One may offer up any excuse or justification he or she desires, but there is no way that anyone who truly cares about human life, born and pre-born, could be associated with Rotary International. It was…well, what it was. I knew a Quaker in Dublin some years ago, who was a member of the Rotary Club. Ever (indeed a number of us who happened to be there as guests commented that badges along the lines of “Please do not invite us to join as a refusal may offend” might have been useful). They’ve identified Zionists and secularists as particular foes of Islam; picked out apostates, Americans, and Jews for scorn; disparaged “crusaders” and imperialists; and even—like conspiracists everywhere—warned against the Freemasons. Many of us share this ambivalence about meetings: On the one hand, they are essential. But in college, I belonged to several campus groups whose main purpose seemed to be not getting things done. Rotary Club is not a cult. Recognizing (and calling out) this kind of sabotage is a first step. Lame. Privacy Policy Every year, meetings, conferences, and conventions across the United States inject around $280 billion into the economy. I am an Arch Klumph Society member and am sickened by the baseness of RI, which, by the way, is not a NPO. … Colonialism and its followers, the apostate rulers, then started to openly erect crusader centers, societies, and organizations like Masonic Lodges, Lions and Rotary Clubs. The Rotary is not allowed to express an opinion on any controversial public issue. This handbook, put out in 1944 by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (a precursor to the CIA), suggested ways ordinary citizens could sabotage a hostile power. Collaboration with Rotary Bergamo On March 26th 2020 the first virtual Interclub was held between RCNY and the Rotary Club Bergamo Hospital 1 GXXIII. So even if you’re the smartest one at the meeting, wait your turn. He is also my husband’s uncle. (emphasis added). Now I’m not saying it didn’t put a dent in my weekend, but… ‘nests of saboteurs and sabotage’? Clearly there is some reason we keep on meeting like this. If men like that make up the Rotary then I want nothing to do with them. He showed me the Rotary handbook, with a list of names and addresses. Rather, it’s related to those members’ social sensitivity. So we hold meetings to postpone decisions, rather than to make them. Dan Mooers, former chairman of Rotary International’s Executive Committee, recalls Rotary being denounced from the pulpit as late as 1970. We hold meetings because we know we should consult our co-workers before making decisions. Rotary should not be allowed to impinge upon one’s responsibilities to the body of Christ. Ever since Protocols of the Elders of Zion was first translated into Arabic, it’s provided a handy explanation—Masons and all—for the Western menace to the Islamic community. My husband’s step father was active in Rotary for many years. By Frank Bures Imagine, if you will, the worst meeting of your life: The clock moves more slowly than the laws of physics should allow. Originally conceived as a social club for its four founding businessmen, the club soon expanded and became focused on community service. Love this informative blog. The RC is a Western based global organization. (emphasis added). And, like the Catholic Church, Islamists lumped Rotarians in with the Masons and called both anathema. I’m an Orthodox Christian and I do find Rotary Clubs to be a subversive lement. I will keep my eyes open next meeting and see if there are any human sacrifices going down — if so I’ll let you know. © 2019 Rotary International. It’s not service it is “get the most money”. There was a bad apple in the bunch. It’s not like any My Rotary Club Finder Column: Meeting like this. Under the section “General Interference with Organizations and Production,” the OSS identified techniques for bogging down organizations – including “Insist on doing everything through ‘channels,’”  “Talk as frequently as possible and at great length,”   “Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences,” and “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.”, If you are concerned about workplace saboteurs, you can consult the 2015 book "Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace." These days, I attend a lot of meetings, but they are mostly small and purposeful and of my own design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesta_Helen_Webster. It’s not as if all Muslims think this way. It was a spontaneously born collaboration due to the closeness of intent and feelings between the Clubs, as they are both serving in two of the cities most affected by COVID-19. "Rotary had an admirable start," Scott said. We would know whether the meeting had been successful. (In Iraq, Moqtada al-Sadr’s paper Al Hawza published a picture of George H.W. Have you read the history of secret society’s operation since the French Revolution? I’m not entirely surprised by the latter. News & Features(down arrow opens sub-menu)>. It is not a secret organization. Still, the saying of grace might be a small clue that I wasn’t surrounded by the advance guard of secularism. But the roots of the peculiar Islamist fixation on Rotary clubs are deep in the tangled history of Western influence in the Middle East. On May 29th, 2003, the Board of Directors of the Rotary District 7230 NYC/WTC Disaster Relief Fund approved a grant to the Rotary Club of New York for the September 11, 2001 Children's Fund in the amount of $150,000. Placid, charity oriented, speechifying, mind-bogglingly slow moving. Pittampalli’s research led him to a counterintuitive conclusion: Most meetings are designed to waste time. on them,though. Was this page helpful? But lessons can still be learned from those meetings. ", The report may be accessed on LDI's website: www.fightpp.org. It’s a light(ish)take on something I had a direct if fleeting personal experience of and a larger phenomenon. We provide news about the Church and the world, as seen through the teachings of the Catholic Church. I made up my mind to call RI when I returned. “We’re designed to reason with each other in person. TBH I wouldn’t take the Rotary crew that seriously. When Afghani lived in Egypt during 1870s, he was a Mason. But it can also be a problem in critically important meetings such as peace talks, says Daniel Shapiro, a professor of psychology at Harvard University and the author of "Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts. Nah, the focus of attention is Africa. It allows us to escape the hard work of making decisions, which is essentially what the whole meeting problem is all about.”. They don’t need late middle aged and elderly proxies to run their secret agendas. It does strongly reinforce their class solidarity, though. For instance, this appears in Article 17 of the Hamas charter: Therefore, you can see [the enemies] making consistent efforts by way of publicity and movies, curriculi of education and culture, using as their intermediaries their craftsmen who are part of the various Zionist Organizations which take on all sorts of names and shapes such as: the Free Masons, Rotary Clubs, gangs of spies and the like.

But I refused to accept that.”. ( Log Out /  But when they are seen as ends in themselves, they start to bog things down. During such meetings, I sometimes entered a trancelike state – a bureaucratic stupor – that passed for attention and preserved my sanity. The rules at the front of the book stated that rotary members were not to use the handbook for political or religious promotions. Then why do we feel so tortured, so shackled by meetings? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Miller who referred to “FDR haters in the Rotary Club

And it’s not as if they weren’t speaking from experience. Woah there guys. THIS IS THE HALLMARK OF THE DEVIL HIMSELF.