russia-insider--2020-07-24--Dissident US Comedian Set To Deal Massive Legal Blow To Big Tech Censors (Owen Benjamin)

Nationalist comedian Owen Benjamin and 72 of his fans have won a tentative decision under California 's arbitration law , which was amended by legislation signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2019 to put the burden of fees in disputes on the party setting terms .
Prior to January 2020 , Patreon 's Terms of Service encouraged disagreements to be settled via arbitration under the assumption that the money and time required would discourage consumers from even trying .
In the case against Patreon , the matter in need of arbitration is related to the company 's abrupt banning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Benjamin and his fans argue that the deplatforming amounts to tortious interference in their business contract .
Thanks to Patreon , Benjamin can not comply with his contractual obligation of providing content for money to his followers due to the tech platform failing in its role as financial middleman .
Benjamin is asking for $ 3.5 million in damages .
What is unique about arbitration in California is that Patreon is on the hook for the legal and arbitration fees required for Benjamin and all 72 of the individual plaintiffs .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 10,000 to each individual complainant , which in total could cost the corporation 10s of millions of dollars regardless of outcome .
Patreon has reacted to this process in an aggressive manner .
They could make the whole thing go away simply by reinstating Benjamin 's account , but they decided to counter-sue and filed for an injunction against having to pay the fees for Benjamin 's fans , stating that they are ready to fight to `` keep hate speech off the platform . ''
An article on the leftist click farm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it as a corporation crushing little guys .
A dirty trick Patreon utilized was to change their Terms of Service shortly after Benjamin 's fans contacted them seeking arbitration -- a step Patreon demands first be taken before action is brought before mediators .
It seems unlikely that this will work .
The Benjamin `` bears '' -- as his fans refer to themselves -- were able to retain the consul of First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza , who appeared to defeat the arguments by Patreon 's lawyers in open court .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ injunction was won .
If the decision is made final , it will set a precedent that introduces an enormous cost for companies like Paypal , Stripe and other payment processors with arbitration clauses that like to destroy people 's livelihoods for their political beliefs .
Mike Cernovich has covered the case closely and is optimistic about its prospects .
Legal expert Nick Rekieta believes that this ruling could be a historic victory for free speech .
Reclaim The Net , an organization that fights for free expression on the internet , has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ workaround for Big Tech censorship . ''
Aside from the Daily Dot and a snarky blogpost on Patheos , the Jewish media is by and large refusing to even speak about the case even though many tech companies are watching proceedings closely -- evidence that they fear the likely outcome .
Countless lawsuits have been filed seeking to counter-attack against highly restrictive , college campus style tech multi-national censorship .
Jared Taylor recently wrote a piece describing his attempt in 2018 to sue Twitter over its ban of his organization , citing that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speech platform .
Taylor 's lawsuit was thwarted in a rare and politically motivated action by an appeals court after initially winning the right to have his case heard .
Jewish organizations will not allow their most powerful tool for stifling debate to be nullified without a fight .
There is a strong possibility that if Benjamin and the other plaintiffs are successful , California 's arbitration laws could be challenged by Big Tech all the way up to the Supreme Court .
If this were to happen , the court conservatives -- @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America over the rights of citizens -- could use its majority to rule that forcing Patreon to pay arbitration fees is unconstitutional .
This is ironic , as both Donald Trump and the Republican Party claim to oppose tech censorship , yet until Benjamin 's lawsuit , no serious move against it has been made .
A final ruling on Patreon 's injunction is slated to be made in the coming weeks .

A potential mechanism for punishing tech censorship has materialized.
Nationalist comedian Owen Benjamin and 72 of his fans have won a tentative decision under California's arbitration law, which was amended by legislation signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2019 to put the burden of fees in disputes on the party setting terms.
Prior to January 2020, Patreon's Terms of Service encouraged disagreements to be settled via arbitration under the assumption that the money and time required would discourage consumers from even trying.
In the case against Patreon, the matter in need of arbitration is related to the company's abrupt banning of Benjamin's page for political reasons. Benjamin and his fans argue that the deplatforming amounts to tortious interference in their business contract. Thanks to Patreon, Benjamin cannot comply with his contractual obligation of providing content for money to his followers due to the tech platform failing in its role as financial middleman. Benjamin is asking for $3.5 million in damages.
What is unique about arbitration in California is that Patreon is on the hook for the legal and arbitration fees required for Benjamin and all 72 of the individual plaintiffs. This means they must pay at least $10,000 to each individual complainant, which in total could cost the corporation 10s of millions of dollars regardless of outcome.
Patreon has reacted to this process in an aggressive manner. They could make the whole thing go away simply by reinstating Benjamin's account, but they decided to counter-sue and filed for an injunction against having to pay the fees for Benjamin's fans, stating that they are ready to fight to "keep hate speech off the platform." An article on the leftist click farm Daily Dot gloated about this, perceiving it as a corporation crushing little guys.
A dirty trick Patreon utilized was to change their Terms of Service shortly after Benjamin's fans contacted them seeking arbitration -- a step Patreon demands first be taken before action is brought before mediators. It seems unlikely that this will work.
The Benjamin "bears" -- as his fans refer to themselves -- were able to retain the consul of First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza, who appeared to defeat the arguments by Patreon's lawyers in open court. A July 13th tentative ruling rejecting Patreon's injunction was won. If the decision is made final, it will set a precedent that introduces an enormous cost for companies like Paypal, Stripe and other payment processors with arbitration clauses that like to destroy people's livelihoods for their political beliefs.
Mike Cernovich has covered the case closely and is optimistic about its prospects. Legal expert Nick Rekieta believes that this ruling could be a historic victory for free speech. Reclaim The Net, an organization that fights for free expression on the internet, has called the arbitration law a "legal workaround for Big Tech censorship." Aside from the Daily Dot and a snarky blogpost on Patheos, the Jewish media is by and large refusing to even speak about the case even though many tech companies are watching proceedings closely -- evidence that they fear the likely outcome.
Countless lawsuits have been filed seeking to counter-attack against highly restrictive, college campus style tech multi-national censorship. Jared Taylor recently wrote a piece describing his attempt in 2018 to sue Twitter over its ban of his organization, citing that it falsely advertised itself as a free speech platform. Taylor's lawsuit was thwarted in a rare and politically motivated action by an appeals court after initially winning the right to have his case heard.
Jewish organizations will not allow their most powerful tool for stifling debate to be nullified without a fight. There is a strong possibility that if Benjamin and the other plaintiffs are successful, California's arbitration laws could be challenged by Big Tech all the way up to the Supreme Court.
If this were to happen, the court conservatives -- which regularly put the interests of corporate America over the rights of citizens -- could use its majority to rule that forcing Patreon to pay arbitration fees is unconstitutional. This is ironic, as both Donald Trump and the Republican Party claim to oppose tech censorship, yet until Benjamin's lawsuit, no serious move against it has been made.
A final ruling on Patreon's injunction is slated to be made in the coming weeks.


russia-insider--2020-07-24--Aeroflot's Radical, 'Gutsy' New Strategy - Become Much Smaller, Focus on Long-Haul and Premium Fligh

Aeroflot's Radical, 'Gutsy' New Strategy - Become Much Smaller, Focus on Long-Haul and Premium Flights

Aeroflot has revealed a significant strategy shift , which will be implemented over the coming years .
For context , in addition to “ mainline ” Aeroflot service , the Russian airline has three subsidiaries : • Pobeda Airlines is Aeroflot ’ s low cost carrier , and operates a fleet of 30+ Boeing 737s • Rossiya is also an Aeroflot subsidiary , and operates a fleet of 60+ aircraft to leisure destinations , both short haul and long haul • Aurora is an Aeroflot subsidiary , and operates a fleet of 20 aircraft ( including A319s and turboprops ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about Aeroflot will be changing , so let ’ s take a look at the details… • Pobeda will take over regional routes & aircraft Aeroflot wants to become a Skytrax 5-star airline , and as part of that the airline intends to exclusively operate long haul and premium routes .
The company notes that the only Skytrax 5-star airline carrying more than 35 million passengers per year is Lufthansa , so generally the company feels that bigger airlines can ’ t deliver amazing quality .
Therefore Aeroflot will for the most part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on markets where it can excel and deliver a high quality product .
While many people like to joke about Aeroflot , the reality is that the airline is already excellent .
I was incredibly impressed when I flew it a few years back .
Now Aeroflot is getting A350s with new business class seats , and I really feel like the airline could easily achieve its goals .
Pobeda will take over regional routes & aircraft Pobeda is Aeroflot ’ s low cost carrier .
Aeroflot is planning significant growth for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 50 Boeing 737-800s to Pobeda • Pobeda operates an all-economy model , so this also means that these flights would no longer feature business class ; the planes would go from featuring 158 seats to featuring 189 seats • Pobeda has significantly more seats on planes and a lower cost structure , so Aeroflot believes this could lead to a 30 % reduction in regional fares • It ’ s noted that 12 % of Pobeda passengers have never flown before , and the plan is for the airline to expand in that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearly 60 aircraft , about a third of which are long haul aircraft ( including 777s and 747s ) .
The airline will more than quadruple in size over the coming years : • Aeroflot ’ s fleet of up to 150 Sukhoi Superjets will be transferred to Rossiya ( the airline so far has about 55 in its fleet , with a further 95 on order ) • Aeroflot ’ s order for 50 Irkut MC-21-300s will be transferred to Rossiya This means Rossiya ’ s fleet will eventually feature mostly Russia-built @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gutsy business model change for Aeroflot .
The airline is transferring nearly 250 aircraft ( including current planes and future orders ) to subsidiaries , so Aeroflot will be way smaller in the future .
Eventually Aeroflot will operate just A320s , A321s , A330s , A350s , and 777s .
Aeroflot hopes to become more premium , which seems achievable .
The biggest potential downside here , as I see it , is that those connecting regionally on Aeroflot from long haul flights may be stuck on Pobeda , offering a watered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ class .
What do you make of Aeroflot ’ s strategy shift ?

