Ukraine
1. [source] A Secret Deal for Ukraine? 1/19/16: Stephen F. Cohen,
2. [source] Poroshenko’s ’Bluff’ and Crimea Blockade by Halyna Mokrushyna
3. [Source] Poroshenko and Biden Coordinate Actions for Donbass Elections
4. [source] Ukraine: In Search of Brainstorm Solutions to Conflict by Arina Tsukanova
On January 15, Russian President’s aide Vladislav Surkov and Victoria Nuland, the US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, held consultations on the Minsk agreements for Ukraine settlement. The meeting took place in the Russian President’s Yantar state residence located in the town of Pionersky near the city of Kaliningrad. It lasted about six hours. «The consultations we had were detailed enough, fruitful and useful», Surkov said. «This was
brainstorming of a kind to tap compromise solutions».
5. [source] The second anniversary of the Maidan in Kiev: extremists organizations banned in Russia Right Sector, AutoMaidan and Black Committee burned tires in Kiev, The leader of AutoMaidan, Sergey Korba: “AutoMaida is in the same place. Salute to the revolution of liberation of Ukraine’s statehood.”
The main Kiev square — Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square)— had become a stage for the supporters of European integration in November 21, 2013 immediately after the announcement of the Ukraine’s legitimate democratically elected government of President Yanukovych to suspend the signing of the Association agreement with The European Union for 1 year. In clashes on the street Grushevskogo in January 2014 supporters of Euromaidan first massively used Molotov cocktails and live ammunition against armed security forces of the Presidential guards Berkut. Over hundred people were killed, the majority of those who had dies were law enforcement officers. Events on Hrushevskoho marked the beginning of a new
stage of Euromaidan – armed, which led to a bloody massacre on Instytutska.
19 January 2016, the Prosecutor of the Crimea Natalia Polonskaya approved the charge for 22-year-old Ukrainian citizen, who is accused of the endangerment of lives of the officers of the armed security forces Berkut. According to investigators, on January 20th, 2014 accused, being a member of the banned extremist organization – Ukrainian insurgent army (UPA) throw two bottles with an incendiary mix at the employees of Berkut during the Maidan armed coup in Kiev. The young man was charged with attempted murder of two persons in connection and during of them fulfilling their direct official duty. he has been also charged in drug trafficking.
7. [source] “Let our enemies burn!” The neo-Nazi meeting on the day of Unity (Sobornosti) of Ukraine on January 22, 2016
8. [source] A nation without its history is a nation without its future. A real history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union is being methodically erased in Ukraine
The Soviet Union’s coat of arms, the hammer and sickle, will be removed from the Motherland Monument in Kiev dedicated to the World War Two victory over Nazi Germany
9. [source] The World Today: Ukrainian Complexities
Tariq Ali talks to Volodymyr Ishchenko about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, a subject now overshadowed by the war in Syria, the resulting immigration crisis in Europe and the terrorist attacks in France.
The Middle East
1. [source] The Orthodox – Shia alliance
2. [source] Seven Things you didn’t know the U.S. and its allies did to Iran
3. [Source] US Forces Setting Up Base In Northern Syria Near Russian Forces In Qamishli Airfield: Report
4. [source] Turkish Forces Enter Syria — How Will Russia Respond? A desperate move by Erdogan to stop Kurdish territorial gains
5. [source] On EU’s Doorstep: Radical Islamists Buying Land in Bosnia
Syria and the world
1. [source] CrossTalk Syria’s moment. Russia and the United States appear to be determined – at least in public – that the scheduled Syria talks should happen without delay.
Is this realistic? Russia’s intervention on the side of Damascus has stabilized the Syrian state. The other side or sides are anything but stable…
CrossTalking with Daniel McAdams, Daniel Wagner, and Fawaz Gerges.
2. [source] Syria: Media welcomed aboard Russian destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov in Latakia. International media was invited to come and sail on the Russian destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov near the coast of Tartus on Friday.
A large anti-submarine ship arrived in the Mediterranean Sea at the end of 2015 to replace the frigate “Sharp-witted” which in its turn came back to its mother port in Sevastopol. Destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov is part of the Russian Northern Fleet and its main base is in Severomorsk. Apart from various kinds of missiles, the ship carries on board two Ka-27 helicopters which helps to discover targets underwater, with sonar systems being used to pick up objects in deep water.
