Hated by those who hate Russia | The Vineyard of the Saker

by Iben Thranholm

Recently Marie Krarup, a member of the Danish Parliament for the Danish People’s Party – contacted me to say that the EU task force East Stratcom has placed me on a list branding me as a pro-Russian propagandist and is accusing me of spreading Russian disinformation.

This organisation was set up in March 2015 by the European Council to implement an action plan on strategic communication to address what it labels ”Russia’s on-going disinformation campaigns”, allegedly aiming to destabilize European democracy. To this end, East StratCom ”publishes two public weekly newsletters to stay up to date with the latest disinformation stores and narratives”. Have a look at EastStratcoms website.

This was shocking news to me. Marie Krarup requested a consultation with Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anders Samuelsen. She found that the task force accusation violated my constitutional rights under Danish law to exercise freedom of speech, and found this to be stark evidence of the EU usurping undemocratic and totalitarian privilege to list commentators, pundits and journalists that criticize EU policies and EU leaders.

The minister disagreed. He stated that Iben Thranholm deserved her listing as a pro-Russian agent and should remain so listed. He indicated that I was hired by the Kremlin to destabilize Europe. Despite the consultation, this remains his position. No action has been taken to amend the list. No further comment has been offered on the case in the media.

The consequences may be dire. If the conflict with Russia escalates, the state will have the right to imprison me as an enemy of the state. Already now I have been branded a traitor and unpatriotic. Many opinion leaders and colleagues have composed and published an open letter criticizing the ministry. Social media have been brimming with support, but my government remains stubborn in its accusation that I am a Russian agent. This means that I am no longer protected by the state of which I am a national.

For the last couple of years, I have used Russian English-language media like RT op-ed section and Russia Insider for publishing my thoughts on the way the Western elites’ hatred of Christianity weakens and undermines Western culture.

My choice of non-Western media like RT as a platform is certainly not motivated by any payment from Putin. No, it is rooted in the fact that as a conservative Christian Catholic, my thoughts and views are simply increasingly difficult to get published in Europe.

For years now I have had to work as an independent journalist. No editor will take on the risk of employing a person who is open and outspoken about his or her Christian faith, let alone Catholic faith, the way I am. Christians are socially marginalized, derided, and viewed with suspicion if not actually as mentally disturbed. The few Christians left are either secularized – gone native by agreeing with the establishment – or have taken a vow of silence for fear of the political correctness storm troopers. They have no impact on European culture. Their salt has lost its power to keep society from putrefaction.

The article that landed me on the East Stratcom list dealt precisely with the way the elite abused arguments of Christian charity to abandon registration of the identity of who entered which country and for adopting a blanket open-border policy when the tsunami of refugees and immigrants flooded across Europe’s borders in 2015. Their hatred of Christianity certainly does not keep them from abusing arguments of Christian charity divorced from its context when it suits their own agenda.

Allow me to quote some passages from the article, entitled “Misguided Compassion Threatens to Become the Downfall of Europe”

“Europe is like Judas, betraying its Christian tradition with the traitorous kiss of false compassion in order to obliterate the last vestige of Christian civilization in Europe. True charity always springs from a higher moral absolute, a clear distinction between right and wrong, good and evil. False charity offers compassion for the criminal and not the victim. No charity for the woman who is victimized by rape but pity for the perpetrator, the rapist. Such pity is a gross perversion.”

“In spite of their use – or rather abuse – of “loving one’s neighbor”, politicians are devoid of the Christian basis for distinguishing good from evil. Our politicians promote the forces of evil and utterly abandon their victims. This is merely an extension of the policies of the West in the Middle East since the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Western politicians consistently identify evil as good, and good as evil. They unleash destructive forces to rampage unimpeded and oppress good wherever the West enters the scene with its military or economic warfare.”

“The fierce hatred of the Western political elite for Christianity has robbed Europe of its moral compass. Using Christian arguments for waging war on Christianity and Christian culture is a vile demonic parody. From a spiritual perspective, it is clear that Europe has made an unholy alliance with islamism in order to annihilate its Christian civilisation. This diabolical scam wears a cloak of goodness and humanitarianism, but it is really a manifestation of moral decay and false altruism that threatens to bring about Die Untergang des Abendlandes, the end of Christian Europe”.

At the consultation in the parliamentary committee meeting, the minister alleged that my article contained lies and myths that fitted into a Kremlin narrative of the decline of the West, and that my arguments bore no relation to reality.

One may agree or disagree with this interpretation. The question is whether this makes me a Russian agent or an enemy of the state. The task force offers no proof of an agreement between the Kremlin and me. For the good reason that no such contract exists. It is an allegation, pure and simple. At the consultation, the minister refuses to take a position on the matter of principle involved in placing participants in the social debate on the list. He merely dismisses my statements as lies.

It is highly revealing that the task force pounces on this article on this subject, because it deals precisely with distinguishing between the truth and lies, and points out that the political elite has entirely lost its ability to distinguish between the truth and lies. This abandonment of truth is far and away the greatest threat to world peace in this day. Russia is not.

Today’s politics are entirely beyond the irrelevant left/right and red/blue paradigm.The real issue is truth v lies, good v evil, right v wrong.

The American election campaign blew this truth wide open. There was hardly any real policy debate, but reams of lies were revealed as masquerading as truth. In its wake, the unspeak designers launched the phenomenon of “fake news” in order to regain control of the narrative. The EU task force has also been set up for achieving a monopoly for the EU version of acceptable reality. The war on truth rages on after President Trump’s inauguration, and the presstitute media now intensify their campaign to brand Trump as a liar.

What irony that a very long epoch of relativism of values, during which the political elite and intellectuals decided that there is no truth, has now ended abruptly with a frenzied claim that truth is all that matters. What immense irony that those who taught young people that there is no truth now exalt themselves as truth tellers, and then hurls accusations of lying against any who does not toe the line of their pragmatic version of truth. The pinnacle of sad irony is that generations reared on the absence of truth from reality now clamor for truth. They have lost faith in the assumption that the media they trusted blindly are telling them the truth.

The media have been roundly exposed as liars. Yet the media claim that the exposure of their lies is a lie and that people who want the truth are lying. Those who tell the truth are blamed as liars, while the media adamantly maintain that they are the truth tellers. Confused? The world has moved from the usual conflicts in the realm of geopolitics and economics to moral and spiritual warfare. The world now witnesses an epic confrontation between the truth and lies, light and darkness, that was kept invisible for so long. A spiritual war is raging between those who choose good and those who choose to call good what is evil.

Yet who is prepared and equipped for this epic battle of our day? Relativism of values has rendered many, if not most, completely without solid ground and the first idea of what is good and what is evil, utterly unable to recognize truth and defend themselves against lies. They have learned no rudiments on discerning because they have grown up with no spiritual foundation and no inkling of Christian truth. This is a big problem, as it is impossible to understand the world today if one has no spiritual eyes with which to see.

No one can fight for truth, which is spiritual without the ability to recognize truth and distinguish it from the lie. Without the spiritual understanding, no one has the weapons to fight against evil and lies. The chaotic struggle raging in journalism and social media today is a visible expression of this spiritual war.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn said that “godlessness is the first step to the Gulag”. When EU politicians adopt unconstitutional methods for listing political opponents or people who publish moral truth, they declare their godlessness before God and man, and wage war against Christianity and Christian culture. When the state and its ideology place themselves in God’s seat, all hell breaks loose. Democracy offers no guarantee: collectivism can exercise totalitarianism under democracy’s banner. The freedom of speech is now violated in Europe and there is now no freedom for journalists to speak the truth as they see it.

In the 1940s, George Orwell wrote “during times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” This is our precise position today. Journalists must therefore accept it as a badge of honor and courage when the establishment brands them as liars and pro-Russian propagandists, for this is the highest evidence that they are speaking the truth. They must see themselves as freedom fighters and find comfort and strength in the words of Christ in the Gospel: “truth will set you free.”

Pass the popcorn on January 27, 2017 · at 10:39 am EST/EDT

Well, can’t wait for the next cafe: need to do therapy now…
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In mythology, Europa was raped/seduced by Zeus in the form of a white bull on the island of Crete – a few clicks west of today’s Antalya, Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria. This season the series seems to be being shot in the climate-change-warming northern realms. And the bulls are not white.

In medieval history the manly Norsemen Vikings raped and pillaged much of the coastal UK and Europe.

In the 18-19th century the manly European males and their diseases and dependents colonised much of the world — and in the 20th they conducted two world wars that killed and maimed millions.

Skipping over Napoleon’s Moscow little early ‘tourism’ industry expansion efforts, the WW2 blowback for the German society culture was rape and pillage by the victorious Soviet troops — many of whom came from eastern non-European regions. Recent estimates put Soviet WW2 related deaths at 20+ million as a result of nazi expansions.

Then we have ‘Blow-job Bill’ Clinton in the late 20th century Oval Office with Monica destroying post-Tito Yugoslavia (and the Glass-Steagall Act) thus setting the stage for Act 2 of the Bush Family Saga and the 9/11 charade. [e.g., see comments in recent audio interview http://www.veteranstodaylive.com/2017/01/26/mike-harris-scott-bennett-is-the-guest/ ]

Iraq, Libya and Syria then took the hit, and now, as Gaddafi foretold, swarms of 3rd-world refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan are herding towards Europe and its advertised luxurious ‘feminised’ non-strategic soft-defence attractions. Merkle’s cheap labour supply — who needs to spend new-Deutschmarks (sorry, I mean Euros) on slave ships when Greece is just an ‘austerity’ port away?

And now the very ghoulish “we think it was worth it” Madeleine Albright wants to become a t-shirt Muslim just to flap her lips at the audacious Alpha male ‘Trump’ who dared to win the White House for the angry working and middle classes on the edge of economic death row.

[Looks like she’s headed for the mad house like Maggie Thatcher ended up — that 20th century British ‘Queen Victoria’ of apple sellers from the ‘umble local corner grocery store.]

Some of the bravest men in history have worn skirts — indeed, the wild Scots and their kilts made sense when dumping a stool on the battlefield to dip arrowheads in before engaging in some life-and-death ‘biological warfare’ bovver made eminent sense.

And of course, the British opium wars on China together with the history from the the graves at ‘Wounded Knee’ of invading North America kind of slip out of the history books at the earliest opportunity. Irish and African slavery also kinda fades into footnote 6-point size grey font in the official historical appendix.

Genghis Khan and his Mongol tribes piled up Persian skulls to the height of roof tops and then ran huge swaths of today’s Russia and Turkey with all his sons before retreating into Turkish history.

The tribes of South America had “Flower Wars” to basically supplement their iron deficient diets — ever wondered why Mexican food is so spicy?

WTF? … This is tribal life on this planet (of limited resources).

Re: “I’m utterly disgusted at these brothers of mine who now proclaim to care, but as in most of the previous comments, through their everyday disinterest and complicity and now these immature and shallow proclamations of care, or rather ownership, only make obvious their disdain and disrespect towards who they call “bitches.” There is a third way where women are actually regarded as fully human as we regard ourselves.”

I’m not sure who you is being referring to here, or to whom the ‘brothers’ comment is referring. But brothers we are — in theory. In practice? Darwin knows best. The species-level adaptation strategy overrides all human hubris. Choose your genes carefully.

As Iben Thranholm rightly notes, it is about balance (or lack of it). However, more fundamentally, it is about the ‘latest fad’ social engineering experiment based on a humanist ideology which is now clearly fatally and fundamentally flawed.

Balance in society emerges/comes from the bottom up — i.e., balance in the family and home. And that generates balanced individuals, whom in turn, in a form of circularity, are a products of the forces of nature and nurture. Balance does not come from an invented and imposed top down ideology (although most societies in balance pay some type of due respect to the sense or notion of the ‘Sacred’ embodied in some form of ‘nameless god’ with it’s centre of gravitas far beyond the social politik.

This Godless EU aggregate is not a ‘union’ — it is a legacy of 20th century ideological experiments that began in (in practice) in post-Czar Russian. Brussels is but a Tower of Babel and the BS — it seems it is now just catching up to the crumbling 20th century meta-narratives long under way in other domains suffering the forces of pragmatic 21st realities.

Look, Iben Thranholm is not wrong. However, imo, she is not deep enough into the systemic factors at play in these cursed ‘interesting times’. The public narrative can say anything as long as it does not say “eat the rich” — i.e., starting ‘top-down’ with those dozen or so actual individuals who account for more imaginary digital wealth (i.e. power and privilege based on central bank printing and debt) than 50% of the lower ‘despicables’.

Personally, no amount of chili would get me eating Bill Gates stakes, or Soros burgers — the latter meat looks absolutely toxic. But putting the squeeze on the top percentiles until we get a nicely formed bell-curve distribution is a realistic strategy. For example, as a starter, if the US military industrial complex is required to keep ‘them’ safe then let them pay for the estimated annual $597 billion USD (2015) (just the tip of the iceberg) as part of their philanthropic ‘donations’ towards social peace and wellbeing. What are they going to do with all that imaginary digital loot? take it with them to the next world? We’d certainly see the reduction of the bloated US defence system down to ‘normal’ sizes in a matter of years, not decades. And let them pay for national health care until their serf stocks improve — there is little doubt that we are in neo-feudal times.

Ok, back to topic: Jung points out that the ‘hidden’ psychological opposite emerges to play its role no matter what the applied social pressure to suppress it is.

