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"Whosoever shall come to us with the sword shall perish by it. Upon this stood and stands the land of Russia".
St Prince Alexander Nevsky, in the 13th century
Romans 8:31
Sunday, July 27, 2008
The Sixteen Reasons Why Russia Should NEVER Trust the West
Starting with pressure on the Yeltsin regime and with hand picked oligarchs and bureaucrats as intermediaries, it has been estimated that the West has ripped as much as $500 Billion (that's with a capital "B") from Russia, in the form of resources, money, equipment and treasures, from 1991 to 1999. Everything of value, nailed down or not, was taken. Whole cities would wake up and find that the various manufacturing plants that supported their economies were now empty of all equipment, which had been cartoned off bitterly in the night.
For an entire month, Vladivastok, the biggest Pacific port, a city the size of San Fransico, found itself without electricity, as the key bureaucrats had been able to grab all the oil from former government oil companies, freshly privatized with no regulation, and send it overseas to Japan and other countries. This of course left the local electric plants and refineries empty.
The US and the World Bank and IMF loved giving Yeltsin and his bunch "loans", which often ran into the multi billions and were of course funded by their own taxpayers who were equally raped. After taking their share off of the loans, the 90% plus that remained was than refunneled out of Russia and right back to the US where it was than quickly laundered. The Bank of New York was busted in such a scheme, moving over $6 Billion (again with a capital "B") in IMF Loans and other monies from Russia. After a deep congressional investigation, the fellow thieves in the US Congress gave them a slap on the wrist for their "accounting" error.
Despite all this, Russia has proven resurgent and has replace the stolen equipment and industries, to become the present day 6th largest economy, one which is poised to pass France and Britain either this year or next.
2. The West supported Yeltsin as he massacred Parliament
The Russian Parliament, which in 1991 stood against the hard line communist coup against Gorbachov, and with whom Yeltsin had than aligned himself and without whose support he would have never become president, than dared to stand in 1993 against the West's designs on Russian resources. It voted against the rushed Yeltsin shock therapy, the therapy that was designed to put all of Russia's resources into the hands of a few of the most corrupt men in the world and their Western backers (such as the salesman of cars...who as billionaire is now in exile in Britain. A murderer, who makes constant noises of raising a coup in Russia. A man who financed the Islamic Jihad in Chechnya...none other than the darling of the West: Berezovsky).
This act of insurrection by the Parliament resulted in the Clinton regime's order to their puppet Yeltsin to "do something about it". Yeltsin did. He ordered tanks to surround the building and opened fire, resulting in over 500 deaths. The next week, the War Cow Albright arrived to hug and kiss him and declare him a Great Democrat. It should be guessed that by Western standards he is, especially when one views how the West treats it's own dissidents and demonstrations (Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington DC all come to mind).
3. The West backed Chechen and other separatist elements
Several years before the Chechen wars even began, the West, particularly the CIA, began mass funding of the Chechen and other Islamic groups throughout Russia, in an effort to create instability and to further breakup Russia. Much of this has been born witness by former Turkish ministers, as was documented in direct interviews in the Russian program "Plan Caucus". Chechens would smuggle out diamonds to help fund their operations, while NATO and the CIA set up training camps in Turkey, with full Turkish participation. The ministers even admitted to meeting Bin Ladin and his CIA handlers in 1993, well into the beginning of the First Chechen War.
Of course the Saudis and other Islamic regimes were well involved too. Many snuff films were made of Russian soldiers and civilians and used as training and recruitment videos by Islamics around the world. This was even the case in the Beslan school massacre and was a regular in the Balkan wars against Christian Serbs, Croats and Macedonians...all with either Washington's permission or blissful and enforced ignorance.
The NATO Turks provided major training bases and recuperation facilities and armed the Islamics with Western equipment, while Western mercenaries, both Islamic and non-Islamic came flooding in. Even western Ukrainian Nazis, Una-Unsa (which is now one of the coalition of American and Brussels backed ruling Orange parties in Kiev) came to fight. Norwegians, western catholic Ukrainians and British were the predominant mercenaries rubbing elbows with Arabs, Pakistanis and Turks in the ranks of Islamic Chechen jihad. In 2002, even a Japanese islamic was killed crossing the border.
While the Turks provided training facilities only until 1997, when after several high profile Chechen hijackings and hotel hostage takings, public opinion in Turkey turned against them, Orthodox Georgia, another DC/Brussels puppet, was and continues to be not only the main entry point for Islamics but their best outfitter too. Add to this the Islamic training posts in Azerbaijan to fight Jihad against both Russia and Armenia and you already have a strong Western pro-Jihadist presence in the Caucuses and a door way to Central Asia.
Of course the US/Brussels aim was not just destabilization of the Caucuses and one of Russia's major oil transit, nor was it just their aim to buy Islamic good will by once again betraying Christ and Christians (a rather strong cord in all modern Western politics is the hatred of ancient Christianity), the full aim was the total dismemberment of Russia and the draining of her resources and brain power to a point that was unreachable even with the Puppet Yeltsin and his traitorous elites in power.
Thus the monies that were laundered from Russia through Western banks, just as often wound up financing Islamic jihadist and other smaller rebellious groups as in staying in some Oligarch's or Western politician's bank account.
As Madam Halfbright..er Albright once said about Russia: "Siberia has to many resources for one nation (Russia) to hold". This of course from the same woman, the same Secretary of State, who was quoted as saying "why have a military if you can't use it?". To this end, the US once more attempted to forge a Siberian Republic, even going as far as printing separate currency, which thankfully never saw the light of day and still lays in Switzerland. A giant country like this, with only 20 million people, would have been forced to seek DC protection (and absolute and devastating exploitation) or face Chinese annexation. Again, thank Christ, this plan was short lived and Russian nationalism once more won the day.
4. The West expanded an alliance to include all of the Warsaw pact and parts of the former Soviet Union
The West gave Gorbachev a promise: leave East Germany and eastern Europe, allow us to reunify the Germans and NATO will not move West. That lasted all of about 2 years and the march by an anachronism that should have been dissolved shortly after the Warsaw Pact, has been on for the better part of 15 years. NATO has now fought 3 wars of aggression: bombing Bosnian Serbs, bombing Yugoslavia and now mired in Afghanistan. NATO has further tried to absorb Ukraine and Georgia, after US/EU revolutions installed properly pliant Marxists and has even approached Azerbaijan, an Islamic dictatorship (really monarchy) for membership.