In 2014 the crew of the destroyer carried out missions for eight and a half months in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
3. [source] Russia’s Military Operation in Syria: Results and Conclusions, by Alex Gorka
4. [source] Iran, Saudi Arabia “Clash” Over Syria At “Secret”, Closed-Door Meeting In Davos
5. [source] Why US sees endless war global instability?
US President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union Address foresees decades of conflict and instability throughout the world, says Professor Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs.
6. [source] Ayatollah Khamenei: Nuclear deal big, important achievement
The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution has hailed the nuclear deal as an important and big achievement. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, however, said the deal does not meet all of the country’s demands.
The Leader rejected speculation by some people that attribute the nuclear achievement to the US mercy. He noted that the achievement was due to efforts by the Iranian nation and scientists. Ayatollah Khamenei also said Iranian officials must remain cautious about deception by the other side. He stressed that the other side cannot be trusted and if they fail to abide by their commitments, the Iranian officials must do the same. Ayatollah Khamenei was addressing electoral officials in Tehran.
7. [source] Syria: Russian soldiers take the plunge for Epiphany at Hmeymi
8. [source] Russian Air Force workout in Syria. Jan 19, 2016
9. [source] ISIS runs in panic from Russian planes in Syria | Eng Subs
10. [source] Russian Military Advisor Observing Military Ops in Salma, Syria | Eng Subs
11. [source] How Russia stopped the US from invading Pakistan
12 [source] Saudi aggression was backed by the USA and supported by Al-Qaeda
Yahya Mohamed Abdullah Saleh
The West: US, EU and NATO
1. [source] NATO Presence in Europe: More NATO troops and equipment could be deployed to Poland
2. [source] Hillary Clinton a’ corrupt, vicious’ candidate’: Researcher
3. [source] Angela Merkel: Going, Going…Gone?
4. [source] How the West Creates Terrorism by ANDRE VLTCHEK
5. [source] Mitch McConnell Moves To Grant The President Unlimited War Powers With No Expiration Date
6. [source] CrossTalk” Neocon revenge?
With the end of the original sanctions now in play, Washington’s neocons and allies are down, but certainly not on the run. What is their greatest fear? That peace and prosperity will break out? In the meantime, what will be the impact on Iran – the country that is the clear winner in all of this? CrossTalking with Hillary Leverett, Ghoncheh Tazmini, and Ali Fathollah-Nejad.
7. [source] Calvinism: the spiritual foundation of America
8. [source] Gerald Celente: The Start of World War 3, Can We Stop It?
Gerald Celente discusses the current geopolitical situation between the U.S. and Russia in the Middle East and the birth pangs of World War 3. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently stated that the Turkish attack on a Russian jet and subsequent assassination of the Russian pilots would have started a war a century ago. Gerald Celente began the Occupy Peace movement and says an irate minority has the real potential to stop the Last World War from occurring.
9. [source] Trade in Services Agreement: Element of Global Governance, by Valentin KATASONOV
10. [source] THE NEW BARBAROSSA VIA FINLAND
11. [source] THE RED GLARE OF MISSILES OVER THE BALKANS
12. [source] Byzantine Empire—or Republic? The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome, Anthony Kaldellis, Harvard University Press. Review
13. [source] Yakov Kadmi: Erdogan personally decides whom to hang in Turkey. Interview In Russian
Яков Кедми: Эрдоган сам решает на кого повесить теракты в Турции. 20.01.2016
14. [source] Coercive Engineered Migration: Zionism’s War on Europe
Is Victor Orban the ‘Chavez of Europe? (Part 1 of an 11 part series)
15. [source] The Fake Left ( Brave Article)
16. [source] THE RED GLARE OF MISSILES OVER THE BALKANS
Stevan Gajic
17. [Source] Planet of Fear, by Pepe ESCOBAR
18. [Source] A Review of Dugin’s “Last War of the World-Island”
19. [source] The Founding Insubordination
Brief History of the Construction of the Power of Nations
20. [source] Hunting Merkel
Latin America
1. [source] Argentina Revisited – One Month on. Towards a Neoliberal “Democratic Dictatorship” by Peter Koenig
2. [source] US Agents Are Filling Key Posts in Argentina by Nil Nikandrov
Russia
1. [source] History of Russia in maps, and photos
2. [Source] Lavrov Warmly Greets Kerry in Zurich, Snubs Blood-Soaked Witch Nuland (Video)
3. [source] LIVE: Russian FM spokesperson Zakharova holds press briefing in Moscow
4. [source] Revisiting Litvinenko, What Really Happened?
