Beautiful documentary about young women in the Syrian NDF

That is powerful. Contrast it with those scripted bullshit composites made for American networks, early on in the conflict, which advertised bakers and schoolteachers and bus-drivers – all in civilian clothes – who had supposedly joined the glorious resistance against Assad, making it a true people’s revolution. This will be hard for the west to tear down as “Assad propaganda”, although I’m sure they will try, unless they take the route of simply refusing to acknowledge it at all.

Your blog continues to grow and inspire. Impressive, to say the least.

Saker,
What is your opinion of the Russian Orthodox monk Brother Nathanael? The Khazars say he is not a real monk.

His web address is http://realjewnews.com/

@Anonymous: What is your opinion of the Russian Orthodox monk Brother Nathanael? The Khazars say he is not a real monk.

They are right. “Brother” Nathanael is a sincere person, but he is insane, literally, medically. He is an embarrassment to the Orthodox community. As far as I know, he was tonsured in the Orthodox Church, but that means nothing since *any* sinner can become a monk since a monk is, by definition, a person who repents. Furthermore, he has been told to cease and desist by his canonical superior which he refused. As far as I know he know only speaks for himself. He is a ‘one man show’ or, worse, a ‘one man church’ (which is impossible, of course). It seems that one banned bishop recognizes him as a “novice” which implies that he has not even been tonsured into monasticism.

Just take a look at the photos on his website (http://brothernathanaelfoundation.org/) look at the top banner – and tell me is it not painfully obvious that the the poor man is completely insane?

In this case the Khazars are, alas, 100% correct: he is not a real monk. He is a clown and a mentally deranged lunatic.

Sorry :-(

The Saker

That is a very powerful video. Thank you for posting it, Saker.

Regarding Brother Nathaniel, he certainly comes across as a little kooky. But in his videos, he is very much in touch with the reality of international politics and economics.

Insanity is not being in touch with reality but he sees it very clearly. The founders of NLP, Bandler and Grinder, stated once that when your delusion is shared by others you are no longer considered deluded in our society.

That doesn’t make them less mad of course. Evidence – a population that considers invading another country and destroying it is “fighting for peace”. And they do it time and again. What did Einstein say about madness? Something about repeating the same behaviour and expecting a different result?

So who’s mad?

@Mindfriedo: Then check these

Yes, I saw that. I sure hope that their source is not Debka :-))

Seriously, it is possible that Debka got it right that time, but that is not going to change my mind about them. Their record is simply too terrible. But, as they say in the US, even a broken clock is on time once every 12 hours…

Cheers and thanks,

The Saker

@Mindfriedo:I meant the implications. Won’t the “Islamic” opposition in Syria get a new lease on life? The conflict will drag on. And a split Iraq is also possible

I don’t know, but the potential seems to be there. Check out this guy:

http://youtu.be/Cvsi_bZoTRw

It does not look too good. But if things do get out of hand, Iran will, I am sure, intervene more or less openly. So maybe the ISIS will get it from both sides, not to mention the government..

We shall see,

Have a great day,

The Saker