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This was the conclusion of Gideon Rachman of the London financial Times in a December 8, 2008, dispatch headlined "And now for a World Government.' What this journalist wrote about in a mainstream publication is what America's Survival ,Inc. (ASI) has been warning about in books and reports for over a decade.

ASI is the nation's leading U.N. and foreign policy watchdog organization and runs the popular websites www.usasurvival.org and www.stopglobaltaxes.org

"So, it seems, everything is in place,' wrote Rachman, after examining the crisis in global financial affairs and other areas. "For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government.'

Rachman focused some of his attention on the Managing Global Insecurity (MGI) project, which we examined in our report, "Obama to Usher in China-dominated New Global Order.' The MGI report argues for "responsible sovereignty' on the part of the U.S. in foreign affairs.

ASI believes, however, that this sovereignty-destroying global agenda can be beaten back. Major parts of what is being called "global governance' can only be accomplished through passage of various United Nations treaties, which require 67 votes in the Senate. In addition, a movement toward "global governance' or world government is sure to generate a public backlash.

Our work on the Davis story broke important ground and we even obtained and posted the 600-page FBI file on his communist and subversive activities. The entry on our website concerning "Communism in America' has an extraordinary collection of anti-communist congressional reports and other information on communist networks in Chicago and Hawaii and across the U.S.

As a result of our work in this area, we are currently following up on several leads regarding the work of communist operatives in public policy.

The Law of the Sea Treaty project included a series of newspaper and TV ads and briefings for Congressional staff, activists, and members of Congress. Working with a coalition of groups, the treaty was stopped from coming to a vote. But it will be back in 2009, along with several others.

The communism in America project included a news conference on Capitol Hill, the hiring of a public relations firm to arrange media interviews, Internet ads on Newsmax.com and other sites, and the production of more than a dozen special reports. Cliff Kincaid, Herbert Romerstein, and Andrew Walden, who wrote a special report for ASI on Frank Marshall Davis and his bizarre sexual activities, did literally dozens of radio interviews on the subject. Our work was picked up by hundreds of media and Internet outlets and was even included in two major books on Obama.

We have witnessed concerted efforts in 2009 by "progressive' forces to support President Obama's Marxist agenda. This has been most apparent in the campaigns to take control of the health care and energy sectors of the U.S. economy. Since early in 2008, America's Survival, Inc. (ASI) has documented how these forces include various Marxist and Communist Party spin-off groups which had coalesced behind Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency.

Equally significant, we have discovered and documented that the Roman Catholic Church is deeply involved in backing Obama and his agenda.

The evidence shows that the largest religious organization in the U.S. with 63 million members (23 percent of the U.S. population) has become a major force for the passage of socialist legislation on health care and climate change in the U.S. Congress. Conservative Catholic Raymond Arroyo, the host of Catholic television network EWTN's "The World Over" program, has stated that half or more of the Catholic Bishops voted for Obama. What's more, the Vatican has embraced the idea of a world government, and the Vatican newspaper has praised Karl Marx. We have also discovered that several Catholic groups have been directly funded by the Open Society Institute of George Soros, an admitted atheist who operates a secretive hedge fund. These include:

It also turns out that Soros and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) share common interests, having both funded "community organizing' groups such as ACORN and the Gamaliel Foundation. The latter sponsored Obama's work as a Chicago "community organizer.'

In addition, the Open Society Institute in 2009 has provided substantial sums of money to "faith-based' groups such as Faith in Public Life ($450,000) and the PICO National Network ($600,000). Both organizations include prominent Catholics. Indeed, PICO founder and former Executive Director John Baumann, a Jesuit Catholic Priest, won an award early in 2009 from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the agency of the USCCB which funded ACORN to the tune of $7.3 million over ten years. An ACORN-style group, PICO specializes in "faith-based community organizing.'

In 2010, ASI will devote substantial resources to exposing the "progressive' elements of the Roman Catholic Church. It is clear that the religious left, now with funding from George Soros, has actually supplanted the secular Marxist left in its effectiveness. This year-end ASI report examines the nature of this Soros/Catholic alliance in detail.

In 2009, ASI, with an established record over a ten-year period, especially on the scrutiny of global institutions and the international communist movement, devoted substantial resources to the cold case in San Francisco that implicates Weather Underground leaders and now professors Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in the bombing murder of Police Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell. We had documented their relationship with Obama during 2008.