5. [source] The Tide Is Turning: 2016 Promises Big Changes on Planet Earth and Status Quo’s Power Elite
6. [source] Russia slams Britain’s inquiry as biased, vague
7. [source] Why Russia sulked on ‘Implementation Day’
Novorossia
1. [source] The Deputy corps commander of the DPR Ministry of Defense Ministry, Eduard Basurin has provided a summary of events in the Donetsk people’s Republic. With Eng. subtitles
2. [source] Sakhanka, in the dug out | Eng Subs
3. [source] Battalion “15” holds defense near Debaltseve | Eng Subs
4. [source] Saakashvili “Accidentally” Reveals Secret UAF Plans in Donbass
5. [source] Point of view of the Ukrainian pro-NATO establishment:
• It’s all Russia’s fault.
• Ukraine is not the US and EU occupied, we are absolutely independent.
• Russia is occupied by the Russia’s government.
• The West attacks Russia because of the Russia’s “aggression.”
• It’s Russia needs Minsk peace agreement, not Kiev. (Apparently, because Russia is so aggressive, that it tried to get peace agreements in Ukraine and in Syria.)
• Minsk agreement is not between Kiev and Moscow, it’s between Russia and Russian govern. (In reality Minsk agreement is between Kiev and Donbass.)
Minsk II: Even after missed 2015 deadlines there is still hope for the
Ukraine-Russia peace deal. Former Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Leonid Polyakov joins us in the Viewpoint studio. In a discussion revolving around the prospects for peace between Kyiv and Moscow, he says the biggest barrier is Russia’s inability to recognize Ukraine as a sovereign, independent nation.
“There is no eternal process in this world, especially in the diplomatic arena. This agreement is not exactly a legal agreement, it’s a more a political agreement. It’s very specific because of the subject of the negotiations. This is between Russia and the current Russian regime, which still has difficulties coming to terms with Ukrainian independence. And Ukraine which allowed itself at a certain point to become so weak and naive not to take the Russian threat seriously.”
6. [source] Donbass 360 drone video: Donetsk airport ruins and testimony
7. [Source] Zacharchenko: We ask Ukraine in a civilized manner to leave us in peace and go away.
8. [Source] Kominternovo: Life under shelling | Eng Subs
off topic, but this PCR’s article illustrated (a) selling of white as black, and (b) selling of black as white.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/01/22/they-tell-us-nothing-but-lies-paul-craig-roberts/
this link on the so called Rwada genocide is priceless:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/rwanda-the-enduring-lies-a-project-censored-interview-with-professor-ed-herman/5502707
Not OT at all!… westerners know nothing about Rwanda, Bosnia, Ukraine, Serbia, etc. Interesting to hear how the powers that be control Wiki entries. Also great to hear Pacifica doing something really useful (rather than fighting each other).
not likely any peace gets discussed at these hyped upcoming ‘peace’ talks!
re: Syria
Jan22
Rumaylaan key developing these next weeks.
Situation map changed since summer 2013, note where Rumaylan is there upper right in that peninsula of northeast Syrian land jutting near Turkey.
http://i.imgur.com/co0qymq.png
The Americans are preparing a new airbase at Rumaylaan. This rural area hosted a runway for crop dusting propeller-type airplanes.
So far, all we know is that the Kurds of the YPG have confirmed American Special Operations units are on the scene to prepare the base for some forthcoming abomination. It may be, that the Americans have only ensconced themselves in the area in order to protect the Kurds from Erdoghan who doesn’t like this whole operation one bit. Erdoghan is terrified that Washington may now be on board with the Kurds in trying to establish a state for them across northern Syria and Iraq.
http://syrianperspective.com/2016/01/the-u-s-changes-direction-in-syria-aleppo-is-assads-city-army-punishing-saudi-terrorists-in-derah-rats-cringe-in-idlib-as-air-force-slashes-supply-lines.html
http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_turkey-wont-allow-syrian-kurdish-pyd-to-cross-west-of-euphrates_410331.html
Only days ahead of the long-awaited Syrian peace talks in Geneva, rival camps are bickering about who should be invited to take part, with Ankara categorically rejecting representation of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in negotiations.
