As mass murderer Joseph Stalin undermined, terrorized and neutralized the nucleus and bulwark of the Ukrainian nation 90 years ago, Nobel Peace Prize “winners” Abiy Ahmed and Isaias Afewerki are doing the same in 2020, starving and slaughtering Northern Ethiopians – the nucleus and bulwark of the Ethiopian nation. And this in front of the UN, in front of the wider world – in the age of information, in the Age of Coronavirus.
“Genocide in full swing in Tigray by Eritrean forces with the permission of Abiy Ahmed. The world acts unaware & allows it with indifference. 1 event mass killing reports : 750 Axum, 300 Wukro, 55 AgluE, 80 Negash, 26 Hawzien, 156 church compound near Adigrat. The rest with starvation.”
Holodomor Famine-Genocide of 1932–33
The Holodomor Famine-Genocide of Ukrainian peasants was a tragic event was a planned repression of the peasants of Soviet Ukraine for massively resisting the Stalinist state’s collectivization drive; a deliberate offensive aimed at undermining, terrorizing, and neutralizing the nucleus and bulwark of the Ukrainian nation
Famine-Genocide of 1932–33 (Голодомор; Holodomor). The mass murder by Josef Stalin’s Soviet regime of millions of Ukrainian peasants. In recent years this national tragedy has become widely known as the Holodomor (from moryty holodom ‘to kill by means of starvation’). This tragic event was a planned repression of the peasants of Soviet Ukraine for massively resisting the Stalinist state’s collectivization drive; a deliberate offensive aimed at undermining, terrorizing, and neutralizing the nucleus and bulwark of the Ukrainian nation and recent Ukrainization efforts; and the result of the forced export of grain, other foodstuffs, and livestock in exchange for the imported machinery the USSR required for the implementation of the Stalinist policy of rapid industrialization. In 1932 Ukraine had an average grain harvest of 146.6 million centers (15.5 million centers more than in 1928), and there was no climatic danger of famine. Yet, because of onerous forced grain requisition quotas that the Bolshevik state imposed upon the Soviet Ukrainian rural population (see Grain procurement), the peasants already experienced hunger in the spring of 1932. The grain collections were brutally carried out by 112,000 special Bolshevik agents sent to extract grain by using terror against both collectivized and independent farmers. To minimize peasant opposition, on 7 August 1932 a law introduced the death penalty ‘for violating the sanctity of socialist property.’
By the end of 1932 Moscow’s food-collection plan, which far exceeded the actual harvest, was 72 percent fulfilled. The food-collection plan for 1932–3 was based on the total area of land that was to be seeded. In reality, less land was seeded than planned, and even less produced the expected crops. Consequently the rural population was left without any means of sustenance, yet the authorities did not organize any supplies to feed the villagers.
The Holodomor affected almost all parts of interwar Soviet Ukraine, but it grew to massive proportions in the areas stretching from the Kyiv to Kharkiv regions. It also occurred in the territories bordering on the Ukrainian SSR that were populated mostly by Ukrainians, such as the Kuban and the Don region. Only an insignificant part of the population—the privileged rural Communist functionaries, who were served by a special distribution system—did not experience hunger. Urban inhabitants and industrial regions suffered less, because they received food rations. But the peasants were forced to try to survive on various food surrogates. Consequently mass starvation and disease became rampant, and occurrences of cannibalism were reported. Whoever had the strength fled to the cities, to the industrial Donets Basin, or to Russia in search of food. Peasants who were caught were repressed or returned to their starving villages, where the vast majority perished alongside those who had been too weak or ill to attempt escape.
The Holodomor caused an extremely high mortality rate; in some regions it reached 20 to 25 percent of the population. Some villages in Poltava oblast, Kharkiv oblast, and Kyiv oblast were completely deserted by the spring of 1933. Most of their inhabitants perished, but some did manage to escape. In the fall of 1933 the Soviet regime began resettling those villages with Russian peasants, but the majority of them returned home within a year and were replaced by Ukrainians. Throughout the Soviet Ukrainian countryside agricultural work was barely noticeable. During the spring of 1933 armed detachments protected the state-assigned seed for sowing, and those peasants who were well enough to work the land received minimal rations. Only the first fruits and vegetables of the summer saved those who had managed to survive. But the mass effects of starvation, disease and accelerated mortality, and a falling birthrate became apparent for many years.