We continue to believe that the spectacle of a U.S. President having friendly relations with identified communist terrorists is a matter of grave concern. What's more, Obama appointed an Attorney General, Eric Holder, who had been involved in the previous administration of Bill Clinton in facilitating presidential pardons of members of the same terrorist group.

We featured former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl at news conferences in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. Grathwohl, who infiltrated the Weather Underground and has provided evidence implicating Ayers and Dohrn in the McDonnell murder, told ASI President Cliff Kincaid:

I also wanted to express my gratitude for all that you do for our country and recognize the difficulties your efforts must create in your life and those close to you. I am certain that many, if not most, of our fellow countrymen have no idea as to the danger we currently face and the efforts you make to enlighten them. Please keep up the good work that you do for all of us and know that there are many who recognize and appreciate your effort(s).

Our record of major achievements, including the publication of reports on these matters, includes:

Because of our work, awareness is growing and pressure is mounting for an expanded probe of Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, for their alleged roles in the 1970 bombing murder of Sgt. McDonnell. We were especially pleased that, as a result of our efforts, a liberal reporter named Peter Jamison wrote an article for a series of alternative weekly papers documenting the belief of former law enforcement officials, including FBI agents, that Ayers and Dohrn were linked to the crime. The police union in San Francisco publicly supports our efforts.

Our news conference on this matter was covered extensively in the media, including on Fox News, the Politico, and the San Francisco media, television and print.

Copies of our reports are provided to a select list of top policy makers and thinkers and media figures. Fox News personality Glenn Beck has called upon us for research help and has used our material on the air.

Our regular Internet advertising includes Newsmax.com and Newswithviews.com. Print advertising has been placed in the Washington Times. We make regular media appearances on nationally syndicated radio programs such as "The Savage Nation' with Michael Savage on the Talk Radio Network and "Janet Parshall's America' on the Salem Radio Network.

We have a grass-roots network of over 15,000 activists and thousands more who subscribe to our on-line newsletter, available at www.usasurvival.org.

Our material is featured in the U.S. on such popular Internet sites as www.Newswithviews.com and www.Worldnetdaily.com and abroad on such sites as Trevor Loudon's New Zeal blog http://newzeal.blogspot.com/ and John Styles' The Australian Conservative at www.australianconservative.com

However, at the time that we publicized the information about Obama's communist connections, especially his relationship with Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, our ad (see below) promoting this material was rejected by the Drudge Report because it was deemed too "controversial.'

The situation in 2009 has changed dramatically. As Obama has pursued his agenda here and abroad, conservatives who had been skeptical or doubtful of our information admitted that we were right after all.

Our research led us to a book by Dr. John W. Robbins 1 that cites historical evidence for the charge that the Catholic Church has "played an indispensable role in the centralization, politicization, and socialization of American society and economy in the twentieth century.' This information — on top of the revelations about Catholic Church funding of ACORN and similar organizations over the course of decades €“ puts the problem in perspective. Robbins notes the spectacular failure of certain conservative Catholic personalities and their organizations to acknowledge, let alone expose, the church's propagation of anti-capitalist ideas.

We propose a series of reports, in addition to conferences, advertising and other special projects, to highlight the problem.

We had anticipated this problem when we published Robert Chandler's report, "Marxism in the Catholic Church,' after Obama had made a triumphant visit to the University of Notre Dame. After the Vatican endorsed a "World Political Authority' and Pope Benedict had a friendly meeting with president Obama, we published the report, "Sowing the Seeds of Global Government: The Vatican's Quest for a World Political Authority.'

Even before this, we had published an exclusive story about how representatives of the United Religions Initiative and the World Parliament of Religions were among those included in a controversial Bay Area conference held at the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit Catholic institution with a "global perspective,' under the auspices of the Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought.

One of the speakers was a certified witch called "Elder Donald Frew' of the "Wiccan Community.' He has represented Covenant of the Goddess at both Parliaments of the World's Religions and serves on the Global Council of the U.N.-affiliated United Religions Initiative.

This "Interfaith Leaders' Luncheon on the Point 7 Now Campaign to End Global Poverty' was held on February 20, 2008, in conjunction with the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Episcopal Diocese of California. The "Point 7 Now' refers to a mandate on the federal government to force compliance with the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations and devote .7 percent of the Gross National Product to foreign aid. The same goal was implied in then-Senator Barack Obama's Global Poverty Act. The estimated cost was $845 billion.

