The Ivanwald - Secrets of a powerful Family

Various information on the “IVANWALD”……..through 2008

Republicans & Democrats – even Hillary Clinton….

They’re the people behind the National Prayer Breakfast in the USA.

Tony Blair: World Needs More Religion

February 6th, 2009

Tony Blair gave an extraordinary speech about the global importance of religion yesterday, telling an audience which included the newly-inaugurated President,Barack Obama, that faith should be restored “to its rightful place, as the guide to our world and its future.” The former prime minister also said he believed the 21st century would be “poorer in spirit” and “meaner in ambition” if it was not “under the guardianship of faith in God.” He had been invited by President Obama to lead the prestigious US National Prayer Breakfast, a spectacular event in the ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel.

Mr Blair also managed to rain on Gordon Brown’s parade, meeting the President before any European leader. He dashed ahead of the Prime Minister and other political heavyweights, including Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Vladimir Putin, to lay on the hands and tell the President: “It is fitting at this extraordinary moment in your country’s history that we hear that call to action; and we pray that in acting we do God’s work and follow God’s will.”

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IVANWALD

"Ivanwald, which sits at the end of Twenty-fourth Street North in Arlington,Virginia, is known only to its residents and to the members and friends ofthe organization that sponsors it, a group of believers who refer tothemselves as “the Family.” The Family is, in its own words, an “invisible”association, though its membership has always consisted mostly of publicmen. Senators Don Nickles (R., Okla.), Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), PeteDomenici (R., N.Mex.), John Ensign (R., Nev.), James Inhofe (R., Okla.),Bill Nelson (D., Fla.), and Conrad Burns (R., Mont.) are referred to as“members,” as are Representatives Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), Frank Wolf (R.,Va.), Joseph Pitts (R., Pa.), Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.), and Bart Stupak (D.,Mich.).Regular prayer groups have met in the Pentagon and at the Department ofDefense, and the Family has traditionally fostered strong ties withbusinessmen in the oil and aerospace industries. The Family maintains aclosely guarded database of its associates, but it issues no cards, collectsno official dues. Members are asked not to speak about the group or itsactivities."

Worse Than Fascists: Christian Political Group 'TheFamily' Openly Reveres Hitler

Did you know that the National Prayer Breakfast is sponsored by a shadowycabal of elite Christian fundamentalists? Jeff Sharlet's new book,"The Family:The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,"offers a rareglimpse of this remarkable network, which is known variously as the Family, theFellowship and the International Foundation.The Family was founded 70 years ago by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegianimmigrant evangelist based in Seattle. In 1935, Vereide said, God appeared tohim in a vision and revealed where Christianity had gone wrong: preoccupationwith the poor, the weak and the suffering.The down-and-out were in no position to bring about the Kingdom of God,Vereide realized. Some Christians believe that the rapture is imminent, but notthe Family. They're convinced that Jesus won't return until we get our collectivehouse in order. If they were to wait for the down-and-out to remake the world inGod's image, we could be here forever.Besides, in Seattle in the 1930s, union agitators were making a play for thedown-and-out. Christianity promised rewards in the hereafter, but workers in thePacific Northwest were starting to wonder why they had to wait so long. Insteadof competing for market share with the Industrial Workers of the World, Vereidesought a different niche.His new plan was to target men who were already powerful and turn them to God-- and wouldn't you know it, God hated unions, too.Through personal relationships and small group encounters, Vereide unitedcaptains of industry and politicians as a Biblical bulwark against the increasingpower of organized labor.In the late 1940s, the Family helped roll back key pro-labor provisions of the NewDeal. Later, the Family did its part for the Cold War by cultivating anti-communiststrongmen around the world, including repressive leaders like Suharto ofIndonesia and Jonas Savimbi of Angola.The roster of current and former Family members includes senators,congressmen, Fortune 500 CEOs, generals and at least one Supreme Court justice. The Family does not publish membership lists, and its members aresworn to secrecy, so a full accounting is impossible.