I haven’t been posting as much lately and that is because I got into a road accident. No one else was involved and other than an infected gash on my foot, I’m fine. I didn’t break a bone, I didn’t sprain a muscle, and I was completely sober, which is probably the most remarkable element to the entire story. Some day I want to dedicate my life to educating the public on the dangers of sober driving. Did you know that the vast majority of accidents occur when the driver is completely sober? Sober-driving is a leading killer in the world and a scourge that needs to be done away with.
Anyways, I’m hobbled now, and you’d think that this would lead to more writing, but you’d be wrong because I like to work in cafes and not at home, and these little rituals are important when you’re a writer. If I don’t get my tea and my waffle, I can’t write. I’m writing this in bed, and, I gotta be honest, its just not doing it for me.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to hobble over to my favorite cafe soon though and resume writing on schedule.
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You will recall that Russia exited the grain deal and supposedly tightened the blockade of Ukraine’s coast as a result of that. Firm warnings were issued to any ships trying to violate Russia’s red line drawn in the choppy waters of the Black Sea. What happened next should surprise no one. The blockade was broken:
Israel has flouted the dictates of the Russian MoD before, like when they shot down a Russian plane in Syria. To be fair, the MoD spokesman Konashenkov initially blamed Israel and said that there would be consequences. But then President Putin stepped in and blamed Assad for the strike instead.
If I had to guess, I’d say that the same thing will happen here. Moscow will try to save face by claiming that they approved the ship and that it was a goodwill gesture and that it had a cargo of humanitarian aid or some combination of all these claims. It seems so crystal clear to me that Israel has consistently supported Kiev, and openly flaunts the power that Tel Aviv enjoys over Moscow. The Kremlin, for its part, bends over backwards for Israel. This is probably in part because President Putin believes in end times prophecy.
I don’t want to bore my readers with getting into the detailed particulars of end times prophecies. Westerners should know enough about them from Sunday school, movies and political speeches by now. If I was writing for Slavlanders though, I’d have to explain Revelation to them because they are all the products of the areligious Soviet and RF education systems.
But we’re not supposed to notice things like that.
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Gonzago Lira resurfaced and posted a harrowing story on Twitter about his release from prison and his plans to try and escape to Hungary. Lira claimed that he was beaten, extorted, tortured and then let go with the hopes that he would just leave the country.
Memes and my past criticisms of the man’s work aside, if even half of what he is claiming is true, then it is an outrage and yet further proof that the SBU are a gang of torturers and sadists. But then, that is what the secret police always is or becomes eventually. Psychotic murderers given full-reign to terrorize the peasantry as a paramilitary gang and with no consequences. Also, in general, rights are always only for the privileged members of any given society, not for those who break with the official narrative on anything.
Last we heard from Lira, he decided to make a break for Hungary. Since then, an American transvestite released an official statement from the Ukrainian government concerning the fate of Lira.
It is rather incredible that the Ukrainians decided to put this thing in front of a flag and official looking wallpaper in a military-style uniform and have it declare Lira to be re-captured by the SBU and in their custody. What is even more Orwellian is that Wikipedia doesn’t have “Sarah's” original male name anywhere in the article I scanned to better acquaint myself with his work.
Although we don’t have a dead name for him, we do know that he used to work trying to get right-wing activists in the US in trouble. And before that, he reported about Assad’s war crimes while worrying that the refugees were too bigoted to accept “her”. Yes, really.
And then Sarah made his way over to Ukraine where he started promoting nonsense propaganda like ‘The Ghost of Kyiv”. Sarah popularized a lot of bizarre propaganda stories. Remember those heady early days? That was a lot of fun.
There were all sorts of stories circulating about Reddit volunteers flooding into the country to live-action role-play as Marvel superheroes. More than a few were non-binary, giving rise to yet more memes at the time.
But this is no longer a joke: it appears that Kiev has made one of these atrocities its official Western-facing spokespeople.
Speaking of identity crises, they’ve also removed the Soviet hammer and sickle from the famous Motherland Monument.
And they want to rename her to the Mother-Ukraine statue.
Me, I’m no fan of the USSR or Communism, and I would ban all Soviet symbology in the Slavlands myself, given the power to do so. But the approach of Kiev before this was to leave WWII-related Red Army stuff alone, formally anyways. This was a compromise measure and one that most reasonable people would support - honoring monuments to soldiers, but removing symbols of political Communism. It is what I would do in Russia, although it’s not like there are many hammers and sickles left there anyways. I would demonstratively sell Lenin’s mummified corpse to the Chinese though and use the funds to put up statues to Nicholas II instead.
