have entered Morocco at the end of the 13th century. The ‘Alawi have been close with the British royals, and the two countries have been engaged in arms deals. Morocco’s government has also been historically close with that of the United States, and Morocco is said to be the first country to officially recognise the U.S. as an independent country.
Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco, signed a protectorate treaty with the French government and abdicated from the Sultanate in 1912. He then spent time in France, and his brother Yusef was proclaimed Sultan several months later. Yusef remained Sultan until his death in 1927. He was a Knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic, the UK Order of St. Michael and St. George, the Egyptian order of Muhammad Ali, the Tunisian order of Blood, the Belgian Order of the Crown, and the French Legion of Honour. In 1956 Sultan Muhammad V negotiated with the French and Spanish governments, to have Morocco officially recognised as an independent Country again. In 1957, Muhammad’s title changed to King.
The current head of the family and King of Morocco is Muhammad VI. He is also called Morocco’s leading businessman and banker, as his family holds a majority stake in Society Nationality Investment, (SNI) which is a holding company involved in mining, tourism, banking, insurance, construction, telecommunications, energy, retail, alcohol and more. Muhammad VI is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour, the Royal Victorian Order, the Order of Charles III of Spain, the order of the Nail, the Order of the Chrysanthemum and the Belgian Order of Leopold.
Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco has been involved with NGOs including Human Rights watch and the Carter Center.
Muhammad Ali
The Muhammad Ali dynasty was started by Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1805. Pasha was an Albanian Commander of the Ottoman Army who was sent to drive Napoleon’s troops out of Egypt. But after he did this he took over and had the Ottoman Sultan recognise him as Wali, which basically means governor of Egypt and the Sudan.
Skip ahead a few generations, Hussein Kamel of Egypt was made the Sultan of Egypt in 1914 after British troops deposed his nephew. The newly created Sultanate of Egypt was declared a British protectorate. Hussein was a Knight of the Bath, a Knight of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, a Knight of the Swedish Order of the Sword, and a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.
Farouk I who became King of Egypt and the Sudan in 1936 had gone to a royal military academy in South East London. In 1952 he was forced to abdicate by the Egyptian Revolution, and went into exile in Italy and Monaco. He was known to be first with Prince Rainer III of Monaco, and he sent a letter to Hitler saying an invasion of Egypt would be welcome. Farouk was a Knight of the Iranian Order of Palhavi, the Order of the Tower and Sword, the order of Isabella the Catholic and the French Legion of Honour. His sister Fawzia married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who would later become the Shah of Iran. One of Farouk’s daughters, Fadia married Pierre Alexievitch Orloff, who was descendant of the Russian Royal Family.
Prince Muhammad Ali of Egypt is considered the current head of the family, and he married a grand daughter of the last king of Afghanistan. He went to the Institute Le Rosey in Swizerland.
(P9) Middle and Near East Nobility Families
House of Osman
The House of Osman were the Royals of the Ottoman Empire. As early as 1581, they signed an agreement with the English Government, which granted English merchants, preferential trading rights in the region. Murad V who was the Ottoman Sultan for three months in 1856 was known to be a Free Mason and was said to be highly influenced by French culture. He was deposed after a short reign on the grounds that he was mentally ill, which might have been the works of Sultan Abdul Hamid II who was reportedly afraid of Masons. The Young Turk movement has also been linked with Masonry.
Abdul Hamid II who reigned from 1876 to 1909 is said to have been the last sultan to have any real control over the empire. He was a Knight of the Golden Fleece and the Black Eagle. The last recognised Sultan was Mehmed VI, who reigned from 1918 to 1922. He oversaw the empire’s final collapse after the first world war. His daughter Rukiye Sabiha married a member of the Muhammad Ali family of Egypt, and their grandson Prince Abbas Hilmi helped establish the Concord Group Asset Management Firm’s Cairo Office. He is currently a senior managing director at concord. He also became the first foreign member of the London stock exchange in 1970.
Selim Süleyman Osmanoglu has worked in the insurance industry in London and is said to work at AON, which is based in London and has been ranked the world’s largest insurance broker by revenue
House of Saud
House of Saud are the royals of Saudi Arabia. This family originates with Muhammad bin Saud, who founded the Emirate of Diriyah, AKA the first Saudi state in 1744. He was reportedly backed by the British Crown, and had had an alliance with Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who founded the Wahhabi ideology and was reportedly a Jew from a Turkish tribe. This Ideology, which is considered a branch of Islam, is associated with the Daesh militant group AKA Isis and other similar groups, which have been especially active during the beak up of the Ottoman Empire. Most of the new governments that were formed out of this break up were closely connected with the British Crown and other organisations based in Europe.
The founder of the third Saudi State, commonly known as Saudi Arabia, was Abdul-Rahman bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud. Like his predecessors he commanded an army connected with the Wahhabi ideology to establish territory, and he collaborated with British troops and agents to do so. One such agent was William H. Shakespeare, who like the more famous William Shakespeare, was possibly related to the Breakspear family. William is said to have made the first official British contact with Abdul-Rahman, and was his military advisor from 1910 to 1915, when he was shot and killed while standing on the sidelines of the Battle of Jarrab.
Percy Cox, born in 1864, was a British Indian army officer and a colonial office administrator in the middle east. He was active all over the middle east and is referred to as one of the main figures who established the current order in the region. Percy had an alliance with the same king, and while he was the high commissioner of Iraq he played a large role in establishing the border between the two countries. Percy was a Knight of the British Order of St. Micheal and St. George, the Indian Empire, the Star of India, and the Order of the British Empire. He signed the treaty of Darin with the Saudi King, which aimed to guarantee the sovereignty of Kuwait, Qatar and Trucial States. St. John Philby was a British colonial intelligence officer and Knight of the Indian Empire. He was an advisor to the same Saudi King and is said to have encouraged him to become the King of all Arabia, and to negotiate Petroleum deals with the UK and U.S.
The Muslim World League is an NGO based in Mecca, which is in Saudi Arabia and which has the stated goal of profiting Islamic teachings. It has reportedly been funded by the Saudi government wince its creation in 1962. This NGO regarded as promoting the Wahhabi ideology in particular. The Saudi King Faisal, who reigned from 1964 until his assassination in 1975, oversaw the creation of this NGO. He was also the first Saudi royal to visit England when he was fourteen, and he was a Knight fo the Royal Victorian Order. Salman of Saudi Arabia is the current king. he is referred to as the owner of the Saudi Research and marketing group, and him and his family are involved in many media companies. Some of the charity organisations he has been involved with have been accused of terrorism.
Prince Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud is the Saudi ambassador to Germany and the former ambassador to Washington D.C. He has married a niece of the British Duke of Northumberland.
Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud is the current governor of Mecca Province. He is known to be close with prince Charles of the UK, and he is a knight of the Bourbon-Two Sicilies Order of Francis I and the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry
The Al Saud families net worth has been reported around 1.4trillion.
Al Thani
The Al Thani family are the royals of Qatar, which was officially a British protectorate from the end of the Ottoman empire until 1971. They have invested billions of pounds into buildings and businesses in the UK. The current head of the family, and Emir of Qatar is Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. He is a Knight of the Italian Order of Merit and the French legion of honour. Emir Tamim has been the chairman of the Qatar investment authority (QIA) which is Qatar's government holding company. The current CEO of which is Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Saud Al Thani. Abdullah is also chairman of the Ooredoo, which is an international telecommunications company. The QIA has bought the HSBC banking group's global headquarters in London.
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani is a former prime minister of Qatar. Through paramount service's holdings he reportedly owns three percent of Deutsche Bank, and through Persuasion Capital he reportedly bought Banque Internationale à Luxembourg and KBL European Private Bankers. The Qatar government has made a 5M£ arms deal with BAE Systems, after which 7M£ were placed into two Jersey Trusts, with Hamad being named the beneficiary. These funds were frozen by the Jersey financial services commission who started an investigation and court case, which was dropped after Hamad paid them 6M£.
House of Khalifa
The Al Khalifa family are the royals of Bahrain. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa is the current head of the family and King of Bahrain. He has good contact with the British royal family and was invited to the wedding of prince William. He went to the Leys school in Camebridge England. And the U.Ss army command and staff college at Fort Leavenworth Kansas. He is a Knight of the British order of St. Micheal and St. George, the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the French Order of Merit. The crown Prince of Bahrain is his son Salman, who went to American University. inWashington D.C. and queens college at the University of Cambridge. Many members of this and other Middle Eastern royal families went to similar schools. He was a appointed chairman of Bahrain's economic development board in 2002, and has had many other high positions int he government.
House of Nahyan
The Al Nahyan family are the royals of the United Arab Emirates. (UAE) Their current head is Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is a Knight of the Bath. He is the chairman of the Abu Dhabi investment authority or ADIA, which manages the Emirates' excess oil reserves. ADIA can be connected with British Petroleum, and a former BP Chief Economist Christof Rühl has become the first Global Head of research at ADIA. BP has assigned a 40 year agreement with the supreme Petroleum council of Abu Dhabi, and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, that granted them 10% interest in the ADCO Onshore Oil Concession.
House of Maktoum
The Al Maktoum are another noble family with high positions in the UAE. Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum is the CEO and chairman of the Emirates group. President of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, chairman of Dubai world, chairman of Noor Takaful Insurance and chairman. of the Dubai supreme fiscal comity. He went to the University of Denver and has a degree from City University London. Ahmed also owns the Grosvenor house in Dubai, which is named after the Grosvenor house in London, which in turn has been the grand house of the Grosvenor family, who have been the Dukes of Westminster since 1874. The current head of the Al Maktoum family is Muhammad bin Rashid. He is the Vice president and prime minister of the UAE, and the ruler of Dubai. He formed Dubai Ports World (DP World) in 2005. DP World has operated port facilities in major U.S. cities like New York and New Orleans. He is also a majority owner of Dubai Holding, which is involved in luxury hotels, real estate and telecommunications. Muhammad is a Knight of the Order of St. Micheal and St. George, and a Knight of the British Empire.
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulaiman is the son of an advisor to the Al Maktoum family, and he has been group chairman and CEO of DP World. He went to Temple University in Pensilvania.
House of Hashim
The House of Hashim AKA the Hashimites are the Royals of Jordan, and former Royals of Iraq Syria and Arabia. They claim descent from a son of Fatima.
Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi was appointed the amir of Mecca by the Ottoman Sultan in 1908, during WW1 he allied with British Imperial troops, and in 1916 proclaimed the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. He had been promised an empire encompassing the span of Egypt and Persia, for initiating this revolt, by the British High commissioner in the Sultanate of Egypt Henry McMahon. Shortly afterwards he proclaimed himself King of the Arab countries, although this title didn't actually get much recognition.
In 1921the British Government made Hussein's son Abdullah King of Transjordan, and another son named Faisal King of Iraq and Syria, although he only remained King of Syria for two years.
In 1924 when the Ottoman Caliphate was abolished, Hussein proclaimed himself as the Caliph, but abdicated that same year when the British refused to help him in his war with the Saudi's who were invading his lands. Hussein was a Knight of the Bath. His eldest son Ali continued to resist Saudi troops and was King of Hejaz and Sharif of Mecca from 1924 to 1925, when the positions were abolished by the Saudis. Ali was a knight of the British Empire.
The fourteenth of July revolution in Iraq in 1958 overthrew the Hashimite monarchy in that country, and now they are only the royals in Jordan. The current head of the family and King of Jordan is Abdullah II. His mother Muna is the daughter of a high ranking British Army officer, named Walter Percy Gardiner. Abdula is a Knight of the Order of St. Micheal and St. George, the Order of the Bath, the Royal Victorian Order, the Order of Prince Henry and the Order of Isabelle the Catholic. He went to Oxford university and Jesuit George town University in Washington DC.
(P10) East Asia
🇨🇳Aisin-Gioro
In China the Manchu Aisin-Gioro clan were the royals of the Qing Dynasty, which lasted from 1644 to 1911. In Manchu Aisin means gold and Gioro is a place in Heilongjiang province in the North East of modern China. During the Qing Dynasty, there was intermarriage between Aisin-Gioro members and Mongol nobility. The Guangzhou emperor was the second last of the Qing, and he was a Knight of the Black Eagle and a Knight of the Chrysanthemum; and the last was Puyi. He was forced to abdicate in 1912, and was later made emperor of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo from 1934 to 1945. Puyi is said to have no children and by some accounts was more interested in teenage boys than his wives. A Scottish diplomat named Reginald Johnson was a Tutor and advisor to Puyi. Johnson was a Knight of St. Micheal and St. George and a Knight of the British Empire, and he was the last colonial governor of Weihaiwei and he had gone to Edinburgh University. Puyi's first wife was Wanrong of the Gobulo Clan, which is of Doula ancestry. Doulas are also associated with northern regions, including Heilongjiang and Mongolia. Wanrong went to an american missionary school in Tianjin. She had a tutor named Isabella Ingram, who was the daughter of a missionary. According to some historians, Wamrong and Puyi never had sex, and Puyi had given her permission to start smoking Opium, which she became a very heavy addict of. Her elder brother married Puyi' first sister, and her younger brother married Puyi's third sister. Puy's brother, Pujie went to the Gakushūin peers school in Japan, and the imperial Japanese army Academy. He first married Tankshiksia Tang Shixia of a Manchu noble clan, and later married a Japanese noble named Saga Hiro. In 1985 Pujie was appointed as deputy head of the China Japan Friendship Group.
Jin Yuzhang is considered the current heir to the, and he has been the vice director of the Chongwen district government in Beijing.
🇯🇵House of Yamato
The Yamato dynasty refers to the royals of Japan. In Japan, the Nanban or Southern Barbarian Trade Period refers to a period of trade that began with the arrival of Europeans, in particular Portuguese missionaries and merchants in 1543. Southern Barbarian originally meant South and South East Asians, but it extended to mean European since they also generally arrive from the South. This period ended in 1614 with the Sakoku Seclusion Edict put forward by the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Mathew C perry was a U.S. Navy Commodore who arrived at Tokyo Bay with a fleet of war ships in 1853 as a show of force to pressure the Japanese government to open up its ports to trade again. This led to the signing of the treaty of Kanagawa, which is regarded as the end of the Japanese period of Seclusion, and the Tokugawa Shogunate also ended soon after. This also led to the Meiji restoration period, where power in Japan became more centralised around the imperial Emperor, rather than the Shogun, as it had been for roughly 265 years. This Period was named after emperor Meiji, who reigned from 1867 to 1912. Meiji was a Knight of the order of the Garter, the order of the Spanish golden fleece, the Swedish Order of the Seraphim. The Greek Order of the Redeemer, the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus and the Order of the Black Eagle. After his death, his son Yoshihito became emperor Taishō, who reigned from 1912 to 1926, and he was a Knight of all the same Orders as his father, with the addition to Poland's order of the White Eagle, and Bavaria's Order of St. Hubertus. Next was his son Hirohito, who reigned from 1926 to 1989 as Emperor Showa. He was notably a Knight of the Order of the Bath, the Order of the Spanish golden Fleece, and the German and Italian orders of Merit. As the head of the Japanese government, he was said to have been complicit in the Invasion of China that began in 1931. He also reportedly approved of the attack on Pearl Harbour, which occurred simultaneously with an invasion of the Philippines.
Pearl Harbour - It's important to note that up until this event, U.S. citizens were generally unenthusiastic about the idea of getting involved another massive war. They were even somewhat supportive of Nazi Germany, which makes sense considering a large chunk of the American population was of German origin.
When this event occurred it actually did little damage to the U.S. Navy's capabilities. Most of the ships that were sunk were outdated at this point, and the U.S. Pacific fleets' three aircraft carriers were all suspiciously absent. Another target that would have crippled the pacific fleet were massive fuel storage tanks on the island that were spared. It's strange to say the least that the Japanese command wouldn't at least consider them a worth while target, considering they dealt with persistent fuel shortages throughout the War themselves.
Leading up to this event, James Earl Richardson was the commander in chief of the United States fleet. He had protested against the redeployment of the Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbour as a form of defence, saying that it was neither practical nor useful, and that the Pacific fleet would then be a logical first target for Japan. He was relieved of his command in February 1941, and replaced by Husband E. Kimmel. Kimmel acknowledged that a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour was a possibility, and stated that his people were taking practical steps to minimise damage, and to ensure that the attacking force will pay. 10 days after the attack he was relieved of his command and he ended up retiring in early 1942. He then worked for the military contractor Frederic R. Harris. According to the Robinson report, which is a confidential document said to have been doctored before being released to the public, Kimmel and General Walter Short were the ones to blame for this attack, but subsequent reports have spread the blame to op commanders like general George Marshal, who was then the chief of staff and who became the U.S. special envoy to China, the U.S. secretary of state and then the U.S. secretary of defence. Admiral Herald Stock, who was at the time the U.S. Navy chief of Navel Operations, and Cordell Hull who was at the time the U.S. secretary of state.
After the war Douglas MacArthur, who was the supreme commander of the allied forces, was appointed to exercise authority over the Japanese Government, including emperor Hirohito, who was allowed to keep his position along with several other members of the Japanese nobility. He blamed the actions of Japan on what he called a few militant extremists, who had allegedly hijacked the country in 1931. Hideki Tojo, who was the prime minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944, and who is said to have given the order to attack Pearl Harbour was hanged in 1948. Hirohito continued to play a prominent role in the Japanese government, and met with the likes of Queen Elizabeth II, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
The Current head of the Yamato and Emperor of Japan is Akihito. He is a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Order of the Garter and several African Orders including Ethiopia's Order of Solomon. During the American occupation of Japan following the War, Akihito was Tutored in English language and western Culture by Elizabeth Gray Vining, who was allegedly hand picked by Hirohito and who was Awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure. He married Michiko Shōda, who came from a Roman Catholic family. The crown prince of Japan Naruhito went to Oxford University, during which time he met with many of the royals of Europe. He is said to have met his wife Masako at a tea party held for the sister of the King of Spain. Naruhito is an honorary member of the World Commission of Water for the 21st Century, and patron of the Global Water partnership, which was established by the United Nations, The World Bank and the Swedish Agency of development. He is also the honorary vice president of the Japanese Order of the Red Cross and a Knight of the Danish Order of the Elephant, the Belgian Order of Leopold, the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau, the Swedish Order of the Seraphim, and he has received he has received the Austrian grand declaration of Honour.
House of Yi
The House of Yi were the Royals of the Joseon Dynasty of modern day Korean. Joseon was generally known as a tributary state to China's Qing Empire, which exerted influence over the Joseon Court. This Kingdom's prosecution. foCatholics is said to have led directly to the French Invasion of 1866 and the U.S. Expedition to Korea in 1871. Both events apparently failed to get Korea to open up to foreign trade, but then in 1876 the Joseon government signed a trade treat with Meiji restoration Era Japan, when Japanese ships threatened to fire on Seoul. The first Sino Japanese War, which lasted from 1894 to 1895 also took place on the Korean peninsula.
Gojong of Korea was the Joseon during all these events, and he later became the first Emperor. of Korea in 1897. The change from kingdom to empire is said to have been primarily to demonstrate that they were no longer a tributary state to the Qing. Gojong was notably a Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle, the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, the French Legion of Honour, the Order of Leopold of Belgian. Denmark's Order of the Elephant, the Order of the Chrysanthemum, Russias Order of Order of Saint Stanislaus and China's Order of the Double Dragon.
The Japan Korea treaty of 1905 declared that Korea was a protectorate of Imperial Japan, and is said to have resulted from Japan's victory in the Russo-Japanese War, which left Korea occupied by imperial Japanese troops. According to historians, Gojong refused to sign, but five government officials signed the treaty under threat of bodily harm. In 1905 he was forced to abdicate by the Japanese, who are said to have later poisoned him when he died in 1919. He was replaced by his son Sunjong. The Japanese empire abolished the Korean Empire in 1910 and annexed the country which became known as Japanese Korea until the end of WW2. After the dethroned Sunjong died in 1926 his half brother Yi Un became the head of the family, and the pretender Emperor of Korea. Yi Un was a lieutenant general in the imperial Japanese Navy and airforce during WW2, and it wasn't until 1963 that he was granted official permission to return to Korea. He identified as Roman Catholic, and he was a Knight of the British Empire. Yi Un's son Yi Ku became the next head of the family in 1970. Yi Ku went to school in Japan and then the U.S., where he worked as an architect for I. M. Pei and associated in Manhattan. Members of I. M. Pei's family have been directors of the Bank of China, and Pei himself designed the bank of China tower in Hong Kong. The current head of the Yi family is contested between several memers, including Yi Won, Yi Hae-won and Yi Seok.
🇲🇳Borjigin
The imperial clan of Genghis Khan and his successors is known as the Borjigin, and after the yuan Dynasty of China fell, its territory was reduced to the Mongolian Stepps where it was known as the Northern Yuan. When the Qing Dynasty began, with some Mongol nobles having backed the Manchu take over, Borjigin nobles continued to reign over their subjects in Mongolia under the Qing. In modern times, it's hard to say who exactly is from this clan, because when the Soviet Communists took over, they executed an estimated 30,000 Mongols, including the Borjigin nobles as part of their attempts to destroy Mongolian culture. Part of this involved removing the relevance of the Clan association in their society and banning clan names to a point where many families today are said to have lost knowlege about their Clan Associations. When this ban of Clan names was lifted in 1997 a disproportionate nuumber of families registered themselves as Borjigin clan members because it was the most prestegious, so its hard to know who the real Borjigin members are.
The last official Khagan was Bogd Khan, who began his reign in 1911 after Outer Mongolia declared independence from the Qing after the Xinhai Revolution. He was also considered the spiritual leader of Outer Mongolia's Tibetan Buddhism, and when he died in 1924 the Mongolian Revolutionary government, which was a puppet state of the Soviets declared that his reincarnation couldn't be found, and established the Mongolian people's republic. Bogd was the son of a Tibetan official.
(Russians hated Mongolians and their Monarchy for having been ruled over and made into slaves for about 200 years by the Golden Horde, so it would have been easy for the Russina government to justify some very Brutal acts.)
The first prime minister of Mongolia was Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren. He died in 1919 from what was expected to be poisoning. Odjargal Jambaljamts is reportedly the current richest man in Mongolia. He is the chairman and largest share holder of Mongolian Mining Company. (MMC) Another major share holder of MMC is Kerry Group Limited. The Kerry Group is associated with the Kuok group. Kuok Khoon Ean, who is the chairman of Singapore, is the director of Kerry group and managing director of Kerry Holdings. He is a member of the wealthy Kuok family that moved from China to Malaysia at the turn of the 20th century, with many members now living in China and Hong Kong. His father Robert Kuok is known as the sugar King of Asia and the cooking oil King, and he's also known for the Luxury Hotel brand Shangri-La. Robert worked for the Japanese during the occupation of Malaysia from 1942 to 1945 and was promoted to the head of their rice trading department. In 1993 Kerry Group reportedly acquired a 34.9% stake in South China morning post from Rupert Murdoch's Corporation. Robert Kuok also co founder Wilmar International in 1991, which is today, Asia's largest agribusiness group, with its main product being palm oil. The current chairman of Wilmar is his nephew Kuok Khoon Hong. Roberts brother Philip Kuok Hock Khee was a Malaysian ambassador to Germany, Yugoslavia, Belgium Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Denmark. One of Robert's daughters named Kuok Hui Kwong went to school at Harvard University and worked as an analyst in the investment banking unit of J.P. Morgen.
