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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 12, 2021 2:08:41 GMT
Chapter Fifty-Two: A Tasty Legacy Attached to a Frightening News
PHILIPPINE PESO STRUCK WITH HYPERINFLATION AS TADIAR REGIME STRUGGLES TO DEAL WITH POSSIBLE DEBT REPAYMENTS, JAPAN TO SEND HUMANITARIAN AID TO PHILIPPINES
Edmonton Journal
October 18, 1996
(Manila, PHILIPPINES) – There is trouble with the Philippine economy as the peso is suffering from a nasty case of hyperinflation. The economy had already been declining before the 1995 Spratlys conflict, when the Philippines was slammed with economic sanctions imposed by the UN. The collapse of the Philippine food supplies only added to the trouble when additional reports were released, revealing that an additional 350,000 Filipinos had died from starvation. Even with humanitarian supplies arriving in the country from neighboring Indonesia, the Philippines is struggling to feed itself, and rebuild its economy. The Tadiar regime will make a special announcement later next month, as they are coming up with ideas on how to solve the runaway hyperinflation. Moreover, the wealth that the Tadiar regime had stolen from the exiled Filipino Chinese rich families were all invested in social welfare, and purchases of additional humanitarian supplies, like food and medicine.
“I am compelled to announce that the Council for National Sovereignty will impose a night curfew, starting from 2000 hours at night, until 0600 hours in the morning. Moreover, I am forced to declare martial law, citing potential lawlessness,” said Tadiar while addressing the nation, though with tears in his eyes. “I have already asked the Japanese and Indonesian governments for additional assistance, even as we are struggling to deal with the runaway inflation. 1 US Dollar is now worth over 7,000,000 Pesos, and within a week, it will reach over 15,000,000 Pesos per 1 US Dollar.”
Many Filipinos who are working overseas are horrified that their hard-earned foreign currency might not be enough to help save the Philippine peso, which is on the verge of a currency collapse. Although the Chinese government is eager to finish off the Philippine economy by threatening to resume the bombing campaign, their military threats are now being taken seriously by the international community, as Great Britain and the Netherlands had imposed economic sanctions on China. In addition, Russia and Germany have agreed to impose a new set of arms embargos on the Chinese military, as punishment for the bombing of their embassies in Manila, as well as joining Great Britain and the Netherlands in issuing their own economic sanctions on China. Already, there are fears of a potential uprising against the Tadiar regime, which would invite Chinese military intervention in the region, but the Indonesian military threatened to intervene if China carries out its plans.
“Indonesia will not allow the Chinese government to finish off our Philippine neighbor, as their presence will undermine our national security,” Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced over a media briefing in Jakarta. “Moreover, the Indonesian Army is prepared to deploy into the Philippines upon any request made by the Artemio Tadiar government.”
To help offset any potential economic collapse, the Tadiar regime has ordered its foreign volunteers who are fighting in Mexico against the Zapatistas to come back to the country, so they can help with the humanitarian work. All active members of the Philippine military are already deployed into the rest of the country, as they direct the reconstruction efforts. So far, the Japanese government has been receptive to the idea of sending not only aid, but volunteers who wish to work in the Philippines. The Japan Self-Defense Force military leadership has also called for its members to help their Philippine counterpart with the reconstruction efforts, and prominent JASDF officer Toshio Tamogami has been appointed by Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to lead the humanitarian effort.
“Although it would be controversial for me to give this order, I am compelled by my humanitarian compassion for our Philippine friends to deploy our soldiers to help with the reconstruction efforts. We are not coming back to occupy the Philippine, but to help them get back on their feet,” Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto announced in front of the Japanese Diet. “The Japanese military that is coming back to the Philippines is not the old Imperial Japanese Army of Masaharu Homma, or even that of Tomoyuki Yamashita.”
Accompanying Tamogami is a former Imperial Japanese Army officer who did not surrender to Allied troops until 1974, when he was coaxed out of the mountain by a Japanese backpacker who found him by accident. Former Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda has announced that he and his wife will accompany General Tamogami to the Philippines as volunteers. The reaction by the Japanese public to Onoda’s participation in the humanitarian effort was wild, with many former IJA veterans praising him for such a courageous act.
“Give our regards to the Filipinos, and tell them that we apologize for our actions,” says former IJN veteran Jiro Hayashi, who served aboard the IJN Nagato that fought in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. “Good luck, Lieutenant Onoda!”
