-Caveat Lector- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: The Conspiracy Was Strong Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:03:50 -0400 From: "Timothy Aho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Watch Unto Prayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: The WatchmenFrom: Watch Unto Prayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://watch.pair.com/pray.htmlDate: August 20, 1999 THE CONSPIRACY WAS STRONG Part 2 by Barbara Aho And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom. II Sam15:12a Patrick Blackett Professor Patrick Blackett, an ex-naval officer and nuclear physicist, had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948. In 1932, Blackett identified the electron with a positive charge, a discovery which built upon the former breakthroughs in physics, splitting of the atom and discovery of the neutron. These three discoveries laid the foundation for the development of nuclear weapons. In 1939, Blackett initiated the technique of Operational Research, which was discussed at length in Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope as Blackett's application of a British philosophical doctrine called "rationalization" to the unpleasant realities of war. The concept of "rationalization" had appeared at the end of the 19th Century, at the same time the Rhodes-Milner secret eugenics society was formed. As in so many other innovations, the introduction of rationalization into war was begun by the British and then taken over on an enormous scale, by the Americans. Its origin is usually attributed to the efforts of Professor P. M. S. Blackett (Nobel Prize 1948) to apply radar to antiaircraft guns. From there Blackett took the technique into antisubmarine defense whence it spread, under the name 'Operational Research' into many aspects of the War effort. In its original form, the Anti-Aircraft Command Research Group, known as "Blackett's Circus,"...was a mixed-team approach to operational problems, emphasizing an objective, analytical, and quantitative method. As Blackett wrote in 1941, "The scientist can encourage numerical thinking on operational matters, and so can help to avoid running the war on gusts of emotion.". . . Rationalization of behavior, as represented in Operations Research, and the application of science to new weapons, as practiced by the English-speaking countries, were in sharp contrast with the methods of waging war used by the Tripartite aggressors. Hitler fought the war by basing his hopes on inspiration (his own) and will power (usually, refusal to retreat an inch); Mussolini tried to fight his war on rhetoric and slogans; the Japanese tried to gain victory by self-sacrifice and willingness to die. All three irrational methods were obsolete as compared with the Anglo-American method of rationalization and science. First news of the success of Operations Research in Britain was brought to the United States by President Conant in 1940 and was formally introduced by Vannevar Bush [Freemason, BA], as chairman of the New Weapons Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in 1942." (pp. 838, 842) * * * To say that Sir Anthony Wass Buzzard had connections in high places would be an enormous understatement. Sir Anthony W. Buzzard was also a knight in Her Majesty, the Queen of England's empire. This distinction is also indicated by the title of "Sir" which precedes Anthony F. Buzzard, whose honors additionally include nomination for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1996. Sir John Marks Templeton, the founder of the Prize, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University and was also knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his philanthropic efforts, which included his endowment of Templeton College, Oxford. On the staff of the Templeton Foundation are a high percentage of Oxford University graduates, including Executive Director and Senior Vice President Dr. Charles L. Harper, Jr. THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD Due to his involvement with the Discernment Ministries, which purport to expose the New World Order, Sir Anthony F. Buzzard seemed to warrant further investigation. A logical place to begin was the Worldwide Church of God in which he formerly held membership and employment for some time. The Worldwide Church of God was founded by Herbert W. Armstrong in 1934 as "The World Tomorrow" radio program with a magazine called The Plain Truth. The WCG was led by Herbert Armstrong and his son, Garner Ted Armstrong, prior to its transformation into an Evangelical denomination after highly publicized exposure of criminal and immoral activities. Sir Anthony had informed me that he separated from the WCG when the denomination embraced orthodox doctrine and thereafter affiliated with the Church of God General Council, which maintained the Unitarian beliefs of the former WCG. A listing of the Worldwide Church of God - Organizational Splits states that Anthony Buzzard formed his Restoration Fellowship in 1972, the year he left his teaching post at WCG Ambassador College. A publication of the Church of God, The Journal, still promotes the Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association and the Worldwide Church of God. [This COG website also interconnects a large network of Unitarian -- Nazarene, Sabbatarian, Hebrew Roots, Seventh Day Adventist and Jewish -- web sites.] Anthony Buzzard wrote in The Journal: "I was in the WCG from 1960 to 1972 and taught music and biblical languages