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Greek President Stands Up To Turkey

Greek President Sakellaropoulou was present for a design that will be established as ahall to memorialize the genocide of the Pontian Greeks. The Turkish government criticized the Greek President. To her credit, the President affirmed the historic truth of the Greek genocide.

One of the things that Greece can be grateful for is that it has good leadership today. Gone are the days of Costas Simitis and George Papandreou. In 2001, then Prime Minister Simitis refused to support a resolution in Parliament that would have recognized the Greek genocide.

Things have changed in Greece. Things are not perfect but much better than in the past. Much improved leadership under the President and Prime Minister Mitsotakis.

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Turkish Allies

https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/pakistan-china-turkey-nexus-a-cause-of-serious-concern-for-greece-122011500239_1.html

The Pakistanis are making it clear they support Turkey and support Turkish aggression in Cyprus. Greece has been very hospitable to Pakistani and other immigrants who have chosen to enter Greece illegally. Greece has shown good will and understanding to Pakistan in light of the fact that Athens has accepted their citizens.

Greece should begin the process of breaking diplomatic ties with Pakistan. Pakistan is now actively supporting Turkey as can be seen by statements of Pakistani officials in the article linked above. It also appears that China may be moving close to Turkey.

Turkey and China have much in common. They are criminal regimes guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity in the previous century. Turkey has been the recipient of American aid and assistance despite its genocidal history. China likewise today is the beneficiary of western hypocrisy whose scientists have bestowed aid on China despite massive human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party.

The Erdogan regime claims the islands of Greece. That same regime ignores the soft genocide of Ughyur Muslims in China who are confined to concentration camps. Murderous regimes generally support one another.

All hope is not lost. Greece has friends in the Muslim world. Greece has friendly relations with Egypt, United Arab Emirates, and with Saudi Arabia. The Ecumenical Patriarchate has been engaging in destructive behavior over the past four years.

One of the few bright signs is the Patriarchate received a visit from a former Iranian President. Greeks have traditionally had friendly relations with Iran. It is important for Greeks to maintain these close ties with Muslim countries. Greece does not have any conflicts with Islam, but with Turkey.

Greek Orthodox Archbishops Serapheim and Christodoulos of Athens had established friendly relations and discussions with Iranian leaders in the past. More crucially, Iran is an ally of Russia and Syria. It would be to the interests of Greece to maintain friendly relations with Iran, Russia, and Syria.

Greek interests are based on resisting Turkish aggression. Relationships with all states should be based on their stances toward Greece’s interests in Cyprus and the Aegean. Russia in particular has reemphasized its support for Cyprus.

Greece needs to define its list of enemies and allies very carefully.

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Democrats Coup?

New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman has suggested that President Biden remove Kamala Harris as Vice President and replace her with Elizabeth Cheney. This comes in the aftermath of reports that Hillary Clinton may seek the nomination of the Democratic Party in 2024. Hillary’s plans are a major slap to Biden who does not seem to realize that Democrats are abandoning him.

The Friedman suggestion which is taken less seriously than Hillary’s also seems to recommend a revolt against Harris as well. This whole thing is pathetic and exposes the Democrats as focusing on nothing other than fighting Trump even though the former President has been out of office for a year. The odious Democrats are seeking alliances with the more odious elements of the Republican Party.

One is reminded that the late Republican Candidate for President John McCain wanted Democrat Joseph Lieberman for a running mate. This was an example of how the lines between the parties was beginning to blur. Warmonger McCain wanted warmonger Lieberman for a running mate.

In 2016, dozens of Republican neocons endorsed Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign. Donald Trump’s election really shook things up. McCain made very clear that he despised Trump. The losing faction of the Republican Party has for some time been forming a partnership with the Democrats.

Take for example, Elizabeth Cheney. She is as much of warmonger as her father whose views she shares. Since the January 6 clown show of a year ago she has won praise from Democrats and the media for her opposition to Trump. Her extreme foreign policy views have either been forgotten or are actually shared by pro war Democrats.

One of the biggest mistakes Donald Trump made was to appoint John Bolton as national security advisor. Bolton has always been an aggressive pro war advocate and psychopath. He did his best to undermine Trump’s negotiations with North Korea and to start a war with Iran.

Trump did the right thing and fired him. Bolton subsequently gained the sympathy of Democrats and the media when he spoke against Donald Trump. He later wrote a book attacking Trump. The narcissistic psychopath was well treated by the media who ignored his extreme and fanatical views because they like anyone who is against Trump.