The fact that the 1937 Soviet census was officially declared invalid and not released suggests that its results indicated a catastrophic population decline as a consequence of the Holodomor.
The estimates of the number of how many peasants died during the Holodomor vary widely. At the high end the figure of ten million deaths has been cited, mostly by President Viktor Yushchenko. For many years seven million deaths was the number commonly used in the West. In the 1950s and 1960s some Western scholars (Dmytro Solovei, Mykola Prykhodko, William H. Chamberlin, and Vasyl I. Hryshko) estimated that there were three million to four million deaths, while Volodymyr Kubijovyč and Clarence Augustus Manning suggest the losses were two million to three million. In the late 1970s the dissident Ukrainian Helsinki Group suggested a maximum figure of six million victims. In 1981 the demographer Sergei Maksudov (pseud of Alexander Babyonyshev) determined that the population loss in Soviet Ukraine was 4.5 million. Subsequently Jacques Vallin et al essentially confirmed Maksudov’s figures with their estimate of 4.6 million deaths. Further refinements to their work have established a figure of 2.6 million deaths caused by ‘exceptional mortality.’ In 2008 the Institute of Demography and Social Research of the NANU established a figure of 4.5 million deaths: 3.4 million victims of exceptional mortality and 1.1 million non-births.
Today there is no doubt that Joseph Stalin and his closest associates planned this great tragedy. Its primary purpose was to break the backbone of the Ukrainian nation by destroying ‘the kulaks as a class,’ ie, all peasants who resisted the regime, including those who had already joined collective farms. In fact, the Holodomor was directed at the peasantry as a whole, which the Bolsheviks saw as the rank and file of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. The famine-genocide was accompanied by a massive campaign to suppress Ukrainian culture, managed by Pavel Postyshev, whom Stalin sent from Moscow to serve as second secretary of the CC CP(B)U. Leading CP(B)U members (Hryhorii Petrovsky, Mykola Skrypnyk, Vlas Chubar) tried to persuade Stalin, Postyshev, and their associates to change their policy and counteract the famine. But their efforts were rebuffed, and they themselves were accused of sabotage. In protest against the widespread atrocities Skrypnyk and Mykola Khvylovy, a prominent writer and publicist, committed suicide.
The Soviet regime remained silent about the Holodomor and provided no aid to the victims or the survivors. But news and information about what was going on reached the West and evoked public responses in Polish-ruled Western Ukraine and in the Ukrainian diaspora. Mass demonstrations and protests were organized there, and in October 1933 Mykola Lemyk, a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, assassinated Aleksei Mailov, the Soviet consul in Lviv, to draw public attention to the famine. Relief committees were organized in Europe and North America; memoranda were sent to the League of Nations; the issue was raised in the British parliament; and Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna headed an international relief action. But the Soviet government rejected all offers of external aid, insisting that the famine was a slanderous fabrication by enemies of the USSR. The Soviet authorities arranged a guided Potemkin-village tour of Soviet Ukraine by France’s prime minister Eduoard Herriot, who upon his return home stated that he had seen no evidence of famine and claimed Ukraine was ‘like a garden in full bloom.’
Although the foreign press did publish some information on the famine, it did not elicit a significant public response from non-Ukrainians. Indeed, in the 1930s Soviet and Communist propaganda efforts created a widespread belief in the West that life in the USSR was idyllic. Malcolm Muggeridge’s foreign-correspondent reports about the famine went unheeded in Great Britain, and many Western governments and correspondents (eg, Walter Duranty of the New York Times) avoided discussing or writing about the famine and sometimes even deliberately denied it.
Female Chess Champ will Skip Tournament, Lose Titles in Protest of Dress Codes for Female Competitors in Saudi Arabia
A two-time female world chess champion from the Ukraine, has decided to skip an upcoming tournament in Saudi Arabia even though doing so will cause her to lose her titles.
Because she refuses to be treated like a “secondary creature” in the oppressive Saudi Kingdom.
Champion Anna Muzychuk is boycotting the upcoming tournament in Saudi Arabia to make a stand for women’s rights, she saidin a December 23 social media post.