Aeroflot has revealed a significant strategy shift, which will be implemented over the coming years. For context, in addition to “mainline” Aeroflot service, the Russian airline has three subsidiaries:
Pobeda Airlines is Aeroflot’s low cost carrier, and operates a fleet of 30+ Boeing 737s
Rossiya is also an Aeroflot subsidiary, and operates a fleet of 60+ aircraft to leisure destinations, both short haul and long haul
Aurora is an Aeroflot subsidiary, and operates a fleet of 20 aircraft (including A319s and turboprops) out of the Far East
Aurora A319 at Tokyo Narita Airport
Basically everything about Aeroflot will be changing, so let’s take a look at the details…
In this post:
Aeroflot will focus on long haul & premium flights
Aeroflot wants to become a Skytrax 5-star airline, and as part of that the airline intends to exclusively operate long haul and premium routes.
The company notes that the only Skytrax 5-star airline carrying more than 35 million passengers per year is Lufthansa, so generally the company feels that bigger airlines can’t deliver amazing quality. Therefore Aeroflot will for the most part not operate regional routes, instead focusing on markets where it can excel and deliver a high quality product.
While many people like to joke about Aeroflot, the reality is that the airline is already excellent. I was incredibly impressed when I flew it a few years back. Now Aeroflot is getting A350s with new business class seats, and I really feel like the airline could easily achieve its goals.
Aeroflot’s new A350 business class
Pobeda will take over regional routes & aircraft
Pobeda is Aeroflot’s low cost carrier. Aeroflot is planning significant growth for the airline:
Aeroflot will transfer nearly 50 Boeing 737-800s to Pobeda
Pobeda operates an all-economy model, so this also means that these flights would no longer feature business class; the planes would go from featuring 158 seats to featuring 189 seats
Pobeda has significantly more seats on planes and a lower cost structure, so Aeroflot believes this could lead to a 30% reduction in regional fares
It’s noted that 12% of Pobeda passengers have never flown before, and the plan is for the airline to expand in that market
Rossiya will expand significantly
Rossiya currently operates a fleet of nearly 60 aircraft, about a third of which are long haul aircraft (including 777s and 747s). The airline will more than quadruple in size over the coming years:
Aeroflot’s fleet of up to 150 Sukhoi Superjets will be transferred to Rossiya (the airline so far has about 55 in its fleet, with a further 95 on order)
Aeroflot’s order for 50 Irkut MC-21-300s will be transferred to Rossiya
This means Rossiya’s fleet will eventually feature mostly Russia-built aircraft.
Bottom line
This is a huge, gutsy business model change for Aeroflot. The airline is transferring nearly 250 aircraft (including current planes and future orders) to subsidiaries, so Aeroflot will be way smaller in the future. Eventually Aeroflot will operate just A320s, A321s, A330s, A350s, and 777s.
Aeroflot hopes to become more premium, which seems achievable. The biggest potential downside here, as I see it, is that those connecting regionally on Aeroflot from long haul flights may be stuck on Pobeda, offering a watered down product in both economy and business class.
What do you make of Aeroflot’s strategy shift?


russia-insider--2020-07-27--Russia Insider Is on Vacation Until the End of August - We'll Be Back!

August in Russia is usually nice and sleepy , Moscow is empty , Russians head for the forests and dachas @ @ @ @ @ political cataclysm , one can tune out for a few weeks .
We 'll take @ @ @ @ @ you on the other side .

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russia-insider--2020-07-27--Cold Wars & Profit

Cold Wars & Profit

If an asteroid runs into the earth , any surviving press will blame it on Russia ...
The Guardian a few days ago carried a very strange piece [ which has since been removed ] under the heading “ Stamps celebrating Ukrainian resistance in pictures.
” The first image displayed a stamp bearing the name of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( UPA ) .
The UPA was , without any shadow of a doubt , responsible for the slaughter of at least 200,000 Polish civilians ; they liquidated whole Polish communities in Volhynia and Galicia , including the women and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is as anti-Russian and pro-NATO as they come , nevertheless has declared this a genocide .
It certainly was an extremely brutal ethnic cleansing .
There is no doubt either that at times between 1942 and 1944 the UPA collaborated with the Nazis and collaborated in the destruction of Jews and Gypsies .
It is simplistic to describe the UPA as fascist or an extension of the Nazi regime ; at times they fought the Nazis , though they collaborated more often .
There is a real sense in which they operated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ simply seizing local opportunities to exterminate rural populations and seize their land and assets , be they Polish , Jew or Gypsy .
But on balance any reasonable person would have to conclude that the UPA was an utterly deplorable phenomenon .
To publish a celebration of it , disguised as a graphic art piece , without any of this context , is no more defensible than a display of Nazi art with no context .
In fact , The Guardian ’ s very brief text was still worse than no context .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ description of the art glorifying the UPA movement as to be deeply reprehensible .
It does however fit with the anything- goes stoking of Russophobia , which is the mainstay of government and media discourse at the moment .
Even at the height of the Cold War , we never saw such a barrage of unprovable accusations leveled at Russia through the media by “ security service sources.
” A whole slew of these were rehearsed by Andrew Marr on his flagship BBC1 morning show .
The latest is the accusation that Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 vaccination research .
This is another totally evidence-free accusation .
But it misses the point anyway .
The alleged cyber attack , if it happened , was a hack not an attack — the allegation is that there was an effort to obtain the results of research , not to disrupt research .
It is appalling that the U.K. is trying to keep its research results secret rather than share them freely with the world scientific community .
As I have reported before , the U.K. and the USA have been preventing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and common vaccine solution for Covid-19 , insisting instead on a profit driven approach to benefit the big pharmaceutical companies ( and disadvantage the global poor ) .
What makes the accusation that Russia tried to hack the research even more dubious is the fact that Russia had just bought the very research specified .
You don ’ t steal things you already own .
If anybody had indeed hacked the research , we all know it is impossible to trace with certainty the whereabouts of hackers .
My VPNs [ virtual private @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Australia or South Africa depending on where I am trying to watch the cricket , dodging broadcasting restrictions .
More pertinently , WikiLeaks ’ Vault 7 release of CIA material showed the specific programs for the CIA in how to leave clues to make a leak look like it came from Russia .
This irrefutable evidence that the CIA do computer hacks with apparent Russian “ fingerprints ” deliberately left , like little bits of Cyrillic script , is an absolutely classic example of a fact that everybody working in the mainstream @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which they all contrive never to mention .
Thus when last week ’ s “ Russian hacking ” story was briefed by the security services —that former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn deployed secret documents on U.K./U.S .
trade talks which had been posted on Reddit , after being stolen by an evil Russian who left his name of Grigor in his Reddit handle —there was no questioning in the media of this narrative .
Instead , we had another round of McCarthyite witch-hunt aimed at the rather tired looking Corbyn .
Personally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for revealing that the Tories are prepared to open up the NHS “ market ” to big American companies , including ending or raising caps on pharmaceutical prices , I should be very grateful to the Russians for telling us .
Just as the world would owe the Russians a favor if it were indeed them who leaked evidence of just how systematically the DNC rigged the 2016 primaries against Bernie Sanders .
But as it happens , it was not the Russians .
The latter case was a leak by a disgusted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the NHS U.S. trade deal link was also from a disgusted insider .
When governments do appalling things , very often somebody manages to blow the whistle .
If you can delay even the most startling truth for several years , it loses much of its political bite .
If you can announce it during a health crisis , it loses still more .
The world therefore did not shudder to a halt when the CEO of Crowdstrike admitted there had never been any evidence of a Russian hack of the DNC servers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact that , even through the Mueller investigation , the FBI never inspected the DNC servers themselves but simply relied on a technical report from Crowdstrike , the Hillary Clinton-related IT security consultant for the DNC .
It is now known for sure that Crowdstrike had been peddling fake news for Hillary .
In fact , Crowdstrike had no record of any internet hack at all .
There was no evidence of the email material being exported over the internet .
What they claimed did exist was evidence that the files had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entire “ Russian hacking ” story was based ONLY on Crowdstrike ’ s say so .
There is literally no other evidence of Russian involvement in the DNC emails , which is unsurprising as I have been telling you for four years from my own direct sources that Russia was not involved .
Yet finally declassified congressional testimony revealed that Shawn Henry stated on oath that “ we did not have concrete evidence ” and “ There ’ s circumstantial evidence , but no evidence they were actually exfiltrated.
” This testimony fits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Binney , a former technical director of the National Security Agency ( NSA ) , who told me that it was impossible that any large amount of data should be moved across the internet from the USA , without the NSA both seeing it happen in real time and recording it .
If there really had been a Russian hack , the NSA would have been able to give the time of it to a millisecond .
That the NSA did not have that information was proof the transfer had never happened , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Binney deduced , was that the files had been downloaded locally , probably to a thumb drive .
So arguably the biggest news story of the past four years — the claim that Putin effectively interfered to have Donald Trump elected U.S. president —turns out indeed to be utterly baseless .
Has the mainstream media , acting on security service behest , done anything to row back from the false impression it created ?
No it has doubled down .
The “ Russian hacking ” theme keeps being brought back related to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day .
Then we have those continual security service briefings .
Two weeks ago we had unnamed security service sources telling The New York Times that Russia had offered the Taliban a bounty for killing American soldiers .
This information had allegedly come from interrogation of captured Taliban in Afghanistan , which would almost certainly mean it was obtained under torture .
It is a wildly improbable tale .
The Afghans have never needed that kind of incentivization to kill foreign invaders on their soil .
It is also a fascinating throwback of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offer Afghans money for , quite literally , the heads of Afghan resistance leaders during the first Afghan War in 1841 , as I detail in my book “ Sikunder Burnes.
” You do not have to look back that far to realize the gross hypocrisy of the accusation .
In the 1980s the West was quite openly paying , arming and training the Taliban — including Osama bin Laden – to kill Russian and other Soviet conscripts in their thousands .
That is just one example of the hypocrisy .
The U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bribe senior political and other figures abroad in order to influence policy all of the time .
We work to manipulate the result of elections — I have done it personally in my former role as a U.K. diplomat .
A great deal of the behavior over which Western governments and media are creating this new McCarthyite anti-Russian witch hunt , is standard diplomatic practice .
My own view is that there are malign Russian forces attempting to act on government in the U.K. and the USA , but they are not nearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American forces acting on their own governments .
The truth is that the world is under the increasing control of a global elite of billionaires , to whom nationality is irrelevant and national governments are tools to be manipulated .
Russia is not attempting to buy corrupt political influence on behalf of the Russian people , who are decent folk every bit as exploited by the ultra-wealthy as you or I. Russian billionaires are , just like billionaires everywhere , attempting to game global political , commercial and social structures in their personal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hypocrisy lies in human rights .
So many Western media commentators are suddenly interested in China and the Uighurs or in restrictions on the LBGT community in Russia , yet turn a completely blind eye to the abuse committed by Western “ allies ” such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain .
As somebody who was campaigning about the human rights of both the Uighurs and of gay people in Russia a good decade before it became fashionable , I am disgusted by how the term “ human rights ” has become weaponized for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enemy by the Western elite .
Finally , do not forget that there is a massive armaments industry and a massive security industry all dependent on having an “ enemy.
” Powerful people make money from this Russophobia .
Expect much more of it .
There is money in a Cold War .

