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March 19th THE MOONLIGHT DIARIES – BROTHERHOODS & SUGAR DADDIES. Part 1.

“Fascist organizations like America’s Aryan Nation are rapidly on the increase. However, more disturbing are reports of such pro-Nazi group infiltration within armies and police forces of several democratic states including America, Canada, Britain and Australia. In Germany, anti-Fascist investigators like John Kohl also report of the neo-Nazis’ increased military efficiency. In August 1995 a large cache of arms, thought to have come from former Yugoslavia, confirmed worst fears. Neo-Nazi activists are using ex-Yugoslavia as a training ground. To date, 150 neo-Nazi mercenaries of German origin are known to be fighting in Croatia alongside Fascists from America, Britain and Austria. .. At the same time, America (with Germany and, strangely, Israel) has been conducting a covert airlift of weapons into Croatia and Bosnia from the start of the conflict.”. ^{State of Terror Ben C Vidgen 1995/1996.}

I began the morning with a swim them went for a walk through the town market where people are laughing and smiling enjoying the morning sun. Children play with bunnies and hamsters at a pop-up petting zoo. Dog lounged about hoping for a belly rub or scrap of bacon off someone Saturday morning breakfast treat. A beautiful, chilled morning surrounded by happy carefree optimistic peaceful people. I love my life in the enchanted Forrest, and I love my little Narnia as I call my home. This morning however as I watch this spectacle of humanity at its best, I feel very mournful and very helpless and angry. I am thinking about the fall out of 911 and my own trip to NY on the other side of the planet which I undertook largely in commemoration of the all the people lives impacted by this dreadful day.

It’s an act of serendipity that many of the actors who will use the March 15th attack to pursue their political agenda have a connection to the location where George Moonlight and his men found gold in the Arrow River in Otago in 1862.

150 years later, give or take, the decedents of those who helped Moonlight and William Fox syndicate find gold in Arrow town (originally called Fox Town) can now be found working for a new kind firm. Since 9/11 Five Eyes alliance spy boss have routinely met at Millbrook, near Arrowtown for heads of agency face to face meeting. Meeting held to discuss the kind of counter terrorism measures that are meant to save lives and prevent events like 9/11 and the March 15th attack in Christchurch my hometown.

At a similar meeting also held in Queenstown but at Lodge called Walter Peak (then owned by former Israeli special forces soldiers) the digital spies would meet in to discuss taking back the internet. In a case of art mirroring reality, Walter Peak had previously been used to make a movie about spies called the Brotherhood of the Rose. In the movie based on Daid Morrel novel rival spy agencies use war revolution and terror to fool the public as they take hold of the worlds hidden bank accounts and form their own selective brotherhood of the forementioned name. In the book the villains give lofty reason for their conspiracy but in the end the real motivation is their greed.

Were told the alphabet of soups and secret clubs of spies and security organisations (which in turn seem to breed and multiply like rabbits) are there to protect us from extremist. The problem with that narrative is that attacks, be they initiated by the far right, far left, Islamic extremists ect, inevitably end up being funded by the very organiastions we expect to create global stability and not fuel further inequality and suffering. And the reason why extremist inevitably get funding is because someone works out, they can make a dollar if they put a gun in an angry man’s hand wind him up and then send them off to inflict the maximum amount of damage to civilians who in all probability have nothing to do with the gunman perceived grievance other than being born in a set place and time.

Case in point the United Nation humanitarian Iraq Food for Oil Program was aid program used established to relieve the suffering caused to Iraqi people by Saddam Hussein (FFOP) in the wake of the first gulf war in1991. Instead, it descended into an orgy of corruption and violence as the program, which became known in Australian media as Weapons for Wheat, was found to paying kickbacks to the Saddam Hussein regime and was in turn used to arm the rouge nation and terrorist organizations Saddam believed could be a thorn to America and her allies. In addition to the UN FFOP would help consolidate power for an up-and-coming Vladmir Putin thanks to the bribes paid by many westerners aligned with the Regan and Thatcher’s Government who had supported Putin’s rise following the 1993 coup in attempt in Moscow which saw the father of Perestroika side lined in favour of Borris Yeltsin the Russian President who would name Putin his successor.

New York journalist Lucy Commissar writing of the UNFFOP corruption maps a covert money network, based in the tax havens of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Panama and Nassau, that helped bankroll the war machines of both Iraq and al-Qaeda. Examination of Commissar work, the leaked document which have come to be known as the Panama and Paradise and the Pacific Papers (the name I give for a number of Pacific based money laundering scandals covering 1980s to mid 19990s) *out facilitate the flow of stolen Russian money, nick named the Ozark (after a Netflick series on the Russian mafia), paints a picture of violent complex war behind the scene for the control of this black banking network.