(P11) Role in History of the Major Religions of Today (Catholicism, Island, Buddhism)
Islam
Aside from the claims from alleged ex Jesuit Priest Alberto Rivera that the Vatican created Islam to make use of Arab man power as a Proxy to destroy their competition, there were many connections between the two religions. For one there is the case of Fatima, who is a if the only daughter of Muhammad, and an important character in the Muslim religion. She's been compared many times to the virgin Mary. A town in Portugal called Fatima was allegedly named after a Muslim princess from the Reconquista Era. This is where in 1930 the Catholic Church officially deemed that claims of an apportion of the virgin Mary having occurred in that town were worthy of belief. This apparition has since been called "Our Lady of Fatima," indirectly linking the two female characters.
The Muslims, and in particular the Arab Muslims who took over the Iberian Peninsula, were essentially a minority ruling over the majority, and for the most part just extracted a special tax rom non Muslims called the Jizya Tax. Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa was the first governor of Al-Andalus, which was a territory in modern day Spain and Portugal. He was the son of Musa ibn Nusayr, the governor of Ifriqiya. Abd al-Aziz directed the Islamic conquest of the Visigoth Kingdom in Hispania, and he married the widow Egilona, who had been the wife of the last Visigoth King, Roderic.
Odo the great, who lived at the turn of the 8th century was the Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony, which were in the South West of modern day France. He married his daughter, who was probably named Lampegia, to the Muslim Berber Rebel Lord, Uthman ibn Naissa, who the Franks called Munuza and who was the deputy governor of what would later be called Catalonia.
The Crusades to the Holy Land happened when the Muslims were in the process of taking over the Eastern Roman Empire AKA the Byzantine Empire, which had a different sect of Christianity from the Catholics. These wars, as always, involved a lot of destruction and plunder, but also business. Groups such as the Templars profited from the conquest and occupation of Jerusalem, and much of the rest of the Holy Land until the Muslims retook it, starting with Saladin, who is considered the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria. Despite the Crusaders' slaughter of the locals, when they originally conquered Jerusalem in 1099, Saladin granted amnisty and free passage to all common Catholics and even to the defeated Christian army, as long as they were able to pay a ransom.
Saladin and the crusader Kings actually seemed to give each other a great degree of praise, despite all the brutal slaughter that was going on. This draws a lot of parallels to the modern day versions of the crusades, as most if not all middle eastern royalty seem to be on friendly terms with those in Europe, in particular the UK.
King Richard the Lion Heart of England proposed that his sister, Joan of England Queen of Sicily, should marry Saladin's brother and that Jerusalem could be their wedding gift. Apparently Saladin rejected the idea after Richard started insisting his brother start identifying as Catholic.
The Ottoman Empire's rulers declared Caliphal Authority after Murad I's conquest of Edirne in 1363. Later on Selim I through conquering and unification of muslim lands became known as the defender of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina, which further strengthened the Ottoman claim to caliphate in the Muslim World, the Caliph being the one who claims leadership of the Muslim world, claiming successorship to Muhammad, a lot like how the Pope does with St. Peter, or how the Dalai Lama is claimed to be in a lien of succession of living Buddhas. The Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire would gradually be replaces geographically by the Muslim Ottoman Empire with Mehmed the Conqueror having taken the Byzantine capital of Constantinople in 1453.
According to many historians Ottoman Empire was really just the Byzantine empire with an Islamic veneer, their government being structured much the same, and they were a very multi ethnic empire, just as Rome was. Their Sultans were themselves very mixed as their mothers were often foreigners. For that matter, members of the previous Palaiologos Dynasty of Byzantium were know to still be in government, notably when it came to tax collection. For example Mesih Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of Byzantine Greek origin, and a nephew of the Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI. He spent time as the grand admiral of the Ottoman Navy, and he was even named as the grand Vizier in 1501, and was sent to suppress a rebellion in Anatolia. Mahmud Pasha Angelović, who was the grand Vezier from 1456 to 1466, was a descendant of the Byzantine Angelos family, who had married a daughter of Sultan Mehmed II. The Ottoman's were also known to continue government cooperation with the Orthodox Church.
The Ottoman Empire Officially began with the conquering of Constantinople, which was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, and located at an important crossing between Europe and the near East. After that this empire continued to expand to into Arab lands in the South, to the Caspian Sea in the East, and as far West into Europe as to be on the door step of Vienna and the Republic of Venice. The Ottoman Sultan is considered the Caliph of Sunni Islam, which is sometimes referred to as Orthodox Islam, and which today makes up about 90% of those identified as Muslim
More Examples of Intermarriage - Nilüfer Hatun was the wife of Orhan, the second Ottoman Sultan, and the mother of the third. There are accounts of her being the daughter of the Byzantine ruler of Bilecik, with her original name being Holofira. Other historians claim that she was the daughter of other Byzantine nobility, such as the a Greek princess named Theodora. Mara Branković was the daughter of the Serbian Monarch Đurađ Branković. She entered the harem of Sultan Murad II, and became an advisor to him. Hürrem Sultan was the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent and the mother of Selim II. She was born in the kingdom of Poland, and the daughter of an Orthodox Christian Priest. According to Historians, she acted as Suleiman's advisor on matters of stat and foreign policy. It's also been noted that she wrote letters to the King of Poland, and that during her life time the Ottoman Empire and the Polish government had generally peaceful relations. Her husband Suleiman was also the first Ottoman Sultan to go into an open military alliance with a European King, allying with Francis I of France against the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. This alliance would continue intermittently for over 250 years, and into the Napoleonic Wars.
The great siege of Malta took place in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire tried to invade the Island of Malta, then held by the Knight's Hospitaller. These knights are famously said to have withstood the siege and repelled the invaders. This is considered by many to be the turning point in the overall conflict between ottoman Europe and the Muslim Ottomans. It also provided the Knights, now known as the Knights of Malta a great deal of prestige and highlighted the ongoing hostilities between the Muslim Ottomans and the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire in particular. At the time, the strategically important island of Malta was technically a vassal state to the Habsburgs as a part of the Crown of Aragon under Habsburg Spain. The Island had been granted to the Knights Hospitaller of Malta by Charles V in 1530. In 1761 Sultan Mustafa III signed a peace treaty with the government of Prussia, again based around an alliance against the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire. Mustafa is said to have been an admirer of Frederick the Great. By the time of the signing of the Congress of Paris 1956 at the end of the Crimean war, the Ottoman empire was officially recognised as a member of Europe's family of Nations, but by then the empire was already starting to fall apart, with Serbia having broken free in 1804, and the Greek war of independence in the 1920s. There was also the issue of the British linked Wahhabist Saudi state, fighting for control over the Arabian Peninsula. The Empire los tits North African territory to the Italians in 1911, and nearly all its European territory in the Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913, and in addition to that there was the British agent T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. He was a nobleman and a Knight of the Bath. He cooperate with King Faisal of Iraq during WW1 to led the Arab revolt against the Ottomans. By the end of the first world war the Ottoman empire had lost its middle eastern territory, with much of it having been divided up into mandated with the involvement of the league of nations, and shortly after that, the Ottoman Sultanate and Caliphate were abolished, and the state of Turkey was created from what was left. The last Sultan Mehmed VI went into exile in Malta and later lived on the Italian Riviera. That more or less brings us to the order of the Islamic ideology of today.
Like all major religious ideologies, Islam has been and continues to be linked closely with government. The head of the Hashemites, who had connections to British agents, proclaimed himself Caliph after the Ottoman Osman's lost that title, although that didn't last long. In recent history the Daesh, or ISIS organisation has also declared a Caliphate. Similar to the Hashemite head, they can easily be linked with American agents and funding.
The Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire
The catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire. After the western Roman Empire lost much of its power, the city of Rome and the Vatican became vulnerable to invasions by Germanics and Huns. Eventually the Pope became under the protection of the Germanic King of the Franks Charlemagne, who was declared the first Holy Roman Emperor. He was also King of the Lombards. Charlemagne was actually invited by Pope Adrien I to come and take over Lombardi, which comprised of modern day Northern Italy. Lombardi was named after the Germanic Lombard people who had previously allied themselves with the Byzentines, and had taken over the region as early as 568. This kind of collaboration between Germanics and Rome was by no means a first. When Attila the Hun was raiding both Norther Italy and Constantinople it was a coalition of the Roman army and Visigoth and Frankish troops commanded by the Germanic King Theodoric I that is said to have finally broken Attila's momentum. In the battle of the Catalonian plains in 451 a future Western Roman Emperor named Avitus had visited Theodoric, lived at his court and taught his sons. Avitus was of Gaul descent, and during his time as emperor, many Gallo-Romans had entered the western Roman government. He was also known to have been close with Theodoric's successor Theodoric II. Skipping ahead to the late 9th and early 10th centuries Holy Roman Emperor Luis the blind married the daughter of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI. In the late 10th century HRE Otto II married Theophanes of Byzantium, who is believed to be either the granddaughter of niece of Byzantine emperor, John I Tzimiskes. At the same time, it's worth noting that another Byzantine princess, Anna Porphyrogenita was married to Vladimir the Great of Kiev and is said to be a major factor in Vladimir converting his Kingdom of Rus' to the Orthodox Christianity of Byzantium. This is part of the reason for later claims that Russia was the third Rome.
Another notable nobility group intermarried with the Byzantines were the Dukes of Austria. For example, Duke Leopold VI married the great grand daughter of a Byzantine Emperor named Theodora Angelina, and his grandfather Henry II married Theodora Comnena, who was then the daughter of a Byzantine Prince. Their family, the house of Babemberg would be replaced as the Dukes of Austria by the house of Habsburg in the mid 13th century, but these two families would go on to intermarry anyway, such as when Albert III of Austria married Beatrix III of Nuremberg, a descendant of the Babembergs, or when Habsburg HRE Ferdinand I married Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, another descendant of the Babembergs.
The house of Habsburg is the family most associated with the Holy Roman Empire. 16 emperors were Habsburgs if you include the last four emperors who were of the Habsburg-Lorraine branch family. The Holy Roman Empire was officially dissolved in 1806 during Napoleon's rampage over Europe. The last emperor last emperor, Francis II of Habsburg-Lorraine, married his daughter his daughter Marie Louise to Napoleon. Their son Napoleon II was for a dew days the un proclaimed Emperor of the French and King of Rome, and said to have been a Roman Catholic, although he died at the age of 21 with no confirmed heirs. The next and last emperor of the French was Napoleon III, the son of Napoleon's daughter and brother. The Habsburg-Lorraine family carried on as the arch dukes of Austria, until the Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved at the end of WW1. If we go back and look at the Papacy, you'll see that most Popes come from a prominent nobility clan of their time, and likewise almost every single Pope is known to have used the sea to benefit his family and or himself, all while claiming to be the successor of St. Peter. One of the early Popes Sylvester I was close with Holy Roman Emperor Constantine, who came to be known as the first Christian Emperor, and after whom the Greek city of Byzantium was renamed to Constantinople, which means Constantine City, and this city which was sometimes referred to as new Rome was declared the new capital of the empire, until Rome split between east and west for the last time, and it became the Capital of only the East. He also gave Christianity Imperial preference in Eastern Rome, where it would develop into the Eastern Orthodox Church, where the West became Roman Catholic under the Roman Pope, who was also known as the Roman Pontiff, or the Bishop of Rome, and sometimes as the Pontifex Maximus, who was the high Priest of Rome. The capital of the Western Roman Empire was actually moved to modern day Milan as of 286, and then to Ravenna in 402 until the empire collapsed in 476. At this point Flavius Odoacer, who was probably Germanic, was declared King of Italy after a revolt. Odoacer was formerly a Magister Militum, meaning he was a top ranking officer in the Roman army. He also had the support of the Roman senate. Although he was an arian Christian he recognised the Authority of the Pope. After reigning for 17 years, Odoacer's kingdom was invaded, and he was overthrown and killed by the Ostrogoths. Next came a period called the Byzantine Papacy, as the emperor of the Byzantines had taken control of the city and would hand pick Popes. During this time, many Popes were from Greece and Syria such as the Greek Pope John the VII, who was the son of a Byzantine official, and who was known to have had a good relationship with the Germanic Lombards, who at the time controlled much of Italy, or the Syrian born Greek Pope Constantine. Constantine was also the last Pope to visit Constantinople until Pope Paul VI in 1967. His successor Pope Gregory II is known to have been from a Roman Noble family.
(Justinian II of Byzantium had married the Khazar Khagan's sister, who produced a son named Tiberius, who reigned beside him as co emperor, although he was Killed in 711 when his father was overthrown and killed himself. Ironically the Khazars assisted in this revolt.)
Two Popes later the Greek Pope Zachery was the last of the Byzantine Papacy period. Zachery endorsed Pepin the short becoming King of the Franks. Pepin split his Frankish Kingdom between his sons Carloman and the more famous Charlemagne who had the whole kingdom to himself after Carloman died mysteriously at the age of 20. Interestingly, Carloman and Charlemagne married a daughter of the Lombard King Desiderius, who's Kingdom Charlemagne would later destroy after breaking it off after a year into the marriage. Pepin the Short's rise to power and alliance with the Roman church marked the beginning of what's been called the Frankish Papacy, as well as the Germanic Holy roman Empire with his son Charlemagne. Pepin the Short, also known as Pippin, and his son gave control of certain territories in northern Italy to Rome that would later become known as the Papal states. That family's Carolingian Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate had an ongoing relationship and partial alliance. The Carolingian dynasty gradually fell out of prominence, seemingly because they had kept up their tradition of dividing territories between sons. This also led to the separation of modern day France and Germany, which was punctuated by a civil war between Charlemagne's grandsons.
Keep in mind that both German and french people have germanic roots, although in France it's become somewhat diluted. For that matter the Angle and Saxon tribes that made up the Anglo-Saxons of England were Germanic. Also Scandinavians and the Vikings that sailed from Denmark were as well, and the Spaniards have a good amount of Germanic too between the Goths and the Reconquista.
Pope Sergius II, who was of Roman nobility and who was Pope from 844 to 847, was known to have sold various Church positions to the highest bidder. This was also a time of heavy Muslim Arab raiding into Italy. His successor Leo IV ordered the Mariner cities. ofItaly to send a fleet against the Saracen pirates as they approached Rome, which led to the battle of Ostia. They won but none the less, the Arabs maintained a foothold in what was then called the Emirate of Sicily until 1091. Pope John VII was actually made to pay tribute to the Emirate of Sicily, who had allied themselves with local Christian nobles. He too had his own Papal fleet but by then lacked a strong Holy Roman Empire to back Rome up. He was also the first Pope confirmed to have been assassinated things became more bloody than usual after that, with most Popes only lasting a few years of reign, and some just a few days. This was a period where the aristocratic families of Rome were in a violent struggle for the power and prestige of the Church and the Papal states, in particular the Spoleto Clan. The Dukes of Spoleto ruled most of central Italy at that time, and as proof of their continued significance in the modern era, the last duke of Croatia was also a Duke of Spoleto, and a Prince of the House of Savoy.
A period called the Pornocracy began in 904 with Pope Sergius III. Sergius is said to have had an affair with a noble woman named Marozia, who was the daughter of Theophylact. The Pornocracy was the term for the affective reign of these two women through male surrogates for the first half of the 10th Century. This included relatives such as Pope John XI who was the son of Marozia. According to some sources Marozia was a member of the Crescentii family, which is said to have ruled over Rome from the mid 10th to early 11th centuries. John Crescentius was the last prominent Crescentii of this era. He assumed supreme control over Rome after a rebellion he likely had a hand in caused the Pope and the Emperor to flee Rome. The Crescentii name continued on in its more modern Crescenzio form, with many high up officials in the Church and Rome bearing that name, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries. Another powerful clan in this period who had three Popes in a row were the counts of Tusculum. They are related to the Crescentii and it's believed that the Colonna family mentioned earlier are their descendants. None the less, their first Pope, Pope Benedict VIII actually got the Papacy's latest Germanic allies, the Normans, to attack Crescentii fortifications and subjugate them.
The Black Death - Where 30 to 60 percent of the population of Europe is estimated to have died in the mid 14th century of Bubonic Plague. In the early 13th century Pope Gregory IX issued the Papal Bull Vox in Rama, which declared that black cats are the incarnation of Satan and should be eradicated. As a result the cat population in Europe took a big hit and the population of rats in Europe boomed. According to some historians, the actual plague rats were actually brought to Europe on Merchant ships, and the Jew clans in Europe were historically heavily involved in the Merchant trade. At the time of the plague, one king that was known to have been especially friendly with Jews was King Casimir III of Poland. By some accounts he had a Jewish mistress named Esterka, who had a large impact on his attitude towards the Jews. Whatever his true reasons may have been, during his reign he allowed Jews to settle in Poland in great numbers. This is significant because Poland was actually left relatively untouched by the Plague, the King having quarantined Poland's border regions and isolated different towns. Pope Clement VI also helped Jews to survive the Pogroms that resulted from the black death being lamed on Jews by issuing two Papal Bulls, although it didn't really work because Jews continued to be killed and made to flee to Poland. In addition to the actions of the King of Poland, there is some evidence that certain people had a basic understanding of how the disease was spread from the beginning. For example during the same time period, the Islamic Golden Horde Mongols catapulted plague infested bodies over the walls during the Siege of Caffa in Crimea. This is known as one of the first cases of biological warfare, and a candidate for where the main wave of plague entered Europe. The grandfather of the Khan that ordered the attack had actually been on good terms with the Roman catholic Church, along with Genoese and Venetian Merchants who traded in the region. Looking at the map again you can see that two other places that were left relatively untouched by plague were Milan and Andorra, which is on the border of modern day France and Spain.
The government of Milan was known to have taken steps to quarantine the sick from the healthy. It's important to keep in mind that during the plague, Europe was going through a population boom that roughly coincided with the Medieval Warm Period. This grown ended abruptly with the great famine of 1315 to 1317. This famine caused the deaths of millions, but much more concerning to the nobility was that people were turning their backs on the Catholic Church for failing to alleviate their suffering, and governments in general were quickly losing their prestige and legitimacy with the people. So a massive but relatively quick depopulation was exactly what the nobility needed to reassert their control over the population. While all this was going on, the period from 1309 to 1377 is referred to as the Avignon Papacy, where seven Popes in a row resided in France, and all appeared to have been influenced by the French Monarch. The first of these Popes, the French Pope Clement V had decided to reign from Avignon, which is in France. He was the Pope who abolished the Templars, who to him had apparently outlived their usefulness. He was also the Pope who sent the Franciscan John of Montecorvino on a mission to Beijing in Yuan China to spread the religion. John established the first missions in China and India, and visited the monarchs of Persia an Ethiopia among others. Europeans are known to have already been in contact with mongols in 1220, having often proposed an alliance against the Muslims that apparently never seemed to pan out. The Mongols were tolerant of Christianity in general, even having some Nestorian Christians in their court and allowing the Roman Churches agents to set up missions in China. Pope Benedict VII was visited by an embassy from the last Mongol Emperor of China, which was led by a Genoese and 1336. They brought letters from the emperor that apparently requested a new spiritual guide to represent the Catholic Church in China, but when the Ming took over, all Christians were officially kicked out of China. Pope Gregory XI of the French noble Beaufort family was the last Avignon Pope and finally returned the Papal court to Rome. He died shortly afterwards and an angry mob broke into the collage of cardinals to force the Italian Pope Urban VI in. The college, being full of French Cardinals, later elected another Avignon pope, Clement VII, who was the son of the Count of Geneva considered the Anti Pope or the Avignon clamant. During the War of Eight Saints, Pope Clement personally commanded troops and gained the nickname the butcher of Cesena after the massacre of thousands of civilians. Meanwhile the Roman Pope Urban VI had several of his own Cardinals tortured and then brutally murdered for questioning his authority. This trend of their being a Pope in both Rome and France continued fro a while, and it was called the Western Schism, which finally ended with the election of Pope Martin V, who's father was a Colonna and who's mother was a Conti. Pope Martin had denounced the enslavement of Christians, but authorised a crusade into Africa in 1488. This combines with the Papal Bull in 1442 essentially sanctioned the Portuguese trade in African slaves. This is by no means the first time the Papacy permitted and ultimately benefitted from a slave trade. For example back in in the Charlemagne days a significant source of income for the Germanic empire was in selling captured non Christian Slavs to the Muslims in Spain and Elsewhere. In the late 15th Century Pope Innocent the VIII was actually given a gift of 100 more slaved by the King of Aragon that he distributed among his cardinals.
Buddhism
In Greco-Bactria, which was a result of Alexander the great's conquests towards India, Buddhism had gained a lot of traction. The Greko-Bactrian King Demetrius I invaded the Indian Subcontinent in 180BC, establishing the Indo-Greek Kingdom which lasted in North West South Asia until the end of the first century. Buddhism became very prominent under the Indo-Greek and Greko-Bactrian kings. It has been suggested that their invasion of India was intended to show support for the Maurya Empire and protect the Buddhist ideology from the alleged prosecutions of the Shunga. The third King of the Mauryan empire, Ashoka, converted to Buddhism in 263BC, and another Indo-Greek King closely associated with buddhism was Menander I, who became a patron of the ideology. According to Greek authors of the period, the Greeks from Bactria were even greater conquerors than alexander the great, and Menander and Demetrius were the two Bactrian Kings who had extended their power into India the furthest.
In the second century BC emperor Wu of Han China had sent out Zhang Qian to visit and bring back information of central Asia. This established contact with the Indo-Greeks, and according to historians is what developed into the silk road. Based on murals in the Mogao caves in central China, Emperor Wu himself had golden Buddha statues. Shortly after this, this Indo-Greeks were replaced in the area by the Indo-Scythians. This group continued many Buddhist practices and had buddhist symbols on many of their coins, and this nomadic group would in tern be replaced by the nomadic Kushan Empire in the first century. And the Kushan's most famous emperor, Kanishka the great is considered to be a great patron of Buddhism. according to historians, Knishka was close to the North Indian Buddhist scholar Ashvaghosha, who became an advisor to him. His patronage funded people like Lokaksema, who was the first known Buddhist monk to have translated Mahayana sutras into Chinese, and who travelled to China as a missionary, and between the mid first and mid third centuries Buddhism became established in China and surrounding countries via the Silk Road. It's important to note that while all of this was going on, this region was also in steady contact with the west, including East Africa and Rome, and there was still a significant Greek population in the Kushan Empire. In either the 5th or 6th centuries, Bodhidharma is the one traditionally credited as transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and for starting the Shaolin martial arts tradition. Different traditions also say he travelled to Japan and South East Asia spreading the ideology. The Japanese accounts describe him as Persian, and the South East Asians say he's the son of an Indian Priest, while the actual Chan texts call him the blue eyed barbarian.
Buddhism in China would be repressed by the Tang Emperor Wuzong's great anti buddhist prosecution in the 9th century, which had the stated goal of getting rid of foreign influence. Wuzong had called out Buddhism in particular for using their ideology to leach people's wealth in an Imperial edict. By that point in history the ideology had already spread to Japan and Korea, and Wuzong's successor who identified with Buddhism stopped these prosecutions. In Japan the Sōhei were Buddhist warrior monks who existed from around the 10th to 17th centuries. They had turf wars between rival Buddhist clans and took part in major conflicts, like the Genpei War in the 12th century and the Ōnin war in the 15th. Tibetan Buddhism is said to have officially began with King Songtsen Gampo, who lived in the later 6th and early 7th centuries. He is said to be responsible for the creation of the Tibetan alphabet and bringing buddhism to Tibet. He had many temples built and commissioned the translation of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit to the new Tibetan written language. In the 13th centiry the MOngols invaded parts of tibet, and the region was included in Kublai Khan's new Yuan Dynasty in China. The Yuan ended up adopting Tibetan Buddhism as the official state religion, and took on Buddhist scholars such as Sakya Pandita into their government. People such as Karma Pakshi the Lama of the Karmapa branch of Tibetan Buddhism, took the chance to travel to both China and Mongolia spreading their ideology. Marco Polo noted Karma's presence in the Yuan Court. The overall relationship between the Mongol nobility and Tibetan buddhist Officials seems to have bore a lot of similarities with that of the Roman church and the Holy Roman Empire in the West. The Mongols are known to have raided certain Tibetan monasteries while leaving others alone.