With no military solution in sight after almost five years of war and over 250,000 deaths, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Wednesday that the talks should go ahead despite no apparent agreement on who should represent the opposition.
This world situation report would more properly be called a war world situation report which is another type of psy-ops of misinformation because it omits those situations that are purportedly anti-war, like peace loving vineyards.
What jumped out at me from the West part was this: “7. Calvinism is the spiritual foundation of America.” That may be so but it now is also the foundation of the world’s spirit.
Calvin made usury legit when he called it interest. Whether he was in cahoots with the bankers of his time is anyone’s guess.
Interest now is driving the war on the world machine which makes us all complicit and hypocritical, from granny down the street waiting on her dividends to Grandpa Rothschild who did buy his way into patriarchal heaven, taking his portfolio with him.
Interest is not the only trickster leading we the lemmings over the cliff. Animal killery and eatery is another among several others. But successive empire psy-ops has made most of us brainwashed sophisticates too dull to connect the obvious mental dots.
So the war world goes its merry way to destruction. Fortunately, I invested in a love world which does not involve money at all, much less interest on blood money.
A modification of Max Weber’s ( the bourgeois Marx) old thesis. Protestantism and the Spirit of Capitalism. People still making a living off of this. Incredible. Given the behavior of the 1% one can only conclude that the are venel at best. The only grief they feel is the grief by wrought by financial ruin. Not separation from god.
RR
Only if I was in no way related to it, not the shoes I wore or the shirt on my back, could that be possible.
RR
Lots of great links, the piece on Calvinism was a key piece of the puzzle of the bizarre history of the United States, so often overlooked. Guys like Oliver Wendell Holmes (jr) epitomize this mentality. Edmund Wilson wrote a great chapter on Holmes at the end of his study of the US Civil War, appropriately entitled “Patriotic Gore” — great book. That Calvinist imagery is all over that place in the rhetoric and songs of the Union… Ever read the lyrics to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”? Kill your fellow citizens because it’s the will of the almighty. QED! Thanks so much, great sitrep.
Yes,the English protestants that were in the mainstay of the colonization of the US were Calvinists. Even though the government backed (and really government created ) faith in England was Anglican (which could in fairness be called Roman Catholic-lite). Inside the protestant movement there was a mini-civil war (mostly non-violent,but not totally). Between the sides, who used to be called “Low Church” (more Calvinist) and “High Church” (more Roman Catholic).It still goes on a small bit. But the “Low Church” elements have mostly won it. The other splinter groups (large in themselves) that broke away from the Anglican Church were almost all more Calvinistic,in one way or the other.It was such groups that led the US colonization efforts. Joined by the Churches from Scotland,where Calvinism was the state faith fully. Its those groups and their modern offshoots that imbued culture in the US with its pro-Israel nonsense (Biblical Israel, transferred by zionist propaganda to modern zionist Israel). And its ideology of “exceptionalism”. The thinking that said,just as the Hebrews were the “chosen” by God to “conquer and possess” a new land. That the Anglo Americans were the “new” Hebrews,chosen by God to conquer and possess the “new World” of the US.That thinking formed the US,and has continued to be a “base” of its culture ever since.Its not debated or talked about much in the US,because its accepted as a “given” by people. Just like the “given” that night follows day.People don’t debate or talk about things “just accepted as fact”.It’s the basis of most US actions. From the “manifest destiny” of the US to conquer and rule the Continent,”from sea to shining sea”. To the US hegemony in the World today. And the main reason the neo-cons are able to obtain so much influence in the US. They attach themselves to that long held ideology.And instead of people questioning their motives,they are just seen as a part of the “natural order” in the US.
Thanks for the info, Uncle Bob. Of course O.W. Holmes Jr. was a Supreme Court Justice, and he completely believed in a superior caste of “Boston Brahmins” — people from, say, Philly were innately inferior. He was Calvinist to the core. Wilson: “Holmes felt himself so incomparably superior to the common man that it cost him no struggle of conscience to announce what he thought was just, and in writing certain opinions, he even felt a certain lofty relish, “le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire.” Holmes is gone but his archetypes are all around us.” [From Wilson 1962 p. 721]. “The theoogy of Calvinism has faded, but its habits of mind persist.” [p.743] Wilson was a great critic for his time.