“In a few days I am going to lose two world champion titles – one by one,” Muzychuk wrote. “Just because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. Not to play by someone’s rules, not to wear abaya, not to be accompanied outside, and altogether no to feel myself a secondary creature.”
Muzychuk went on to say how proud she is of her titles, but that she is ready to stand for her principles. Her action will cause her to miss out on the possibility of winning a grand prize of $2 million put up by crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“I was expected to earn more than I do in a dozen of events combined,” Muzychuk said of missing out on have a shot to take home the winner’s purse.
“All that is annoying, but the most upsetting thing is that almost nobody really cares,” Muzychuk continued. “That is a really bitter feeling, still not the one to change my principles,” she wrote.
Muzychuk concluded her post saying that her sister Mariya shares her views and promised, “And, yes, for those few who care – we’ll be back.”
The controversy over what female contestants would wear at the tournament had already become a sticking point. Still, the World Chess Federation declared a victory of sorts when it negotiated a dress code it termed“historic,” which excluded full-body abayas and substituted headscarves and high-necked white blouses. The change in dress code, though, wasn’t enough for Muzychuk and her sister who still decided not to compete.
Other controversies have also shaken the tournament. The Saudi authorities refused to invite Israeli competitors, and the teams from Iran and Qatar have thus far refused to accept an invitation over regional political rivalries.
Selected Comments:
Bravo Anna, you are an inspiration to women to reject this belief system. There are not many who would sacrifice what you are to live their values.
Thanks for standing up to these med evil butchers
Good for you Anna and shame on the World Chess Federation for it’s part in this farce. You are a true role model. The tournament should be held in locations that do not have such ridiculous and insane conditions for any participant. And to think, we have feminists wanting that here, incredible.
Yes. Her beliefs are more important to her than a trophy. Outstanding!
Congratulations Anna Muzychuk! A true winner would never succumb to the injustice of islam.
Where’s the feminist screechers when it’s a real issue?
Wave a two dollar bill under Hillary’s nose and she would sell out the entire woman’s movement… oh, the Saudi’s already did? Nevermind.
How can they hold a credible Chess tournament in Saudi Arabia if the Israeli team is barred and females who reject being second-class humans are also barred? Saudi Arabia seemed to be making some small progress but this shows they are still a backward Muslim country.
Backward is a compliment !! they are well beyond backward. If it weren’t for Western Christian civilization they would still be in the STONE AGE
..and how can they hold a credible tournament when the person holding the World champion Title does not want to participate in this charade?!
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on July 15, 2016
Turkey’s President Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko by the end of June 2016 had embarked on a further escalation of their confrontation with Russia through the sponsorship of jihadism on the Crimean Peninsula.
This campaign is picking up pace to the point of becoming irreversible because of the recent activation of the Crimean Tatar Battalion and a Turkish-Ukrainian comprehensive program to Islamicize the border area with Crimea.
Kiev is an eager participant because this is the only program with the potential of markedly escalating the confrontation with Russia and preventing a political solution, even if the U.S.-led West attempts to impose one.
The escalation of the Crimean Tatar jihad is no longer influenced by the international diplomatic negotiations to solve the Ukraine crisis and will escalate should there be an attempt to impose a solution which does not recognize Crimea as an independent, Turkish-dominated Muslim state.
In March 2016, during Poroshenko’s visit to Turkey, the Crimean Tatar Battalion was declared fully operational after lengthy training in Turkey. Poroshenko spent time in Turkey dealing with the Crimean jihad.
The militant Crimean Tatar leaders — Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Dzhemilev — were part of President Poroshenko’s official delegation and joined him and Ukrainian senior officers in visiting the Crimean Tatar Battalion. Significantly, Poroshenko brought with him Ukrainian uniforms for the graduating Crimean Tatars. The Turkish military committed to providing the unit with weapons and other military equipment.
The Crimean Tatar Battalion deployed in the Kherson region on the border with Crimea in early April 2016. Refat Chubarov declared the unit to be “a national military unit”. However, Mustafa Dzhemilev announced that the new battalion would be called “Asker”: a Muslim Army.