It somehow feels fitting that the tranny with an identity crisis would feel at home in a country suffering from one of the bloodiest identity crises in living memory. “What is a woman?” you ask? “What is a Ukrainian?” is what I want to know. As far as I can tell, both identities are anti-identities created to spite normal people and cause untold suffering.
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The Czech CNN affiliate reported on an interview with the Crimean Tatar’s unofficial parliament deputy chairman.
The Russians no longer believe that they will protect Crimea from the Ukrainians. Together with the tourists, some members of the occupation administration also flee the peninsula. This was stated by the deputy chairman of the Mejlis, i.e. the unofficial parliament of the Crimean Tatars, Akhtem Chiygoz, in an interview with a Ukrainian channel. According to him, despite strong gestures, the occupiers do not intend to lay down their lives for the annexed territory.
Strange incidents in Crimea have been increasing recently, and more and more strategic places of the Russians, including ammunition depots, are caught in flames. Although the Ukrainians do not claim much responsibility, some experts believe that Kiev is preparing the ground for a liberation operation on the occupied peninsula with similar strikes. And according to one of the representatives of the Crimean Tatars, Akhtem Chiygoz, this has a fundamental influence on the Russians.
"For nine years, Russians believed that Crimea was a place of rest and fun. But now they hit. They fled and no longer see Crimea as a seaside resort. The season ended there before it even started," said Čijgoz in the broadcast of the Freedom channel . According to him, not only tourists are leaving Crimea, but also representatives of the occupation administration and their families. "They are trying to sell what they stole there and leave," added Čijgoz.
I’ve written before that the Crimean Tatars are responsible for a lot of sabotage in Crimea and that they are supported by both Kiev and Turkey. But, for some reason, neither side wants to talk much about this.
First, I wrote an article explaining what the Odessa strikes were about and what they weren’t about. You should check it out here: If I am wrong, we should be seeing some kind of offensive or some kind of naval attack or some kind of follow-up by Russia, right? If not, then we are simply seeing a repeat of what happened last time, that is, yet more attempting to hide the fact that Russia is not fighting this war seriously.
The Kremlin because they are Third Worldist and Kiev because they are hiding the fact that they are allied with the Turks, an ancient enemy of the Slavs, and that they are cynically using Ukrainian nationalism and have no intentions of building a nation-state once the war is concluded.
Speaking of Third Worldism, a bunch of African warlords visited Russia recently and seem convinced that they’re going to get supplied by Moscow. ZAnon is bragging about it, and maybe Russia has indeed kept a few helicopters back from the front to sell to Africa instead. I wouldn’t put it past them.
The way the media coverage has been this last week, you could be forgiven for thinking that the war in Ukraine was over and that we were all on to bigger and better things like anti-Imperialist liberation struggles in Africa. Just search “Russia” on Twitter and you will find nothing but Africa-related stories.
The funny thing is that the USSR tried the same strategy during the Cold War and failed spectacularly. The Africans overwhelmingly sided with the US because of Coca-Cola, blue jeans and Rambo, even if they initially took Russian weapons and studied in Russia universities. Funny enough, one of the reasons that Azov arose in Lugansk was because of the high number or imported Africans there who came to study and then stayed. This was easy to predict, all we have to do is consult the old equation:
Proximity + Diversity = Conflict.
I will never support Third Worldism and neither should you. Don’t be fooled, there is no Realpolitik at work here, only time and money sinks. Russia will simply sell or give them arms and loans and probably never see a dime returned to the government. Putin had to cancel Africa’s debts at the summit, remember? But at least Russia’s oligarchs can have fun on the Dark Continent and not cause trouble for Putin’s posse at home. That is the real reason why Russia is pivoting to Africa. Hell, it might even be why they finally swapped Brittney Griner for Viktor But, come to think of it. What I am trying to say here is that the pivot is real, only it is ridiculous and proves just how little Moscow actually cares about Donbass. There are still thousands of specialists being hired to go fight in Africa. All during the siege of Bakhmut, they were recruiting men concurrently for Africa. And now they are seriously talking about supporting the Niger military junta by providing arms and helicopters?
Absurd.
Meanwhile, the Russian State Department is hard at work securing visa-free travel for Haitians.