The current EU stage actors in focus may well be males of African and Middle Eastern origin and appearance; their well-funded ideology may well be associated with corrupted by medieval fanatical Wahhabism driven by the plutonic geopetroleum Saudi monarchy controlling Arabia Felix; the Zionist’s global goals may well explain certain national policy paralysis; simply basic raw criminality and corruption could well describe the human sewage that has risen up within many public service bureaucracies and cultures of mendacity; and the unhinging of the aspirational middle classes from the disconnected pyramid of the self-declared elite club of ‘exceptionals’ (Tony Blair just scraped in by selling his soul) may help explain the unfolding events which Trump now appears to represent (and perhaps be a catalyst for) at the centre of the fast emerging contemporary post-globalist ’empire’.

Evil rising and good men doing nothing… hmmmm, …?

The paradox is that Iben Thranholm et al is the very symbol of the neutered male they now wish to step forward and save them from the ‘Gonzilla’ created by the very same aggressive feminist ideology and agenda that, since the 1970’s, appears to have swung the ‘balance’ pendulum too far the other way.

Unfortunately, it seems, for the modern day snowflake descendants of Princess Europa, the descent into a Jungian shadow world has only just begun. This time Zeus has arrived from ‘Crete’ singing “Allah Hu Akbar” and dreaming of purchasing Yazidi slave girls in Arabian markets. And the only possible resistance appears to be the local ‘Viking’ blockhead living at the bottom of the indigenous male barrel. They sure are going to have to kiss that toad big time before ‘prince charming’ arrives to do the dishes in his Teutonic apron and pink slippers.

What a dilemma!

What a bitch blowback is!

The hidden ‘dark’ shadow secret is your unemployed, emasculated, neutered, over-fed, estrogen socked, corporately displaced ‘men’ du jour who are standing back in the darkened street shadows and thinking “F_ck you, bitches!” as Madame Management drives down the street in her Audi and “9 essential fashion items” to the childless career-funded male-free penthouse for a little ‘wicca’ with the ‘sisters’.

If Jung is right, and I suspect he was onto something basic and fundamental about our human natures, then the only ‘answer’ for Ms Europa this time is indeed on her knees. Praying to a ‘god’ may help (placebo); or even praying to the male Semitic ‘God’ may help for guidance and desperation (?).

However, I suspect, much like the wise Hindu women of the Indian sub-continent: a little bit of pragmatic realistik “lignum worship” might just get your local ‘lord shiva’ up and running out of the Cretan shadows to save your pussy’s delights.

Too risqué? So therein lies the ‘PC’ problem at its bourgeoisie foundations.

Greece is dead in austerity’s economic darkness and their myths were probably ‘borrowed’ from India in the first place. This time, when Lord Shiva (the destroyer of illusions) arrives – you can bet the first thing that Brussels’ eunuchs and the sisterhood will do is go for the gonads. In the Egyptian myth, Osiris’s wife Isis restores her husband’s body. In the 21st century inverted American myth version (emerging) she’s running around the backblocks of Syria on Obama’s paycheck cutting off everything that dangles. Falcon-head or American eagle, it’s enough to give anyone a Horus!

But alas, this time, as the popular Avatar film suggests, Pandora’s box has been well and truly opened and we must note that the Na’vi’s “Eywa” only protects the sacred balance (of the ecosystem). Where is this desirable ‘balance’ most reflected today for Ms European?

Russia!

Indeed, Russia is the future, not the past for Europe, imo. Not because of some infantile mystical ‘exceptionalist’ (American neurosis style) destiny – rather: because they have managed as a civilisational culture (under the current Czar, Putin) to overcome the multicultural/political disequilibrium of the 20th century. And this capacity came from, and is grounded in, their now dominant cultural and natural human-scale male-female relationships.

‘Cultural alignment’ is the overriding grounding force relationship between governance, resilience and strength. Putin’s decade of investments are paying off. China’s recent placement of ballistic missiles near its central Asian border is no threat to Russia. It is to help defend a Russia in alliance — and their distance from the coast also has better strategic defence and time response advantage for mutual self-destruction response should a hostile American (AngloZionist) hegemony act aggressively.

What a dilemma!

What hard kneeling a good, humble blowback job is!

Men won’t rise when women take their places.
Their men will rise when they take their proper place in a sustainable relationship.

And what is that place?

Perhaps look outdated and discredited ‘ideological engineering’ towards traditional cultural values which seek to cultivate the requisite male for the situations of concern (as ever it was for sustainable tribal communities). The indigenous American berdache may have had a traditional ‘3rd sex’ warrior support role but it’s unlikely that the postmodern Walt Disney variety will have the capacity to ward off engineered cultural chaos.

One thing I can suggest, from the well-earned vantage point of 60+ years, is that Soros funded ‘pussy riots’ and pink hairy ‘vagina hat’ wearing trump-tantrums are just not likely to get a ‘hard on’ from your average local ‘Joe-six-pack’ guy. As Lord Shiva’s recent “F_ck you, EU” honorary man on the spot (formerly known as Victoria N.) just delivered on the Russian borderlands: most likely one to defend your street from today’s Black Swan chaos (Zeus’ other fav form, although Scandinavian ‘white’ is so yesterday it seems in contemporary godly fashionista realms) is a goose-stepping Uki-neonazi. It’s neither strategically smart; nor reflecting any beauty: it is just dumb and engineered by the eunuchs to keep their ‘forbidden city’ wall-street scams going.

The god’s must be crazy, indeed: after 8-years of the black eunuch slinking in da white house, they’ve just played their Trump card. I’m now just looking for the singing ‘fat lady’ at the end of the act (& times). Saw plenty on the TV the other day chanting: ugly and fat! As the latest joke goes: “Trump got more fat women walking in one day, than Michelle Obama did in 8 years.”

Pass the popcorn (and helmet), please. This is not going to be pretty!

[end of discursive rant]

123 Comments

Kent on January 26, 2017 · at 6:45 pm EST/EDT

Bravo Iben

Jeg tar hatten af og bukker. (I lift my hat and bow).

Kent
- Anonymous on January 26, 2017 · at 7:46 pm EST/EDT
  
  Jag tar också av mig hatten och bugar (I also take my hat off och bow)
  - siljan on January 26, 2017 · at 9:07 pm EST/EDT
    
    Jag instämmer i bugningen. Trevligt att se en annan svensk här. Finns det hopp för Sverige?
    (I second that bow. Nice to see another Swede here. Is there hope for Sweden?)
    
    The Saker mentioned Tulsi Gabbard, here is a moving video from her recent trip to Syria;
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHqpneMd9OM
    - Nussiminen on January 26, 2017 · at 10:07 pm EST/EDT
      
      A little limerick:
      
      Some Russophobes working at Stratfor’s
      Were mad: “You have Moscow as fact source”
      They raged at the Dane
      They thought her insane
      Not toeing the line of these scrapwhores
    - Nussiminen on January 26, 2017 · at 10:39 pm EST/EDT
      
      FRÅGA: “Finns det hopp för Sverige?”
      
      SVAR: Så länge det gör det för Ryssland är svaret ja.
      
      As long as there is hope for Russia, the answer is yes
      
      Chasing Russian submarines don’t impress the Swedes very much. Boring and unimaginative lying.
      - Anonymous on January 27, 2017 · at 2:24 am EST/EDT
        
        Yes my poor Swedish countrymen have been looking for Russian submarines since the -80s without much success, probably because they have been looking in all the wrong places. ‘Soviet’ U-boats were in fact NATO’s. Good clip from a new Documentary:
        
        http://russia-insider.com/en/history/cia-nato-and-swedish-military-plot-regime-change-sweden-documentary-video/ri12877
        
        “Så länge det gör det för Ryssland är svaret ja” God välsigne Ryssland!
        
        siljan on January 27, 2017 · at 3:03 am EST/EDT
        
        The above comment was my reply to Nussiminen, sorry forgot to fill in the appropriate boxes.
        
        siljan
    - Daniel Martin on January 27, 2017 · at 10:07 pm EST/EDT
      
      Make that three! :)
    - Fluortanten on January 28, 2017 · at 11:23 am EST/EDT
      
      As a fellow Swede, perhaps I might suggest that we start a Swedish Saker-site??
      
      Borde man inte kunna ha en svensk Saker-sajt?
      - Vineyard Moderator - H.S. on January 28, 2017 · at 12:49 pm EST/EDT
        
        talk with ‘saker’ … this how the italia, spanish etc sites were formed .. mod-hs
      - Anonymous on January 29, 2017 · at 3:34 am EST/EDT
        
        Many more of us are here than people know and it is the same on fortruss. One is a news editor and one was quoted in Sputnik. An important blogger is also here and I do my best to contribute on a very big multilingual European site.
        
        I can contribute to a Swedish Saker-site, but I can’t start it, I am too ignorant.
    - jax on January 28, 2017 · at 12:39 pm EST/EDT
      
      Finns det hopp för Sverige? Jag är högst tveksam, men instämmer i att det är trevligt att se svenska användas i kommentarerna här
      
      [eng]
      Is there any hope for Sweden? I much doubt it, but agree it is nice to notice use of Swedish in comments here.
- The Saker on January 26, 2017 · at 8:04 pm EST/EDT
  
  I lift my hat and bow
  
  Yes, so do I. She is quite an amazing lady. See her here being interviewed by another wonderful lady, Anissa Naouai, for RT:
  
  /rts-anissa-naouai-interviews-iben-thranholm/
  
  People like Iben Tranholm, Anissa Naouai or Tulsi Gabbard really restore my hope in the future of mankind – they are a joy to listen to!
  
  Cheers,
  
  The Saker
  - Franz on January 27, 2017 · at 9:50 pm EST/EDT
    
    Anissa Naoui was a huge loss to RT.
    I wonder if she was thrown under the bus after annihilating Christiane Amanforsure on CIANN?
    Can we start a petition?
    
    Anissa hasn’t left RT – her programme is on line now. You see it advertised on RT. Also she was one of the contributors to the inaugaration ceremony on RT. Mod
    - Franz on January 27, 2017 · at 10:09 pm EST/EDT
      
      You just made my day. Even more reason to watch RT.
      
      Her show is on all social media apps now.Mod
- S on January 26, 2017 · at 11:50 pm EST/EDT
  
  Iben,
  Mi inchino davanti al tuo coraggio (I bow before your courage).
Rflctnofu on January 26, 2017 · at 7:25 pm EST/EDT

“The truth shall set you free…”, but, what isn’t said is the second part of the complete statement, which is “…but it WILL make you miserable first.”

Keep shining the light of truth on the lies Iben!

Rf
- Pandos on January 27, 2017 · at 3:17 pm EST/EDT
  
  …, alone and too late.
Wikispooks on January 26, 2017 · at 7:27 pm EST/EDT

“Their salt has lost its power to keep society from putrefaction.”

Tears of sadness. But they did not prevent me reading the profoundest of truths that followed.

Thank you Iben.
Outlaw Historian on January 26, 2017 · at 7:54 pm EST/EDT

The War on Truth is many centuries old and is waged as a service to those in power regardless of ideology. I’d edit Orwell’s observation by omitting its temporal nature as Truth Telling is always a “revolutionary act.”
- Anonymous on January 26, 2017 · at 11:12 pm EST/EDT
  
  That is very profound.
- Laika von old Monkshusen on January 27, 2017 · at 3:48 am EST/EDT
  
  I don’t agree. The war on truth is certainly centuries old, but that’s because of this particular, very organized & totalitarian ethnic cult, whose very (psychopathy-like) ideology is exploiting the world by way of pure evil and monstrous lies (Pharisaic Talmudism).
  It’s a fairly unique organization (crime syndicate), and these organized psychopaths, monstrous frauds have been tyrannizing & terrorizing, and ruining the whole world, especially since these depraved savages got their hands on the ‘money’ out of thin air press in the 17th century.
  
  I think the very experienced veteran Orwell merely wanted to describe the practices of this Roth-child led ‘British’ (= Nazi = Jewish Bolshevik) Empire, and their PC unspeak & Newspeak, of which he knew all about. But no doubt he couldn’t do that directly, he was already under MI6 surveillance. (possibly Roth-child’s MI6 thugs assassinated, poisoned, the veteran anyway, he was only 46 years old)
  - Kassandra on January 27, 2017 · at 1:34 pm EST/EDT
    
    Exactly.
    Manipulating the truth and using the mass media for “political warfare directed against the American public” as well as the vasall’s public is not at all different than how the CIA mounts counter-subversion and regime change operations abroad.
    
    I recommend:
    Douglas Valentine (2017): CIA as Organized Crime. How illegal operations corrupt America and the world.
    Clarity Press, Atlanta 2017
  - Aivazovsky on January 28, 2017 · at 11:19 am EST/EDT
    
    This is a very important observation that is rarely spelled out.
    
    I think it could be very helpful to analyze the comparative psychopathology of certain cultures and traditions – and perhaps it is particularly the Talmudic and Calvinist ones that stick out in this regard, ergo, we thus have the Anglo-Zionist Empire to deal with.
    
    Whether it is through counting the ethnic or religious proportions of slave ship owners, weapons smugglers, pornography distributers, pedophiles, organ trading rings, etc., etc. or simply by looking at the demographics of the entire financial and media elites, the statistics seem hard to overlook.
    
    The strong emphasis that the “crime syndicates” have historically put on keeping the bloodlines pure might indicate that they are aware of these traits, which most of us would call sociopathic/psychopathic, and that they consider them to be hereditary or at least epigenetic in nature – and worth preserving.
    