While abortion has become a point of contention in the health care debate, the Robbins book, published in 1999, explains how the Roman Catholic Church has lent its moral authority to "the movement for further socialization of health care in the United States.' The Catholic Bishops, who operate a staff of 350 people in Washington, D.C. and an annual budget of $131 million ( as of 2002), believe that "health care is a basic human right,' which is driving the campaign to have the federal government take over the health care sector. The Bishops are so radical on health care reform that they even endorsed government health care for illegal aliens. (Approximately 39% - or 25 million — of U.S. Catholics are Hispanic.)

A resolution of the Catholic Bishops of the United States, dated June 18, 1993, and entitled, "A Framework for Comprehensive Health Care Reform: Protecting Human Life, Promoting Human Dignity, Pursuing the Common Good,' says explicitly that health care "is more than a commodity; it is a basic human right€¦' and that "This right is explicitly affirmed in [the Papal encyclical] Pacem in Terris and is the foundation of our advocacy for health care reform.2

In fact, the papal Pacem in Terris or "Peace on Earth' encyclical says that man has not only a "right' to medical care but food, clothing, shelter, rest, and "necessary social services.' This is a blueprint for a socialist state.

Beyond religion, there is a practical reality. The Catholic Church operates 600 Catholic Hospitals. A national health care plan is a means by which some of the costs could be dumped on taxpayers. Another factor is the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which recently announced a major agreement with the Catholic Bishops to make it easier for workers in Catholic hospitals to join unions. These employees would normally be entitled to employer-paid health insurance. But under the national health care bill they could be transferred to a government plan offered under a "health insurance exchange."

The turning point for the passage of health care legislation in the House of Representatives came when Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick made a telephone call from Rome to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic. McCarrick asked for passage of the "pro-life' Bart Stupak amendment as a means by which the bill, then in trouble, could be saved and pass the House. 3 A half dozen lobbyists for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops joined negotiators in Pelosi's office to make a deal. The ploy worked. This ensured passage of the legislation, enabling the Senate to take up its own version of the bill.

McCarrick has said of Pelosi that he's always found her to be "a very thoughtful and committed defender of human rights.' 4

Like the president, Pelosi does not have to go through a background investigation in order to get a security clearance. This loophole in the law enables the president and members of Congress to automatically qualify for security clearances, even if they have controversial backgrounds and associations, by virtue of the fact that they get elected to high office in Washington, D.C.

In the case of Speaker Pelosi, who is second in the line of succession to the presidency after the vice president, there is increasing concern about whether she can be trusted with national security secrets. But the concern not only involves her unsubstantiated charges against the CIA over what officials told her about the treatment of terrorists, but her close personal relationship with pro-Castro Rep. Barbara Lee and the "progressive" Hallinan family of San Francisco, once under scrutiny by the California Senate Fact-finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities for their pro-Soviet propaganda efforts.

Pelosi has represented the city of San Francisco, perhaps the most liberal in the nation, since 1987, and Rep. Lee, who represents neighboring Oakland and Berkeley, California, is the most vocal apologist for Communist Cuba in Congress today. Lee, head of the Congressional Black Caucus, recently led a delegation to Cuba to meet with the Castro brothers to discuss normalization of relations. She paid no attention to political dissidents or political prisoners being held on the communist island.

Lee, who calls Pelosi "a magnificent woman" and "one of California's greatest representatives," began her career in the California state legislature as a secret member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a spin-off from the Communist Party. As a member of the staff of Rep. Ron Dellums, Lee was shown to have been collaborating with communist officials on the island of Grenada, according to documents captured after the liberation of that island nation. These revelations have not hurt Lee's standing with Pelosi and other "progressives." Indeed, Lee also served as the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

In addition to the role of the U.S. Catholic Bishops in backing health care legislation, ASI documented that the Catholic Church is deeply involved in passing global warming legislation that would raise energy costs and taxes on the American people.

Cardinal McCarrick also became a major player in the "climate change' issue, saying that Catholic bishops "will be promoting a new Climate Covenant' and "take the message on the seriousness of climate change to every Catholic parish in America.' There are 19,000 Catholic parishes in the United States.

As noted in various documents, the Catholic Bishops believe that the U.S. should adopt "mitigation and adaptation" approaches that mean "shifting behavior now to adjust to the near-term impacts of climate change." The Bishops have explained that "Mitigation means cutting back on the emissions of harmful global warming pollutants and taking action to prevent further harm to the atmosphere." The Bishops have launched a "Climate Change Justice and Health Initiative" that promotes "legislative action," including "the transfer of such technologies and technical assistance that may be appropriate and helpful to developing countries in meeting the challenges of global climate change."