Friedman’s recommendation that Elizabeth Cheney be made Vice President is insane. It is stupid and the more principled liberals are rightfully mocking Friedman for making this suggestion. The media and the Democrats can’t shut up about the capital riots.

They seem to have forgotten the far greater disaster that was the Iraq war which Dick Cheney helped mastermind. Elizabeth Cheney is not her father but she shares her father’s foreign policy views. In no circumstances should she ever be allowed to serve as President or Vice President.

On the other hand, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden voted in favor of the Iraq war in 2003. Unlike all of these people, Donald Trump has clean hands and did not start any wars. Donald Trump’s Presidency was one of moderation and peace.

We have a President today who is clearly limited by his mental health issues. As such, he is the target of the predator Hillary Clinton. Unlikeable as Biden is, Hillary would be a worse President.

Democrats are starting a revolution in their own party. The power hungry Hillary is going after the senile Biden. Friedman advocates replacing Kamala Harris with Elizabeth Cheney. What does it say about the Biden administration and the Democratic Party that they are discussing regime change barely a year into the Biden administration?

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Bring On Hillary

There is speculation that Hillary Clinton would like to run for President again in 2024. That would be a good thing as Donald Trump would crush and humiliate her again. Considering the vile attempt to overturn the 2016 elections with the bogus Russian collusion myth it would be nice to see her career terminated at the hands of Donald Trump.

The Clintons are narcissists. Bill Clinton would do anything to return to the White House. He would take a job as the White House maid if it meant being at the center of power again. The Clintons have no shame.

Hillary Clinton is so in love with herself that she cannot comprehend that the media cannot help her. The media did what they could in 2016 to elevate her into the White House. Except, democracy worked and Trump won despite the media.

The voters do not like her. Four years of lies about Russian collusion and attempts to discredit Trump only succeeded in 2020 to the benefit of Joe Biden, not Hillary. In order to defeat Trump, it took the combined effort of the national media to suppress information about the corruption of Hunter Biden, the deaths of elderly people in New York rest homes under Governor Andrew Cuomo, and covid to determine the election outcome.

If Hillary had been the candidate, Trump might still have prevailed. Hillary is unlikeable and people are tired of political dynasties. The Clintons, Bushes, Cheney’s, and soon enough the Biden’s will be history.

The Clintons have been with us since 1992. We endured Clinton’s corruption and his vile behavior with a twenty one year old intern in the oval office. It was perjury and obstruction of justice that nearly got him impeached, not sex. If there is anything that Hillary did accomplish it was to discredit and expose the majority of feminists as the frauds that they are.

Hillary stood by a husband that has been credibly accused of sexual assault by several women. Most feminists demonstrated they would support any sexual predator in politics in the name of protecting abortion “rights”. Journalist Christopher Hitchens attacked Clinton from the left and exposed him as the reprehensible and unprincipled creep that he is. Hitchens made a convincing case that the bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan during the summer of 1998 were intended to take attention away from his sex scandal.

Hillary herself produced catastrophes at the international level. As Secretary of State she supported the overthrow of the Libyan government that turned that country into a failed state in which Al Quada and ISIS would establish a presence. She and her campaign were ready and willing to increase tensions with Russia in order to promote the lie that Russia stole the election for Trump.

Clinton political ally Paul Begala in 2017 called for Trump to bomb Russia in order to prove he was not owned by the Russians. These are the psychopaths that support the Clintons. Hillary became a United States Senator and Secretary of State because of her sexual predator husband’s influence.

I hope she does run for President. No matter how much the media works to support her, she will lose badly. People do not want the Clintons to return. Donald Trump will destroy her and such a humiliation will be well deserved. A second Trump victory over Hillary will be a nice and final commentary on the Clintons.

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Regaining Honor Through Humility

Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem has been raising the alarm about the dangers facing the Christian populations of the holy land. Activities from right wing Israeli settler groups appear to threaten the existence of Christians in the holy land. A show of support for the Jerusalem Patriarchate is coming from the Russian Church.

Patriarch Kyril of Moscow has expressed his support for the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and has reacted to the recent message of the Patriarch by expressing the full support of the Russian Church. It should be remembered that the Russian government and Church played significant roles in saving the Patriarchate of Antioch from destruction. We have therefore a potential model for how relations between the Russian Church and the ancient Patriarchates should be conducted.