The Crimean Tatar soldiers describe their unit as a “Suicide Bomber Battalion” committed to the liberation and Islamicization of Crimea. “If there is bloodshed and ethnic cleansing in the Crimea, this battalion will rescue its compatriots and do whatever it takes. That’s why they call themselves the Suicide Bomber Battalion,” Dzhemilev explained.
According to Refat Chubarov, the establishment of the Crimean Tatar Battalion was the beginning of a major historic program agreed upon by Erdoğan and Poroshenko. “Turkey and Ukraine worked out a plan to occupy Crimea by doing subversive actions,” he explained.
At the heart of the program was the transformation of Ukraine’s Kherson Province into a Turkic bastion from where the liberation campaign would be launched. The demographic change would commence with the emigration of 200,000 Meskhetian Turks from Turkey. They would be followed by Crimean Tatars and other refugees from the North Caucasus, currently in Turkey.
This new Muslim population would provide a manpower pool for the recruitment of the Muslim forces needed for what Refat Chubarov called the “reoccupation of Crimea”.
The new province would serve as the springboard for a comprehensive jihadist campaign throughout Russian Crimea aimed, in the words of Refat Chubarov, to “explode social and political situation in this region”. Moreover, a Turkic-Muslim Kherson would also break in two the presently contiguous Russian-speaking part of Ukraine which seeks secession.
Refat Chubarov noted that Erdoğan and Poroshenko agreed that Kherson would be named the Khan Giray Province. The Giray dynasty was the Genghisid/Turkic dynasty which ruled the Khanate of Crimea from its formation in 1427 until its occupation by the Russians in 1783. The Giray Khans had special standing in the Ottoman hierarchy the early 15th Century, and in the rebellion of Semiz Mehmed Giray in the early 16th Century.
By Ottoman protocol, the Giray Khan was second to the Ottoman Emperor and superior to the Grand Vizier. Subsequently, the Ottoman Sultan demoted the Crimean Khan to the level of Grand Vizier and the Sultan retained the right to install and depose the Khans.
Senior Turkish Intelligence officials acknowledge that Erdoğan’s “Ankara has been dreaming for long of occupying Crimea again, which was lost during Russian-Turkish wars”.
Erdoğan and Poroshenko also agreed that the U.S. was to be offered naval, air, and military bases in de-occupied Crimea in order to guarantee U.S. and NATO umbrella against Russian retaliation.
Significantly, the current flag of the Crimean Tatar Battalion under the command of Lenur Islyamov has the emblem of the Giray dynasty at the center.
LenurIslyamov is the commander of the battalion of the “activists” who blockade the traffic between the Crimea and Ukraine. He is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar oligarch with major investments in both Ukraine and Turkey. Islyamov claimed that he “personally invested $10-million in an enterprise on the [Crimean] peninsula but later had to leave” when the Russians took over. Islyamov expects Kiev to compensate him for his losses.
In the last week of June 2016, President Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan committed to the marked escalation of training and preparing Turkic jihadists for the escalation of the pan-Turkic jihad. This is going to be a most audacious and risky undertaking for Ankara is going out of its way to ensure credible deniability of the entire program.
Turkish Intelligence nominated a retired general, known for his chauvinistic pan-Turkic ideology, to head the undertaking. He was instructed to set up a private security firm which would provide cover for the undertaking.
The security firm would recruit retired or fired high-ranking officers from the military, intelligence, and security services to run the training program. The retired Turkish general was explicitly told to focus on recruiting retired and expelled generals and colonels in order to reinforce Ankara’s ability to deny all association with the security firm and its efforts. The former senior officers were promised immunity from future prosecution regarding coups and other plotting against Erdoğan if they committed to the new training initiative.
The funding of the new “firm” comes from President Erdoğan‘s son, Bilal Erdoğan’s, various energy and transportation companies. Bilal is already funding a myriad of deniable sensitive operations for his father.
As well, Ankara is expecting Riyadh to provide lavish funding, albeit through deniable third parties and individuals. Erdoğan is convinced he has the commitments of both King Salman bin ‘Abd al-’Aziz al Sa’ud and the all-important Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister.
The Turkish military and intelligence services would provide all the weapons and other military equipment through deniable fronts.
