Did the US Treasury, IRS just threaten Vatican Bank before Pope Francis meeting with Patriarch Kirill? by Scott

Today, I want to tell you a huge secret. The deepest and the biggest Russian secret of all.

The secret so profound that it will shake your entire being.

Wait for it…

The Head of the Russian Orthodox Church His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with Pope of Rome Frances on February 12th, 2016 in Havana, Cuba to discuss something about the plight of Christians. We don’t know what they will discuss, but we can speculate.

Some say that the Patriarch and Pope will meet in Havana in the first time for 10 centuries to discuss how to send Hillary to Hell. It’s as good of a theory as any.

First, I have to say a couple of words about the Russian Patriarch. It’s a fact that Patriarch Kirill was a protégé of the liberal (read: pro-Western) “elite” inside of the ROC. But, Putin also was chosen by the neo-con liberals as “their man.” We know how disappointed they are with him now. According to an influential Russian Orthodox publicist Konstantin Dushenov, after becoming a Patriarch, Kirill has been miraculously transformed, and has largely departed from those who appointed him to the Patriarchate. In other words, he did not meet their expectations. Just like Putin, let’s hope that Kirill will continue strongly this way.

Second, the place of the meeting, Cuba. The same Cuba that has build a spectacular Russian Orthodox Church in Havana in 2010. Here are some pictures, if you are interested. You see here Raul Castro Ruz, [Ruz as in Russian] visiting several Orthodox Churches. [source]

Why Cuba? Is Cuba where the Russian nuclear missiles are right now? At least that’s what the Pentagon bloggers who watch the Russian NAVY said in 2014, and I believe they have never retrieved those statements.

Do you remember the Simpsons episode, where Russia’s like, we fooled you and everything changes back into the Soviet Union, with red banners and Lenin’s corpse punching through his coffin?

That’s how Washington might feel right now. If they don’t feel themselves outnumbered, cornered, and surrounded, then they are not be able to feel at all.
Americans, especially young Americans are socialists and Marxists and are defiant towards neo-con and Anglo-Zionist run Washington like never before. The rest of the world just feels pure and unadulterated hatred towards Washington’s cabal and its Brussels underlings. The Baidens, the Clintons, the Nulands, the Yellens, the Bushes, the Carters, all of them, Anglos and Zionists, overplayed their hand big time.

That’s the backdrop for a tectonic shift that is happening right now.

Just look at the actors in the US political theater. There are many questions about Ted Cruz. For example, why would he be allowed to run for a president if he was born in Canada to Cuban parents? Or… why does he wear clothes that look too big? Is he wearing a bulletproof vest? Why do we have two Cubans running? Marc Rubio and Ted Cruz.

Here is my theory… have you noticed that Cruz wears two watches?
Do you know who else had always worn two watches? Fidel Castro!
He has always ware two Rolexes. And don’t tell me that he did this, because he was afraid that his comrades would steal those watches.

I think, we have a conspiracy here. Cubans are trying to take over America and make the US a Communist country, with free education, and free medical care, with 100 percent employment . The entire Latino population will vote for a Cuban.
Cubans taking over America… Castro wins!!

My second theory… Remember when Patriarch Kirill went to Syria to talk with Assad in 2011? Back then the war on Syria had just started, and fake-Syrians (or the Western mercenaries) were shooting at the law enforcement, simultaneously they dressed in Syrian military uniforms and were shooting at Syrians. That’s when Kirill went to Damask and told Assad that the war will be very hard and that Syrians have to stay strong and that Russia won’t abandon them ever. Now, the Patriarch goes to Cuba “on the invitation of the Chairman of the State Council and Council of Ministers Raul Castro.”

Remember, when the Pope came to the US and only 1/3 of expected people in New York and Philadelphia showed up to greet him? I wrote that the security in both cities was so over the top that people were actually discouraged to come.

“The Pope should know better than to pop up in an old Quakertown like Philadelphia. The security was so over the top and in-your-face ferocious to scare people away. With the clear contempt for its own citizenry, and a hidden contempt for the Vatican, Philadelphia authorities did everything in their power to keep pilgrims from showing up for the Pope’s visit. Either that, or they read my ramblings about an outdated Philadelphia sewage system. Either way, they build an actual Pope cage around Center City. It took hours for the very few Catholics to get in. Many of them were left outside. Somebody claimed that by using images of the crowd, they estimated the pilgrims numbers being between 80,000 to 100,000, while the law enforcement claimed that they had 800,000. Why? Because the city needed to justify the cost of the security operation, paid for by the minuscule city budget.” [source]

Those who followed the preparation for the Pope’s visit and the corresponding media coverage must agree with me; people were strongly discouraged to not to come and even to leave the area for several days. In Philadelphia, the authorities built a cage around center city and wouldn’t let people inside until after the Pope finished his meet-and-greet. Why was that? If I were a Pope, I would be really pissed off.

It looks like the Washington neo-liberal elite has been punishing the Pope and pressing him to do something against his will and against his Church’s interest. That’s how I interpret the orchestrated attack in a form of a sex scandal, and the immediately followed attempt to take over huge chunks of Church-owned North American real estate. Imagine, that the Church owns and pays no taxes on large parcels of Manhattan. Remember those hashed scandals involving sleazy characters and Hollywood actors swarming over “Catholic Church properties”?

The neo-cons administered the second blow to the Vatican in June 2015 when the Vatican was forced by the US to sign an agreement with so called FATCA, “the 2010 legislative joke formally known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act,” which meant to cancel an independence of the Vatican bank, and made the Vatican reveal all the accounts and transactions that it conducted to the IRS.”

There have been persistent rumors that Vatican accumulated over 50,000 tons of gold, and this gold is what Washington is going after. There are also rumors that in June of 2015, the Pope asked for an emergency secret meeting with the President of Russia to ask him to protect the Catholic Churches’ gold from Washington and Brussels.

Now, watch my hands to see what’s cooking…

This week a notorious blogger with the alias El-Murid (Эль Мюрид) wrote that the Vatican bank keeps 40 thousand billion of “Putin’s money.” The real name of El-Murid is Anatoliy Nesmiyan (Анатолий Несмиян), an anti-Russia anti-Putin neo-liberal expert in everything. After him, virtually all of the neo-liberal, pro Kiev junta, Washington-backed online publications re-posted the same message. Because, you and me, we understand that this is not news or information, but purely a blackmail message to the Vatican.

After January’s attack of the US media and the Department of State on Putin, claiming that he keeps enormous amounts of money in Western banks, they were asked to present some proof, which they didn’t have. After a couple of weeks, the voices like the Bloomberg news agency started coming out saying that it’s impossible to find Putin’s accounts in Western banks, because they are not under Putin’s name. Aha…

So… El-Murid came out with interesting statements claiming that “Putin’s money, all forty thousand billion, are being kept in the Vatican’s Bank”, or as it’s known – Instituto per le Opere di Religione. I would not dismiss his claims as mere Putin-hate tomfoolery. Because, it’s just a couple of days before the February 12th meeting in Havana.

Essentially, this is a threat to Pope Francis, that if he doesn’t behave in the interest of the US, his Vatican Bank will be subject to the US Treasury and IRS and the Justice Department’s investigation of violation of US sanctions against Russia. Remember, the Vatican bank signed a FATCA agreement in 2015?

Together with the statement that so called “Putin’s money” might be hidden under any name at all, this also means that any money with Russian sources can be arrested and frozen as being under suspicion of being “Putin’s money.” This is something that President Putin warned of a year ago during a meeting with the heads of Russian companies, when he asked them to bring their money back to Russia from the offshore. As John Helmer wrote last year, the neo-liberals inside the government refused and started plotting something. As it turned out, they were plotting against themselves.

How much can an accusation of violating US sanctions cost the Vatican? What about 50,000 tons of gold, that the Vatican might be forced to move to the US for “safe-keeping?” Or, the Vatican can be pressured to make some certain political moves.

Will Papists survive without their money, especially after losing the people’s trust due to sex-abuse scandals?

It has been the Pope who initiated meeting with Patriarch Kirill. And it was the Cuban government who offered Havana as a place for a meeting.
To sum it up: we have two Cubans running for the office of US President; the Pope and the Patriarch are meeting in Cuba and after the meeting patriarch Kirill will travel to the Latin American countries.

What do members of Russia’s Communist party and neo-liberals have in common? You would never guess. They share a profound concern for the Russian Orthodox Church. Yes, you heard me right. After spending the last century ridiculing, vilifying and physically annihilating our Church, it’s clergy, and also a significant number of Russian Orthodox laymen and women, in January 2016 communists of Russia and it’s neo-liberals united in hysterical worry for the Russian Church.
You would think that the people whose main task has been to destroy this church along with its followers would have no interest in its affairs. You would think wrong. All of a sudden, every neo-liberal anti-Russian journo and blogger has became a specialist in the theology and history of its religion and are writing on how Patriarch Kirill has betrayed the great Russian nation by agreeing to meet with the Pope.

To appreciate the magnanimity of the attacks you have to be versed in many languages including Russian, English, Greek, Latin, Moldavian, Romanian, French, German and Hebrew.

What we have to bear in mind that when the neo-liberals’ screaming and gnashing of teeth and wailing about something, it means that this “something” is positive and good.

I have this simple media test. When a situation is too confusing to understand, I look at the neo-liberal media. If they condemn something, it means that this “something” is bad for them, and good for Russia.

The same rule we can apply to the meeting of Patriarch Kirill and the Pope.

Just until recently we, Orthodox Christians, were portrayed like bizarre backward cultish people with bushy beards, head scarves called mistakenly “babushkas,” and fairytale-like beliefs. False-media creating false-reality called Russian Orthodox churches “sinister,” and “tools” of the Kremlin. Thus, bringing us to understanding that attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church are a part of the war on Russia.

Now, all of a sudden, our Church has become universally important and dear to the small green hearts of neo-liberals. What gives?