Surely if the Western backed Islamic coup in Uzbekistan had succeed in 2003, NATO would be inviting them in also.
Why should Russia ever trust an armed militancy of Christless atheists and their Islamic thugs?
5. The West bombed Russia's closest ally Serbia
In blatant support of Islamic jihad in Bosnia and the Serbian province of Kosovo (and later without bombs but with cash in Macedonia) the West has attacked Russia's closest ally while doing everything it could to expand the presence of Islamic jihadists in the Balkans. In pure hypocritical double speak, it calls the wars it caused and the Jihadist states it created: "bringing stability to the region."
The commander of NATO, Wesley "conquerer" Clark even threatened to sink Russian, Chinese, Indian and Ukrainian neutral shipping and clucked that if they didn't like it, he would be in Moscow in 30 days. I am assuming he meant after a leisurely bike ride there, since NATO can ask their grandfathers how well that went last time....those who have grandfathers.
6. The West back every Jihad aimed at Orthodox Christians
The West has whored itself so blatently to Islam for the past 17 years that even many of it's less than free and kept in the dark people have started to take notice. So the basic pattern is set: if the West (particularly the Anglo-sphere of the US and UK) go to war with Muslims over anything (usually idealism and resources) they will than back stab and sacrifice some smaller Christian group. Various examples have been: Orthodox Armenians and Orthodox Assyrians and Orthodox Iotolan Greeks in Turkey; Cypriot Orthodox Greeks in Cyprus; Bosnian, Serbian and Macedonia; Orthodox Coptics in Egypt; Orthodox and Methodist southern Sudanese; Orthodox and Catholic Iraqis; Catholic Lebanese; Palestinian Orthodox and Catholic Christians and various other small groups around the world.
After all, some sacrifices must be made for the Anglo-West new order and whom to better get rid of then pesky Christians?
7. The West over threw Russia's allies and set up puppet Socialist regimes
There is no low the West has not sunk to, cultivating in a "rash" of color revolutions. The successful ones were in Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia (though that prime minister ended up bleeding out after a few gun shots) , Kyrgyzstan (where the new government was still pro-Russian but less so and Islamics were able to gain a lot of power in the south of the tiny country...and hundreds died in fighting) and Moldova (though in Moldova it was successful in making the communists puppets and "allies" to DC/Brussels in exchange for calling off the "spontaneous" revolution).
Western victories in Ukraine (where even Una-Unsa, the local nazi party, was sponsored with American taxpayer dollars) was to tear that country away from Russia, against the will of most of it's people. Another by product of the Orange socialists and Trotskytes that the West bought and placed in power, was a total return to controlled markets, market price setting by the government and an over all ruined economy. In the first year growth fell from 13% (prior to DC/Brussels socialists) to less than 3%. Of course natural gas theft has skyrocketed back up.
In Georgia, the American trained lawyer Saakashvili has gone out of his way to close independent media, kill political opponents (to include his own prime minister and 2nd) and beat demonstrators, but since he supports NATO expansion and gives comfort to Islamic jihadists heading to Russia, he's A OK with the West.
The failed ones were in Uzbekistan (where the West hired Islamic radicals out of Pakistan and Afghanistan to over throw the secular dictator Islam Karimov). Luckily for Karimov, he had a lot less scruples about using violence than in Ukraine or Georgia and the Western bought Jihad Revolution died in blood and army steel. Of course this cost the US a nominal ally and won Russia an absolute ally and cost NATO an airbase.
Armenia's color revolution also failed, but cost the lives of hundreds in street fighting. Belarus was smart enough to head off it's color revolution.
The attempted color revolution in Russia never got started, no matter how much money the US and EU poured into Other Russia and it's main party the National Bolshavik Workers' Party aka Nazis. Simply put, Russians have long memories and still felt the pain of Western rape through the 90s. No thanks.
8. The West actively supported sellout candidates in Russia with illegally given financial aid and revolutionary training.
With the Liberals in Russia a non-starter, seeing how Yabloka still can't come up with any new ideas it has not tried in the 1990s and still will not denounce the Oligarchs who raped Russia and were its party members and the more radical oligarchs in exile (mostly in Britian), the West found another sell out horse to bet on: Other Russia.
Other Russia's leader was Gary Kasparov, a former chess champ who is also a New Jersey resident. He is famous for giving interviews outside of Russia, declaring how stupid and loathsome Russians are. His in-country support barely topped 2%. Then there was his partner and head of the People Democratic Union leader Mikhail Kasyanov (who was nicknamed Misha 2% for the commission he took on giving away Russian state assets to oligarchs and Western businesses at fire sale prices) and finally the majority of the party (yes there were other minor and just as corrupt sellouts besides these three clowns, but they are not worth mentioning) Eduard Limonov (a criminal, wanna be revolutionary, rumored homosexual), leader of the National Bolshevik Workers' Party aka Nazis.
Yes American and EU taxpayer monies went to support this scum, in an effort to once again sell Russia down the river. Glory to God the people were wiser.
9. The West financed the National Bolshevik (Socialist) Workers' Party aka Nazis in Russia
That's right, Freedom House (a US government front) gives monies directly to Other Russia. First, this action is just as illegal in Russia as the Chinese paying the Democrats under Clinton or the Arabs the Republicans under Bush I and II. But being hypocrites is not something that DC ever lost sleep over.
Furthermore, Kasparov, their former top candidate and New Jersey resident and his personal party were and are the minority party in Other Russia. The majority is Limonov's National Bolshevik Workers' Party aka National Socialist Workers' Party aka Nazis...and the only difference is, out goes the swastika and in comes the hammer and sickle. Yes sir, American freedom lovers, your tax dollars support the Russian Nazi party, just like they support that black sheep member of the Ukrainian Orange Coalition of Trotskytes: Una-Unsa, the Ukrainian Nazi party. I'm sure your grandfathers who fought Hitler are so proud of you for standing up to this. Right? Right?