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AEON GROUP ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST PURCHASE OF PHILIPPINE SM SHOPPING MALLS, THROUGH FIRE SALES MADE BY TADIAR-ALIGNED OLIGARCH
Tokyo Times
July 20, 2006
(Kabankalan, FEDERAL CAPITAL REGION, PHILIPPINES) – Japan’s top merchandise company has announced its official purchase of property owned by Philippine businessman Antonio Floirendo Sr., days after the oligarch has put up the deserted SM shopping malls formerly owned by Filipino Chinese tycoon, Henry Sy, who now lives in exile in Canada. The SM shopping malls had been a financial drain, because of economic sanction imposed on the Philippines, until it was lifted through a UN General Assembly vote, in which the votes were over 86% in favor of lifting it, while the United States had vetoed China’s own veto on the vote. US President Carol Moseley-Braun has also announced that the United States supports the lifting of economic sanctions, as a way of helping the Philippines transition into a democratic state, after the Tadiar government has announced that it will hold elections in ten years’ time.
“We are pleased to announce that the first phase of our expansion into the Philippine market will begin with the transformation of the former SM Ortigas Mall into AEON Ortigas, under new management. In addition, we will also allow MaxValu to open their retail stores throughout the Philippines,” a spokesperson for AEON Japan announced in front of journalists. “In addition, the relatively stable condition of the Blueback Peso is a factor in our decision to expand our corporate presence in the Philippines.”
In addition, AEON Group has approached a Turkish company, Sabancı Holding, for a joint commercial project proposal to build Kabankalan’s first shopping mall. Earlier in June, Çalik Enerji approached America’s Unocal Corporation for a joint oil and gas exploration deal, thereby becoming the first and second official foreign firms to sign a deal with the Tadiar government on a major economic investment project. Subsequently, Turkish firms are now a major presence in SE Asia, with Sabancı Holding involved in other economic projects in Malaysia and Indonesia. In addition, Kawasaki Heavy Industries had bought out a bankrupted Turkish heavy machinery company, Askam, and had invested in its production facilities in Eastern Anatolia. Now that AEON Group has taken a foothold in the Philippines, it is expected that more Japanese retail stores will expect to increase their operations in the country. Not to be outdone by Japan and Turkey, Great Britain and Australia have announced that they will enter negotiations with the Tadiar government on lucrative economic deals that will increase their own commercial clout in the country.
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Excerpts from “A History of Philippine Cuisine in the Artemio Tadiar Era”
By: Miguel de Serano
Bagong Tinidor Documentaries, released on May 27, 2017
“The evolution of Filipino cuisine did not take place until after the 1995 Spratlys conflict, when much of the Philippines’ agricultural capabilities were severely degraded, because of China’s merciless bombing campaign. The introduction of carabao meat into the daily diet of Filipinos was met with skepticism, especially since the carabao population had nearly died off from the bombing, but thanks to the experiences that former Imperial Japanese Army Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda gained while raising cattle in Brazil, he applied his experience in raising carabaos, becoming the first foreign owner of a carabao ranch in the Philippines, as he opted to establish the first ranch in Lubang Island, the same place where he fought his war against the Philippine government, thirty years after WWII was officially over. Onoda later comments that raising the carabao population had required him to establish contacts with Indian water buffalo ranchers, who were glad to take part in the first cross-experimental breeding of the carabao with several breeds of Indian water buffaloes, like Bhadawaris, Surtis, Phandarpuris, and Murrahs**. The so-called Water Buffalo Diplomacy, which was basically an informal diplomatic interaction between the Tadiar regime and the Indian government, eventually blossomed into the Water Buffalo Crossbreeding Treaty signed between the Philippines and India in 2007. Before Onoda’s death on January 16, 2014, he owned roughly 53% of the carabao ranches in the Philippines, while the other 47% was owned by noted pro-Tadiar oligarch, Antonio Floirendo Sr., who also gained ownership of several rice producing farmlands, including the famous Banaue Rice Terraces, now rebuilt, and improved with experimental rice seeds imported from Indonesia, Thailand, and India. This was only made possible by the easing up of the UN economic sanctions, which allowed essential goods to be shipped into the Philippines, like food and medical supplies, under the amendment.