The power of Russian arms, that’s what.

The Pentagon realizes that Russian weapons are superior to anything they have got, and suddenly the neo-liberals are pouring a quadrillion tons of mud on our Church. Which is also a Church of our Russian Orthodox Christian President Vladimir Putin and the majority of the Russian military. Washington, Brussels and Tel Aviv can’t attack the Russian army, so they attack its Church.

The Muslim part of Russia’s military has been under attack also.

The whole neo-liberal hoopla had started over this announcement:
The Holy See and the Patriarchate of Moscow are pleased to announce that, by the grace of God, His Holiness Pope Francis and His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will meet on February 12 [source]

I don’t want to irk you by listing authors and their opuses, but let’s just say that same people who praise the so-called “Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church” and the attempts to separate the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from The Russian Orthodox Church, are now screaming and yelling against the meeting between Pope and Patriarch.

Why is this?

Let’s look at some passages in documents prepared for the Pan-Orthodox Council, that got them so upset: Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World

“The Orthodox Church, being the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,
The Orthodox Church acknowledges the existence in history of other Christian Churches and confessions which are not in communion with her,
In this regard, the Orthodox Church, in her relations with the rest of the Christian world, relies not only on the human efforts of those involved in the dialogue, but, by the grace of God who prayed “that… all may be one” (Jn 17:21), first and foremost, on the help of the Holy Spirit.”

All of a sudden, even Greeks have recalled that they have something to do with Orthodox Christianity. A shady character named Professor of Theology Dimitrios Tselenghidis wrote a letter titled: “My observations of the theological orientation of the text:
”the relations of the Orthodox Church with the rest of the Christian world”.
Marele dogmatist și profesor contemporan, Dimitrios Tselenghidis, critică aspru textele adoptate de Sinaxa Întâistătătorilor Bisericilor Autocefale Ortodoxe (Geneva, 21-28 ianuarie 2016)
A Greek university professor, essentially a self-appointed “expert,” who depends on grants, salary and publications, telling to the Russian Orthodox Church how to think and how to operate in the world, and accusing the Russian patriarchy of crime-think.

This letter has been immediately translated into Russian and being reposted by every neo-liberal media outlet, which tells me that this so called “professor” is nothing but a neo-liberal shill.

Again, to reiterate, if the Russian Church and its Patriarch have been doing something pro-Western, something hurtful to Russia, the neo-cons and neo-liberals would support it, not criticize it.

Greece, btw, unwearyingly takes anti-Russian posture in all affairs: they joined the club of the East European Losers and filed a complaint against Stream2. In 2014 the Greek Orthodox Church in the US published its letter stating its full support for Kiev Junta. Considering the fact that at least 70 percent of Kiev junta members are Jewish, Catholics, or Uniats, the Greece theological stance in condemning the Russian Church for anything is hypocritical. The fact that Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens Abstained from Pan-Orthodox Council Due to Actions that Undermine the Church of Greece, demonstrates that the Greek Orthodox Church has become a hostage of supra-national anti-Christian political and financial elite. [source]

In October 2015, Archbishop Ieronymos stated that Europe was Against Greek Orthodoxy and that the EU apparatchiks are threatening the existence of the Orthodox Church in Greece. [source]

“Actions that undermine the Church of Greece”
On February 8th, the Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens handed a sealed letter with the explanations of some activities that are being conducted against his Church. He also stated that the Greek Church is ready to sever relations with Constantinople Patriarchy.[source]

One not so small example is how the EU is persistently attempts to destroy the monastic community of Mount Athos in Greece. Here is the example of habitual vicious mockery by British neo-cons of the millennium old monastic tradition [source]

And the point of view of the Russian Orthodox Church expressed during to the celebration in 2016 of the 1000-year anniversary of the presence of Russian monasticism on Mount Athos [source]

Thus, should we pay any attention to anything coming from the Greek Church nowadays?

So, here comes the secret that I have promised you at the beginning.
We, Orthodox Christians believe that at the end of time, when the Antichrist will come to destroy humanity, all believers of all religions will unite by becoming Orthodox Christians, we believe “that… all may be one” (Jn 17:21).

As you can see expressing this idea, Patriarch Kirill doesn’t try to hand the church over to Rome, quite the opposite. If anything, it’s Rome looking to join Orthodoxy, because demons are on its heels.

More news in brief:
• For a background of the Orthodoxy and Papism read the Saker’s article with many useful references: Putin, the Pope, the Schism, Franks and Romans (UPDATED)

• Press conference at DECR on Patriarch Kirill’s forthcoming visit to Latin America [source]
• Statement from Metropolitan Hilarion regarding the Conversion of the “Catholic Church of the East” to Orthodoxy [source]

• Interview with Onofriem: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in the presence of all the other primates, and I quote, “I promised that neither during nor after the pan-Orthodox Council will not be made any efforts to legalize the schism in Ukraine, or to unilaterally grant someone autocephaly”. [source]

• Projects of documents for the upcoming Pan-Orthodox Council

• The message of the Bishops’ Council to the clergy, monastics and all the faithful children of the Russian Orthodox Church [source]

• “Of course, there is absolutely nothing in prepared documents about unification of the Orthodox Church with heterodoxies,” said his Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill. [source]

JJ on February 09, 2016 · at 9:42 am EST/EDT

Scott as you are the Ukraine guy

posting various here but maybe mods it is better to hold and pass onto Scott so he can add to a new ukr post??????

“Prestige Ukraine and the theme of “the occupation of the Crimea” will rise to unprecedented heights, if the Ukrainian singer Jamala show at the international contest “Eurovision” their song “1944,” in which Soviet troops liberated the peninsula from the Nazi occupation, calls “killers”. On Monday, 8 February, said upolonomochenny President of Ukraine for the Crimean Tatar people, one of the organizers of the blockade of the peninsula Mustafa Cemil.

“Shiriy Ukrainian” Vladimir Vyatrovich chief dekommunizator of Ukraine, head of the so-called “Institute of National Memory,” on whose initiative demolished monuments and renamed settlements, goes even further in his dreams: “In case of victory Jamala Ukraine to Eurovision-2017 in Sevastopol” – he wrote on his page on Facebook.

Jamal – in the world Susana Dzhamaladinova, Ukrainian singer of the Crimean Tatars, who grew up on the peninsula, got the most votes of viewers support for SMS golosovovanii in the first semi-final of national selection “Eurovision-2016”. In this regard, as they say, and dreaming of the Ukrainian-Tatar Russophobia.

Recall that in the summer of 2015, the then Minister of Defense of Ukraine Valery Geleta, took office, is also promised in the Verkhovna Rada to hold Ukrainian “victory parade in Sevastopol.” Out of all this first Ilovaiskaya and then Debaltsevskim boilers for APUs in the Donbas.’

I think the sense of this is, the head of the outlaw tatar organisation says that if Ukr wins the eurovision song contest the host country that wins should hold the next one in Sevastopol.
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52780

ok, maybe I am getting desperate searching for meaningful news………..
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These data are published press center of the State Statistics Service. And the decline occurred mainly among the enterprises in the sphere of entertainment, finance, mining.

Acronyms almost touched trading enterprises and institutions engaged in administrative services, as well as those legal entities which carry out “other services”. This repair of office equipment and footwear, clothing dry cleaning, laundries, barbershops.

Today the average Ukrainian prefers to repair rather than buy new. And another fact – the reductions were observed ritual offices, since mortality in Ukraine today is higher than ever before.

Also last year, it closed 29% of the companies that produce packaging and various types of packaging. This is understandable: if the industry falls, and pack nothing.

Experts predict that this negative trend will continue in 2016.”http://www.anna-news.info/node/52785
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The cost of heating and hot water in Ukraine will grow twice in the next heating season, reported by the analyst of the NGO “Public Audit” Taras Galaida.
“According to the Government’s overall strategy and the agreements signed with the IMF, the total cost of heating in Ukraine in the next heating season will increase about twice … On April 1, 2016, the selling price for companies Teplovik increase by more than twice, it will amount to a little over 6 thousand. 300 UAH. Accordingly, it drags along and the cost of heat and hot water “-. Said Taras Galaida in an interview to Ukrainian journalists
He said that next year, when going off-state rates will have to compensate 70% – 75% of the total cost of public services, as incomes the population does not grow, no motivating factors that would develop business, stimulate self-employment, no.
“there is nothing in this plan not done, revenues remained at the same level at which they were. Therefore, the population is physically unable to be anything to pay, all of the subsidies will increase, and the state will have to allocate more money for something to make up for public consumption, “- said the expert.
Previously, energy expert Yuri Korolchuk said that permanent conflicts in the government and parliament have led to the fact that the winter of Ukraine met with substantial fuel shortage. He also noted that the lack of gas in storage can lead to the disruption of the supply of “blue fuel” to the EU.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52807
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ukr forces stiill recieving extra drones, upgrades to tanks, planes and other military equipment…………still reports of ISIS in Kherson but maybe small numbers so far……….

“The governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine, ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili diligently work out their money. In an interview with Ukrainian TV channel “24,” the neurotic, said – “The main gaps in Ukraine – is outdated anti-tank weapons, but there is a new in the US, and if they give it, and Ukraine will undermine the first 50 Russian tanks, everything will be different.”.
Saakashvili, all the forces wishing to raise the spirit of militarism and Ukrainian provoke clashes between Ukraine and Russia, tells stories on the theme of high morale in the Ukrainian army. In his words, “the spirit of Ukrainian soldiers the best in the world and if you give them the necessary knowledge, skills and weapons, and they will be able to capture the whole of Russia.” Saakashvili said that he was told about the Georgian instructors, which, in turn, taught the Americans, “so they know a lot about fighting spirit.”