10. The West tore up its military agreements as soon as they became inconvenient.
The moment these treaties no longer felt "right" to the West, primarily the anti-missile defense treaties, out they unilaterally went. The West has proven itself an absolute lying hypocrite on every international law it has sponsored, the moment those laws get in the way of some power mad president and his ambitions to nation build and spread Trotskyte Marxist "Democracy" abroad.
It's bad enough that most of the West resembles a police state, but they insist on spreading these joys to everyone else. Radicals of the Left, the West as a whole.
11. The West stopped Russia from bombing the Taliban and gave them money...that is until the Taliban helped attack the West.
What was George Bush's first actions? To continue the Clinton legacy of supporting the Taliban against the Russian, Kazakhstani, Indian, Iranian supported Northern Alliance. America wanted a pipeline and to that end it needed stability, regardless of what radicals and fanatics sat on the throne. Regardless of the drugs flowing out (and incidentally, since the US take over in Afghanistan, all records in opium production have been broken...now that's progress).
Bush used the UN and NATO to push Putin away from bombing the Taliban. He than followed up this first act with a $48 million "gift" to the Taliban in May 2001. Want to be it did not come from his own pocket?
12. The West took Russia's aid in the WOT, in Central Asia and in usual Western gratitude, tried to oust Russia from the area.
Russia was the first to call America and offer aid. Russia has equally been the first and only (to include America) to put a monument in for the victims of 911, on American soil. Russia opened the way through to Afghansitan, allowing US and NATO bases in Central Asia. This aid was of course taken and then used to try and oust Russia out of Central Asia in the drive to encircle and neutralize and divide her. No Christian love there, no consciousness amongst the Western Marxists, only the drive to own all and control all.
Glory to Christ, that these attempts were mostly botched and back fired. But the damage in trust was finally fatal and the Russian elites were no longer under any delusions about what they are dealing with. When the next president comes in, regardless of who is elected, and this continues, as it must, there will be the final nail in any kind of out reach and trust.
13. The West is putting missile interceptor silos that could as easily hold short range ballistic nuclear missiles right on Russia's doorstep.
Is there any wonder that Russian generals would start threatening to put bombers back in Cuba? When the US now can hit Moscow in 5 minutes and has proven no quams about killing Orthodox Christian civilians, regardless of pretensions of not harming civilians. Be it Indians in the US, southerns in the Confederacy, Filipinos in the former colony, Germans and Japanese in their cities, Serbs in there cities or any such, civilians have been a target for over 200 years.
Damn right, Russian generals are worried.
14. The West tried and failed to take control of Russian key oil resources and in revenge has waged a non-stop propaganda war against Russia for 7 years.
One word: Khodorkovsky and that whole sordid affair with Exxon illegally buying (or rather trying to) Russia's main oil fields.
15. The West gives regular asylum to Islamic Jihadists wanted by Russia and to Russian criminals and criminal oligarchs while demanding Russia hand over her citizens on trumped up charges (extradition is illegal under the Russian constitution...not that laws matter to the West).
Amongst the various small fry of the Islamic Jihad, Chechen Edition, who have sought and gained sanctuary in either Western protected UAE or Qatar or Saudi (home of Jihad) Arabia there are the bigger fry who have gotten it directly in the US and UK.
The three biggest of course are Ilyas Akhmadov, the mouth piece of the (now dead) Islamic Jihad warlords Maskhedov and Basayev, who gained protection in the US and is now a regular contributor for the pro-Jihadest American Committee for Peace in Chchnya (ACPC). The leadership of ACPC reads like the who's who of Neocon power. That's right, the "with us or with the terrorists crowd" whores itself out to Islamic constantly, as long as its Russians, Serbs, Indians or others dieing. They even whore out what is supposed to be precious to them: Israel, by constantly pushing one Road Map to Peace (aka National Suicide) or another.
The UK has also given sanctuary both to an Islamic Chechen Jihadist and nuclear materials smuggler Ahmed Zakaev (business partner of now dead Islamic convert Alexander Litvenenko) and to the sponsor of the Chechen Jihad and former Russian Oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
16. The West despises Russian patriotism and Christianity and work hard to crush both
From constant negative press (seems the rule of thumb is 3 negatives for any 1 positive) to pushes for corrupt Western values, the onslaught on the cultural war is never ending. Be it the blocking of Russian channels by Western cable to the push by the international sodomites to run as offensive parades as possible through the streets of Russian cities to the endless Western Dhimmi support and cheer leading for Islam in Russia, the assault never rests.
Any radical movement or event is blown out of all proportion and echoed without end in every news paper, positive developments (if even reported) are shown as flukes of nature or the results of Russians doing something duplicitous to get it.
The West's war against Russia never paused and can no longer be claimed as a war against the Soviet Union. Many of the top proponents have come out and flatly shown themselves as the Russophobes they are...to the applause of the Western elites in general.
Why do they hate us? Because they fear us, because they fear that we stand in the way of their Trotskyte Marxist dreams of utopia. Russia's religious and cultural revival is not just a threat to the elites from Russia but a threat to their control of the whole of eastern Europe, espeically the Orthodox countries. God forbid it might give Germans or Frenchmen the ideas that their culture should not be subverted to the Anglo-Saxon bland and neutral corporate culture of non-culture. God forbid those same Germans or French might get the idea that what they have is worth fighting for.
And God forbid that Russia may once more take up her historic role as defender of Orthodox Christianity in Europe and Christianity in general amongst the Muslims. The owners of many of the West's elites' souls would not be happy. The light of truth shames the Devil and the souls he owns.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Lenin, Stalin and Company and Their Backers Must Stand Trial In Russia
To begin with, there should be a trial of the main founders and ring leaders. Let the Party set up it's defense, in a court trial, while the prosecution prepares its charges. In an open court, with cameras rolling, lets finally spill forth all the secrets, all the crimes of these murderers. Let the dead finally rise up and tell their stories of the depravation and mass murderer that they and their families suffered, first under Lenin and than under Stalin and his cronies Bera, Krushchov, Molotov and company. And of course do not leave out Iron Felix.