The Yuan Dynasty fell in the mid 14th century, largely as a result of the Red Turban Rebellion. This rebellion was heavily influenced by the White Lotus Society, which had its roots in the Pure Land school of Buddhism. This sect of Buddhism had first appeared in China several centuries earlier. The white Lotus society was founded in the 12th Century by a monk named Cizhao, and by the time of this rebellion they were spreading this idea that the Buddha would soon descend from heaven and save mankind, which according to them included overthrowing the Yuan. The later heaven and earth society AKA the Hongmen is considered a Branch of the white Lotus tradition, and by extension the modern day Triads are as well. Both the Hongmen and the Triads are still active in the political theatre in Taiwan, and there is a Hongmen political party in the mainland. This is in addition to the triads known associations with criminal activities notebly in Hong Kong and other secret societies. A little while after the fall of the Yuan, the first emperor of the Ming appeared, known as the Hong Wu emperor. He was the former commander of a rebel force who had joined with the red turbans, as well as as a former monk at a buddhist monastery. His son who became the Yongle emperor was also identified with Buddhism. One of the Hong Wu emperor's major known actions was that he officially broke contact with the Byzantines and other Christian officials and nobles of the west that the Yuan had. Meanwhile in the West the Golden Horde Mongols continued to have an off and on alliance with the Byzantines until the mid 14th century. after the Mongol Empire collapsed Tibetan Buddhism again became tied to the Mongolian nobility in the 16th century. Mongolians from the western province of Ordos had invaded invaded Tibet in 1566 and in 1578 Altan Khan struck a deal with the Tibbetan ruler named Sonam Gyatso. He gave the Tibetan the title of Dalai Lama, although technically he was recognised as the third Dalai lama, since his two predecessors were included. Altan also recognised him as the reincarnation of the first imperial preceptor of the Yuan dynasty, which basically meant the top Buddhist advisor in the Yuan courts Sonam in tern proclaimed Altan Khan to be the reincarnation of Kublai Khan. Altan Khan had provided Sonam's school of Buddhism with his Patronage, and it became the most prominent power in Tibet, with Sonem Gyatso at the head. Over the next century or so this school of Buddhism, called Gelugpa, or yellow hat, also spread all over Mongolia. In 1601 Altan Khan's great grandson Yonten Gyatsu became the fourth Dalai Lama after Sonam's death while traveling at the age of 45. The 5th Dalai Lama came from Tibetan nobility and is known to have met with European explorers and missionaries. He also reestablished official relations with the governments of Ming and later Qing China. Meanwhile an important figure in the late Qing and early Ming era was a man called Zanabazar, who was the son of a Mongol khan. He managed to unify many of the different tribes of Mongolia, as well as the two main sects of Buddhism of the Region. He became recognised as the two main sects of Buddhism in the region, and he became recognised as eh spiritual leader of the largest subgroup of Mongols, called the Khalkha. He also had the ear of the highest Khan of his day, and allegedly talked him into submitting to the Qing's Kangxi, who Zanabazar was also close with, and who subdued the Dzungar Mongol hordes that were threatening the Khalkha from the West. The Dzungars would later be genocided by the Qing in the mid 18th century. In an around the western province of Xinjiang Zanabazar is said to have designed the Buddhist Soyombo symbol, which appears on Mongolia's national flag and money.
In Qing China the White Lotus society was still active, and China experienced the White Lotus Rebellion at the turn of the 19th Century. Despite the Manchu Qing government being fairly weak at that time, this rebellion was ultimately crushed with reports of around 100,000 rebels dead. This rebellion had a smaller precursor rebellion under the martial artist Wang Lun, who was also with the White Lotus. After the White Lotus rebellion came the Eight Trigrams uprising of 1813. This uprising was started by the heavenly principle sect, which was a branch of the White Lotus. The made it as far as breaking into the Forbidden City, but ultimately failed with over 20,000 of their members dying in the process. There were many other bloody rebellions around this time, but the next rebellion that could be linked with the White Lotus was the Red Turban rebellion of 1845-1856. This time the Red Turbans were headed by the Heaven and Earth Society, with one of its leaders also being in the god worshipping society, a Christian Sect led by Hong Xiuquan, who proclaimed himself as the younger brother of Jesus. Hong was known to have earlier been contact with a Southern Baptist priest from South Carolina named Issachar Jacox Roberts. Hong would also go on to found the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in 1851. This led to the massive 21 year long Taiping rebellion, which had a death toll estimated to be between 20 and 100M. The UK and French governments also sent troops to assist in putting them down in the later stages. Some of the survivors later joined Sun Yat-sen's Revive China society, and Mao Zedong, who's ideology killed a similar number of Chinese is said to have admired Hong.
The Qing court endorsed the Gelugpa school of Buddhism. This led to the Taiping rebels killing thousands of monks early on in their rebellion, before their leadership seemingly intervened and put a stop to these particular Killings. China was visited by Anagarika Dharmapala in 1893. Angarika had gone to several Christian schools as well as the royal college of Colombo in Sri Lanka. He was a major contributor to the revival of Buddhism In India, after several centuries of being virtually extinct. He was also tied to the Sri Lankan independence movement, which itself was tied to Buddhism. This resurgence of Buddhism was assisted by the American Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, who helped establish several Buddshist schools.
In Tibet during the official training period of the 12th Dalai Lama, Europeans were banned from entering the country. This was said to be because Britain as at war with the states of Sikkim and Bhutan, which were largely under their control, and Christian missionaries were at their doorstep. In 1904 the British launched an expedition into Tibet and the 13th Dalai Lama fled to Mongolia and later China. This expedition turned out to be largely a massacre of Tibetan conscripts because of more advanced British weapons, followed by looting and general colonial behaviour. The Qing then asserted sovereignty over Tibet and then came to some agreement with the British occupiers who then left, but then in 1905 the Tibetan Lama started a rebellion, and started massacring Qing officials, French missionaries and Catholics. Qing general Zhao Erfeng led troops carrying weapons manufactured in Germany into Tibet. There he's gain the nickname Zhao the Butcher and all Lamas involved were executed, and the Government of Tibet was put under the direct control of the Qing. Erfeng also caused the Dali Lama to go into exile a second time in 1910, this time to India. He arrived back in Tibet in 1912, a year after the Qing was overthrown and declared Tibetan independence. The 14th and current Dalai Lama also fled to Tibet with the help of the CIA during the Tibetan uprising of 1959. This uprising reportedly led to 80,000 Tibetans being killed. This current Dalai Lama has received many honours and awards from mostly western universities and committees, including the Nobel peace prize in 1989. He also continues to live in India as a refugee. Currently there are an estimated 480 or so million Buddhists with the greatest concentration living in South East Asia. As an example of Buddhist activities. As an example of Buddhist activities in that region, in Thailand the King is constitutionally stipulated to be a Buddhist. Buddhism arrived in Siam, or modern day Thailand, from India around 250BC. In the mid 19th century King Mongkut, a former Monk for 27 years reformed Buddhism in Siam to be more centralised and more linked with royalty and government. The two became so interwoven that his successor King Chulalongkorn was nick named the royal Buddha. The modern day King Vajiralongkorn has also spent time living as a monk, as is customary for Thai Buddhist men. In his case this time was spent at the temple of the emerald Buddha.
Meanwhile, Buddhist monks are known to be involved with all sorts of criminal activities. For example in 2012 three monks from Prachinburi were caught dealing in hard drugs, and there's many other cases of monks being exposed for dealing in Meth. Monks have also used their status and prestige to do all sorts of sex crimes, no different than what we see with amny authority figures of other organisations. there are also many cases of monks being involved in violence and murder, with the victims often being other monks.
Other Examples - The Church of England, of which the supreme governor is also the monarch of the UK. Japanese Shintoism, of which the Emperor has been traditionally places at the head. In many countries religious institutions and organisations are tax exempt, being given a legal status similar or identical to non profit charity organisations. Meanwhile, these same institutions are always taking money from people. They collect money directly from their followers and indirectly through their connections with other groups like organised crime and government, although there's a lot of overlap and the lines between the three become more blurry and arbitrary the more you research and think about it.
In many of the more Germanic countries and Italy there is a sometimes optional Church tax for followers of mostly christian institutions. Buddhist temples take donations form their followers an d have major patrons. A modern example of this is the Thai government's tradition of giving formal gifts to temples, as well as privileges for their officials, as well as privileges for their temples such as free transportation. Muslim mosques are much the same with their donation boxes, and fundraisers and such. There are governmental religious institutions in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt. In Saudi Arabia the Grand Mufti, the most senior religious official in the country, is appointed by the King. The grand Mufti has heavy influence over the Saudi court system. In addition the Saudi Government is known to provide direct funding to mosques, such as where they gave over 100M dollars to a Kabul Mosque.
Meanwhile, all these groups lack transparency. Certainly a lot of money goes into constructing impressive buildings and blinging out their officials to ad to their prestige. And as a tactic to boost their legitimacy, religious institutions also claim to be the moral backbone of society. As intelligent and social animals, humans have evolved to follow certain codes to assist in social cohesion, and those who didn't would be ostracised and killed. Are there still cheaters with no morals though? Absolutely, and you'll find plenty of them hiding behind the prestige of religious organisations.
One World Religion - Another thing to be aware of with religion today is the apparent push to bring them together, potentially to create the much talked about one world religion. The united religions initiative is an NGO that has consultative status with the United Nations economic and social council, along with partnerships with other UN agencies. The founder and president of this initiative is Reverend William E. Swing, a former Bishop of California for the opposable Church. Swing has attended and further received a further honorary degree from the university of San Fransisco, a Jesuit school. In Pakistan the United Religions Initiative (URI) regional coordinator is James Channan. He has been appointed by Pope John Paul II to work with the Vatican's commission for religious relations with Muslims, and has been a consultant to the Vatican's pontifical council for inter-religious dialogue. James has received the African Inter-faith Harmony award, which was first proposed and is sponsored by King Abdullah II of Jordan. Abdullah went o Jesuit George Town University. Another thing to consider is many of the messages coming from Pope Francis, who again, is the very first Jesuit Pope. Back in 2014 the Vatican hosted Islamic Prayers and readings from he Quran for the first ever. In September of 2015 Pope Francis made a speech at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan. During this speech he stated that Muslims were worshiping the one god, with the obvious implication that Catholics and Muslims worship the same god. Also that September he made a speech at the UN General assembly talking about universal fraternity. The product of that assembly was a 2007 agenda for sustainable development. This agenda declared that all countries and stake holders in the UN will act in a collaborative partnership to implement their plans, and among is very padded and vague wording. The agenda claims to seek effective accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. In January 2016 the Vatican released a video that featured authority figures of different major religions, and Pope Francis saying that all religions are seeking at meeting gof in different ways, and that ultimately they are all children of god. In May of 2016 the Pope hugged and kissed the Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, who is recognised as the current highest authority in Sunni Islam. He then said the words "our meeting it the message." A one world religion would bring the major religion organisations officially under essential authority, with its figure head presumably being the Catholic Pope, as its the Catholic organisation that's clearly going through the most effort for this.
The Holy Sea has observer status with the African Union, the Arab League, the Council of Europe, the Organisation of American States, the international organisation for migration, the United Nations and several UN Agencies. Joan Enric Vives i Sicília is a Catholic Arch Bishop and co prince of the Principality of Andorra, a region which, again, was relatively unaffected by the Black Death. The other current co prince of Andorra is the president of France, Emanuel Macron. Macron was educated at the Jesuit Lycée la Providence School. His 24 year older wife Bridget was a teacher at this school when he attended.
Ethnicities of the officials of the Catholic Church
The official working languages of the Holy Sea are Italian and French, and communication of the Vatican City is said to be mostly done in Italian, English, French, German or Spanish. Meanwhile the Swiss Guard uses German for all its commands, and its members are said to be ethnically German, French or Italian. It's important to remember at this point that most, if not all of the Black nobility families, who have historically been connected closely with the Catholic Organisation, have intermarried with Germanic nobility families. For that matter North Italians in general have a significant amount of Germanic blood from interacting with and being invaded from the North, with the wealth of Rome often being the target in the latter case.
The current Pope Fransis's parents are both from North Italy. The current cardinal secretary of state is Pietro Parolin, who was born in the Vicenza Province, which is in North Italy. Parolin is said to have reestablished contact with the Holy Sea and Beijing, and as a former deputy foreign minister he dealt with the Holy Sea's relations with the government of Vietnam. He is a Knight of the Orders of Merit of Italy, Germany and the Order of Malta. He is also a Knight of Mexico's order fo the Aztec Eagle and the star of Romania. Before him, Tarkizio Bertone Tarcisio Bertone was Cardinal secretary of state from 2006 to 2013. Bertone was born in Piedmont, which is in North Italy, and he is a Knight of the Orders of Merit of Italy and Poland, the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the Portuguese Order of St. James of the Sword, and he's also received an award from the Knights of Columbus in 2007. Now if we look at the distribution of Catholic Cardinals, the largest number by country are identified as being of Italian Nationality, with the second largest being the U.S., the third largest being in Spain, the Fourth largest being in Brazil, which has historical ties with Portugal, and then theres France and Germany, if you counted them together. But there are also many Cardinals spread out around other nationalities, including African ones. If we look at populations identified as Catholic, the Catholic organisation is prominent in more Germanic countries like the U.S. and Australia, as well as other regions that have been colonised by primarily Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Germany, with the governments of these countries having all had connections with the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire. Notably for the most part, this doesn't seem to be applied to regions that were colonised by France. It so happens that the French government had an alliance with the Ottomans against the HRE. This is despite the fact that the Papacy has been based in France, and that the country itself has a significant population identified as Catholics. Basically the governments that have been most associated with the HRE were also the most willing to cooperate with agents of the Catholic Organisation.
The Sicilian, Calabrian and other South Italian Organised crime groups are known to be active in countries associated with British colonialism. Countries like Canada, Australia, South Africa and the U.S. Sassy suspects that these organised crime groups are fronts for the Catholic Organisation, and various governments that in this example permit them to run their hustles in countries associated with the British Crown. Many of the Black Nobility families happen to have branches in London.
In Germany Reinhard Marx is the Chairman of the German Bishop's conference, and the Arch Bishop of Munich and Freising. He has met with the president of the European commission Jean-Claude Juncker, and with regard to migrants, he has stated that Catholics are not allowed to be Xenophobic. He has also travelled to Vietnam and met with the chief of the Vietnamese fatherland front, and expressed that he hoped it would assist in developing Catholicism in Vietnam. Reinhard was made a Cardinal by the German Pope Benedict XVI, who reigned from 2005 to 2013 when he resigned and was replaced by Pope Francis. The Roman catholic Church in Germany is considered to be one of the organisation's wealthiest sectors.
The Church's presence in central and South America is fairly well known, but what about the Catholic organisation's presence in Africa. Of course there are some Africans willing to join such an organisation and kill their own for wealth. The world's largest Catholic Seminary, which basically means a school for Catholic agents, is in Nigeria. The Polish Pope John Paul II, who reigned form 1978 to 2005, deliberately selected many Cardinals from third world countries, including African countries, from which their are now 16 Cardinals. One such Cardinal is Peter Turkson, who was born in Ghana and is regarded as a candidate fro the next Pope. He has called for the establishment of a global public authority and central world bank to rule over financial institutions which he says have become outdated. The Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze was a close advisor to Pope John Paul II, and was considered as a possible successor. He has been the president of what would become known as the pontifical council of religious dialogue. Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel is the head of the Catholic Church in Ethiopia and the arch Bishop of Addis Ababa, which is the capital of Ethiopia. He was made a Cardinal by Pope Francis in 2015.
(P13) The History of secretive societies and orders
A secretive society is set up to serve different ends, like assassinations, agent provocateur work, psyops and just about anything you can think of. Secretive societies often present a public face, where they do something like charity work, but still operate in secrecy at the higher levels, and members will go through some kind of initiation process that might involve a blood oath to help maintain that secrecy. Once you know a little bit about them, they're no longer secret, they're just secretive. There's a lot of crossover with government, religion, organised crime and other secretive societies.
Thuggee Cult
The Thuggee Cult of India, which was only officially discovered by westerners in 1810 had been killing travellers for centuries. They were known as men of the noose because of their preferred method of killing. This was done for taking the victim's valuables, but also in worship to the goddess Kali. The term Thuggee means deceiver, and they would keep these activities a secret from their own wives and daughters. The thugs would live a double life and were reportedly often well off in their normal life. When British officials, and in particular William Henry Sleeman, tried to destroy the Thugs, he reported that the local police force were turning a blind eye to them, and that the local nobility was shielding them. The thugs had their own hierarchy, with the strangler being a sought after role, and gravedigger or scout for ideal places to perform these assassinations was a job for new entrants. One rule that proved convenient for Sleeman's mission is that they weren't allowed to kill Europeans, but it's also reportedly the case that there were other exempted people. Basically, this group was protected by local authorities, and the were handed down certain rules on who they could and couldn't kill. They followed a hierarchy, with priests overseeing initiation ceremonies and giving orders. It's important to note that in India the priest cast was considered the highest and was heavily interconnected with and could be considered apart of the local nobility. The Thuggees make for a good example of a secretive order. They are also the origin of the word thug.
Assassins
Another that originated a common term were the Assassins. The Assassins or Hashashins were founed by a Persian named Hassan-i Sabbah. Hassan had been initiated into Isma'ilism, having traveled to Cairo to meet the 8th Caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate, who was the head of Isma'ilism at the time. Isma'ilism was itself the largest branch of Shia Islamism at that time, and the Caliph itself was named after Fatima, who was Muhammad's youngest or only daughter, and the royal family of this Caliphate claim descent from Fatima. This is where according to some sources Hassan studied under the religious leadership before traveling back to Persia. There he began getting the local population to join his ideology, and he captured a fort from a local ruling family which would become his order's base of operations. This base would come to be known as Alamut Castle, or the Eagle's Nest, and this is where he would spend most of the rest of his life being the head of the Assassins. According to most sources, the name of this order comes from Hashish, or Indian Hemp. According to these historians the Assassins would become intoxicated by this stuff by instruction of their local chief before a particularly dangerous mission. It's also been suggested that they actually used opium to this end, and that the name comes from a Turkish language term for Opium. In reality many missions were one way trips, both by design and because the drugs used weren't exactly performance enhancers. The assassin killer specialised in high profile targets and were very thorough in their preparations, which included time blending into the local population, but the actual killers were a minority of the followers of Hassan's Order, who's members actually called themselves the Nizari Isma'ilism. They also engaged in psychological and asymmetric warfare, and had a presence in Syria during the Crusades.
Also active in the Caliphate of this time was the House of Wisdom in Bagdad, where scholars identified as Muslims, Jews and Christians are known to have travelled. A man named Nasir al-Din al-Tusi managed to flee the school just before the Mongols arrived, taking a reported 100,000 manuscripts with him to Persia, and according to one source, al-Tusi was captured by the Assassins while traveling, and became a member of the court of Alamut, while other sources say he sought their protection of his own volition. Either way, there he spent the next 25 years doing his work in their well stocked library. In 1256 the Mongols ran over Alamut and would for the most part destroy the assassins in the following years. They also kidnapped al-Tusi and appointed him as a minister.
Knights Templar
The Knights Templars were officially established in 1119 by some French Noblemen, and in 1128 Pope Honorius II gave his official recognition of this Catholic Order. They made their fortune during the Crusaded by excepting financial donations and became a very popular Catholic charity, receiving lots of money, land and businesses, and sons of noble families were arriving to join them. The basically made their fortune in the Levant, and went on to become the first real banksters of Europe. But then during the Avignon Papacy, Pope Clement V ordered the suppression of the order. The order continued on in different ways, for example by being linked with the bankster stronghold of Switzerland. There's also been claims that the Templars played some part in the origins Scottish Rite Freemasonry, and there is actually a lot of Templar styled groups and ranks in freemasonry, although most claim to have no real descent from the original order. Quite possibly the best candidate for their most direct successors though is the Order of Montesa in Spain, named after the castle of Montesa in the province of Valencia, which is on the east coast of Spain. This Order inherited the possessions of the Aragonese branch of the Knight's Templar, and was said to be territorially limited to the old Crown of Aragon, which includes Sicily and the Southern part of the Italian peninsula, both regions notorious for organised crime activity.
In 1587 the position of grandmaster within this order was unified with the position of King by Philip II of Spain, and this continued even after the Monarchy was restored by Fransisco Franco, with King Juan Carlos I, and then his son and current King of Spain Felipe VI. Felipe also claims the title of king of Jerusalem, which the Templars at one time controlled. In particular they occupied the temple mount, but going back to the late 16th century, the lat master of the preceding Order of Our Lady of Montesa was Pedro Luis de Borja of the Borgia family, who was a half brother to Francis Borgia, who was the Duke of Gandia, as well as a Jesuit. The current Duke of Calabria, Prince Pedro, is reportedly in charge of the day to day operations of the Order of Montesa. Prince Pedro is also a descendent of the Farnese, and it was a Farnese Pope who officially approved the establishment of the Jesuit Order. There's also his co claimant to the head of the Bourbon Two-Sicilies as well as the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, Prince Carlo, and how they're both Knights of Malta.
Mexico is known for its drug Cartels, and drug Cartels in both Central and South America are often connected with the U.S. government. There is a Cartel called the Knight's Templar, and they reportedly style themselves closely after the original order. They're also known to have issued a public call for a ceasefire during a visit by Pope Benedict. These Knights Templar are known to be allied with the Sinaloa Cartel, who themselves are allied with such groups as the Sicilian Mafia, the Aryan Brotherhood and the Hell's Angels. There's also the Crips and the Bloods and the Chicago Mafia, among many others across North America known to be connected with them on the distribution end. According to former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura, who has also been a member of the U.S. Navy underwater demolition team and Sergeant at arms of the Mongols motorcycle club, the Mongols, who are based out of Southern California are about 25% comprised of what he calls Mexican Latinos, and a lot of biker club members in general are former military. The Mongols are known to be involved in the drug trade and are particularly associated with Meth, and aside from just Mexico and the U.S. they have chapters in countries like Germany, Switzerland, Thailand, Canada and Australia.
The Bush family, who have been called the unofficial royalty of the U.S., can be connected with certain Cartels, especially given Bush Sr.'s involvement with the CIA. Jeb Bush is rumoured to have worked with Cartel members while on a mission to Venezuela, where he opened a branch with the Texas Commerce Bank, his alleged mission being that of a financial liaison with the Venezuelan oil industry and the Columbian Cartel. Jeb Bush's wife Columbia Bush is from Guanajuato, the same region of Mexico as the Knights Templar. Jeb is a Knight of Columbus and a former governor of Florida.