The Catholic Coalition on Climate Change was launched in 2006 as a vehicle of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. This group says that "Because we are not experts on climate change and its consequences, we rely on a scientific consensus (best represented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to guide our activities."

In addition to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change enjoys the active support of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Carmelite NGO, Catholic Charities USA, the Catholic Health Association of the United States, Catholic Relief Services, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, the Franciscan Action Network, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, and the National Council of Catholic Women.

A related organization is the Catholic Climate Covenant, which claims that the poor are suffering because of the "carbon footprints" of people in the United States and other "rich" nations.

America Magazine, the national Catholic weekly published by the Jesuits, complained that Congress did not pass legislation on greenhouse gas emissions before the United Nations Copenhagen meeting. "The United States will thus remain the only developed nation with no established target for carbon reduction," it said. The magazine praised the National Religious Partnership for the Environment and the Catholic Campaign on Climate Change for being "vigorous advocates for integrating the world's poor in a climate covenant with funding for both adapting infrastructure to meet the hardships of changing climate and for transferring green technology." It went on, "If the planet is to survive, as Pope Benedict XVI concluded in Caritas in Veritate, all nations must accept binding reductions in carbon emissions and construct an equitable structure for energy consumption and for sharing the development of green technology among rich and poor nations--for the sake of this generation and generations to come."

In the encyclical, the Pope says that there is a need for a "a worldwide redistribution of energy resources" and that, "The technologically advanced societies can and must lower their domestic energy consumption, either through an evolution in manufacturing methods or through greater ecological sensitivity among their citizens."

We asked Walter Grazer, who served as the Director of the Environmental Justice Program for the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops from 1993 to 2007 and is now interim executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, for a comment on ClimateGate and replied, "I am really not up on that issue at all."

Writing on an American Enterprise Institute blog, Jay Richards took note of what we had found. Richards, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, has held leadership positions at the Discovery Institute and the Acton Institute and has a Ph.D. in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was formerly a teaching fellow. He is the author of Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. He noted:

In the child sex abuse scandal that cost the Catholic Church at least $1 billion in settlements with victims and their families, the church was penetrated over many years by homosexual activists, some of whom attained positions of power. Can there be any doubt that the church has been infiltrated by Marxist elements as well?

The latest evidence of this is found in Spies in the Vatican: The Soviet Union's Cold War Against the Catholic Church, by John Koehler. The book confirms communist penetration of the Vatican during the Cold War, even during the time when Pope John Paul II was opposing Soviet power. More relevant for our purposes, however, is the earlier work by the late Vatican insider Malachi Martin, The Jesuits, and his subsequent, The Keys of This Blood, which was published in 1990 and subtitled: "The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev & The Capitalist West.'

During an interview I conducted with Malachi Martin in 1990, he said the belief of the Vatican was that both systems, communism and capitalism, would collapse, and that out of the chaos would come the New World Order. One of his main themes was that Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the "restructuring' of the old Soviet Union, never gave up on Marxism-Leninism but adopted the viewpoint of the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci that a worldwide communist state could only be achieved gradually. It was to be a "revolution by infiltration.'

"Liberation Theology was a perfectly faithful exercise of Gramsci's principles,' Martin wrote. "The most powerful religious orders of the Roman Church — Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, Maryknollers — all committed themselves to Liberation Theology.'

Robert Chandler, in his ASI Report, How Marxism Has Infiltrated the Catholic Church, noted that, "...Notre Dame has one of the leading Gramsci scholars on its faculty. Joseph A. Buttigieg, a Professor of English at Notre Dame, is the editor and translator of the complete edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, and was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society, of which he is now president. 6 He spoke at the Brecht Forum, home of the New York Marxist School, in 1994 7 and was an endorser of the "150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto' conference, held October 30 & 31, 1998, at Cooper Union's Great Hall in New York.

Eugene Genovese, the Marxist turned Roman Catholic, delivered an essay at Notre Dame Law School on April 17, 1997, in which he said that the Marxist critique of capitalism "had much in common with the critique offered in Rerum Novarum,' the Papal encyclical of Pope Leo XIII "on capital and labor.' 8

Interestingly, Malachi Martin would note in his book, The Jesuits, that it was Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who would issue a refutation of Liberation Theology in 1984. Twenty five years later, as Pope Benedict, he would preside over the publication by the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, of an October 21, 2009, article by Georg Sans that praised the Marxist theory of alienation under capitalism. Sans teaches the History of Contemporary Philosophy at the Universit Gregoriana, the first Jesuit university.