Syria and Russia seem to be on a roll now with terrorist defences starting to collapse. I think Kerry/US can see another Minsk/Debaltseve situation developing for the upcoming “peace talks”. Kerry’s support for the peace talks? Just for public consumption while the main plan is now a US/Turkish land grab in Syria?
Off topic for this post but very much on topic for a raging debate on this blog, concerning Front National.
No amount of evidence will ever convince diehard supporters of various controlled opposition figures of their disingenuousnes however, Peter J. Antonsen, please restrict your response to the specific allegations made in the paragraph below:
Who Organized the attacks of January and November 2015 in Paris
by Thierry Meyssan
Here’s a reminder of our work between 1998 and 1999. We had established that in 1972, the « Front National pour l’Unité Française » had been created in secret by Jacques Foccart, then responsible for Affaires Africaines et Malgaches at the Élysée, by request of President Georges Pompidou. The FN was led from the beginning by Jean-Marie Le Pen, who had played an important rôle in Charles de Gaulle’s ascension to power in 1958, before turning against him [8], and by François Duprat, who had engaged with Bob Denard in the support of Moïse Tchombé in Katanga. Also, we had shown that in 1984, François Mitterrand and Guy Penne, Jacques Foccart’s successor at the Élysée, had used secret Republican funds to finance the electoral campaign of the Front National in the European elections. We thus arrived at the conclusion that the FN was, and had always been, not so much a political party with the desire to exercise power, but a structure necessary to the Élysée, which it used first of all to control personalities of the extreme right wing, then to introduce them into the national political landscape.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article190028.html
C I eh? A?
“No amount of evidence will ever convince diehard supporters of various controlled opposition figures of their disingenuousnes however, Peter J. Antonsen, please restrict your response to the specific allegations made in the paragraph below:”
It is on incumbent upon You, (not me), to provide proof of your accusation against France’s National Front Alliance. I do not accuse the National Front, or its leader, Marine Le Pen, of anything.
The Le Pens, father and daughter, are being repressed by the French Zionist-American puppet government. I have cited the articles on this Forum. Alain Soral, and Dieudonné are also being repressed by the same government, in much the same manner (endless spurious legal charges, endless days in court, endless legal expenses, and endless slanders). In my moral world, one is innocent until proven guilty.
After hearing many of Marine Le Pens’ speeches, (several posted on this website), I have developed an emotional attachment to her, her father, and her daughter. I wish them well. I wish Edward Snowden, Assange, and Manning well. I wish Senator Rand Paul, the imperfect son of American statesman, Ron Paul, well. Rand Paul, who despite praying at the Wailing Wall, and, (unlike his father), bowing to the Zionists, continues to be slandered in the Zionist owned American media. Rand Paul, as with Marine Le Pen, champs at the bit. Can any of us do better?
I like them all. That is my read (as we say in Brooklyn).
They are All, victims. Victims deserve our defense, our solidarity, even if we hold differing views. March Together – under separate banners!
The opinions of Thierry Meyssan are not evidence.
This poor Meyssan is still (in 2016), talking about “right wing,” and “extreme right wing.” He fails to understand that it is not whether or not one is Right or Left that is important, but whether or not one is Right, or Wrong. Right versus Left is just more misdirection.
A certain amount of evidence (or a sizable $Bribe), might “convince” me of anything. You have provided neither.
For the Democratic Republics!
PJA, I would advise caution. I think CI eh? has a point. The point is that there is a principle afoot in the Imperial West called “The Controlled Opposition” and decades-old research referenced by Meyssan into the origins of FN that purport to prove that those origins were controlled by the French establishment from the get-go ought not be discarded too quickly. Instead of turning your eyes away because the emotion of looking further gives you no pleasure, I would keep your gaze there a bit longer to discover more about those origins.
If the research is badly done, you can tear it apart with gusto. If it is high grade, you could better pause and fortify yourself against psy ops that you might otherwise repeatedly tend to fall for..I don’t have the time to dig out the referenced research, but if CI eh? did, I would certainly take the time to look at it!
This isn’t about “likes” or ego or feelings of pleasure or pain.This is about getting things right,and not falling into Empire traps.