Duke Francisco De Bourbon is a relative of the Spanish Royal Family, and the grandmaster of the Order of St. Lazarus. Francisco is also the former CEO and Chairman of the Bank of Miami, as well as the international bank of Miami. In 2004 King Juan Carlos visited George Bush Sr. and Jr. at their Ranch in Crawford Texas for thanksgiving. Former Mexican president Vincent Fox went to IBERO American University, a Jesuit school, and right after Fox was replaced by Filipe Calderón in 2006, what became known as the Mexican drug war began. With a reported murder rate tapering off in the last two years of Calderón's term. Calderón is a knight of the Order of the Bath, the Order of Isabella the Catholic and the Danish Order of the Elephant. The current president Enrique Peña Nieto is alleged to be connected with the Juarez Cartel, which is based near the border with El Paso Texan and is said to be at war with Sinaloa. Enrique is a Knight of the Order of the Bath, the Order of Isabelle the Catholic, the Order of Prince Henry, and the Saudi Order of Abdulaziz Al Saud. The western province of Sinaloa, from which the Sinaloa Cartel gets its name, has historically seen a lot of Jesuit activity, with many missions having been founded in Sinaloa, and neighbouring Sonora to the North, so the fact that a Roman Catholic Cartel would appear and show reverence to the Pope might have a lot more to it than a bunch of low to mid level Criminals merely trying to adopt the prestige of this Order. These modern day Templars are one of the biggest traffickers of Crystal Meth into the States. Back in the day the original Knights Templars were themselves merchants who used violence to protect and secure their interests, and traded in all manor of goods, which almost certainly included Opium. Knightly Orders like the Hospitallers are known to have brought the Drug to Europe. The Knight's Templar also had a papal bull issued for them in 1139, which declared that they were completely above local laws and tax exempt, but that they were still subordinate to the Papacy.
Order of Malta
The Knights of Malta said to be the oldest chivalric Order, and began as the Knights Hospitaller, who were established during the crusades. The Hospitaller were a Catholic military Order charged with caring for pilgrims and defending the Holy Land. Similar to what happened to the Templars the Pope issued a Papal Bull which recognised their sovereignty, and it serves as the legal basis for their continued sovereignty to this day. When the Holy Land fell, they moved their base of operations to the Island of Rhodes, and with time became Known as the Knights of Rhodes, and later they moved to the island of Malta, where they were vassals to Habsburg Charles I of Spain. From their they famously fought against the Ottomans that controlled the Mediterranean. After the Siege of Malta, many of the nights would become mercenaries, and had an apparent preference for working in the Navy. The Knights were also involved with privateering, raiding ships that they could claim were suspected of carrying Ottoman goods. In 1798 Napoleons troops captured Malta, and the Knights were expelled from the Island. Many were given shelter by the Russian Tsar, who they gave the title of grand master of the priory of St. Petersburg. This expulsion also apparently caused their language system, which governed their various territories over Europe to the Dissolved but a similar system has ben reformed since.
Modern Actiavitvites - Knights in this Order: Juan Carlos of Spain, Henry the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Carl Von Habsburg, (current head of the Habsburgs) King Philip and Queen Paola of Belgium, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Vittorio Emanuele of the formerly reigning House of Savoy in Italy. Duke Franz in Bavaria, Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Parma, which is descendent of the Farnese, Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, Prinz Alois von Liechtenstein and Prince Jaime Bernardo of Bourbon-Parma. United States: William F Buckley Jr, who was a CIA agent and later founded the National Review; Dwight D Eisenhower, a five star general during ww2 and U.S. president from 1953 t 1961; George Bush S. met with Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta and is alleged to be a member; Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., bootlegger and later political actor, who had three political actor sons including JFK, was a Knight of Malta. Kennedy Sr. didn't get involved in WW2 but was known to have had Nazi sympathies. He was also close with the arch Bishop of New York Francis Spellman, who was also a Knight of Malta and was known for being strongly in support of the Vietnam war. Spellman has also been described by a biographer of J Edger Hoover as a sexually voracious Homosexual; Joseph E Smiths was inspector general of the department of defence under George Bush Jr. as well as an executive for Black Water, and he is a Knight of Malta. He has been named as foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump; and CIA directors John A Mccone, William Coby and William J. Casey are known to be Knights of Malta.
The SMOM is currently based in Rome at the Palazzo Malta. Both this palace and the Villa del Priorato di Malta, which hosts the grand priory of Rome and the order of Malta's embassy in Italy, have extraterritorial status. The SMOM is recognised as a sovereign entity under international law, and under the united nations. Prince Carlo Massimo is the president of the Italian association of the Order of Malta, and the current grand commander as well as the acting grand master of the SMOM is the Austrian Ludwig Hoffmann von Rumerstein. Rumerstein went to the pontifical Gregorian university, the first university founded by the Jesuits. Despite claims to the contrary, the SMOM, as their name suggests, appears to be still very much a military order. During WW2 several high ranking members of militaries and intelligence societies were Knights. Of course there's plenty of examples from after the war, like Alexander Haig, who was involved in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and became Vice Chief of staff in the U.S. army, and deputy national security advisor. He would later become the seven supreme allied commander, and U.S. secretary of state. Alexander had gone to Jesuit George Town University and was a Knight of Malta. Clayton P. Kerr was deputy commander of the allied military mission to the Italian army during WW2. After the War he became the chief of the army division at the United States National Guard Bureau. Kerr was a Knight of Malta. John O'Connor was the arch Bishop of New York from 1984 until his death in the year 2000. John was also the former auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Arch diocese for the Military services of the US, and before that he was the chief of navy chaplains. John was a Knight of Malta. Another Knight of Malta Frank J. Shakespeare spent a year in the U.S. Navy, and later became president of CBS television. From 1981 to 1985 he was chairman of the board for international broadcasting in the U.S. He was then appointed ambassador to Portugal and a year later ambassador to the Holy Sea. He is currently on the border of trustees for the Heritage Foundation, a Washington public policy research institute.
In England Jimmy Savile was a popular media personality who was knighted by the Queen. He was also known to be close with Prince Charles. After his death in 2011 hundreds of sexual abuse allegations came out against him. And even when he was alive there were rumours. An investigation in 2014 concluded that he had assaulted patients at the Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital, where he had volunteered and where his behaviour was reportedly ignored. Savile also fundraised for and volunteered at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. There he reportedly sexually assaulted patients and staff without reproductions, and that's just the tip of the ice berg, but you get the idea. And there were people around him Known to have been involved as well. In addition to being a Knight of Malta and of the British Empire, Savile was a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory he Great.
Knight of Malta John J. Raskob was a financial executive for DuPont and General Motors, and was behind the building of the Empire State Building. He also supported different political actors. Angelo Ponte was an American organised crime figure, and was reportedly associated with the Genovese Family. He has various government connections and was a Knight of Malta. After the second world war, Jean Piaget's construction company was Canada's largest privately own construction company, and built several notably. During the war he was president of war time housing limited, which built a ton of housing. Piaget was a Knight of Malta. James D. Watkins was a U.S. Navy admiral and secretary of energy under George Bush Sr. He was named chairman of the United States commission on ocean Policy in 2001. (Knight of Malta) Anthony Zinni is a former United States Marine Corp General, and former Commander in Chief of the United States Central command. He was the United States special envoy for Middle East peace form 2001 to 2003. (Knight of Malta) Emilio T. Gonzalez was an undersecretary in the U.S. department of homeland security from 2005 to 2008. He was also formerly a national security advisor and foreign policy advisor to George Bush Jr. and Condoleezza Rice. He spend 26 years in the U.S. army and was part of a military attaché to El Salvador and Mexico. (Knight of Malta) Sir Francis Festing was involved in world war 2 and afterwards became the commander of the British forces in Hong Kong. He was later appointed to positions like general officer, commanding British troops in Egypt, General Officer Eastern Command, Commander in Chief Far East Land Forces, and Chief of the Imperial General staff. (Knight of Malta) James Jesus Angleton was Chief of CIA counter intelligence from 1954 to 1975. (Knight of Malta) Peter Bridgeman was a lieutenant Colonel in the British Army, and the grandson of the fourth Earl of Bradford. (Knight of Malta)
The Knights of Malta also include many high level bank officials such as John S Gleason Jr. who was involved in WW2 and who became an officer in the U.S. reserves. He then worked at the first national bank of Chicago, as vice president of business development. This was the same bank his father had worked at. In the 70s he spent three years in prison for a bank fraud sentence, and then became a Deacon in the Catholic Church. (Knight of Malta) William E. Simon was a United States secretary of the treasury, who later founded the William E. Simon and sons, a global Merchant bank with offices in the U.S. and Hong Kong. (Knight of Malta) Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild was a Knight of Malta. He was a senior executive at dutch Royal Shell and NM Rothschild and sons. During WW2 he worked for MI5. He was also a member of the Cambridge Apostles, founded by George Tomlinson, who later became the first Bishop of Gibraltar. Victor was also a Knight of the British Empire. Arch Bishop Silvano Tomasi is a former apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy Sea to the United Nations in Geneva. He attended Jesuit Fordham University in New York, where he also co founded the centre for migration studies. He is quoted as saying that 80 to 90 percent of Catholic sex abuse cases involve adolescent boys, and that only 1.5 to 5 percent of Catholic Clergy were involved in sex abuse of Minors. Geneva is a Hub for banksters, and Tomasi is, according to some sources a Knight of Malta. Tomasi headed a Papal investigation comission into the forced resignation of the last SMOM grand chancellor, Albrecht von Boeselager allegedly for overseeing the distribution of Condoms to the Developing World. This commission also included the Jesuit, Gianfranco Ghirlanda, who was the former Rector of the pontifical Gregorian University. Former chancellor of the Order of Malta Jacques de Liedekerke. Mark Odendahl, who was a councillor of the Order, president of the MIP Management Institute in Paris, and who formerly worked with JP Morgen Chase. There was also Marwan Sehnaoui, president of the Order of Malta in Lebanon.
If we look again at the Torlonia family, again known for administering the Vatican finances, back in the 19th century a Carlo Torlonia was known to be a Knight of Malta. Also, another Leopoldo Torlonia was the Mayor of Rome at the turn of the 20th century, and Alessandro Torlonia, born in 1925, who was the late advisor to the pontifical commission on Vatican City State, was also the chairman of the Fucino bank. Duke Leopoldo Torlonia, president of St. Peters Circle, is according to one source a Knight of Malta. The Torlonia family is said to originate from France. During the late 18th to 19th centuries, a Giovanni Torlonia was administrator to the Vatican finances and was given many titles including Roman Patrician. This Giovanni was named the first Prince of Civitella-Cesi. The Torlonia intermarried with the Borghese. Camillo Borghese AKA Pope Paul V established the bank of the Holy Spirit in 1605. In addition to other black nobility families the Torlonia has also intermarried with: the Javal banking family of France, who have been identified as Jews. They also more recently intermarried with the house of Luxembourg and the Spanish Royal Family. Edward L Hennessy Jr. is a Knight of Malta and is a director of Lockheed Martin, the New York Stock exchange, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was a financial advisor to the Vatican. Three more people reported to be Knights of Malta are Pat Buchanan, William F. Buckley Jr., and Rick Santorum.
Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus (as does the district of Columbia) takes its name from Christopher Columbus, who was connected to the Doria and Colonna families and most likely born in Genoa. There are members of the KOC with the last name Colonna, and Colonna and Columbus are connected with the word Column. The KOC uses the Roman fasces symbol on their emblem. The fasces symbol is essentially a bundle of sticks that almost always includes an axe. You see this same symbol all over the United States capital. You can also find Fasci in the architecture and symbols of France, in fact those bundles of sticks can be found all over Europe. This symbol is believed to go back at least as far as Etruscan civilization, which was one of the earliest cultures to be absorbed into the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome this symbol was used to show magisterial authority. The axe was added as it came to also signify military authority. The Ideology of Fascism which took form in the decades leading up to WW2 also takes its name from this symbol, and the Italian Fascists made the claim that modern Italy is the heir to the ancient Roman Empire, and that the Italian empire could be the third Rome. So basically the Knights of Columbus used a Roman symbol of authority in their emblem.
The KOC, officially founded in Connecticut in 1882, styles itself as the world's largest Catholic organization, with around 2M members. Pope John Paul II was known to refer to the Knights of Columbus as the strong right arm of the church. Most of these members are low levels and participate in various volunteer and charity work without much idea of what's going on up the ladder.
The KOC are active on political stages. In 1952 this order lobbied to have the phrase under god added to the United States pledge of allegiance, which is recited as a part of primary education in the states. As a side note this is a very basic example of using a ritual as a form of suggestion.
President John F. Kennedy was a Knight of Columbus, as was his brother Ted Kennedy. Raymond Flynn, former Mayor of Boston, and former U.S. ambassador to the Holy Sea is a Knight of Columbus. Robert Finn was the U.S. ambassador to the Afghanistan from march 2002 to august 2003, a period which was shortly after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Finn is, according to some sources, a Knight of Columbus. Sargent Shriver, who was married to a member of the Kennedy family was the first director of the U.S. Peace Corps. The Peace Corps have the stated mission of providing technical assistance, helping people outside the U.S. understand United States culture and vice versa. They were created by an executive order issued by president Kennedy, the tax payer funded Peace Corps has been used in conjunction with military interests, for public relations services and for serving to legitimize dictators. Sargent Shriver was a Knight of Columbus. Knight of Columbus Manuel Lujan Jr. was a U.S. secretary of he interior from 1989 to 1993. KOC John Volt was the United States secretary of transportation and later the United States ambassador to Italy. KOC Samuel Alito is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Paul Scully-Power, who was an employee of the United States Undersea Warfare Centre, and then worked for NASA with the title of pay load specialist, is a Knight of Columbus. He was educated at St. Ignatius Collage in Riverview, a Jesuit school. Thomas J. Kelly was an American aerospace engineer. He was a member of the Quill and Dagger Society at Cornell University, and was a Knight of Columbus. George J. Willmann, born in Brooklyn, was a Jesuit Priest who was known as the father of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines, where he was granted citizenship for his work. He was also himself a Knight of Columbus. The current arch Bishop of Manilla, Luis Antonio Tagle, is also a Knight of Columbus. He was educated at the Jesuit Jesuit Ateneo de Manila University. Hilario Davide Jr. is a former ambassador of the permanent mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations in New York City. He is also a chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Hilario is a Knight of Columbus. William Levada is an American cardinal to the Roman Curia. From 2005 to 2012 he was the prefect of the Congregation of the Doctorate of the Faith under Pope Benedict XVI. In 2009 he took part in a press conference where they announced that Pope benedict would announce an apostolic constitution that would allow Anglicans to join the Catholic Church while keeping their corporate identity. This constitution is called Anglicanorum Coetibus, and led to the establishment of what's called the Personal Ordinariate. William Levada is a Knight of Columbus. KOC John Patrick Foley was the grandmaster of the order of the Holy Sepulchre from 2007 to 2011. He also was president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications from 1984 to 2007. Micheal Copps Costello was the 19th mayor of Calgary and a Knight of Columbus. Dennis Savoy is the ambassador of Canada to the Holy Sea, and was deputy supreme Knight and Supreme treasurer of the KOC from 2006 to 2013. He is possibly related to the Italian House of Savoy which last reigned over Italy from 1861 until just after WW2. They were accused of conspiring with Mussolini and the Fascists, with the male members of the Royal family going into exile in 1946 when the Italian republic was proclaimed. Mussolini's government officially recognized the Vatican as a nation through the Lateran Treaty of 1929. Jeb Bush is a Knight of Columbus. Al Smith, Malcolm Wilson and Hugh Kerry are all former governors of New York, and all three are Knight of Columbus. Jack Raegan, the father of Ronald Raegan was a Knight of Columbus. The (former) Supreme Knight of the KOC Carl A. Anderson was special assistant to Ronald Reagan, and occupied many other government positions during that period. He later was a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a legislative assistant to a senator from North Carolina, and a councilor to an under secretary at the U.S. department of health and human services. Anderson is also a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. The order of St. Silvester and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. The Knights of Columbus are also connected with the U.S. Military. Emil Kapaun was a Roman Catholic priest who was a captain and U.S. army chaplain in Burma during WW2. He was also involved in the Korean War and was a Knight of Columbus. Burma is an important part of the Golden Triangle of Opium producers, and today is the world's second biggest exporter of the material. Jesuit Daniel R. Sweeney is a professor of political science and Chaplain to the Knight's of Columbus of Scranton, and a Chaplain of the United States air force reserves, with the rank of Lt. colonel. He is also the editor of the prayer books printed and distributed by the KOC to U.S. troops. James T. Mullen was a involved in the civil war, and became the sergeant of his company. He was the first supreme knight of the KOC. Daniel Daly was a United States Marine who was involved in the suppression of the Boxer rebellion, the Banana wars and WW1. Frank Castellano is a U.S. Navy captain and currently the commander of the Centre for service combat missions. He was the commander of the USS Bainbridge when it involved with the rescue of Captain Philips event, and reportedly gave the order for Navy Seals to shoot all but one pirate. Castellano is a Knight of Columbus. The arch diocese of the military for the U.S. which has facilities at more than 220 U.S. military installations around the world has received financial assistance on multiple occasions from the KOC. This includes a scholarship program to train new Catholic chaplains in the U.S. military. There are also many Media people and processional sports stars and management who are Knights of Columbus. The Knights of Columbus headquarters is the KOC Building in New Haven Connecticut, the same city where you'll find colonial Yale University and its Masonic skull and bones society. Another building the KOC are connected with is the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. They have given this school various financial aid. Columbus university, which was established by the KOC and is also in Washington DC, merged with the Catholic University of America in 1954. This produced the Columbus School of Law at the at the Catholic University of America. Graduates of this school include Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who is United States district judge of the United States district court of the district of Columbia, and has been the presiding judge of the U.S. foreign intelligence covalence court. Another graduate, Joseph F Leeson Jr is a United States district judge of the United States district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Graduate Edward J. Damich is the former chief justice of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Other Graduates of the Columbus School of Law include several U.S. senators and federal government officials, as well as people occupying various other high level law and business positions.