Shark and whale meat had become a recent introduction to the Philippine diet, but its introduction was controversial, mainly due to the high concentration of mercury found in the unfermented meat. As a result, Icelandic entrepreneurs were invited to help establish the first hakarl production plant in eastern Casiguran Prefecture, fermenting meat taken from whale sharks. In addition, whale meat has been acquired from hunting various whale species in Philippine waters. However, whale meat is considered the most expensive meat in the Philippines, mainly because whaling boats were given a limit on how many whales that they could hunt. As a result, many fisheries in the Philippines only raise captive tilapias, bangus, and freshwater eels. However, seafood is not the only thing that Filipino cuisine in the Tadiar era has adapted. In addition to carabao meat, horse meat was also introduced to the Filipino diet, because of the increased importation of thoroughbred and Arabian horses from Turkey, though some of those horses were descended from a recently declared extinct horse breed, the Karacabey Horse. However, like whale meat, horse meat is expensive because of its limited supply. So, what is normally cooked, using things like hakarl, and carabao meat? Well, the usage of hakarl has been adapted into several dishes, like hakarl sisig, and hakarl sinigang. Hakarl sinigang, unlike the traditional sinigang, can be cooked with lime as the sour soup base, which was not attempted by any Filipino chef that I know of. In addition, hakarl sinigang could also included certain spicy ingredients, like uncrushed pepper and turmeric. Carabao meat and hakarl could also be used to make longganisa as well, although the process is the same as if you are making a regular longganisa. By far the most striking influence on Filipino cuisine lay with the Filipino diaspora that fled from the Philippines after Artemio Tadiar came to power. The Filipino diasporas in Japan and South Korea had adapted some of the local ingredients into their cuisine, giving birth to things like Kyushu Lumpia, which consists of pickled seaweed and unagi inside the wrap, and its Korean counterpart, the Jeju Lumpia, which substitutes the unagi and seaweed with scrambled eggs and fermented cabbage used in kimchis. Meanwhile, the tiny Filipino diaspora residing in the Russian Far East have been introduced to certain dietary restrictions that the Orthodox Christians abide by on Wednesdays and Fridays, unless they were fasting for Orthodox Lent and Advent. Filipinos in cities like Vladivostok were introduced to the pilaf, which is like the bringhe, but cooked with the meat first, and adding the vegetables next after the meat. Of course, they complained of the excess greasiness of the pilaf, until they were told by their Russian hosts that having a little bit of fat helps them cope with the colder climates of the Russian Far East. Borsht was basically sinigang to Filipinos, without the meat, but ukha to the Filipinos, is like sinigang ng isda. However, we fell in love with the solyanka, which to us, was a welcome sight, for its spiciness was beneficial for our health. Pelmeni, shashlik, and even buterbrod were adapted into the Filipino diet for the Filipino diaspora living in Russia. The Filipino style pelmeni would have a mixture of onions, ginseng, and tilapia inserted inside the pelmeni, while fish shashlik was also popular. Filipino style buterbrod however, is easily made with all famous pandesal, but using half of the pandesal to put the palaman in it. Kompot was recently introduced to the Philippines by Russian visitors during the early years of Loren Legarda’s presidency, when she tried the fruit drink. She asked the tourist how it was made, and lo and behold, President Legarda herself used guava, guyabano, jackfruit, and pineapples into the kompot, calling it the Filipino Fruit Cocktail. In addition, the shashlik reminded us of the satay, and in our case, the hakarl satay and carabao satay became an instant hit, beginning in 2001.
We can thank Karylle herself for introducing Balkan cuisines to the Filipino diet, especially lamb (though it is just as expensive as whale meat back home), and desserts that we eventually grew to admire, like baklava, halva, and burek. Yes, the influences from the Ottoman Empire are present in those dishes, but Karylle in her song ‘Hatun’ had displayed the halva on the plate. The Balkan Filipino diaspora, though smaller than even their Russian Filipino diaspora counterparts, have simply switched pistachio nuts with cashews on the halva and the baklava. Who can remember the best dessert that the Philippines introduced to the world, ube? That’s right! Ube, or purple yam for those of you who are not familiar with it, has been introduced to the Balkans, and in Turkey too. Though during the Tadiar dictatorship, the price for purple yam was so high that no pastry was made with the usage of ube, until 2008, when the agricultural output of the Philippines recovered to the pre-Spratlys conflict level had allowed the purple yams to be used. Ube burek was a recent invention of a Filipino pastry chef who worked at a high-class hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, back in 2005, and it became a hit with the Turkish public. Conversely, the introduction of the popular dessert, the halo-halo, into the list of Balkan and Turkish desserts, has become popular in resort towns, where the climate there is warm. Traditional Balkan dessert recipes are used in their variation of halo-halo, and in turn, ube is also used in the popular Turkish ice cream, the dondurma.”