In the first phase, the security firm was tasked to formulate for, and present to, Erdoğan “important security master plans for the war” throughout the Turkic world. Erdoğan wants to create an “Army of Islam” which would spread his neo-Ottomanism and pan-Turkism. The master plans would include specific plans for specialized training for the various jihadists of this “Army of Islam” who would spread the pan-Turkic jihad.
The company was to quickly take over a few training camps currently used by the Turkish military and intelligence services in order to train jihadists for both Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State/Caliphate. They will introduce their own highly experience trainers and experts as well as retain some of the current staff as “volunteers”. The company would continue to train the jihadistsfor the al-Sham front, but would increasingly focus on highly special training for jihadist from 34 Sunni Islamic nations.
The first non-Arab trainees were to come from nations which had distinguished themselves in combat in the al-Sham jihad front. These are, in the order of priorities of Turkish Intelligence, the Chechens-Dagestanis (and all other North Caucasus jihadists), the East Turkistanis/Uighurs from China, the Uzbeks, and the Greater Albanians (from Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia).
A special training program would be set for the Crimean Tatars on account of their geopolitical importance rather than combat record in al-Sham.
Meanwhile, Erdoğan rushed to reassure Poroshenko of Turkey’s enduring commitment to the confrontation with Russia.
Erdoğan called Poroshenko, who was in Brussels, on June 27, 2016.
“Turkey is a strategic partner for Ukraine, and Ukraine is a strategic partner for Turkey,” Erdoğan stated.
He also guaranteed that “all of our existing projects would be continued and would be broadened.” Erdoğan assured Poroshenko that there was no real rapprochement with Moscow, and that Ankara only expressed “sympathy for the family of the killed [pilot]” rather than apologized for the shoot-down of the Russian Su-24 in northern Syria on November 24, 2016.
Poroshenko was most satisfied with Erdoğan’s assertion and promised Kiev’s unyielding commitment to their joint confrontation with Russia.
The next day, June 28, 2016, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım formally repudiated all reports about a rapprochement with Russia.
“Compensating Russia is not on the table, we have only expressed our regrets,” he stated on Turkish TV. There would be no change in the Turkish policy. Ankara “reached an understanding on this affair. We will put this incident behind us and continue on our path,” Yıldırım said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Erdoğan spoke by telephone for about half-an-hour on June 29, 2016.
According to Ankara’s version, the presidents discussed “bilateral relations and cooperation on regional issues and humanitarian crises … as well as taking necessary steps to revive the bilateral relations”. Turkish Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said the conversation was an “important step” toward the normalization of relations. Turkey and Russia “opened a new page in which problems regarding bilateral ties and regional issues such as Syria, Ukraine and Crimea will be handled through dialogue and negotiation”.
The Kremlin sees things differently. Erdoğan was conciliatory, especially after Putin delivered condolences over the Ankara airport bombing of June 28, 2016. However, Erdoğan only expressed “sympathy and condolences to the relatives of the deceased Russian pilot” rather than apologize for the shoot-down.
Although Erdoğan called Russia “a friend and strategic partner” in an effort to have Putin commit to cooperation in defense and foreign affairs issues, Putin would not budge. Putin told Erdoğan that Moscow was ready to start negotiations with Ankara in order “to restore the mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in trade, economy and other spheres”, but not defense and regional issues. Ankara would have to change policies — something Erdoğan has repeatedly refused to even consider — before the Kremlin changes position on these issues.