The morale of the Georgian instructors, who in turn taught the Americans, in all its glory manifested itself when trying to capture Ossetia. Then the Russian army conducted an operation to enforce peace. If desired, three days Russia could take the whole of Georgia, and Misha had to chew fear his own tie.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52804

http://www.anna-news.info/node/52799
video of discussion/presentation re commonsense in Ukraine?
If rats are fleeing the ship, it is logical to assume that the rats in the course of the bad state of the ship, which soon will go to the bottom. For some reason I thought of this will take, when I read the latest Ukrainian news.

Ask yourself: what can make the Minister of Economic Development of Ukraine Abromavichyusa resign? Option “conscience” does not offer!
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Recently, Ukrainian security forces conducted in the village of Lugansk-the so-called cleanup. And began their retaliatory actions in five in the morning when people were still asleep.

In a private house frightened owners did not open the door, and the military stormed by opening fire. The hostess was killed on the spot while her husband punitive took with them to the local commandant. There’s a man tortured and he died.

Previously, such “cleansing” the use of weapons and special equipment were held in the cities of Donbass Krasnogorovka, Avdeevka, Konstantinovka, which are now under the control of the APU. Residents say that many of those who were taken to the local commandant’s office, did not return home. Their fate is unknown.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52787

Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Yaroslav Romaniuk said that the European Court of Human Rights actually stopped to consider complaints of Ukrainians.

For example, at the end of last year, the European Court has received 64850 cases. And 13,850 cases – against the state of Ukraine. What was considered, precise data yet, but, according to preliminary analysis, the statistics of the last year is not much different from those of 2014, when it was decided to consider only 8% of claims.

Such a huge number of claims not filed any country in the world. Ukraine leader in the now- in ECHR complaints. To date, the number of applications submitted by citizens of Ukraine, 21.4% of all applications. This suggests egregious human rights abuses, human rights activists say. Although the pan Romaniuk said that this shows the quality work of the Ukrainian courts whose decisions in the ECHR are not going to reconsider. But, most likely, simply can not cope with such a huge number of “Ukrainian” cases in Europe.

The vast number of examined claims concerning the failure of the relevant authorities of court decisions. This suggests that the judicial and executive power in the country fails. Actually, as the whole judicial system.’
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52786

yet contrast with this news much prevalent in social media

for 20 years plus a criminal gang in Crimea brutally ran crime, committed many murders, extortion, probably bought the judges or they lived in fear people really afraid to speak out or even talk about them so I gather, after secession of Crimea they based themselves in Odessa, but returned to Crimea recently on forged passports, but were caught and are awaiting trial, so a major reign of terror has been terminated by successful Rus justice system, not corrupt ukr system……….maybe Auslander can verify?

http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2717986&cid=7
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http://www.anna-news.info/node/52797
seems to be an underground subversive activist group? in Crimea re going back to Europe, spilt between Crimea and Sevastopol being encouraged? Needs Auslander to comment, we miss you!

extract from long report
“information about the fact that in the Crimea and Sevastopol acts not only Ukrainian underground, ready to show on the first convenient moment, but also a large number of pro-Ukrainian activists and politicians who allegedly “changed” their political views, and swore allegiance to Russia, voiced repeatedly, and voiced on different levels. Personally, I believe that these people were their own views and beliefs, changing only the public rhetoric, the party tickets, passports and hiding, until a certain time…….The absurd situation. Crimea, which is already two years as Russia, actively developing people who have never been famous for pro-Russian, but on the contrary, were in favour of European integration, persecuted pro-Russian activists, working in the interests of the Ukrainian oligarchs who are now sponsoring ATO, and actively cooperated with the Security Service. And they gain from mainland Russia deployed liberal pro-Westerners, are also not to score in the protection of Russia’s interests. And these people do not come to the Crimea and Sevastopol, to live the life of the ordinary man in the street and enjoy the climate resort. They are introduced in the environment Chaly, who temporarily joined the opposition, they can already be found in the command of the governor Menyailo, they fill a local asset Russian parties. What’s next? Then they will do everything to make the most integrated in the local business, political and social structure, to settle in the power and occupy elective positions……………..

….Here’s a Today I received an exclusive, literally soaked absurd at all levels, the release of my daily author headings. I just can not keep silent. Boiling. I can not accept the fact that people do not notice the obvious things. Especially if people who are entrusted with the fate of the Russian regions and Russian citizens. Until the new, exciting, see you soon! ”
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65 Comments

Nils on February 09, 2016 · at 5:06 am EST/EDT

I’m sorry but this myth on the inferiority of American weapon systems being the driving factor behind Russia reasserting itself is just false. That’s the weakest line of logic I’ve seen defending the resurgence of Russian geopolitical maneuvering.

Are you an expert in systems design? In electronic warfare? In software security? In satellite design and construction? In anti stealth mechanisms? No and neither am I. But I can guarantee you the US with its top technical universities and large corporate apparatus did not suddenly forget how to design and build sophisticated electronic systems. Never mind the largest funding capability this world has ever seen.

If you’re going to conjecture on world events… That is the world possible place to build a foundation. At the very least reference a defense review with the appropriate technical literature (hint. You can’t. It’s classified in both countries.)

However, I would agree on one thing: gold IS important, the Vatican may have a hefty amount hidden, and there’s a lot of evidence the NSA spying was mainly used to go after wealth, not just a mapping of all communication for big data corporate analytics. Look at what happened to Switzerland and their run in with the IRS. Maybe Snowdens revelations weren’t aimed at you and I – but oligarchs and the 1%. Very important information when engaging in a global currency war.
- Peter AU on February 09, 2016 · at 6:08 am EST/EDT
  
  Reading through the news section at US Department of Defence and they are plainly stating that the US no longer has a lead in weapons technology.
  
  Its not rocket science… hang on, how does the US military get its sats into orbit? RD-180.
  - mmiriww on February 09, 2016 · at 11:54 am EST/EDT
    
    Well maybe they should buy some stolen soviet technology and then sabotage their efforts to get ahead again.. Its worked for 50 years and will still work.. How did the US jump ahead in the moon race when they could not even get rockets into orbit? in 2 years they jumped past in heavy lift rockets and then forgot how they did it. To top ot off they destroyed all the technology and papers on it so it would not be stolen or fall into the hands of someone who would think hey that’s my idea….
- Anonymous on February 09, 2016 · at 6:35 am EST/EDT
  
  Nils, when it comes to weapons, US military complex does not make them any more. They make money, not weapons. The researchers are rewarded for new buzzwords and marketing gimmicks that will extract more taxpayers money. Any rational, cost effective technology is considered to be crime for neocons.
  - Anonymous on February 09, 2016 · at 11:48 am EST/EDT
    
    How did that old saying go?
    
    It’s the “military industrial (congressional) complex economy, stupid!”
    
    Create killer toys so that the Saudi regime (et al) can return the petro-dollars via the parallel non-market economy tribute channel.
    
    They may well work ok, but that is an incidental: they just need to be (a) expensive; and (b) disposable.
- Paul II on February 09, 2016 · at 7:44 am EST/EDT
  
  Societal decay and corruption is the question. What led to the F-35?
- ElRius on February 09, 2016 · at 9:20 am EST/EDT
  
  Having worked in R&D in a fortune 500 corporation, I can assure you that very little innovation comes out any longer. Researchers are expected to do PowerPoint presentations for marketing to run with it regardless of whether the products are even a fraction of what they claim.
  
  So, yes, the Russians may have the so-called technological advances over the US army as the US is more focused on marketing presentations rather than actual design or sustaining.
  
  F35 anyone?
  
  PD. By the way the F35 was originally a Russian concept that Lockheed Martin fooled the Russians to cede. Obviously, spending more time on flash animations and PowerPoint presentations for marketing gimmicks and useless gadgets rather than engineering and sustaining has resulted in an inferior end product.
- JohnnyReb on February 09, 2016 · at 11:28 am EST/EDT
  
  “this myth on the inferiority of American weapon systems…”
  
  You forget the Human component in any weapon system, even if it is only deciding to push a button. The US military has lost many of its best soldiers when Obama started his jihad against white southern males. In their place we find dumb-downed affirmative-actioned metro and transsexual nincompoops. Even the Marines are being forced to lower their standards so feminist sluts will be able to pretend they are men, ruin troop cohesiveness, and get raped during combat.
  
  The officer corps has been purged of the vast majority of officers with a brain and a conscious.
  
  And as far as the country that Obama and his cadre have fundamentally changed the US into, there is no one but the Neocons who believe in that horse shit. And the Neocons are certainly not going to die fighting for it.
  - Katherine on February 09, 2016 · at 7:22 pm EST/EDT
    
    @JohnnyReb
    Well, don’t agree with the language and “slut” image, but I do think that the human component is important in any economic entity. There is such a thing as commitment and loyalty.
    
    Now so much of the work of the USA military has been subcontracted out that it is now all only about the money, from the top to the bottom.
    All of these subcontractor companies—whether in surveillance, R&D, weapons system construction, supply food for the troops— are no more than economic mercenaries. No loyalty to the country, no commitment. It all started with Kellogg Brown & Root in Vietnam, when they became the one-stop shop for building and managing military bases there, and teh Army Corps of Engineers kind of faded out of the picturee—How many of the Corps’s personnel actually draw a govt. paycheck?
    
    Katherine
    - Anonymous on February 09, 2016 · at 10:00 pm EST/EDT
      
      Well said Katherine.
      
      If not a preponderence of d’head machomen on this site worshipping their SU35’s while despising others F35’s there are a lot.
      
      “Loyalty to country” seems a pretty childish comment on your part though – when should that have started in your estimation?
- augusto on February 09, 2016 · at 2:16 pm EST/EDT
  
  Yeah, nice basis of your existential doubts about the saker´s insufficent expertise … and so his intrinsecal incapacity of evaluating the russian vs empire´s weapon situations!
  You demand systems design, electronic warfare and satellite plus software
  quizinfiquantaalphaoromeganability to say something sensible on that.
- Anonymous on February 09, 2016 · at 4:36 pm EST/EDT
  
  @”top technical universities”
  
  The US education system is as bad as in third world countries. That is why US corporations rely on “brain drain”.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrE9z1JFT1Y
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa
  - Siotu on February 10, 2016 · at 12:30 pm EST/EDT
    
    Where do PhD candidates presently in the USA undertaking technical or hard science dissertations originate from? That is, what nationalities are they?
    