Like your hero Thomas Jefferson, you are an impassioned wordsmith, but sometimes I suspect that, like him, you are more attracted to the sizzle than you are to the steak. This is meant to fortify, not attack.
Anonymoose,
“Like your hero Thomas Jefferson, you are an impassioned wordsmith, but sometimes I suspect that, like him, you are more attracted to the sizzle than you are to the steak.”
Thomas Jefferson was far more than “an impassioned wordsmith.” Your expressed ignorance is incredible. Jefferson’s worst enemies accused him of mistaken political and economic policies, but not of “sizzle.” He was the intellectual leader of the American Revolution, and America’s 3rd President. His accomplishments (for both good and evil), during his 2 terms were enormous.
As for me, I am a vegetarian.
I abhor sectarians. We must forge the Habits of Unity through Joint Struggle.
RT News just published an interesting article :
“Refugees claim ISIS militants living among them in Germany ”
Christian refugees from Syria claim they saw a former Islamic State member living in Frankfurt, and that this is not an isolated case. Police investigated but refused to file charges because the alleged terrorist has done nothing criminal in Germany.
On his last visit to the Saarland region of Germany, on the border with France, RT’s Peter Oliver met with a group of Assyrian Christians who had been held hostage by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
They recalled that while being held in IS captivity, the only thing they prayed for was to be shot instead of being beheaded.
The same community, now living in the city of Saarlouis, say the horrors of that experience have followed them all the way to Germany, after they found out that a man they say had ties to Islamic State is living among them.
A refugee, who only agreed to speak to RT on condition of anonymity, said he is positive the man living in his town is the same member of IS he encountered in Syria.
“He stopped me many times at the checkpoint near our village; we were even able to find him on Facebook, I go to the web page and there’s this guy again,” the refugee said.
When the man first saw the jihadist in Germany, his reaction was that of panic.
“I was very scared that this terrorist is in a democratic state like Germany just living here,” the refugee told RT, adding that he does not understand how those who kept whole families hostage now have Syrian refugee status in Germany.
The Assyrian community now feels very insecure as “this was not the first case” a former IS member had been recognized, the man said. He added that some people are even considering leaving Germany, but do not know where to run to.
Yeah I know the feeling mate. Just where in the world these days can you say you can be safe and live a good life ? Nowhere, thanks to the “one indispensable nation” and its various allied crazies. My only consolation if you can even call it that is that the chickens are now coming home to roost in Europe.
Full article can be read below :
https://www.rt.com/news/329890-germany-refugees-isis-members/
No wonder they flock there with surveys like this:
http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/overall-full-list
I suspect some elite manipulation from shaped criteria -kind of like those military procurements open to all but so shaped and detailed that the only one that passes muster is the one the miltary want.
When the left hand, the Zionists, decides to flood the homeland of the goyim, Europe, with migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, the right hand, the CIA, uses this ‘god-given’ opportunity to transfer a couple of thousands of their Salafist mercenaries nicely hidden in the huge stream of ‘refugees’ along with it.
John Calvin, the nature of the beast: He was a lawyer at first ( remember what Tolstoy believed about lawyers) then he entered religion, took power in Geneva, Switzerland. He executed people and exiled others. then he banned all art and only permitted vocal religious music. The man had no heart at all. totally unbalanced. And the educators of America are eliminating music and arts in the schools. The substitution is the flash-bang of Hollywood vulgarity. Garbage in–garbage out. Psychotic G-d in–Psychotic gods out
At least the secular humanists make an attempt to make man a measure of good ( tabla rasa) which is, after all, an improvement upon the measure of a cruel deity playing dice with human souls.
“Calvin executed people.” Source?
“He had no heart at all.” Source?
The “banning” of art was merely a suggestion that iconoclastic imagery was a distraction. The guy almost never left his office. He had no position of power, had no ability to dictate anything.
You make it sound like he was the king of France.