A world of dark money which controlled not just a river of gold but an entire tributary sourced from past riches looted in past wars, narcotic, arms trafficking, real estate fraud and embezzled UN aid money* He who controlled the Orzark controlled effectively the vast majority of revenue generated by illegal activity worldwide and in turns of economic warfare that was to possess a considerable amount of leverage and geo political power. The Ozark is not a literal mountain of gold but rather its organic network of banks, that over the decades have become a conduit from everything from stolen Nazi gold to the money laundered from narcotic. As I travelled the USA, I was struck by the more thing change the more they stay the same as network of banks that grew out of gold rush in the 1840s-1880s would largely the mirror the network of financers used by the cattle mining and railway barons of the 1870 – 1900s which in turn mirrored the network that of organized crime as its literally mapped out in Las Vegas Museum of organized crime covering the 1920s to the modern day. Post war it would expand to include Latin America, Europe and the Pacific and finally include Russia following the fall of the USSR but in principle it always followed the tried and established routes. Control of that banking network permits control of a significant amount of the world cash and mineral reserves.

The manner in which you rob a river of gold is actually very simple. You don’t steal the money itself. You steal the bank and in the FFOP scandal that was not particularly difficult to do.

At the time of the FFOP has been established and it was agreed to make the payment of sanctioned old Iraq oil sales through the Banque Paribas, headquartered in Paris, the bank had a significant portion of shares owned by Saddam’s cousin Nadhmi Auchi. The same accounts had been used when he Iraq received a 4.3 billion in US Agricultural loans (known as Iraqgate) to build up arsenal of Soviet weapons in Iraq war with Iran at the time when the US Secretary of Agriculture was Clayton Yeutter a future consultant for Fonterra dairy sales to the USA.

Another example of how to steal a mountain of money is provided by Nutritek, a leading Russian company that deal in white gold as New Zealand dairy farmers like to the dairy industry.

Nutrikek had farms with dairy farms tohrugh out Russia and Estonia that in 2008 brought a dairy factory in Waimate Otago New Zealand and a dairy farm its part owned with Otago University. The New Zealand deal was financed by Russian bank and Nutritek creditor VTB Capital whose CEO Mikhail Khimich would also be named in relation to the UNFFOP and the bribing of both Republican and Democrats American politicians and would also hold real estate interest in New Zealand.

Nutriek directors included Sazhinov, former Russian deputy minister of agriculture and banker Konstantin Malofeev. Malofeev began his banking career with Renaissance Capital established by former New Zealand treasury official and Credit Suisse banker Stepehen Jennings (who today is part of the New Zealand arm of the global mining and oil lobby think tank Atlas) who departed for Switzerland around the same time that New Zealand corporate raider merchant bankers Michael Fay and David Richwhite also set up in Switzerland. Malofeev would become known as the ‘great raider’ for his ability to wrestle control of banks and commercial interest from his former partners having been tutored by the likes of Stephen Jennings a member of the New Zealand arm of the mining lobby group Atlas, whose own role as one of the Gingers within New Zealand Treasury who had helped the free market and corporate raiders walk off with valued public asset is legendary.

• The pair having incurred the wrath of the New Zealand public in part because of their perceived role in the tax evasion associated with a host of nominee companies established by the BNZ which the pair owned a third of. And in part because of their role in the privatization of NZ Rail. New Zealand Rail had been sold to Fay Richwhite after the New Zealand government consulted it advisers Fay Richwhite and its NZ Rail consultants (most of whom then went to work for Fay Richwhite in Switzerland afterwards) and the New Zealand Treasury where Stephen Jennings then worked and helped execute a type of privatization reforms known as Rodgernomic after Labour Minister of Finance Sir Rodger Dougals.

• ‘The Pacific Papers’ include but are not limited to the 1995 Wine Box Inquiry into the BNZ and Swiss New Zealand merchant banker Fay Richwhite, the New Zealand Gang of Twenty white collar syndicate (who mined fraud as opposed to gold), the Māori Loads Scheme and the Nugan Hand Affair.