    Surprised?
    
    Siotu
- hestroy on February 10, 2016 · at 3:22 pm EST/EDT
  
  This is so boring to read these “mantras” again and again.
Anonymous on February 09, 2016 · at 6:30 am EST/EDT

Scott, what can you say about the Leonardo DiCaprio plan to play as Putin? I think it has something to do with assassination. Remember that Alphabet agencies are deeply involved with Hollywood. It is well documented that they are collaborating with the industry for whatever schemes they have in mind. The movie Argo, the Christian proselytisers in North Korea are just some of the examples that they have been using seemingly innocent elements to be used for subterfuge in other countries. Also remember that DiCaprio initially floated the idea that he was choosing between Rasputin, Lenin and Putin. But he eventually’decided’ to play Putin. Anyway this DiCaprio guy has for a long time been mocked as if taunted for a long time now as a never- been awarded an acting award that it has become a meme in the interwebs.

Also remember that story about Sean Penn interviewing El Chapo for Rolling Stone.And then El Chapo was then immediately caught/entrapped by US authorities afterwards. Rumour is that Sean Penn was an un/willing accomplice for either the EF Bee Eye or the See Aye Ey.

Anyway obviously this is just mere speculation on my part but I think it is a play to get close to Putin by playing on his vanity(be portrayed in Hollywood) or to edge him to paranoia that it could affect his behaviour and his judgement. What do you think about my conspiracy theory?
- Peter J.Antonsen on February 09, 2016 · at 4:35 pm EST/EDT
  
  I usually do not reply to annonymices, but your missive makes more sense than Scott’s.
  
  Scott?
  
  Your point is: (all the numbered below are the same point – therefore the use of singular verb-is).
  
  1. The Pope will join his Catholics to the Russian Orthodox Church.
  
  2. Just as the world ends, All will become Russian Orthodox.
  
  3. Russian Orthodox weapons are superior to American weapons (no mention of Zionist weapons).
  
  4. The Russian Orthodox Church will save the world from the imperialist – Skull & Bones Society, (although the effort will be wasted, as the world will end [not even a Noah’s Ark will be provided]).
  
  5. Therefore, humans need not bother with resisting Zionist imperialism, as all is decided by the Big Players (All is pretty much hopeless, so why bother?).
  
  6. Two Cuban CIA Agents will become the President of the post-Republic USA, and therefore, the United States will become Communist.
  
  7. There must be a 7th point; there must be a point, somewhere?
  
  For the Democratic Republics!
  - Scott on February 10, 2016 · at 3:47 pm EST/EDT
    
    Dear Peter,
    
    It’s a nice reductio ad absurdum you’ve come up with.
    
    As you might noticed, I have just listed some lesser known facts, and left our readers to come up with conclusions.
    
    The only thing I want to make clear: You wrote: “1. The Pope will join his Catholics to the Russian Orthodox Church.”
    
    It doesn’t have to be the Russian Orthodox Church. It can be any other Orthodox Christian Church that are in communion with the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
    
    And also your #5 point. It’s up to you, of course, but advocating for the direct democratic elections, rather than indirect, or representative democracy, would be a step in a right direction.
    
    Thanks you for contributing
- Katherine on February 09, 2016 · at 7:35 pm EST/EDT
  
  “Remember that Alphabet agencies are deeply involved with Hollywood.”
  
  It was striking to me that a number of the Oscar-nominated shorts have a definite political message.
  
  1. Ave Maria. About a Jewish familiy that has a breakdown on the road somewhere between the settlements and Jerusalem. Maybe Jews find this cute. What was on display was how obnoixious this family was in its contempt for the other two religions in the land that Zionists have taken over. and just overall obnoxious. But I expect that those who nominated the film see it otherwise.
  
  2. Documentary about Claude Lanzmann. Can’t remake Shoah, so why not show a documentary About making Shoah, just to keep the whole jews as Victims meme active. No word about Palestinians. No hint of consciousness of anything wrong with the beach in Israel. Actually there is something creepy about the extended scene with the barber in the Bronx.
  
  3. Day One. About a woman who volunteers as an interpreter in Afghanistan. Sort of “war is hell” but also presents the American troops as very personable and heroic as they go about their work of rounding up susepected terrorists—or just, wrong guy in wrong place— in their homes.
  
  4. Shok. About two Albanian boys during the Bosnian war. The film is pretty good, but it is an opportunity to repeat the Serbs as monsters meme.
  
  All of these films reinforce messages and make them the norm. They don’t question the assumptoins as to what really happened. So, they ahve a political role. I am sure that there are good films out there that present opposite points of view on each of these historical events.
  
  Katherine
me on February 09, 2016 · at 6:53 am EST/EDT

your my man scott. thank you so much for your sharp writing in this blog. one can search the net for a while to find someone with that cocky attitude about everything going on right now.
please ask the sleepy saker to take over this blog for a while. (just kidding)
all the best and take care of yourself
Martin from Soviet East-Berlin on February 09, 2016 · at 7:36 am EST/EDT

Thank you Scott.
Sounds all too good to be true.
Let’s hope and wish for the Best!
The West will rather blow us all up, rather than losing.
zweistein on February 09, 2016 · at 9:27 am EST/EDT

” We, = true religion is individual, a Buddha would never say ‘we’ (he even won’t say ‘I’)
Orthodox Christians
believe = dream
that at the end of time, = pure fantasy
when the Antichrist = hallucination
will come to destroy humanity, = dangerous, self-fulfilling fairy tale
all believers of all religions = forgetting that ‘real’ religions consider believers immature at best
will unite = more wishful thinking. hope-ium
by becoming Orthodox Christians, = repressed, genocidal aggression
we believe “that…
all may be one” = all is one. No dreaming, no uniting, no church, no nothing needed.

Having said that, I also have to add that, unlike Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity has integrated and preserved a lot of the pre-Empire Pagan & Shamanic roots of our ancestors. By this fact alone Orthodox Christianity is still quite wholesome, humane and sane.

P.S. I consider the current condition of the Western world a direct, and unavoidable result of the Elite-orchestrated, insane death-cults Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
- Anonymous on February 09, 2016 · at 1:02 pm EST/EDT
  
  “P.S. I consider the current condition of the Western world a direct, and unavoidable result of the Elite-orchestrated, insane death-cults Judaism, Christianity and Islam.”
  
  100% zweistein
  - augusto on February 09, 2016 · at 2:43 pm EST/EDT
    
    yes, good point,100% especially if you realize also that it means ”twice a stone” in German.
    Fortunately for him however, there are still the Budhists, shintoists, tribal animists and bramahni who were outside the lenses focus of that picture.
JJ on February 09, 2016 · at 9:42 am EST/EDT

Scott as you are the Ukraine guy

posting various here but maybe mods it is better to hold and pass onto Scott so he can add to a new ukr post??????

“Prestige Ukraine and the theme of “the occupation of the Crimea” will rise to unprecedented heights, if the Ukrainian singer Jamala show at the international contest “Eurovision” their song “1944,” in which Soviet troops liberated the peninsula from the Nazi occupation, calls “killers”. On Monday, 8 February, said upolonomochenny President of Ukraine for the Crimean Tatar people, one of the organizers of the blockade of the peninsula Mustafa Cemil.

“Shiriy Ukrainian” Vladimir Vyatrovich chief dekommunizator of Ukraine, head of the so-called “Institute of National Memory,” on whose initiative demolished monuments and renamed settlements, goes even further in his dreams: “In case of victory Jamala Ukraine to Eurovision-2017 in Sevastopol” – he wrote on his page on Facebook.

Jamal – in the world Susana Dzhamaladinova, Ukrainian singer of the Crimean Tatars, who grew up on the peninsula, got the most votes of viewers support for SMS golosovovanii in the first semi-final of national selection “Eurovision-2016”. In this regard, as they say, and dreaming of the Ukrainian-Tatar Russophobia.

Recall that in the summer of 2015, the then Minister of Defense of Ukraine Valery Geleta, took office, is also promised in the Verkhovna Rada to hold Ukrainian “victory parade in Sevastopol.” Out of all this first Ilovaiskaya and then Debaltsevskim boilers for APUs in the Donbas.’

I think the sense of this is, the head of the outlaw tatar organisation says that if Ukr wins the eurovision song contest the host country that wins should hold the next one in Sevastopol.
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52780

ok, maybe I am getting desperate searching for meaningful news………..
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These data are published press center of the State Statistics Service. And the decline occurred mainly among the enterprises in the sphere of entertainment, finance, mining.

Acronyms almost touched trading enterprises and institutions engaged in administrative services, as well as those legal entities which carry out “other services”. This repair of office equipment and footwear, clothing dry cleaning, laundries, barbershops.

Today the average Ukrainian prefers to repair rather than buy new. And another fact – the reductions were observed ritual offices, since mortality in Ukraine today is higher than ever before.

Also last year, it closed 29% of the companies that produce packaging and various types of packaging. This is understandable: if the industry falls, and pack nothing.