He didn’t actually kill anyone (that I know of ). But his followers were extremely hard line and there were executions and a lot of mob violence they were involved it. Can he be blamed for that is an open question,with no good answer. In law there are many cases of people being convicted for “incitement”. But still that is a hard charge to prove. And many times its used for political purposes by one side or the other. I remember in history where Henry I of England, when mad at Thomas Becket shouted out, “is there no one to rid me of this troublesome priest”. And some of his supporters took that as a call to murder Becket (now because of that ,Saint Thomas Becket). Henry was thought of as responsible and had to publicly beg the Church for forgiveness to get the Pope to remove the “ban of the Church” put on him over it. In those days those under the ban were forbidden Communion and Confession. And in case of death the Last Rites and burial as a Christian. And in extreme cases the Church officially declared the King’s subjects were relieved of the duty of obedience to him (a kiss of death in those societies). Any attack on,or defense of Calvin,must be based on the times he lived in. And the good (or harm) he did ,in that time only.We can’t rightly graft our beliefs on people living in another age. When I think of an event in history I think was it “wrong in their times” not just mine.
” You make it sound like he was the king of France.”
No, he wasn’t. But he might have been a Cohen.
Protestantism, to a certain degree, was a movement by the new powers, Industrialists, Jews and Freemasons, against the old guard, the Papacy and the Aristocracy. They finally won this battle with the French Revolution.
this story might get some traction next few days.
Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:39
Chinese Furious after Saudi Crown Prince Shuns Meeting with President Xi
TEHRAN (FNA)- Sources revealed on Saturday that the Chinese delegation is unhappy with the recent visit to Riyadh after arrangements for a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef and President Xi Jinping failed.
Being concerned about operation of the terrorist groups in the region, the Chinese president was interested in holding a meeting with the Saudi crown prince – who is also in charge of the country’s domestic security as interior minister – but arrangements for the meeting failed, a source said today.
During the first day of his visit to Riyadh on January 19, President Xi met with Deputy Crown
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941103000199
From what i hear, the real power is in the hands of the deputy croen prince anyway. For all u know maybe thats why – they were prevented from attending
Another key breaking event.
but will the suffocating cloak of the handful of world ‘news’ outlets enforcing their oligopoly prevent this from getting out, too?
http://en.farsnews.com/imgrep.aspx?nn=13941103000910
Syria: Foreign Journalists, Reporters Come to Visit Salma in Latakia
TEHRAN (FNA)- A group of journalists from the different world media outlets got the chance to visit the recently liberated town of Salma in Lattakia Province in Northern Syria on Friday, just a few days after government forces seized back the strategic town from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front. [PHOTOS]
Jan22
Cartalucci
http://www.globalresearch.ca/syrian-peace-will-be-decided-on-the-battlefield-not-in-vienna-the-solution-is-to-eradicate-isis-and-al-qaeda/5502993
The much lauded “peace deal” regarding Syria upon even a cursory examination reveals nothing more than the reiteration of Western demands versus a reassertion of Syrian defiance.
The West seeks a “political transition” in addition to fighting the self-proclaimed “Islamic State,” implying that indeed, just as it had sought since 2011 and even beforehand, the West still expects current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, and a client regime more to the West’s liking installed in his place.
And while the West, as part of the “peace deal” claims to seek the end of the Islamic State, it makes no mention of the states sponsoring its existence, which coincidentally includes the West itself.
The world map above your SITREPs keeps showing Crimea as part of Ukraine, or so it seems to me. This should be rather urgently corrected, no?
That report on Calvinism is pretty disingenuous to his theories, imo. As indulgences don’t really reflect Christian theology, so genocide doesn’t really reflect Calvinism.
Two key quotes: “Only by the Grace of God can we begin to do good at all.” (Augustine’s Confessions).
“Humility is the foundation of this religion.” (Calvin’s Institutes)
Calvin suggested that God, the all knowing, inaffable force, knew whether we would elect to follow His Will or not, long before our birth. (one of the perks of omniscience I guess). Calvin was an advocate of free will all the way; God is just so big that He knew what we’d choose long before we actually chose anything. To Calvin, our salvation was totally in our hands, it is absolutely not something which we are exempt from affecting. To Calvin, we all have free will to choose, and if we choose to serve, then election is available to all. The message of free will is redundant in his works and the only way to miss that message is to not read what he wrote.
To suggest that Calvin supported genocide because God elected some and not others is pretty far from actual Calvinist theology. Now maybe the practice became such, but certainly not because Calvin ever idealized anything remotely like it.