Freemasonry
Like the KOC Freemasons are also connected with columns. In their case it's the double Columns. The origins of Freemasonry go back at least as far as ancient Egypt, and they are connected with several other secretive orders that have existed throughout history. The druids for example had their stronghold on the island of Anglesay destroyed around the year 61AD by Roman troops, but their traditions and rituals are known to have continued in secrecy. eventually the freemasons adopted some of their practices and symbols, notably in Germany, where there are a reported 62 lodges in the international grand lodge of Druidism. There are also several in Switzerland, and there used to be lodges in several other Germanic countries until the trend started to fall out of favor. The Rite of Memphis-Misraim is a Masonic rite that ended up being allegedly banned, being termed counterfeit and fake by Albert Pike, a famous American 33rd degree Freemason. In 1784 Joseph Balsamo, who was close to the grand master of the Order of Malta Manuel Pinto da Fonseca, founded the rite of high Egyptian Masonry, which evolved into the right of Misraim. The Rite of Memphis was a variant of the Rite of Misraim, which was later grafted back on by the Italian General and political actor Giuseppe Garibaldi. Garibaldi was an honorary master of the grand orient of Italy, and was a commander in military campaigns that led to the unification of Italy. There are claims that this Rite still exists in various countries, and whether that's true or not, this group has been historically associated with revolutionary movements. This rite has consisted of mainly Templar and Egyptian traditions. The writ has also been linked with Montanism, an early Christian sect that is said to have come out of Frisia in modern day Turkey. According to a couple sources there was a Freemasonic lodge of Kairo that was connected to the Ishmaelite and the Assassins and is said to have led to the establishment of the Druses in the general area of Lebanon in around the same time. Back in those days the Druze ideology was said to have resembled the organization of grand orient Freemasonry. In 1997 footage that was allegedly filmed inside two separate Freemasonic lodges by hidden camera was shown on Turkish television. The footage captured what appeared to be Satanic rituals, including a grand master drinking the blood of a goat that was killed in the middle of the lodge. They also allegedly prayed to Satan in Hebrew. In another piece of footage, alleged Masons had swords pushed into their chests and were threatened with death, presumably as an oath keeping ritual. Freemasons have also inferred links between their order and the builders of the Temple of King Solomon in ancient Jerusalem. This temple, also referred to as the first temple, was built around 822BC and was based around Phoenician designs. During the Holy Land Crusades the Templars would take their name from the Dome of the Rock, which they believed existed at the same location as the first temple. According to some sources the very first Freemasonic lodge was actually right in front of Solomon's temple, although Freemasons have a bit of a reputation for spreading misinformation, but clearly they want to be associated with Solomon's temple. Another pretty straight forward origin to Freemasonry is actual stone mason guilds. Being a master mason has historically been a position of prestige and wealth. Master masons and artisans would build impressive structures to add to the prestige of nobility and religious organizations. In modern times organized crime is often associated with the construction industry, and on that topic, organized crime, as the term is generally used refers to low to mid level criminals that operate outside of the laws enforced by governments. They are generally disassociated from the higher levels because otherwise it would damage the legitimacy of these laws, but they do get certain privileges, even if they are thrown under the bus from time to time. The whole thing about Freemasonry is that they're portrayed as being separate from Catholics, and sometime as being openly at odds with Catholic orders. There has been a papal ban on Freemasonry and Freemasons have been accused of anticlericalism. In fact one of the stated reasons for the founding of the Knights of Columbus was to be the Catholic alternative to Freemasonry. It's important to note that around the time Freemasonry really started to make its presence known, many people in Europe and elsewhere were openly rejecting the domination of the Catholic Church and by extension Catholic orders. This is highlighted by the Protestant reformation, so naturally in many parts of the world, people would be more tolerant of and willing to join an order such as Freemasonry. This includes followers of other Christian ideologies like the church of England, but not the Eastern Orthodox Church. The first known Freemasonic grand lodge was built in the year 1717. It was the grand lodge of London, and in 1813 it was united with the Antient Grand Lodge of England to create the united grand lodge of England. Leading up to the founding of this lodge, the Earl of St Albans Henry Jermyn was elected grand master of the general assembly of Masons. Jermyn was the ambassador to Paris and the Hague and was the chamberlain to the queen. In 1666 the title of grand master went to Thomas Savage, the Earl of Rivers. 1666 was also the year of the great fire of London, and the freemasons also had a role in rebuilding the destroyed areas. Freemason Sir Christopher Wren was given the task of rebuilding several structures, including St. Paul's Cathedral and the Royal Naval College. Christopher Wren would later become grand master in 1683 and again in 1698. Wren was also a founder of the Royals Society and president of it from 1680 to 1682. The Royals Society was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II, and is considered the United Kingdom's and the Commonwealth of Nations' academy of sciences. The Royals society continues to exist to this day. The founding members of the English grand lodge just mentioned included James Anderson, a Scottish writer and presbyterian church minister. He was commissioned in 1721 by the grand lodge to write a history book on the Freemasons which was published a year later and titled the constitutions of the Freemasons. Another founding member was George Payne, who was the second grand master of a lodge, and was elected again after Desaguliers. He (George Payne) was involved with creating the constitutions of the Freemasons book. Another founder was James King, the fourth baron of Kingston, who was grand master from 1728 to 1730. Another was Charles Calvert, the 5th Baron of Baltimore. Calvert was also the proprietary governor of the Province of Maryland. He would also become the lord of the Admiralty for two years. He was a fellow of the Royals Society and the Prince of Wales was his fourth Cousin. Another founding member was John Theophilus Desaguliers, who was a French born philosopher clergyman and engineer, and a member of the Royals society. Having been envied by his president Isaac Newton, he would later be the third grand master of the Lodge. Desaguliers is also said to have been the head of Rosicrucianism, or the secret society of the Rose Cross. Rose Cross is said to combine elements of Kabbalah, Hermeticism and mystical Christianity, and is known to have been popular in the early 17th century. Like Freemasons, Rosicrucianists allude to possessing esoteric wisdom handed down since ancient times. There are a few degrees in Freemasonry named after this group. And in fact, according to some accounts, all of these founding members were also members of the English Rose Croix. One of the most prominent Writs of freemasonry, especially when it comes to freemasonry is the Scottish Writ. The earliest known lodge of the Scottish Writ was at the Temple Bar in London. In 1762 the grand Masonic constitutions were ratified in Berlin, and proclaimed for the government of all Masonic bodies working in the Scottish writ. Stephen Morin had been appointed inspector general for the new world the year previous. He has been elected by the Grand Consistory of Princes of the Royal Secret, meaning a meeting of 32d degree Freemasons. This meeting was presided over by Chaillou De Joinville in Paris. Joinville is said to be a representative of Fredrick the Great of Prussia, a known Freemason. In 1767 Stephen Morin sought to it that a lodge of perfection was organized in Albany, New York. John Stark, a major general in the continental army during the American revolutionary war, which started in 1775 was a member of this lodge in Albany. Joseph Anderson was a captain in the war, and later became the first controller of the United Sates treasury. Joseph was a member of the military lodge number 19 of Pennsylvania. He later became the first senior warden of the Princeton lodge number 38. Robert Andrews was the chaplain to the 2d Virginia Regiment and was a member of the Williamsburg Lodge number 6, where for a time he was grand master. Most famous among these revolutionary figures was the commander in chief of the continental army, George Washington. Washington had joined the Fredericksburg Lodge number 4 in Fredericksburg Virginia back in 1752. He would later become the first master of the Alexandria lodge number 22. It's pretty well known that the founding fathers of the United States had many Freemasons among their ranks. Another revolution in this period linked with Freemasonry is the French revolution, as well as the Napoleonic wars that followed. Most of the big names associated with this revolution were known freemasons. This includes the philosopher Voltaire, who is associated with the French enlightenment that led up to this revolution. Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, was a French noble who was involved in the American revolution and was on the royalist side of the French Revolution, from which he escaped with his life. Lafayette had previously met with Frederick William II of Prussia. According to historians, King Fredrick had offered assistance to the royal family of France in putting down the Revolution, but instead mostly invaded Poland. In 1795 he would sign a peace treaty with the new French Republic government. Lafayette was known to be a close friend of us founding father George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, and he was a Freemason. Another Freemason involved in the French Revolution was Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet known as Nicolas de Condorcet. Nicolas was a philosopher who was involved in the enlightenment, and is considered to be a leader in the French Revolution. Condorcet ended up being arrested by the new government and died suspiciously in prison. His wife worked as a translator for Adam Smith, the author of the Wealth of Nations, which is considered a fundamental work to modern economic theories and related babble. Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, the Count of Mirabeau, was an early leader in the revolution, and a Freemason. Freemason George Danton has been discribed by historians as a chief force behind the overthrow of the monarchy. Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans was the Duke of Orléans, and was related to the Bourbon family. He was the grand master of the Grand Orient De France, and actively supported the Revolution. His son, Louis Philip I would become the King of the French in 1830. Freemason Jacques Hébert was the founder and editor of the newspaper Le Père Duchesne, which depicted abuses of power by government officials and incited revolutionaries. The Lodge of Nine sisters is an important Lodge in Paris and is said to have organized French support for the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin was a member, and became master of the Lodge in 1779. Franklin was also the USA's ambassador to France from 1779 to 1785. John Paul Jones also joined this lodge. He was a naval commander in the American Revolutionary war. And later became a rear Admiral in the Russian Navy, included a few of the names already mentioned. This lodge had among its members many big figures in the French Revolution. Nine sisters member Jean Sylvain Bailly was an early leader in the Revolution, and had invited Benjamin into his home. Nine sisters member Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès was a Roman Catholic clergyman who was considered a political theorist during the French Revolution, and was considered a political theorist during the French Revolution, and was involved in the French Republic's government afterwards. Nine Sisters member Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was a physician and political actor who was famous for proposing a machine that would make executions quick and easy. As a result the Guilllotin was named after him. Thousands of people were Guillotined during the period just after the French Revolution called the Reign of Terror. Another member was the Russian baron Alexander Stroganov. He was a member of the commission on elaborating the new code of law under Catherine the Great of Russia, who reigned from 1762 to 1796. He later became a member of the private committee of Tsar Alexander I, who reigned from 1800 to 1811. The last King of France before the Revolution, Louis XVI is said to have supported the American Revolution, having been seemingly persuaded to do so by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Pierre oversaw foreign aid to the Americans from both the French and Spanish governments in the form of both arms and financial assistance. Pierre was a Freemason and he would go on to participate in the early stages of the French Revolution. Back on the topic of Prussians, the Prussian Baron Friedrich Von Steuben was appointed as inspector general of the continental army during the American Revolutionary War. He is said to have assisted the revolutionaries by teaching them effective military drills, tactics and skillsets. Steuben had an aide-de-camp named Benjemin Walker, who some historians believe was his gay lover. There was also rumors about him and his secretory Peter Stephen Du Ponceau and military officer William North. Steuben was formerly on the staff of Fredrick the Great, who himself was widely believed to have been gay. Steuben had met Benjamín Franklin in France before crossing the Atlantic in 1777. He was a Freemason and a member of the Trinity Lodge Number 10 in New York City. What's important to know is that leading up to these revolutions, the activities of the Catholic Society of Jesus, better known as the Jesuits, had become so unpopular that even Catholic monarchs had started expelling them from their countries, and demanded that the Vatican suppress them. The Pope obliged, and at least the overt activities of the Jesuits were suppressed in 1773. This is where the Illuminati comes in. The Order of the Illuminati was founded by a Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria. Adam had gone to a Jesuit school, and was a professor at the University of Engelstad. The Illuminati's grading structure was based on that of Freemasonry, which Adam proceeded to join, and worked to incorporate his Order into Freemasonry. In 1779, Adam started the Masonic Lodge, Theodor of the good council, with permission from the Grand Lodge of Prussia. The name was intended to flatter the Prince Elector and Duke of Bavaria, Charles Theodore. He then evited his Illuminati recruits to join this lodge, and recruited members from the ranks of Freemasonry. The Illuminati was also known to recruit professionals from different fields and members of the Nobility. Members of the Illuminati included Carl August, the grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Earnest II, the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel. In 1780, Freemason and noble, Adolph Nig joined the Illuminati. He rose to a high position in the order but left in 1784, and shared his suspicion that Adam Weishaupt was a Jesuit in disguise. Duke Charles Theodore would officially disband the Bavarian Illuminati in 1785 by banning secret societies within Bavaria by Government edict. At the time of this disbanding, the Illuminati was being accused of spreading anti religious publications, and by then there were already Illuminati Lodges in France, Belgium Holland, Denmark Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Italy. According to many historians, the Illuminati then just disappeared from history, but even in 1797, Scottish physicist John Robinson published a work that claimed that the Illuminati had succeeded in infiltrating the Freemasons. Also in 1797, Jesuit priest Augustin Barruel released a book claiming that the Bavarian Illuminati was involved in the planning and execution of the French Revolution. Of course he avoided pointing out any possible connection between the Illuminati and the Jesuit Order. In 1798, George Washington wrote a letter expressing his concern over the doctrines of the Illuminati and their infiltration of Masonic Lodges. The popular term for this is illuminized Masons.
Nathan Rothschild is famous for the story of him making a fortune after the final defeat of napoleon at the battle of waterloo, by being the first to know and speculating on the London stock exchange with his advanced knowledge. He had also been a financer of the duke of wellington's regiment that took part in Waterloo. Nathan was a Freemason, and he was granted noble tatus by the emperor of Austria. The end of the Napoleonic wars, with all of their destruction and death, set the stage for the converse of Vienna, which lasted from 1814 to 1815, and which had the stated objective of negotiating a long term peace plan for Europe, the same nonsense they would later spout after two world wars. As a result of this congress the French monarchy was restored, and in general the results have been seen as being to the benefit of the monarchs of Europe, and the restoration of the old order of Europe. Also in 1814, Pope Pius II officially restored the Jesuit Order, and they began returning to the places from which they had previously been expelled. During the American Civil War in the 1860, the French banking house Erlanger & Co. loaned millions of Dollars to the Confederate States' government, redeemable in Cotton. Emile Erlanger was a German banker said to be an agent of the Rothschild family. His first wife was the granddaughter of the governor of the bank of France, Jacques Laffitte, who had helped to bank role Napoleon's rise to power. Laffitte was alter involved in the restoration of the French Monarchy, and was the 8th prime minister of France. Emile's second wife was the daughter of John Slidell, who was the second ambassador to the court of the French King. John Slidell is said to have been a Freemason and graduated from Columbia University. Emile had inherited a noble rank from his father Raphael who had been given the rank of Baron by rulers in both Portugal and Austria. Many Civil War generals are known to have been Freemasons, like George Thomas Andersson, Robert Houstoun Anderson. Louis Armistead, Turner Ashby Jr., William Barksdale, William Brimage Bate, and several others on the Confederate side, as well as several on the Union side including Robert Anderson, David Bell Birney, Henry Chrysler, Marcellus Monroe Crocker and Lucius Fairchild. Freemason Albert Pike, who was himself a general on the confederate side, was made sovereign grand commander of the Scottish Writ's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859, and held the position for the next two years. Another big name in the 19th century was Giuseppe Mazzini, who spent time as the grand maser of the Grand Orient of Italy. Mazzini was a prominent figure in the revolutionary movement that led to all of Italy being unified as an independent state, and he had founded the young Italy secret society, which promoted the idea of a popular uprising. Mazzini's father, Giacomo Mazzini, was a university professor who was a proponent of the Jacobin ideology. The Jacobins were the most prominent group involved in the French Revolution, and Giuseppe Mazzini's mother was named Maria Drago, presumably of the Italian Drago nobility family. Maria is known to have collaborated with her son's activities. Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian General who was involved in conflicts in both Europe and South America. He met Giuseppe Mazzini in Geneva in 1833 after having joined his young Italy movement. Garibaldi also reportedly joined the Freemasons in 1844 while he was an exile in Uruguay, during which time he was involved in the Uruguayan Civil War, and throughout the rest of his life he commanded troops, mostly against those of the Austrian and French armies. During the first second and first Italian wars of independence. In 1862 Garibaldi was appointed as grand master of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Writ. This was a year after the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. With the Savoy King Victor Emanuel II of Sardinia proclaimed King of Italy. In 1871 Rome became the new capital of Italy. The Orsini Affaire, which if you remember was an attempt on the life of King Napoleon III of France in 1858, was carried out by members of a group called the Carbonari. According to historians the Carbonari was most likely an offshoot of Freemasonry, and both Mazzini and Garibaldi are known to have been members. Even Napoleon III was at one time a member. After this attempted assassination, Napoleon III met with Camillo Benso, the Count of Cavour, who was then the prime minister of Italy. This meeting is said to have led to the end of the conflict with France. In 1862 the Grand Orient of Italy was proclaimed, and the diplomat, Constantino Negra, was elected as its first grand master. While Giuseppe Garibaldi was named as its honorary past grand maser. Being also the past grand master of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Writ, Garibaldi held a masonic congress that led to the two grand masonic orders unifying in 1873. The Propaganda Masonica Lodge was founded in 1877 in Turin, Italy. It was reportedly a lodge for visiting members of the Grand Orient of Italy, who were unable to attend their own lodges. At the end of World War II, this lodge's name was changed to Propaganda 2, or P2, also known as Propaganda Due. Licio Gelli was during WW2 a liaison officer between the Italian government and Nazi Germany. He was revealed in 1981 to have been the venerable master of this Lodge, during the investigation into the Banco Ambrosiano Scandal. When this scandal occurred, the chairman of Ambrosiano Scandal, Roberto Calvi was revealed to be a member of Propaganda Due. Masonic Lodged were then illegal in Italy, but the real kicker was that the Vatican Bank was the main shareholder of Banco Ambrosiano. Roberto Calvi had been nick named God's Banker because of his close association with the Holy Sea. Banco Ambrosiano had been founded in 1896 by Giuseppe Tovini, a Franciscan banker and lawyer, who Pope John Paul II has stated lived a life of heroic virtue, and it's been speculated that the somewhat suspicious death of this Pope's predecessor, Pope John Paul I, which occurred exactly 33 days into his Papacy, was related to the Vatican Bank and Freemasonry. Georges de Nantes, a Catholic Priest who spent a good part of his life looking into this curious death, alleged that there were Freemason Priests at the Vatican, and that they likely staged a conspiracy against this Pope. In 1982, a year after the Banco Ambrosiano scandal broke, Roberto Calvi's body was found hanging underneath the Blackfriars Bridge in London. The day previous Calvi had been stripped of his post at Banco Ambrosiano. When he was found, they found on him 1500 dollars worth of cash in different currencies, and his clothing was loaded with bricks. Other reported members of Propaganda Due include Adolfo Sarti, an Italian Political actor who occupied various positions and was associated with the Christian democrat party, Antonio Martino, one of the founders of the Forza Italia party and the Italian minister of defense from 2001 to 2006, Silvio Berlusconi, who is a former Italian Prime Minister and who has had many alleged and proven connections with Italian organized crime figures, Fabrizio Cicchitto, a political actor who was associated with the Forza Italia party, Pietro Musumeci, a former general and deputy director of Italy's military intelligence agency SISMI--he was convicted in 1985 for embezzlement and criminal association, as well as possessing and transporting explosives, Vito Miceli, who was chairman of Italy's army intelligence and military intelligence services, Enrico Manca, a political actor who has worked in the cabinet of two Italian Prime Ministers, José López Rega, who was the minister of social welfare in Argentina, and was later the Argentine ambassador in Spain, Raúl Lastiri, who was interim president of Argentina, Carmine Pecorelli, an Italian journalist who was shot dead in Rome, Angelo Rizzoli, and Italian publisher and film producer, Michele Sindona, a Jesuit educated Italian banker and convicted felon--Sindona had allegedly laundered proceeds from the Heroin trade, and was killed in prison by cyinide poisoning, Vittorio Emanuele, the Prince of Naples and disputed head of the formerly reigning house of Savoy--Vittorio shot a man who was sleeping on the deck of his yacht, who later died of his wounds--he later reportedly bragged about having fooled the French judges, which was recorded while he was incarcerated on unrelated charged of corruption, and he still hasn't been convicted of the killing--he's also been charged for recruiting prostitutes for clients at the Casinò di Campione--Vittorio is also a Knight of Malta. Also, a man named Luigi Bisignani has been arrested as part of an investigation into a so called P4. His name is said to have appeared in records of the P2 lodge, and he's been referred to as one of the most powerful men in Italy, and is a fixer. A man named Flavio Carboni is said to have connections with former P2 head, Lucio Gelli, the Mafia boss Pippo Calò, and former grand master of the grand orient of Italy, Armando Corona, as well as Silvio Berlusconi. Francesco Pazienza is a former Italian secret agent, and has been sentenced to three years in connection to the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He has also been sentenced for 10 years for a conviction in connection to the 1980 Bologna Massacre, and is reportedly a freemason. The founder and first chancellor of the German Empire from 1871 to 1890 was Otto Von Bismarck. While he was Prussian Prime minister from 1862 to 1873, the lands of Germany and western Poland were united into this Empire, with the King of Prussia being proclaimed the emperor of the German. In 1872 the Jesuits were officially expelled from Germany, followed by more anti Catholic laws. Von Bismarck was Prime Minister and then chancellor under Kaiser Wilhelm I, a Freemason. After Wilhelm I's death, Von Bismarck continued under Frederick III, who reportedly died of throat cancer after 99 days as Kaiser. Frederick III was also a Freemason and was master of the order of the Grand Landlodge. Bismarck was forced to resign by Wilhelm II in 1890, two years after this new Kaiser had taken the throne. Wilhelm II remained the Kaiser until the end of WW1, when he abdicated and went into exile in the Netherlands. He was said to be sexually interested in men, and to have appointed many generals during the war simply because he found them attractive. Later in his life Wilhelm wrote that it was the British Freemasons and Jews that caused the two world wars, and that by sweeping their influence out of mainland Europe, Germany was creating a United States of Europe. Meanwhile German chancellor Adolf Hitler was an open admirer of Freemason Frederick the Great, and Otto Von Bismarck, who himself is alleged to be a 33d degree Freemason. Hitler associated his own image with both of them. He also claimed to have copied the idea of having a hierarchal order of a secular priesthood from the Freemasons. Nazi symbolism is connected to many groups throughout history, just like that of Freemasonry.
Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, who is first cousin to queen Elizabeth II is the current grand master o the grand Lodge of England and has been for the last 50 years. He was a personal Aide-De-Camp to the Queen and a knight of the Garter. His father the previous Duke of Kent is also the Grand master of the Grand Lodge of England. The Grand Lodge of England is also referred to as the Grand Mother Lodge of Freemasonry. In 2008 a Freemasonry Lodge was reportedly being formed by staff and security members of Buckingham palace, and other residences of the UK Royals. It was originally to be called the Royal Household Lodge, but the name was changed to the Mulberry lodge. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edenborough and husband to the Queen has been a Freemason for over 60 years, and at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, the Grand Master of the united Grand Lodge of England, who at the time was Roger Lumley, the Earl of Scarborough, pledged his loyalty on behalf of the Entire grand lodge to the new monarch, and spoke about the connections the lodge has historically shared with the Royal Family. Roger Lumley was the UK's Undersecretary of State for India and Burma, and a knight of the Garter. In fact all Grand Masters of the United Grand Lodge of England have been Knight's of the Garter. The Monarch of the UK is the sovereign of the Order of the Garter, and is the only person who can appoint new members. Several UK monarchs are known to have been Freemasons, including the Queen's father King George VI, who was the grand master of the grand lodge of Scotland prior to becoming King. King Edward VIII, King Edward VII, who had been appointed as past Grand Master of England, and had high ranks in various lodges around England. King William IV, and King George IV, who was Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England. Other prominent Freemasons in UK History include Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister during WWII, Cecil Rhodes, who was the prime minister of Cape colony in modern day South Africa. The country of Rhodesia which is now called Zimbabwe is named after him. Rhodes had also set up an inner circle called the Society of the Elect within the Round Table Movement. The Round Table Movement had been officially founded in 1919, primarily by Alfred Milner, a colonial administrator. It's official goal was to build relations between Britain and its self governing colonies. According to historians, Rhodes had previously stated in a will which he had written in 1877 that he wished to form a Secret Society to further the interests of the British Empire including the annexation of the United States. Martial of the UK Royal Airforce Cyril Newall was a Freemason and a Knight of the Bath. He was a Senior Officer in both World Wars. Sidney Smith was a Royal Navy Admiral and a Knight of the Bath. He was involved in both the French and American revolutionary wars. Lord Charles Beresford was an admiral a Freemason and a Knight of the Bath. He was involved in the bombardment of Alexandria during the Egyptian war of 1882, and the Nile Expedition of 1884 to 85. John Jellicoe was an Admiral a Freemason and a Knight of the Bath. Jellicoe was involved in the Anglo Egyptian War, the Boxer Rebellion and the First World War. He also became the first Sea Lord, which is considered the top position in the British Navy. Frederick Roberts was a Field Martial, which is the highest rank in the British Army. He was involved in the Indian rebellion, the expedition to Abyssinia in Ethiopia, the second Anglo-Afghan war and the second Boar War. Roberts was a Knight of the Garter, a Knight of the Bath and a Freemason. Sir John French was a Field Martial who commanded during the Savana Campaign, the second Boar War, the First World War, and Irish War of Independents. (Knight of Bath and Freemason) Claude Auchinleck was a Field Martial who commanded mostly Indian Troops during the First and second World Wars, and during a campaign to put down the Memon tribes in modern day Pakistan. (Knight of the Bath and Freemason) Field Martial Harold Alexander was involved in both World Wars, the Memon campaign, and the Latvian War of Independents. Alexander was a Knight of the Bath, a Knight of the Garter and a Freemason. The Order of the Bath also has the British Monarch as its sovereign. It's been nick named the Order of the Bloodbath. The Prince of Wales, as the eldest son of the Monarch is the Grand Master of the Bath, and Royal Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter. Prince Filippo Rospigliosi is the Earl of Newburgh within the Scottish the Peerage. His family. the Rospigliosi, are an old black nobility family that are said to have originated in Milan. In 1667 Giulio Rospigliosi became Pope Clement IX. His nephew Giovani Batista married maria Camila Pallavicini. This same Giovani Batista, who's name was also recorded as Jean-Baptiste, had become a prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1658, a title which has been passed on to today with Filippo. The Pallavicini are a major Italian nobility family, who have also had a notable presence in Austria and Greece, who's power appears to go back at least as far as Alberto I, who was the Count of Milan in the 10th Century. He is one of the earliest recorded male line ancestors of Elizabeth II. One of Roberto's descendants married a Pallavicini woman. Alberto Palavicino was a field captain under Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, who gave him rulership of the city of Milan and a couple other towns, mostly in the Lombardi Region of Italy. In the 16th Century Horatio Palavicino financed the British Royals during the Anglo Spanish War. In the 19th century, an Alexander Pallavicini was a member of the Hungarian government, imperial and royal commander, and member of the privy council. A privy council is a group that directly advises the head of state, which for most of Alexander's life was Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, who reigned over the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as well as Lombardi and Venicia, before Italy was unified. Francis Joseph was succeeded by Charles of Austria, who reigned from 1916 to 1918 when the monarchy was abolished. Alexander was a Knight of the Golden Fleece and a Knight of Malta. Johan Von Pallavicini was the Austro-Hungarian minister to Romania, and later the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Turkey in the early 20th century. He is said to have had a large influence over the Ottoman Empire, and based on his writings he was aware of the Armenian Genocide. Freemasons are known to have been active in the Ottoman Empire in the years surrounding this genocide. György Pallavicini was involved in the government of Hungary, and was secretary of state during the two and a half month Esterhazy government of 1917. He was a member of the Counter revolutionary Anti-Bolshevik Committee in Vienna during the Soviet Republic period in 1919, and after the war attempted to make Otto Von Habsburg the King of Hungary. George was a Knight of Golden Fleece. Giancarlo Pallavicini was the lieutenant of the order of Malta. During an interim between Grand Masters in 1988 Elvina Pallavicini is referred to as the Black Queen who led the Black Nobility families in the second half of the 20th century. In 2003 she organized a meeting with US Vice president Dick Cheney and U.S. secretory of defense Donald Rumsfeld that was in relation to U.S. invasion of Iraq. Yahyâ Sergio Yahe Pallavicini is the vice president of the Islamic relations community in Italy and the chairman of Islamic educational scientific and cultural organizations council on education of culture in the west, and the advisor on Islamic affairs to the Italian home secretary. He's also the Imam at the Al-Wahid Mosque in Milan, where he organizes the training of Imams in Italy. Prince Sigieri Diaz della Vittoria Pallavicini is the CEO of Greenwich energy systems and the founder and chairman of Global Wealth Management. He's also the vice chairman of Rottapharm Pharmaceuticals. Prince Moroello Diaz della Vittoria Pallavicini is a board member o global wealth management. Global wealth management is an international finance firm based out of Milan, Rome, London, Geneva and Luxemburg. Marquis Alfonso Pallavicini was previously a top executive at BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Bank. In Vienna there is a Pallavicini palace with a double headed eagle statue. The double headed eagle is associated with claimed successor empires to the Roman Empire, such as the Holy Roman Empire; there is also a chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece which has historically been associated with the Habsburg family; there's also the checkerboard pattern and the number 33 in Roman numerals on the right side of the panel, which are both associated with Freemasonry. The Pallavicini have intermarried with the Rospigliosi. All together this stonework bears a lot of similarities with the emblem of the Scottish writ Freemasonry. All the numerals added together equal 1783. This is possibly related to the Newburgh Conspiracy of 1783, which was a plotted cue by the continental army near the end of the American Revolutionary War. At the time there was discontentment among the soldiers, because of a lack of funding for their pay and promise pensions. Freemason major John Armstrong would later be acknowledged as having circulated an anonymous letter calling for a meeting to discuss their grievances with congress and to form a plan of action. According to historians, it was George Washington who stepped in during the meeting and defused the situation before it became a mutiny. General Walter Stewart is believed to have been the prime mover behind this attempt, and may have written the letter himself. A year prior to this, financer of the war and superintendent of finance Robert Morris had stopped the army pay, siting it as a cost cutting measure that would be made up for later. Morris was also one of the people involved in creating the first central bank of the U.S. Also in 1782, Colonel Lewis Nicola had written what became known as the Newberg letter and sent it to George Washington. The letter proposed that Washington become King of the United States. In the letter Colonel Nicola had sited the lack of pay as his first grievance, and wrote that a constitutional monarchy would be the solution to this and other issues. Had this alleged conspiracy succeeded, the United States government would have likely either fallen apart, or have become a monarchy reigned over by king Washington, a Freemason who was surrounded by Freemasons. Newberg New York was at the time the headquarters of the continental army. The land had been surveyed and named by Cadwallader Colden, after Newburgh in his native Scotland. At the time of this alleged conspiracy, the position Earl of Newburgh in Scotland was held by Vincenzo Giustiniani, the first Italian to be given that title. The Giustiniani family at that time was really more of a conglomerate that had been formed by a group of twelve Genovese patricians. This clan intermarried with the Pallavicini family, who had among them, patricians of Genoa. The Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi had been the French embassy in Rome, before it became the property of the Rospigliosi-Pallavacini family in the early 18th century. It is located two blocks from he current main building of the Jesuit pontifical Gregorian university. Another Palazzo Pallavacini-Rospigliosi, which is in Pistoia, had become the property of Girolamo Rospigliosi in the mid16th Century. These two intermarried families also have palaces in Florence Genoa and other regions where they've resided. The second mayor of Rome was Francesco Pallavacini-Rospigliosi. Francesco was also on the board of directors of the newly created agricultural bank. His father, Prince Giulio Cesare Rospigliosi was the president of the Pontifical Insurance Company, and later the president of the Cassa di Risparmio bank. and after that was appointed as president of the chamber of commerce of Rome. He was close with Pope Gregory XVI, and was one of the first knights of St. Gregory the Great. Prince Giulio Cesare was also the head of the family as the 6th Prince Rospigliosi. The 10th Prince Rospigliosi was named Giulio Cesare Taddeo Cosimo Rospigliosi, and he became the 11th Earl of Newberg during his lifetime when his first cousin, once removed, princess Maria Sophia Giuseppina Giustiniani-Bandini, the countess of Newburgh died in 1977. Her father was the 9th Earl so she took the 10th spot while not being technically the 10th countess. When Giulio Cesare died in 1986, all his titles as head of the family went to Filippo. Both prince Filippo's Vancian and Genoese patrician titles appear to be handed down from the Pallavicini family, and as mentioned he inherited the title of Prince of the HRE. Filippo is said to live in Milan at the Palazzo St. Ambrosio. As you might expect, good information on the activities of Filippo is very scarce online, but based on his titles, his Pallavicini blood, and the fact that he's at the head of the black nobility Rospigliosi family, he's probably pretty high level. Also, remember what I said about the Ancient and Accepted Writ of Scottish Freemasonry, and the Grand Orient of Italy having been unified by Garibaldi at the end of Italian unification; remember also that one of Filippo's relatives was the mayor of Rome during this period. Today the Grand orient of Italy headquarters is the Villa il Vascello in Rome, and the current grand master of the Grand orient of Italy is Stefano Bisi. Bisi is a media personality, and wrote a book about the relationship between the catholic Church and Freemasonry. In 2015 Bisi met with Pope Francis and later said good things about him, and Gustavo Raffi, who was the Grand Master before Bisi suggested in 2013 that the fact that Pope Francis is a Jesuit is a good sign.