Experts predict that this negative trend will continue in 2016.”http://www.anna-news.info/node/52785
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The cost of heating and hot water in Ukraine will grow twice in the next heating season, reported by the analyst of the NGO “Public Audit” Taras Galaida.
“According to the Government’s overall strategy and the agreements signed with the IMF, the total cost of heating in Ukraine in the next heating season will increase about twice … On April 1, 2016, the selling price for companies Teplovik increase by more than twice, it will amount to a little over 6 thousand. 300 UAH. Accordingly, it drags along and the cost of heat and hot water “-. Said Taras Galaida in an interview to Ukrainian journalists
He said that next year, when going off-state rates will have to compensate 70% – 75% of the total cost of public services, as incomes the population does not grow, no motivating factors that would develop business, stimulate self-employment, no.
“there is nothing in this plan not done, revenues remained at the same level at which they were. Therefore, the population is physically unable to be anything to pay, all of the subsidies will increase, and the state will have to allocate more money for something to make up for public consumption, “- said the expert.
Previously, energy expert Yuri Korolchuk said that permanent conflicts in the government and parliament have led to the fact that the winter of Ukraine met with substantial fuel shortage. He also noted that the lack of gas in storage can lead to the disruption of the supply of “blue fuel” to the EU.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52807
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ukr forces stiill recieving extra drones, upgrades to tanks, planes and other military equipment…………still reports of ISIS in Kherson but maybe small numbers so far……….

“The governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine, ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili diligently work out their money. In an interview with Ukrainian TV channel “24,” the neurotic, said – “The main gaps in Ukraine – is outdated anti-tank weapons, but there is a new in the US, and if they give it, and Ukraine will undermine the first 50 Russian tanks, everything will be different.”.
Saakashvili, all the forces wishing to raise the spirit of militarism and Ukrainian provoke clashes between Ukraine and Russia, tells stories on the theme of high morale in the Ukrainian army. In his words, “the spirit of Ukrainian soldiers the best in the world and if you give them the necessary knowledge, skills and weapons, and they will be able to capture the whole of Russia.” Saakashvili said that he was told about the Georgian instructors, which, in turn, taught the Americans, “so they know a lot about fighting spirit.”

The morale of the Georgian instructors, who in turn taught the Americans, in all its glory manifested itself when trying to capture Ossetia. Then the Russian army conducted an operation to enforce peace. If desired, three days Russia could take the whole of Georgia, and Misha had to chew fear his own tie.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52804

http://www.anna-news.info/node/52799
video of discussion/presentation re commonsense in Ukraine?
If rats are fleeing the ship, it is logical to assume that the rats in the course of the bad state of the ship, which soon will go to the bottom. For some reason I thought of this will take, when I read the latest Ukrainian news.

Ask yourself: what can make the Minister of Economic Development of Ukraine Abromavichyusa resign? Option “conscience” does not offer!
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Recently, Ukrainian security forces conducted in the village of Lugansk-the so-called cleanup. And began their retaliatory actions in five in the morning when people were still asleep.

In a private house frightened owners did not open the door, and the military stormed by opening fire. The hostess was killed on the spot while her husband punitive took with them to the local commandant. There’s a man tortured and he died.

Previously, such “cleansing” the use of weapons and special equipment were held in the cities of Donbass Krasnogorovka, Avdeevka, Konstantinovka, which are now under the control of the APU. Residents say that many of those who were taken to the local commandant’s office, did not return home. Their fate is unknown.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52787

Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Yaroslav Romaniuk said that the European Court of Human Rights actually stopped to consider complaints of Ukrainians.

For example, at the end of last year, the European Court has received 64850 cases. And 13,850 cases – against the state of Ukraine. What was considered, precise data yet, but, according to preliminary analysis, the statistics of the last year is not much different from those of 2014, when it was decided to consider only 8% of claims.

Such a huge number of claims not filed any country in the world. Ukraine leader in the now- in ECHR complaints. To date, the number of applications submitted by citizens of Ukraine, 21.4% of all applications. This suggests egregious human rights abuses, human rights activists say. Although the pan Romaniuk said that this shows the quality work of the Ukrainian courts whose decisions in the ECHR are not going to reconsider. But, most likely, simply can not cope with such a huge number of “Ukrainian” cases in Europe.

The vast number of examined claims concerning the failure of the relevant authorities of court decisions. This suggests that the judicial and executive power in the country fails. Actually, as the whole judicial system.’
http://www.anna-news.info/node/52786

yet contrast with this news much prevalent in social media

for 20 years plus a criminal gang in Crimea brutally ran crime, committed many murders, extortion, probably bought the judges or they lived in fear people really afraid to speak out or even talk about them so I gather, after secession of Crimea they based themselves in Odessa, but returned to Crimea recently on forged passports, but were caught and are awaiting trial, so a major reign of terror has been terminated by successful Rus justice system, not corrupt ukr system……….maybe Auslander can verify?

http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2717986&cid=7
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http://www.anna-news.info/node/52797
seems to be an underground subversive activist group? in Crimea re going back to Europe, spilt between Crimea and Sevastopol being encouraged? Needs Auslander to comment, we miss you!

extract from long report
“information about the fact that in the Crimea and Sevastopol acts not only Ukrainian underground, ready to show on the first convenient moment, but also a large number of pro-Ukrainian activists and politicians who allegedly “changed” their political views, and swore allegiance to Russia, voiced repeatedly, and voiced on different levels. Personally, I believe that these people were their own views and beliefs, changing only the public rhetoric, the party tickets, passports and hiding, until a certain time…….The absurd situation. Crimea, which is already two years as Russia, actively developing people who have never been famous for pro-Russian, but on the contrary, were in favour of European integration, persecuted pro-Russian activists, working in the interests of the Ukrainian oligarchs who are now sponsoring ATO, and actively cooperated with the Security Service. And they gain from mainland Russia deployed liberal pro-Westerners, are also not to score in the protection of Russia’s interests. And these people do not come to the Crimea and Sevastopol, to live the life of the ordinary man in the street and enjoy the climate resort. They are introduced in the environment Chaly, who temporarily joined the opposition, they can already be found in the command of the governor Menyailo, they fill a local asset Russian parties. What’s next? Then they will do everything to make the most integrated in the local business, political and social structure, to settle in the power and occupy elective positions……………..

….Here’s a Today I received an exclusive, literally soaked absurd at all levels, the release of my daily author headings. I just can not keep silent. Boiling. I can not accept the fact that people do not notice the obvious things. Especially if people who are entrusted with the fate of the Russian regions and Russian citizens. Until the new, exciting, see you soon! ”
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JJ on February 09, 2016 · at 10:16 am EST/EDT

probably a minor point==ukr destroying rus orthodox churches, crazy ukr patriarch, all part of the same thing ???????????

reminder from Feb 3 2016

“A Russian Orthodox patriarch has called for an end to the fighting between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels, which he said has led to the suffering of Christians and more than 60 churches being damaged by the fighting in the Donetsk and Horlivka dioceses in Ukraine.

“The whole civilian population of Donbas is suffering from the humanitarian disaster and armed conflict there together with the devout members of our church, whose parishes and cloisters make up a majority of religious communities in the region,” Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said, according to Interfax Religion.

The patriarch said at least 15 of the 60 damaged churches have been ruined completely, and he added that some churches were attacked during services, killing and injuring parishioners. According to the report, church leaders killed in the shellings included archpriest Pavel Zhuchenko, archpriest Vladimir Kreslyansky, and archpriest Georgy Nikishov.

“I am aware of the threats – and in some cases, death threats – received by at least ten clergymen of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Those regions, where nationalist groups have been most active, saw acts of vandalism, church arsons, distribution of leaflets and posters inciting religious and ethnic hatred,” Patriarch Kirill said.

Russia has been accused of directly supporting the rebels by Western nations. Pro-Russian rebels have taken over a number of cities in eastern Ukraine, which has lead to the deaths of more than 5,000 people. Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has denied being involved in the conflict.

Kirill has often expressed his support for Putin, but has also spoken out many times against the war in Ukraine, saying that peace will not be sustained unless the country eliminates the causes of manifestation of “unfairness and discrimination based on language, nationality or religion.”

The Russian Church leader also accused schismatic organizations, such as the Kiev Patriarchate, of taking away churches and making life more difficult for believers.

“In the past year alone, schismatics seized illegally at least 18 churches in the Rivne, Vinnytsya, Ternopol, Lvov and other regions. It should be noted that there were many more unsuccessful attempts to seize churches, which attests not only to schismatics’ persistence, but also to the courage and the firmness of the faith of the Ukrainian Orthodox Christians,” he said.

In recent weeks, fighting between government and rebel forces have been increasing after a failed truce. The U.S. has said that it’s considering sending lethal aid to Kiev in its battle against pro-Russian rebels and has heavily blamed Russia for the continued conflict.

Eight former senior American officials wrote in an independent report: “The West needs to bolster deterrence in Ukraine by raising the risks and costs to Russia of any renewed major offensive. That requires providing direct military assistance — in far larger amounts than provided to date and including lethal defensive arms.”

http://www.christiandaily.com/article/russian.orthodox.patriarch.says.christians.suffering.churches.destroyed.in.ukraine/49811.htm

Thanks Scott great stuff.
- Scott on February 09, 2016 · at 1:46 pm EST/EDT
  
  Thanks JJ, Martin, Nils, Paul and everyone else who read and comment.
  
  JJ, I consider links and resources you post as a part of my Ukraine SITREP
  
  Thanks you, guys, and have a wonderful day.
  