    This might, in fact, be a productive terminology when dealing with the problem in the future. If we point straight towards the sociopathic aspects as the culprit one could potentially unite society against it without being accused of any anti- xxxism etc.
- Mish on January 27, 2017 · at 5:47 pm EST/EDT
  
  Hi there! I lived much of my life in the Soviet Union and i can testify: lying was outlawed. People who lied were despised, exposed, and peer pressured into mending their ways. It was shameful to lie. We, as kids, read, watched and heard political news and thought the Soviet media was lying to us, showing the west exactly how it really was (now i understand that they told the truth, but we, kids, thought it was BORING, we were into shiny wrappers and rock music). That’s because we, many of us, got ensnared by the big Lie, coming from the west: we listened to their music, we thought everything coming from the west was holy, later on we also read western books in english (which were available in the Soviet Union, by the way, and maybe they should not have been). Anyway, there was a country in recent history, a great country, where honesty was prized above anything.
Alieu on January 26, 2017 · at 8:44 pm EST/EDT

A fantastic and courageous woman. She is the model we should support for truly “empowered” women who stand up to censorship and destructive government policies to protect their families and homelands. I doubt anyone in Denmark actually believes she’s a “Russian agent”. All these “Western” regimes are doing by making these absurd claims is destroying what little credibility they have left.
Anonymous on January 26, 2017 · at 8:45 pm EST/EDT

All conflicts are spiritual in nature. Wars fought on Earth have their origin in the spiritual world. The Bible tells of the book of the Lords wars, a lost book. The Lord is constantly at war with evil and He always wins.

For some time I have wondered if a very dark soul has taken control of society. Somebody set to destroy us all. I look around and see decay on almost every front, but help is coming.

Like Iben, I am labeled as a Russian agent, though a less important one. It has been going on for two years, but I have made progess despite the resistance. We should never give up despite the lashes.
- Franz on January 26, 2017 · at 8:57 pm EST/EDT
  
  The theological goal of satan is the end of all life.
  He cannot forgive his banishment by God and his original separation from Creation.
  Although he controls the physical aspects of it on the planet.
  
  The word ‘Reality’ is derived from Royalty.
  Satan lives in the Unreal, as do humans unless they work very hard to ascend and sanctify their lives.
  - blue on January 26, 2017 · at 9:36 pm EST/EDT
    
    … epistemology, again …
    
    http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=real
    real (adj.) Look up real at Dictionary.com
    early 14c., “actually existing, true;” mid-15c., “relating to things” (especially property), from Old French reel “real, actual,” from Late Latin realis “actual,” in Medieval Latin “belonging to the thing itself,” from Latin res “matter, thing,” of uncertain origin. Meaning “genuine” is recorded from 1550s; sense of “unaffected, no-nonsense” is from 1847.
    
    http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/234668/etymology-the-root-of-the-words-real-and-reality
    
    http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=royal
    royal (adj.) Look up royal at Dictionary.com
    mid-13c., “fit for a king;” late 14c., “pertaining to a king,” from Old French roial “royal, regal; splendid, magnificent” (12c., Modern French royal), from Latin regalis “of a king, kingly, royal, regal,” from rex (genitive regis) “king” (see rex). Meaning “thorough, total” attested from 1940s; that of “splendid, first-rate” from 1853.
    
    http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=rex&allowed_in_frame=0
    
    rex (n.) Look up rex at Dictionary.com
    “a king,” 1610s, from Latin rex (genitive regis) “a king,” related to regere “to keep straight, guide, lead, rule,” from PIE root *reg- (1) “to rule, to lead straight, to put right” (source also of Sanskrit raj- “king;” Old Irish ri “king,” genitive rig; see regal).
    - Franz on January 27, 2017 · at 10:15 pm EST/EDT
      
      Mirriam Webster – Origin and Etymology of real
      
      Spanish, from real royal, from Latin regalis — more at royal
      
      First Known Use: 1555
      
      More later…
      - blue on January 27, 2017 · at 10:56 pm EST/EDT
        
        https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/real
        
        Origin and Etymology of real
        
        Middle English, real, relating to things (in law), from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin & Late Latin; Medieval Latin realis relating to things (in law), from Late Latin, real, from Latin res thing, fact; akin to Sanskrit rayi property
        
        First Known Use: 14th century
        
        The etymology is for the coin
        
        Definition of real
        plural
        reales
        play \rā-ˈä-(ˌ)lās\ or
        reals
        
        : a former monetary unit and coin of Spain and its possessions
  - kinterra on January 26, 2017 · at 10:01 pm EST/EDT
    
    I am heartened when I read comments that express an understanding that there is a spiritual meta-historical dimension to the great conflicts we are experiencing. Our sanctity requires constant vigilance, and much struggle, also described as spiritual toil. The ascending gesture was inscribed into us through the Incarnation of the Son, who descended into the regions of hell, resurrected and then ascended through all the ranks to the throne of the Father. The Way to our liberation is given. It was a tremendous sacrifice on the behalf of all humanity. We commit to this path out of our free will (or not). Revelations informs us that evil was cast down to the Earth by Holy Archangel Michael. We cannot escape this confrontation with evil, and we will prevail. If we maintain our vertical axis, the connection between heaven and earth. Victory will be ours.
    k
    - ioan on January 27, 2017 · at 7:17 pm EST/EDT
      
      “Revelations informs us that evil was cast down to the Earth by Holy Archangel Michael.” What that means is that war has occurred for very very long time against the evil and that war is being unleashed now on earth with all means at the evil’s disposal against every soul, against every resistance on this planet. Imposing fear is the biggest weapon used, and now those who are more and more awaking, can see the evil within and external ones. The pressure made upon everyone of us is tremendous, the more we resist, the more they put pressure, in every corner, in every instances, day and night. The war is raging relentlessly, in our private lives and in our communities. It is time to rename the old communist slogan ” Workers of the World, Unite !” with the new one : ” Souls of Light of the World, Unite ! “
Maria on January 26, 2017 · at 9:11 pm EST/EDT

David Icke said that Satanism and paedophilia are the glue that holds western elites together. Everything is inverted, turned upside down, for example the wearing of the Christian cross upside down.
This satanic paedophiliac problem is massive as revelations of recent years have shown.

http://www.whale.to/b/pedophocracy.html#The_Pedophocracy,_Part_II:__…_to_Washington_

Another example – Look how often they accuse Russia of doing what they themselves are involved in eg terrorism or hegemonic aspirations.

Telling the truth can get a person killed eg whistleblowers.

I have heard this lady speak on the media and she is quite wonderful and very brave.

However the long kept secrets of the elite are leaking out now in a quite unprecedented way.
I think that despite their tough talk they are actually desperate and know a reckoning is coming.
Message to Iben – There are many more people waking up to this abomination daily and you have more people who agree with you than you might think.
Sam on January 26, 2017 · at 9:13 pm EST/EDT

Great woman. By “Islamism,” she no doubt means radical and heretical Wahhabism and of course the fake Muslim terrorists–ISIS, al-Nusra, and the like. But I think the real or profound problem in Europe isn’t the alliance or rather the use of “Islamism” by the elites in order to destroy what used to be Christendom, but rather the very nature of the Anglo-Zionist empire, which is essentially atheist and the harbinger of antichrist. Zionism, masonism, and so on all have had as their ultimate aim the destruction of Christianity and the reduction of the Goyim to an animal-like condition (Matt.10:28).
- Franz on January 26, 2017 · at 9:20 pm EST/EDT
  
  I must add one correction. The West is not essentially atheist. It is essentially Satanist.
  - Sam on January 27, 2017 · at 1:06 am EST/EDT
    
    I don’t know about “the West,” since there are plenty of righteous people in the West (the Saker, for instance!). I was referring to the masonic and zionist elements in the Empire–much of the media, academe, and so on, as well as the gov’t. The whole modernist programme is certainly luciferian, and in some places even Satanic, to be sure, but not everywhere and always. There are exceptions, there are “remnants”. One has to beware of a manichean fanaticism. Modernism everwhere is more or less luciferian, even in Russia, certtainly in China. Modernism essentially or at root means a humanity without Divinity, ontologically autonomous man.
- WizOz on January 27, 2017 · at 1:13 am EST/EDT
  
  Equivocation about ‘Islam’ only promotes the anti-Christian agenda. The core of ‘Islam’ is the denial of the foundations of Christianity (the Trinity, the Incarnation of the Logos, the salvation through Christ) and the active fight against them.
  - GTM on January 27, 2017 · at 5:31 am EST/EDT
    
    I thought Islam recognizes the old testament and the prophet Jesus?
Harry_Red on January 26, 2017 · at 9:31 pm EST/EDT

Welcome to the end times.

Where liars are considered honest and honest people are considered liars.
Nussiminen on January 26, 2017 · at 9:32 pm EST/EDT

Very well put and a truly stunning read!

Iben Thranholm’s blog post is an irrefutable testimony to the long overdue collapse of the West all along the line. The stench from the rotting edifice now only escapes the Liberal Imperialist Establishment itself and the wilfully blind (of which there is still a significant, yet diminishing, supply). Here follow a few passages from the text accompanied by my conclusions:

“This organisation / East Stratcom / was set up in March 2015 by the European Council to implement an action plan on strategic communication to address what it labels ‘Russia’s on-going disinformation campaigns’, allegedly aiming to destabilize European democracy.”

Gleefully, I think they could be quite right there, albeit for entirely different reasons. Firstly, being the more or less congenital liars that they are, plain truth and honesty are perceived precisely as ‘disinformation’ by them as it hurts appreciably. Secondly, and this is even more significant, the impact of aforesaid ‘disinformation’ — even if there were no political intents involved whatsoever — evidently does destabilize ‘European democracy’ (which is just another hollow platitude modeled on ‘European values’). In plain language: Truthful and honest information as provided by the Russian State infuriates the Zionazi fraternity in charge of the West because it challenges the power of their omnipresent State/Corporate Mindrot and, consequently, their very rule.

“When the state and its ideology place themselves in God’s seat, all hell breaks loose. Democracy offers no guarantee: collectivism can exercise totalitarianism under democracy’s banner.”

I think that eloquently sums up the entire history of the US, whose self-styled “Christianity” is but a thinly veiled creed of Talmudo-Satanism in perfect lock-step with a 100% National Socialist mindset (Manifest Destiny for the benefit of Exceptional and Indispensable global genocidalists).

Bottom line: The Zionazis think, look and behave more and more like the animals in the Ukrainian Rada. Thank you Iben for your excellent submission and please stay strong. The Zionazis are on the losing side of History, and they have clearly sensed the danger. These lines in your concluding paragraph explain it superbly.

“Journalists must therefore accept it as a badge of honor and courage when the establishment brands them as liars and pro-Russian propagandists, for this is the highest evidence that they are speaking the truth.”
Kallistos on January 26, 2017 · at 10:12 pm EST/EDT

I am deeply impressed by this lady’s insight and wisdom and stating the truth fearlessly. If this is to be considered by the nearly dead souls in the West as being a “Russian Agent” then one should consider that to be a medal of honor! After all, Orthodox Russia is now clearly “the shining city on the hill” when compared to the effeminate political and cultural “life” of the West. We all should fight and speak for truth against falsehood, and be proud “Russian Agents”!
Joe on January 26, 2017 · at 11:34 pm EST/EDT

Iben you are a dissident. You are critical of the progressive totalitarian establishment and that makes you their enemy, as am I. We could say that we didn’t see this coming but actually dark forces have been working tirelessly for a global democracy, which we know to mean world rule by a ruthless, evil elite. I believe every facet of our lives will be micro managed under this system and prior to that a depopulation program will be implemented. This is why, as an ethno nationalist, I have a grown my lot in with the Right.

These days our cards are being marked and dossiers opened on us. They constantly create stirs to flush out those who oppose globalism and seek to preserve traditional, Christian values, and their European heritage. Russia is a bulwark against the rampant liberalism that has rendered us as soft, pliable global subjects, though it is by no means the ideal.

Laws are being passed across Europe that protect Jews from group criticism, despite the fact that they are historically and now the most militant collective on the planet. And by holding the purse strings when they say jump, politicians jump. To know who rules over a people, first know who you can’t criticize.

I don’t know when we the early morning calls will start, but I do believe they are coming.
HFI on January 26, 2017 · at 11:57 pm EST/EDT

Let’s don’t make this courageous lady feel alone. If we can have her actual mail address or a PO box address, let’s send her letters and/or postcards and express our support.
Spiral on January 27, 2017 · at 1:51 am EST/EDT

Comrade Iben,

Danish people, and their king Christian X, are one of the few who resisted Nazis during WWII, in spite of its small size. Serbs and Greeks did the same on a bit larger scale.

Danish revulsion against Nazi occupation was such that they openly defied gestapo’s order and saved their Jewish community by transporting them on boats overnight to Sweden. You certainly know that. But here is a little personal story.

When my mother visited one of Denmark’s medical laboratory in 1956 she was told, by the head of personnel: “please do not speak German here, French or English is ok”. Such was the intensity of feelings … 11 years after liberation. She befriended a Danish woman who told her that she took care of an abandoned Jewish home and when owners came back in 1945 they found everything intact except for few wilted flowers. It is hard to generalize, but for me, this story is the best description of the essence of Danish people.

I do not think Danish people changed their spirit. However, state institutions did and do change under the “international” pressure, as exemplified by East StratCom newspaper and its website.

My suggestion is this: start a mass movement whereby all the Danish people write to Mary Krarup and East StratCom , expressing their desire to be put on their black list of Russian propagandists, because they think it is true. That is: we are all Russian propagandists. This is similar to (not confirmed story) that most of the Danes, king Christian X too, put on yellow star of David when gestapo ordered Danish Jews to do so.