Let the people know the full truth. Let them judge first the murder of the Tsar and his family, the massacres of the Cossacks who resisted, the destruction of the Kulaks, the mass executions of the Officers, the founding of the Gulags. All this is only the Lenin era when Trotsky and Stalin were but henchmen and Polish Iron Felix was running rampent with his Red Terror of which he is the father and the Latvian Rifles were Lenin's own body guards.
Of course we must not forget to pull in the fathers of Wall Street, who for promises of free exploitation of Russia and her resources, were more than happy to bank roll the Communists. Let the truth come out and the blame fall fully.
We can than move on to Stalin, Trotsky and the rest of the pack of devils and equally their Western backers, be they Ford, Armnhammer or FDR himself.
The truth is demanding to come out and it's freedom will have several effects. One, it will finally destroy any credibility of the remaining Soviet icons and put the very Party on trial and thus lead to its final destruction.
Two, it will drive out any last vestiges of Sovietism from Russia and finally, severing those few remaining anchors, she will be able to return to the politics of pre-WW1,which made her a super power of the time. The Russian culture will finally be free of the last of the atheist net of communism.
Finally, it will show Wall Street for the soulless evil that it is, for the creditors of some of the worst in human suffering while enriching themselves on the spoils of blood and gold that they so love.
It is high time that this was done, it is high time that the innocents who were murdered have their day in court.
Let the chips fall where they may.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
US Presence in the Republic of Georgia is Russia's God Send
At first glance, this seems like a bad political position to be in, that and the military exercises on Russia's borders with Ukraine definitely seem to support the theory. But, when seen from the prism of asymmetric warfare, this is a great opportunity to strike the opponent where he is weakest.
First, the economic front. Georgia lies on the Baku-Cyphan oil pipeline, which delivers most of Azerbajani oil to market. The greater Caucus region is also home to 3 Russian pipelines that equally bring Russian, Kazakhstani and Uzebekistani gas and oil to market. The fact that Ukraine is also a massive transit for gas and oil to Europe and the Black Sea is now home to the Blue Stream gas line to southern Europe and Turkey, is a perfect reason to play up the potential hostilities in this region. Russian news should have a field day until the fact breaks through on Wall Street.
Now Washington has not only put Iran, the 4th largest oil producer under the gun and thus the Straits of Harmouz where 25% of the world's oil passes, but it has escalated tensions to the brink of war with Russia in regions that carry an addition 10-15% of the world's oil and well over 25% of the world's gas. For this reason alone, there should be an addition of 20% to the price of crude and gas. Oil should soon be heading into the $170 range or beyond and gas not far behind.
This threat alone should be enough to tear the EU's ailing heart out and could easily tip it the rest of the way into full blown recession. The various leaders of the EU are not stupid or blind, with the exception of the present Polish, Czech and Baltic leaders, of course, and will do everything they can to calm the situation, including getting as far away from Bush the Mad and his idiocies as possible.
Furthermore, America as a whole, with Iraq still a hot bed of violence, Afghanistan exploding to Iraq's levels and Iran paranoid enough to strike first, can not, with it's military stretched so thin, hold all these lines and give any kind of actual guarantee to Georgia. Of course the world's dieing hegemon will try...that's what insanity is all about, trying the impossible, failing miserably and never having to take responsibility. To that degree, the US military will be that much more pinned down to the point where the whole of the Farse on Terror and thus the legacy of Bush will be close to utter collapse.
Meanwhile, with the US economy in recession, the added pressures will tip it further still, eventually to the point where the atheist Trotskyte Marxists who run the One Party Two Branch American political system, will no longer be able to afford it's military-industrial complex.
Thus a defunct NATO will finally go the way of the Warsaw Pact, 17 years later than it should have.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Russia Must Defend Herself Assymetrically In Europe
And while NATO is richer and militarily stronger then Russia, Russia has two major weapons to use to defend herself and push back the latest incarnation of slavery in the world. No, I am not talking about oil and gas.
I am talking about Religion and Culture, both of which are poison to the Trotskyte Marxists who are working hard to create a Godless, mono-cultured civilization, just like dear Leon wanted. Be it from billboard advertisement of gay sex to Macedonians or teaching Christless greed for money to Romanians or in directly and monetarily supporting Una-Unsa (Ukraine) and National Bolshevik Workers Party (Russia) both Nazi parties, the West is on the march, a final death march...one that will either bring a Marxist "utopia" or destroy the western civilization that the Godless elites of those nations have created in the past 30 years.
The elites of eastern Europe have easily adapted to their new masters, giving up one Marxist ideology for another, but this one with a much better PR machine. How else does one understand how a country such as Czech, where 80% of the population was against recognizing Kosovo and where over 70% were against any US radar bases, could be so aptly ignored by it's rulers?
To these threats, Russia has to answer by winning the hearts of the people. This will of course be easier with the Orthodox nations than the Catholic ones, but between Religion AND Culture, these are a powerful one two punch.
To make this a success, Russia must engage the local civil society on all levels, from the churches to Russian media, to Russian sponsored and Russian volunteer driven aid and development projects. Russian charities must be seen out in strength supporting the impoverished of eastern Europe. Cultural exchanges and scholarships to Russian universities must be thick and continuous.
Though the past 80 years, due to the ideological wars of the Russian Revolution, WW2 and the Cold War, upset the natural order and balance of nations, these must pass and the deep cultural memory is still in tact. This is a memory of 1. the Slavic peoples as a whole (Panslavicism), 2. Strong Christian faith, particularly Orthodoxy, 3. the fight against Islam (the Balkans were the beneficiaries of Russian treasure and blood for centuries) especially against the hated Turks and 4. natural alliances (this was of course more so to Austria and Czech.
Russia must uphold conservative organizations in eastern Europe, ones fighting to preserve their faith and culture against the Christless Western assault on all things historical and sacred. Russia must be seen as the champion of the traditionalists and thus the very soul of these nations. Symbols like the Tsars of Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and the King of Greece, all forced out by the communists and or western aid and despised now by the "democratic" West, are very powerful symbols of stability and tradition for these nations.
The peoples of these nations must come to see Russians as their closest brothers and sisters, so that the actions of their elites are seen for what they are: destructive of their subjects and hateful of God. Only than will the people revolt and bring about the natural, God given order of things.
