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a little known alliance established between major religious organizations in
The partnership incorporates the churches with the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a federal government agency
that conducts foreign aid to advance the political and economic interests of
the
According to a Los Angeles Times article,
USAID relies on a host of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) to achieve its
goal of advancing the
As incongruous as it may seem, some of the largest
recipients of USAID funds--
According to a USAID annual report, the Adventists are joined by the Catholics, Lutherans, Mennonites, Nazarenes, Salvation Army, United Methodists, Jewish organizations and others. These churches gather in almost ecumenical-like fashion for their allotment of federal tax money.
The Times report calls the Adventist
partnership with the government "ironic," saying the church founders
equated the
Realizing that USAID uses these funds for the
advancement of
About one-and-a-half million people, mainly children, have been killed by the sanctions. That equates to about five percent of the Iraqi pre-sanction population. This is equivalent to about thirteen million dead Americans. Most of the Iraqi people live in poverty and approximately one-fifth are threatened with famine. The per-capita income has fallen from $2900 to the current sub-survival average of $60 per year. Mideast Realities reports that a can of powdered milk costs more than a doctor's monthly wage, a tray of thirty eggs costs more than a university professor's monthly wage.
Referring to the death and destruction inflicted on
the Iraqi people resulting from American foreign policy, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright was asked if the cost in human suffering was worth the gain
to the
For such atrocities, the Adventists, the Catholics, the Jews and all of the other religious organizations involved with government foreign policy, make themselves responsible for those things government does. Their willing collaboration with the State indicates where their true allegiance lies.
Speaking of the Adventists, one USAID official said, "We have found them to be a good, solid partner." What this statement actually says is, the Adventists and other religious groups have become good, solid partners in the work of moral destruction, tyranny and revolution that is represented in the system now being "lovingly" imposed on the world. The "caring" church participates in the process through its union with international policy.
USAID forbids proselytizing by the organizations
using USAID grant money because the
Discerning USAID's agenda will also reveal the true
motivations of many prominent religious organizations whose mission has been
coopted to serve another sinister global mission. The omission that
proselytizing is not what the churches are doing is ominous considering that
proselytizing is the very foundation and mission of the Christian faith. To not
proselytize is to acknowledge the power of the state over them since it is the
state which commands just how a church now under their financial umbrella must
behave and what they must say. They, in fact, proselytize for the
According to its web site, USAID is actively involved in promoting the interests and goals of the United Nations including:
USAID administrator J. Brian Atwood addressed the World Affairs Counsel in October 1998. He further clarified the role USAID is playing in the implementation of the globalism's agenda as it is quietly imposed on nation after nation. Atwood stated, "Secretary of State Albright summarized the essence of what we need to be doing: 'In the wake of the Cold War, it is not enough for us to say that Communism has failed...we must heed the lessons of the past, [and] take advantage of the opportunity that now exists to bring the world together in an international system based on democracy, open markets, law and a commitment to peace.'"
Politicians and bureaucrats are masters in the art of government double speak. Beneath the guise of flowers, their words paint a descriptive picture of their well-matured plans. Ms. Albright and Mr. Atwood speak of an international system based on democracy, open markets and law.
The democracy of which they speak is more accurately defined as World Social Democracy. This democracy is the rule of the majority who have been manipulated by the media and other propaganda agents to shape and condition the thinking into alignment with the will of these background rulers. In this democracy individual "freedom" is lost in favor of "rights" granted to the individual by the state. All rights originate with the state; and make no mistake, what the state grants, the state can take away. Like prices, rights are subject to change without notice. One select group may have rights that infringe and trample on the rights and freedoms of others. This is allowable in their democracy. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion consists in subscribing to the state's views on appropriate speech, thought and religious beliefs. Inalienable rights endowed by the Creator have no place in this new international scheme.
The open markets of which they speak actually mean the eradication of national sovereignty. It means that a major multinational corporation can move its operation into your city or country without seeking your permission, thereby, destroying local and national enterprise. By merit of their size, they can dominate the economy of a country killing the native economy. It means that no longer can a developing country stand up to outside corporate power which can move in at will, ruin the economy, then threaten to move out if their demands are not met. Ultimately, the corporation rules.