Simply put, the crisis and confrontation in the Middle East and the Greater Black Sea Basin will continue to escalate.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on July 20, 2014
“We must consider the downing of Flight 17 as part of the larger “panorama of peril” and not fall into the trap set before us”The downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur yesterday, killing nearly 300 men, women and children, currently dominates today’s headline-rich environment. Accusations about who is behind this wholesale slaughter of innocents are serving as the drumbeats for war, and they are increasing in volume and tempo.Unfortunately, most Americans and those in the West will fall victim to thinly veiled propaganda pushed by the major news agencies and their captive pundits that is deliberately designed to sway public opinion to a specific agenda—an agenda of war. We are being played, and if we don’t exercise our own intellectual discernment to understand how this incident fits into the larger picture, it will be not just be to our own peril, but to the peril of our children and generations to come.Setting the global stageTo understand the significance of the downing of Flight 17, we must look at the bigger picture and think outside of the box created for us by those in power and their facilitators in the media. We must understand a bit of history, and realize that we are not seeing anything new in terms of tactics or orchestration.To anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention, it is obvious that the global power structure is being reordered to meet a specific and predetermined design. We are witnessing orchestrated global chaos that transcends partisan politics and has been long in the making. We need to view the current geopolitical events in a panoramic setting, and understand how each of these events are related like cogs in the gear of the globalists. Each geopolitical event of significance is being done by design, but by whose design, when did this restructuring begin, and what is the end-game objective? The answers will not be found coming from the mouths of our leaders or the captured fourth estate. You must look deeper than the sound bites that are creating the drumbeats of war.As I have previously written, it is important to understand that the Arab Spring was planned far in advance and was not spontaneous. It was never about establishing “democracy” or freeing the oppressed. So too was the planned overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, and the use of Libya as the marketplace and transit point for weapons of war by a rogue, out-of-control cabal of globalists within the U.S. government and other Western countries.It was and continues to be war by proxy, where the globalists embedded inside our government have become the captured operatives of a Saudi and pan-Islamic agenda hell-bent on changing the balance of power in the Middle East and all across the northern hemisphere to create a “New World Order.” The problem is that we seem to have lost the capacity to see the bigger picture, willingly turned a blind eye to the machinations of the globalist agenda, or worse, refuse to release our death grip on the false political paradigm. Accordingly and with minimal objections, the restructuring of power is continuing largely unfettered.This is why and how we find ourselves at this point in world history, where chaos is increasing exponentially. Left unchecked, it will soon make its appearance personal to each of us. Failure to expose the lies and lawlessness of the leadership on both sides of the political spectrum, from the Renegade-in-Chief, his band of in-house outlaws as well as those facilitators holding positions of leadership within each branch of the U.S. federal government, and in addition to the media mouthpieces of disinformation, will most assuredly lead us to global war.Flight 17: The 21st Century Lusitania?What, you might ask, does this seemingly redundant recap of recent history have to do with a single passenger plane that was shot down over a war zone? Was it merely a tragic, isolated and unforeseeable event? Based on careful analysis and information into the larger agenda given to me by inside intelligence and financial sources, I say “no.” The reason, I contend, behind the downing of Flight 17 is much more nefarious than I’ve seen discussed elsewhere. Simply stated, it is my belief that we are witnessing the run-up to World War III. We must look through the prism of history to see how Flight 17 can easily become the spark that ignites the dry tinder carefully positioned by the global powers, the financial elite, and those vying for a seat at the table of global power.As a result of the attack at Benghazi, the plans of the globalists were exposed and temporarily sidelined. The Renegade-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, and his co-conspirators within the U.S. State Department and other Western and Middle Eastern countries were exposed as operating the largest criminal weapons running operation in history. The intent was (and remains) to further change the balance of power by ousting Bashir Assad, replacing Assad with a puppet regime to further advance the Saudi-Wahabbi agenda. Syria of is critical military importance to Russia and economic importance to China, so such a plan would cross Putin’s red line.Despite the obvious, most Americans remain oblivious to the global plans, mostly due to lies that are large enough, repeated often enough, and left unchallenged or reinforced by the media. The “failure” of the initial plans to overthrow Assad were merely a speed bump in the road to the global restructuring. Instead, plan “B” was implemented, which involved the creation and backing of ISIS to open a new front against Syria. ISIS, equipped by U.S. and Western powers, is indeed on a “Death Race to Damascus” as I previously described.The criminal cabal that exists within the U.S. government continues to poke at the proverbial Russian bear. The Cold War never ended, it merely took on different forms. The Islamic agenda not only plays an important role in this strategy, but