Jerusalem is enjoying warm ties with Russia. Jerusalem has always had warm ties with Russia. This can be seen by the references by priests in the Russian Church to Jerusalem as the “mother of Churches.” The Amman synod conducted two years ago under the auspices of the Patriarch of Jerusalem as a means of addressing the Ukrainian schism showed the Patriarch of Jerusalem as a statesman in Orthodoxy.

Jerusalem maintains the traditional Orthodox calendar. It is close with the Russians. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) has a presence in the holy land and has always been friendly with the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Jerusalem and Antioch have excellent relations with the Russian Church.

Constantinople and Alexandria could learn from Antioch and Jerusalem. The Russians respect the ancient status of Antioch and Jerusalem, as they do Constantinople and Alexandria. If the latter two were to be satisfied with their honorary statuses the schism could be healed.

Jerusalem and Antioch are respected because of their moral stances and the way they relate to other Churches (especially Moscow). Constantinople’s arrogance and Alexandria’s treachery have been very costly for those Patriarchal sees. They regain their honor when they regain their humility.

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The Schism, Omicron, And Orthodoxy

At a time when the world is in chaos from omicron and human suffering is increasing because of this pandemic and because of the pressure and strain from lockdowns and restrictions, the Orthodox Church is mired in ecclesiastical disputes. To be sure, Patriarch Bartholomew has the ultimate responsibility for the schism. But the Russian Church has escalated the crisis by creating an exarchate in Africa at the expense of the Alexandrian Patriarchate.

The Orthodox Church is the true Church. The problem is the world does not know this. The fact that the Church is in a near schism does not help matters and weakens its witness in the present world. Patriarch Bartholomew is not likely to be reasonable any time soon. The Russian Church could at least put a freeze on its activities in Africa pending an easing of the health crisis around the world.

Archbishop Anastasios of Albania has commented on the escalating division in Orthodoxy. The Archbishop has reminded us that he predicted with the passing of time the schism would more likely become permanent. Metropolitan Serapheim of Greece has also commented and suggested that the Russian Church should not consider Alexandria in schism as that local Church has not been condemned by a council.

Considering the great crisis that omicron poses the Churches might consider concentrating more on teaching the gospel at this time and leaving the crisis on the side temporarily. The Russian Church happens to be in the right but should suspend its African undertaking for the purpose of emphasizing the necessity of combating omicron and providing relief.

As a result of the pandemic, Orthodoxy has the opportunity to bring light in to a darkened world by practicing the gospel and sharing the faith with a suffering world. Furthermore, theologians should rise to the occasion to address the sins of science in the twenty first century. The funding provided by western scientists to the Wuhan lab raises moral questions that theologians and the Church generally must address.

The misbehavior of scientists is a challenge to faith. The Church should focus on confronting the scientific community for its crimes against humanity. Over five million people around the world are dead. Churches were closed two years ago, and might again conceivably close.

The opportunity is at hand to condemn the evils wrought by secular and anti Christian scientists and to provide witness of the light of Christ in a time of darkness. The Orthodox Church must come together at this crucial time.

Patriarch Bartholomew often discusses climate change and global warming. Perhaps he should take an interest in gain of function research and the catastrophic results it has had for man, God’s most favored creation? Perhaps all Orthodox Churches can also condemn the soft genocide against the Ughyurs?

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America’s Doctor And The Scientific Community

Anthony Fauci returned to the Senate to testify and engaged in a very bitter and partisan exchange with Republican Senators Rand Paul and Roger Marshall that represent Kentucky and Kansas respectively. As the lives of Americans are once again being disrupted by omicron it is infuriating to watch “America’s Doctor” behaving like a politician. He referred to Senator Marshall as a “moron”.

Mr. Fauci has become a very angry and bitter old man. This is not the man who should be responsible for dealing with the threat of covid. Understandably, Fauci is angry because he has received death threats and in December one lunatic was arrested for planning to murder him. Certainly, threats and murder attempts deserve to be condemned.

Senator Paul referred to the attempted murders of Republican members of Congress in 2017 by a supporter of Bernie Sanders and pointed out that Republicans do not blame Sanders for the actions of one lunatic. Fauci attempted to blame Senator Paul for the actions of the lunatic that was arrested last month. Fauci like a skilled politician is attempting to deflect attention from his responsibilities for funding gain of function research in China.

Threats are odious and vile but are common for public officials and politicians, religious leaders, celebrities, and many others. Fauci has the option of resigning if he believes the pressures of his job are too much for him. He is eighty years old and has been in his present position for thirty seven years.