The article, published in Italian, said that the church "must be grateful" to Marx for explaining the concept of "alienated labor" and "surplus value." Sans also said that "a large part of humanity" remains alienated. The article was reprinted by an Italian communist website, complete with an image of Karl Marx flashing a "V" for victory sign.

So-called "surplus value," which is said to amount to exploitation of workers under capitalism, is one of the major concepts of Marxism. It justifies the hatred of and violence against private property owners-the capitalists. "The doctrine of surplus value is the cornerstone of Marx's economic theory," stated V.I. Lenin.

Surplus value may sound esoteric but the concept is absolutely necessary in understanding the appeal of Marxism and the basis for revolutionary activity. The notion of surplus value is supposed to reflect the amount of output that exceeds the cost of the workers to produce a commodity. By definition under Marxism, this "surplus value," the source of what is commonly called profit, constitutes exploitation of the workers. It is the basis for government control of the economy and elimination of the property owners once the workers supposedly take charge.

The Vatican newspaper article is not a complete embrace of all aspects of Marxism. Sans is critical of Marx's materialism and how Marxism has been applied in practice by Communist parties. He calls this "ideological abuse" and says that an understanding of mankind has to take into account man's spiritual nature. Sans says that, "The history of Marxism has taught us, however, that all attempts to introduce communism by force ended up in an injustice and an even greater misery."

On the other hand, the article still puts the Vatican newspaper on the side of the Marxist philosophy of state control in the name of liberating the workers. "We must be grateful to the philosopher for the idea that man should be considered in light of the mode of production and form of economic management which predominate in society," he writes.

However, as Thomas Sowell points out in his book, Marxism, the Marxist analysis ignores the value produced by the capitalists who exercised private property rights in creating the means of production and employing the workers in the first place. Hence, the Marxist concept of surplus value, Sowell argues, is "Plainly arbitrary and unsupported." It is essential to Marxist theory because the abolition of private property is a major plank in the communist platform.

The Sans article doesn't just embrace the Marxist theory of alienation from the economy. On the matter of the natural environment, Sans expands this dubious theory to include another "aspect of alienation" which he said involves "man against nature." Sans condemned the "overexploitation of natural resources and environmental destruction" that are said to characterize industrial societies.

He explained, "No need to be materialistic to recognize that we must establish a degree of harmony between man and his natural environment. It is not simply to relate to a living space or obtaining food, but take account of the man who shall be a unity of body and spirit." He goes on to condemn the "overexploitation of natural resources and environmental destruction" that are said to result from such alienation.

As noted by the London Times, "Professor Sans's article was first published in La Civilt Cattolica, a Jesuit paper, which is vetted in advance by the Vatican Secretariat of State. The decision to republish it in the Vatican newspaper gives it added papal endorsement."

Kevin Clarke wrote a blog posting on the site of America magazine, the national Catholic Jesuit weekly, which declared, somewhat jokingly, "We're all Marxists now!"

ASI has been warning of world government financed by global taxes for a decade. ASI President Cliff Kincaid wrote the books, Global Bondage (1995) and Global Taxes for World Government (1997). Our efforts have taken on added significance because of the Pope's embrace of a "World Political Authority.'

What is driving the agenda is a Marxist view that the U.S. is exploiting the people and natural resources of the world. According to this perspective, international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and even the U.N.

must be restructured and provided with new financial resources to supervise and manage the redistribution of the world's wealth. The United States, being the leading capitalist state, has to pay the largest price.

Their attitude was expressed at a non-governmental organization forum in Monterrey, Mexico, associated with the U.N.'s International Conference on Financing for Development, that Christopher Columbus "invaded, destroyed and pillaged" the hemisphere and that a global tax was necessary to pay for the damage.

In his 2001 speech to the U.N. World Conference on Racism, Castro advocated the global Tobin Tax, named for the late Yale University economist James Tobin, specifically in order to generate U.S. financial reparations to the rest of the world. He declared, "May the tax suggested by Nobel Prize Laureate James Tobin be imposed in a reasonable and effective way on the current speculative operations accounting for trillions of US dollars every 24 hours, then the United Nations, which cannot go on depending on meager, inadequate, and belated donations and charities, will have one trillion US dollars annually to save and develop the world."

The only thing that has changed is that the U.S. now has a president who agrees with Castro, and he and his progressive backers believe that they can obtain a slice of the revenue for their socialist projects here as well.