On the other hand, Icelanders gave us a wonderful example how to deal with those crypto-fascists: Lock those banksters and fake politicians behind bars, using real laws.

All the best to you Iben in your struggle against these recycled fascists. It seems easier this time than 75 years ago, but they may yet surprise us.

Spiral
Pancake on January 27, 2017 · at 1:53 am EST/EDT

I really can’t understand writers like you! You spout all this stuff without ever mentioning the elephant in the room. We are ruled by Jews who, as Jesus pointed out so clearly, worship Satan! They control all our media, they control all our money supply and their shills are everywhere in government. You are being ruled by Satan’s agents. Why the faux surprise? Who are the one people you can’t criticise in Europe? Whose sham holocaust is now the State religion of Europe?

What is wrong with you?
Stefan Ratkiewicz on January 27, 2017 · at 2:03 am EST/EDT

Keep on fighting ,don’t forget that Gaia is on your side ,just don’t loose faith .
Eimar on January 27, 2017 · at 3:04 am EST/EDT

I don’t have a hat, so a bow will have to do.

That and wild applause.

Some background: the East Stratcom initiative was instituted by the Eurooean Council, currently headed by the Polish President of the EU, Donald Tusk,

It has twenty-eight members, all of them PMs of EU member-states.

They are overwhelmingly members of NATO.

They are also preponderantly Baltic and Scandinavian and East European.

East Stratcom is run by nine ‘communications experts’ who use a network of approx 400 ‘journalists’ to snitch – um, ‘report’ on anything that challenges the agendas of the European Council – NATO de facto.

Although the council has no legislative authority, it is tasked with EU policy direction. You can see the results in the Ukrainian debacle, the migration crisis, the destruction of Libya….

So East Stratcom is essentially a resurrection of the old East-German Stasi, only this time, operating on behalf of NATO.

A must-read article on Danish PM, leader of the minority liberal party, Lars Rasmussen:

https://theinternationalreporter.org/2015/07/15/danish-pm-lars-lokke-rasmussen-notorious-sponsor-of-terrorism/

(From the article):

Løkke-Rasmussen was, during the 1980s, one of Denmark’s most prominent fund-raisers for the “mujahedeen” who were fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan. That is, early Taliban elements and most prominently, Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda. In 1988 Løkke-Rasmussen would cross the border to Afghanistan on horseback and deliver some 600,000 DKK to the “mujahedeen”. The Danish anthropologist Inger Boesen would state that Lars Løkke-Rasmussen’s and other westerners’ fund-raising contributed significantly to the long-term developments in and the destabilization of Afghanistan.

Among his fellow Danish fund-raisers was Pia Kjærsgaard who until two years ago was the chairman of the very Danish People’s Party that the Løkke-Rasmussen government has to rely upon to avoid a swift new round of elections.
Russian Soul on January 27, 2017 · at 3:40 am EST/EDT

Iben,

I think you are fighting a wrong war…

I think those who stereotyped you as Russian agent are actually right on their part.

What I think if you believe in something when you mix it with as controversial subject as religion you are asking for trouble and rightly so!

All what you need to do is convince people to ask the right questions about the Flight M17. Convince them to ask the right questions with regards to Ukraine and Brexit etc etc.

I think as soon as you bring in Religion no matter truth or lie you are asking for trouble which could be avoided very easily.

Thanks for reading.
Take care
- Katherine on January 27, 2017 · at 4:07 am EST/EDT
  
  I have to say I agree.
  Iben has every right to believe in what ever religion she wants.
  But she equates political issues with her religion. She is kind of annoying that way.
  In fact, I would call it penetrant, which a German word and GErman’s will understand it correctly (others will understand it incorrectly).
  
  tto politics and freedom of speech. The Christian religious stuff kind of muddies the territory.
  Not only Christians believe in freedom of speech. In fact, Christians historically have a pretty poor record of freedom of speech.
  
  Katherine
  - The Saker on January 27, 2017 · at 7:25 am EST/EDT
    
    Not only Christians believe in freedom of speech. In fact, Christians historically have a pretty poor record of freedom of speech.
    
    Which “Christians”? What are you talking about when you conflate all of Christianity into one category? (This is as misguided as conflating all of Islam into one category too, by the way). But the saddest part of your comment is that you obviously don’t even realize that it is Christianity, the original one, of course, gave mankind the very *concept* and *definition* of what freedom, real freedom, is: If ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
    - Jac Cuse on January 27, 2017 · at 10:29 am EST/EDT
      
      Yes Saker, very true. But how many people did hold the pen that wrote these wise words? The good christians of that period were also a small minority.
      
      Freedom is universal and existed long before the last Big Bang. It definitely isn’t a christian thing alone. Besides, christian/church dogmas and freedom (of thought) don’t and didn’t go together too well, ask Galilei.
      
      In the Netherlands true freedom of speech arrived not until after the humanist musings of Erasmus and like-minded thinkers. Since his era it were humanists that did the hard work of improving human rights in our society, often right against the wishes of so-called christians and their churches, whether catholic, protestant or reformist. These humanists were definitely not anti-theist, but mostly a mix of agnostic-atheists, agnostics or plain atheists.
      
      After the occupation of the Netherlands by das Dritte Reich an early organisation of these people named ” De Dageraad” (Aurora), was the first and only official organisation to openly attack Hitler’s policies against civil rights and deportations all whilst the churches blessed his armies. They were outlawed and prosecuted but many of their members joined or were helpful to partisan ‘underground’ organisations.
      
      In my country atheism and humanism have gone hand-in-hand for a long time and I have to agree with Franz that the total indifference and lack of brotherly responsibility we see nowadays is not an atheism caused matter, but satanist or luciferian, plotted and introduced by our zio-gay nazist leaders.
    - Russian Soul on January 27, 2017 · at 2:41 pm EST/EDT
      
      Freedom of speech is a universal natures law and religion may it be christianity, Islam Judaism is nothing but following the laws of nature.
      
      Saker you are right but what you wrote is besides the point isn’t it?
      
      I think there is no difference between christianity Islam and Judaism due to one simple fact: God, Allah or Bog couldn’t have given one message in Bible another in Quran and a different one in Torah…I mean he/she can’t be that stupid :).
      
      The message was concocted destroyed by us “the people” for our own greed and short term desires.
      
      Those are my thoughts. Religion is controversial and even if you are motivated by it the religion card should be played at the very end when you have achieved all the other victories and the ground is fertile to plant fresh seeds.
    - Katherine on January 28, 2017 · at 12:11 am EST/EDT
      
      Dear Saker,
      My comment isn’t “sad.” Actually that sounds kind of patronizing and even “trollish”!!
      Are you sure you know better????
      My statement is perfectly reasonable.First of all, it is an opinion. No one else needs to agree.
      However:
      We are in the 21st century, and Christians do not have a monopoly on the idea of freedom of speech and one does not have to be a Christian or esp. a Roman Catholic, like Iben, whose religious belief has been formed by exorcism, etc., to uphold and be a believer in the fundamental importance of freedom of speech in all societies. This right does not depend on religious belief.
      If we were back in Palestine in the first century, which is where you I guess would “happy” to be and consider me “sad” for not dwelling there, fine, maybe Christ was the first to emphasize that the truth will set you free. Not sure that actually equates with the idea of “freedom of speech,” but let’s say that it does.
      Still, contemporary Christians sure can say whatever they want.
      But I don’t think it is actually the “truth” to say that a particular Christian belief system owns freedom of speech.
      In fact this is continuing the point that I was making, which seems to have gone by the board.
      Which I made fairly briefly as a response to another comment.
      Iben can assert whatever the h she wants.
      And I can question it I hope without being labeled “sad.” OK with you?
      
      actually, no. it is not. You cannot post something like ” a Roman Catholic, like Iben, whose religious belief has been formed by exorcism, etc.,” on my blog and expect to be taken seriously. when I wrote “sad” I was being polite. God knows that I am no big fan of the Papacy, but your characterization thereof is so ignorant, bigoted and sophomoric that expressing feelings of sadness about them was really an act of kindness on my part. How can you expect anybody to take seriously an argument which begins with “We are in the 21st century”? Maybe in Junior High, but not here, Katherine, this is not the audience this blog is written for. You also conflate freedom and freedom of speech (sigh). Anyway, since you are unable of articulating your prejudices in a logical form, don’t be surprised when they are either challenged or characterized as saddening. If you don’t want to be patronized, don’t post condescending and ignorant nonsense. It is really that simple.
      The Saker
  - Ann on January 27, 2017 · at 8:45 am EST/EDT
    
    yeah, I have to agree with Saker, except that I’m a Christian but don’t even have a church except a little Christian Community church –
    And Katherine, your culture of which you are a product – being a person who believes in truth etc – has been Christian for 2 thousand years….so you can’t say you’re not a Christian in the sense of culture and heredity.
    
    You yourself might be post Christian but not as a product of your culture.
    
    Good luck to you in your next life…if you continue with these thoughts…
    
    Ann
    - Jac Cuse on January 27, 2017 · at 10:38 am EST/EDT
      
      Yes Ann, Katherine will reincarnate but you won’t, you’ll just go too heaven, which is kind of a shame because the best bands and musicians are playing in hell. ;-)
  - Zegomes on January 27, 2017 · at 11:08 am EST/EDT
    
    You are right Katherine. Saker is a very intelligent man but when speaks on religion and faith… É um Deus nos acuda.
  - Jeremy on January 27, 2017 · at 5:18 pm EST/EDT
    
    I find it ironic, given that Iben’s entire conception of what truth is, is based on her Catholicism, to suggest that she drop the religious perspective and to claim that her religion “muddies the waters.”
    
    As a practicing Catholic, I see the world from the same perspective. For me the litmus test is whether one is for or against abortion. Essentially, to be against abortion amounts to believing that human life transcends time. For those who accept or promote abortion, the developing human is regarded in materialistic terms as mere tissue, particularily for early abortions. Therefore, aborting simply amounts to stopping development of biological tissue. Presumably, human beings after birth continue to be mere tissue, but somehow the process of developing socially represents “value added” that justifies their continued existence. I don’t quite get the logic of that.
    
    In other words, the abortion issue is the issue of spirit vs materialism, transcendence vs nihilism. These are mutually exclusive categories.
    - Jac Cuse on January 27, 2017 · at 7:34 pm EST/EDT
      
      Now what if your own daughter got brutally raped by a crazy serial killer and fell pregnant. Would you really want her to have that child no matter what?
      
      Not all cases are black or white and most matters need reflection and wise decisions. But do as you like as long as it suits you and you’re happy with your ‘litmus’ test. Mind you that in Galilei’s time they used the flat earth litmus test, also a really good reason to send people to the gallows or the stake…
      - Franz on January 27, 2017 · at 8:42 pm EST/EDT
        
        Why do you bring up the lurid and least probably in discussing the rather prosaic and hum-drum but sordid word of abortion? Abortion, on the whole, in the West at least, is nothing but another insurance policy against irresponsible behaviour. In the third world it is just old Kisingerian policy; “The chief task of the USA is now the depopulation of the third world.” H. Kissinger.
        The fact that the worst of the Soviet Union used it as a primary source of birth control should be all you need to know.
        
        blue on January 28, 2017 · at 8:56 am EST/EDT
        
        What is irresponsible about a birth control method failing — or those women who used only the rhythm method, notoriously unreliable, as dictated by the Catholic church? Less responsible than having a child one can’t possible care for properly?
        
        “The fact that the worst of the Soviet Union used it as a primary source of birth control should be all you need to know.” — No — this is very far from all one needs to know, and is a glaring logical fallacy.
        
        C’mon — all the arguments pro and con are readily available and show a divergence of thinking about it.
        
        And Jeremy, your basic assumption that the material world and the physical world is fundamentally different, which is questioned in thoughts of the immanent god as well as mentalist continuum. Spirit and material are not mutually exclusive in numerous ways of thinking. There is also an assumption that reincanation does not exist and a ‘soul’ gets only one chance at physical life.
        Point is, your view is fine for you to hold, of course, but it is not universal and should not be considered as “Truth”.
        
        Jeremy on January 28, 2017 · at 10:56 am EST/EDT
        
        The problem is that the materialist view is privileged in our society. This is the result of a centuries long process of increasing denial of and indoctrination against spirituality that finds its culmination in the promotion of abortion. The word spirituality itself has become devalued and has become part of the New Age vocabulary.
        
        Essentially, the materialist view is that a human being is tissue with software. Most people are not philosophers and tend to go with the dominant meme. Generally, people are uncomfortable with this nihilistic point of view and want their lives to have transcendence even if they can’t articulate that desire. It is natural to be uneasy about obtaining an abortion, because thinking about eliminating a whole life that could last 80 years and could be replete with love and accomplishment is hard to put out of one’s head. Do I really want to play God? But wait, I must remind myself that God doesn’t exist! Second and third abortions are always easier than the first and any qualms of conscience can be extinguished by following such luminaries as Gloria Steinem.
        