The same network of banks would be used by the terrorist responsible for 911, so Lucy Komisar documents, would include Banca del Gottardo the bank that moved FFOP bribes and kickback money paid by a Swiss construction company to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his cronies in exchange for contracts to refurbish Kremlin buildings. The context for this was that following the Russia coup of 1991 Gorbachev had wanted to hold on to some form of ‘socialism lite’ as he asked for assistance from the West’s political support, which was not palatable to the governments of Thatcher Reagan (and Bush).

At the heigh of the siege American business Entrepeneur Paul Tatum (later killed in a hail of bullets by Russian mobster in the staircase of his Moscow hotel – a sign of things to come), had offered his cell phone to Yeltsin who stood on a tank to literally call for help. At the time special forces, under order of KGB hardliners, where trying to storm the Soviet White House in Moscow armed with sub machine guns. America and Thatcher’s England obliged their emissaries deliver the diplomatic cavalry in the UN, denouncing the plotters. The aid had not been free (is it ever) back-room channels had made it loud and clear all forms of socialism had to go, lite or otherwise. The former USSR was expected to spread it legs wide and become the Free Markets compliant mistress. At which point word got out there was fire sale on everything was up for sale.

The UN FFOP would become one of the conduits by which bribes too Russian officials would be paid by eager Westerners eager to get in and make a killing in post USSR Russia. American carpet baggers who had no problem getting into bed with Russian Mobsters and their more ruthless third partners the banking Gnomes of Zurich. To be fair many of the America involved in the triptych where no slouches themselves having for most of the post war years been at the tip of the spear when the US had needed a flow of cash to arm it secret wars in Laos Cambodia or a dictator needed overthrowing in Latin or Africa. Much of the Pacific arm of the Orzark indeed had been set up by the American adventures in the 1970s and 1980s and that certainly true of their Australian and New Zealand ventures as will shall see shortly.

If you’re struggling to believe this is all true just familiarize, you’re self with Wyatt vs the US government where in October 2007 US prosecutors charged Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt was found guilty of participating in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal and paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s government to win oil contracts from Iraq and that Wyatt had indirectly helped fund the Hamas terrorists.

Wyatt was just one of the American modern-day Cowboys that U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker had found had corrupted the UN program. In total Volcker declared that 2,200 companies in 66 countries that paid $1.8 billion in kickbacks to Iraqi officials to win supply deals. To put that in context Volcker report is generally considered the most sanitized of a total of three investigations and the only one not peppered with car bombing and assassination of key investigators.

Volcker inquiry found.

• Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., a prominent Texas energy investor with a long history of dealings in Iraq, received vouchers for 29.7 million barrels. Under his plea agreement, prosecutors dropped four other counts against him, cutting short a trial which showed he paid secret kickbacks to Saddam’s government to win oil contracts from Iraq.
  
• Marc Rich Trafigura, a Swiss corporation, pleaded guilty in Australian Federal court to selling oil to two Houston energy companies that it falsely said was obtained through the now defunct U.N. Oil-for-Food program, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The company whose trading partner include Serbian Ivan Silovich agreed to an $8 million fine, $1.9 million in civil penalties and to forfeit $9.9 million from a JPMorgan Chase account frozen by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control. Marc Rich at this time had also employ Mark Thatcher, the arms dealing son of British Prime minister Margaret Thatcher at the time. Thatcher in the same period would lease a number of Russian Antonov operating out of Azerbaijani for reason that still remain unclear but hard to guess.
  
• Megawati Sukarnoputri, the former Indonesian president, was allocated 6 million barrels. Shortly afterwards Sukarnpoutri son Tommy would buy land in Otago near Queenstown.
  
• Alexander Voloshin, chief of staff under former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, was allocated 3.9 million barrels of oil from May to December 20.
  
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Russian Liberal Democratic Party leader, and companies associated with his party were allocated 53 million barrels.

The USA Nuclear Regulatory Authorities notes that it wasn’t just dairy farms, public utilities, and biscuit factories that where been sold. Arms and nuclear weapons technology has also been offered. Actually, the sale of sophisticated Russian weapons would be just one of the factors which began to sour Putin West relations.

It reports in 1992 “Magistrates from Torre Annunziata, Italy, sent Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky a judicial letter stating that he was under investigation for being part of an international smuggling ring dealing in weapons, plutonium, and osmium [Used in the building of detonator used in nuclear weapons -editor note]. Zhirinovsky aids allegedly acquired the Russian arms from the Russian mafia. Barcelona Bishop Richard Martia Charles, Felice Maniero of Somalia, and Slovene arms dealer Nikolaj Aleksander Oman are also allegedly involved in the smuggling ring. A container holding 30 g of osmium found in a Venice bank’s safety deposit box under the name of Oman’s son and 3 billion lire in a bank account under Oman’s name and that of Italian “criminal” Lorenzo Mazzega were uncovered”.