ASI has now obtained a confidential memorandum from a foreign aid lobbyist, Max Lawson of Oxfam, that outlines how, over the next several months, dozens of international non-governmental organizations are working to create a media campaign to pressure governments to adopt a global financial transactions tax.

As outlined by Lawson, the idea is to create the appearance of public support for the plan, ultimately enabling G8 leaders meeting in Canada in June 2010 to agree to the global tax and then get acceptance from the G20 leaders meeting afterward.

At the same time, the U.S. Congress is moving ahead with the "Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act of 2009' (HR 4191), a financial transactions tax introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), a leading member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Lawson's document cites support for the tax from Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who endorsed the DeFazio measure during a December 7 news conference and announced that the bill would have to be made "global' to keep U.S. investors from taking their business overseas and out of taxable reach. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is introducing a similar bill, which has the backing of the AFL-CIO, in the Senate.

In the coalition known as "New Rules for Global Finance,' which is working in the U.S. on this campaign, we find the names of Father Andrew Small, associate director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office of National Collections and director of the Collection for the Church in Latin America; and Marie Dennis of the Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns.

In addition to those officially named as members of the "new rules' coalition, we find the following names on an email list of contacts for the author of the memorandum, Max Lawson of Oxfam:

CACG has received $200,000 from the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute over the last several years. Soros money has also gone into the Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), an organization established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops back in 1988. It has received at least $530,000 from the Open Society Institute.

The role of Chuck Collins of IPS is extremely revealing because the IPS is a notorious pro-Marxist think tank. It is significant that he is now traveling under the Catholic banner. His book, The Moral Measure of the Economy, is co-authored with Mary Wright, whose biography reads as follows:

The Treasurer-Secretary of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good is Francis Xavier Doyle, a former top official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Executive director is Victoria Kovari, a former organizer for the Gamaliel Foundation, the same group that helped launch Barack Obama's career as a community organizer in Chicago. The chairman is Alfred M. Rotondaro, a senior fellow at another Soros-funded group, the Center for American Progress.

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and NETWORK, a "National Catholic Social Justice Lobby' that claims to have 100,000 members, were behind a July 11-13, 2008, Convention for the Common Good which featured a speech by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. Sweeney, a Catholic, is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, a group of long-time backers of Barack Obama.

A release about the event said, "The first-of-its kind gathering featured leading Catholics in public life including Senators Bob Casey Jr. and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania; Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio; former Rep. Charles Dougherty of Pennsylvania; E.J. Dionne, Jr. of the Washington Post; Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO.'

The complete list of sponsoring organizations included Pax Christi USA; Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns; Center of Concern; Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good; NETWORK, A National Social Justice Lobby; Sisters of Mercy; National Catholic Rural Life Conference; Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities; Ignatian Solidarity Network; US Catholic Mission Association; Conference of Major Superiors of Men; Oblates of St. Francis De Sales; AFL-CIO; Franciscan Mission Service; Franciscan Action Network; Catholics United; Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice; University of San Francisco, Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought.

Father Charles L. Currie, president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, is a speaker for the CACG. The association discloses that:

The inclusion of Panetta is very significant because of his documented relationship with communist Hugh DeLacy, who served as a member of the U.S. Congress, and his work when he was a member of Congress opposing President Ronald Reagan's policy of supporting the Nicaraguan freedom fighters known as the Contras. The Contras were fighting a Communist Sandinista government that included Catholic Priests in positions of power. One of them, Father Miguel D'Escoto of the Maryknoll Order, was United Nations General Assembly President during much of 2009. As a Sandinista official, he had received the Lenin Peace Prize from the old Soviet Union.

In his ASI report, "From Henry Wallace to William Ayers-the Communist and 'Progressive' Movements," Herbert Romerstein notes, "Two secret Communist Party members became Democratic members of the United States Congress. They were John Bernard from Minnesota and Hugh DeLacy from Washington State. A 'friend of the Party' was Vito Marcantonio, who was elected to Congress first as a Republican, then as a Democrat, and finally as a candidate of the Communist Party controlled American Labor Party in New York."

Federal funding of ACORN is not just a Democratic Party or Obama Administration problem. As a chart produced by House Republican Leader John Boehner shows, most of the federal money going to the organization was provided under President George W. Bush. This is not something that most Republicans want to talk about, especially now that they can use ACORN funding as a weapon against Obama and the Democrats.