        I don’t believe spiritual and material are mutually exclusive. The physical too is an integral part of the person. When we love someone, we love all of that person. Conversely, when a person that we love dies, we tend to feel that that person still exists, but has passed into a different world or a different dimension of this world. Nevertheless, diehard evolutionists are apt to consider such mere wishful thinking. They take pride in being mentally tough. People more open to the mystery of existence and less willing to dispense wholesale with the accumulated wisdom of the past, as well as their own personal experiences of the supernatural, tend to be more humble. The point is to be humble and not believe that one has a corner on truth. That is not incompatible with being religious.
        
        blue on January 29, 2017 · at 2:21 am EST/EDT
        
        I don’t see any problem with evolution, in material or spiritual context.
        I also don’t see a problem with thinking ‘god’ does exist even if ‘spiritual’ does, and is emergent and self-organizing from the basic nature of existence — and even perhaps sprouting some ‘gods’ along the way. There are many different cosmologies and creation myths around which can echo these ideas.
        
        The problem is not science but technology (or badly educated scientists who are little more than technologists), and with capitalism which centered on profits — material profits — preferably accountable for the last quarter.
        
        One problem with technology, as well as some of the , particularly older, scientific ideas, is linear time and causality. Causality makes no sense within standard logic because there can be no accounting within it for a first cause, so we should be looking at this issue in other ways, such as patterns and feedback loops. Think of the way a painting or music is made: it is developed and revised in many areas to form a pattern, with relationships between elements but where no element is caused by another – just placed so as to better relate to the overall pattern — and this can occur through a set of rules and probability without an external creator, emerging as an expression of the basic nature of the reality system. There can be many variations for this sort of model, of course.
        
        Another example is math. It is not that 2 + 3 = 5 so that five does exist until 2 and 3 exists. It is all of a whole, and once 1 and addition exists all the numbers and all the other operations must be part of the whole, and none of it can exist as a closed system. I’ll venture that the same is with the ‘physical’ world, or the spiritual world: they can not be a closed system, and each implies the existence of the other, and of many other system — a virtually infinity of them, with no actual center but only apparent centers for observers, each perceiving itself to be the center of its own universe. ‘Spiritual’, then is just the stuff on and beyond the fuzzy edge of the observer’s limited subjective reality system, and religion an artistic depiction of the observer’s situation and awareness of the fuzzy edges.
        
        Jeremy on January 30, 2017 · at 11:04 am EST/EDT
        
        I am educated enough in science to see the explanatory power of evolution. As I understand it, based on my discussions with PhDs in fields such as evolutionary biology and anthropology, much research is based on trying to account for the mechanisms of evolution. For instance, by looking at the total environment in detail within which evolutionary change occurs, involving all conceivable interactions of species at all different scales from microflora to vegetation and animals, in an attempt to flesh out the process as opposed to hand waving about random mutations. Just about eveyone who can claim to be intelligent “believes” in evolution. At the same time, however, at least in my experience, these people are generally atheists and regard religion as atavistic.
        
        They will admit that religion does have survival value for those who truly believe, even though they tend to regard the actual belief system with, what can I say, disdain.
        
        blue on January 30, 2017 · at 4:50 pm EST/EDT
        
        The big thing now seems mostly to be epigenetics and gene expression or activation by subtle chemical interactions (internal and environmental), like methylation and such, which gets very complicated.
        
        I can’t say it’s atheistic, but largely just separated into different modes of thinking, with churches often supporting evolution as a real mechanism. Most scientists do practice some sort of religious mode as well as scientific, and don’t worry that much about resolving the two where it’s contradictory.
        
        Aside from randomness there are other mechanisms at work, such as probability of reproduction to pass on the genes, which includes adapting to the environment. Yet, the concept of evolution is applicable to other areas than biology. It’s a fundamental way of thinking, and I see no problem with applying it to ‘spiritual evolution’ given assumptions about there being a ‘spiritual’ or non-material reality (or a non-material aspect to total reality).
        Thing is, trying to say that truth or morality can’t lie outside of a religious context, particularly in some specific religion, is looking at existence through a very narrow aperture.
        At this point it isn’t even very clear what ‘random’ means beyond things which are not predictable or computable for us, but seem to be chaotic. Maybe there are things which are inherently chaotic, and maybe not — maybe ‘god’ is chaotic, and maybe not: there’s a lot of reality out there, apparently, which we don’t know about.
      - Jeremy on January 28, 2017 · at 8:24 am EST/EDT
        
        I would rather abstain from discussing my daughter. There is a saying in the legal field, “Extreme cases make bad law.” You have proposed an extreme case. As you undoubtedly know, abortion advocates originally sold their minority genocide (I am thinking of how abortion clinics were first introduced into black neighbourhoods) using the rape/incest argument. The same thing was recently done in Ireland, which was also based on an extreme case where a woman actually died because she was denied an abortion. Here we are today in the US at over 58,000,000 abortions after Roe v Wade. How many of those cases were due to the brutal rape you claim could happen to my daughter? If you believe, as I do and the Church does, that unborn babies are complete human beings with an inherent right to life, could you really say à la Madeline Albright, “We believe it was worth it”, i.e.,aborting 58,000,000 babies was worth it for the sake of the presumably small percentage of cases of brutal rape? Additionally, there are mothers who brought babies to term under those horrifying circumstances and manage to love the child they brought into the world. Your attitude is an insult to those mothers.
        
        Nor is this just an abstract matter or a fine point of theology. Abortion is a brutal procedure and the baby being aborted suffers ISIS level torture. Abortion is the modern equivalent of the ancients tossing their babies into Moloch’s brazier. They did this to guarantee a good harvest, that is, in modern terms, for economic reasons. Similarly, I would guess that the vast majority of those 58,000,000 abortions were for economic reasons. I have spoken to women who have had abortions who will freely admit that they had their abortions because it would interfere with their jobs, or they just couldn’t afford to have a baby at that time.
        
        Then there is the whole matter of the unborn child’s rights. Since an unborn child is unable to express an opinion in the matter, it seems reasonable to wait until the child reaches the age of reason to ask the child if he/she would prefer to have been killed in the womb. Unfortunately for abortion advocates, that would be too late in case the child says “yes”.
        
        You don’t have to be religious to believe in the transcendent value of human life. When you abort you are aborting a whole life. But abortion advocates are members of the church of materialism, and they force their beliefs on a defenseless population in a macabre form of apartheid.
  - blue on January 27, 2017 · at 7:07 pm EST/EDT
    
    For me, while people can believe what they want, to equate truth in some universal way with mythology, such as religious dogma, is oxymoronic.
    
    Saker: I don’t what ‘truth’ is supposed to set one free in that phrase, since it’s in a context of what I consider to be only an art form, so it’s like saying some painted depiction of a thing is the true thing itself, or an actor in a play about some historical character is the actual person.
    I have no shortage of personal experience with truth being repressed by Christianity and Christian belief — which is a major reason I left the church as I entered my teens — I was looking to understand the world and reality and all I got from the church (Episcopal) was more convoluted myth, even worse than in the public school system on the TV. Just one more dogmatic belief system.
    
    Iben says
    “Relativism of values has rendered many, if not most, completely without solid ground and the first idea of what is good and what is evil, utterly unable to recognize truth and defend themselves against lies. They have learned no rudiments on discerning because they have grown up with no spiritual foundation and no inkling of Christian truth.”
    
    Yet, absolutism generally leaves one confusing good and evil (however those are defined), and unable to discern the false — and fighting with others who have some other absolute faith in their won dogma. This is so regardless of the particular religious sect they believe in. IS there “Christian truth”? Is ‘truth’ then relative, as she argues against, with Buddhist or Wiccan truth being something different? Or not relative but true only for some Christian sect — Catholic, but not Orthodox or Methodist? Is she or her particular religion, or her experience of ‘spiritual’ the arbitrator of truth? This makes no sense. She is half way to censoring others by claiming herself and her own religion as the standard of truth (and that can be found in the history and currency of Christianity and many other religions).
    
    Such dogma cannot be the criteria for truth, and is a great detriment to determining what is true. Truth and belief is not what religion is about — no more than any other art form. That’s what epistemology and ontology is for.
    - Franz on January 27, 2017 · at 8:15 pm EST/EDT
      
      “Yet, absolutism generally leaves one confusing good and evil (however those are defined)”
      
      Is this not the definition of relativism? My unfortunate child who has always been led, through his great fearful and damaged psyche to things Satanic, recently sent me The Emerald Tablets of Thoth (do not say out loud without an umbrella) claiming that they were ‘written’ 36 thousand years ago. Of course there was no writing 36 thousand years ago, and it was instantly clear to me that their ‘interpreter and translator’ – one ‘Doreal’- was as full of shit as the homosexual commentator brigades on CIANN.
      A little further investigation showed, quite conclusively, that this was a Hoax exercise by H P Lovecraft or someone else like him and L. Ron Hubbard, who pulled Scientology out of his ass on a dare.
      Alas, for my ignorant, uneducated and mentally unstable son, the problem became not the above analysis, but me, for doubting and questioning.
      His reply to me was that “Christianity is Lovecraftian.” All the reasons for which that claim is beyond discussion or analysis would be utterly lost on him.
      All things look the same… to the ignorant.
      Relativism is ignorance sprinkled with Old Spice ‘cologne’.
      There is an objective truth which is more reliable and provable than ‘subjective’ truth – Which does not exist.
      - blue on January 27, 2017 · at 8:46 pm EST/EDT
        
        Whatever objective truth there may be humans cannot access it — we can only guess and make models.
        
        Good and evil are relative — relative to one’s beliefs, what criteria are used, the culture and law, and various other things which vary among people. Relativism cannot be fully escaped, but that doesn’t mean all notions are of equal validity, or equally accepted by different people. A context must be established in which judgements are made, and not all people — or even all data from experiment and empirical data — supports all contexts equally. A Newtonian model works well until one approaches the speed of light or delves into quantum phenomena. Eating pork is fine for Christians, but not for Jews or Muslims. There are things which are accepted as true by people in pretty much any religious or cultural system, but many things which some take exception to, and even those accepted by all humans are still limited to the human species and context.
        
        Nothing exists outside of some context, and what is real is judged by consistency with one’s own, or shared, expectations or narratives, and perceptions, Relative does not mean there is no context, or that all contexts are equal, but that no knowledge can be absolute and truly objective. In fact, humans have a very hard time getting even close to something we might imagine to be objective — even rigorous science (with relativity vs quantum mechanics, e.g.), for all it’s efforts, miss the mark. Relativism is not ignorance except to the ignorant — ignorant of how complex, problematic, and uncertain existence is for humans.
        
        Franz on January 27, 2017 · at 9:06 pm EST/EDT
        
        “Good and evil are relative”.
        I do not think that they are relative.
        In the Christian paradigm, Judas betrayed Christ, arguably acting as an agent for the will of God, but, in fact, he was sooner a ‘free’ agent. Comes the moment, comes the man.
        So, what might appear relative to those that way inclined, appears absolute to others.
        
        And religion can be an inflammatory example. Since most people in the West are quite ignorant of it.
        
        What the woman teacher in Texas did yesterday, before a classroom of lost children, was evil.
        And if you want to use other, secular terms, you may. But evil is a perfectly good word for her actions and not even the Goethian image for ‘evil’ from Faustus – Mephistopheles – can wriggle her out of it with that maxim of his: “I am that power which wills forever evil but does forever good.”
        
        We can try to secularize the terms, and I am willing to do that, but, the shorthand of ‘evil’ is a perfectly adequate way to go. Call it an absence of good if you like as some progressive theologians do but the experience of ‘evil’ in the Russian Lands, especially in the last century, has knocked the idea of realtivism forever out of clear heads. The last people to try that line were Pussy Riot. They were championed in the West and pitied and/or scorned in Russia.
        
        blue on January 27, 2017 · at 9:35 pm EST/EDT
        
        You don’t think they are relative; I do.
        
        I don’t what the teacher did was evil but ignorant, crazy, stupid, and counterproductive. If I were there I would have walked out of the classroom, but I don’t see evil intent in her action. That’s not secularization of terms but a different judgement. The Takfiris might think that many things I — we — do is evil, and those same sort of differences can be found in many situations among various people.
        
        My thinking is in a very different context from yours; a Christian or religious paradigm is something I use only when interpreting what others say, in their ‘language’ and context, or sometimes to say something to them, and that varies with the people in question.
        
        Old tag line: there are two mistakes people make. One to think other people are different, and the other is to think they are the same.
        
        Franz on January 27, 2017 · at 10:08 pm EST/EDT
        
        I use one word and four letters, you use four words and about forty letters.
        No evil intent in modeling assassination to a class of already disturbed near adults?
        The person who tried taking a gun from a cop to kill Trump at a rally a few weeks ago was similar to these.
        
        I am not talking about takfiris, nor am I applying takfiri or buddhist concepts to a situation which I can only see as a Christian. I am applying Christian concepts. Let the atheist and takfiri apply theirs if they wish. And the Russian in me says, ‘Mnje nachikhat’ na takfirov’ (I sneeze at the takfiris). I may not if I was in takfiri-land, but that is another question. In Christian terms, this woman was not only failing in her duty to be an example to others of right-behaviour (by virtue of her age and position), she was actually encouraging (worse! modeling) wrong behaviour. Another word for that is ‘evil’. Four little letters. Not so difficult. And not so far off the rational judgement of this act by any civilized and sane person within any religion, save Satanism.
        
        blue on January 27, 2017 · at 10:46 pm EST/EDT
        
        Even in the Catholic encyclopedia
        http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm
        the brief discussion of evil is quite long. And one could spend months or years delving into the concept and philosophy. Many books exist on the subject. It’s not the length of the word — consider that ‘god’ is only 3 letters in English.
jim of olym on January 27, 2017 · at 4:36 am EST/EDT

http://www.traditioninaction.org/Questions/B249_StNilus.html
Post is too long here to repost but i think it is relevant to our times of decline.
Martin Wilson on January 27, 2017 · at 5:37 am EST/EDT

Another brilliant article by ‘the saker’, thank you! (y) Hope you don’t mind me sharing it on FB & VK?
Dr.N.G. Maroudas on January 27, 2017 · at 5:50 am EST/EDT

An Enemy of the People.
- Nussiminen on January 27, 2017 · at 8:08 am EST/EDT
  
  Please elaborate. In case you are referring to Soros and The Tribe, then you are on point.
  - Dr.N.G. Maroudas on January 27, 2017 · at 10:04 am EST/EDT
    
    @Nussiman: “Please elaborate”.
    