The contract was allegedly for Russian-made missiles and bombs that would have strengthened the Serbs’ hand at the negotiating table, but the arms were never delivered. An international warrant was issued by Italian judge Alfredo Ormanni for Oman’s arrest. Ormani a convicted pedophile had made billions out of peddling weapons and in human trafficking trough out Africa and in the Balkans. In Liberia he had been agent for “Merex” to purchase arms and sell diamonds carried into Liberia by the RUF’ slave labour.

Merex had been established by Georg Mertins who along with German SS special forces operator Otto Skorzeny (who reportedly was in charge of the Spanis arm of Il-gladio called GAL) had also participated in the raid to rescue Italian dictator Benito Mussolini after he was removed by the Italian Grand Council of Fascism and the king of Italy and imprisoned. After the war Mertins and Skorzeny had been part of a German team sent to train Egypt’s military, with the blessing of the Gehlen organization led by former Nazi Reichardt Gehlen who the Americans had entrusted with running Germanies post war intelligence service.

Zhirinovsky, despite being photographed in 1994 at Oman’s castle in Slovenia, denies knowing the arms dealer. The Vatican bank and the Roman Catholic charity Caritas were reportedly involved in laundering money for the arms smuggling ring.

Between 1992 and 1994 more than 5 billion was embezzled from the Catholic based charity, which this year lost a further 64 million Euro – the short fall covered by hundreds of millions in credit extended to the rogue Vatican bank backed charity by PNB Paris. Such kinds of crime are nothing new for Vatican lonked enterprises in the 1970s, Gottardo the Swiss subsidiary of Banco Ambrosiano, “‘he Vatican bank’, which collapsed in 1982 in a $1-billion fraud that involved money siphoned off to offshore shell companies and accounts, would be found to have routinely laundered drug- and arms-trafficking money for the Italian and American mafias the brotherhood of Costra Nostra. syndicates come in many shapes and forms.

{John Phillips, Sunday Times, 6/16/96 (15433). Vladimir Vodusek, Delo (Ljubljana), 6/4/96, p. 2; in FBIS-EEU-96-112, 6/4/96 (15433). Luise Hahn, Kurier, 6/12/96 (15433). Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 6/ 12/96, p. 7 (15433)}.

In 2023, post the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the hunt for the ‘Russian’ Orzark would embarrassingly lead investigator to discovery Nazi gold that led back to a network initially set up Cold War friends of the Vatican and NATO to protect us from the evil of Mordor summoned communism that instead ultimately fueled the greed of Swiss based goblins who stroked their gold and hiss “my precioussss”.

The emergence of Slavic based smuggling operation revives rumors making the rounds after the sinking of the Ferry MS Estonia in 1994 with the loss of 852 lives: The rumor alternatively states the Estonian mafia had tried to cover up the smuggling of narcotic and material used to build a nuclear bomb. Or that it had in turn been sunk after the smuggler patrons – Western intelligence – ignored a ‘friendly’ request by the Russian to stop smuggling their state secrets Westwards.

These rumors where fueled by a mysterious “Felix Report” circulated by former KGB members. It states on page 72 that drug traffickers had attempted to smuggle heroin in large quantiles including 40 tonnes of cobalt, hidden in two vices, within the “Estonia” on the Swedish boat on the night of the accident. The Felix Report gives the customs official Igor Krischtapowitsch as a key witness to this version. On October 22, 1994, about three weeks after the accident, Igor was killed on his doorstep with headshots fried from a Russian 7.62mm TT pistol point blank. The gun is standard service for the agent of Russian FSB but not a weapon you would usually associate with KGB assassination for obvious reasons.

Customs officials in Tallinn told the SPIEGEL TV’s staff Jutta Rabe that the ferries between the Baltic States and Western Europe have long served as smugglers. Hamburg captain Werner Hummel and the lawyer Peter Holtappels raised another witness who stated former high-ranking officers of the Estonian army confirmed there was a smuggling operation.

To evaluate the Estonia weapons smuggling claims you have to look at the financing of the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict. Starting with at least the four Russian Ilyushin Il-76 planes, operated by the Azerbaijani cargo airline Silk Way (linked to Simon Spitz see below), which serves Baku’s defence ministry, that landed and took off from the Israeli Uvda military air base in southern Israel in 2019. According to flight regulations, that is the only airport where planes loaded with explosives are allowed to take off.