This will not be a short struggle but it is one of vital need. The remaining Marxists, the Godless Trotskytes, must be stopped.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
The Hypocrisy of American "Democracy"
But even as a democracy, America is a perverse one, more akin to a Marxist creation, not quite Stalinist Soviet and not quite Trotskyte Nazi, but something of a hybrid of both. It is a democracy where the rights of the minority, such as the homosexuals and Muslims, routinely trumps the rights of the Christian majority, who are viewed by the elites as a vast unwashed, ignorant economic unit to be taxed as needed, bled for the right causes (and there are tons of these right causes) in foreign wars and socially experimented on, at the elites' whim.
It is a democracy where children are forced to accept homosexuality as a "normal" lifestyle and are even taught the details of homosexual sex and encouraged to experiment and parents who protest to loudly can be arrested (state dependent but the number of states where this is true is quickly growing). It is also one where the Islamic faith is taught in school...do not mistake what I am saying with historical knowledge of the Muslim world, but actual tenants of Islam and why they should be followed by the very children who are being brainwashed. It is a democracy where illegal Hispanic aliens have greater rights in 3 of the biggest US cities (Los Angeles, Houston and San Fransisco) than the actual native and legal residents. Where laws like drinking and driving and seat belts, etc do not apply to them.
Of course the most interesting thing about this, is the passivity of the 95% of that vast serfdom. After all, it is the slave who thinks himself a free man who makes the best slave.
But what about the media and the elections? The elections are done in a style very reminiscent of the old soviet system. Each of the two main parties (and everything in the system and media and big business is set up to support these two "parties", really more branches of one party) selects a candidate through a convoluted system of caucuses, where mass corruption is the name of the game. If the wrong candidate looks winnable, such as Dr. Ron Paul, the system is often rigged to exclude his supporters or to change the voting rules. Even if law suits win against these arbitrary changes, by the unelected local leadership, it's a Pyhrric victory at best, as by that point the ballets are already cast and the party candidates are "chosen". Of course this is set at the outset by party leadership and in truth there is precious little difference between the hard left Democrats and the not quite as hard left Republicans.
Actual conservatives and nationalists are deemed fringe candidates. Again, with the example of Dr. Ron Paul, who was branded a radical fringer. What was so radical about his views? He demanded the government follow the very Constitution it professes to use as its basis and whose example it used to beat nations all over the world on the head with. In truth, the government of America is an illegal entity whose basis is only a shadow of its own Constitution and who in truth has little right to do the things it does, such as regulate schools, medical care, pensions, etc. Even issues such as drinking ages, clearly the ownership of states, are regulated by the central government, through bribes of Federal (read tax payer) monies.
These very issues caused the American Civil War, one won not so much by the Federal North but by the clique of communists (German refuges of the failed 1848 socialist Europe wide revolution) who surrounded Abraham Lincoln and helped found the Republican party. Many of these men were on first name basis and pen pals of Karl Marx and were rewarded by Lincoln with 8 generalship, 10 colonelships in the Union Army and several Secretarial (Minister) level posts. Since than, to greater and greater extent, the Reds have held power in Washington and NYC and have used that influence to shape the form of the world: be it funding the over throw and murder of the Holy Tsar or the creation of the socialist United Nations and its predecessor the League of Nations or the equally socialist World Trade Organization and it's Marxist plank of Free Trade.
Of course, none of this could be possible without the full support of the Fourth Estate, the so called free press. In truth, America has Freedom of the Press but do not mistake this with a Free Press. The main press outlets are owned by the very interests who control the government and thus do little actual questioning and only pandering to the presidents in power. Glaring issues, such as McCaine temper or his pandering to Albanian Islamics or Obama's crooked cronies and political associates from Chicago, his former Islamic life (and why if he actually renounced Islam, he is not targeted for death as all Islamic apostates are) or for that matter, his extreme Marxist views, are never questioned. Nor is it questioned what price the public will pay for the amnesties that both candidates promise for the 20 million or more illegals. Thus any issue that directly impacts the public negatively and will be pushed down the throat of the serfs, is at best sugar coated or at worst ignored.
When rivals like Dr. Ron Paul rise up and dare to actually win or come in second (Dr. Paul came in second in 4 states) during primaries, they are constantly ridiculed by the main line press or ignored. In truth, ignoring all that is important is the way of the American Fourth Estate. The Public is constantly fed celebrity gossip and staged or exaggerated people stories, like the boy who falls down the well. That the war may be taking a bad turn or the economy may be collapsing is all but ignored but a who killed whom or some other such is constantly talked about, constantly beamed into the heads of the dumbed down serfs. The Romans had a name for this: bread and circuses, except in America, the profit margin is taken one step further with only circuses on TV and no bread.
Thus, for those who do not understand what they envy and emulate, a warning: unless you are one of the elites who wishes to own serfs and rule in a Orwellian new reality, be careful for what you ask for.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Chronicles of the Dark Messiah: Chapters II & III
CHAPTER II
When taking power, it is important
to remove all rivals by the use of
force and guile. The preferred
method is to kill off everyone up to
the third generation removed.
How To Rule, Dinarm the Despot
5 Marte AE 514
Itheti hid in the shadows beside her ornate dresser, its intricately carved siding pressed into her side. She grasped her dagger, her knuckles turning white from the strain. She was nearly invisible in the darkness, a shadow hiding among shadows. Somewhere on the other side of her bedchamber another shadow detached itself and stealthily made its way toward her bed, across rich fur rugs and past ancient antiques dating to the Exodus. She had placed pillows under the covers in the shape of a sleeping form. The shadow’s robes made only the slightest of whispers against the thick, ornate rugs.
This was the third attempt on Itheti's life and the Meliken princess was beginning to get the feeling that her oldest sister seriously wanted her dead. Tasha, one of her older sisters had died in riding accident only a week prior. There had been no witnesses and so it was chalked up as a most unfortunate occurrence. Regardless, everyone knew what it meant and who was behind it. In Melik, power was transferred along the female’s lines.