in Pasadena [Ambassador College at the WCG Headquarters] and Bricket Wood [College in England]." According to a 1978 BBC broadcast, Sir Anthony Buzzard was "a man who knew Herbert Armstrong well." In a publication titled the Ambassador Report, Sir Anthony explained Armstrong's "main ambition to meet top people around the world," such as the Queen of England, whom he considered to be the descendant of King David: "He felt that if he could do that he would have preached the gospel to the nations through getting at their leaders and after that has been done it was his firm belief that the end of the world would come. I'm sure that to meet Her Majesty the Queen would be his ultimate ambition. He's always had a great love of England, and he would look upon the Queen as being a direct descendant of King David because he believes, or believed certainly when I knew him, that England and America are the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, and therefore to meet the direct descendant of David would be the highest privilege he could think of." (Ambassador Report, 8/21/78) An expose of the Worldwide Church of God, The Truth Shall Make You Free by John Tuit, describes a religious empire which extorted not one, but three, tithes (30% of income) from its members to support extravagant lifestyles for Herbert W. and Garner Ted Armstrong and a law firm of Jewish attorneys who controlled the WCG for twenty years. The most prominent of these was Stanley Rader, who with Herbert Armstrong "had gained access to the heads of state in at least a dozen world capitals." Former WCG member, John Tuit, who initiated the litigation and investigation of the denomination, wrote in 1981 of the power elites with whom Armstrong and Rader had connections, including members and even the founder of the Bilderberg Group: "It is more than passing significance that Armstrong's original contacts were made through high-ranking members of the Japanese government. Perhaps the mysterious Osamu Gotoh's part in this will never be totally known. The Japanese, who have such a significant part in the Trilateral Commission, are also the very ones who have introduced Armstrong to many world leaders... "Through the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation, Rader has established an institute for political research in Tokyo as well as a Society for Near Eastern Studies in Tokyo. There is a close relationship with King Leopold III of Belgium, who is one of the members of Prince Bernhard's Bilderberg Group. And there has also been very close contact with Prince Bernhard. Doctor Singh of the World Court also figures prominently in the Armstrong-Rader contacts." (The Truth Shall Make You Free, p. 289) The Ambassador Report, which is dedicated to exposing the Worldwide Church of God, explained in its May 1991 issue the close relationship between Herbert Armstrong and the King of Belgium, a Bilderberger and former Nazi collaborator: "...it is interesting to note HWA's long friendship with Leopold III of Belgium. According to the WN (Feb. 10, 1986, p. 2) Leopold was instrumental in arranging many of HWA's meetings with heads of state...Leopold had surrendered Belgium to the Nazis in 1940 and had refused to flee the country to set up a Belgian government-in-exile in France or England. He spent most of the war in Germany. One international relations expert told AR, 'Deep down Leopold was really a... fascist.'" According to an Authorized Biography of H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the founder of the Bilderbergers also enlisted in Adolf Hitler’s SS and was employed by the notorious I.G. Farben which financed Hitler. The December 31, 1981 Ambassador Report published Herbert Armstrong's Nov. 27 letter to Plain Truth, which included his recent schedule of meetings with Zionist leaders: "A week ago yesterday, Thursday, November 19, I had a personal meeting with President Yitzak Navon of Israel in Jerusalem, and the night before I was guest of honor at the banquet hosted by Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem. Present also were former Mayor John Lindsay of New York City, and Jacob Rothschild of London." The May 30, 1983 Worldwide News reported that Armstrong's presence in Oxford, England. "While in England, HWA met with Leopold de Rothschild, Edmond de Rothschild, and other British royalty." [Ambassador Report, Sept. 1983] Herbert Armstrong would occasionally boast that, following his visits with certain heads of state, their governments would mysteriously collapse: "August 15, a man I knew--President Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh--was shot and killed in a military coup. Sitting with us, when I visited President Rahman (then Prime Minister but actual head of state), was Khandaker Moshtaque Ahmed, Commerce Minister. Ahmed led the military coup and took over as head of the government. "August, 1973, I was in Santiago, Chile (South America) to visit President Allende. Three weeks later, he was assassinated--machine gunned in the back--in the very room where I had the conference. Three weeks after I had visited Prime Minister Kittikachorn of Thailand and spoken in Bangkok before an audience which included Doctor Sanya, Rector of the University, a riot of 200,000 students overthrew the military government, and Prime Minister Kittikachorn fled to the United States. "I had become well acquainted with Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. Twice when I visited him in Addis Ababa he placed one of his personal limousines with