The flights are part of Erdogan and Turkey’s Schizophrenic relationship with the West. As Erdogan strengthened ties to Qatar, the Hamas movement and Muslim Brotherhood branches across the region Turkey has become involved in civil wars and military or intelligence interventions in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. To cover the balance of the rising cost of the weapons he become a middleman for Azerbaijani oil. Israel buys oil from Azerbaijan who use the money to buy weapons of Turkey who in turn funds the enemies of Israel and her Western allies. The money for these convoluted guns for oil trade past through the usual suspect and add to the flow of dark money upon which it this murderous world lives.

In 2019 Aivar Reha, the former chief of Danske Bank in Estonia, was found dead joining the spate of former VTB Russian bankers linked to the Orzark. Post death the former Estonia banker was found to be at the center of a 200 billion-euro ($220 billion) money-laundering scandal involving Russian money and weapons sales part of what has now become known as the ‘Azerbaijani Laundromat’ To be precise more than $220bn was laundered through the bank. New of his death broke in March 2017, after the Estonian branch had already been mentioned by Danish newspaper Berlingske in connection with oil for guns money deal. The purpose of the payment indicated “for the purchase of food products.”

Bigland received transfers from a Russian company involved in a scheme that Russian tax lawyer Sergi Magnitsky uncovered, which centered at the discovery of Russian Antonov leased to a New Zealand firm which was found in Thailand loaded with North Korean weapons destine for unnamed Middle eastern country. Danske Bank’s internal investigation found “reprehensible conditions” at the bank’s branch in Estonia and its Copenhagen headquarters. The official independent investigator report, released on September 19, 2018, found that the Estonian branch had maintained a portfolio of thousands of non-resident customers from Russia and other former Soviet states from 2007 to 2015. Magnitsky, who unsurprisingly wind-up dead, findings would ignite widespread sanction against Russia that escalated US Russian tension that resulted in the Ukraine war of 2022. It’s important to note that while Russian state corruption is not questioned here it must also be understood in the context of the American who partnered with the Russian and that ultimately the flow of this Orzark where the US banks of New York with conduit Pacific banks established in the early 1970s by US carpet bagger and their friends in the US intelligence community veteran of the war in South East Asia that gave birth to the Pacific Papers.

The main shareholder of VTB is the Russian government who own 60% remaining shareholding Qatar Holding LLC and the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) and more importantly from New Zealand point of view the commercial bank China Construction Bank whose directors included at one point the former New Zealand PM Jenny Shipley (who also hold shares).

In 2020 New Zealander Andrew Pearse admitted to receiving US$45 million in bribes, washed through Christchurch real estate market. Pearse oversaw the borrowing of more than US$2 billion from Credit Suisse and Russian Bank VTB by Mozambican state-owned companies between 2013 and 2016 to fund maritime projects in the east African country, including a state-owned tuna fishery. A tenth of that money was allegedly diverted into bribes and kickbacks for at least 20 people involved in the scheme and the purchase of Israeli weapons.

Many of those ‘oil for guns’ terror accounts have washed cash though New Zealand banks using methodology familiar to anyone who has studied the Winebox or Gang of 20 affair active in New Zealand. And this is also true of those New Zealand interests later involved with the interconnecting Panama Paradise, Pandora Papers and the earlier related Pacific Papers.

Case involving New Zealand and the Azerbaijani Laundromat include

• 2018 New Zealand Matt Butterfield whose company Denton Morrell registered two New Zealand companies according to Nicky Hager in November last year that took over nominal ownership of 16 suspected Azerbaijan-linked companies, holding property and other assets across Europe. The real owners were hidden behind a screen of 100 percent shareholding by a Denton Morrell subsidiary a US criminal case in the US identified Butterfield as part of a plot to “misappropriate $US74 million held in trusts”. A 2019 obituary in the NZ Herald said Butterfield, the company’s sole director and ultimate shareholder, died on June 9, aged 42 years. It did not say how he died.
  
• 2019 Israel’s largest aerospace and aviation manufacturer transferred at least $155 million to two companies that were reportedly used as a secret slush fund for Azerbaijan’s kleptocratic elite, according to bank documents included in a massive new leak of US financial material. The Deutsche Bank reports describe two companies — Jetfield Networks and Larkstone Ltd. — as recipients of the $155 million in IAI payments. Jetfield Networks was founded in New Zealand in 2009 and became incorporated in the Marshall Islands in February 2012. It originally described itself as engaged in commerce, including the buying and selling of construction equipment, but later branched out into “consulting services. The company’s beneficiary, Javid Huseynov, an Azeri man born in 1961. Huseynov is also the beneficiary of Larkstone Ltd., a company incorporated in Estonia.
  