Can anyone explain to me what the benefit of this is? To increase tourism? Is tourism really a top concern right now, in the middle of an existential anti-Nazi special policing action in brotherly Ukraine?
Apparently, it is.
Or, perhaps, it has to be understood as part of a pre-planned top-down democide of the Russian people. I was studying a migration document with the official migration numbers for 2022 and 2023. I’d share it with you, but I’m not sure I’m supposed to. But here are the total numbers.
The top row states the number of total passports (internal and external) issued in 22 and 23.
And the total amount of people granted Russian citizenship in 22 and 23. Most of these people are Tajiks.
Meanwhile, I can’t even apply for my citizenship. And apparently the Duma has decided that it can strip people of their Russian citizenships going forward. Even people born in Russia. Mostly, for the crime of criticizing Shoigu. And this will be run by the FSB, of course.
A group of MPs has introduced a bill to the Russian State Duma that would allow Russia to deprive people of their citizenship even if they became Russian by birth, as per Duma’s database.
The suggested changes will allow termination of citizenship if an individual has committed a crime or an act that “threatens Russia’s national security”.
What kind of acts threaten national security will be determined by the FSB. The list of crimes that qualify for termination of citizenship is listed in the respective federal law.
However, these circumstances earlier only allowed to deprive people of citizenship in case they obtained it later in their lives.
The MPs behind the initiative are deputies from the occupied Ukrainian territories of Crimea, Sevastopol, and the Luhansk region: Sergey Tsekov, Ekaterina Altabayeva, Sergey Kolbin, and Olga Bas. The explanatory note says the suggested law would “ensure equality in the eyes of the law, and the equality of constitutional status of all Russian regions”.
Should the bill become a law, it is going to affect all legal relationships starting 26 October 2023.
Importing “loyal” Tajiks while stripping patriots of their Russian citizenship? Yep! That’s the RF government for you!
But hey, American Russia experts like Vox Day are certain that Russia is poised to destroy “Clown World”. Here is what he wrote in June in the article “Clown World Fears Russia”.:
What it may signify is that Russia, and therefore China, have all the information that is necessary to expose and destroy Clown World, root and branch. Everything from the Holocaust and the Moon landings to the legitimacy of the Biden administration appears to be fully documented by Russian intelligence, which would mean that Vladimir Putin can unleash chaos throughout the West and undermine every Western government simply by providing the verifiable truth of post-WWII history to the people of Europe and America.
I’ve suspected as much since Putin made a very specific reference to “the Empire of Lies” and the neoclowns reacted in much the same way vampires do to the offer of a garlic-infused shower of holy water coming out of a silver waterspout in the shape of a cross. I also suspect that this may be the basis of the post-2015 “Trump-Russia collusion” narrative that has never made any sense whatsoever in the electoral context provided.
We can only hope and pray that the Russians, and their secret allies, will soon do us the service of telling the rest of us what they already know to be true. All Clown World ever had over Russia was the threat of the US military, and now that threat appears to have been exposed as one that is entirely empty.
Is there a time table for when Vladimir Putin will expose the moon landing and the Hall-of-cost that we are working with or is it just tbd as usual? Jokes aside, it is sad to see ZAnon infect yet another blogger. Although, Vox was a big fan of QAnon as well back in the day so it is only natural that he would fall prey to this trick. He seems particularly susceptible to psyops on account of his Catholicism, unfortunately.
Or is it that his mental wiring made him predisposed to the Vatican hoax as well?
Hmm. Feel free to weigh in here, Vox.
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Speaking of Catholics, Kiev’s Rada has decided to move Christmas to the 25th of December, putting it into line with the Gregorian calendar. This is a move to de-Russify Christianity, apparently.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed into law a bill moving the official observance of Christmas Day to Dec. 25 from Jan. 7, when Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church mark the holiday.
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, approved the measure — which also adjusts the dates of the Day of Ukrainian Statehood and the Day of Defenders of Ukraine — on July 14, with Zelenskyy formalizing it on July 28.
Zelenskyy had introduced the legislation June 28, with an explanatory note that the change would “discard the Russian legacy of celebrating Christmas on Jan. 7,” the date for the holiday according to the Julian calendar, which is used by the Russian Orthodox and other Eastern Orthodox churches. The Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar — implemented in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and used by Western churches — differ by 13 days.