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Excerpts from “The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis Explained”
By: TRT Documentaries
Released on April 26, 2018
“The origins of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis lay with the crisis surrounding the Philippine peso’s hyperinflation. During the Tadiar dictatorship, the exchange rate of the US dollar to the Philippine peso was 1 US Dollar equals 500 Philippine pesos. After 1997, the hyperinflation was so bad that a civilian in the Philippines had to carry their pesos in wheelbarrows, as 1 US Dollar was equal to over 500,000 Philippine pesos. The Tadiar regime, like its Zimbabwean counterpart, had responded by printing more currency notes, contributing to the hyperinflation. In addition, as early as November of 1996, the Philippine Navy started to carry out acts of piracy in the West Philippine Sea, raiding Chinese shipping vessels full of consumer goods, and stealing as much as they can, while shooting the ship crews as well. Civilian cruise ships were also raided since the tourists there were a source of hard foreign currency. It was basically a hold up on the high seas, with the Philippine Navy personnel executing hostages who refused to give up much of their money to them. However, it was the Tadiar regime’s ties to organized crime that really frightened the international community because it was willing to resort to even the most immoral methods to survive. Starting in January of 1997, during another NPA uprising, the Philippine Army had surrounded the NPA holdout, and captured almost 200 fighters. They separated the males from the females, with the male prisoners being sent to work in infrastructure projects as convict labour, while the female fighters were first raped by their Philippine military captors, before sending them to the Yakuza, who would traffic them into several underground brothels throughout SE Asia, and East Asia. It was this kind of heinous act that would result in several Philippine Navy officers being indicted at the Hague on charges of human trafficking and state sponsored prostitution. Korean Kkangpae members also got in on the human trafficking part, acquiring captured female NPA fighters and female left-wing activists, who were forcefully shipped into the former South Korea, where they would work in military brothels and bars frequented by US military personnel, though they would not be paid for their work, with their meager salaries being split between the Kkangpae groups who took them, and the Tadiar regime, which received the rest of the profits. Two prominent victims of the Tadiar regime, Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno, were personally tortured by both soldiers under the command of General Jovito Palparan and Nicanor Faeldon’s extremist followers, in what became known as the Cadapan-Empeno Murder Case. The Cadapan-Empeno Murder Case was a horrific affair that dwarfed even the Pepsi Paloma Rape Case, as the two captured left-wing activists were subjected to water boarding, electrocution, and having some of their skins cut off, before being burnt alive by one of Faeldon’s followers, and a torch light rally was mockingly held as the two victims screamed while being burnt alive.
The results of the hyperinflation were that the Philippine economy had defaulted on its debts, destroying what value it had left on the Peso. It also gave Artemio Tadiar an excuse to abolish the Central Bank of the Philippines, and in the 1998 Constitution that he introduced Article Thirteen, which had declared that the Philippine government now assumes the sovereign right and authority to issue currency notes, harkening back to the Greenback dollar that Abraham Lincoln used during the American Civil War. The Blueback Peso, as it was nicknamed, was Tadiar’s own fiat money, like the fiat money introduced by the Russian government in 1997, after President Gennady Burbulis had taken Boris Yeltsin’s advice to abolish the Central Bank of Russia and assume the responsibility of issuing its own fiat money. Financial critics however, reacted with skepticism as they compared the economic experiments conducted by both Yeltsin and Tadiar to the one that Adolf Hitler had made, with the introduction of the Labour Treasury Notes that were used to fund large scale infrastructure projects that had strategic aims, or had a military purpose. Moreover, the glaring weakness of the state-backed fiat currency lies with the amount of trust the public has in their own government, meaning that if public distrust towards their government increased, the state-backed fiat currency's value would fall. Even in 2000, figures like John McCain and Joe Biden had compared Mykola Azarov to Hitler, with surprisingly enough, President Jack Kemp following suit, as his sudden 180 degree turn towards Russophobic policies had gradually pushed the East Slavic Federation government to mend its relations with China. Moreover, the collapse of the Philippine economy had also affected the economies of SE Asia, with Indonesia barely surviving the economic blow. Likewise, the economic collapse was encouraged by Tadiar himself, to give the impression that the Philippine economy is in a need of a complete rebuild. Like the