• 2024 Press reports detail how in 2007 a company owned by Azerbaijan’s president, Baylar Eyyubov in the British Virgin Islands received $250,000 from a New Zealand shell company. The origin of the money is unknown, but the New Zealand company Bigland Corporation has been alleged by Danske Bank, where it held an account, to have engaged in money laundering of North Korean weapons using an aircraft leased to a New Zealand company that revealed billions of dollars of money linked to the Russian mafia and Mexican cartel was being washed through major New Zealand banks including the ANZ and BNZ.

To give all those dirty dollars physical context lets look at another kiwi visitor Antonov AN124 UR–82073 which delivered the final NH90, NZ3308, to RNZAF Base Ohakea on 30 October 2014. A few years later 2020 it was flying missions of another kind over the Balkans,.

“During the month-long war in Artsakh, military cargo shipments from Turkey and a number of other countries to Azerbaijan continue. Although Baku has been preparing for large-scale hostilities for a long time, the number of aircraft supplying military equipment and other necessary goods to Azerbaijan has been growing throughout the war”.

According to various sources, Azerbaijan currently receives arms from Turkey, Israel and Belarus, and mercenaries are mainly transferred to the war zone from Syria. The Fact Investigation Platform gathered information on the supplying countries and frequencies of air cargo transportation to Azerbaijan since September 27 2020. The source is the Swedish website Flightradar24.com, which allows you to get as complete information as possible about the flights, their destinations and the aircraft carrying out the flight such UR-82073 which flew from Kyiv to Baku on October 17 2020.

Fact investigation continues “it is also noteworthy that the aircraft belonging to the US Armed Forces was flying irregularly for several days in the territory of Georgia, in the territories near the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It most likely observed the border areas of the two countries“. To sum up, all the above-mentioned flights to Azerbaijan were carried out through the airspace of Georgia, although the government of the country had made a decision to ban the transfer of military equipment through its airspace. The aircraft also participated in NATO’s Operation Desert Falcon (ODF) involving Belgium latest F-16AM mission against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Oh my oh my it’s a small world after all.

My first book, written in 1999 pre-911, had focuses on the Baltic Middle Eastern and African arms smuggling operations of Shimon Lahav an Israeli with multiple passports. In New Zealand Rod Vaughan of TVNZ had concentrated on Spitz’s role in smuggling Eastern European made weapons to the war zones of the Balkans. In addition, Vaughan examined Spitz’s relationship to the Australian arms of the charity CARE Australia. The charity had its own nefarious relationships with Western intelligence services which would surface repeatedly in connection to allegations of it being used as a front for spying in Kosovo, Iraq and Somalia.

In Somalia the airport that would be used by Spitz, to deliver aid from CARE Australia (whose compound was later use by used by US intelligence), would later be used to service and arm the former fishermen and militia who had turned to piracy. The airport had been built by UN cater New Zealander David Morris who back in 1999 (before the piracy crisis became mainstream news) had been killed according to his former partner **, who I interviewed, by the CIA for refusing to make way for a ‘future’ operation the CIA had planned for the airport. True or not the Morris built runway would go on to part be owned and developed by Ranger Oil of Australia and the Dubai based Lootah Group. According to a US hearing into the Iraq UNFFOP Wasel and Babel General Trading, “a Dubai-based member of the Lootah Group”, was set up “to cater for the needs of Iraq Government under ‘Oil for Food program,”’*’ and sold some $300million, mostly in vehicles. I am guessing for some reason those vehicles where probably Toyotas and perfect for milia and revolutionary groups like ISIS. A cynical view I admit but a reasonable one when you learn United States Custom and US Treasury both report AWB was involved in an attempt by Iraq to purchase a 43-million-dollar sophisticated surface-to-air missile system.