chauffeur at my disposal for my entire stay. But the military forces took him prisoner and took over the government. "Last July a bloodless coup overthrew the government of General Yakubu Gowon in Nigeria (Africa)." (Tuit, p. 26) It is commonly known and reported by publications such as the Covert Action Information Bulletin that the assassination of Salvador Allende of Chile was an operation of the CIA. However, the CAIB also implicates another organization, Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) with ties to the Christian Right in the U.S., namely Paul Weyrich and Morton Blackwell, principals of the Council for National Policy, and other CNP organizations such as Christian Voice, Citizens Against Government Waste, Citizens Committe for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. "In Chile and other Latin American countries, the CIA helped finance the right-wing Tradition, Family and Property which played a role in the overthrow of both Allende in Chile and Goulart in Brazil. In many instances it pitted one sector of the Church against another." (CAIB, Winter 1983, p. 17) Although the FBI and CIA have files on Herbert Armstrong and Stanley Rader, for the most part these have been unavailable to inquirers, such as former WCG member, Gene Bailey. According to the May, 1991 Ambassador Report: "...one CIA employee told Bailey that after each meeting with foreign leaders during the 1970s and early 1980s Herbert Armstrong and his Jewish attorney- accountant Stanley R. Rader had probably been debriefed by the CIA and that there would be files on those debriefings. But now, however -- months after being told by the government that the CIA had files on the WCG -- Bailey has been told by the CIA that no such files can be found!... "Over the years, many noticed that in a number of cases, after HWA visited a country, that country's government would fall or there would be a major change of leadership. Examples: Ethiopia after HWA visited Haile Selassie, the Philippines after HWA visited Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, India after HWA visited Indira Gandhi, and Egypt after HWA visited Anwar Sadat. (Some even recall how HWA was to have met with Allende of Chile but Allende was overthrown and killed -- CIA help many say -- shortly before HWA was to go to that country.) "Because of the above coincidences (and perhaps because Rader was reported to have had friends in the White House during Republican administrations beginning with Nixon), some at WCG headquarters kidded that HWA or someone close to him was somehow being used by the CIA to bring down governments. While the idea sounds like something out of a spy novel, such a theory should not be dismissed out of hand." (Ambassador Report, May 1991) Rockefeller, Internationalist by Emmanuel Josephson tells the story of Emperor Selassie's resistance years earlier to the Rockefeller oil racket, which prompted Rockefeller's agent, Mussolini to invade Ethiopia: "The story of the Ethiopian War is that of another oily Rockefeller Crusade. It began on July 1, 1923, when the press announced that the Anglo-American Oil Co., a Standard Oil subsidiary, had obtained an exclusive oil concession in the northern half of the Harrar Province of Abyssinia. Nothing more was heard of this concession for more than a decade despite the urgent need of the Rockefeller interests for a source of oil for the Mediterranean basin that was close at hand and did not require costly haulage by tankers, from the far-off Gulf and Venezuelan ports, or from East India. Behind the scenes there raged a fierce diplomatic battle. For Ethiopia holds the source of the Nile and was regarded by the British Empire as one of its critical spheres of interest. It vigorously opposed permitting its deadly rival, the Rockefeller Empire, to gain a foothold there. Under pressure of the British, Haile Selassie denied permission to the Rockefeller interests to proceed with the development of the concession that had been given them. "Following negotiations of Sir Francis Rickett, a director of Rockefeller's Socony Vacuum Oil So, with Mussolini, in which it is apparent that the Rockefeller interests assured Il Duce of supplies of oil for a war on Abyssinia in exchange for a thirty year monopoly of the Italian oil market and the ratification of their Ethiopian concession, as well as other considerations, border incidents on December 9, 1934, between Italian and Ethiopian troops, in connection with a dispute over the Italian Somalian frontier, served as a pretext for the waging by Italy of an undeclared war. In the midst of the war, on September 1, 1935, the press announced the text of an Ethiopian concession, negotiated by Sir Francis Rickett, to the African Exploration and Development Co., organized in 1933 as a subsidiary of the Socony Vacuum. The names of Mellon, Mitchell and Teagle were mentioned in connection with the deal, and in the following month, October 15, the press linked an Ethiopian arms order to the Rickett deal. This followed the traditional practise of the Rockefeller Empire, of playing all ends against the center. Shortly thereafter, the British, acting on behalf of the League of Nations, offered Haile Selassie a negotiated peace for surrender to the Italians of the oil-rich Fafan Valley in the Harrar Province---the original 1923 concession to the Rockefeller interests. This was rejected on December 12, 1935. "In the meantime, belated economic sanctions were ordered by the League of Nations to go into effect November 