If an asteroid runs into the earth, any surviving press will blame it on Russia...
The Guardian a few days ago carried a very strange piece [which has since been removed] under the heading “Stamps celebrating Ukrainian resistance in pictures.” The first image displayed a stamp bearing the name of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
The UPA was, without any shadow of a doubt, responsible for the slaughter of at least 200,000 Polish civilians; they liquidated whole Polish communities in Volhynia and Galicia, including the women and children. The current Polish government, which is as anti-Russian and pro-NATO as they come, nevertheless has declared this a genocide.
It certainly was an extremely brutal ethnic cleansing. There is no doubt either that at times between 1942 and 1944 the UPA collaborated with the Nazis and collaborated in the destruction of Jews and Gypsies. It is simplistic to describe the UPA as fascist or an extension of the Nazi regime; at times they fought the Nazis, though they collaborated more often.
There is a real sense in which they operated at the level of medieval peasants, simply seizing local opportunities to exterminate rural populations and seize their land and assets, be they Polish, Jew or Gypsy. But on balance any reasonable person would have to conclude that the UPA was an utterly deplorable phenomenon. To publish a celebration of it, disguised as a graphic art piece, without any of this context, is no more defensible than a display of Nazi art with no context.
In fact, The Guardian’s very brief text was still worse than no context.
“Ukrainian photographer Oleksandr Kosmach collects 20th-century stamps issued by Ukrainian groups in exile during the Soviet era. Artists and exiles around the world would use stamps to communicate the horrors of Soviet oppression. “These stamps show us the ideas and values of these people, who they really were and what they were fighting for,” Kosmach says.”
That is so misleadingly partial as a description of the art glorifying the UPA movement as to be deeply reprehensible. It does however fit with the anything- goes stoking of Russophobia, which is the mainstay of government and media discourse at the moment. Even at the height of the Cold War, we never saw such a barrage of unprovable accusations leveled at Russia through the media by “security service sources.”
Attack on UK Vaccine Research
A whole slew of these were rehearsed by Andrew Marr on his flagship BBC1 morning show. The latest is the accusation that Russia is responsible for a cyber attack on Covid-19 vaccination research. This is another totally evidence-free accusation. But it misses the point anyway.
Andrew Marr, center, in 2014. (Financial Times, Flickr)
The alleged cyber attack, if it happened, was a hack not an attack — the allegation is that there was an effort to obtain the results of research, not to disrupt research. It is appalling that the U.K. is trying to keep its research results secret rather than share them freely with the world scientific community.
As I have reported before, the U.K. and the USA have been preventing the WHO from implementing a common research and common vaccine solution for Covid-19, insisting instead on a profit driven approach to benefit the big pharmaceutical companies (and disadvantage the global poor).
What makes the accusation that Russia tried to hack the research even more dubious is the fact that Russia had just bought the very research specified. You don’t steal things you already own.
Evidence of CIA Hacks
If anybody had indeed hacked the research, we all know it is impossible to trace with certainty the whereabouts of hackers. My VPNs [virtual private networks] are habitually set to India, Australia or South Africa depending on where I am trying to watch the cricket, dodging broadcasting restrictions.
More pertinently, WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 release of CIA material showed the specific programs for the CIA in how to leave clues to make a leak look like it came from Russia. This irrefutable evidence that the CIA do computer hacks with apparent Russian “fingerprints” deliberately left, like little bits of Cyrillic script, is an absolutely classic example of a fact that everybody working in the mainstream media knows to be true, but which they all contrive never to mention.
Thus when last week’s “Russian hacking” story was briefed by the security services —that former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn deployed secret documents on U.K./U.S. trade talks which had been posted on Reddit, after being stolen by an evil Russian who left his name of Grigor in his Reddit handle —there was no questioning in the media of this narrative. Instead, we had another round of McCarthyite witch-hunt aimed at the rather tired looking Corbyn.
Personally, if the Russians had been responsible for revealing that the Tories are prepared to open up the NHS “market” to big American companies, including ending or raising caps on pharmaceutical prices, I should be very grateful to the Russians for telling us. Just as the world would owe the Russians a favor if it were indeed them who leaked evidence of just how systematically the DNC rigged the 2016 primaries against Bernie Sanders.
But as it happens, it was not the Russians. The latter case was a leak by a disgusted insider, and I very much suspect the NHS U.S. trade deal link was also from a disgusted insider.
When governments do appalling things, very often somebody manages to blow the whistle.
Crowdstrike’s Quiet Admission
If you can delay even the most startling truth for several years, it loses much of its political bite. If you can announce it during a health crisis, it loses still more. The world therefore did not shudder to a halt when the CEO of Crowdstrike admitted there had never been any evidence of a Russian hack of the DNC servers.
Crowdstrike’s Shawn Henry presenting at the International Security Forum in Vancouver, 2009. (Hubert K, Flickr)
You will recall the near incredible fact that, even through the Mueller investigation, the FBI never inspected the DNC servers themselves but simply relied on a technical report from Crowdstrike, the Hillary Clinton-related IT security consultant for the DNC.
It is now known for sure that Crowdstrike had been peddling fake news for Hillary. In fact, Crowdstrike had no record of any internet hack at all. There was no evidence of the email material being exported over the internet. What they claimed did exist was evidence that the files had been organized preparatory to export.
Remember the entire “Russian hacking” story was based ONLY on Crowdstrike’s say so. There is literally no other evidence of Russian involvement in the DNC emails, which is unsurprising as I have been telling you for four years from my own direct sources that Russia was not involved. Yet finally declassified congressional testimony revealed that Shawn Henry stated on oath that “we did not have concrete evidence” and “There’s circumstantial evidence , but no evidence they were actually exfiltrated.”
This testimony fits with what I was told by Bill Binney, a former technical director of the National Security Agency (NSA), who told me that it was impossible that any large amount of data should be moved across the internet from the USA, without the NSA both seeing it happen in real time and recording it. If there really had been a Russian hack, the NSA would have been able to give the time of it to a millisecond.
That the NSA did not have that information was proof the transfer had never happened, according to Binney. What had happened, Binney deduced, was that the files had been downloaded locally, probably to a thumb drive.
Bill Binney. (Miquel Taverna / CCCB via Flickr)
So arguably the biggest news story of the past four years — the claim that Putin effectively interfered to have Donald Trump elected U.S. president —turns out indeed to be utterly baseless. Has the mainstream media, acting on security service behest, done anything to row back from the false impression it created? No it has doubled down.
Anti-Russia Theme
The “Russian hacking” theme keeps being brought back related to whatever is the big story of the day.
Brexit? Russian hacking.
U.K. general election 2019? Russian hacking
Covid-19 vaccine? Russian hacking.
Then we have those continual security service briefings. Two weeks ago we had unnamed security service sources telling The New York Times that Russia had offered the Taliban a bounty for killing American soldiers. This information had allegedly come from interrogation of captured Taliban in Afghanistan, which would almost certainly mean it was obtained under torture.
It is a wildly improbable tale. The Afghans have never needed that kind of incentivization to kill foreign invaders on their soil. It is also a fascinating throwback of an accusation – the British did indeed offer Afghans money for, quite literally, the heads of Afghan resistance leaders during the first Afghan War in 1841, as I detail in my book “Sikunder Burnes.”
Taliban in Herat, Afghanistan, 2001. (Wikipedia)
You do not have to look back that far to realize the gross hypocrisy of the accusation. In the 1980s the West was quite openly paying, arming and training the Taliban — including Osama bin Laden – to kill Russian and other Soviet conscripts in their thousands. That is just one example of the hypocrisy.
The U.S. and U.K. security services both cultivate and bribe senior political and other figures abroad in order to influence policy all of the time. We work to manipulate the result of elections — I have done it personally in my former role as a U.K. diplomat. A great deal of the behavior over which Western governments and media are creating this new McCarthyite anti-Russian witch hunt, is standard diplomatic practice.
My own view is that there are malign Russian forces attempting to act on government in the U.K. and the USA, but they are not nearly as powerful as the malign British and American forces acting on their own governments.
The truth is that the world is under the increasing control of a global elite of billionaires, to whom nationality is irrelevant and national governments are tools to be manipulated. Russia is not attempting to buy corrupt political influence on behalf of the Russian people, who are decent folk every bit as exploited by the ultra-wealthy as you or I. Russian billionaires are, just like billionaires everywhere, attempting to game global political, commercial and social structures in their personal interest.
The other extreme point of hypocrisy lies in human rights. So many Western media commentators are suddenly interested in China and the Uighurs or in restrictions on the LBGT community in Russia, yet turn a completely blind eye to the abuse committed by Western “allies” such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
As somebody who was campaigning about the human rights of both the Uighurs and of gay people in Russia a good decade before it became fashionable, I am disgusted by how the term “human rights” has become weaponized for deployment only against those countries designated as enemy by the Western elite.
Finally, do not forget that there is a massive armaments industry and a massive security industry all dependent on having an “enemy.” Powerful people make money from this Russophobia. Expect much more of it. There is money in a Cold War.