    OK. Where shall I start? See my reply to Erebus on the Epistemology blog. Ibsen’s play surgically dissects that “damned, solid, compact, democratic majority” who refuse to face a disastrous truth because to do so will upset their comfortable lifestyle. It was written in Norway but sounds like it applies to Denmark today. The Enemy of the People is a universal theme. It is not restricted to Jewish Pharisees vs the Jew Jesus (if that is what you mean by “the tribe”). The same drama was acted out by Athenian democracy vs the Athenian Socrates and so on through the ages – as witness this case today, where a Danish democracy is typically disgracing itself.
    “The majority is always wrong because the majority necessarily take at least 50 years to catch up with the lone individual who has seen the truth”. — Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People.
Ian Shears on January 27, 2017 · at 7:32 am EST/EDT

I believe that I have been given a huge surprise in what you have written. It is so accurate when you state we live in topsy-turvey land. White is black. Left is right. Up is down, etc. I am not a Catholic and have had a lifelong running war with Catholics of my superficial acquaintance. My mother led the charge as we were children when this started – she was a Baptist and had no sympathy for Popism, etc.
However, I have come over the years to a view that the Catholic Church’s apostasy over the Millenia has greatly reduced the original truth once received but that it still had remnant truth here and there. That is what appears here to me. The light of the Catholic Church is still not wholly extinguished?
Bravo. We may not agree – I may think you are way too soft on the issue – but you certainly are one brave girl.
- Lawrence on January 27, 2017 · at 10:13 am EST/EDT
  
  When Moses a member of the ruling family of Eygpt was cast out to the wilderness for identifying himself with the slaves{jews} heard God speaking giving him a mission to return and deliver his people asked ‘who shall I say sends me’ God answers tell them I AM sends thee, flash forward some 1500 yrs an we see Jesus saying ‘I AM the Way the Truth and the Life’, the world is black or white as Jesus puts it as you are either on the ‘wide road to destruction and many there are on it’ or “the Narrow path to Life ,few there be that find it’. One looks into the wilderness temptations of Jesus right after his baptism and driven by the Spirit into where he is confronted by Satan on the third test Satan offers All the kingdoms of this world if he would but bow to Satan, You will notice Jesus refused but also did not refute the fact Satan claimed all this worlds kingdoms were his to give {all the world is under Satans rule} later Jesus would say to Pilate ‘My Kingdom is not of this world or my servants would fight’. This world {the whole world} we live in is under Satan’s rule and remains so untill Jesus returns. ‘We wrestle not against flesh an blood but against powers in the heavens’…no man is my enemy, we put on ‘the whole armor of God’ that we may stand in this evil day …It is indeed a war of Truth vs Lies or True doctrine vs False doctrines, has been since the fall of man. Find the narrow path to Life and God bless all.
Pass the popcorn on January 27, 2017 · at 10:39 am EST/EDT

Well, can’t wait for the next cafe: need to do therapy now…
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In mythology, Europa was raped/seduced by Zeus in the form of a white bull on the island of Crete – a few clicks west of today’s Antalya, Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria. This season the series seems to be being shot in the climate-change-warming northern realms. And the bulls are not white.

In medieval history the manly Norsemen Vikings raped and pillaged much of the coastal UK and Europe.

In the 18-19th century the manly European males and their diseases and dependents colonised much of the world — and in the 20th they conducted two world wars that killed and maimed millions.

Skipping over Napoleon’s Moscow little early ‘tourism’ industry expansion efforts, the WW2 blowback for the German society culture was rape and pillage by the victorious Soviet troops — many of whom came from eastern non-European regions. Recent estimates put Soviet WW2 related deaths at 20+ million as a result of nazi expansions.

Then we have ‘Blow-job Bill’ Clinton in the late 20th century Oval Office with Monica destroying post-Tito Yugoslavia (and the Glass-Steagall Act) thus setting the stage for Act 2 of the Bush Family Saga and the 9/11 charade. [e.g., see comments in recent audio interview http://www.veteranstodaylive.com/2017/01/26/mike-harris-scott-bennett-is-the-guest/ ]

Iraq, Libya and Syria then took the hit, and now, as Gaddafi foretold, swarms of 3rd-world refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan are herding towards Europe and its advertised luxurious ‘feminised’ non-strategic soft-defence attractions. Merkle’s cheap labour supply — who needs to spend new-Deutschmarks (sorry, I mean Euros) on slave ships when Greece is just an ‘austerity’ port away?

And now the very ghoulish “we think it was worth it” Madeleine Albright wants to become a t-shirt Muslim just to flap her lips at the audacious Alpha male ‘Trump’ who dared to win the White House for the angry working and middle classes on the edge of economic death row.

[Looks like she’s headed for the mad house like Maggie Thatcher ended up — that 20th century British ‘Queen Victoria’ of apple sellers from the ‘umble local corner grocery store.]

Some of the bravest men in history have worn skirts — indeed, the wild Scots and their kilts made sense when dumping a stool on the battlefield to dip arrowheads in before engaging in some life-and-death ‘biological warfare’ bovver made eminent sense.

And of course, the British opium wars on China together with the history from the the graves at ‘Wounded Knee’ of invading North America kind of slip out of the history books at the earliest opportunity. Irish and African slavery also kinda fades into footnote 6-point size grey font in the official historical appendix.

Genghis Khan and his Mongol tribes piled up Persian skulls to the height of roof tops and then ran huge swaths of today’s Russia and Turkey with all his sons before retreating into Turkish history.

The tribes of South America had “Flower Wars” to basically supplement their iron deficient diets — ever wondered why Mexican food is so spicy?

WTF? … This is tribal life on this planet (of limited resources).

Re: “I’m utterly disgusted at these brothers of mine who now proclaim to care, but as in most of the previous comments, through their everyday disinterest and complicity and now these immature and shallow proclamations of care, or rather ownership, only make obvious their disdain and disrespect towards who they call “bitches.” There is a third way where women are actually regarded as fully human as we regard ourselves.”

I’m not sure who you is being referring to here, or to whom the ‘brothers’ comment is referring. But brothers we are — in theory. In practice? Darwin knows best. The species-level adaptation strategy overrides all human hubris. Choose your genes carefully.

As Iben Thranholm rightly notes, it is about balance (or lack of it). However, more fundamentally, it is about the ‘latest fad’ social engineering experiment based on a humanist ideology which is now clearly fatally and fundamentally flawed.

Balance in society emerges/comes from the bottom up — i.e., balance in the family and home. And that generates balanced individuals, whom in turn, in a form of circularity, are a products of the forces of nature and nurture. Balance does not come from an invented and imposed top down ideology (although most societies in balance pay some type of due respect to the sense or notion of the ‘Sacred’ embodied in some form of ‘nameless god’ with it’s centre of gravitas far beyond the social politik.

This Godless EU aggregate is not a ‘union’ — it is a legacy of 20th century ideological experiments that began in (in practice) in post-Czar Russian. Brussels is but a Tower of Babel and the BS — it seems it is now just catching up to the crumbling 20th century meta-narratives long under way in other domains suffering the forces of pragmatic 21st realities.

Look, Iben Thranholm is not wrong. However, imo, she is not deep enough into the systemic factors at play in these cursed ‘interesting times’. The public narrative can say anything as long as it does not say “eat the rich” — i.e., starting ‘top-down’ with those dozen or so actual individuals who account for more imaginary digital wealth (i.e. power and privilege based on central bank printing and debt) than 50% of the lower ‘despicables’.

Personally, no amount of chili would get me eating Bill Gates stakes, or Soros burgers — the latter meat looks absolutely toxic. But putting the squeeze on the top percentiles until we get a nicely formed bell-curve distribution is a realistic strategy. For example, as a starter, if the US military industrial complex is required to keep ‘them’ safe then let them pay for the estimated annual $597 billion USD (2015) (just the tip of the iceberg) as part of their philanthropic ‘donations’ towards social peace and wellbeing. What are they going to do with all that imaginary digital loot? take it with them to the next world? We’d certainly see the reduction of the bloated US defence system down to ‘normal’ sizes in a matter of years, not decades. And let them pay for national health care until their serf stocks improve — there is little doubt that we are in neo-feudal times.

Ok, back to topic: Jung points out that the ‘hidden’ psychological opposite emerges to play its role no matter what the applied social pressure to suppress it is.

The current EU stage actors in focus may well be males of African and Middle Eastern origin and appearance; their well-funded ideology may well be associated with corrupted by medieval fanatical Wahhabism driven by the plutonic geopetroleum Saudi monarchy controlling Arabia Felix; the Zionist’s global goals may well explain certain national policy paralysis; simply basic raw criminality and corruption could well describe the human sewage that has risen up within many public service bureaucracies and cultures of mendacity; and the unhinging of the aspirational middle classes from the disconnected pyramid of the self-declared elite club of ‘exceptionals’ (Tony Blair just scraped in by selling his soul) may help explain the unfolding events which Trump now appears to represent (and perhaps be a catalyst for) at the centre of the fast emerging contemporary post-globalist ’empire’.

Evil rising and good men doing nothing… hmmmm, …?

The paradox is that Iben Thranholm et al is the very symbol of the neutered male they now wish to step forward and save them from the ‘Gonzilla’ created by the very same aggressive feminist ideology and agenda that, since the 1970’s, appears to have swung the ‘balance’ pendulum too far the other way.

Unfortunately, it seems, for the modern day snowflake descendants of Princess Europa, the descent into a Jungian shadow world has only just begun. This time Zeus has arrived from ‘Crete’ singing “Allah Hu Akbar” and dreaming of purchasing Yazidi slave girls in Arabian markets. And the only possible resistance appears to be the local ‘Viking’ blockhead living at the bottom of the indigenous male barrel. They sure are going to have to kiss that toad big time before ‘prince charming’ arrives to do the dishes in his Teutonic apron and pink slippers.

What a dilemma!

What a bitch blowback is!

The hidden ‘dark’ shadow secret is your unemployed, emasculated, neutered, over-fed, estrogen socked, corporately displaced ‘men’ du jour who are standing back in the darkened street shadows and thinking “F_ck you, bitches!” as Madame Management drives down the street in her Audi and “9 essential fashion items” to the childless career-funded male-free penthouse for a little ‘wicca’ with the ‘sisters’.

If Jung is right, and I suspect he was onto something basic and fundamental about our human natures, then the only ‘answer’ for Ms Europa this time is indeed on her knees. Praying to a ‘god’ may help (placebo); or even praying to the male Semitic ‘God’ may help for guidance and desperation (?).

However, I suspect, much like the wise Hindu women of the Indian sub-continent: a little bit of pragmatic realistik “lignum worship” might just get your local ‘lord shiva’ up and running out of the Cretan shadows to save your pussy’s delights.

Too risqué? So therein lies the ‘PC’ problem at its bourgeoisie foundations.

Greece is dead in austerity’s economic darkness and their myths were probably ‘borrowed’ from India in the first place. This time, when Lord Shiva (the destroyer of illusions) arrives – you can bet the first thing that Brussels’ eunuchs and the sisterhood will do is go for the gonads. In the Egyptian myth, Osiris’s wife Isis restores her husband’s body. In the 21st century inverted American myth version (emerging) she’s running around the backblocks of Syria on Obama’s paycheck cutting off everything that dangles. Falcon-head or American eagle, it’s enough to give anyone a Horus!

But alas, this time, as the popular Avatar film suggests, Pandora’s box has been well and truly opened and we must note that the Na’vi’s “Eywa” only protects the sacred balance (of the ecosystem). Where is this desirable ‘balance’ most reflected today for Ms European?

Russia!

Indeed, Russia is the future, not the past for Europe, imo. Not because of some infantile mystical ‘exceptionalist’ (American neurosis style) destiny – rather: because they have managed as a civilisational culture (under the current Czar, Putin) to overcome the multicultural/political disequilibrium of the 20th century. And this capacity came from, and is grounded in, their now dominant cultural and natural human-scale male-female relationships.

‘Cultural alignment’ is the overriding grounding force relationship between governance, resilience and strength. Putin’s decade of investments are paying off. China’s recent placement of ballistic missiles near its central Asian border is no threat to Russia. It is to help defend a Russia in alliance — and their distance from the coast also has better strategic defence and time response advantage for mutual self-destruction response should a hostile American (AngloZionist) hegemony act aggressively.

What a dilemma!

What hard kneeling a good, humble blowback job is!

Men won’t rise when women take their places.
Their men will rise when they take their proper place in a sustainable relationship.

And what is that place?

Perhaps look outdated and discredited ‘ideological engineering’ towards traditional cultural values which seek to cultivate the requisite male for the situations of concern (as ever it was for sustainable tribal communities). The indigenous American berdache may have had a traditional ‘3rd sex’ warrior support role but it’s unlikely that the postmodern Walt Disney variety will have the capacity to ward off engineered cultural chaos.

