Once more the United State government, with the help of a cowardly, subservient media composed of the usual coalition of convenience o the war wing of the Democratic Party and the Neoconservatives, is sticking its nose where it does not belong. Attempting to follow up on the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the earlier disaster in the Balkans, the U.S. is now helping to stir the pot in the Ukraine. The political unrest in the Ukraine reeks of the stink of the influence of the CIA and other American “intelligence” agencies. The media is playing up reports of human rights atrocities on one side in the Ukrainian dispute in order to stir up conflict with Russia. As usual, President Obama, carrying forward the tradition of Ruaaia-hating in the United States, “warns” Russia not to be involved in the Ukraine.
The sheer hypocrisy of the United States is sickening. While the U.S. is no worse than other countries, its claim to be a shining city set on a hill somehow exempt from fallen human nature should turn the stomach of anyone not brought up on the gruel of American civil religion. The U.S. had no problem subjugating its own rebellious states with the loss of 600,000 lives, and it engaged in mass murder in the Philippines conflict in the early twentieth century after starting a war with Spain in 1898 which was about imperial conquest and nothing else. Since then American interventionism has increased, especially after Woodrow Wilson’s utopian scheme of spreading American democracy throughout the world.
Thus the United States interfered in a conflict in the Balkans it did not understand, leading to the victory of the enemies of the United States who funded Al Qaeda and other Muslim terrorist groups with American support. In Iraq, millions died, including many children, in America’s crusade against Saddam. In Afghanistan, the Taliban is poised to retake the country, which it will absent continual American intervention that can only, at best, delay the inevitable.
The issue between Russia and Ukraine is an issue between those two countries. It is none of the business of the United States. If Mr. Obama, who is outclassed by Mr. Putin in leadership in every respect, believes that the most effective Russian leader in fifty years will give up Russian naval bases in the Ukraine and avoid influencing a country which is of vital stragetic interest to the Russians, he is naive and foolish. Russia refuses to be kowtowed by American pressure to change its legal system to reflect American anti-Christian secular values. The newly rejuvenated Eastern Orthodox Russia has been a counterweight to the growing atheism, secularism, and watered-down Christianity of the United States, and the American elite classes resent that. The elites believe that they can teach Russia a lesson in the Ukraine. God forbid that they try to do so. As for warmongering Neoconservatives, if they wish to risk a nuclear war with Russia for the Ukraine, they are welcome to travel over there and fight themselves. To fight a war with Russia is sheer madness, and provoking them is close to insanity as well. The United States should get out of its empire mode and be a more modest nation. Hubris has been the downfall of many nations in human history. The United States, by overreaching itself in interventions that are none of its business and not in the U.S.’s national interest, needs to heed the proverb in the Bible: “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
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Mar 15, 2014 @ 21:50:20
Excellent.
Mar 19, 2014 @ 00:28:57
The presentation of the situation in Ukraine recently rivals the selling of the Iraq War. In Kiev we have a strong Nazi and anti-Semitic element involved in the new unelected government receiving support from the USA and the EU. And at the same time the French comedian Dieudonne being banned from performances for his lack of sensitivity to the Jews. We have a fairly prominent law professor at NYU supporting the position ( article in the Guardian) that the Crimean referendum is a violation of international law but unfortunately ignorant of Crimean history and forgetful of South Sudan and Kosovo. And finally for humor a philosophy professor who wants climate deniers imprisoned.
If for no other reason Putin’s reestablishment of the Russian Orthodox Church as the state church makes him an outstanding leader. Perhaps he has the destiny of being another Alexander Nevsky. All the West can do now is make fools of themselves and possibly push the questionable gov in Kiev into some kind of bloody conflict with Eastern Ukraine.
It is been some time since so many lies have been put forth by the media. It is really a very shameful display. It should be clear now that a nation without religion is blind and reckless having nothing solid to rely on. Both the USA and the EU seem like mere reflections without substance.
Mar 19, 2014 @ 14:45:53
Thanks, John. It is a shame that Russia is more of a religious nation than the United States which is rapidly descending into materialism and decadence. Western Europe is just as bad. When I was young, Russia was condemned for being atheistic; now the West condemns it for having an established church. Of course the media has lied about the Ukraine as has the U. S. government. It seems that the media is merely another branch of the U.S. government these days. I’m embarrassed to be an American.
May 08, 2014 @ 01:26:07
“While the U.S. is no worse than other countries . . . ” Of a nation with decades of prosperity and endowed with an exceptional location, more ought to be expected rather than less. So I would say the USA is worse than most nations. In one of those annual polls the USA and Israel both end up at or near the bottom with other most disliked nations. Who else has since WWII gone around the world stirring civil wars and national collapses? The USA is the world bully in my opinion. I still think usury is the root problem. Here is an interesting quote: ” The solution to the current economic crisis is the same solution to every other economic crisis of the past 500 years, namely, the elimination of usury. Once usury is eliminated from the economy, those who have profited from it—the Jews and the modern day Cahorsins—must make restitution.