Spitz had numerous connections to the same western intelligence services who had alternatively financed former Nazis and being said to have backed the Estonia arms smugglers whom Russia had allegedly served a ‘cease and desist notice’ And when he fled Lugarno and established Pacific Express in New Zealand in 1991 his management team would include former staff members of Sothern World Airlines an aviation Cargo business run with numerous links to the Pacific Papers of the 1980s and with Mexican cocaine traffickers in the US. And as Vaughan exposed SWA and Pacific Express his colleagues at TVNZ Investigative series Eye Witness would reveal that a number of New Zealand ministers and the chairman of CARE Australia former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser where member of another secret ‘brotherhood’ called Project Democracy. Project Democracy had been established by Ronald Regan’s former National Security Adviser Richard V Allen whose existence as part time New Zealand resident I would only learn about when he wrote a letter to the New York Times and singed it a shareholder Yukos Oil Russia living in Arrowtown New Zealand. Allen business partners in Otago would be Graham Smolenski a New Zealander with interest in Las Vegas casinos who part time managed the Millbrook resort and provided catering to the FIVE EYES spies chief when they met for counter terrorism meeting in Queenstown.

The reason given for why Spitz had shifted his operation from Lugarno Switzerland to New Zealand is that the Russian had leaked his arms trafficking operations to the Swiss press. While in my book I connect him to the cocaine and weapons smuggling operations of Russian Mobster Leonid Minin who in 2000 was arrested in a hotel room in Italian hotel room full of cocaine, gems cash, naked hookers and briefcase full of papers that documented his arms trafficking. In 2023 while working for a London bank investigating money laundering, I would find another paper trail that linked former Pacific Express Southern World Airline employees to Italian Mexican narco traffickers whose New Zealand connections were using Queenstown hotel development and the failed Hanover Finance company to launder funds.

More recently another bent charity with Lugarno banking terrorism connections has surfaced. At the time of writing hundreds of thousands of pounds in gold bullion has been seized and taken from the British-based charity St George Trust set up by an Italian neo-fascist Robeto Fiore. £150,000 worth of asset including gold bullion were seized off individuals “unconnected to the charity”, which was however using the charities website and social media accounts to peddle far-Right propaganda material “likely to be interpreted as support” for the Islamist terror group Hezbollah.

One of those individuals is Roberto Fiore, leader of Italy’s Far-Right Forza Nuova party. Fiore was sentenced to eight years in prison in December 2023 for his role in an attack on a trade union headquarters in Rome. Fiore had previously moved to London after fleeing Italy in September 1980, following the bombing of Bologna rail station, which killed 85 people and injured 200 more. At the time the Bologna bombing (originally blamed on left wing terrorist) was described as Europe worse terrorist attack.

Common consensus is that the Bologna attack was ordered by Licio Gelli, a wartime Italian fascist and member of the post war Nazi resistance alternatively known as Spider, ODESSA, Werewolf or the Octopus (among others). A network of former Gestapo , SS and Italian Fascist who post war would find new employment post war in the rising US USSR Cold War tension.

US intelligence and NATO would turn to their former enemies to create a secret ‘stay behind’ army that would be self-funded by using stolen Nazi gold and artworks. Known as Il-Glaido this network of former Nazi commandoes, spies’ assassins and saboteurs was authorized by the highest levels.

In Italy the Il-Gladio brotherhood would be code named ‘Propaganda Duo’ . As part of its cover, it would mimic the Italian Freemason lodge Propaganda Uno established by the father of Italian unification Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Garibaldi revolution launched in 1860s would use the gold gathered by Italian miners in California. According to the Garibaldi Club in Wellington, located next to the site of the former Il Casino Restaurant in (Wellington where I use to work just round the corner from the Chinese Anglo Masonic lodge), confirm the Italian Masonic Lodge role in 19century revolution noting on its website “Garibaldi commissioned Andrea Sgarallino to collect gold and money from the gold seekers of California (the famous gold rush had begun in 1849) which would be used to organise future expeditions”. *1 Garibaldi revolutionary influence would be felt through the gold fields of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and Latin America in the 19th century, with mines, mountains, and other geographical features, named Garibaldi by the Italian miners. While the famous red tunic worn by Garibaldi revolutions was adopted by gold miners of California and by the miners at the Eureka Uprising, who called themselves the Californian Rangers and fought under the Californian flag (in turn inspired by Garibaldi and the brotherhood of The Native Sons of the Golden Dawn). Even today Garibaldi remains today the official marine state fish of California as indication of his influence on the 19th century gold rushes.

These days it not overtly fashionable to talks about secret societies, without being branded conspiratorial. Back then such societies where a dime a piece and served as safe spaces for open dialogue about everything from academia to religious discourse, removed from the restrictive eye of the church and state.

• IL Casino was founded by the genius-madman Cavalier Remiro Bresolin an Italian Venetian knighted for his service to cuisine.
  