Prominent Freemasons in US History: U.S. Presidents George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Abraham Garfield, William Mckinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, William G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Gerald Ford were confirmed Freemasons. As far as Barack Obama, in an article published about him, a stand in's hands were used to represent his own, and were wearing what appears to be a Freemasonic ring; and as for Trump, several statues called the emperor has no balls were exhibited in major U.S. cities in 2016. One of the features of these statues was that the depiction of Trump was wearing a Freemason ring. The first director of the FBI, J. Edger Hoover, was a Freemason. John Jacob Astor, who moved to the U.S. from the Holy Roman Empire, and is said to have been the first multi millionaire in the United States, was a Freemason. Freemason John Pemberton was a Civil war Veteran, a Pharmacist, and a founder of Coca Cola. Freemason Caleb Bradham was a pharmacist who was the inventor of Pepsi and the first president of the Pepsi Cola company. Freemason Samuel Colt founded the Colts patent manufacturing company best known for its revolvers. This company provided weapons to both sides in the American Civil War. Freemason Richard Gatling invented the Gun at the beginning of the Civil War. The Gatling Gun is a hand cranked spring loaded gun with cyclic multi barreled design that syncretizes firing and reloading, and is considered a forerunner to the machine gun. This gun was fist used by the Union side in the American Civil War. Charles H. Mayo, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic was a Freemason. The Mayo Clinic is often ranked as the #1 hospital in the United States. Charles's co founder brother William J. Mayo, and Charles's surgeon sun Charles William Mayo were also Freemasons. Henry Ford the founder of the Ford motor company was a Freemason. Walter Chrysler the founder of Chrysler Corp. was a Freemason. James Cash Penny, the founder of J.C. Penny was a Freemason. Co founder of Apple computer incorporated, Steve Wozniak was a Freemason. Ray Kroc set up a franchise agreement with the Macdonald Brothers, and later styled himself as the founder of MacDonalds. He is alleged to have been a Freemason. Steve Thomas the founder of the Wendy's hamburger chain was a Freemason. Harland "The Colonel" Sanders the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken was a Freemason. Conrad Hilton, the founder of the Hilton hotel chain, was a Freemason. Freemason Darryl Zanuck was a co founder of 20th century Fox. Having reportedly bought out the bankrupt Fox Studios with his brothers in 1935. John T. Hilton was a founding member of the Massachusetts General Colored Association, and was involved in the anti slavey movement of the 19th century. He established the Prince hall national Grand Lodge of North America, and was its first national grand master. Prince Hall member in North America, the Caribbean and Liberia are primarily black, and these lodges generally portray themselves as representing black interests. Medgar Evers was involved in World War II, and later became a field secretary for the national association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP). In 1963 he was shot with a rifle and died later in hospital. The apparent shooter was a former marine who later became a Knight of the KKK, before being charged with the killing 31 years later. Medgar Evers was a Prince Hall Freemason. Jesse Jackson is a former United States shadow senator from the district of Colombia, and a former official in the so called civil rights movement, who worked under Martin Luther King Jr. King Jr. was the first leader of the Southern Christian leadership conference (SCLC) which appointed Jackson to the head of their Chicago branch's economic arm. Jackson continued to work for the SCLC after King's death and later became a political actor. Jesse Jackson was made Grand Master on Sight by the Grand Master of Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Illinois in 1987. King Jr. was also declared Mason on Sight years after his death by the Grand Master of Prince Hall Freemasonry in Georgia. Many prominent figures with NASA have been Freemasons. Freemason Colonel Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was involved in the Apollo Program. Freemason Colonel Donn F. Eisele was involved in Apollo 7. Freemason captain Edger Mitchel was involved with Apollo 14. Freemason Colonel James Erwin was involved with Apollo 15 was. Freemason Colonel Leroy Cooper Jr. was involved with project Mercury. Freemason Colonel John Glenn Jr. was involved in project mercury and the Space shuttle discovery. Freemason Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Grissom was involved in several missions, and died in the beginning of the Apollo Program. Freemason Captain Walter Schirra Jr. was involved with several missions going back to Project Mercury. Freemason Lt. Thomas Stafford was involved in several missions going back to Project Gemini. Freemason Captain Paul Weitz was involved with two missions. Canadian Prime ministers John A. Macdonald, John Abbot, Mackenzie Bowell, Robert Borden, Richard Bedford Bennet and John Diefenbaker were Freemasons. Freemason Derwyn Owen was the Anglican Arch Bishop of Toronto and Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Freemason Tim Horton was Canadian Ice Hockey star who founded the Donut and Coffee chain bearing his name. John Molson, the founder of Molson Breweries was a Freemason. Freemason Samuel McLaughlin started McLaughlin motor car company, which evolved into general Motors of Canada. His son Freemason John J. Mclaughlin founded the Canada Dry soft drink company. Freemason Joel Roberts Poinsett was the 15th United States secretary of War, and the first United States minister to Mexico, He is said to have introduced Freemasonry to Mexico, and the Poinsettia is named after him. Australia prime ministers Edmund Bartend, George Reid, Joseph Cook, Stanley Bruce, Arthur Fadden, John McEwan, John Gordon and William McMahon were Freemasons. Mexican presidents Anastasio Bustamante, Benito Juárez, Porfirio Díaz, Plutarco Calles, Pascual Ortiz Rubio and Miguel Valdez were Freemasons. The 30th president of Chile Salvador Allende was a Freemason. Freemason Simon Bolivar was involved in the independents movements of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama. He was president of the second and third republics of Venezuela, the first president of grand Colombia, the first president of Bolivia and the sixth president of Peru. Pedro I was the first emperor of Brazil and was Grand master of the Grand Orient of Brazil. Hussein was the King of Jordan from 1982 to 1999 and allegedly had the title of past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Jordan. Ishmael Pasha was the Ottoman Khedive of Sudan in the late 19th century and was a Freemason. He was also a Knight of the Bath and of the Black Eagle. Carol II was King of Romania from 1930 to 1940 and he was a Freemason and a Knight of the Garter. Alexander I of Romania was also a Freemason. Amir Habibullah Khan of Afghanistan was a Freemason. Freemason Kalākaua was the last King of Hawaii. George Robinson, the first Marquis of Verboom, AKA Earl de Grey, was the viceroy and governor general of India. He was the grand master of the United Grand Lodge of England, and a Knight of the Garter. Earl Grey tea is named after him. Mustafa Atatürk was the founder and first president of Turkey. He was a Freemason and alleged homosexual, and played a part in the young Turk revolution. Omar Bongo was the president of Gabon and the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Gabon. Gabon is a small coastal country west of the Congo. His son Ali Bongo is the current president of Gabon, and took over his father's Grand Master title after his death in 2009. Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, was a Freemason. All four brothers of Napoleon were Freemasons, and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who was the top UK commander at the battle of Waterloo, was a Freemason and a Knight of the Bath, Garter and Golden Fleece. Freemason Henry Dunant was the Swiss founder of the Red Cross and the first recipient of the Nobel Prize. The Geneva Convention of 1864 is said to be based on his ideas. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rumored to be a Freemason. He is alleged to have stated publicly that he was initiated at a Lodge in the United States when he was Israeli ambassador to the UN in the 80s. Freemason Dennis Rodman is a former professional basketball player. He's more recently known for his relationship with the current supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un went to a private school in Bern, Switzerland, during which time he was said to be a fan of Freemason Michael Jordan. The Loyal Orange Institution, better known as the Orange Order, is a Masonic Protestant organization named after of William of Orange of the Netherlands' Orange-Nassau family, who in 1689 became the King of the UK. This order is known to have merged through Catholic and separatist neighborhoods in Northern Ireland, which has often led to violence, including skirmishes with the IRA.
The Jesuits
The Roman Catholic Jesuit Order was officially formed in 1540, with the creation of the Papal Bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae, which is Latin for "to the government of the church militant" As mentioned before, this Papal Bull was issued by a Pope from the Farnese family. The first superior general of the society of Jesus, or Black Pope, was a Spanish Basque Priest named Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola was a former soldier who had a reputation for getting in to sword duels. After being hit in the legs with a Canon ball and having his wounds reset, Loyola was left with a permanent limp that forced him out of the military and eventually led him into into becoming the founder of the society of Jesus, AKA the Jesuits, or at least that's how the official story goes. Another co founder of the Jesuits was Francis Xavier, who became known as the apostle of the far east and was the first Catholic missionary to Japan. Xavier tried but failed to enter main land China, dying in Shangchuan Island just off the coast. He had also spent time in Portuguese Mozambique, and the Goa region of modern day India, which was then under Portuguese control. In Goa he became the head of St. Paul's College which would become the first Jesuit headquarters in Asia. In Japan, a man named Anjirō was the first recorded Japanese Catholic. After having committed a murder he fled to Portuguese Malacca and later returned to Japan with Francis Xavier and three other Jesuits as an interpreter. He and Xavier met with the Daimyo Shimazu Takahisa, who granted Xavier the privilege to spread the Catholic Ideology in his territory. Although the Daimyo would retract this privilege after an alleged misunderstanding between this group and local Buddhist monks. Xavier ended up going back to Goa before making his final attempt to enter China, and Anjirō became a pirate. But still, the Jesuits had established a foothold in Japan that they had no intention of giving up. As an example of their continued activities in Japan Gamō Ujisato, who was a Daimyo in the second half of the 16th century is known to have received a Catholic Baptism, which was said to be due to the influence of another Catholic Daimyo, named Takayama Ukon, who's remains were buried at a Jesuit Church in Manila, and who was beautified as a Catholic saint in early 2017. Even in the modern era the Japanese Princess Tomohito of Mikasa identifies as a Catholic, as does former prime minister Shinzo Abe's widow, Akie Abe. Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, who reportedly started identifying as Catholic in 1951, is said to have been the main perpetrator of the Nanking Massacre. Another co founder of the Jesuits was Peter Faber was a major figure in the establishment of the Jesuits in Portugal, and did a lot of preaching in Portugal and Spain. Pope Francis canonized Faber as a saint in 2013. From their inception, the Jesuits were active in setting up missions in far flung places, and increasing the influence of the Catholic organization. They would often travel to European colonies, especially those of Portugal and Spain, and carry out their mission on the native populations. This often involved them tending to get close with local authority figures in order to gain local prestige and privileges for their missions, and for the Catholic ideolog in general. Also, in 1565 Francesco Borgia was elected as the first black Pope. Borgia, as we know, came from Spanish nobility and was the son of Pope Alexander VI. Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrived in the Portuguese colony of Macau in 1582, and would become the superior general of the China mission. Ricci travelled through mainland China and became an advisor to the imperial court of the Wanli Emperor. Ricci's residents in Beijing became the foundation for the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception. Ricci was also in contact with the Kaifeng Jews, and by some accounts the chief Rabbi of these Jews offered Ricci leadership, but he turned it down. Li Yingshi was a Chinese military officer who had fought the Japanese in Korea, who was said to be converted to Catholicism by Ricci, and another Jesuit named Diego de Pantoja, who had accompanied Ricci to Beijing. Ricci had provided the Jesuits with a lot of information that they could use to further their goals. The scholar Xu Guangqi became a Catholic and cooperated with Mateo Ricci, and another Jesuit named Sabatino de Ursis, who just based on his last name, might have been related to the Orsini clan. Xu Guangqi held the position of minister of Rites and deputy senior grand secretary in the main government. He is considered one of the three pillars of Catholicism in China along with Yang Tingyun and Li Zhizao. Ricci also met with the Korean emissary to the Ming Yi Su-gwang, and gave him several books on Catholicism. Another significant Jesuit agent in China during this period was Martino Martini. He arrived in China during the collapse of the Ming and worked in the government of the Southern Ming. When Manchu troops finally took the South. He finally switched to working with the Qing. The Jesuits translated and transcribed Chinese works and knowledge, and brought it back to Europe, in particular the Vatican. Jesuit Philippe Couplet returned from China in the 1690s, and gave the Pope a large collection of Christian books translated into Chinese, presumably for use and training of future missionaries. he also led a group of future Jesuits who translated the works of Confucius. Couplet had also brought with him the Qing government scholar Shen Fuzong, who war one of the earliest Chinese men to visit Europe in recorded history. Fuzong met with King Louis XVI of France and King James II who is said to have been the last King of England Scotland and Ireland to openly identify as a Catholic. Fuzong officially became a Jesuit three years before his death while travelling back to China. Jesuit Eusebio Kino led and expedition to Baha California in New Spain. There was controversy over the amount of wealth Kino had and put towards his missions. The two missions he set up in Baha California ultimately failed because of hostile natives and droughts, but none the less the Jesuits continued setting up missions among the local Cochimí people and their neighboring populations while studying their culture. Jesuit missionary Juan María de Salvatierra established the mission Loretto amongst the Monqui people of Southern Baha California, which became the first successful European settlement on the peninsula. The Monqui became the first successful European settling on the Peninsula. The Monqui attacked Loretto over and over but members of the mission kept from being overrun by using gunpowder weaponry, and dug in by building a fortress. By the time the Loretto mission ended in 1829, the native population in Baha California as a distinct people were said to be nearly extinct and more compliant natives rom other regions had been moved in to replace them. Jesuit Pablo Maroni was sent on a mission to the source of the Amazon in 1723 and reportedly was very successful at preaching Catholicism to the local tribes. He set up a number of reductions, which were basically settlements of gathered native populations. These concentrated populations of natives of different tribes were easier to control and preach to. Another affect of these concentrated populations was the rapid spread of disease, especially old world diseases coming from the Jesuits and other European colonists. These reductions which have been referred to as Christianized communist republics, mist likely existed in modern day Argentina, Bolivia Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. The natives worked on plantations, and according to historians, were at times organized into a military force that opposed Portuguese colonial slave traders. These reductions lasted until the Jesuits were expelled from much of central and South America in 1767 by decree of the Spanish King in an early move that was said to be leading up to the Papal suppression of the Jesuits. The Jesuits were also active in North America, starting in the early 16hundreds. They arrived with the French colonists in new France. Jérôme Lalemant was the original leader of the Jesuit Mission in New France, and his brother Charles Lalemant became the superior of the Jesuit mission amongst the Huron people. Jerome also had a Jesuit nephew named Gabriel Lalemant, who was with the Huron mission and was tortured and killed after being captured in a Mohawk raid. The Mohawks were the eastern most people of the Iroquois league, and were known as the keepers of the Eastern door. They were closer with the Dutch Christian missionaries but would later start succumbing to the Roman Church as well. Jesuit Sébastien Rale lived amongst the Abenaki people on the border of Acadia and New England. Many native raids on the new England colonists during the early 19th century had been attributed to him and referred to as Father Rale's War. Rale was ultimately killed and scalped by an English militia in 1724. In 1701 the great peace of Montreal was signed. It was a peace treaty signed by representatives of the Hurons, Algonquins, Iroquois and Innu's, with the governor of New France also signing. By this point in history the Iroquois were in serious demographic decline due to near constant conflicts and disease, as well as the fur trade drying up. The Jesuits would learn and adapt to different native peoples ways of life and live among them, all to gain their confidence. They also attempted to draw parallels between native traditions and artifacts and those of the Roman Church, similar to what they did in China with their understanding of Confucianism. The Archdiocese of Washington is known to often state that the Jesuits had their first mass in British North America on the shores near Washington DC, and in 1789 the Archbishop of Baltimore had ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the whole country. Near the end of the 18th century the suppression of the Jesuits causes the Jesuits to go largely underground in North America as well. This kind of Jesuit activity occurred in just about every place the Jesuits could reach, from the colonies of primarily Spain, Portugal and France, which in addition to the places mentioned also included parts of Africa and the Philippines (named after Philip II of Spain). The first documented Europeans to arrive in Tibet were a pair of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries, António de Andrade and Manuel Marques.
Jesuits were also heavily involved in the counter reformation in Europe. This was a reaction to the first Protestant reformation, where people switched ideologies to different Christian sects in protest of the Roman Church, hence the term Protestant. In early 17th century Bohemia for example, the Habsburgs and the Jesuits cooperated to remove Protestant influence, with local nobles who associated with the Protestant ideologies being executed, non Catholic Priests being expelled, and the education system being placed under Jesuit control. This is considered part of the 30 years war, which was largely between the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire's forces and those following and preaching protestant ideologies, or otherwise just plain sick of Catholics. This resulted in the death of an estimated 8 million people. In 1594 the Irish Jesuit, James Archer, was alleged to have been involved in a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was a chaplain to the Spanish forces under the Duke of Parma during the Anglo-Spanish war. During this conflict another Irish Jesuit, Domonic Collins, was assigned as archer's assistant due to his extensive military background. Collins ended up being captured by English troops and hanged. Elizabeth I was, as the monarch of England, the head of the Anglican Church. In other words she could be considered a figurehead for protestants. Her father Henry VIII had created this church in what was called the English reformation. A popular belief amongst the Protestants which continues to some extent today was that the Papacy was the antichrist which the bible had prophesized. Jesuits like Francisco Ribera and Luis del Alcázar wrote commentaries on these prophesies that reinterpreted them in a way that steered away from anything that made the Papacy look bad. During the suppression of the Jesuits, and aside from all the Illuminati stuff, there was some activity in Russia. From 1801 until the official end of the suppression, they had a black Pope in Russia. These Jesuits in Russia were in contact with ex Jesuits elsewhere, and when the order was officially restored, they were able to more of less pick up where they left off. The Jesuits were expelled from Russia in 1820. In 1802 the Jesuits reportedly procured a revocation of an edict banning Freemasonry in Russia. Neapolitan noble, Joseph Pignatelli, was the unofficial head of the Jesuits in exile in Sardinia. He is referred to as the restorer of the society of Jesus. He was permitted by the Duke of Parma to reestablish the Jesuits in his duchy. Pignatelli did this by bringing in Jesuits from Russia, and he was appointed the provincial superior of the Jesuits in Italy the Jesuit foothold in Italy moved around a bit but lasted until the restoration. Pignatelli also founded several colleges during his time in Italy. The white Pope Clement XIV, who had ordered the suppression of the Jesuits is highly suspected to have died from poisoning, and his successor, white Pope Pius VI, was taken captive by Napoleon's troops after they entered Rome, and he died weeks later. Pius VII, who restored the Jesuits, was also taken prisoner but was released at the end of the war. After the restoration of the Jesuits, the archdiocese of Montreal was established. The grand seminary of Montreal was founded in 1840, and the Jesuits are said to have returned in 1842. By this time Montreal part of an English province called lower Canada, which was United into the province of Canada in 1841. Montreal is important because of its reputation as a hub for organized crime. Even in 1806 the arch Bishop of Quebec had contacted both the Pope and the Black Pope in Russia, for Jesuits to be put to work in Halifax and on the upper Canada natives. Also in 1806 the ex Jesuits of Maryland were fully incorporated, and the Black Pope allowed a training Centre to be set up in Georgetown in Washington DC. Jesuit Leonard Neil was elected president of Jesuit George Town University in 1799, and became the Archbishop of Baltimore in 1815 when the suppression was starting to be lifted. Also, while they weren't necessarily Jesuits, the German Empire controlled the Kiautschou concession in the Shandong peninsula in China at the turn of the 20th century. Many Roman Catholic priests entered China through this colony, many of whom were subsequently killed during the Boxer rebellion, which targeted Christians, Catholics and foreign influence in general. There was also for example the succession in Shanghai, that the French Empire had until 1946, the British concession of Hong Kong; which was returned to the Chinese government at the turn of the 21st century; the Russian government controlled a territory in the southern part of Liaodong province, which went to Japan in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese war, and the Japanese held onto it until 1945. For that matter, the Japanese invaded China and controlled a good potion of the North during WWII, and of course the Xing itself was a government full of foreigners from the North.