Neither Orthodoxy or Communism are Russian though. Both are foreign and anti-Russian ideologies imposed on the Slavic peoples, which, OK, they got Russified in a process akin to a scab covering a festering wound. But, because Russian identity is de facto illegal in Russia, Ukraine has to make do I suppose. And there are no doubt indeed Russians who are probably upset about the date change and the Soviet symbol change. Me, I can’t even imagine caring about such things. Also, I do recall claiming that Zelensky would make Ukraine Catholic eventually.
Allow me to congratulate you a day late. Happy Easter. In the Slavlands, they say “Christ is Risen!” to which you are supposed to reply, “Indeed He Is Risen”! So, here I go: Christ is Risen! [Feel free to reply in the comments below]. Now, let me state my biases upfront before I dive into the topic of Slavlands Orthodoxy.
Russian Orthodox priests no doubt will explain these developments away as a test of faith or Yahweh punishing them out of love. I think they ought to tell the faithful in Ukraine to just lay low and go with it though. No, Orthodox heaven doesn’t need more martyrs and Russia won’t be liberating Ukraine any time soon. Celebrate Christmas on the 25th if you have to, it won’t kill you. I did it for 20 years in America and well … hmm … I guess I did become an apostate so maybe that’s not the best example to bring up.
By the way, if you don’t know, the Gregorian reforms are basically what separated Orthodoxy from the splinter-sect of Catholicism. Laurent Guyenot describes them as a “monkish coup” in his reading of church history.
And they are very important for understanding historical revisionism. Here is what Guyenot wrote about the political fraud that was the reforms:
The Gregorian reform, which started with the accession of Pope Leo IX in 1049, was a continuation of the monastic revival launched by the powerful Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, which a century after its foundation in 910 had developed a network of more than a thousand monasteries all over Europe. The Gregorian reform can be conceived as a monkish coup over Europe, in the sense that celibate monks, who used to live at the margin of society, progressively took the leadership over it.
It is worth insisting on the revolutionary character of the Gregorian reform. It was, wrote Marc Bloch in Feudal Society, “an extraordinarily powerful movement from which, without exaggeration, may be dated the definite formation of Latin Christianity.” More recently, Robert I. Moore wrote in The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215: “The ‘reform’ which was embodied in the Gregorian program was nothing less than a project to divide the world, both people and property, into two distinct and autonomous realms, not geographically by socially.” The reform triumphed at the Fourth Lateran Council convoked by Innocent III in 1215. The world created by Lateran IV was “an entirely different world — a world pervaded and increasingly moulded by the well-drilled piety and obedience associated with the traditional vision of ‘the age of faith’, or medieval Christianity.” Yet in a sense, Lateran IV was only a beginning: in 1234, Innocent III’s cousin Gregory IX instituted the Inquisition, but the great period of witch-hunting — the last battle against paganism — was still two centuries away.
In his book Law and Revolution, the Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard UP, 1983), Harold Berman also insists on the revolutionary character of the Gregorian reform, by which “the clergy became the first translocal, transtribal, transfeudal, transnational class in Europe to achieve political and legal unity.” “To speak of revolutionary change within the Church of Rome is, of course, to challenge the orthodox (though not the Eastern Orthodox) view that the structure of the Roman Catholic Church is the result of a gradual elaboration of elements that had been present from very early times. This was, indeed, the official view of the Catholic Reformers of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries: they were only going back, they said, to an earlier tradition that had been betrayed by their immediate predecessors.”
The Reformers, in other words, established a new world order under the pretense of restoring an ancient world order. They created a new past in order to control the future.
In that sense, these new reforms in Ukraine are just more of the same. Organized religion is just an older control mechanism made by organized mafias with power and no scruples about maintaining it. And if Abrahamic dogma isn’t your speed, you can subscribe to a secular “ism” instead like Communism or Liberalism. Few ever move past ideological constraints and simply look at spirituality, power, metaphysics, morality, and identity for what they really are.
Be warned though: if you stare long enough at clown world, clown world will finally stare back at you as well.
I hope that you get better soon. What country are you in ? Are the medical services there good ? affordable ? Do you keep your driving licence ?
I believe you know about Surkov, Putin's Chechen propaganda master. He studied dramatic arts and took a liking to avant-garde theatre. He wrote plays. He brought the principles of avant-garde theatre to political propaganda : breaking the situation as commonly seen and understood in order to resew another from the pieces. He has had a good run in Russia.