Melik was a civilized land, or so its inhabitants chose to believe. It lay in the northwestern Inner Sea Lands. Melik was a small kingdom and until recently little known to the rest of the Inner Seas Lands. That had started to change with the rise of Queen Gurembthi. Meliken merchantmen were now found in most ports and its neighbors had begun to look up to it, instead of just ignoring it. Even the troublesome Urgi Hills had begun to be cleared and settlements had sprung up all along their fringes. Melik politics, however, were ruthless and a gentle ruler rarely lasted very long, regardless of how popular she was with the people. Itheti’s mother had died, mysteriously, a month before. While the High Priestesses of the State Goddesses investigated, power politics were played out.
Six days prior, her taster, a slave named Yask, had died from poison figs brought to her for breakfast. She had watched helplessly as the poor wretched man writhed about on the floor, the poison running its course. It had been a particularly horrid death. Three days later an Arr, a deadly Meliken serpent, was lying under her pillows. It’s poison now covered her dagger.
The would be assassin was now hovering above her bed, a foot long dagger raised above his head, ready to strike. Nervously and ever so slightly, Itheti brushed away the blue-black strand of hair that had come loose from her braid.
The assassin struck, slicing through the covers and the pillows below. Goose down spilled into the air with every rise of the dagger. Before the assassin could realize that his target was but a set of pillows, the bedroom door slammed open. “Princess?” the urgent voice of the silhouette in the door way called.
The assassin spun, sending the dagger flying at the new comer. It crashed harmlessly against the hallway wall. As fast as the dagger flew, the assassin was moving, drawing another pair free from wrist sheaths. The assassin struck feet first into the startled new comer’s chest, sending him to his back.
Itheti saw her chance and struck. Gathering her knees beneath her, she sprung, a half audible cry escaping from her clenched lips.
As if sensing Itheti’s attack before it happened, the assassin spun, dropping back. It was to late. Itheti’s dagger scrapped the top of the assassin’s forearm, slicing through the thin black robes. That was all it took. The convulsions were almost instantaneous as the poison ran through the system, paralyzing the muscles. The assassin’s knees buckled. The blades fell to the floor from lifeless hands. A half choked grunt escaped as the body fell lifelessly to the thick carpets at Itheti’s feet.
“Princess? Are you alright?” The hulking giant in chainmail rose from the floor. He picked up his dark blue beret, fluffing up the yellow-red feather. Satisfied, he replaced the beret on his head. Fixing his sword belt so that the gemmed long sword once more sat comfortably on his hip, he knelt beside Itheti, who was now attempting to roll the assassin’s body over. He finished the task for her.
“Yes Utheata, I’m fine. Thank you for the dagger you brought me.”
“But how? How did you kill him so?”
“Her,” Itheti corrected. She had removed the assassin’s hood and long nutmeg brown hair had spilled forth. Pale, sightless blue eyes stared back at them, framed in a delicate young face. “Sarren,” Itheti made the statement quietly, almost remorsely. “ I remember how we used to play together. Down in the central halls, when mother was alive.” She brushed the loose strands of hair from her would be assassin’s face, ever so gently. “Sarren always wanted my sister’s attention. I guess she had to earn it, and my death was the task. Earn it with my life.” A tear rolled down her cheek, falling on the corpse’s still lips. Soon others followed.
Utheata placed his massive hands on the princess’ shoulders, pulling her into his embrace, while she sobbed. Utheata could not help but turn red. Though his massive features and battle hardened skills made his job easy, he had little experience in matters such as these.
With a finale shudder, Itheti regained control of herself. “As for how, I used the venom of the Arr.” she finally stated, her voice was still shaky.
“Good girl.” Utheata patted her back lightly. “But we must leave and now. Evrit is making her finale move. The guards just found the bodies of your younger sister Sheph and your brother. Apparently some one paid the guards off and sliced their throats while they slept.”
“Sheph and… and Kovil? Why Kovil? He’s male and just a baby. He couldn’t possibly pose a threat.” Desperation was working into her voice.
“I guess she’s not taking any chances. Regardless, we must leave and now. A dozen of my men are awaiting us.” He spun her around, desperate to shake her out of her stupor.
“Ye...yes we must. But Utheata, what of you? You are Captain of the Guard.”
“What is a title with no honor? I swore to your mother that while I lived so would you. Besides Princess, I…I lov…” Utheata stopped. He grasped his sword hilt and spun around on his heel. “Gather your things, its time to go. And pack lightly.”
CHAPTER III
May my arrow fly true and my
prey run sluggish, and my luck be
ten fold ten.
Ancient prayer.
5 Marte AE 514
Misha crept silently through the tall grass, an arrow notched in the wood and sinew bow, which his hands held tightly. He stopped and parted the tall grass stocks to get a clear view of the surrounding lands.
For three hours Misha and his best friend Alexid had been tracking the small reddish Nexri deer. The small deer were numerous in these plains, moving northwards with the first thaws. There meat was a major substance for the border settlements and their spotted, soft pelts were highly prized in the western cities of Varseer.
The previous year’s harvests had been especially bad and the harsh winter had depleted the food stocks dangerously. Food was in high demand in Ikarisgrad. It wasn't a large settlement, a town of medium size, built from wooden logs harvested from the nearby forests. The people were a rough, frontier type who were used to the usual hardships. But this year's were worse then usual. Ikarisgrad made its living primarily off of pelts and furs and some limited trade with the western nomads. Sustenance came from the surrounding fields and was rarely, even in the good seasons, enough to export. The previous year had seen a drought, followed by a harsh winter.
Varseer, itself was the northern most Khurillian kingdom. It was considered pagan and back wards by the other Khurillian kingdoms, especially by Atanya across the southern borders. Atanya dominated the western Inner Sea Lands, none were able to challenge her power in this part of the world. Atanya was also very expansionistic. This had given the kings of Varseer many sleepless nights. As things stood, Ikarisgrad was not pagan, having been long ago converted by Atolin’s missionaries, it was just a poor frontier town.
They had had to wait until the snows had started to truly melt before the herds would return. Thankfully, it had been an early spring. The sun had come a month early to melt the winter frosts and return life to the land. Now they would return with meat for their families and even enough to sell and buy those things their families could never afford. Maybe, Misha dreamed, something special for mother and the sisters, something special for Saint Savash’s Day. Some sweat meats would definitely be good or maybe even some of that blue lace he had seen at Tugev’s store. Misha smiled, dreaming of his yet unfounded wealth.