  Scott
know the truth on February 09, 2016 · at 10:26 am EST/EDT

Some absolutely powerful writing from Andre Vitchek which I completely agree with :

Europe is Built on Corpses and Plunder

One year ago I was driving through the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, monitoring the situation in the refugee camps there. Winter was approaching and the mountains on the Lebanese–Syrian border were covered by snow. It was cold, very cold. Some 20 minutes, after leaving Baalbek, I spotted an extremely humble makeshift refugee camp, growing literally from the road, in the middle of nowhere. I stopped. Together with my interpreter, I walked inside and engaged several people in conversation. The situation was desperate. Children were hungry and could not register for schools through the UNHCR or through the Lebanese government, which, by that time, had almost collapsed. Many electronic food cards that were issued to the migrants did not function. Work permits were not offered, and without proper paperwork, local social services could not be used. In brief: a total disaster. I was told that in this area, some Syrian migrants had already been starving. This was Bekaa Valley, a tough place to start with, and full of ancient traditions, clans, gangs and narcotic-business. Refugees were expected to keep their heads down, or else… Before I left, two little girls, two sisters, approached me. Both had swollen bellies, suffering from malnutrition. Both were dressed in rugs. Both looked deprived. But after spotting my cameras, they were mesmerized, smiling at me, showing tongues, laughing. Their country was in ruins, their future uncertain. But these were just two little girls in the middle of the mountains, two girls excited about each and every little detail of life. Such innocence! Such hope! People are people, and children are children, everywhere, even during wars. Unfortunately, I have witnessed too many of them; too many wars. Too many barbarities performed by NATO, by the Empire, by the United States and Europe. Later, working on the Greek island of Kos and in Calais in France, I kept thinking about those two girls, again and again. The West (or call it NATO, or anything you like – we all know what I mean!) has, in the most cynical manner, destabilized and destroyed the entire Middle East. As it has in virtually all the continents of the world, it ruined tremendous cultures, plundered all it could put its hands on, turned proud people into slaves. Libya and Iraq are no more! I can testify, as I work all over the Middle East. And then the West enclosed itself into its gold-plated bunker, slowly and disgustingly digesting its booty! How many refugees are there that Europe says: “it cannot accept”? 1 million? Tiny, miniscule Lebanon has 2 million, and it is coping; badly but coping! And Lebanon did not destroy Syria, Libya, Afghanistan or Iraq. You know how it all feels like? Like observing a woman who was gang-raped, whose husband was murdered in front of her own eyes, and whose beautiful house was looted. Now this woman, just in order to save her starving children from the rubbles, is forced to go to Europe, to the rapists and thieves who destroyed her life, asking for shelter and food. And they spit into her face! They say: “It is too much for us, too difficult to accommodate you and others like you! Woman, you came to take advantage of us. You came to have a better life at our expense!” This is how it looks from the outside. This is how I see it. And I want to puke. But there is no time… One has to work, day and night, to stop this madness. The West, of course including Europe, is too hardened by its own crimes, too cynical, and too unrepentant. It remains blind, because it simply does not pay to see! *** There is no Left Wing in Europe, anymore. Not the Left as we understand the term in Cuba and other revolutionary nations. To us, true left means “Internationalism”, solidarity! True left is global, egalitarian, and color-blind. European so-called Left is only concerned with the benefits of its own citizens. It does not care at all where the funds are coming from. As long as French, Greek, Spanish or Italian farmers get their subsidies and perks, who cares that agriculture in Africa or Asia gets thoroughly ruined. The most important is that European farmers could drive their latest BMW’s, for producing something or not producing anything at all. I saw absolutely grotesque concepts implemented in countries like Senegal, and other former French colonies: heavily subsidized French food produce flooded West Africa, supermarkets opened, local production collapsed. Then the prices spiked to 2-3 times higher levels than those in Paris. And so, in Senegal where incomes are perhaps only 10% of those in France, a yoghurt costs 3 times more than in Monoprix. Who pays for those 35-hour workweeks? Who pays for socialized medical care and free education in the European Union? Definitely not the Europeans themselves! Most of the funds used to come from the colonies, from that unimaginable plunder of the world performed by the West. Colonialism and imperialism are still there, but they often changed forms, although the toll on people in non-white countries continues to be the same. The Belgian King Leopold II and his cohorts, in what is now Congo, massacred 10 million people, at the beginning of the 20th Century. Between 1995 and now, the West plundered the Democratic Republic of Congo once again, mercilessly, by using its closest allies in Africa – Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya. Again, between 7 and 10 million people died there, in just 20 years, and these are not some inflated numbers, these are numbers provided by the United Nations and its reports, including the so-called “Mapping Report”. All that horror, only so the West could have access to coltan (used in our mobile phones), to uranium, and other strategic materials. I compiled the evidence in my feature documentary film “Rwanda Gambit”.
All those ruined lives and countries, so that European citizens could have their benefits, long vacations, and social services. When I discussed the issue with my friend, an Italian filmmaker from Naples, he snapped at me: “We don’t want to be like the Chinese. We don’t want to work hard like them!” I replied: “Then live within your means! Do not allow your corporations and governments to massacre tens of millions of people, so that the companies could have their insane profits, and citizens those outrageous benefits.” Recently, in Thailand, I overheard a group of unemployed Spaniards laughing about having a vacation in Southeast Asia, paid for by their unemployment benefits. I know many countries, dependencies of the West, where losing one’s job is synonymous to a death sentence! But we are asked to feel sorry for Spaniards, Italians and Greeks. We are expected to see them as victims. *** I am saddened to say, but it is not only the United States, but also Europe, which is totally, blissfully ignorant about its role in the world, and about the harm, about the horrors that it is spreading all over our Planet. This discovery shocked me so much, that I spent 4 years crisscrossing the world, compiling the evidence and testimonies that illustrate the colonialist, neo-colonialist and imperialist legacy of the West, as well as the current neo-colonialist barbarities. The book is 840-pages long and it is called “Exposing Lies Of The Empire”. I hope, one day, it will be available in the Italian language! The book has been receiving enthusiastic reception, but for me, this thick volume is not the end. Now I am compiling the second installment. The topic is just too enormous. The crimes, genocides, holocausts committed by the West on the people of our Planet, are too enormous. Everything is linked to them! The entire arrangement of the world uses them as pillars. In our book “On Western Terrorism – From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare”, written together with my friend Noam Chomsky, I was asked whether the Europeans actually realize what they have done to the world, during the last centuries. (Just a side note – this book is now available in the Italian language “Terrorismo Occidentale”). I replied to Noam: “They definitely don’t!” And I repeat here, again: most of them, the great majority of them, do not realize it! They don’t want to see, to admit, that their opera houses, hospitals, museums, parks and promenades, are all constructed on the corpses of those who were robbed of everything: from Latin America and its open veins, to Asia and Africa. Slavery, unimaginable extermination campaigns, tremendous lists of horrors! Before Noam and I began our discussion, I spent some time with several top statisticians, and our conclusion was chilling: directly or indirectly, the West massacred between 40 and 50 million people, between the Hiroshima A-bomb explosion, and the time of my long dialogue with Noam – in 2012. The number of people, who were murdered throughout history, directly or indirectly, by European empires, all over the world, can only be calculated in hundreds of millions, and one of my statistician friends believes that the total accumulative number actually exceeds 1 billion.

It is too long to completely paste here but the entire article is well worth a read here

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44153.htm
- ioan on February 09, 2016 · at 4:25 pm EST/EDT
  
  know the truth
  
  This article you just posted make me sick.There is no other way out from this just WAR !! .For the ones who know there is life after death there is nothing to fear.For those who don’t belive that,well,they will be surprised.Jesus had not founded a religion,he showed the way for every human being,for the singular person in knowing the truth trough love for others,because it’s true ” we all are ONE”
  For that to achieve we have to face our Destiny
- J on February 09, 2016 · at 9:50 pm EST/EDT
  
  The article mentions refugees from Syria in Lebanon particularly a woman and her children, starving and with little help from outside. In the same it mentions that Europe would spit in the faces of these people if they try to go there and seek help. This I call complete Bull Shit!
  
  Europe is not seeing this kind of refugee and if it were would be open arms to them. Instead, Europe is being flooded with non refugee, military aged males from MENA and instead is wondering what the Hell…
  This author does nothing but propagate the migrant crisis of Europe and the underlying issues it raises. The people who are suffering, the real victims of this Hell being created in MENA, are not the ones coming to Europe.
  
  I strongly agree with the points of empire and the looting it has done to many countries in the MENA and this includes a great many players in the EU. But! There has to be concise information as to what is transpiring and whom to actually help. This article just plays into the Mea Culpa teeth nashing of progressives in the West who then open their arms to agents of destruction and weaken those countries that would normally be able to give real help to the actual victims of war. How can countries like Finland or Germany help real Syrian refugees when they are compromised by nefarious migration in the guise of refugees? Migrants who then strip the resources of the state and cause social turmoil within causing stable states to collapse economically and socially?
  
  I held a concert in Finland with the proceeds going to UNICEF, on condition that the proceeds were to be used for helping child refugees within Syria. I also try to bring attention to the plight of internally displaced people in the conflict and that most genuine Syrian Refugees are located in and around their country. What more can we do. From my perspective, the best action is that of the Russians in trying to create reality on the ground and allow for Syrians to return back to their homes in safety.
- Dennis James Leary on February 10, 2016 · at 5:47 pm EST/EDT
  
  Thanks. I was moved by the general thesis and spellbound by the language. Proved to me that paragraph breaks are not needed when the narrative is gripping, like the old days of parchments.
  
  Thanks for the link to ICH. I used to read there but now this vineyard is virtually my sole news source. So the vineyard has become a clearing house. There’s just too much info to process so I depend on this saker site.
  
  I also like the user friendly format and most importantly here we have a real, growing virtual community. Communalism at its best.
Weston on February 09, 2016 · at 10:34 am EST/EDT

Interesting article, thanks.
But I’m still missing one thing here, one thing which is publicly known but not much expressed here in Saker’s or others’ articles. It’s the powers that were behind creating Vatican and Christianity, powers that were behind creating Islam as its counterpart as both religions were created for controlling masses.

No one here ever mentiones where do the powers, that made Switzerland or Great Britain (or Italy or Egypt long time before) so powerful, come from and what are their goals. Zionists are not these powers, they just were given the orders to act the way they do.