They must return their ill-gotten usurious gains to the people from whom they stole them. We’re talking here about the transfer of roughly $15 trillion back into the pockets of American citizens:
“We need not start World War III to infuse sufficient amounts of money into the hands of the masses. Rather, it can be accomplished through the restitution of funds taken from people by banks and other lenders in the form of excess interest or usury.
“The magnitude of usury paid by the federal government alone since 1950 exceeds $6 trillion. If we to ad usury paid by individuals on their credit cards and home mortgages since 1950 the total would exceed $15 trillion or more than the total personal debt of the nation, which is a little under $14 trillion.”
Brian M. McCall, The Church and the Usurers: Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy
It is the oligarchs of the USA and the EU who are behind this latest madness. Proscribing usury would put them out of business. Ukraine is to be stripped of assets. Meanwhile Obama and Kerry have blood on their hands from Odessa. Imagine Americans supporting neo-Nazis! I guess they are all covertly Luciferians. I used to think that was just made up stuff–but I guess these people really believe in it.
May 08, 2014 @ 05:11:03
John, a lot of Christians and Muslims have profited from usury as well. Beirut was, at least before the civil war in the mid-1970s, a major banking center. In the Middle Ages, when Jews were banned from most professions, they had to survive somehow, and charging usury to Gentiles was their way out. Not all Jews were/are prosperous–some are poor and some are middle class.
Is usury the main cause of U.S. imperialism? Only in the sense that the government can borrow money to pay for weapons and military infrastructure. The Roman Empire had to tax its citizens into poverty to maintain the army near the end of the (Western) Roman Empire. Since the entire world economy is based on usury, other countries can borrow to build up what they will. It seems to me that if usury were eliminated all at once, it would lead to a collapse of the world economy–and I doubt it will end via voluntary choice. There are also other forces than economic ones that drive the military-industrial complex such as Democratic messianism and identifying God and country (Mormons, for example, believe they will rule the U.S. in the future–at Ft. Bragg, a large percentage of special forces soldiers are Mormons). The Romans were imperialistic even without usury; the tax collectors who made their income from taking an amount over and above what the Romans wanted from their district, played a big role in the success of the Roman imperial engine.
I agree on the Ukraine–supporting a Neo-Nazi government is wrong, stupid, and it approaches insanity. The Neocons want to go further and risk nuclear war with Russia. They should be the first to be sent to the front lines in any war.,
May 08, 2014 @ 17:11:49
I agree that the situation is far more complex than a simple matter of usury. However, it might not be a bad place to start a regeneration of societies. For example, the IMF tells Ukraine the 17 billion dollars is dependent on their bringing the Eastern area under control and that sets in motion attacks on that region. The IMF generally has a destructive effect wherever it turns. Also and this is a matter more of faith in the wisdom of others, for almost a millennium and a half the Church considered usury a very serious mortal sin. Now the Church actually encourages it having its own troubled banking enterprise. How would Christians feel if the Church now changes its position on homosexuality? It could. Or okay-ed pedophilia? I simply do not know enough economics to really fully grasp just how much the world is effected by usury. It would be nice to have an animated film done by experts showing the world with and without usury. But clearly the USA is run primarily by the rich and not by our elected officials. Unfortunately the rich are far from the wisest or smartest persons. As you say about usury’s elimination collapsing the world economy so ending the drug war would accomplish the same thing. In effect the world depends heavily on evil to keep going! What a strange realization that only serious sin keeps things going. Sounds like they need to stop. In a way by making the pursuit of knowledge, science, and the pursuit of excessive wealth and pleasure, the purported purpose of life, we end up with a world that no one really likes but which we can not do without. If pursuing wisdom and virtue were the accepted purpose of life, then we might not tinker with things like nuclear energy and DNA and risk destroying the planet!
Having carefully gone over and over the best available research on psychopathy (as a brain defect) and sociopathy, it is clear we have many political leaders in those categories. Whether Obama actually said as reported in a recent book “I am really good at killing” I do not know–but it matches his behavior and lack of remorse for any of his actions. I used to think that people claiming Lucifer as their god was just a spoof or joke, but apparently these people really think Lucifer is a power in their lives and one they want there. This is truly madness.
The solution in my opinion would be to turn back to a more agrarian life style. To promote simpler ways of life and to forgo much of what modern science has stirred up in people’s imaginations. Machines that read people’s minds, travel to other planetary worlds, faster this and that, etc. do not make for contentment of happiness or fulfilled lives. Urbane lives make for madness and mental illness.