Crawling another couple of paces, Misha again gently pushed the grass stalks aside and peered about. A herd of twenty or so Nexri was grazing a mere forty yards away. It was then that Misha noticed the black flying shapes. Vultures! His gaze naturally followed their flight path down to a large knurled oak and the figure crucified upon it. After several moments of observation he was about to give the figure up for dead, when he finally noticed movement. It was not much, just a feeble attempt to drive the crouching vultures away. Misha rolled over on his back and signaled for Alexid to move up beside him. Just as stealthily, Alexid made his way over to Misha’s side. Alexid smoothed his short blonde mustache as he followed Misha’s out stretched hand. His expression visibly soured.
“What do you think it is? You’ve got the better sight.” Misha asked.
“Well it’s a woman, that’s for sure. Either that or a guy that sure as hell looks like a woman. Maybe that’s why they hung him there?” Alexid answered.
Misha ignored that last comment. “Then we need to help her, Alexi.”
“No! No way, Misha. I say we get the deer and get the hell out of here. If she’s on that tree then it’s because someone wanted her there. I don’t want to be crossing anyone’s business. Do you here me Mish? Mish?” Alexid’s face betrayed the worry he felt. He knew Misha was idealistic and impulsive and that could definitely lead to trouble.
“But Alexi, you know what Atolin teaches. How can you claim to be a true follower and….”
“Now why do you have to go and put the good god’s good name into this?” Alexid knew Misha had him cornered. Finally he decided to just give in and let Misha play hero. “Fine, we’ll help her, but first we’ve got to get the deer. I for one, am not coming home to my mother empty handed.”
“But the girl…” Misha started to further protest.
“Has been up there for god knows how long and will last a little longer.” Alexi answered firmly.
“Fine, we shoot the deer and then get the girl.” Misha agreed enthusiastically, his face lighting up. Alexid only shook his head slightly.
*****
Fifteen minutes later, they were five paces apart and inching along through the grass. They had left their doe skin packs back on the hill from which they had first spotted the deer and the girl.
Reaching their destination, Misha looked over at Alexid and smiled. A grasshopper, small and green, sat perfectly camouflaged on a stalk of young spring grass in front of him. With the slight movement, he jumped up and landed on Misha’s hand. Almost absent mindedly Misha flung him off. He signaled to Alexid with his fingers: one, two, three… In one fluid motion the two young men stood and fired. Before the herd could react, one deer was already down and another, the one Misha had shot at, was running. He was not worried however, the shaft was through the heart, and it would not get far.
The race was on. The herd ran for safety. The hunters continued to fire. Alexid was the better of the two shots and fired twice. His arrows found home, downing a six point buck, whose reddish brown antlers would fetch a fine price with the herb and medicine makers. Misha was not as good. His first arrow went wide, the doe he was tracking dodged right at the last second. His second arrow downed her. He tried for another but the hit was superficial, sticking into the skin at the animal’s nape. Alexid had downed two more by then. Cursing his luck, Misha moved towards the deer he had felled, to finish them off if they still breathed and to retrieve his shafts. Arrows cost money after all.
“Hay, don’t worry, we agreed to split evenly.” Alexid called out from behind him.
“Yeah, yeah, what ever.”
“I’m going back for the horses, Misha, why don’t you start treating the kills?” Alexid called up.
“As soon as I can take care of the girl.” Misha felt annoyed by his friend’s luck and skill. He did not know which ate at him worse.
“Yeah, right.” Alexid replied with obvious distaste for the whole idea. “I don’t suppose you’d reconsider, eh?” He asked tentatively.
Mish just shot him a black look. “No! It’s the right thing to do, and by Atolin, I’m going to do it.”
Alexid shrugged, defeated. “Yeah, I thought so.”
*****
Days, nights, how many, how many had passed? Long before she had lost track of time. All that was left to tell her that the day passed was the lack of warmth of the sun upon her darkened, parched skin. Still even that sense passed as the thirst over took all else. The rain had passed, cold and stinging, and with it had come her survival, her prolonged agony. What was it for? What gods played with her fate? They had to be of the enemy for she had no gods. She was Hekesh, and her totem was either dead or it had deserted her and her people and might as well be dead. Her people? Who were they? The Dire Wolves ran no more.
For hundreds of seasons the Dire Wolves had held these lands, moving across them with their herds as they pleased. Here they had been feared by all. The Khurillian princes had feared their raids, paying tribute to them. The Orks and Wolfen? They were extinct here, long ago driven away or destroyed. Her grandsire had passed those tales on to her, of his exploits against the submen and their ilk. So why should they not have been proud? They had every right to be. It was that pride, however, that had killed them. Killed them to the last.
The Dire Wolves were no more. With that had died all of her hope and love for life. What was there possibly left? The Grey Riders and their subject tribes had defeated them. They had shattered them and then they had scattered them, and at their leisure had hunted them down. None were left, none but her. She had watched her sire, Kebutsi, cut down. His blood splashed upon the young green grass, his head raised upon a war banner of the new Khan. Now Keliki hung on this tree, a sign to all those who opposed the Khan and his new order.
Anger, sorrow, self-pity, all had died within her. Only hatred, purest hatred kept her alive on this the fifth day. The vultures continued to circle. She had crushed the skull of one with a well-placed kick and apparently the rest had decided to stay clear until such time as they were sure she was dead.
The pain came from all over, surrounding her, smothering her. It was like a dull roar in her mind, blocking out all other senses. It came not just from the crusifiction but also from the beatings and the rapes. It was the way of the Hekesh, the way of her people.
She was delirious. It was the last desperate attempts of her mind to save some shred of her sanity by blocking out the pain of her tortured body. Several times she had seen her father coming for her. Coming to save her. If not Kebutsi, then there was Uxiak, the young warrior who had courted her, but mere days ago. Days ago? What were days? Eternity.