russia-insider--2020-07-28--Unz.com Traffic Continues to Soar, Adds Amren's Jared Taylor, Gregory Hood As Regular Columnists

Our website traffic easily broke all records for the month of June , and these high levels have now continued into July , suggesting that the huge rise produced by the initial wave of Black Lives Matters protests may be more than temporary .
It appears that many new readers first discovered our alternative webzine at that point , and quite a few have stayed on as regular visitors .
This represents a sharp turnaround after May , when our near-simultaneous banning by both Google and Facebook at the beginning of that month caused our previously strong traffic to decline @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longer-term factor that may be strengthening our position is the unprecedented wave of ideological purges that have swept our country since early June , with prominent figures in the intellectual and media firmaments being especially hard hit .
When opinion-leaders become fearful of uttering even slightly controversial words , they either grow silent or only mouth the most saccharine homilies , thereby forcing many of their erstwhile readers to look elsewhere for more candid discussions .
And our own webzine is about as “ elsewhere ” as one could possibly get .
Take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Times , more than ever our national newspaper of record .
For the last few years , one of its top figures had been Editorial Page Editor James Bennet , who had previously run The Atlantic , and he was widely considered a leading candidate to assume the same position at the Gray Lady after next year ’ s scheduled retirement of the current top editor .
Indeed , with his brother serving as U.S .
Senator from Colorado—and a serious if second-rank presidential candidate—the Lifestyle section of the Washington Post had already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saviors of the American establishment .
But then his paper published an op-ed by an influential Republican senator endorsing President Trump ’ s call for a harsh crackdown on riots and looting , and a Twitter mob of outraged junior Times staffers organized a revolt .
The mission of the NYT Opinion Pages is obviously to provide a diversity of opinions , but Bennet was quickly purged .
A similar fate befell the highly-regarded longtime editor of the Philadelphia Inquirerafter his paper ran a headline considered insufficiently respectful to black rioters .
Michigan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the accepted narrative of black deaths at the hands of police , and physicist Stephen Hsu , the Senior Vice President who had supported their work , was forced to resign his administrative position as a consequence .
Numerous other figures of lesser rank have been purged , their careers and livelihoods destroyed for Tweeting out a phrase such as “ All Lives Matter , ” whose current classification as “ hate speech ” might have stunned even George Orwell .
Or perhaps a spouse or other close relative had denounced the black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are changing so rapidly that positions which were completely innocuous just a few weeks ago have suddenly become controversial or even forbidden , with punishments sometimes inflicted on a retroactive basis .
I am hardly alone in viewing this situation with great concern .
Just last week , some 150 prominent American writers , academics , and intellectuals published an open letter in Harpers expressing their grave concern over protecting our freedom of speech and thought .
Admittedly , the credentials of some of the names on the list were rather doubtful .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ hard-core Neocons had themselves led the effort to purge from the media all critics of Bush ’ s disastrous Iraq War , and more recently they have continued to do with same with regard to our irrational hostility towards Putin ’ s Russia .
But the principled histories of other signers such as Noam Chomsky partially compensated for the inclusion of such unpleasant opportunists .
Although the Harpers statement attracted many stars of our liberal firmament , apparently few people read Harpers these days , with its website traffic being just a tenth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reaction in the media itself was a much more important factor , and this seems to have been decidedly mixed .
150 rather obscure activists soon issued a contrasting statement , which major outlets such as NYT , CNN , and the Los Angeles Times seem to have accorded equal or greater weight , hardly suggesting that the ideological tide has started to turn .
Back a couple of years ago , there was a popular joke going around Chinese social media in which Chairman Mao came back to life with all sorts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Among other things , he was informed his disastrous Cultural Revolution had shifted to America , a prescient observation given the events of the last few weeks : The controversial May 25th death of a black man named George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody soon set off the greatest nationwide wave of protests , riots , and looting in at least two generations , and the once-placid hometown of the Mary Tyler Moore Show alone suffered some five hundred million dollars of damage .
Some of the main political reactions have been especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Black Lives Matter movement have received massive media support for their demands that local urban police departments be “ defunded , ” a proposal so bizarre that it had previously been almost unknown .
Statues , monuments , and other symbolic representations of traditional American history quickly became a leading target .
Hubert Humphrey ’ s Minneapolis has long been an extremely liberal bastion of the heavily Scandinavian Upper Midwest , having no ties to the South or slavery , but Floyd ’ s death soon launched an unprecedented national effort @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other Southern cultural traces throughout our society .
Popular country music groups such as the Dixie Chicks and Lady Antebellum had freely recorded their songs for decades , but they were now suddenly forced to change their names in frantic haste .
And although this revolutionary purge began with Confederacy , it soon extended to include much of our entire national history , with illustrious former occupants of the White House being the most prominent targets .
Woodrow Wilson ranked as Princeton University ’ s most famous alumnus and its former president , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the renowned public policy school , while the Natural History Museum of New York is similarly removing a statue of Theodore Roosevelt .
Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant had together won the Civil War and abolished black slavery , but their statues around the country were vandalized or ordered removed .
The same fate befell Andrew Jackson along with the author of the Star Spangled Banner , our national anthem .
The leading heroes of the American Republic from its birth in 1776 face “ cancellation ” and this sudden tidal wave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ backing .
The New York Times carries enormous weight in such circles , and last Tuesday their lead opinion piece called for the Jefferson Memorial to be replaced by a towering statue of a black woman , while one of their regular columnists has repeatedly demanded that all monuments honoring George Washington suffer a similar fate .
Stacy Abrams , often mentioned as one of Joe Biden ’ s leading Vice Presidential choices , had previously made the destruction of Georgia ’ s historic Stone Mountain Memorial part of her campaign platform , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or two away from credible political demands that Mount Rushmore be dynamited Taliban-style .
The original roots of our country were Anglo-Saxon and this heritage remained dominant during its first century or more , but other strands in our national tapestry are suffering similar vilification .
Christopher Columbus discovered the New World for Spain , but he has became a hated and despised figure across our country , so perhaps in the near future his only surviving North American monument will be the huge statue honoring him in the heart of Mexico City @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and a few years ago was canonized as the first and only Latin American saint , but his statues have been toppled and his name already removed from Stanford University buildings .
At the time we acquired the sparsely-populated American Southwest , the bulk of our new Hispanic population was concentrated in New Mexico , but the founding father of that region has now had his monument attacked and vandalized .
Cervantes , author of Don Quixote , is considered the greatest writer in the Spanish language , and his statue was also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the onrushing tide of cultural destruction may begin to recede .
But at present there seems a serious possibility that the overwhelming majority of America ’ s leading historical figures prior to the political revolution of the 1930s may be destined for the scrap heap .
A decade ago , President Obama and most prominent Democrats opposed Gay Marriage , but just a few years later , the CEO of Mozilla was forced to resign when his past political contribution to a California initiative taking that same position came to light , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their jobs at many corporations for expressing such views .
Thus , one might easily imagine that within five or ten years , any public expressions of admiration for Washington or Jefferson might be considered by many as bordering on “ hate speech , ” and carry severe social and employment consequences .
Our nation seems to be suffering the sort of fate normally inflicted upon a conquered people , whose new masters seek to break their spirit and stamp out any notions of future resistance .
A good example of this growing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weeks ago when a longtime blogger going under the name “ Scott Alexander ” deleted his entire website and its millions of words of accumulated archives because the New York Times was about to run an article revealing his true identity .
I had only been slightly aware of the SlateStarCodex blogsite and the “ rationalist ” community it had gradually accumulated , but the development was apparently significant enough to provoke a long article in the New Yorker .
The target of the alleged witch-hunt was hardly any sort of right-winger .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ living in Berkeley , whose most notable piece of writing had been a massive 30,000 word refutation of neo-reactionary thought .
But because he was willing to entertain ideas and contributors outside the tight envelope of the politically-correct canon , he believed that his life would be destroyed if his name became known .