He also took inspiration from Karl Rove's principle that one uses the media to create a new reality that is imposed to the public : the opponents need time to analyse and understand it and for a while the correct understanding will be only one of the readings en vogue among the opponents ; by the time the opponents coalesce on the correct understanding and formulate a counter-strategy, a new reality is created and the counter-attack founders.
The outcome of Surkov's methods is the disorientation of the masses and a sense of helplessness in face of absurdity. The dripping of coherent pieces with familiar themes, sovok themes, reassures the masses and wins a form of trust towards the master.
Zelensky was an actor in Russia prior to playing the president on Kholomoisky's TV. He is acquainted with Surkov and most probably knows about his methods. I believe that Zelensky decided to adopt a similar media strategy. Hence the travestite. Once the war is over and the conflict on the ownership of land starts, he will need all the tricks he can muster to abate the popular furore.
Surkov's work has been studied and appreciated in the West. He was invited to give talks in the UK. It is probable that his principles of breaking the reality and resewing it to create disorientation then recreation of partial coherence to foster trust have been adopted. Some of the propaganda during the covid pandemic appeared inspired by him.
Your graphic humor is once again superlative. Both the Oppenheimer "driver of cars" and the Gonzalo Lira "fugitive on the run" take downs had me in stitches.
Guyenot's excursus on the Gregorian Calendar as a revolutionary act was a revelation. The mention of the Benedictine Abbey at Cluny reminded me of the thesis that Benedictines invented all kinds of Western history, even fabricating Norse mythology and its pantheon . Edo Nyland wrote 2 very interesting books on pre-history: Linguistic Archeology and Odysseus and the Sea Peoples. The latter purports that Homer's wandering hero is better situated in the North Sea than the Mediterranean, a theme other alt-historians have picked up on.
I'll be so glad when this wretched war is over so you can turn your sights to different cultural and esoteric targets. Contemplating Putin as Trump for Russia is so depressing, like sprinkling your morning cereal w/ black peppercorns.
Hi Rolo,
I hope that you get better soon. What country are you in ? Are the medical services there good ? affordable ? Do you keep your driving licence ?
I believe you know about Surkov, Putin's Chechen propaganda master. He studied dramatic arts and took a liking to avant-garde theatre. He wrote plays. He brought the principles of avant-garde theatre to political propaganda : breaking the situation as commonly seen and understood in order to resew another from the pieces. He has had a good run in Russia.
He also took inspiration from Karl Rove's principle that one uses the media to create a new reality that is imposed to the public : the opponents need time to analyse and understand it and for a while the correct understanding will be only one of the readings en vogue among the opponents ; by the time the opponents coalesce on the correct understanding and formulate a counter-strategy, a new reality is created and the counter-attack founders.
The outcome of Surkov's methods is the disorientation of the masses and a sense of helplessness in face of absurdity. The dripping of coherent pieces with familiar themes, sovok themes, reassures the masses and wins a form of trust towards the master.
Zelensky was an actor in Russia prior to playing the president on Kholomoisky's TV. He is acquainted with Surkov and most probably knows about his methods. I believe that Zelensky decided to adopt a similar media strategy. Hence the travestite. Once the war is over and the conflict on the ownership of land starts, he will need all the tricks he can muster to abate the popular furore.
Surkov's work has been studied and appreciated in the West. He was invited to give talks in the UK. It is probable that his principles of breaking the reality and resewing it to create disorientation then recreation of partial coherence to foster trust have been adopted. Some of the propaganda during the covid pandemic appeared inspired by him.
Your graphic humor is once again superlative. Both the Oppenheimer "driver of cars" and the Gonzalo Lira "fugitive on the run" take downs had me in stitches.
Guyenot's excursus on the Gregorian Calendar as a revolutionary act was a revelation. The mention of the Benedictine Abbey at Cluny reminded me of the thesis that Benedictines invented all kinds of Western history, even fabricating Norse mythology and its pantheon . Edo Nyland wrote 2 very interesting books on pre-history: Linguistic Archeology and Odysseus and the Sea Peoples. The latter purports that Homer's wandering hero is better situated in the North Sea than the Mediterranean, a theme other alt-historians have picked up on.
I'll be so glad when this wretched war is over so you can turn your sights to different cultural and esoteric targets. Contemplating Putin as Trump for Russia is so depressing, like sprinkling your morning cereal w/ black peppercorns.