One thing I can suggest, from the well-earned vantage point of 60+ years, is that Soros funded ‘pussy riots’ and pink hairy ‘vagina hat’ wearing trump-tantrums are just not likely to get a ‘hard on’ from your average local ‘Joe-six-pack’ guy. As Lord Shiva’s recent “F_ck you, EU” honorary man on the spot (formerly known as Victoria N.) just delivered on the Russian borderlands: most likely one to defend your street from today’s Black Swan chaos (Zeus’ other fav form, although Scandinavian ‘white’ is so yesterday it seems in contemporary godly fashionista realms) is a goose-stepping Uki-neonazi. It’s neither strategically smart; nor reflecting any beauty: it is just dumb and engineered by the eunuchs to keep their ‘forbidden city’ wall-street scams going.

The god’s must be crazy, indeed: after 8-years of the black eunuch slinking in da white house, they’ve just played their Trump card. I’m now just looking for the singing ‘fat lady’ at the end of the act (& times). Saw plenty on the TV the other day chanting: ugly and fat! As the latest joke goes: “Trump got more fat women walking in one day, than Michelle Obama did in 8 years.”

Pass the popcorn (and helmet), please. This is not going to be pretty!

[end of discursive rant]
Anonymous on January 27, 2017 · at 10:59 am EST/EDT

And so the Nordic Viking man-girls have come to that?

Perhaps try a little bit of NZ man-boy Haka energy down under.

You can always emigrate. Well, at least until the doors shut on the deluge.

“New Zealand High School Students’ Intense Haka Farewell For Teacher”

https://youtu.be/g4wpLGXpL6k
Hassan Mohammed on January 27, 2017 · at 12:47 pm EST/EDT

I greet you all from the bottom of my heart wishing you all well. I am an avid reader of sakers vineyard the apple of my eye are the comments section which always succeeds in bringing in a rich harvest of sincere thoughts. I couldn’t help throwing in my thoughts on words which do not lie but it is people who do. For example in my language from which I believe other languages originated the word REAL would be thus REAL= RIYO + LI’I= RIYO (DREAM) LI’I (WITHOUT) meaning AWAKE and not ASLEEP. And the word ISLAM would mean ISLAM= I + SALAAM= I (ME ) SALAAM (GREET) and that is the definition the prophets may peace be upon him gave ( a Muslim is who people are in peace from his hand and his mouth) meaning he doesn’t hurt them physically or abuse them verbally. And also he ordered Muslims to GREET WHOM THEY KNOW AND WHOMEVER THEY DON’T and FEED FOOD TO THOSE IN NEED. So if someone greets you whether he knows you or not how can he hurt you! Apparently these so called Islamic militants are FALSE and satanic as were the puritans who in the name of Christianity murdered all them Indian natives.
Kilgore Trout on January 27, 2017 · at 4:26 pm EST/EDT

Bravo!! Well said!
Talks-to-Cats on January 27, 2017 · at 4:42 pm EST/EDT

in order to obliterate the last vestige of Christian civilization in Europe.

First Campaign : Destroy Russia (1917), because it was the one nation in Europe most thoroughly Christian in law and culture. (No usury banks for daily life — the postal system took deposits and transferred money. The few modern banks in major cities handled foreign exchange transactions).

Second Campaign : Destroy Germany (1938) because its systemic repudiation of those advancing culturally alien agenda & values made it a bulwark defending historic western Christian civilization & values.

Third Campaign : debase the remnant with culturally unassimilable invaders in order to paralyze and eventually reduce Europe to a third-world population easily controlled by the aliens who refuse to debase themselves while preaching this (and criminalizing dissent) but practicing the exact opposite themselves (breeding for intelligence and executive capacity) an all ages.

They hate truth because they are of their father the devil. Everything valid written on this point since Christ pointed it out is only commentary. The tree is known (evaluated, recognized) by its fruit.

Sad indeed that the most courageous truth-teller in Denmark is a woman — doing the job of brave men by default because there are none of those left there (?)
- Nussiminen on January 27, 2017 · at 8:22 pm EST/EDT
  
  “Sad indeed that the most courageous truth-teller in Denmark is a woman — doing the job of brave men by default because there are none of those left there (?)”
  
  Only one “really brave man” still around there, and he’s not exactly a truth-teller: Anders Fogh Rasmussen. But he does deserve the Nobel Peace Prize Award for promoting Peace, Love, and Harmony — the true purpose of NATO.
  - Franz on January 27, 2017 · at 8:50 pm EST/EDT
    
    Yes. Anders ‘Fogh of War’ Rasmussen has impressed me too… by the fact that no one had yet locked him up for his, and our, safety. And the Nobel Prize you mention, ever since it was received by Bardak[sic] Hussein Obama, makes me think of the Israeli pronunciation: ‘Piss’ Prize.
    - Nussiminen on January 27, 2017 · at 9:04 pm EST/EDT
      
      Piss Prize indeed. Or my own favourite pun whenever “peace” gets misspelled as/confused with “piece” :
      
      “It’s a great honour to receive the Nobel Piece Prize for an incredible peace of shit.”
Ivan Lukic on January 27, 2017 · at 6:34 pm EST/EDT

Iben,

What you are experiencing is nothing new. During eighteen and nineteenth centuries Western newspapers were not allowed to publish information about Turkish bestiality and atrocity against Christians in Ottoman Empire.

It is obvious this time that political class in the West expect some profit from this kind of censorship but I am curious to see what kind of consequences there will be for the Western citizens.

I recommend to the readers of this blog to find book “Russia and Europe” by Nikolai Danilevski (if there is English translation). I have Serbian translation of the book. That is an extremely influential book, even now, 150 years after it was written.
Franz on January 27, 2017 · at 9:47 pm EST/EDT

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who will watch the watchers?

The Scandinavian Countries were always either nascently or overtly Fascist. Perhaps it is the climate, or the memory of posing as the Second Reich many centuries ago.
Russians have met them on the ice of Lake Ladoga, twice and on Lake Ilmen in the battle for an outlet to the sea. As The Second Reich, the Livonian/Teutonic order were defeated by Alexander Nevsky in the Battle on the Ice of Chudskoje Ozero.

Had the myth of Scandinavian and Western ‘resistance’ to the German Nazis starting in 1939 not been so effectively promulgated we would not be surprised at all by these actions.

That women are in the forefront of Western push-back against the fabricated universe of Mass Media is apparent. Deeley, Tulsi Gabbard, Kathryn Shakdam, Lizzy Phelan, Paula Slier, and too many others to mention here, but worthy of huge respect and an indictment and condemnation of mainstream media presstitution.

See the original ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ (Original title: ‘Men Who Hate Women’) by Stigg Larsson, where the twisted Fascism of the Scandinavian Nazi elites is all laid bare. The author’s life was likely shortened for his efforts.
Iben Thranholm on January 27, 2017 · at 10:20 pm EST/EDT

Thanks for many generous words.I really appreciate the support you’ve given me. Please feel free to write to me at ibenthranholm@gmail.com
Or find my profile on Facebook or Twitter (my name)
- Anonymous on January 29, 2017 · at 1:41 am EST/EDT
  
  Iben, you speak for many Christians. I am not a Catholic, I am more like a Swedenborgian, but not a member of a Swedenborgian Church.
  
  When we start believing we take a blind step. When we start obeying, the Word is opened up and we get some understanding of spiritual matters. I agree with everything you say and have respect for Catholics. They are better at doing good work than some Protestants.
  
  The Danish politicians remind me of a Danish saying. Something like “velkommen till overfladen”, welcome to the outside. I don’t speak Danish, but you will understand me. This joke is lost on our Englishspeaking friends, unfortunately. Never fear, never give up, the resistance you meet will not win.
RMM on January 27, 2017 · at 10:23 pm EST/EDT

Thank you for this testimony.
It is increasingly clear that Christianity is persecuted in the West, though many still refuse to recognise this fact.
Bon courage. No other course but to continue the struggle.
FromTheStates on January 27, 2017 · at 10:40 pm EST/EDT

President Trump sort of left an opening for himself to maintain the current bad relationship with Russia and president Putin with a comment at a press conference today. He said of Putin: “I’ve never met the gentleman but there have been people I thought I would have a good relationship with and end up hating them and vice versa”
Not an exact quote. I can’t remember the exact quote, but close. It looks like we’re gearing up for a big one.

Cheers,
Jippy
Old Guy on January 27, 2017 · at 10:51 pm EST/EDT

What’s truly sad, no matter the western country, no matter where you live in these countries, your label as spy, racist, homophobe, Russian sympathizer just because you disagree with the accepted view. I am American and I am so sick of all the rhetoric that may some day get people incarcerated or worse killed just because they do not agree with the government’s or media’s view of the world.

I have read the saker for a long time and this is my first post.

Critical thinking is not something yours or my government wants they want cattle they can herd using their media to sway the masses. What happened to people actually putting their ideas out there or what they see as the truth and now governments want to prosecute them for not agreeing with them? I am in my late 60’s and it just bothers me that populations will not wake up and realize our government/s are now afraid of thinking people and I fear for future generations if we the people in any country allow this to continue.

I come here to read alternative views and many times I agree with them so I guess I am now a spy but all I seek is truth in todays party line views from the mainstream media.
- barrie on January 29, 2017 · at 11:19 pm EST/EDT
  
  From one old guy to another ,I feel your thoughts are very much in line with my own ,here in rural Wales I try to explain to people who I have known all my life but due to MSM plus BBC ect have views so far removed from my own that I feel sometimes like screeming , I bought a t shirt with the Orwell quote about truth from WikiLeaks and wore it while skypeing my cousin in Salem Oregon ,hell you would thought I was a nutter ?they expected me to be beaten up or arrested if worn on the streets ,yes its getting to be a sad world by the dat ,
  - Anonymous on January 29, 2017 · at 11:49 pm EST/EDT
    
    I’m an old bloke in NZ , where things have not progressed (?) so far down the dunny, but it is still well nigh impossible here to express an alternative view , or even question the accepted view, without attracting a flock of brainwashed pecking chooks.
    Still , nothing like a bit of biffo to get the blood flowing in the mornings.
    Who knows , a sly dig here , a pointed remark there ; more people could yet wake up . . . . slowly , and one at a time :-)
Anonym on January 27, 2017 · at 11:21 pm EST/EDT

What the heck is Barbara Spectre’s motivation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROGnoNJc6Nw

http://johnfriendsblog.blogspot.mx/2012/12/organized-jewry-destroyers-of-western.html
- Katherine on January 28, 2017 · at 12:24 am EST/EDT
  
  This woman really freaks me out!!
  
  Katherine
Anonymous on January 27, 2017 · at 11:30 pm EST/EDT

presumably they have to provide proof that you an ‘agent of Russia’ sue them in the courts until they do, which of course they can’t? Innocent until proven guilty?
Anonymous on January 28, 2017 · at 12:28 am EST/EDT

JOHN PILGER: THE HIJACKING OF FEMINISM
[April, 2012, Melbourne, Australia.]
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2017/01/26/watch-john-pilger-the-hijacking-of-feminism/
Dino on January 28, 2017 · at 12:36 am EST/EDT

Iben
If you say you’re Catholic as I’d like to be (meaning I am on paper but still have to be for real) just read Psalms 37(36): 27-29

I too have noticed what you say and this was at it utmost (worst) at the beginning of June 2016 – should you have missed the St. Gotthard Tunnel opening celebration, I warmly invite you to watch it.
God bless you and all goodwill men and women on Earth.
Anonymous on January 28, 2017 · at 4:09 am EST/EDT

Just out, a great interview with PCR where he nails it.
The new narrative is emerging.
Recommended.

“Paul Craig Roberts Trump Brexit Interview
Jan 27, 2017
…talk with Paul Craig Roberts about Donald Trump waging war on the Elites and standing up for the working class, the Inauguration, the Brexit sham, Hilary Clinton, Theresa May, Fake News, the EU, and how people all over the world are last awakening to what is true and what is false.”

https://youtu.be/jL76z-3ISP4
A. Dane on January 28, 2017 · at 4:20 am EST/EDT

Kære Iben. Tak for dit mod til at forsvare kristne værdier, og sandheden.
Du skal ikke føle dig alene i denne kamp, vi er mange Danskere som er enig med dig, og som på hver sin måde forsøger at bekæmpe det tyranni, du så korrekt beskriver.
Jeg tror mange Danskere fik en brat opvågning da den Danske Regeringen i 2009 lod Politiet storme vor kirke med våben, for at arrestere flygtninge som havde søgt tilflugt i kirken.
Det er første gang i Danmarkshistorien, at myndighederne har invaderet en Dansk kirke med væbnet Politi.
Over 80% af den Danske befolkning er kristne, og betragter kirken som Fredhelligt.
Den helt store opvågning skete for Danskerne da den danske Regering gav migranter med ISIS terror celler fri adgang til Danmark.
Kære Iben, Husk: det kræver kun at 12% af befolkningen vågner op, før forandringer får momentum. Den linie er for længst overskredet i Danmark, så fortvivl ikke, der er lys forude.
De kærligste hilsner.
A. Dane.