Conservative commenter Tucker Carlson has recently attracted the highest ratings in cable history for populist positions , some of which have influenced President Trump .
But just a couple of days ago , his top writer , a certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after CNN revealed his years of pseudonymous remarks on a rightwing forum , even though the most egregious of these seemed no worse than somewhat crude racially-charged humor .
Our own website attracts thousands of commenters , many of whom have left remarks vastly more controversial than anything written by Neff let alone Alexander , and these two incidents naturally inspired several posts by blogger Steve Sailer , which attracted many hundreds of worried comments in the resulting threads .
Although I could entirely understood that many members of our community were fearful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media , I explained why I thought the possibility quite unlikely .
Although it ’ s been a few years since my name last appeared on the front page of the New York Times , I am still at least a bit of a public figure , and I would say that many of the articles I have published under my own name have been at least 100 times as “ controversial ” as anything written by the unfortunate “ Scott Alexander.
” The regular monthly traffic to our website is six or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flowed to SlateStarCodex prior to its sudden disappearance , and I suspect that our influence has also been far greater .
Any serious journalist who wanted to get in touch with me could certainly do so , and I have been freely given many interviews in the past , while hundreds of reasonably prominent writers , academics , and other intellectuals have spent years on my regular distribution list .
Tracking down the identity of an anonymous commenter who once or twice made doubtful remarks is extremely hard work , and at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ probably netted yourself a pretty small fish .
Surely any eager scalp-hunter in the media would prefer to casually mine the hundreds of thousands of words in my articles , which would provide a veritable cornucopia of exceptionally explosive material , all fully searchable and conveniently organized by particular taboos .
Yet for years the entire journalistic community has scrupulously averted their eyes from such mammoth potential scandal .
And the likely explanation may provide some important insights into the dynamics of ideological conflict in the media .
Activist organizations often take the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they then pass along to their media allies for ritual denunciation , and much of my own material would seem especially provocative to the fearsome ADL .
Yet oddly enough , that organization seemed quite reluctant to engage with me , and only after my repeated baiting did they finally issue a rather short and perfunctory critique in 2018 , which lacked any named author .
But even that lackluster effort afforded me an opening to respond with my own 7,300 word essay highlighting the very unsavory origins and activities of that controversial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went back into hiding and have remained there ever since .
In my lengthy analysis of the true history of World War II , I described what I called “ the Lord Voldemort Effect , ” explaining why so much of our mainstream source material should be treated with great care : However , even dread Lord Voldemorts may shrink from a terrifying Lord Voldemort of their own , and I think that this website falls into that category .
The ADL and various other powerful organizations may have quietly issued an edict @ @ @ @ @ @ @ influence from mentioning our existence .
I believe there is strong evidence in favor of this remarkable hypothesis .
Among Trump ’ s surviving advisors , Stephen Miller provokes some of the most intense hostility , and last November the SPLC and its media allies made a concerted attempt to force his resignation based upon some of his private emails , which had promoted several controversial posts by Steve Sailer .
The resulting firestorm was discussed on this website , and I analyzed some of the strange anomalies : Given that Miller ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ posts originally published on this website , the media could have easily associated him with the rest of our material , much of which was sufficiently explosive to have almost certainly forced his resignation .
Yet when the journalists and activists weighed the likelihood of destroying Trump ’ s most hated advisor against the danger of mentioning our existence , the latter factor was still judged the stronger , allowing Miller to survive .
This hypothesis was strongly supported by a second incident later that same month .
We had previously published an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ University , and I read in my morning Times that he had suddenly become embroiled in a major Internet controversy , with a chorus of angry critics seeking to have him removed .
According to the article , he had apparently promoted the “ vile and stupid ” views of some anti-feminist website in one of his Tweets , which had come to the attention of an enraged activist .
The resulting firestorm of denunciations on Twitter had been viewed 2.5 million times , provoking a major academic controversy in the national media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I contacted Rasmusen to see whether he might want to submit a piece regarding the controversy , which he did .
But to my utter astonishment , I discovered that the website involved had actually been our own , a fact that I never would never have suspected from the extremely vague and circuitous discussion provided in the newspaper .
Apparently , the old-fashioned Who-What-Where provisions of the Times style manual had been quietly amended to prohibit providing any hint of our existence even when we were at the absolute center of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Highly-controversial ideas backed by strong evidence may prove dangerously contagious , and the political/media strategy pursued by the ADL , the Times , and numerous other organs of the elite establishment seems perfectly rational .
Since our Bill of Rights still provides considerable protection for freedom of speech , the next-best alternative is to institute a strict cordon sanitaire , intended to strictly minimize the number of individuals who might become infected .
Our webzine and my own articles are hardly the only victims of this sort of strategy—once dubbed “ the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Barnes—whose other targets often possess the most respectable of establishmentarian credentials .
Last month marked the 31st anniversary of the notorious 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre , and elite media coverage was especially extensive this year due to our current global confrontation with China .
The New York Times devoted most of two full pages to a photo-laden recapitulation while the Wall Street Journal gave it front-page treatment , with just those two publications alone running some six separate articles and columns on those horrifying events from three decades ago .
Yet back in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chief of the Washington Post , who had personally covered the events , published a long article in the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review entitled The Myth of Tiananmen , in which he publicly admitted that the supposed “ massacre ” was merely a fraudulent concoction of careless journalists and dishonest propagandists .
At least some of our top editors and journalists must surely be aware of these facts , and feel guilty about promoting a long-debunked hoax of the late 1980s .
But any mention of those widely-known historical facts is strictly forbidden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become confused and begin to consider an alternative narrative .
Russia possesses a nuclear arsenal at least as powerful as our own , and the total break in our relations began when Congress passed the Magnitsky Act in 2012 , targeting important Russian leaders .
Yet none of our media outlets have ever been willing to admit that the facts used to justify that very dangerous decision seem to have been entirely fraudulent , as recounted in the article we recently published by Prof. John Ryan .
Similarly , our sudden purge from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after my own long article presenting the strong evidence that America ’ s ongoing Covid-19 disaster was the unintentional blowback from our own extremely reckless biowarfare attack against China ( and Iran ) .
Over 130,000 of our citizens have already died and our daily life has been wrecked , so the American people might grow outraged if they began to suspect that this huge national disaster was entirely self-inflicted .
And the incident that sparked our current national upheaval includes certain elements that our media has scrupulously avoided mentioning .
The knee-neck @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police procedure in Minneapolis and many other cities , and had apparently been employed thousands of times across our country in recent years with virtually no fatalities .
Meanwhile , Floyd ’ s official autopsy indicated that he had lethal levels of Fentanyl and other illegal drugs in his system at the time of his demise .
Perhaps the connection between these two facts is more than purely coincidental , and if they became widely known , popular sentiments might shift .
Finally , our alternative media webzine is pleased to have recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ portions of their archives , which will help to further broaden our perspective .
Larry Romanoff has been a regular contributor to the Global Research website , most recently focusing on the Coronavirus outbreak in China , and earlier this year he published an article pointed to the considerable evidence that the virus had originated in the U.S. , which was cited by Chinese officials and soon became a flashpoint in American-Chinese relations .
After having been viewed millions of times , that piece and several others seem to have disappeared from their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rest of his writings , they are now conveniently available on our own website .
For the last quarter-century , Jared Taylor has probably been America ’ s most prominent White Nationalist writer .
Although Black Nationalists such as Al Sharpton have cable television shows and boast of many dozens of visits to the White House , the growing climate of ideological repression has caused Taylor and his American Renaissance organization to be deplatformed from YouTube , Twitter , and numerous other Internet services .
One of his main writers is Gregory Hood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a regular columnist , together with dozens of his pieces over the last few years .