Open markets leave a country vulnerable to outside takeover and manipulation, which is the primary object of these powerful interests. The World Bank is urging developing countries to liberalize their capital markets, putting developing economies at the mercy of Wall Street speculators.
An open market system, such as is being called for today by the powerful elite, is a system which tyrannizes the people of the world. It leaves countries open to corporate dominance, to be plundered at will. It is a free system only to the rich and powerful. Commentator Noam Chomsky says, "The whole farce is standard and natural under the rules of 'really existing free market capitalism.' The biggest thug on the block basically does what he likes." [5]
Headquartered amid opulence in
On a broader scale, the Bank's policy is responsible
for widespread destruction both socially and economically throughout the
developing world. Through its Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) the Bank
manipulates internal policy within a country. With most
When countries become overburdened, unable to repay loans to the World Bank, the Bank creatively devises a plan to alleviate the problem - - another loan. Catherine Caufield, author of the 1997 book Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and The Poverty of Nations writes: "The bank called these 'structural adjustment loans,' and conditioned them on the borrowing country agreeing to convert to a free-market economy (defined later as "open market" economy) by adopting reforms covering nearly every aspect of life.
"The World Bank uses these adjustment loans to 'roll over' the bad debts of borrowing nations--thereby disguising the poor quality of the bank's own lending practices--and to impose its ideology of economic reform on its borrowers.
"Perversely, under this arrangement in which bad loans are covered up by new ones, the World Bank gains more from failed projects than from successful ones. For as its lending grows, so do its profits, and consequently its power and stature. The more the World Bank lends to a country, the more it can insist on being involved in domestic issues confronting the debt-ridden, supplicant borrower."
Z Magazine stated in its February 98 issue,
"World Bank policies have devastated the
"After twelve years of following World Bank and
International Monitory Fund (IMF) - imposed policies,
A case in point is the experience of
Another "revealing example is
"It was the effort of
These internationalist power groups call for
strengthened civil society but always for self-serving purposes. It is
difficult for these consortiums to work their will on
In their official capacity these globalist institutions speak in lofty, benevolent terms of reducing social inequity, combatting poverty, fighting corruption, improving health and education...but their destructive record speaks more forcefully than their rhetoric. At the annual meeting in Hong Kong the Bank displayed its hypocrisy by the use of caring words while at the same time calling Third World countries to open their capital markets (to exploitation by insatiable multinational corporate profit seeking).
"Many Southern governments made clear their
opposition to such liberalization in
This world-subjugating "enterprise" results from the threefold union of secular government, corporate power and merchandising religious organizations. Each of these entities has an individual agenda yet, by their union, all are benefited.
The L.A. Times article stresses that ADRA
officials maintain they are rigorous in honoring the division between
humanitarian work and proselytizing. They say there is no cooperation between
ADRA and Global Mission, the church's formal missionary arm, yet "the
agency's (ADRA's) 10-year strategic plan, developed in 1996, calls ADRA 'a bona
fide ministry of...the
ADRA's mission is now focused on fulfilling USAID's
objectives, something one might expect from a "good, solid partner."
But how then can ADRA serve both the government's interest (advancing
By their own accord, the Adventist church, through ADRA and nearly all other religious denominations, has become a partner with USAID - the U.S. government, the World Bank and the United Nations. In this union they become an accomplice to the crimes against humanity committed by this world-dominating cabal.
Do the churches realize what atrocities, what systems of terror they become responsible for in aligning themselves with the state? In the partnership of ADRA and their fellow religionists with USAID is represented the final union of the fallen religious bodies with the oppressive and corrupted state. The monstrous offspring of this union is resulting in a system of tyranny such as this earth has never seen.
The implications of this union of church and state foreshadow ominous events. When religious bodies stretch their hands across the gulf to grasp the hands of the world's secret rulers, when they reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the architects of tyranny, then this country will follow in the steps of those who ruled the world throughout the Dark Ages, trampling on the rights of conscience and debasing humanity.
This union is pictured in prophecy as the woman who
rides the beast or the church amalgamated with the state. There is only one
response made to such a confederation in scripture, it declares that "
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