Dear Iben. Tank you for you courage to defend Christian values, and the truth
Do no feel alone in this struggle, we are many Danes who agree with you, and who in our own way try to fight this tyranny, witch you so correctly describe.
I believe many Danes had a wakeup call, when the Danish Government in 2009, let the Police storm our church with weapons, to arrest refugees who had sought sanctuary in our church.
It is the first time of the history of Demark, that the authorities have invaded a Danish church with armed force.
Over 80% of the Danish population are Christians, and regard the church as a sanctuary immune to arrest.
The great awakening for the Danes happened when the Danish Government gave migrants with ISIS terror cells free access to Denmark.
Dear Iben, remember: it only takes 12% of a population to wake up, befor changes gets momementum. We have log past that line in Denmark, so don’t dispare, there is light ahead.
With Loving regard
A. Dane
- Allan on February 01, 2017 · at 6:19 pm EST/EDT
  
  A. Dane is not a dane. The part writen in danish is translated from another language. No one talks or write in danish like that.
Alexis on January 28, 2017 · at 7:25 am EST/EDT

It is fascinating to witness the cabal having lost control and not having seen the wrecking ball that president Trump is taking to the old, corrupt system and structures.
Trump , with half the budget Clinton used, defeated Clinton, the MSM/press, Soros and others who worked without end to defeat him.
To label The Saker a pro Russian propagandist is stupid.
What is interesting though is that Trump had 25 million followers on Twitter and that RT has more viewers than all other MSM TV outlets combined.
We shall soon see who is right and who is wrong.
In the end the truth will prevail. It always does.
There is a fitting African oro verb “Until the lion had his own Historian the Hunter will always be the hero”.
Things are changing and they are changing fast.
People who try to run will only die tired
Elten on January 28, 2017 · at 10:54 am EST/EDT

It is a shame that Iben has to defend herself against these accusations as she mentions: ‘my choice of non-Western media like RT as a platform is certainly not motivated by any payment from Putin. No, it is rooted in the fact that as a conservative Christian Catholic, my thoughts and views are simply increasingly difficult to get published in Europe (which is the real shame of our Media).

The fact that her views on the destruction of Christianity in Europe concur with similar views in Russia, but also in France and elsewhere, do not make her an agent of Putin, but rather an agent of Hope.

Allow me one point, which in my view makes the matter even more serious. Iben refers to the EU Task Force East Stratcom website with a link to:
http://www.tepsa.eu/eeass-east-stratcom-task-force-publishes-two-weekly-newsletter/

In fact TEPSA is an association of EU research institutes from most member states which apparently endorses the activities of East Stratcom, but it is not the source. The real source until December 2016 was Mogherini’s EEAS, or the EU External Action Services, i.e. the EU’s Foreign Affairs Department (as part of the EU Commission). The main author/editor for the socalled disinformation services published by EEAS was: Jakub•kalensky©eeas•europa•eu, whom I presume to be of either Polish or Ukrainan origin. All posts by Kalensky were signed: Copyright © 09/12/2016 European External Action Service. All rights reserved. Now in December 2016 EU East Stratcom decided to merge the two ‘DisInfo’ post into one and to change the publishers address to: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/ with the heading ‘Pro-Kremlin Disinformation: fake media stories that support Russia’s policies’. Have a look and shudder.

Not incidently, EU Disinformation Review (title of 2015-16) is listed as the first of ‘related projects’ on the infamous PropOrNot website that has blacklisted over 200 publications as agents of Russia. Re.: http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html (Including our most esteemed Saker).

Our mailing address is: stratcom-east@eeas.europa.eu
- Eimar on January 28, 2017 · at 3:08 pm EST/EDT
  
  Now this is more like it.
  
  The Russian ‘hacking’ story was almost dead-on-arrival precisely because of such investigative ‘forensics.’
  
  We need to trace to sources, name the names, and stop using vague generalities/terms, both cultural (‘Christianity’) and institutional (‘EU’). They only serve to marginalize the victims of censorship as simply being the losers in some ‘spontaneous’ zeitgeist.
  
  It is not ‘spontaneous’, it is specific and it is calculated.
  
  Pinpointing the operatives – funding, nationalites etc – will do much to bring what is being occluded by generalities into the open.
  
  It was by this means that the Russian ‘hack ‘ story was traced back to Dimitri Alperovich, and ultimately the Atlantic Council (NATO-affiliated and Clinton-endorsing). So much for ‘independent’ investigation.
  
  Similarly, the malware was exposed as open source, old and Ukrainian – not Russian. Though one of the leads traced back to a Vontake account, the Russian ‘Facebook,’ the account was traced to a Ukrainian IT student.
  
  Thanks for this information – let’s hope Iben uses it and forms a counter-strategy with like-minded opinion leaders on the nexus of hidden operatives burying themselves within the labyrinth of EU bureaucracy.
- Maciek on February 01, 2017 · at 7:04 am EST/EDT
  
  Some facts: Jakub Kalensky is NOT Polish or Ukrainian either, he is a Czech “journalist”.
  
  https://www.unian.info/politics/1153713-expert-group-on-countering-pro-kremlin-propaganda-arrives-in-kyiv.html
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqWJDS2wqdU
Viv on January 28, 2017 · at 12:34 pm EST/EDT

Yes! I see it every day !
Suzanne Majo De Kuyper on January 28, 2017 · at 8:36 pm EST/EDT

Very true words. The act of building thousands of Russian Orthodox churches each year for years was an act of genius. Simple, deeply profound,Check out RI.com or Russia Insider.com and check out the section ‘religion’. Read the article on the Russian Orthodox Churches Putin had built, year after year. What the result is on and within Russia, Russians. Think what the effect would have been in Europe if one deeply European leader had ordered the same building of thousands of Christian Chuches across all Europe to counter the pure Nihilhism Naziism offered and Europeans “drank” from.
- Franz on January 28, 2017 · at 9:05 pm EST/EDT
  
  US business, especially in Odessa Mafia New York, is dirty. But as the song says: “If you can make it there, then you can make it anywhere!”
  Not entirely a bad thing.
Frankie on January 29, 2017 · at 11:59 am EST/EDT

Focus that the hype of 1991 died in 2016. All what’s left now is rage and Russophobia. Let’s check the battleground:

1) China has atleast twice bigger real economy than USA. China has four times greater aluminum based industry and constuction sector than USA

2) The real economic world center is in China-India axis

3) In future 80% of world trade is in Asia. West will play marginal role

4) 50% and 65% of most crirical vital 20/57 strategic raw materials are in BRICS countries while EU has just 3-5% ( EU’s own estimates)

5) Western nations are degenerated after losing faith and strong values (replaced by neoliberal multicultural fantasies). Rage against God is western main idea, agenda

6) Demographic change will severely decimate neoliberal/neocon west.

So the battleground scene looks terrible for shocked and angry Empire.
Göran on January 31, 2017 · at 7:07 am EST/EDT

Du är fantastisk. Hälsningar från Sverige.
You are great. Greetings from Sweden.
Conservative Witch on January 31, 2017 · at 9:07 am EST/EDT

No one can fight for truth, which is spiritual without the ability to recognize truth and distinguish it from the lie. Without the spiritual understanding, no one has the weapons to fight against evil and lies. The chaotic struggle raging in journalism and social media today is a visible expression of this spiritual war.

I’m concerned that what I am about to say is going to sound jingoistic. It isn’t.

A solution to this problem lies in the founding documents of the American experiment. The Declaration of Independence makes certain assumptions about the nature, value and rights of the individual that are indispensable to the American political system. While they may be questioned privately, they may not be questioned politically.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Self-evident truth is necessarily spiritual — which is to say, transcendent — in nature. The truths proclaimed in the Declaration concerning man’s nature, value and rights thus have a spiritual source, which that document calls man’s “Creator.” It doesn’t matter how you define or otherwise describe this reality; it is sufficient to say that it is the transcendent source of these axioms about man upon which the political system is built. I suggest, parenthetically, that this is what the word “God” means in the American political context — not the Christian deity, per se, but the Creator of the Declaration, which, of course, Christians and Jews will identify with the God of the Bible.

With this as a foundation, Progressivism is a dead philosophy walking. It consistently attacks the equal value of the individual and his unalienable rights; indeed, it stands in diametric opposition to them. This foundation also makes it easy to dispense with abortion-on-demand — though not, however, abortion to save the life of the mother — and this without citing any specific religious creed or proof of the personhood of the fetus as a basis.

I think a proper understanding and application of these founding assumptions, upon which the American political system rests, makes possible a reintroduction of spiritual morality into public life and discourse in the United States. And “God,” seen as foundational to the political system, becomes an indispensable topic in public venues rather than something that may not be talked about in schools and government offices.

Why these things are not already obvious suggests that, somewhere along the line, a subtle trick of language and/or thought was played on an unobservant or inattentive public — a cancer, which has now metastasized. I don’t know if we can go back to these foundational principles; there may be too much inertia behind the forces that mean to destroy us. But I think this is a way back.
- blue on January 31, 2017 · at 10:29 am EST/EDT
  
  I see no more reason to introduce spirituality into understanding equal rights and government by the people than the music of the spheres is needed to understand planetary laws of motion. Lack of equal rights necessarily introduces internal inconsistencies, strife, and gross inefficiency. This is quite pragmatic and rational.A system with structural inequality of rights is not stable or even metastable over time, and not sustainable, but will always involve class war.
  - Conservative Witch on February 01, 2017 · at 4:27 am EST/EDT
    
    The need exists in that, without the transcendent — which you may find less uncomfortable than “spirituality” — there can be no absolutes; and, if individual rights are not absolute, then they are granted by the society in which one lives and may be taken away by that society.
    
    This is a need imposed by the nature of reason, not by any particular point-of-view. Transcendence is indispensable to the view of man upon which the American political system is based. You can localize this transcendence in a deity or not; but denying it results inevitably in tyranny. Contemporary American society is characterized by some as “post-Christian.” I am not a Christian, or a Jew; but, for most Americans, the Judeo-Christian matrix is the only sort of transcendence they know — and, with the passing of its influence as a significant cultural voice (at least, openly), the result is a spiritual vacuum. And we are watching tyranny unfold before our eyes. This is the root cause.
RA Edmund Schönenberger on January 31, 2017 · at 2:28 pm EST/EDT

It would not mean anything to me being listed as a traitor by any state: Because they are all based on a huge fraud:

http://edmund.ch/more/1/61_Down%20with%20democracy.html

Edmund Schoenenberger
Barrister at law
Andre on January 31, 2017 · at 2:37 pm EST/EDT

“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they make mad first” – Prometheus.
So, clearly the gods wIsh to destroy the EU…
Kent on February 01, 2017 · at 4:33 pm EST/EDT

Depiction of Iben Thranholm, as another one of “The good Guys”

http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Iben_Thranholm01.jpg

Take Care
Kent
John Hawk on February 02, 2017 · at 1:50 am EST/EDT

The Danish government is run by MI6 and CIA, and of course the traitors in Denmark who lick their boots! ….any questions?
Unity is Strength on February 12, 2017 · at 12:53 pm EST/EDT

She is of course right in the lack of clarity between evil and good in this post-modern world of nothingness. But what is frightful is that our reaction is clearly an evil one too, leaving us with nothing but evil fighting evil as oblivion steps back from whence it came.

The migrant problem wouldn’t exist with the intensity it does if the people integrated the migrants into their societies. But of course, there is even less of a society to integrate anyone into because our values, our public land, our fraternities and volunteer organizations have all been dismantled.

We live in a void of speculation and greed our selves. I don’t know one business-owner that doesn’t cook the books and I live in one of the Nordic countries. Yet they bitch and whine when politicians like Mona Sahlin (whom I have nothing good to say about otherwise) pay for a taxi or a chocolate with state money.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle back.
Parzival on March 19, 2017 · at 7:46 am EST/EDT

If our value does not embrace all people, it is inherently valueless. This is an easy rule to apply, but watch resistance rise when we attempt to apply its principle of non-judgment. Nietzsche spoke of the terror in recognizing that we are one and that the values of the world are wrong. This is terrifying because we are still identified with the body and the self that is identified with the world’s values of guilt and specialness, and we do not want to let them go.

What we need to question is not only a specific value or thing in the world, but the very self that is doing the questioning. This is the ultimate source of fear. It is very helpful to understand why the world is so resistant to this type of questioning in general, and why we are so resistant to it as individuals. The temptation that comes with this realization is to feel like fools for believing everything we have believed in. But we need to avoid that judgment. After all, simply coming here makes us fools. Recall the book that came out many years ago, Ship Of Fools. We are all on that ship because we think there is a ship and an ocean, and that real things occur there. Yet it is all illusion, what the great Gnostic teacher Valentinus called a phantasmagoria. Sure, what we do here is foolish, insane, and cruel. Still, the world remains an illusion that we share-the thought that we could be happy outside of love. We know we believe this because we think we are here. This is why any undoing takes time, which is considerably shortened when we meet such evident insanity in ourselves and others with kindness and forgiveness.

Judgment is a great part of who we are. It is an inherent part of the ego thought system of separation, wherein we believe we are separate from God because we judged that we would be better off without Him. We therefore judge against love because, by its nature of total inclusion and oneness, it would undo our judgmental, special self. The ego tells us that we need to break away from the threat of Oneness, leading us to judge against our Source, which in turn leads us to judge against ourselves for having done so. This guilt becomes projected, and we end up judging everyone and everything, magically hoping to be free of the pain of judgment.

The ego’s untruth limits us, for we are now part of a limited self that is no longer part of the All, the Oneness. Freedom will never be found in the body. It will never be found in a world of bodies. It will only be found where the body is not, in the mind where God’s Son is one-in illusion and truth. When we look out from our ‘collective right mind’ to the world, we see that everyone is the same. Beyond the disparate forms, the good and bad people are the same; people who suffer and those who inflict the suffering are the same. We know that everyone is the same because everyone believes he or she is a body. This is the height of insanity because it emanates from the one insane thought that we are separated from our Source…