There are those of us who are angry because our lives have been disrupted. Fauci is being criticized for using the taxes of Americans and sending them to China to fund the infamous lab in Wuhan. Senator Paul and others cited evidence that showed Fauci and Frances Collins at the National Institute of Health silenced and intimidated colleagues who suggested the origins of the virus were not natural but was created by humans at the lab in Wuhan.

The self pitying little man who the media calls “America’s Doctor” believes he is unaccountable. A few months ago he dismissed criticism of himself by suggesting those who criticize him are criticizing science. He reminds one of the Jack Nicholson character in “A few Good Men” who lost his composure and began ranting.

Both Fauci and the scientific community have much to answer for. Unfortunately, the propaganda machine that is the media will never hold them to account. Scientific arrogance can be seen by the disregard for the average person whose money they have used to help bring about a pandemic that has deprived that person of his personal freedom.

The ultimate hypocrisy of Fauci and his fellow scientists (the ones who support him) and most liberals can be seen by their collaboration with the most evil government on earth. Why were they even working with the Chinese?

China is one of the most ruthless governments in the world. Political prisoners are murdered with a bullet to the head. The families are then taxed to pay for the bullet. Many have referred to the “soft genocide” under way against the Chinese Muslims known as “Ughyurs”. These are a Turkic people that are now in concentration camps and are brutally tortured and repressed.

The scientific community have no interest in the mass human rights violations in China. That they were supporting any activities in China indicates how immoral scientists really are. Funding anything in China today would be the equivalent of funding activities in Hitler’s Germany in 1935. There are certain regimes that are so obviously evil that there can be no justification for funding them.

The media and the Democrats have overhyped the pathetic and ridiculous capital riots of last year. They have ignored the much more sinister realities that have transpired within the scientific community and the growing political influence of “America’s Doctor”. The man we must not criticize.

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Dick Cheney On The Republican Party

Former Vice President and architect of the Iraq war Dick Cheney criticized today’s Republican Party. He said he is disappointed in the leadership of today’s Party. Daughter Elizabeth Cheney referred to a “cult of personality”. The Cheney’s were in Washington for the first anniversary of the capital hill riots.

The riots last year were certainly not a good thing, and it was not Donald Trump’s finest hour. It was also not quite the threat to democracy that Democrats and neocons think it was. The real threat to democracy was the attempted coup/impeachment against Trump in early 2020 but that is another story.

The capital hill riots when all is said and done were a very minor affair. Compared to the Iraq war which Cheney aggressively supported, the riots are of no significance. The invasion of Iraq led to the deaths of countless Iraqi lives in a civil war followed by the further horrors and mass murders perpetrated by “Al Quada in Mesopotomia” and its Islamic State successor.

One third of Iraq (and later one third of Syria) would be occupied by Islamic State. Shiite Muslims, Christians, and Yazidis were slaughtered in cold blood. The Iraq war gave life to radical jihadists. Dick Cheney and his associates such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Condoleeza Rice and others had fantasies about “democracy” in the middle east.

The Iraq war was a disastrous failure. The rise of Donald Trump within the Republican Party was historically welcome as this led to the downfall of the war criminals of the Bush-Cheney era. In 2016, it became fairly obvious that Trump’s rise was a threat to the neocons. Neoconservative Max Boot wrote an op ed in the New York Times endorsing Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for President.

Hundreds of pro war neocons would subsequently support Hillary’s candidacy. Hillary would have delivered the wars that they wanted. The cabal of pro war schemers like John Bolton and others working in the shadows represent a far greater threat to American democracy than the mobs of January 6, 2021.

Dick Cheney said the present Republican leadership does not resemble the Republicans he knew when he was a Congressman. His Republicans left to support Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign in 2016. His Republicans made very clear that they do not like Donald Trump who very much enjoys the support of conservatives today.

The Bush-Cheney administration created the climate for Islamic State to establish its “Caliphate”. Islamic State went on to terrorize and bomb Paris, London, and Belgium. American cities were also the victims of Islamic State attacks as well from California to Florida. The January 6 riots cannot be compared in any serious way to the devastation wrought by the Bush-Cheney administration.

Good riddance to the Cheney family. Good riddance to the Clintons, and good riddance to the Bush family. In 2024 at the latest we will say good riddance to the Bidens.