controversy with Hitler, Tadiar’s fiat money was used to invest in large scale infrastructure projects, including the Lamon-Laguna-Paranaque Canal, which was constructed with convict labor. New airports, harbors and railways were also built with convict labor, with the camp authorities receiving the profits of the convict labor. Even after sanctions were lifted in 2007, AEON Group had been implicated in the Kabankalan AEON Megamall Scandal, when it was revealed that 25% of the AEON Megamall’s construction work force consisted of political prisoners. By far, the biggest loser of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 was China, which had been hit with economic sanctions by Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, and Russia. However, in 2003, Russia would lift its economic sanctions on China, paving the way for an ESF-Chinese rapprochement. In 2007, ESF President Siaimon Domash had sent Foreign Minister Natalia Zarudna to Seoul, to help enhance ESF-Korean economic and diplomatic ties there after the 2002-2004 Second Korean War ended in 2004, with the complete reintegration of the former North Korea into the former South Korea. China’s allies in Pakistan and Central Asia had also suffered from China’s economic downturn, which was also a factor in why Central Asia had allowed Al-Qaeda to launch attacks on targets within Russia, and the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, leading of course, to the 2000 ESF military intervention in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, in collaboration with Iran’s military intervention in Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Even in the Anglophone world and Latin America, the effects of the Asian Financial Crisis had been devastating, with Mexico sliding further into recession, which, along with the Popular Revolutionary Army’s assassination of Mexican President de Cevallos, would pave the way for Mario Chaparro to launch his coup and become the new military dictator of Mexico.”
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Excerpts from “Cue for Conspiracy: The Rise and Fall of Senator Alex Jones”
By: Isaac Feldman
University of California Berkley Printing Press
Chapter Ten: The Gathering of the Nutjobs
By the time Alex and I arrived at the residence of our new friend Monica Lewinsky, she was already preparing the dinner. I handed her the kosher beef that I bought from a nearby butcher shop owned by a Jewish shopkeeper that Monica recommended to me. Alex brought some mangoes, pineapples, and even some pears to boot as well. We all pitched in the dinner preparation, and by the time the food was ready, Alex started to watch the news. The local news interested him a little bit, but I was not as interested as he was with local news. We all gathered on the table, and after saying grace (Monica and I said our thanks, in a Jewish prayer, of course), we started to eat. Alex, to my surprise, ate rather slowly, as he did not want to appear like he was desperately starving, and because he started to express a little bit of infatuation towards Monica. I on the other hand, was intrigued by her intellect, and her political connections might have served us in the future.
“You know, this state was calm during the Dole administration. No one was getting killed on the streets, and when the earthquake hit the Bay area in 1989, there were a lot of people from out of state who got hired with the reconstruction efforts,” Monica explained, as Alex and I listened. “I also heard about that cult who came from Texas to California, to take part in the reconstruction as well. I did not know the details, but that Howell guy grew up to be a charlatan. I heard this from Linda Tripp, who wanted to interview him on the cult he belongs to, but he was too shy to talk.”
“The Branch Davidians? You know, I might have met that Howell guy a long time ago, back when I was researching the group for the current documentary. He gave me more information than I needed, and to my shock, he was right about certain things. Like how the ATF had been given more power during the late stages of the Dole administration,” Alex answered. “Although there is one thing that I do not understand at all.”
“What is the question, Alex?” Monica asked.
“Why were the CIA Corsairs interested in some nobody like Howell?” Alex wondered. “He led the Branch Davidians, which was not within the CIA’s radar, but it was within the radars of the ATF and the FBI.”
“That is a good question. I knew that many of the Branch Davidians had relocated to California after the Loma Prieta Earthquake, claiming that spending five years of hard labor on fixing the Bay area would allow them to reach heaven, because they would know the meaning of compassion. Like that has stopped them before,” I retorted. “Still, I think we should get in touch with this Howell guy and ask him if he has any political goals.”
Alex shook his head. “I doubt that he wants to get involved in politics, except when it involves the Branch Davidians itself. Even so, I do see him as a kind of libertarian.”
“I would count him out, if I were you, Alex,” Monica said as she frowned. “From what I heard with the testimonies of Jeannine Bunds; Howell is not the person you would want to associate with.”