That's a bit of background on the Jesuits, who have been referred to as god's marines. Based on their activities and backgrounds, not to mention the Papal Bull that officially created them, which literally refers to the Jesuits as Militants of the church, the Jesuits appear to be a Military intelligence network that works for the interest of the Roman Church and those connected with it. Now lets jump ahead and look at Jesuits and their activities in more modern times.
Modern Actualities - The current Black Pope is Arturo Sosa. Sosa was the provincial superior of the Jesuits in Venezuela from 1996 to 2004. He became Black Pope in October of 2016. Sosa has been criticized for being sympathetic of Socialist and Communist ideologies, which is pretty relevant considering the current state of Venezuela, where the government has taken away many privileges from the people under the guise of a Socialist ideology. Back in 1978 Sosa had called a Marxist interpretation of the Christian faith and Libertarian theology both legitimate and necessary. In 2004 Sosa was invited as a visiting professor at Jesuit George town University in Washington DC. At the time he was a professor at the department of Venezuelan poetical thought at the Catholic University of Tachira in Venezuela, with the current first Jesuit White Pope. Arturo is the first Black Pope to come from Latin America. One term for the White Pope is the Pontifex Maximus, a title given to Augustus Caesar and other Roman Emperors, as well as the high priests of Rome. Arturo's predecessor, Adolfo Nicolas was the Black Pope from 2008 until his resignation in 2016. Previous to being the superior general, Adolfo was a Spanish missionary to Japan. Adolfo studied and later worked at Jesuit Sophia University in Japan. In late 2013 President Obama was seeking approval for a U.S. military strike on Syria after an alleged chemical attack by the Syrian government and its citizens. Adolfo Nicolas, who was then black Pope, stated in an interview that this strike would be an abuse of power, and generally disapproved of the strike. Soon afterwards this plan was scrapped and there was no U.S. strike on Syria, despite all the photographs and videos being shown in the media. The U.S. secretary of state at the time was Jesuit educated John Kerry. It wasn't until the next year that the U.S. military began airstrikes on Syria. The current Jesuit white Pope, who's real name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, had a criminal complaint filed against him in relation to the 1979 kidnapping of two priests in Argentina, at which time he was the superior of the Jesuits in Argentina. This was in connection to the Argentine military junta referred to as the dirty war, which occurred during the 70s and 80s. In this war the Argentine government troops, security forces and so called right wing death squads hunted down people who they associated with Communist ideologies. In 1962 a document called the Crimen Sollicitationis was approved by the Pope and signed by the secretary of the Holy office at the Vatican, in address to all arch bishops patriarchs and other local ordinates of the Catholic Church. This document regarded the procedures to be used in the case of homosexual, pedophile and zoophile behavior by clerics. This document has been described as a written policy to cover up child sexual abuse by the clergy, and to punish those who would call attention to these crimes. Cardinal Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, was alleged in a prominent documentary on the issue to have been the man in charge of enforcing this document for 20 years. The reason I bring this up now is that during the dirty war, which reportedly got the greenlight from Henry Kissinger, and is connected with the CIA's Operation Condor that employed former Nazi officials, Cardinal Bergoglio is alleged to have been complacent about the government steeling of babies of executed mothers. These incidents have collectively been referred to as the "children of the disappeared". Jesuit Fidelis Mukonori was the Chaplain to president Mugabi of Zimbabwe. Mukonori also mediated the process of Mugabe's exit from the position. Mugabe has been in top government positions since British colonial rule ended in 1980. He had seen the Zimbabwe African People Union's role in the Rhodesian Bush War. In this war the forces under Mugabe targeted soldiers and civilians of Rhodesia and had been supplied and trained by the governments of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. The result of this war was a major reduction of the white population by both death and immigration, and led to the country being renamed Zimbabwe, and the people living under a mostly black government that associated itself with Marxist ideologies and with Mugabe at the head. Mugabe has stated that the white people of Zimbabwe should all go back to England, and that they will never return to the farmland that they were evicted from. He has also stated however that whites can own properties and factories in Zimbabwe. Mugabe has been accused of instigating genocide and is a Knight of the Bath. Both of Mugabe's parents had been trained in their professions by the Jesuits and went to Jesuit Kutama college. The Jesuit refugee service is recognized as a non governmental organization, and was founded by black Pope Pedro Arrupe in early 1980. In 2017 the JOS reported being active in 47 countries with 10 regional offices, and said that they were currently serving about 950,000 individuals. The organization is said to have served approximately 40 million people since its founding. The Jesuits have been historically and still are heavily involved in the sciences, philosophy and other pursuits, which top Jesuit agents like Mateo Ricci were extensively educated in and known for. In the field of astronomy, which the Jesuits are especially noted for, the German Jesuit, Christopher Clavius completed the development of the Gregorian calendar in its current form, which is the most widely used system today. This calendar is named after Pope Gregory the XIII, and replaced the Julian Calendar named after Julius Caesar. Currently the Jesuit, Guy Consolmagno, is the director of the Vatican observatory in Castel Gandolfo Italy. Consolmagno was a member of the U.S. Peace Corps before joining the Jesuits. This Vatican observatory operates a telescope at the Mount Graham international observatory in Arizona, which has ties to the University of Arizona. The Vatican telescope in Arizona is said to be funded by private doners, like Alice P. Lennon and Thomas J. Bannan. Strangely, right next to this telescope is a large binocular telescope near-inferred utility with camera and integral field unit for extra galactic research, better known by the acronym L.U.C.I.F.E.R. Jesuit Joseph-François Lafitau is said to have been the first European to discover Ginseng in North America, where it was in use by the local Iroquois. He first learned about this plant from the writings of another Jesuit, Pierre Jartoux. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin took part in the discovery of the Peking Man, in Dragon Bone Hill in China. The fossils of which are said to have disappeared mysteriously on route to the Museum of Natural History in New York, and now only four teeth remain. The Peking Man is said to be one of a subspecies of homo-erectus, and a unique ancestor to some Chinese people. Pierre also wrote the book "The Phenomenon of Man" about how evolution leads ultimately to the unification of consciousness, and his work in general has been heavily criticized by evolutionary biologists. Jesuits have a massive presence in education. Jesuit schools include many if not most of the major schools that get tons of prestige and have graduates and other former attendees that disproportionately get hired into high level positions in government, military, media, business, research banking NGOs and so on. These schools include the Gregorian University in Rome, Georgetown University in Washington DC, Fordham university in New York City, Sogang University in South Korea, Comillas Pontifical University in Spain, and Wa Ying College in Hong Kong just to name a few of the most significant ones.
Opus Dei
The Opus Dei Order was founded by Catholic Priest Josemaría Escrivá in Spain in 1928. Escrivá would later be beautified as the Saint of Ordinary Life. This order is regarded as an organization of lay people and priests, which is in contrast to the highly educated and regimented Jesuit Order. Opus Dei has been described by Black Pope Wlodimir Ledóchowski as a form of Christian Masonry. He also stated that it was very dangerous to the Catholic Church in Spain. The Order is Alleged to have been involved with the military dictator Francisco Franco's regime when it became the dominant government in Spain in the Spanish civil War, and ultimately reinstated the Spanish Monarchy. Several members of Opus Dei were ministers in this government, including Alberto Ullastres, Gregorio López-Bravo y Castro, and López Rodó. During the first decade of the Franco government, Escrivá had been reported at the tribunal for the fight against Freemasonry. In 1941 male members of Opus Dei volunteered to join Nazi Germany's Blue Division, which was stationed on the eastern front to impede the Soviet Red Army. In 1946 the Order's headquarters were moved to Rome, and the Order was officially placed under the direct governance of the Pope. The current head, or Prelate of Opus Dei is Fernando Ocáriz Braña, who was installed in January of 2017. Fernando was one of the professors who began the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in 1984. This University is entrusted to the Order of Opus Dei, and as the Prelate, Fernando is also the chancellor of this university. Before Fernando the head of the Opus Dei from 1994 until his death in 2016 was Javier Echevarría Rodríguez. Javier was chancellor at the University of Navarra in Spain, and the University of Asia and the pacific in the Philippines, both of which are closely affiliated with the Opus Dei. There are many alleged connections between Opus Dei and organized crime groups. For example with the Yakuza in Japan. In 2002 members of Opus Dei reportedly supported an aborted coup in Venezuela. Prominent members of Opus Dei include: Neil Dean, who was a senior manager at Allied Irish Banks; Jacques de Chateauvieux, the chairman at Bourbon, a billion dollar offshore oil and gas company; Luis Valls-Taberner, who was the president of Banco Popular in Spain; Isidre Fainé, who was president of the la Caixa Bank Foundation until 2016. Fainé is a board member of the Bank of East Asia, and president of the Spanish chapter of the Club of Rome, among many other prominent positions; Patrick Ngugi Njoroge, who is the governor of the Central Bank of Kenya and a former advisor to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund; Jorge Fernández Díaz is a political actor in Spain and a member of the Partido Popular party of which he is a former chairman. Adolfo Suárez, who was the 138th prime minister of Spain from 1976 to 1981, working under King Juan Carlos I. Suárez was himself a noble, with the title of Duke of Suárez, and a Knight of the Golden Fleece; Mario Fernández Baeza, who is curranty the interior minister of Chile; Ruth Kelly, who is a member of the British parliament, and a former UK secretary of state for transport; and José María Ruiz-Mateos, a Spanish businessman who was convicted on charges of currency smuggling, fraud and tax evasion. Opus Dei allegedly washed their hands of him in 1986
Order of the Golden Fleece
The Order of the Golden Fleece is an order of knighthood which has been heavily tied with the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire. There are currently two branches, and the current grand master of the Spanish branch is King Philip VI of Spain, the head of the Bourbons of Spain, and the head of the Austrian Branch is Carl Von Habsburg, the head of the Habsburgs of Austria. Looking at the Spanish Branch first, the knights of the Spanish Golden Fleece include: Javier Solana, who is the former European Union high representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy; former secretary general for the council of the European former secretary general of the Western European Union, and former secretary general of NATO—he's also a Knight of St Michael and St. George; Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who was the King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 until his death in 2015. Nicolas Sarkozy, who was the president of France and Co-Prince of Andorra from 2007 to 2012, and is a Knight of the Bath; Enrique Iglesias, the former president of the Inter-American Development Bank, and a member of the Club of Rome; Rama IX, who was the King of Thailand from 1946 until his death in 2016; Simeon II, the former King of Bulgaria, who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2001 to 2005; Harold V, the King of Norway; Queen Elizabeth II, who's face is on more money than anyone else; Margarete II, the reigning Queen of Denmark; Beatrix, who was the reigning Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013, married a former Nazi, and is a member of the Club of Rome, and a Knight of the Garter; Hussein, who was the King of Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999, and was a Knight of the Bath; Emperor Akihito of Japan, who is also a Knight of the Garter; Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden, who is also a Knight of the Garter; and Constantine II, who was King of the Helens, as in Greece, from 1964 to 1973.
Knights of the Austrian Branch of the Golden Fleece include: Prince Lorenz of Belgium, who is the head of the House of Austria-Este, which is a branch of the Habsburgs—Lorenz is a former managing partner at the Gutzwiller private bank in Basil, a former consultant to the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, (SWIFT) a former advisor to the board of directors of the BMP Paribas Bank based out of Paris, a former director of the multinational biopharmaceutical company UCB, and various other high positions with other companies and banks; Mariano Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Graetz, who is a Knight of Malta and currently the Order of Malta's ambassador to Slovenia; Alois-Konstantin, prince of Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, who is a former director for LGT Bank; Karel Schwarzenberg, the Prince of Schwarzenberg, who's name sounds similar to a certain former pro bodybuilding champion, who later had a successful film career and then became governor of California, and is of Austrian descent and identifies with the Roman Catholic Ideology, and who's father was a member of the Nazi Party, and who married a Roman Catholic from the Kennedy Family who graduated from Jesuit Georgetown University—Karel Schwarzenberg is a former Czech minister of foreign affairs; Andrew Bertie, who was the 78th Prince and Grandmaster of the Order of Malta; George the Duke of Hohenberg, who is also a Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George; Duarte Pio, the Duke of Braganza, who is regarded as an unofficial representative for the Portuguese government, and for example met with Bashar al-Assad in Syria in 2011; Hans-Adam II, the Prince of Liechtenstein and owner of LGT banking group, Carl, the Duke of Württemberg, Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, who was the head of the royal house of Saxony, and allegedly escaped a death sentence by Nazis after apposing their rule, and later went to work in the financial sector in Switzerland; King Albert II of the Belgians, who reigned from 1933 to 2013, and is also a Knight of the Spanish Golden Fleece and a Knight of Malta; Philippe the current King of the Belgians, who is also a Knight of Malta; Jean, who was the Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1964 to 2000, and is also also a Knight of the Spanish Golden Fleece and a Knight of the Garter; Jean's nephew Michel, the Prince of Ligne; Prince Kubrat of Panagyurishte, who is a member of the former Bulgarian royal family. Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, who is the ambassador of Hungary to the Holy Sea and to the sovereign military order of Malta, Dominican Cardinal and Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schönborn is the chaplain of the Austrian Golden Fleece—the Schönborn nobility family has been historically close with the Holy Roman Empire, and Christoph is also a Knight of the Teutonic Order.
Continuing on with Knights of the Austrian Golden Fleece, Archduke Sigismund is the Grand Duke of Tuscany as the head of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and has worked as a banker in Switzerland, and has worked as a banker in Switzerland, and is said to possess important businesses in the Punta del Este region of Uruguay. Sigismund is also the grandmaster of the Order of Saint Joseph and the Order of Saint Stephen and the Order of Saint Stephen, the latter of which was created by a member of the Medici family. He is descended from the Medici through his Lorraine lineage. The Bank Medici based in Vienna was founded by its president and majority stakeholder Sonja Kohn, who is identified as a jew and who became known as Austria's woman on Wallstreet. In 2009 this bank was shut down for reasons connected to the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme. Otto von Habsburg was the head of the Habsburgs from 1922 until his death in 2007. He was the oldest child of Charles the 1st the last emperor of Austria, and Zita of the Bourbon-Parma clan. Otto was reportedly raised mostly in Spain by his mother to become a catholic monarch. Otto was president of the international Paneuropean Union, and a member of the European parliament for the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He is known to have been in support of having central and Eastern European countries join the EU, and he had passports of Monaco, Spain and the Order of Malta.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
I already mentioned the Order of the Bath, which is headed by the UK monarch, and its connection with senior positions in the UK's military. Certain former heads of government and other officials have been inducted into this Order as well, including: Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia, former economic advisor to the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, and former delegate to the international Coffee Growers organization in London, during which time he went to the London school of economics—Santos has admitted to his election campaign receiving illegal payments in connection to Operation Carwash; Joachim Gauck, who was president of Germany from 2012 until March of 2017 under canceler Angela Merkel; President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, who has alleged connections with the Jaures Cartel; Tony Tan, who is the current president of Singapore, and is a former chairman of the Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation; François Hollande, who was president of France from 2012 to 2017. In 2013 François authorized military action in Mali to drive out Islamic militants and in 2015 the French government authorized 18 million dollars in arms sails to Saudi Arabia; Khalifa Al Nahyan, who is the Emir of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates—he sent the UAE's air force to join the military intervention in Libya against Ghaddafi's government in 2011; Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who is the Emir of Kuwait; Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who is the Emir of Qatar, which during his reign has hosted two U.S. military bases. The Qatar government has been accused of funding the Al-Nusra Front and other Islamic militant groups. Abdula II; who was King of Jordan; Hassanal Bolkiah, who is the Sultan of Brunei; Qaboos bin Said, who is the Sultan of Oman—he became Sultan after a coup against his father that was planned by MI6. Park Geun-hye, who was president of south Korea from 2013 to 2017—she is the daughter of the third president of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, who was assassinated in 1979—as mentioned, Park Geun-hye has been charged with abuse of power, bribery, coercion, and leaking government secrets, and is alleged to be connected to the so called 8 goddesses of South Korea with one them reportedly being Choi Soon-sil, who is connected with Park's scandal; Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was president of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014; Abdul Halim, who was the Sultan of Kedah from 1958 till his death in September of 2017; he was also the monarch all Malaysia for two five year terms; Abdullah Gül, who was president of Turkey from, who was president of Turkey from 2007 to 2014, and is currently a member of the advisory panel for the president of the Islamic Development Bank; Danilo Türk, who was president of Slavenia from 2007 to 2012—he is the chairman of the board of the Global Fairness Initiative, a Washington based NGO; Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who was president of Latvia from 1999 to 2007, and was involved in making Latvia a member of the European Union an NATO—she is the president of the Club of Madrid, which is referred to as the world's largest forum of former heads of state; Valdas Adamkus, who was president of Lithuania for two separate terms, the second one ending in 2009—he is a former regional administrator of the United States environmental protection agency; Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who was president of Estonia from 2006 to 2016—he is the former co-chair of the advisory panel of the World Bank's World Development Report for 2016; Aleksander Kwaśniewski, who was president of Poland from 1995 to 2005—during this time, the government of Poland got involved in the Iraq War, and Poland became a member of the EU; Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011, and who has been charged in connection with Operation Carwash; Edward Fenech Adami, who was president of Malta from 2004 to 2009—Edward signed the treaty that made Malta a member of the European Union. Jacob Zuma, who is the president of South Africa and the president of the African National Congress; Olusegun Obasanjo, who was president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007; Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, who was the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006—he's also the former governor of the bank of Italy; George Bush Sr., who has occupied senior positions in the CIA and United States government—he was present in Dallas at the time of the Kennedy assassination—during his time as president, the US government got involved in the first Gulf War, with one of his stated objectives being the establishment of a new world order; Colin Powell, who was the U.S. secretary of state from 2001 to 2005 under Bush Jr.—during the Vietnam War, he was an advisor to the South Vietnamese army, and later became assistant chief of staff of operations for the American division—he was also the 16th national security advisor under Ronald Raegan; Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., who was the commander in chief of the United States central command, and commanded all coalition forces during the first Gulf War; Ibn Saud, who was the founder of Saudi Arabia, also known as the Third Saudi State; Thabo Mbeki, who was the president of South Africa from 1999 to 2008—the president of South Africa before him was Nelson Mandela—Mandela had been involved in ending the apartheid system in South Africa, and spent a reported 27 years in prison as a result of various activities as a revolutionary, during which time he was associated with Marxist ideologies, and close with Jews like Joe Slovo, who was the head of the South African Communist Party, and a top member of Mandela's African Notional Congress party—Slovo was also a commander in the ANC's miliary wing, and later became the South African minister of housing under president Mandela, who was a Knight of the Bath; still more Knights of the Bath include, Otto Niemeyer, who was a director of the Bank of international settlements from 1931 to 1965—he was also a director of the Bank of England from 1938 to 1952; Patrick Walker who was the director general of MI5 from 1988 to 1992; Princess Alice the Duchess of Gloucester, who was involved in the red cross and the order of St. John during WW2—she was also Colonel in Chief, or Deputy Colonel in Chief to a dozen British Army regiments, and was made the Air Chief Marshal, in the Royal Airforce in 1990.
(P14) The Jews
Historically, prominent Jews have served nobility, and especially royal families. They would often be tasked with duties which bring resentment towards themselves, and more importantly to their ideological communities at large, which were used as a shield and scapegoat for the higher nobility. In Europe these were often called Court Jews, and they were given certain privileges, such as being able to loan money at interest, also known as usury. Usury has been condemned in many religions and other texts as being immoral. This practice was banned by Roman Catholic authorities in Rome, and is still banned in some countries where the Muslim ideology dominates. These privileged Jews were often the exception to these laws, and would enrich themselves at the expense of the desperate lower classes, which helped keep the nobility caste in power. It's comparable to loan sharking carried out by organized crime groups. In both cases, they've been granted the privilege to do so, but both are sometimes thrown under the bus, along with the community associated with them, because they are expendable low to mid level criminals. I call the Jews that serve the higher nobility, in this and some other ways, the Knights of the Shekels.
Rothschilds - Prominent Knights of the Shekels include members of the Rothschild family. Mayer Amschel Rothschild was an apprentice to Simon Wolf Oppenheimer, before becoming a court Jew to Wilhelm IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. During the Napoleonic years, he invested heavily in London, and handled British payments to Hessian mercenaries. Mayer Amschel sent his sons to different major cities in Europe. One of his sons, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, who again was a Freemason, set up a bank in the City of London Corporation. Nathan loaned money to the Prussian government and the government of, and bought the Mercury mines of Spain. Queen Victoria would authorize his descendants to start using the Baron title, granted to the family by the Emperor of Austria. Carl Mayer von Rothschild established the Naples branch of the family. He moved there at a time when Naples was occupied by the Austrian Army, and set up the CMD Rothschild and Figli bank. Carl was close with Luigi de' Medici. He was a Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. And reportedly loaned money to the governments of the Papal states and to the Kings of Naples, the Duchy of Parma and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. James Mayer de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, set up the French Branch and founded the Rothschild de Frères bank. James was an advisor to two deferent French Kings and financed the French railroad and mining industries. He was also involved in tea and wine. Salomon Mayer von Rothschild set up the branch in Austria, and was given the title of Baron by HRE Francis I—a lower mid level nobility title, hence terms like beer baron or drug baron. This title was extended to the rest of the family. Solomon established the SM von Rothschild bank, and financed various Austrian government projects, including Austria's first steam railway. He was close with Prince Klemens von Metternich, who would be a prominent figure at the congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Amschel Mayer von Rothschild stayed in Frankfurt, where his father set up the first branch and was also made a baron.
The Rothschilds are also connected with the country of Israel. Aside from the Balford Declaration, Edmond James de Rothschild was a strong proponent of the Zionist ideology, and put a good deal of his own money towards what would become the country of Israel. He set of farm colonies and Vineyards in what was then Ottoman Palestine, and established the Palestine Jewish Colonization association. His son, James de Rothschild also gave money towards this colonization of Palestine.
Many Rothschilds continued to be Knights of the Shekels to higher level nobility families. Members of the Rosenberg family of Bohemia often identified themselves as Jews. Knights of the Shekels are an Order, not an ethnicity, so anyone with the approval of the higher ups can join. This is often done through marriage. (Donald Trump's daughter marrying into the Kushner family.) This Bohemian Rosenberg family had many members in the Prague royal court, and were viewed as powerful lords in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The rank of these particular lords would have been a little high for Knights of the Shekels, which would likely explain why they didn't always identify as Jews. The Rosenbergs made for a good example of a presumably mid level nobility family, which had members who became knights of the Shekels. The Rosenbergs have intermarried with the black nobility Orsini Clan.