While Obama has strong ties to ACORN, they were originally established through the U.S. Catholic Church, which has also funded ACORN and similar organizations to the tune of $7.3 million over ten years through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). This is another taboo topic for most of the media. Even conservative news organizations are afraid of raising the issue, apparently fearing being tagged with the "anti-Catholic" label.

While the CCHD suspended funding for ACORN, Catholic funds flow to other similar organizations, such as the Gamaliel Foundation.

The Gamaliel Foundation, which has also received $300,000 from the Open Society Institute of George Soros, says on its website that "Barack H. Obama, former Gamaliel organizer, is the 44th president of the United States,' and that this makes the organizing community proud. It also has a story about Obama friend and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett speaking to a Gamaliel event in Washington, D.C. of 2,500 activists. Jarrett is the official who said that "we" had recruited communist Van Jones to the White House. Another speaker was Melody Barnes, Obama's Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Before coming to the White House, Barnes was the executive vice president for Policy at the Soros-funded Center for American Progress. Van Jones also worked at CAP before going to the White House. CAP CEO and President John Podesta, who served as President Clinton's chief of staff, is a major "progressive Catholic" and member of the ACORN advisory council, and served as a professor at Georgetown University. Podesta is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.

On October 6, 2009, Podesta accepted the "Drinan Award," named for Catholic Priest Robert F. Drinan. Georgetown said that Drinan, a professor at Georgetown Law from 1981 until his death in 2007, was a "leading voice in the human rights movement for more than half a century" and "was affiliated with numerous organizations devoted to the furtherance of human rights." In fact, Drinan was a far-left radical who opposed U.S. efforts to prevent a communist takeover of Vietnam. A Democrat who served in Congress, before he was forced by the Vatican to step down, he opposed the impeachment of President Clinton and served on the national advisory council of the ACLU. He presided over a Mass honoring Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi on January 3, 2007.

Interestingly, Tom Chabolla of the SEIU and formerly of the CCHD was on the dinner committee for the 33rd Annual Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award Dinner, which was held on May 7, 2009 in Washington, D.C. One of the award winners was none other than Van Jones.

Our work on this matter is already attracting the attention of major conservative Catholic thinkers. Deal W. Hudson, the director of InsideCatholic.com and the author of Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States, noted:

In a Politico.com story about Barack Obama's friendly meeting with the Pope, reporter Josh Gerstein featured information that made it clear that the President's Catholic connection goes back to his days as a community organizer and that Obama's associates understand and appreciate this fact. Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough was quoted as saying that Obama's work as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago "was funded partly" by the CCHD. McDonough, a former Senior Fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, was the moderator of a May 10, 2006, CAP event on "How Catholic Progressives View the Role of Faith in Governance."

The evidence of Catholic collaboration with Marxist and "progressive" networks is substantial. A documentary, "The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy,"notes that "Alinsky envisioned an 'organization of organizations,' comprised of all sectors of the community-youth committees, small businesses, labor unions, and, most influential of all, the Catholic Church." A website devoted to the documentary cites the Catholic Campaign for Human Development as one of several organizations "actively practicing Alinsky's techniques."

The Citizen's Handbook to radical organizing notes that "much' of the organizing through Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) "occurs through Christian churches, particularly the Catholic church." The IAF is another ACORN-style group.

Obama "worked in several Catholic parishes, supported by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, helping to address severe joblessness and housing needs in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods of Chicago," noted the group calling itself Catholic Democrats. Another group, Catholics for Obama, says that "President Barack Obama reflects core values of Catholic Social Teaching, which informs how we live our faith in the world." The president of Catholic Democrats, Patrick Whelan, serves on the board of Catholics for Obama and as co-director of Pax Christi in Massachusetts.

In the newsletter of Pax Christi Massachusetts, Whelan writes about flying to Chicago in May of this year, "where I attended a reunion of Catholic Priests and community activists who hired a young Barack Obama in 1985."

Whelan says that Obama, in his book, Dreams from My Father, "created a character named Marty Kaufmann, based on two real-life community organizers who attended this gathering on May 16, 2009."

Whelan also writes about Obama's meeting with the Pope. "Overall," he says, "it was clear that the common ground between the US Government and the Holy See-on poverty, the environment, international armed conflict and peace in the Middle East-far outweighed their differences."

It is our belief, based on the evidence, that there is active collaboration between the Obama Administration, the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Because of the Leon Panetta connection, we believe this has to include the CIA. At the time Panetta was appointed, observers noted his lack of intelligence experience. His main foreign policy "expertise' was his work as a congressman opposing the Reagan Administration's attempts to keep communists out of Central America. His Jesuit connection not only helps explain his ideology but why he was appointed to this sensitive national security position in the first place.