I wonder if these powers are being ignored here on purpose or is this topic too abstract and secretive that there is no intention to mention them in any context here. Following discussions of Russian analysts who discuss this topic in broad I must wonder why their works are being ignored on these pages. It would make people really aware of big things that are happening or going to happen, about the Russian strategy on how to defeat zionists and what’s next. The fact is it’s not only weapons that serve Russians in the fight for their existence, but also theories and knowledge about how mankind is being controlled for centuries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kazhOQC0_cg
- augusto on February 09, 2016 · at 2:36 pm EST/EDT
  
  pls dont sit down heavily on ‘powers’ that can make a religious organization strong, defiant, gold seeking and scaring. Because right now in south america, and elsewhere there are new SECTS, just 20 or so years old – that have luxury cathedrals, long TV time purchases everyday and night and will become much richer in one more decade than we can imagine.
  Whose ‘pastores’ are chosen and career aproved on the sole basis of their individual capability of raising funds. The more you raise the higher you ´re promoted in religous ranks.
  And where do those ‘powers’ come from? ODN THE ONE hand from the inner desire of something perfect and infinite every human being has… and on the other hand from the sheer propaganda and commu nication techniques.
JohnnyReb on February 09, 2016 · at 11:12 am EST/EDT

Scott,
Being basically athiest, I don’t follow either branches of the church much, although the idea of ending the schism would be a historical significant event with many ramifications and undertones. It reminds me of the scene in “The Dark Crystal” where the gelfling heals the schism, and the current western political class certainly reminds me of the Skesis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5dYtpMeK54

My question is about the Pope’s speech to the UN and all his blather about Global Warming and how he grovelled to Ban ki Moon and the UN skeksis.

Was this just the pope grovelling to the Ango-Zionists, why did he do this?
Anonymous on February 09, 2016 · at 11:15 am EST/EDT

“40 thousand billion” ???

Assuming those billions are of the American variety (9-zero billions), this would make Putin roughly 500 times wealthier than Bill Gates.

If the billions are of the 12-zero variety, then it is even more astronomically preposterous.
JJ on February 09, 2016 · at 11:16 am EST/EDT

http://russia-insider.com/en/christianity/pope-and-patriarch-meet-havana-airport/ri12720

discussion article here too……..Pope and Patriarch in Havana: A Watershed in More Ways Than One
“The historic encounter in Havana must be seen, in part, as an effort … to avert impending disaster.”
Red on February 09, 2016 · at 12:01 pm EST/EDT

Pravda quoted Putin as saying that the missiles were back in Cuba… Look it up. About 2 years ago…

Vat-gold is surely a significant treasure in the greedy eye…

But my bet is that the Pope and his partners hope to prevent nukwar
mmiriww on February 09, 2016 · at 12:27 pm EST/EDT

–I believe they have never retrieved those statements.

Have you tried throwing out some kibbles? Unless you are Russian in which case its a hammer and sickle..

US State Dep’s response to Erdogan: “Turkey is a NATO ally, YPG/PYD is also an ally against ISIS”

US State Spox Kirby: We do not recognize PYD as a terrorist organization, we recognize Turks do.

Kirby: was some talk about Saudi UAE offer for syria troops. we welcome this as it’s focused on Daesh. want to make sure matches coal.needs

150,000 [Saudi] soldiers will enter Syria from Turkey’ are not true, say Turkish prime ministry sources: report – @anadoluagency

CORRECTION: US State Dept. spox Kirby states that Kurds are “strong partners” against ISIS, rather than allies – @ragipsoylu

Sweden’s foreign minister condemns all violence against civilians in Kurdish towns in south east Turkey.

Grushko: NATO infrastructure deployment near Russia’s border won’t be left without military-technical reply – IFX via @L0gg0l

IS take responsibility for VBIED attack in Barzeh Damascus which left 8 martyrs & at least 20 wounded
https://twitter.com/sayed_ridha/status/697022545036316672
Dario on February 09, 2016 · at 12:27 pm EST/EDT

“Pope Francis Sees Putin as ‘Only Man’ to Defend Christians Around the World”

“In an attempt to defend Christians in the Middle East and other parts of the world where they’re being persecuted, Pope Francis wants to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin for help.

According to Pope Francis, Putin is “the only one with whom the Catholic Church can unite to defend Christians in the East.”

“It’s important to join efforts [with Russia] to save Christianity in all regions [of the world] where it’s oppressed,” Pope Francis said, as cited by Le Journal Du Dimanche.”

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160209/1034451116/pope-francis-putin-christians.html
- Sanjin on February 09, 2016 · at 4:25 pm EST/EDT
  
  “Pope Francis Sees Putin as ‘Only Man’ to Defend Christians Around the World” very disturbing. not because of Putin. because that we may read: Christianity is under heavy attack from NWO forces. i don’t think that Christianity and NWO are compatible. only one can exist.
Martin on February 09, 2016 · at 12:41 pm EST/EDT

Scott,

So the liberation theology Pope is trying to integrate the Catholic Church into Orthodoxy, and the Cubans are planning to take over corporate America?

I don’t know what you smoke, man, but it’s definitely a ride into outer space.
- Scott on February 09, 2016 · at 4:53 pm EST/EDT
  
  Martin you wrote: “I don’t know what you smoke, man, but it’s definitely a ride into outer space.”
  
  Thanks, man. I try…
Oodnadatta on February 09, 2016 · at 12:47 pm EST/EDT

Hi Scott, a little more to press on with:

Francis knows he is the last Pope. he is the black Pope ie drawn from the Jesuits. read the prophecy of Malachi. he has said he only expects to live a few more years.

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160209/1034451116/pope-francis-putin-christians.html
- ioan on February 09, 2016 · at 5:40 pm EST/EDT
  
  The current Pope had chosen the name Francis instantly,not willing to chose Petrus (Peter) bacause he knew the Prophecy to.His fate stand in that Francis entire name was Francisco del Pietro,so the name Petrus is there.
eimar on February 09, 2016 · at 3:59 pm EST/EDT

” . As John Helmer wrote last year,
the neo-liberals inside the government
refused and started plotting something. As
it turned out, they were plotting against themselves.”

Rofl! Quite the little Einsteins. aren’t they ?

* * * * * *

Re Cruz: I don’t buy the sleeper theory – definitely not communist.

Though he is a materialist atheist, it’s because he aspires to being a Daddy Warbucks, in common with most of the transnational kleptocrats.

Here’s why:

He is currently trying to bring back the draft. Not because he wants to ‘take down’ the US – for personal profit and those of his MIC backers.

His wife is vice-president of Goldman Sucks.

He postures as a ‘Christian’ only to tap into the Bible Belt for electoral reasons: he is a Zionis
t for reasons of power and privilege, not conviction. Another Cheney.

Just look at him – a dyed-in-the-wool narcissist. I would even say full-blown NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder). Worse than Obama (yes, it’s possible.)

He is a truly awful actor – worse than most US politicians. I can’t believe people ‘buy’ what he’s ‘selling.’ (If he knocked on my door flogging insurance, I would disinfect the knocker.)

http://www.voltairenet.org/article190187.html
Bodin on February 09, 2016 · at 4:45 pm EST/EDT

It could be, because not all power centers in US are „on the same page.“ They have been on each other throats for some time, and while some power centers in US have apparently signed an aggreement with the White Dragon Society – a group of ancient and wealthy, predominantly Chinese, Asian families to whom the whole world owns immense gratitude for their enormous part in ridding us of the evil of Jesuit Order (they are the killers of evil, although many of us try to help anyway we can) – the others have not, hence you see such rupture… partition of „personality“ of Murica which many have noticed by now. Do you know that current Pope is responsible for deaths of thousands of children in Argentina, children which was used for blood sacrifices, hm? It’s widely known by now, and proven, that brother of the previous Pope, the one which has been in Hitleryugend, has abused at least 231 children? The fact that the crime has gone public says a lot.
http://www.thejournal.ie/regensburg-domspatzen-ratzinger-benedict-choir-child-abuse-scandal-2538826-Jan2016/
Do you also know that Bill Clinton is a bastard child of one of the Rockefellers? Have you known that Bush crime family’s wealth is in trillions? Are you aware who the Rothschilds are? Do you people know that Rothscilds (derived from German Rotschild, meaning „red shield“) are Jesuits who with the official title of their House „Guardians of the Vatican’s wealth“? Know you know why the House of Rothschild is famous for helping nations go to war. Their firm was known as „Meyer Amschel Rothschild und Sohne“ and if you take out the first letters of each of the words, you of course get MARS – the old Roman god of war – and whose heavenly manifestation is „the red planet.” Stupid people think Vatican has something to do with the religion, whereas Vatican is nothing but continuation of the Roman Empire. Roman Emperors co-opted the church of Christ a long time ago, trying to use it as a tool to save the Roman Empire. This is why you see such a great divorce of the nature of God in Old Testament comapred to the „New“ one – because the New testament was written by the Vatican, it is full of lies and propaganda like „turning your other cheek when someone hits you“ like „aspiring to be poor, because only being poor you can go into Kindom of Heaven,“ like „all people of the planet are ‘children of god,’ but only being a Christian you can reach the heaven (you can clearly see the seeds of imperialism and desires for more expansions there, but you must accept rule of the ‘Christ’s Church’ in order to be accepted) etc. – it was all used as a tool to „sedate the herds“ during that time of social breakdown so the people wouldn’t be rebellious, you see.
But people have the right to know the true Christ’s words, because we do know Christ existed and died in a gruesome death, and we do know that his words have been fabricated and twisted by the Vatican, and the only way we can get to know what Jesus truly said is to seize the Vatican.
- ioan on February 09, 2016 · at 5:58 pm EST/EDT
  
  The New Testament was not written by Vatican because if so,they have left a lot of things unnoticed and written against themselves.Notice : to understand the New Testament you need the help of the Holy Spirit.You don’t even need to go to any church because the church is in your chamber as your soul is in your body.
Dennis James Leary on February 09, 2016 · at 4:47 pm EST/EDT

My dear Sir Scott,

What bizarre machinations on the border of religion and politics.

Only a Jesuit trained brain can reign with such beasts.