  One day someone needs to write a book about this famous New Zealand eatery built in a former opium den. I say that as someone who was as they say ‘there’ and part of the Cav mafia. IL casino would have given the eatery in Dinner Rush a run for its money.
  
  Wellington Italian community exist largely because in 1876 150 Livorno citizens were offered free passage to New Zealand by the British Government. The immigrant involved in the setting up Club Garibaldi in 1882 picked the name as according to their descendent many of them came from families that had known and fought with Giuseppe Garibaldi in the battles to liberate and unite Italy. 

Much has been written about whether P2 was a truly masonic brotherhood, or it just used the lodge as a cover and to convince would be recruit it was part of something far ancient than it was in reality. Such writers have argued that Gelli was simply aping the Freemason lodge to disguise its fascist roots, but the point is moot. All that modern Neo Nazi hunters need to understand is that in the past decades the lodge, which in general attracts the politically conservative, has been used as place to recruit a brotherhood of extremist.

Both the Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant and the Norwegian mass shooter Anders Brevik have claimed membership to the lodge or at least pseudo-Templar organizations as the myth of the lodge templars ties are sold to those ideology want to associate with the Christian crusade against Islam in the 11th century – though that line becomes strained when we examine the numerous cases where dark money mutually funds both Islamic extremist and Neo Nazis (while in addition Tarrant supporter arrested in Frace where called anti masonic).

In the corruption trial of Gelli Italian magistrates would learn that the ideology was not that important. The Italian Mafia P2 hired both left wing and right-wing terrorist to eliminate its enemies. In what was called the Politics of Tension the goal was to create a climate of fear that would result in the public begging for the authorities to give the security forces more power and for the state to have more power.

In Italy Gelli P2 affiliates included a list of over 2000 high-profile citizens and state officials that puts the Epstein list to shame.

Licio Gelli P2 activities saw him sentenced in 1995 for “subversive association” and his role in misleading the investigations into the Bologna massacre. In addition, he was sentenced to 12 years in jail for fraud in connection with the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, whose boss Roberto Calvi — known as “God’s banker” for his ties to the Vatican — was found hanged under a bridge in London in 1982. Nearly a 120 million of the Vatican money would be found in the Gelli accounts at the Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corp in Geneva after Gelli fled initially to the Lugarno where P2 ‘super lodge’ was based.

In 1991 a European Parliament inquiry stated that while in London, Fiore was recruited by MI6, who allegedly used him to gather intelligence about terrorist training camps in Lebanon. 

Fiore, an associate of Nick Griffin, former leader of the far-Right British National Party, denied these claims, after they were also raised in the House of Commons. The questions in Westminster raised following a response to a Freedom of Information request from Italian journalist Sabrina Provenzani that stated that releasing the secret information “could compromise national security”. The UK based Telegraph newspaper in similar tone revealed in 2024 that much of Fiore’s activity in the UK “will remain secret after Whitehall officials refused to release his intelligence files” The UK Home Office has stated “it would not publish its file dealing with Italy’s extradition request for Fiore and three other members of the far-Right”.

The inquiry into Saint Georges Educational Trust charity found that “the trustees’ actions demonstrated a complete failure in their duty to act in the charity’s best interests”. Further, “there was no evidence that they conducted any checks on the entities transferring funds to the charity’s bank account, nor did they independently assess how the money was spent” . The Charity Commission had previously investigated SGET in 1997, following earlier allegations it was fundraising and propaganda front for far-Right activities.  Following the latest investigation, the three trustees who subsequently took over running the trust, including Michael Fishwick, a former National Front member and longstanding associate of Fiore, have all been banned from serving in a similar role for any other charities.

Luganro its Swiss goblins and the FFOP as it turns out are also heavily plugged New Zealand directly into the terror network and the Orzark the river of dark money. And regardless of the mask, or name, you wish to give to those funding extremism – be it Islamic far right (and even left wing)- I would find those flaming the fires of insurrection whatever name they gave their syndicate or firm were motivated by not by patriotism, or ideology, but by their desire for gold in all its forms be it black white or gold itself. Gold they would use fund war for the purpose of having more gold.

It’s a tale of how those supposedly tasked with protecting us from violence (Sub Rosa the Brotherhood of the Rose) in reality orchestrate violence for the single purpose of protecting their own self-interest and the interest of their private clubs the sub rosa – the brotherhood of the rose. It’s a lesson which unsurprising they would have us forget. We do so at our own peril. As Giuseppe garibaldi himself stated “The day the peasants will be educated in the truth, tyrants and slaves will be impossible on earth”.