they too are being played by the globalists. Regional conflicts and various civil wars have been and continue to be seeded by Western intelligence agencies to change the balance of power. It’s much like merging the Bay of Pigs with the real-life version of the movie Groundhog Day. Given such proxy and asymmetrical wars where the Western alliance is creating chaos against Russia and by proxy, China, isn’t it reasonable to expect some tit-for-tat response? And when that response arrives, what might we expect to happen?In this most recent campaign of global power restructuring to benefit the global political and financial interests, one element has been notably missing. It’s an element we saw immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Decades before that, it was an element missing from the American populace in the run-up to World War I: the tide of public opinion.Students of history will recall that it was not until the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, that killed nearly 1200 people that the tide of public opinion turned in America. Until then, the American people had no desire to enter the war. With that single incident, where the Lusitania was traveling though an area known for its danger from German U-Boats, and traveling against many warnings, that public sentiment was manipulated. The sinking of the Lusitania turned public opinion in the U.S., and many other countries against Germany. It resulted in the U.S. entering World War I. That single incident became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought.While the leaders and pundits point the fingers of blame to who shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, wouldn’t it be pertinent to question why this particular flight was flying over a designated war zone contrary to standard operational procedures? This flight was in the same area as other military transport planes that were shot down in the days and weeks before. Like the Lusitania, however, warnings were apparently discarded… or perhaps the risk downplayed. Many will dismiss this claim out of hand, asserting that the flight was traveling at too high an altitude and too fast to be victimized by the wrath of regional conflict. Perhaps those making such assertions should make their case to the families of the victims rather than on the media talk shows.As the photos of the dead are used as tools of propaganda, emotion and demonization, however warranted, overshadows rational analysis and pertinent inquiries. The globalists and their pundit cheerleaders will continue to beat the drums of war, making the case for U.S. involvement, reminiscent of 1915. Those who fail to learn from history, we are told, are doomed to repeat it.Why Ukraine?The ultimate control of Ukraine, or who controls Ukraine, is hanging in the balance. The fight for control exists between the West and Russia, or more precisely, a Western multinational interest that includes Saudi Arabia and others, integrated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a Russia-China alliance. According to “V, The Guerrilla Economist” whom I have interviewed on numerous occasions, at issue is the “New Silk Road.” That is a physical road—a corridor, that connects China and Russia to Europe for the benefit of the Eurasian trade zone. And most importantly, there can be no EurAsian Trade Zone without Ukraine, which has an economic output second only to Russia.Lest we forget, it was the IMF that was first entity on the ground in Ukraine as the “conflict” began. It is the goal of the globalists to collapse not just the U.S. dollar and our economy, but take the entire global economy down in order to establish a single global currency. We must not only understand the enormity of the lies being forced upon us, but the magnitude of the agenda. At a time when we cannot get truthful answers to topics ranging from Benghazi, missing IRS e-mails and every other subject of import, and as lawlessness has overtaken our leadership, it is incumbent upon us to question everything.We are witnessing a very dangerous game being played out by the powers above those we recognize as leaders. This process of global restructuring is deadly serious, and as we’ve seen, quite deadly. As long as we are silent about the evil machinations of the globalist powers, they will continue to advance their agenda.We must consider the downing of Flight 17 as part of the larger “panorama of peril” and not fall into the trap set before us, for if we do, we will subjugate ourselves and our future generations to the oppression and bondage of a New World Order.Source
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on March 12, 2014
Over the past couple of days, a number of websites have been linking to an article posted a couple of years ago, quoting Fr Seraphim Rose’s words on why icons of the Mother of God weep. The reason for this is because of uncorroborated stories appearing in a Polish paper reporting dozens of icons weeping in both Russia and Ukraine.
Many of these websites are rather “apocalyptic” in tone and are regarding these miracles as a portent of how the Crimean crisis may escalate into full-scale war (simultaneously fulfilling so-called prophecies of Fatima). It’s worth noting that the icons have not begun weeping in the past few days, or even this year, but in fact began to weep in September last year (as described here). Therefore, the weeping icons preceded the protests in Kiev and the current situation, and may have warned about what has now happened, rather than anything worse to come.
However, amid the article linked to by so many websites recently are the most important words regarding this and every situation:
What is certain is [the] tears of the Mother of God speak directly to the heart of every Orthodox believer, calling all to repentance, amendment of life and return to Orthodox faith and tradition in their fullness.
As we are beginning the rigors of the Lenten fast, let us take the tears of the Mother of God as a reminder to repent ourselves, praying also that fellow Christians in Russia, Ukraine and worldwide may act wisely and in the fear of God.