It was just as Uxiak disappeared again that a new hallucination began. Something breaking the chain, her tortured mind observed. Two men rose from the grasses. The nearest was just short of six feet, with light brown hair in a short pony tail that hung behind his head. He was handsome and youthful. The other was a bit shorter, with light blonde hair and a bushy mustache. He was of stockier build then his companion, muscles easily defined under his hide jerkin. His face was set in a look of concentration. Both wore brown leather breaches and shirts, intricate designs of deer and flowers and other patterns covered them. Leather vests covered their chests. They held bows in their hands, sending arrows flying toward the deer that had been grazing in the field below her, oblivious to her presence. The dark haired one was also armed with a short sword that hung from his belt. His friend had a pair of small hand axes. They were both Khurillian.
Having killed several of the deer, they split up: one headed east, up the hill; the other headed towards her. Keliki started to laugh, a dry mirthless laugh that hurt her throat and sent her into a gagging cough. Either her mind was totally gone or she was about to be rescued by a Khurillian. For what? More rape? More torture? The Khurillians hated the Hekesh. They called them slant-eyed demons and made icons depicting their saints slaughtering the invading horsemen.
For their part, the Hekesh had given them every reason to hate. Ever since the first arrival of the Khurillian, in what the round eyes had called the Great Exodus, to this side of the Inner Sea Lands, the Hekesh had begun raiding and pillaging the new comers for booty, slaves and sport. Non-the less, the Khurillians survived, prospered and steadily moved west. The mutual hatred ran deep.
Keliki closed her eyes for several minutes, hoping the delusions would pass. When she opened them again, the young Khurillian stood ten paces away, a skinning knife in his hands. He watched her intently. He was attractive, for a Khurillian, she noted bitterly. She gathered her strength to kick him.
The kick turned out to be little more then the bending of her knees. The man did not even notice it. He moved past her. Blood suddenly poured into her arms and the pain that followed almost made her loose consciousness. Her legs were too weak to hold her and she collapsed. The last thing Keliki saw was the young Khurillian setting her gently on the ground.
The young Grey Rider saddled his pony. Adjusting his wool cloak, he gazed back down upon the field and the execution tree below. A fire blazed below the tree. The Khurillian had built a fire and had covered up the Dire Wolf bitch. He could see the other Khurillian leading three horses back, while a huge hound pounded behind.
He spat in disgust. He would return and report this insult to the Khan. The Khurillian had to be from the settlement ten leagues to the east. He smiled, a broad, broken toothed smile. The Khurillian town would burn for his. The first of many. Again he smiled, remembering the words of the Khan, his oratory of how the New Order, the united tribes, would sweep through the
*****
Alexid guided the horses back to the tree, Chorni, his hunting hound ran circles around him, excited by the smell of the fresh kills. “Soon Chorni, soon.” Alexid assured the impatient hound. Despite the day’s good fortunes, Alexid still felt dismay. They should have left the girl on the tree, hell they should have picked a different valley all together. If only Misha was not so idealistic. He had a dark feeling that life would soon teach Misha its lesson, and him by association.
Alexid made Atolin’s sign over his heart to ward off ill fortune.
It had started to drizzle by the time Alexid reached the
“Is that her?” he asked Misha, pointing to the form lying close to the fire. Something about Misha’s expression set him ill at ease.
“Yeah, that’s her.”
“Well lets have a look at her then.” Alexid started to move toward the sleeping girl. Misha jumped up between them. The flickering light of the campfire illuminated the sweat on his face. He was fidgeting. He’s nervous, Alexid suddenly realized.
“Ahh… I think I need to tell you something about her first.” Misha started, his voice cracking slightly.
“Well what is it? Are you afraid I’ll fall prey to her beauty?” Alexid asked amused. His face showed a slight smile.
“Ahh…no, no not quite.” Misha answered weakly.
“Is she a witch then? The famous Baba Rhedaga maybe? Honestly Misha, you’re acting foolishly. How bad can it be? She’s not an Ork is she?”
“No, not exactly....um, well actually, she's a..a Hekesh.” Misha answered quickly, as if trying to get the words out faster then Alexid could comprehend them.
All emotion drained from Alexid’s face. In one sudden movement he threw Misha aside and was at the girl’s side, rolling her over with one hand, his dagger already free in the other.
“NO!” Misha screamed as he blind-sided Alexid, tackling him to the ground. They went down in a tangle of arms and legs, punching and kicking, the dagger lost in the melee.
“Are you two done?” a weak feminine voice interrupted the scuffle. The two combatants stopped, staring slack jawed at the Hekesh woman reprimanding them. She was raised up on her elbows. “Good, I can go to sleep then.” she said bitingly. “By the way if don’t close your mouths, something might fly in.” Their jaws shut with audible thumps. The fact she spoke Khurillian was amazing enough.
Alexid flushed in temporary embarrassment. The feeling did not last long. As he gathered his wits about him. Alexid tossed Misha off of him and got to his feet. Doing so, he rounded on his friend, rage upon his face. “A Hekesh bitch? Are you out of your frigging mind, Misha?”
“Atolin doesn’t care about such things, the God…”
“Atolin be damned!” Alexid was screaming now, the blood vessels in his forehead bulging. "I lost two uncles and a cousin, Atolin rest her soul, to those barbarians! Now you're nursing one?"
Now it was Misha’s turn to become enraged. He lurched to his feet, screaming back at his friend. “Don’t you talk about Atolin that way!” His fists balled up ready for another round of fighting.
“First of all, I am not a bitch!” Both men stopped again, as the woman spoke. “Second of all, I never asked for your assistance, but since you gave it, I’m in your debt, something I’ll be sure to pay...” she grimaced in pain “…as soon as I bodily can. Anything to be rid of the two of you.” She paused for a short breath. “Now I’m going to sleep, so keep the noise down.” She rolled over, facing away from them.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Moscow City Photos Pt 1
This is a restaurant that hangs over the 3rd belt line around Moscow and over the Moscow River.
This is the new Moscow business district under construction. By the 3rd belt line.
This is the view from the Moscow Hills. It was a bit foggy that day. Behind me stands the Foreign Affairs Ministry (State Department).
The Foreign Affairs Ministry
The Ukraina Hotel on the Moscow River, not far from Parliament.
This cat fish, along with 2 others refused to swim heads up and stayed upside down.