The “Protestant work ethic” is probably more what the author should be aiming at. The notion that “if I’m successful then that proves that God loves me” was an outcropping of Calvinist theology. Many people had the sense that if God entrusted them with wealth, then that meant that God loved them more than average. Likely based on a misreading of the parable of the talents, the idea that running a profit produced a love from the master, when really the message seems very much about the fear based third servant saying that he knew the master to be a thief, to which the master responded, “if you knew me to reap where I did not sow then you should have put my money in with the bankers where I would have at least gotten interest.”
Calvin never advocated genocide any more than Jesus advocated indulgences.
Interesting that the comments on the sourced article are disabled.
You try to separate christianity from its semitic cultural origins; which is disingenuous. W/e you’re part of a subverted dead european civilization.
The capital wage exchange did not begin until the serf’s were expelled from the manour and had nothing save their labour to sell on the market for subsistence.
Trade is not capitalism, any more than chattel slavery is capitalism. Capitalism is NOT an eternal aspect of human evolution on this planet. In fact, it is relatively new, revolutionary and destructive. What it made possible is the potential for the transition to a higher stage of human development. That would be socialism for those who understand as much.
RR
Interesting article on what someone thinks the USG is going to do this spring with Ukraine, have it split into 3:
https://dninews.com/article/andrey-knyazev-expert-us-planning-reformat-ukraine
Ralph, thanks for the link. Good article. It then lead me to this interview between the Finnish guy in Donetsk Republic in charge of media operations, and new American volunteer there, David Simpson from Seattle (with a few years CIA and Office of Naval Intelliegence experience) : https://youtu.be/q0SOa20uBoY. The Revolution WILL be Televised,…………. somewhere!!
Yup, I saw that but haven’t watched it yet.
Something extremely hilarious is happening at The Guardian. Natalie Nougayrède, columnist and leader writer at The Guardian, the former executive editor of the French daily Le Monde, writes:
As always, the comments are far more interesting. Here is a listing of the five most upvoted comments order by popularity.
Europeans still haven’t figured out that America is ultimately responsible for the migrants that have come to Europe from the Middle East.
If not for America’s murderous wars of aggression against Iraq, Libya, and Syria, there wouldn’t be nearly so many Middle Eastern migrants going to Europe.
Looking to America to save Europe is like asking an arsonist to put out the fire in your house … that the arsonist himself set!
Alas, Europe will have to learn the hard way that America, the self-styled Beacon of Liberty, is in reality a Beacon of Lies, and the USA cannot be trusted.
Remember, America is a nation of lawyers, which is to say a nation of snakes.
Yesterday anna-news had two discussions posted re history rus an ukraine then and now,,future of ukraine v donbass……
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Poro wants to postpone decentralisation procedures cos not enough laws passed?????
51537 but reported in Tass it says he does not want the conflict in Donbass to freeze….
Well ironically weather is forecast to get v v cold soon in ukr with still stuff going on re gas payments bills-getting too confusing for me now with ukr seeking 3.4 b compensation as an anti momopoly claim….
51530 is carrying an interview with Strelokv re war crimes
51521 is about Poros block reviewing the Avakov/Saakashvilli situation in Odessa
51520 is about ukr building up forces to threaten Transnystria….
Former head of sbu claims 15b been criminally stolen from ukr and sent off shore. But ukr is claiming success in 15b funding from IMF……
Geoffrey Pyette amb. says there must be implememtation of the constitional procedures to give special status to Donbass althoughPoro still claims these territories must be returned to ukr, Kuchma’s blood pressure has had enough he wants to quit but his proposed replacement also seems to want nothing to do with Minsk saying there is no one to talk to……UN mission to Donbass arrives in ukraine says Tass….
DPR wonders what the heck is going on as this could be a subersion by uwww and Basurin says situation is worsening more shelling etc, missing armaments have gone awol….. from Minsk. Articles in novorossiya www
Something going on about rus consuls being thrown out from 5 US states after rus shut down the american centre in moscow fortruss article…rus is Odessa-ukr mp throws water in face of chief prosecutor trans carpathia video on fortruss
Fortruss reporting today that Council of Europe and Ukr foreign ministry are sending to Crimea monitoring group commission of human rights as a precursor and as part of intent to get Crimea returned to ukr sovereignty…..loonies
I think the hand shake given to Victoria Nuland by Lavrov represents how the Ukraine discussions went. As the old chief cook and bottle washer used to say, “She’s cooked like a dogs dinner”. Nuland the talks.
RR