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Byzantine Intrigue In The Twenty First Century

The term “byzantine” is frequently used to denote intrigue and treachery. In Constantinople, factions schemed against one another and there were numerous Emperors that were murdered or blinded. The ugliness of the fallen world and the crimes perpetrated in the Empire of New Rome does not diminish the sanctity of religious life in Constantinople. Cathedrals and Monasteries were built, and holy fathers and saints continued to work for the glory of God throughout the Empire.

What are we to make of the intrigue and factionalism in Orthodoxy today? The Emperors could be excused to an extent because they resided in the secular world. Critics of Byzantium cite the intrigue in the Empire but let’s be serious. There is not a single civilization or country that has ever been exempt from the realities of a sinful and corrupt world. America for example has made it a practice to bomb and invade other countries.

The Russian Empire like its Byzantine predecessor had its own sins but this did not mean that the Russian Empire was not a force for good. The primates, hierarchs, and clergy of the Orthodox Church have left the secular world and so the kind of intrigue that was in many ways understandable in Byzantium, is not so understandable within the Church of God. What would the apostles and the fathers of the Church think today?

The blame for the present crisis in Eastern Orthodoxy lies with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The Patriarchal invasion of the canonical territory of the Russian Church in 2018 is the source of all subsequent bitterness, instability, and factionalism that plagues Orthodoxy. As the rivalry between the ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria and the Russian Orthodox Church heats up, Patriarch Bartholomew watches with indifference.

It is with horror and revulsion that I have been watching the schism gradually widen. The members of the Russian Orthodox Church and its daughter Church in Ukraine are brothers and sisters in the lord. The Ukrainian faithful have been persecuted for the last several years because they refuse to abandon the canonical Church for an artificially created entity brought into being in order to satisfy secular politicians in Kiev and Washington.

I happen to love the great Church of Constantinople. It is with horror that I have watched the Ecumenical Patriarch work with the anti Orthodox establishment in Washington to hurt the Russian Church. The actions of Constantinople are shameful and deplorable.

We are seeing the Russian Church establish an exarchate in Africa at the expense of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. I have mixed views as to the appropriateness of this action. What is absolutely certain is that if Patriarch Theodore had not emulated the example of Patriarch Bartholomew in Ukraine then the Russians would not now be in Africa. It should be emphasized that the Russians have always respected the boundaries of the ancient Patriarchates and treated them with honor.

The Greek speaking Orthodox Churches have adopted policies that contravene Orthodox ecclesiology. The synod of the Church of Greece and the Archbishop of Cyprus for reasons still unverified followed the destructive path set by Patriarch Bartholomew. The entire Ukrainian affair is not about healing the Church schism in that country. It is about destruction.

What good has come from any of this? We have the estrangement of Constantinople from Moscow. The estrangement of Alexandria from Moscow. The estrangement of the Greek Churches from their sister Churches.

Even the reputation of Mount Athos has suffered because a few Abbots inexplicably joined Patriarch Bartholomew’s anti Russian campaign. This is destruction and madness. The only way out is through repentance and the convening of an ecumenical council.

This byzantine intrigue has to end. The Ecumenical Patriarch is universally recognized as “first among equals”. Beyond a “primacy of honor” he has no rights or privileges.

Based on the continued deterioration in inter Orthodox relations it is apparent that the most logical way to defuse this crisis is to depose Patriarch Bartholomew. This can only be averted through repentance on the part of the Ecumenical Patriarch.

The world has enough problems. Washington is provoking Russia again in Ukraine. The omicron variant is infecting people around the world. Transgenderism, infanticide, and gay radicalism are threatening the influence of Christianity in the western world.

The purpose of the Orthodox Church is to baptize the nations. The world is in darkness and needs the light of Jesus Christ. This inter Orthodox fighting is detrimental to the Church’s sacred mission.

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Happy New Year

The year 2021 was not a perfect year. It was however a much better year than 2020. Here is hoping that 2022 brings about the following,

1) The pandemic becomes an endemic meaning that covid will be like the flu. It will never go away but we will live normally. The media report conflicting information. The World Health Organization says the pandemic is on its way to becoming an endemic. Let’s hope the scientists do not move the goal post again and may we be able to live fully normal lives again.

2) The schism in Orthodoxy. May this be the year the Ukrainian schism is ended.

3) The Biden administration should come to its senses and leave Ukraine out of NATO. This is the basis for peace.

4) Last but not least. May this be the year that Cyprus was freed from the Turkish occupation.