We have just come across two important policy papers that further illustrate the deep involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in this movement for global taxes and world government. The first paper, dated 2004, is titled, "Working Towards Progressive Global Governance,' and was produced by CIDSE, an international alliance of Catholic development agencies, and Caritas, a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The second paper, dated November 2009, is from CIDSE and titled, "International Taxes on Financial Transactions: Responding to Global Challenges — towards a fairer sharing of costs.'

The U.S. affiliates of CARITAS are the CCHD, Catholic Charities, and Catholic Relief Services. The U.S. affiliate of CIDSE is the Center for Concern, a Catholic group that once belonged to the "New Rules' Coalition.

Early in the new year ASI will be releasing a book that attempts to explain why the Vatican has embraced this movement, and what the Roman Catholic Church hopes to get out of it. It is titled, The Religious Face of the New World Order — From the Vatican to the White House and the United Religions Initiative.

One of the religious traditions considered legitimate by the United Religions Initiative is Wicca or witchcraft. 12

The author, Lee Penn, who previously wrote the book, False Dawn, about global religion, writes:

In other words, the Pope believes that the Roman Catholic Church has to fill this void and play this role. On a basic level, this can be benignly viewed as an attempt to bring together the world's Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.

But this particular form of global religion, as we see it developing, has been tried before. It was tried in Nazi Germany with disastrous consequences for the German people and the world. The difference this time is that they are attempting to impose a global, rather than nationalistic, form of Green ideology.

In this context, we have worked closely not only with Lee Penn, but Mark Musser, author of the forthcoming book, Nazi Oaks, and James Wanliss, author of the forthcoming, The Green Dragon. Musser documents in striking detail how the green ideology has its roots in the Nazi period, while Wanliss argues that the movement undermines the Judeo-Christian tradition. Both books are correct.

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, who survived the communist system and now leads a country that emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet empire, calls this a new form of communism threatening human freedom and progress.

He is correct as well. His book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles, quotes the authoritative essay, "Fascist Ideology: The Green Wing of the Nazi Party and Its Historical Antecedents,' by Peter Staudenmaier, as providing the backdrop for understanding the mentality driving the media-led hysteria over "global warming' and the alleged necessity for immediate governmental action at the national and global levels.

The point is the movement to "save' the environment has been taken over by ideologues who favor total government control over our lives.

Incredibly, U.S. tax dollars are being provided for this movement, not only through the United Nations, which established an "Environmental Sabbath' campaign, but the federally-funded U.S. Institute of Peace, which made a grant of $30,000 in 2002 to the United Religions Initiative.

Created by Congress in 1984, the Institute of Peace has received $100 million in federal funds so it can have its own headquarters in Washington, D.C. Groups and projects funded by the Institute have included:

The U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters is now under construction in Washington, D.C. and is supposed to include a "contemplation area,' described as a "quiet, meditative setting, where visitors can reflect on their journey through the PEC [Public Education Center].' of the building. The U.N. includes a "Meditation Room' with strange lights, modern art, and a large square block of stone, where U.N. officials are alleged to come into contact with spiritual forces. Critics describe it as a "pagan temple.'

1 John W. Robbins, Ecclesiastical megalomania: the economic and political thought of the Roman Catholic Church (Trinity Foundation, 1993).

2 http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/national/comphealth.shtml

3 Associated Press reported, "The call came in from Rome, just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants were scrambling to round up scarce votes to pass their sweeping health overhaul. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, was on the line for Pelosi, calling to discuss adding strict abortion restrictions to the House bill.'

4 http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0700087.htm/p>

5 http://blog.american.com/?p=8246

6 Buttigieg was on the "Gramsci and Education' panel at the 2003 "Marxism and the World Stage' conference, sponsored by "Rethinking Marxism' conference, and described as one in a "series of international Gala celebrations of the Marxian tradition.' See

7 http://brechtforum.org/node/1600

8 John W. Robbins, Ecclesiastical megalomania: the economic and political thought of the Roman Catholic Church (Trinity Foundation, 1993), page 43.

9 http://www.maryknollsocietymall.org/description.cfm?ISBN=978-1-57075-693-1

10 http://www.ajcunet.edu/index.aspx?bid=840

11 http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=35023&wf=rsscol

12 http://www.uri.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=90