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russia-insider--2020-08-27--'Secure Tolerance': The Jewish Plan to Permanently Silence the West, Part 1

“ The promotion of secure tolerance will be permanent and irreversible.
” Moshe Kantor , Manifesto on Secure Tolerance , 2011 .
In 2010 , Harvard duo Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons published The Invisible Gorilla , which detailed their study of the human capacity to overlook even the most obvious things .
In one of their experiments , Chabris and Simons created a video in which students wearing white and black t-shirts pass a basketball between themselves .
Viewers were asked to count the number of times the players with the white shirts passed the ball , and many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were accurate in their counting .
This satisfaction was tainted , however , when they were asked if they had spotted “ the gorilla.
” Amidst considerable confusion , the video would then be replayed for the puzzled viewers , who were stunned to see a man in a gorilla suit walk among the students and balls , take up a position in the center of the screen , and wave at the camera .
They ’ d missed him entirely in their initial viewing .
The study highlighted the capacity for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , events , or other distractions , and miss even the most elaborate and remarkable of occurrences .
When it comes to Jewish activism , and especially Jewish activism in the area of censorship and mass migration , I fear that the same dynamics are at work .
Panicked by this or that website or YouTube channel being defunded or banned , we miss the ‘ Invisible Gorilla ’ — a plan of action far more horrifying and deadly in its implications than any single act of censorship .
There are essentially two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we are very familiar with .
It consists in the banning or removal of websites , videos , books , podcasts , and social media accounts .
It extends to defunding and deplatforming , and it reaches its apogee in the banning of activists from entering certain countries , in the arrest of activists on spurious grounds , and in the development of new laws with harsh criminal penalties for speech .
These methods are dangerous and rampant , and I myself have fallen victim to several of them .
I think , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ methods of censorship are even more insidious and perhaps even more catastrophic .
We could consider , for example , the manipulation of culture so that even if certain speech is not illegal and carries no legal repercussions , it nevertheless leads to the loss of employment , the destruction of education opportunities , and the dissolving of one ’ s relationships .
This is a form of cultural self-censorship , involving the modification of in-group standards , that has demonstrable Jewish origins .
“ Soft ” censorship can also take the form @ @ @ @ @ @ @ example , the recent initiative of the U.S. State Department to initiate a drive to engage in the global promotion of philo-Semitic ( pro-Jewish ) attitudes .
I really don ’ t believe that this will play out in the manner the State Department hopes , and I watch with interest to see precisely what the methodologies of this policy will be .
I sincerely doubt its prospects for success .
But what other way can this be interpreted than as a preventative measure , obstructing the growth of organic attitudes that , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more likely to skew to the anti-Jewish ?
Finally , isn ’ t it in the nature of contemporary culture , with its emphasis on entertainment , consumption , and sex , to be the perfect environment in which to hide many “ Invisible Gorillas ” ?
Isn ’ t it a whirlwind of fixations and distractions , replete with untold numbers of “ woke ” viewers happy to report that they ’ ve been enthusiastically counting passes and have the accurate number ?
Isn ’ t it rather the axiom of our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the idiotic Right , Invisible Gorillas stroll freely and unhindered , laughing and waving as they go , hidden in plain sight ?
If I could single out one point in time at which a process was set in motion that culminated in the heightened censorship that we see today , it wouldn ’ t be the recent banning of the NPI/Radix YouTube channel , or the removal of the Daily Stormer from the internet after Charlottesville .
No answers will be found in the banning of Alex Jones , of Stefan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Richard Spencer , the eviction of NPI from Hungary , or recent revelations about PayPal ’ s selective banning process .
These are all symptoms that possess no answers in themselves .
I do believe , however , that we can locate the immediate intellectual and political beginnings of our present situation in 2011 , in the publication of a document titled Manifesto for Secure Tolerance .
The document was written by Moshe Kantor , a Russian billionaire , pernicious oligarch , and president of no less than the European Jewish Congress , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( ECTR , which we will return to ) , the World Holocaust Forum Foundation , the European Jewish Fund , and the Policy Council of the World Jewish Congress .
In short , this Jewish billionaire is the quintessential strongly-identified leading Jewish activist , fully committed to the advancement of the interests of his ethnic group .
As leader of so many groups , and mover in so many high circles , Kantor fulfils the qualifications of the early modern stadtlans , Court Jews who boasted of significant wealth and intensive relationships @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many of the same qualities , acting always in un-elected but highly-influential intercessory roles , seeking to improve the tactical and material advantages of his tribe .
When not crossing the continent bleating about ‘ tolerance , ’ Kantor also advances Jewish interests in his capacity as the President of Moscow ’ s Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery — a dubious establishment dedicated to extolling the disgusting and poisonous art of co-ethnics like Marc Chagall , Chaim Soutine , and Mark Rothko ( Rothko is the subject of a 3-part series of TOO articles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a world-renowned “ peace activist , ” Kantor is in fact a devoted practitioner of international Zionism .
A citizen of Russia , the United Kingdom , and Israel , this world parasite wages unconventional warfare by means of backstage diplomacy , policy development , and ceaseless lobbying for repressive legislation to be imposed on Europeans everywhere .
Let ’ s start with his Manifesto for Secure Tolerance .
Its ethos can be summed up in its slogan : “ Restrictions are necessary for the freedom to live a secure life.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phrase as Orwellian , but surely the time has come to describe such concoctions more accurately and plainly as “ Judaic.
” Surely only the Judaic mind has both the shamelessness , arrogance , and spiteful aggression required to present the removal of freedoms as the key to freedom ?
Kantor argues that “ tolerance , ” which in his definition basically means acquiescence to globalism ( promoted by Kantor as a universal good ) and mass migration , is an essential aspect of a successful society .
He argues that in order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should therefore impose “ security requirements ” ( oppressive laws ) that focus on “ racism , xenophobia , anti-Semitism.
” Thus , Kantor ’ s creation of the idea of “ Secure Tolerance , ” which will see the gradual expansion of cultural and legislative repressions on Whites/nativists , first in the European Union , and then throughout the rest of the West .
In Kantor ’ s own words : There is a lot to unpack here , but we should start with Kantor ’ s over-arching expressed goal , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of his Manifesto : the imposition of supranational legislation imposing “ tolerance ” and outlawing dissent .
Kantor ’ s appeal here to law-making being “ the most democratic way , ” is pure theater .
As we will see , there is nothing democratic about the later course of Kantor ’ s proposals into becoming law .
The Western public has never heard of Kantor ’ s manifesto or its later incarnations ( honestly , have you ? )
, and certainly never had an opportunity to vote on it .
Kantor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ irreversible , ” the “ making of which , once started , is never to stop , ” in order to deal with , in his words , the “ neo-Fascist politicians and organizations , radical nationalists and militarised racists who , in their turn are jeopardising European democratic accomplishments ” and therefore represent “ destructive manifestations of anti-globalism.
” Further theater is observed in Kantor ’ s choosing the European Union as a starting point because it “ is a product of tolerance.
” Of course , I ’ m sure it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ advantage offered by the opportunity to give his legislative proposals a running head start by ensuring their adoption in twenty-seven countries in one swoop .
Jews , of course , have much love for European unity in its current , bureaucratic incarnation .
The EU is useful to Jews , who believe that Europe must be compelled to undergo its demographic death as a Continent and sooner rather than later .
Supranational government in the form of the EU is seen as the most efficient means to this end .
Why go to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Germany , Britain , France , Spain etc.
, and navigating speech laws through each of their legal systems and parliaments , when the EU is the purse seine that can reap them all ?
It ’ s the same in the U.S. where Jews have always championed a strong central government rather than states ’ rights .
Jews have always perceived the capabilities of the EU as an engine of mass immigration .
When Brexit happened , Ari Paul , writing in The Forward , argued in terror that a reversion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be a “ return to the state of affairs that gave us two world wars and the Holocaust.
” His proposed remedy is the suggestion that the populations of the E.U .