“Maybe we can recruit her instead,” I suggested, to which Monica nodded in agreement.
“Wait!” Alex held up his hand as the international news came up. He paused for a moment, before gasping in horror. “Good grief!”
“What is it?” I asked. The news anchor answered my question instead.
“Tonight, we have received confirmation that among the foreign volunteers who are arriving in the Philippines to take part in the humanitarian mission, several obscure cults have been reported to arrive in the country. Vernon Howell, who legally changed his name to David Koresh, is confirmed to have landed in the former Clark Airfield, where he and the Branch Davidians will volunteer their services, providing meals and medical care to starving Filipino civilians. Moreover, another cult leader named Shoko Asahara, of Aum Shinrikyo, have also arrived in Manila International Airport, where he and his group are confirmed to help with the cleanup efforts. Finally, the Tongil Foundation is reported to have donated over $144,000,000 to the newly created Philippine Reconstruction Effort Fund, which will help with the reconstruction of the Philippines. The Tadiar regime has expressed its gratitude towards the foreign volunteers, and has personally met both Howell, or Koresh as he is called now, and Asahara.” The anchor announced.
Alex turned to Monica with a hard look, eager to know more about Howell, or Koresh, as we need to call him now. “Can you please get us in touch with Jeannine Bunds and Linda Tripp? We need to interview them about this development. I doubt that Tadiar would simply allow Koresh and Asahara to arrive in the Philippines unless he has ulterior motives.”
“Ulterior motives? Do not go all conspiracy nut on us, Alex!” I joked. Yet, Alex’s hardened look remained unchanged. “Now I understand what you meant by ulterior motives.”
“Tadiar is practically a cornered animal right now. If he wants, he could train Koresh and Asahara in the art of terrorism. Already, over 34% of the maritime traffic coming in and out of the Straits of Malacca go through the Spratlys, and the Philippine Navy has already raided those merchant ships,” Alex replied in a grim tone. He turned to me and Monica and loosened his hardened look. “We may need to pray for a miracle, or otherwise, we could be looking at either a major case of state-sponsored terrorism, or a major World War.”
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“I lost the leadership struggle to Vernon Howell around 1987, but I managed to gather enough followers to secede from Howell’s faction of the Branch Davidians and as a result, we moved to Canada, so that we could continue our worship in peace. I was not surprised when I heard that Howell had moved to Australia in 1993 after changing his name to David Koresh, namely because he recruited Australian members for his cause, and that Australia became the only Anglophone nation to maintain diplomatic ties to the Artemio Tadiar dictatorship in the Philippines. After the Chinese bombing of the Philippines, Koresh as he calls himself, traveled to the Philippines and offered his services as a humanitarian volunteer to Tadiar himself. That, along with his meeting with Shoko Asahara, whose group, Aum Shinrikyo, became allies of the Koreshian faction of the Branch Davidians. Meanwhile, my faction had denounced the practice of polygamy, and approached another religious movement, namely the Unification Church, which had been growing in strength. We declared our allegiance to the Moonies, and as a result, my faction within the Branch Davidians eventually merged with the Unification Church. To my astonishment, the Moonies were a hell lot better than the Koreshians, but their mass weddings were a weird spectacle. There was not a Unification Church congregation in Canada before we joined, but in an unusual sense, Pemberton, British Columbia emerged as a new stronghold of the Moonies in Western Canada. Unfortunately, I was stunned to learn that the founder of the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, had also started to fund the anti-communist activities in the Philippines, and even called for a special ‘Crusader Legion’ consisting of Moonie volunteers in the fight against Chinese communism. That was when I eventually left the Moonies and was lost in the spiritual wilderness, with the rest of my former faction members joining me a month later. We eventually studied in greater detail, the Christian scriptures from a priest who was a member of the Orthodox Church of America, through the Canadian Archdiocese. One of my followers was eventually accepted into the Orthodox Church, after three years of ecclesiastical studies in an Orthodox monastery in All Saints Monastery in BC, he eventually founded the Christ the Savior Orthodox Church of America in Pemberton.” George Roden, from the documentary “The Role of Cults in Tadiar’s State-Sponsored Terrorism”.
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* David Koresh is best known IOTL as the guy who was pivotal in the infamous 1993 Waco Siege, which obviously will not happen ITTL, as he has moved to Australia before that could happen. While we may get a similar scenario to the Waco Siege, it might not be in the US.
** These are basically Indian water buffalo species.
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