Oppenheimer - The Oppenheimer family is another family of Germanic origin, who's member shave often been Knights of the Shekels. Samuel Wolf Oppenheimer was a banker and Court Jew to the Holy Roman Emperor. He was a financer of the great Turkish war of the late 17th century. When the Jews were expelled from Vienna in 1670. Samuel was allowed to stay, and was even given permission to build his own mansion in the middle of the city. Samuel's son, Simon Wolf Oppenheimer was a Court Jew in Hanover, where he established a banking house. Simon's son, Jack Wolf Oppenheimer, employed Mayer Amschel Rothschild as an apprentice, between 1757 and 1763. Joseph Oppenheimer was a Court Jew to Carl Alexander of Württemberg. When Carl Alexander died, Joseph Oppenheimer was executed after being charged with various crimes. Salomon Oppenheim Jr. was a Court Jew who set up an exchange house at the residents of Maximilian Francis, who would later become the Archduke of Austria. Oppenheim Jr. was one of the first self identified Jews to move to Cologne, after the Jews were expelled there in 1424, and he became a banker and tax collector for the occupying French government. He founded the private bank Sal. Oppenheim, which is now a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bank. One of Oppenheim Jr.'s twelve children, Abraham Oppenheim, took over the family banking business along with his brother, Simon. In 1886 Abraham stopped identifying as a Jew. As a requirement to become a Baron, and enter the inner circle of Prussian King, Kaiser Wilhelm I. Abraham reportedly advised this King on how to finance the Austro-Prussian War, and was involved in developing the German railway system. He was also involved in developing the German railway system. He was also involved in insurance and the engineering and cotton industries. Ernest Oppenheimer, with the financial backing of J.P. Morgen, a Knight of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, founded the mining company Anglo American plc. By buying shares, Ernest became the chairman of the De Beers mining company, which was started by Cecil Rhodes, and came to supply 90% of the diamond market, which was mostly mined in South Africa. He was known for his policy of treating artificial scarcity to keep the value of diamonds high. His South African branch of the Oppenheimer family carried onto the modern day. Ernest's grandson, Nicky Oppenheimer, is a South African businessman and the former chairman of De Beers, and the former deputy chairman of Anglo American Corporation. Nicky's son, Jonathan Oppenheimer, began his career working at N.M. Rothschild & Sons, before working at various high up positions in De Beers. He's currently the director of E Oppenheimer and Son Limited, and has been an advisor to the governments of Rwanda, Liberia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Kenya, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. J Robert Oppenheimer was the war time head of the Los Alamos laboratory, and is referred to as one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. His famous quote, now I am become death, destroyer of worlds, was taken from Hindu scripture. That's worth keeping in mind, because as you'll see, the Nazi ideology has a connection to old Indian sources, which Freemasons are known to have an appreciation for as well. Robert was chosen by brigadier general Leslie Grove, a Knight of the Bath, to lead this project. After the war, the Nuclear program was handed over to the atomic energy commission, headed by David E. Lilienthal, a Jew of Hungarian descent on his father's side. Michael Oppenheimer is the director of the program in science, technology and environmental policy at the Woodrow Wilson School, and faculty associate of the atmospheric and ocean studies program at the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. He is regarded as an authority on climate change, and the cofounder of the Climate Action Network. The Climate Action Network is an umbrella group of NGOs that all claim to be "taking action on climate change." Peter Oppenheimer is the former senior vice president and chief financial officer of Apple incorporated. He went to Jesuit Santa Clara University, and in 2014 enounced that he was joining the board of directors of Goldman Sacks.
Knight of the Shekels, Jacob Bassevi, was a bohemian court Jew who received many privileges from HRE Ferdinand II, such as being made a noble, and being permitted to do any kind of business in any kind of empire, including places where other Jews weren't allowed to go. He was also exempt from paying taxes in post and duties, and couldn't be prosecuted. He helped finance the 30 years war. Knight of the Shekels, Isaac Abarbanel, was a court Jew to King Afonso V of Portugal. The Abarbanel family had previously a avoided being wiped out in the massacre of Jews at Castile in 1391, which was 46 years before Isaac was born. After the death of King V, he became a court Jew to the House of Castile. Isaac gave considerable amounts of money towards the Castilian War with the Moors, but was ultimately banished along with the rest of the Jews of Spain in 1492 as a part of the Spanish Inquisition. Isaac ended up settling down in Venice, from where he is said to have established a commercial treaty between the Republic of Venice and Portugal. Certain excerpts from his writings are often used to support the idea that Jews ran the transatlantic slave trade, which, to be fair, many knights of the Shekels were involved in. Knight of the Shekels Daniel Itzig was a court Jew to Kings Fredrick the Great and then Fredrick William II of Prussia. Itzig was a banker and mint master, and was one of the few Jews to have full citizenship privileges in Prussia. He assisted Frederick the Great in debasing the Saxonian currency during the Seven Years War, meaning that less precious metal was used in new coinage. Nasser Khalili is a British-Iranian billionaire and identified as a Jew. He is the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Nasser is an art collector, which is commonly associated with money laundering, and he is the co owner of the building which is leased as Amazon's main office in London. He's also a trustee of the city of Jerusalem, a Knight of the Bourbon-Two Sicilies' Order of Francis I, and the Order of Saint Sylvester. Arnold Rothstein was the son of a Jew businessman. He established a Casino in Manhattan and invested in horse racing, and is said to have fixed many races. Rothstein was heavily involved in bootlegging and the general drug trade, and he had an operation that ran liquor from Canada into upstate New York. He had many high level connections with bankers, political actors and organized crime boss's like Meyer Lansky, Jack Diamond, Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz. Rothstein has been termed the founding father of organized crime in the United Sates, and the first successful modern drug dealer. He was close with the then prominent Tammany Hall organization, which was a society full of New York City political actors. George Soros, who's real family name is Schwarz, is a Jew of Hungarian descent. He went to the London school of economics, and then worked at various investment firms, including Arnold and Spletroders. The Spletroder family has produced several Knights of the Shekels, especially in Prussia, and they are close with the Rothschilds. In 1970 Soros founded Soros Fund Management, which is headquartered in New York City. Soros has also founded the central European University in Budapest, with an 880 million dollar endowment. This school has produced many activists and so called political scientists. Soros also founded the open society institute, now called the open society foundation, and provided 18 billion collars to it. Open society is an international grant making network that provides funding to various NGOs, and has been compared to Ford foundation and the Rockerfeller Foundation, and has been linked with various color revolutions, such as Serbia's Bulldozer Revolution and Georgia's Rose Revolution.
All of this still doesn't answer the question of where and when the Knights of the Shekels, or for that matter the Jews in General originated from. The Habiru people were nomadic and semi-nomadic people, who according to ancient texts, existed in the fertile crescent from around 18,000 to 11,000 BC. In these texts they were generally referred to as outlaws mercenaries and slaves. And as generally being of a lower social class. Even back then they were more of a loose assortment of tribal alliances of social rejects and desperadoes and the like than a consistent ethnicity. In the 13th century BC, the Egyptian vassal ruler of Jerusalem wrote to the Pharoah, complaining about Habiru plundering his lands. He asked why the Pharoah was letting them behave his way, and wrote that without intervention, the Habiru would take over the land of Jerusalem. Among these Habiru are believed to have been the Hebrew people mentioned in old texts, sometimes interchangeably with Israelites old Israel. The 15th Dynasty of Egypt, from around 1560 to 1550 BC, refers to when the north was under the control of foreign kings from the East, referred to as the Hyksos Kings. The Hyksos also controlled Thebes until around 1590BC, and this is referred to as the 16th Dynasty, and the 17th Dynasty refers to when the Thebian contemporaries of the Hyksos took back Thebes, and held it until around 1550BC when the Hyksos rulers were expelled from Egypt. Egypt, like much of the rest of the ancient Middle East, was a very superstitious society, where the priest class had a lot of power. For example, the high priest of Amun wat Thebes are said by historians to have effectively have been the ruler of upper Egypt from 1080 to 943BC. Another important group of priests were the high priests of Ptah and Memphis. The title referring to Ptah is the patron god of the craftsman. The Writ of Memphis in Freemasonry is in reference to this priesthood, so naturally the Hyksos would have been in contact with these powerful priesthoods, for the 200 or so years that they reigned over the North of Egypt. They surely would have noticed the power and prestige that the previous class had acquired through their ideology rituals and esoteric babble. Now here's the theory. It's been said that the ideology of Messianism was taken out of Egypt by Hyksos people who had been inducted into these priest classes, and that after wondering the desert to east of Egypt, a group of these Hyksos, who were then referred to as Habiru, attacked and colonized regions in the South of Canaan that came to be known as the United Kingdom of Israel, which later split into the Kingdom of Israel in the North, and the Kingdom of Judah in the South, although some historians claim that the two Kingdoms were separate from the beginning. Regardless, the important thing in terms of the origins of the Knights of the Shekels is the Pharisees class. For a time, they represented the inner circle of what was to become the main jew ideology, but they had their own separate inner codes and ways. Just like the high priests of Egypt, and just like the modern heads of ideologies. Con artist is a phrase, and I try to avoid saying religion, because the idea that certain ideologies should be set apart is a psyop that serves to divide and conquer, just like how an ideology called Atheism has been tied to another called Communism, and played off against Catholicism among others—everyone willingly caught up in it is on team stupid. This kingdom, or kingdom were also reigned over by monarchs, the most famous of which were King David and King Solomon, although the actual existence of King David is somewhat argued against. In the case of Solomon, the Hebrew Bible claims him to have ordered the building of the first Temple of Jerusalem. As mentioned, some Freemasons allude to having a connection with the actual builders of this temple. In fact, Masonic temples in general are an allegorical reference to this particular temple, and as mentioned, the house of Solomon in Ethiopia claims descent from these Kings, as do the monarchs of the UK. I also mentioned the last ruling monarch of Ethiopia was Haile Selassie of the House of Solomon, who is viewed as a messiah in the Rastafari ideology that sprung up in the English colony of Jamaica in the 1930s. Solomon himself is said to have married the wife of a Pharoah. This temple, also known as Solomon's temple was for a time the centerpiece of the ideology that would evolve into the general ideology of the Jews. This temple also had a designated high priest, which makes this an example of the priest class using their ideology to lend credibility to a monarch. According to an ancient Roman source, the people of Judah and Israel at the turn of the first century BC, by which I mean around the year 0 on the Gregorian Calendar, were divided into four so called schools of thought, or sects. Naturally, each had its own priest class, and they most likely competed for followers. One sect known to exist during this period was the Sadducees, another was the Essenes, and the Pharisees were still around. The fourth were the Zealots, who encouraged the people of Judah, AKA Judaea, to revolt against their Roman Occupiers, which sparked the first Jewish-Roman War. This war ended with the Judaeans being massacred, Jerusalem being destroyed, and the destruction of the second temple, the first temple having been destroyed by the Babylonians six centuries prior. This sect was so forceful in pushing this rebellion that Zealot came to be used as a synonym for fanaticism of any kind. They were aided in this by Sicarii, which literally means "dagger men," who gained the name from their policy of killing Judaeans who apposed the call for war. They would also assassinate Romans in public places. Either these Zealots had grievously miscalculated, or they meant to provide the Roman Empire with a pretext to crush the Judaeans, and establish better control of the region. If the latter was the case, it would make them some of the earliest Knights of the Shekels to throw their followers under the bus. These wars between the Roman Empire and the Judaeans continued, until the people of Judaea were scattered and settled in different lands, bringing their priest sects with them. This wasnt the first instance of the people of the kingdoms of Israel and Judea being forced to leave though. There was also the assyrian and Babylonian exiles. Instances of people identifying as jews appeared all over, and so did instances of knights of the shekels. To them, then as now, larger populations calling themselves jews were meat sheilds, who every now and then could be thrown under the bus and massacred. The more hatred and violence these jews received from outsider ideological communities, the more they would stick together, which would serve to strengthen the position of these knights of the shekels at their core.
Examples of such communities in places other than europe:
India - The Cochin Jews, known locally as the black jews, were said to be traders who ran a "Jew Tangat," or Jew Market; and had close relationships with local indian Rulars, and accordingly were granted special privileges. They were allowed to live freely, build their synegogue, and own property without any conditions. At least some of these Jews were exempt from paying tax and were permitted to collect their own tolls. In 1524, members of this community were attacked by Islamic forces, backed by the rular of Calicut, and the Raja of Cochin gave these Jews asylum, while exempting them from having to pay tax. They were also granted a site of their own, which to this day is known as Jew Town. It's been argued that at least some of the Nasrani Syrian christians, also known as the St. Thomas Christians, were in fact a branch of this Jew clan. By official acounts, St. Thomas had converted some of the Cochin Jews, as well as four Brahman families to his Christian ideology. They too were given special priveleges; and they have been observed to carry on certain Jew rituals. According to local traditions, the Chitpavin Brahman of the State of Maharajta in India origionallly identified as Jews, and accoding to one historian, they were ethnically aryan. These Chitpavins were known as traders and traders and merchents, and many of them were appointed as administrators in local governments. In 1713, the Chitpavin balaji vishwanath was appointed as pwshwa, or prime minister of the maratha empire. This position was passed down his family for a while as a hereditory title. His grandson, peshwa Balaji Baji Rao is said to have offered all the important offices to his fellow caste men, and gave the chitpavins other priveleges, such as tax releif and land grants. Other significant clans in India which are said to be descended from early Jew identifying immigrants include the bene Israel community, which are similar to the Chitpavins and Mawari people. The Mawari are known to have been involved in usery in the area surrounding their own communities. They financed the Rajput kingdoms during wars, and some Majwari were esentially court jews to these kings, and later the Mughuls. When the british colonial period began they became officially established as sahakars, meaning money lenders and as inland trade brokers. Those Mawari traders that migrated inland, experienced communal violence against them by the locals. In 1990, members of the local community reportedly controlled nearly 24% of the business in India. Mawari are said to be in control of several major media companies in india, and make up a quarter of Indian billionaires. A few peominant marwaris include: Anil Agarwal, who is the founder and chairmen of vendeta resources, a global diversified metals and mining company headquartered in london. Bemo jelan, a former governor of the federal reserve bank of india; lakshmee metal, who is the chairman and ceo of vasalor metal, the worlds largest steel making company, which is based out of luxemberg, while lakshmee is based out of london.
The Sassoon family were heavily involved in importing opium into qing china from India. David Sassoon was the treasurer of bagdad in the early 19th century before becoming the head of a Jew community in bombay. There, him and his family got in volved mainly in the cotton and opium trades. He set up branches in hong kong and shanghai, and sent one of his sons eleias david sassoon to canton. The sassoons have also become prominent in england and have intermarried with the rothschild family. More modern prominant members of this family include, vedal sassoon, a famous hair stylist and businessman, who was connected in his work to hollywood film starsl; vidal was a knight of the british empire. Rabbai issac este sassoo, who is said to be a leading scholar in the sepharatic world; and james sasson, a baron who has worked in the uk treasury, as well as the uk finance ministry. He was the president of theinternational financial action task force on money laundering from 2007 to 2008. Ironically, his name came up in the paradise papers, with him reportedly having been the benefisciary of 246m dollars from a tax exempt camen island trust fund in 200. james is also an executive director ad jaradeen matherson holdings, and is a director at hongkong land dairy farm international holdings, and madorin oriental hotel group; and he is the chairman of the china briton business council.
Africa - In ethiopia there are the beta israel, or house of Israel people. There are several theories about how they arived in that reagion, and the truth is probably a combination of some sort. according to historian menachem walden, there was a major wave of immigration from the kingdom of judah to the kingdom of kush, after jeruselum was beseiged by the assyrians in the early 7th century BC. The kingdom of beta israel was established in teh 4th century ad, and lasted until the early 17th century when it was annexted by the ethiopian empire. This involved their king goshen being executed, and many of the people of beta israel being sold into slavery, and others being made to identify as christian. According to a portugaese diplomat, they were "still as much jews as they had been before". There was a known community of crypto jews reffered to as beta abraham. eleija of ferara wrote in the 15th century that the jews of ethiopia were unfermiliar with the talmud. There was also the fact that this community was generally isolated from other groups that associated with the jew ideologies. Reportedly about 90,000 members of the beta israel community, had moved into the modern day country of Israel by their own initiative, as well as part of mossads operation moses and operation solomon. The ethiopians are reported to have been treated poorly by the government of israel, and generally excluded from the rest of society; they have the highest poverty rate of any ethnic minority identified as jews in the country. The house of Solomon of Ethiopia originally associated with the jew idiology, but later switched to orthodox christianity. In the 16th century, emporor galadiwos of the solomonic dynesty joined his forces with the portuguese troops sent by the jesuits, to invade beta israel, and execute their king doran, which caused the kingdom to shrink sugnificently. There are cases ofo knights of the shekels in south africa. according to historians, people known as jews have existed in tunisia for 2600 years. Many of them had adopted the ideology in this reagion, and there were ethnically punic berber, and romans from the heart of the empire. These jew communities wer in contact with in contact with those as far away as spain and babylon. The tunisian city of karowin was for a time known as the world centre for talmudia, and helacic scholarship. Isaac israeli ben solomon was apointed as court physitian to prince ziadad alluh iii, who was the last imir of the aglabids dynesty. Later isaac became a doctor to the founder of the fatamid dynesty of south africa, al mati bila, whi had him write down several medical works in arabic. The wealthy jew merchent, juden ben joseph of kerowin is said to have been adminstrator of the sultans economic activities, and was privelidged with the use of the sultanship fro his own trading ventures. His trade empire extended as far as india. Abraham ben nathan was known as the leader of north african jewry. He was the personal physician to almuiz ibn baden, a sultan of the azired dynesty. Around the mid 7th century, many of these caroin and other north african jews started moving west towards morrocco and the city of fez. This movement largely began with the destruction of karowin by the banuilal tribal confederation. This invasion was instigated by the fatmid kalif as punishment for the zirid dynesty having declared indipendence from the kalifate. In morocco, during the merenid dynesty, which lasted from 1244 to 1465, the royal family was known to be close with certain jews. In one reported instance, a maronin sultan personally intervened to stop a pogrom. In 1275 prevumed knight of the shekels kalifa bewakaza was the steward of the household of abu yakob yusef annasur, as well as the so called intimate counciler. The last sultan of the maranid apointed many appointed many jews into high government positions, which is said to have been a major cause for the 1465 morocan revolt, where the sultan was taken out and almost everyone identified as a jew in the city of fez was massacred, including the jew fizir arin ben patash.
Joseph nasi was a famous court jew to the ottoman court in the 16th century. Before moving to constantinople, joseph was close with maximilian, a nephew of the habsberg HRE of that day, who later himself became HRE maximilian II. Nassi was allowed to join the ottoman court, elegedly by meret of his trading connections in europe. While in the ottoman court, joseph is said to have caused a was between the ottoman empire and the republic of venice, which ended with venice losing the islan do cyprus to ottomans. During this war, nasi was in contact with the jew community on cyprus. Nasi's reletive on Cyprus, abraham benevist, was arrested and charged with having set fire to the venecian arsonel on nasi's instigation, it is beleived nasi was given a coat of arms by sultan salim the second that indicated he would be given a lifes regal rank over a jew colony on cyprus after the ottomans took the island. Joseph nasi also had the title of lord of tiberious, which is a city in the north east of modern israel. He encouraged the establishment of jew settlement in this region. He was also the duke of naxos, also known as the duchy of th earchepelego. Hame farkhi was an advisor to the govorners of galilee in the late18-19th centuries. His father sol had established a banking busines which is said to have controlled syrias finances banking and foreign trade. In fact according to historians, his family were ofter refered to as the real rulars of syria, which was then still a part of the still part of the ottoman empire. Hane was an advisor to the rular of acer, the bosnian amid pashar al jazar. Jazar was a title given to their rular which means the butcher, and amid is said to have had one of farkis eyes plucked out, cut off the tip of his nose, adn cut off the tip of his left ear. Non the less, farkhi continued on as his advisor, and gained influence in aker, under al jazars successors. In the early 20th century, King feizel of iraq was known as a friend of the jews. He signed an agreement with chaim weisman, the president of the Zionist Organization. He also accepted the balfour delcaration, which was a document promising british suport for a homeland for the jews in the land of palestine.
In cities where knights of the shekele existed there were often areas known as jewish quarters, or ghettos. These onclaves were often permitted to have their own justive system, and were usually sourounded by walls with gates. These walls affered some protection from progroms, which made the ghettos somewhat attractive to jew communities, while also serving to keep them better under the control of the local monarchs, and other higher level nobility fmilies, to whom some of the residents would serve as knights of the shekels. In from for example, athe ghettos gates would be locked at night by right of papal decree. The ghetto of rome was under the direct authority of the papacy. Residents of this getto where permitted to be pawn brokers, a profesion prohibbided for the vaticans catholic followers, and one which insited hatred towards the getto's resodents. This ghetto, like several others was temporarily abolished when napoleons forces took the city. The papacy is known to have had their own knights of the shekels, most notebly members of the rothschild family, who were at one time referred to as the gaurdians of the papal treasure. Rothschild means red sheild in german, and red is the color of rome. This family, which is alleged to have been origionally the bauer family, but changed to rothschild starting with, meyer amishel bauer, first came up in th efrankfurt getto, which had been established by habsberg hre, fredrich iii in 1462.
(P15) Universities
Georgetown University
Goergetown University in Washington DC is probably the most signifiacnt jesuit school today, and is the oldest catholic university in teh united states. This school was founded by archbishop of boltimor john carol in 1789. The current president of georgetown universiy is John J. DeGioia, who is a knight of malta and a former student; and teh schools proffessors include people like john clapper, who was the US director of national intellegence from 2010 until 2017. And is also the former director of the national geospacial intellegence agency, and has been in other hight us inellegence agencies. He taught at georgetown from 2006 to 2007; and geroge tenant who was director of the cia from 1996 to 2004, and is a forme student of georgetown. tenant was a proffessor of georgetown for three years, sarting from 2005. Theres also been actual jesuit prffessiors like thomas M king, richard a micormic and robert drinen. People who have attended georgetown: george w kacy jr, a retired 4 star general in the us army, who was the commanding general of the multinational force in iraq from 2004 to 2007. joseph dunford, wh who was a general in the us marine corps, and the current chairman of the joint cheifs of staff, which is the most senior rank in the us armed forces, and the primary military advisor position to the US president; Avil hanes, former deputy national security advisor, who before that had been the deputy director of the cia; david betrayas, who was the director of the cia from 2011 to 2012, and was the commander of the inernational security assisance force from 2010 to 2011; James l jones, who was the US national security advisor from 2009 to 2010, and the supreme allied commander europe from 2003 to 2006 and the commandment of the US marine corps from 1999 to 2003; John R allan, who is the president of the brookings institution, the former special presidential envoy for the global coelition to coutner isil, former commander of the international security assistance force, and former commander of us central command. Michael morel, who is the director of the cia from 2012 to 2013; donald rumsfeld, who was the us secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977, and from 2001 to 2006—he's also a former ceo of the phramacutical corporation GD serlin co., former ceo of the electronics company, general instriment, and former chairman of the biopharmaceutical company gelid science; robert cardilo, who is the director of the national geo spacial and intellegence agency, and former deputy deputy director of the US defence intellegence agency; Robert P murry, who was the director of the national geo spacial intellegence agency from 2006 to 2010, and the director of the office of naval intelligence from 2005 to 2006. robert gates, who was the president of boyscoutes of america form 2014 to 2016 the us secretery of defence from 2006 to 2007, and the director of central intellegence from 1991 to 1993. He's also a former president of texas amn university, and current chancler of the college of william and mary; alexander hague who was the us SOC from 1981 to 1982, and suprme allie dcommander europe from 1974 to 1979—hague was also a knight of Malta; dennis mcdunno, who was the whitehouse cheif of staff from 2013 to 2017; william joesph mcdunno, who was the president of the federal reserve bank of new york from 1993 to 2003; john f kelly, whie house cheif of staff, a former us seretery of homeland security and a former commander of united states southern command; antonin scalia, who was an associate justice of the US supreme court from 1986 until his death in 2016; john podesta, couniler to the us president from 2014 to 2015, and the white house cheif of staff from 1998 to 2001; bill clinton, former us president and former govorner of arkansas—bill also went to oxford and yale; tony anoya, who was the govorner of new mexicto from 1983-1987; mike castle, who was the govorner of deleware from 1985 to 1992; peter coleman, who was theo govorner of american samoa for three terms, and the high commisioner of the trust territory of the pacific island from 1976 to 1977;
(P16) Ethnicities
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