should be more tightly controlled through speech and hate laws , and the final solution “ is to make the E.U.
’ s policy more favorable to multiculturalism and migration .
… Jews are certainly going to play a role in which direction Europe goes.
” Moshe Kantor is one of those Jews .
His insidious education proposals , designed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , are mere copies of the tactics of the ADL and countless Jewish activists within psychiatry .
And his call for the international legal protection of the Jewish historical narrative of the Holocaust is simply the worldwide criminalization of “ Holocaust denial.
” He is making speedy progress on all fronts .
ECTR and the Jewish “ Think Tank ” Strategy for Increasing Non-White Migration in Britain Kantor ’ s 2011 manifesto was the product of an existing diplomatic trajectory to achieve the same goals .
In 2008 , Kantor had founded the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ECTR ) , as a : In other words , it ’ s something between a think tank and a lobbying group .
This “ think tank ” strategy is absolutely crucial to the Jewish ability to bypass or exploit democratic institutions , and has been devastating in its effectiveness .
As I remarked in my study of the use of this tactic in destroying free speech in Britain , Jews had been unable to get speech-restricting legislation through Parliament by relying solely on Jewish M.P.s until the Jew Frank Soskice designed and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 1965 , through Parliament.
” [ 1 ] The Act approached the problem of White British resistance to mass migration from a different angle and “ aimed to outlaw racial discrimination in public places.
” Crucially , the 1965 Act created the ‘ Race Relations Board ’ and equipped it with the power to sponsor research for the purposes of monitoring race relations in Britain and , if necessary , extending legislation on the basis of the ‘ findings ’ of such research : It was a clever tactic .
The Board @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ bodies staffed by , and often explicitly created by , Jews .
[ 2 ] One of the best examples of such bodies , and certainly the most influential , was ‘ Political and Economic Planning ’ ( PEP ) a supposedly “ independent research organization whose philosophy and methodology are based on the principles and values of sociology.
” [ 3 ] Ray Honeyford states that although PEP dabbled in other areas , “ its most influential work has been in the field of race .
It is no exaggeration to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is far and away the biggest source of information , ideas , and opinions about the state of race relations in Britain and the experience of discrimination by ethnic minorities.
” [ 4 ] One of its 1977 publications has been called “ the bible of the race relations lobby in Britain.
” [ 5 ] But PEP was never ‘ independent.
’ From its inception it was closely linked to the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants ( NCCI ) , a body which worked to advance the cause ( and demographics ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but which was run by a group of decidedly pale , not to mention Hebraic , British-born lawyers .
In one of those little instances of lack of accountability in our modern ‘ democracy , ’ in 1965 the NCCI had been inexplicably appointed to “ advise the British government on matters relating to the integration of Commonwealth immigrants.
” [ 6 ] From its early days of operation , the NCCI , which became the Community Relations Commission in 1968 , was staffed with Jewish lawyers like Anthony Lester ( 1936– @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public office his own Wikipedia entry states that Lester was “ directly involved with the drafting of race relations legislation in Britain.
” In 1968 Lester founded the Runnymede Trust , described on its website as “ the UKs leading independent race equality think tank.
” Indicative of the ethnic composition of the Trust , and its deeper origins and goals , Lester had founded the organization with his fellow Jew , Jim Rose .
Rose is described in the Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History as the “ Director of the Survey of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Race Relations Act owed much to him.
” [ 7 ] So basically , if you see a ‘ think tank ’ described as ‘ independent , ’ you can be sure its board reads like a Bar Mitzvah invitation list .
One of the ways in which Lester developed and imposed his influence on the drafting of race legislation was in his capacity as ‘ special adviser ’ to Roy Jenkins , the far-Left successor at the Home Office of the Frank Soskice who , as mentioned above , is Jewish .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ essentially gone from having a Jewish Home Office Minister , to having a Jewish-influenced puppet in the same office .
In Race Relations in Britain : A Developing Agenda ( 1998 ) , Lester himself writes about his involvement ( though he is often ‘ economical ’ with the truth ) in the drafting and implementation of race laws in Britain .
Of course , Lester downplays his role and that of Soskice , writing that “ the arrival , in December 1965 , of a liberal and receptive Minister , Roy Jenkins @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decisive importance in making the Race Relations Act .
… When Labour came to power in 1974 I abandoned my practice at the Bar to help Roy Jenkins secure the enactment of effective legislation tackling race and sex discrimination.
” [ 8 ] He further writes that “ every democratic society should be concerned with promoting what Roy Jenkins memorably defined thirty years ago as a national goal : equal opportunity , accompanied by cultural diversity , in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance.
” [ 9 ] But Lester wasn ’ t giving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own interest and unceasing activism in the field of race and multiculturalism .
For a start , we know that it was Lester himself who penned the influential speech he now attributes exclusively to Jenkins .
[ 10 ] Further , scholar Peter Dorey notes that Lester was “ the leading campaigner on race relations ” for the Society of Labour Party Lawyers and that Lester had been at the forefront of the Society ’ s Race Relations Committee when it put pressure on the government for harsher legislation in 1966 .
[ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the relationship between Lester and Jenkins , Dorey cites correspondence between the two in which Lester castigated the 1965 law as a “ shoddy job ” and in which Lester presents Jenkins with a “ shopping-list of discontents : the Government should commit itself to extending the race relations legislation to cover all public places , as well as employment , housing , credit and insurance services , and it should strengthen the Race Relations Board.
” [ 12 ] Dorey notes that it was in response to pressure from Lester , channeled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ began to reconsider its race relations policy.
” [ 13 ] In truth , Lester was one of the chief architects of modern multicultural Britain and its accompanying repressive bureaucracy .
It was Lester who by his own admission , in 1975 , set out “ coherent principles for new legislation in the White Paper on Racial Discrimination.
” [ 14 ] The principles were that : “ The overwhelming majority of the colored population is here to stay , that a substantial and increasing proportion of that population belongs to this country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a determined effort by Government , by industry and unions , and by ordinary men and women to ensure fair and equal treatment for all our people , regardless of their race , color , or national origin.
” [ 15 ] The point of reiterating this particular process ( and Brenton Sanderson has pointed to clear and well-documented parallels in Canada , Australia and elsewhere ) is that this is what is meant by Kantor ’ s “ most democratic ” way of “ law-making.
” This process has the appearance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moved through a Parliament or Congress , but beneath this appearance is a sequence of events mired in ethnic activism , obscured methodologies , background lobbying , false representation , and ultimately , the passing of legislation entirely at odds with the wider democratic will .
We were never asked , and , in Kantor ’ s political philosophy , we never will be asked .
These laws will continue to be developed and imposed in this manner , and , as Kantor prescribes , they will “ never stop.
” The European @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s first “ think tank ” vehicle for achieving “ Secure Tolerance ” legislation .
Keen for the ECTR to have a “ goy ” face , he stayed in the background while initially handing the Presidency of the group to former Communist and President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski .
Kwaśniewski had a useful history of neglecting and belittling the Catholic-National character of his people , and made himself known as an ally of Jews by formally apologizing for a 1941 killing of Jews at Jedwabne by Poles , and restoring citizenship @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communist government in 1968 .
Since 2015 , the Presidency of the ECTR has been held by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair , a dedicated globalist and arch-traitor of Satanic proportions .
Beneath the Gentile faces , however , Kantor has always pulled the strings .
This is his project , based on his manifesto , and his history of activism .
The group ’ s board is stacked with honorary roles for non-Jewish politicians , but its legal direction is entirely dictated by Kantor and Prof. Yoram Dinstein , a retired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Dean of Law at Tel Aviv University .
Dinstein ’ s area of expertise is mainly in war legislation , and his co-operation with Kantor is not really a departure from this since it amounts to a declaration of war on Whites everywhere .
Go to Part 2 of 3 .
[ 1 ] M. Donnelly , Sixties Britain : Culture , Society and Politics ( 115 ) , & R. Honeyford , The Commission for Racial Equality : British Bureaucracy Confronts the Multicultural Society , 95 .
[ 10 ] C @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ethnicity in a Welfare Society , 38 .