18, 1935, and continued until July 15, 1936, after termination of the war. The Rockefeller empire, which had assured Mussolini in advance that no effective sanctions would be applied in respect to that absolute essential of modern war---oil---made good on its assurance. On December 4, 1935, the press announced that the Rockefeller interests would defy the League and supply Mussolini with oil from the Romanian fields; on December 12, Socony Vacuum announced the building of two refineries for Mussolini in Naples; and on January 8, 1936, it was announced that Italy might get oil from Germany. The Ethiopian oilfields are now controlled by the Rockefeller interests through the Sinclair Oil Corporation. The red that tints their end product, ethyl gasoline, might well be Italian and Ethiopian blood. " (Chedney Press, NY, 1952, pp. 202-3) During the Italian invasion (1935-36) Haile Selassie personally led his troops against the enemy. He lived in exile in England until 1941, when he returned and claimed the throne. After World War II he instituted social and political reforms, such as establishing a national assembly in 1955. In September 1974, however, he was deposed by an army coup and arrested, and in August 1975, died under house arrest and questionable circumstances, and was secretly buried. It is noteworthy that the last monarch of this African nation, Haile Selassie, was a Coptic Christian who called himself the "Lion of Judah" and claimed direct descent from King Solomon of Israel. Rastafarians believe in the divinity of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, referred to as "the most High" and "Jah," or God. Salvator Allende, who was murdered in the coup which installed Pinochet, was a member of the Grand Orient Masonic Lodge. In 1979, Mr. John Tuit and other church officials brought a class action suit against the various WCG entities for "siphoning off the property and assets of the Church and appropriating them to their own personal use and benefit on a massive scale amounting to several million dollars per year." (Tuit, p. 186) A reporter with the Los Angeles Times, invited to write the story, was removed from the assignment due to the newspaper's (i.e., CFR) interest in protecting the WCG: Ambassador College, in conjunction with the Kress Foundation, has been engaged in archeological expeditions in Syria. Franklin Murphy, the chairman of the Board of the Kress Foundation, was the former Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, and is now chairman of the Board of the Times Mirror Corporation, publishers of the Los Angeles Times. Franklin Murphy is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. The pieces fit very well here as this begins to explain why Bert Mann, the reporter for the Los Angeles Times, was pulled off the receivership story in January 1979. While the story was prominently featured in the Pasadena papers, it was buried in the back pages of the Times. (The Truth Shall Make You Free, p. 289) What was left of the Worldwide Church of God after public exposure of massive corruption -- criminal fraud, obstruction of justice, bribery, abject immorality at the highest levels and cult-like control of church members -- changed its doctrinal statement to resemble the formerly-regarded "Satanic" Protestant churches. This superficial reform conveniently qualified WCG to join the apostate World Evangelical Fellowship. Joseph W. Tkach, who succeeded Herbert Armstrong in 1986, was Stanley Rader's lieutenant and had been ordained with Rader and his accomplice Ellis LaRavia in their 1979 emergency attempt to maintain control of the WCG. There are references in sermons by WCG evangelist, Gerald Waterhouse, to Tkach having been "born of the right lineage" and "a physical Levite." Joseph Tkach, like his predecessor, "maintain[ed] contacts with the rich and powerful. [In 1988], for instance, Tkach and his entourage attended private receptions for the Duke and Duchess of York ('Andy and Fergy') at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles and aboard the royal yacht Britannia (WN, 3/28/88, p. 1) Joseph W. Tkach's son, Joseph Tkach, Jr., became president of the Worldwide Church of God in 1995. [Ambassador Report, March 1989] An ally of the Worldwide Church of God throughout its demise was the Faith Center Church of W. Eugene Scott, who still preaches the doctrine of British-Israel that was popularized by Herbert W. Armstrong. It was the Los Angeles attorney general's investigation of Scott's misuse of funds in 1978 that prompted members of the Worldwide Church of God to request an investigation of their own church. Rader's attempts to woo the public, though mostly futile, have resulted in at least one alliance. HWA has for years branded all churches other than his own as being "Satan's churches." However, Stanley Rader, along with Ralph Helge, recently appeared on the "Festival of Faith," a controversial religious television program hosted by media-minister Gene Scott. (In Los Angeles, "Festival of Faith" is telecast almost around the clock on Scott's own station, KHOF, channel 30.) Scott, a former financial consultant to Oral Roberts, is himself under investigation by both the attorney general and the FCC over financial dealings. Rader, of course, had nothing but kind words for Scott as both pledged their mutual support in fighting the attorney general. (Ambassador Report, 6/1/79) Part II: British-Israel DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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