Why did we make paradise into a parking lot? Tow me away back to Eden; I’m illegally parked here.
- Scott on February 09, 2016 · at 5:13 pm EST/EDT
  
  My dear Dennis.
  
  I was composing this post with you in mind, and not wanting to upset you.
  
  Believe me, the first draft wasn’t pretty.
  
  “Only a Jesuit trained brain can reign with such beasts.”
  One of my degrees is a degree in Theology, but how do you know?
  
  Regards
  Scott
  - TacoSammy on February 09, 2016 · at 5:34 pm EST/EDT
    
    Scott. I love the way you make connections.
    
    I wish you would do a ‘daily’.
    
    I went to a Jesuit school but didn’t even realize it was Jesuit until I arrived. I didn’t really like living in Washington, DC though.
  - Dennis James Leary on February 10, 2016 · at 6:01 pm EST/EDT
    
    Dearest Scott,
    
    Don’t worry about upsetting me. That repartee we had a while ago was a misunderstanding. I feigned being upset.
    
    Would love to see the rough draft.
    
    How did I know you’re a theologian? Your name Scott is a variant of Duns Scotus, my favorite schoolman from the middle ages.
    
    I’d love to chat but have to run, and not forget my hat.
Anonymous on February 09, 2016 · at 5:25 pm EST/EDT

“I’m sorry but”

Why are you sorry, nils?

It’s pompous self indulgent phrases such as quoted above that make good road markers about whether the following material is worth pursuing.
Anonymous on February 09, 2016 · at 5:40 pm EST/EDT

Scott

And the current pope is not going to bite the hand that feeds him. He’s a “hope and change” sort of guy.

It wouldn’t make much sense for the zios to threaten the catholic church, as you are proposing here. The catholic church has been a natural ally of the zios and the fascists (IE: both facets of the anglozionist oligarchy) for many decades now. They are the most nummerous ally. Catholics make up the largest block of both neocons/zionists and regular fascists/nazies.

Why antagonize ones most important ally needlessly?
Russian heart on February 09, 2016 · at 11:06 pm EST/EDT

Fascinating, as usual. Thanks Scott.
I think any dialogue between the two is a good sign. I have good feelings about this.
C I eh? on February 09, 2016 · at 11:37 pm EST/EDT

Wait wait wait…

So if Stalin was trained by Jesuits at a seminary in Tiflis and Putin is the son of Stalin’s cook — and Kiril is a KGB appointee and Castro was also a Jesuit trainee…

Then holy cr**!

Or am I confused?

Is the Vatican engineering a reverse takeover by Orthodoxy?

Probably I’m confused.

See? This is why I’m not a joiner.
- elsi on February 10, 2016 · at 12:17 am EST/EDT
  
  “Probably I’m confused”
  
  Probably!
  
  You are not alone, me too.
  Between these stories and those on “privatizations” which is said they are encouraging from the Kremlin, you know, sometimes I feel a wave of solidarity with Ms. Ludmilla and I want to send everything to hell.
  
  But, for the delight and relief of Tyre and Trojans, one thing remains static, Stalin continues being “The Worst”, as always, a sure sign that the system continues to move forward, intact!
TacoSammy on February 10, 2016 · at 1:37 am EST/EDT

Jeez, Scott.

You’ve got me watching Father Christodulos’s Youtube video again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvEX15vd82w

And, it made me think of a few questions.

Is the Russian Orthodox Church the only one to have a ‘Nikon experience’?

I’m thinking of Old Believers versus current Russian Orthodoxy and wondering whether such ‘inner schisms’ (not really an accurate phrase but the best I can do) have occurred in other Orthodox Churches in other countries than Russia.

I have read that Nikon’s innovations were to bring the supposedly backward Russian Church into more compliance with the ‘ancient’ Greek Church but it was later found that the Slavonic versions had surprise surprise been the older in actuality.

I hope that makes sense and that anyone is interested enough to reply.

:)
Ann on February 10, 2016 · at 4:55 am EST/EDT

Scott, I think you are deceived by the Jesuit way….the Pope being a Jesuit, by the way…

the Jesuit way is to be jederman’s friend…everyone’s friend.

The Catholic Church will not be friendly with the Orthodox Church except to try to reform them into Catholics.

The Catholic Church is behind the neo-cons….not the other way around.

In fact I think the Catholic church is behind Israel too….the parent so to say…

Don’t be deceived by friendly Popes…follow the money…if you can…Jesuits own Bank of America…so I’ve heard.

The Pope is a big supporter of Agenda 21….all one..soup pot….yuck….
mmiriww on February 10, 2016 · at 12:31 pm EST/EDT

The IRS should look into how the whar pretzel family made their fortunes…

How George W. Bush Profited From Eminent Domain (By Taking Properties From Hundreds of Private Owners)

Steve Stanek, a research fellow at The Heartland Institute, emails to point out that when he was managing editor of Heartland’s Budget & Tax News, he oversaw a piece that was run on eminent domain and the taking of property for sports stadiums. Below, from the piece, Kelo Could Ban Takings for Stadiums, is the part applicable to Bush. Note well: The article men
elsi on February 10, 2016 · at 6:29 pm EST/EDT

Someone could explain concisely what are the divisions between the Russian Orthodox Church?
I did not know that there were several divisions.
I guess this could be explained in the Saker´s book, but I have not yet been able to read.

Saker, which of them do you belong to, and you, Scott ( as just now I am aware that you are also very religious )?

I always feel good that people gather to talk. It does not hurt to know the point of view of the other and have the opportunity to clear up misunderstandings.

The only ones there’s nothing to talk about with are specimens ISIS or Pravyi Sektor style.
- Scott on February 10, 2016 · at 7:39 pm EST/EDT
  
  Elsi
  
  If you read the Essential Saker book, you will find answers to your questions about the Russian Orthodox Church.
  
  You wrote: “I did not know that there were several divisions”
  
  I don’t know what you mean by “divisions”
  You have to be more specific.
  - elsi on February 10, 2016 · at 10:08 pm EST/EDT
    
    Sorry Scott, I did not remember where I had read about that ( I am having a few sleep this week and few time also to read the blog/comment .
    
    Finally I found the quote which belongs to the Tom Mysiewicz reviews on “The Essential Saker”. Here it is:
    
    Saker also explains that there are really 4 different Orthodox churches, only one of which is “official.” Separate, yes, but they recognize one another…
    
    Anyway, no worries if you do not feel like to answer.
    Probably! I would be able to understand as soon as I get my book and start reading.
    Thanks, comrade Scott for your attention. I like your witty humor.
    Cheers.
JJ on February 11, 2016 · at 5:03 pm EST/EDT

MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. The declaration that will be signed by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba has been finally coordinated in the evening on February 10, the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk told reporters on Thursday.
READ ALSO

Head of Russian Orthodox Church starts tour of Latin America, to meet with Pope Francis
“The text of the declaration was being coordinated by the sides until late last evening, latest amendements were made. Now we can hope that the coordinated version of the document will be presented at the meeting with the Pope,” Metropolitan Hilarion said before taking off to Cuba as part of the Patriarch’s delegation. He noted that “changes to the text of the declaration are possible nevertheless.”
Russian Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church are due to meet at Jose Marti International Airport in the Cuban capital of Havana on February 12. This will be the first meeting between the heads of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Preparations for the meeting have been underway for 20 years.

More:
http://tass.ru/en/society/855886
Mulga Mumblebrain on February 15, 2016 · at 3:00 am EST/EDT

Did you notice that straight after the Pope met the Patriarch that the Western MSM sewer began talking of ‘concerns over the Pope’s health’. I’d get those condolence messages written out now, to avoid the rush.
Bishop George on February 15, 2016 · at 3:20 am EST/EDT

Dear Mr. Saker,
You should stick to politics, something you seem to understand very well, and not try to analyze the Church situation. The Orthodox. Church does NOT believe that “all religions will unite to become Orthodox Christians.” I don’t know where you heard such nonsense. When all religions unite, it will be under the rule of the antichrist, and true Orthodox Christians will be persecuted. This is what the Church teaches.
+Bp. George (Russian Orthodox Church)

Your Grace,
You are mistaken, I am not the author of this article which has been written by my Director of Research, Scott.
Kind regards,
The Saker
BRF on February 18, 2016 · at 7:40 pm EST/EDT

The fascist business model of the US Inc-Central bankers (contains the Zionists) has been to defraud allies and steal from enemies, especially gold. One of the first acts after the Kiev coup was to steal the Ukrainian people’s gold and ship it to New York. The centre of the western cabal rests in three city states, the Vatican, the City of London and Washington D.C. in order of their creation as pillars of western economic and law structure. Through the central banking system to which most all nations are beholden the structure is mandated under law. Russia is a part of this structure as is China under the rule of the Bank of International Settlements. All property registered, including people as chattel property as individual corporate franchises to the “Crown corporation, are owned by the “Crown” situated in the City of London. The Vatican is the seat of law that binds the people to the “Crown” as well as owning all flesh and souls. Washington D.C. is the head office of the central banking cabal that exports this law and property rights of the other two by means of the Federal Reserve System which has all other nations hold Reserve Notes as the foundation of the world wide monetary system ultimately controlled from the office of the Exchequer in the City of London. All nations, including Russia and China, are a subsidiary franchise of this “Crown corporation. Break the back of the Federal Reserve system and one pillar is collapsed. However, it seems that the western interests are about to collapse this system as it has reached its zenith in the credit-debt cycle and the “interests” are just about ready to move the world to the next paradigm of cashless control under another currency creation of their own making. That Russia and China will not sacrifice their own people to these interests has created turmoil within the system. Whether war is any longer a way of dealing with dissidents within the system in the nuclear age is another matter for experts. I would add this information to the making of analysis with the meeting of the two religious leaders as being of more than just economic survival of the Vatican as the pillar that sustains law. It seems the western system from Rome onward is tearing itself apart.