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russia-insider--2020-08-31--New Russian Film About 20th Century Crimean Saint (Luke)

One of Russia 's newest saints , he was canonized in 2000 .
He was a brilliant scientist and surgeon , as well as a priest , who publicly professed his faith despite the dangers of Bolshevik repression .
He was wildly popular , and the authorities were afraid to touch him .
This article from our archives was first published on RI in May 2015 On April 30 , 2015 , the film , Curing Fear , will be released , based on the history of life of the outstanding surgeon , scientist , and Holy Hierarch Luke , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reports the Rossiyskaya Gazeta Russian newspaper .
He was born Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky ( 1877-1961 , his feast-day is June 11 ) .
He was a brilliant surgeon-practitioner and scientist , and his notable written work , Purulent Surgery Essays , has been a manual and reference book for several generations of medics .
A profoundly pious person all his life , the future saint was widowed in 1919 and became a monk in 1923 when the anti-religious and anti-Church campaign was rising in Russia .
In monasticism he received the name Luke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Evangelist Luke .
In the same year he was secretly consecrated a bishop .
Later he was destined to undergo arrests , prison , exiles , and many years of ministry for the Lord and to people .
In 1937 , following another arrest and 13 whole days of interrogations without sleep he went on a hunger strike for 18 days and did not sign any testimony against other people who were under investigation .
He performed surgeries during his exile in Yeniseysk , and received patients in Arkhangelsk .
He kept searching @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collecting materials for their support .
Everywhere he remained a true physician , monk , and priest .
According to the website Pravmir.ru , the pre-premiere screening and discussion of the film , Curing Fear , has taken place at the Oktyabr cinema .
The film ’ s general producer Oleg Sytnik , actress Yekaterina Guseva ( who played the female lead ) , actor Vitaly Bezrukov ( who played the role of Holy Archbishop Luke in his mature age ) as well as Archimandrite Tikhon ( Shevkunov ) , Abbot of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent a message of greetings to the film makers : “ With great interest I have watched the film , Curing Fear , devoted to the life and ministry of St. Luke ( Voyno-Yasenetsky ) , Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea .
From the bottom of my heart I express gratitude to the director , producer , and the film ’ s creative team for this remarkable work of art ” .
“ It is extremely hard to portray sainthood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does it require extraordinary professionalism and exclusive creative valor from the director and actors , but also the ability to touch intellectually and wholeheartedly this marvelous spiritual phenomenon .
Reflecting upon sanctity , it is very important not to confuse it with the phenomenon of a superman.
” “ A saint , a holy man is neither a superman nor a hero in the usual sense of these words .
A saint is identified not in loud words and grandiose deeds , but rather in everyday deeds – in execution of one ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s utmost personal honesty and decency , in the ability to endure all trials courageously and firmly , the ability to remain calm and with presence of mind in the face of terrible dangers , setting all hopes upon the good will and the all-wise providence of God .
It is gratifying to state that the director together with the creative team have succeeded in developing the theme of genuine Christian holiness , without running to extremes , avoiding excessive sublimity and sentimentality.
” The movie was shot for five years in Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Producer Oleg Sytnik has expressed his hope that the picture would be watched by millions of people in Russia and the CIS states .

One of Russia's newest saints, he was canonized in 2000. He was a brilliant scientist and surgeon, as well as a priest, who publicly professed his faith despite the dangers of Bolshevik repression. He was wildly popular, and the authorities were afraid to touch him.
This article from our archives was first published on RI in May 2015
This article originally appeared at Pravoslavie.ru
On April 30, 2015, the film, Curing Fear, will be released, based on the history of life of the outstanding surgeon, scientist, and Holy Hierarch Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea, reports the Rossiyskaya Gazeta Russian newspaper.
He was born Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky (1877-1961, his feast-day is June 11). He was a brilliant surgeon-practitioner and scientist, and his notable written work, Purulent Surgery Essays, has been a manual and reference book for several generations of medics. A profoundly pious person all his life, the future saint was widowed in 1919 and became a monk in 1923 when the anti-religious and anti-Church campaign was rising in Russia. In monasticism he received the name Luke in honor of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke. In the same year he was secretly consecrated a bishop.
Later he was destined to undergo arrests, prison, exiles, and many years of ministry for the Lord and to people. In 1937, following another arrest and 13 whole days of interrogations without sleep he went on a hunger strike for 18 days and did not sign any testimony against other people who were under investigation. He performed surgeries during his exile in Yeniseysk, and received patients in Arkhangelsk. He kept searching for new methods of medical treatment and collecting materials for their support. Everywhere he remained a true physician, monk, and priest.
According to the website Pravmir.ru, the pre-premiere screening and discussion of the film, Curing Fear, has taken place at the Oktyabr cinema. The film’s general producer Oleg Sytnik, actress Yekaterina Guseva (who played the female lead), actor Vitaly Bezrukov (who played the role of Holy Archbishop Luke in his mature age) as well as Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), Abbot of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery, took part in it.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent a message of greetings to the film makers:
“With great interest I have watched the film, Curing Fear, devoted to the life and ministry of St. Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea. From the bottom of my heart I express gratitude to the director, producer, and the film’s creative team for this remarkable work of art”.
“It is extremely hard to portray sainthood by means of film-making. Not only does it require extraordinary professionalism and exclusive creative valor from the director and actors, but also the ability to touch intellectually and wholeheartedly this marvelous spiritual phenomenon. Reflecting upon sanctity, it is very important not to confuse it with the phenomenon of a superman.”
“A saint, a holy man is neither a superman nor a hero in the usual sense of these words. A saint is identified not in loud words and grandiose deeds, but rather in everyday deeds – in execution of one’s professional duty, in one’s utmost personal honesty and decency, in the ability to endure all trials courageously and firmly, the ability to remain calm and with presence of mind in the face of terrible dangers, setting all hopes upon the good will and the all-wise providence of God. It is gratifying to state that the director together with the creative team have succeeded in developing the theme of genuine Christian holiness, without running to extremes, avoiding excessive sublimity and sentimentality.”
The movie was shot for five years in Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine. Producer Oleg Sytnik has expressed his hope that the picture would be watched by millions of people in Russia and the CIS states.


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russia-insider--2020-09-01--Pochaev - Amazing Ukrainian Fortress-Monastery: 800 Years of War and Prayer

This article from our archives was first published on RI in March 2019 This article originally appeared on : Russian Faith , a new website with news about the Christian renaissance in Russia .
See their introductory video at end of article .
Far away in western Ukraine , where mighty rivers flow through the green ravines , amidst the hills and dales of the Krementsky mountains of Old Volhynia ( a region in western Ukraine ) there lay an ancient stone with the footprint of the Virgin Mary herself .
Upon that rock was built a stronghold , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wall upon wall , glacis upon glacis , arising from the viridescent hill .
Today , Pochaev Monastery , a fortress of adamant , dominates the landscape like something from a Russian fairy tale .
It is not possible to overstate its beauty ; its cathedral complex is a colossus atop a great stone plateau rising from a walled hill .
The countless phosphorus stars of heaven 's fields are mirrored in the azure domes .
Its ivory halls hold many a tome written in the ancient Slavic tongue .
Its towers are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ calling people to argent Churches , where many a song of praise is sung .
Its crowning jewel is a golden cathedral , overlooking the valley and village of Pochaev , remnants of old Kiev .
In the Russian lands there exist only five functioning Lavras , or great monasteries ; two of them in Russia , and three in Ukraine .
One of them is Pochaev , and as you can see , its beauty is beyond belief .
Yet its role in Russian history is also as paramount and high as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been and remains to this day a fortress of Russian Orthodoxy in the western reaches of Ukraine .
Pochaev Lavra was founded in 1240 by monks fleeing the fall of Kiev , which had been captured by Batu Khan of the Mongol Horde .
Settling high on the rocky , forested hills , the monks were honored with the apparition of the Mother of God Mary .
The Ever-Virgin Mary appeared to them in a glorious crown and left the imprint of her foot upon a stone from which flowed a water spring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ check out the full version on Russian Faith will photos of Pochaev in all its glory .

This article from our archives was first published on RI in March 2019
This article originally appeared on: Russian Faith, a new website with news about the Christian renaissance in Russia. See their introductory video at end of article.
Far away in western Ukraine, where mighty rivers flow through the green ravines, amidst the hills and dales of the Krementsky mountains of Old Volhynia (a region in western Ukraine) there lay an ancient stone with the footprint of the Virgin Mary herself.
Upon that rock was built a stronghold, and a church atop it further still, wall upon wall, glacis upon glacis, arising from the viridescent hill. Today, Pochaev Monastery, a fortress of adamant, dominates the landscape like something from a Russian fairy tale.
It is not possible to overstate its beauty; its cathedral complex is a colossus atop a great stone plateau rising from a walled hill. The countless phosphorus stars of heaven's fields are mirrored in the azure domes. Its ivory halls hold many a tome written in the ancient Slavic tongue. Its towers are tall, where bells are rung, calling people to argent Churches, where many a song of praise is sung. Its crowning jewel is a golden cathedral, overlooking the valley and village of Pochaev, remnants of old Kiev.
In the Russian lands there exist only five functioning Lavras, or great monasteries; two of them in Russia, and three in Ukraine. One of them is Pochaev, and as you can see, its beauty is beyond belief. Yet its role in Russian history is also as paramount and high as its perch atop its hill.Pochaev has long been and remains to this day a fortress of Russian Orthodoxy in the western reaches of Ukraine.
Pochaev Lavra was founded in 1240 by monks fleeing the fall of Kiev, which had been captured by Batu Khan of the Mongol Horde. Settling high on the rocky, forested hills, the monks were honored with the apparition of the Mother of God Mary. The Ever-Virgin Mary appeared to them in a glorious crown and left the imprint of her foot upon a stone from which flowed a water spring.
To continue reading this article, check out the full version on Russian Faith will photos of Pochaev in all its glory.
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