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Moscow Miffed at Mitt
Moscow wasted no time in expressing through its cooperative media its displeasure at both Republican nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican Party for advocating a tougher stand on internal oppression in Russia and its aggressive, anti-democratic foreign policy.
An online report with commentary, http://ria.ru/world/10120829/732561950.html from Russia's RIA Novosti news agency, criticized the Republican Party’s platform that urged Moscow leadership to "reconsider" its heavy-handed approach to domestic political opposition and Moscow's aggressive foreign policy, including the invasion of Georgia and support for the Stalinist regime in Belarus.
RIA Novosti characterized the relatively mild reference in the Republican platform to the Russian government's actions as placing the nation of Russia among "other traditional rivals" of the United States. It then cited Communist North Korea, Communist China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran as examples of "traditional" U.S. rivals.
RIA Novosti's manipulation of language must be noted. The reference to North Korea, China and Iran as "traditional rivals" completely mischaracterizes the reality of the dangers posed by these nations and their overt hostility to any civilized norm of behavior. Moscow is an undeniable ally of all three tyrannical states; it also supports the Cuban dictatorship and the neo-Marxist regime in Venezuela.
In another RIA Novosti report, Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, coolly stated that Moscow-Washington bilateral relations had become the "prey" of the U.S. presidential election campaign. Peskov added, "In their official contacts, both Moscow and Washington at various levels have repeated stressed their understanding of the inadmissibility of the situation." Romney's approach to Russia was described as "undiplomatic and unjustifiable," by Irina Yarovaya, chair of the Duma Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption and a reliable Putin functionary. Her censure was reported by RIA Novosti in a separate article. http://ria.ru/politics/20120831/734274294.html
There is certainly a contrast between candidate Romney and the present U.S. administration. While Romney has described Russia as America's number one foe, President Barack Obama initiated a "re-start" in relations with Moscow early in his administration. He also privately (but picked up by a "hot" microphone) promised Dmitry Medvedev to be more "flexible" with Moscow in a second term.
The Republican platform, however, does state that Russia and the U.S. have common interests in the fight against terror and the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons. Thus it supports normalizing trade relations with Russia under certain conditions.
Despite the tough rhetoric, there is no indication that the Republicans recognize that Russia is dominated by a spy-elite dedicated to the triumph of a Marxist system - in one form or other - in Russia and around the world. There is no reasonable hope that Moscow will "reconsider" the suppression of domestic opposition or cease its aid to various tyrannies, because all of these actions are well considered, planned, and directed to a specific goal.
This spy-elite also is waging a cyber war with the United States and has increased Russian espionage activities against the U.S. to Cold War levels. Moscow and its ally Communist China are engaged in major military buildups, and some in Russia boast that their nation will catch up to the U.S. in rocket technology within nine years.
This confidence in Russian technological development occurs as U.S. technology flows into Skolkovo, the Russian version of Silicon Valley.
Around the world the Kremlin spy-elite and their allies in Beijing are committed to a New World Order, which would relegate the U.S. to a minor international role, subjugated to the ideological whims of Moscow and Beijing.
Should Romney and the Republicans win in the November elections, the new administration will confront a determined spy elite in Moscow allied with what Condoleezza Rice called a "rising China."
Only in a limited way have Romney and the Republican Platform recognized the danger posed by Russia. In fact, a deeper understanding is necessary. The domination of Russia by a spy-elite and the dangers of the Moscow-Beijing alliance must be acknowledged. For our own national safety and our very existence, we must fully grasp the peril that confronts the United States and all freedom loving people.
His doctrine, dictated by personal whims and prejudices The false divine messenger, who "modestly" preferred himself to all the Doctors of the Church and pretended to be inspired by the Holy Ghost since he received "his dogmas from heaven," in reality is insecure, regretful about his early teachings, contradictory and arbitrary. Whether he established dogmas or destroyed them, he was motivated by trivialities and personal prejudices. He changed his opinions like an actor changing his costumes. Here are some examples:
Conditional baptism - On May 12, 1531 Luther wrote to Wenzel Link about conditional baptism, affirming that "after careful consideration we have defined that it must simply be eliminated from the Church." The next day, he changed his mind. Again "inspired," he wrote to Ossiandro: "I cannot condemn conditional baptism being given to children whose first baptism is doubtful" (1)
Power of the Catholic Church - In 1519 he wrote: "I fully confess the supreme power of the Roman Church; after Jesus Christ Our Lord, she should be preferred to everything on earth and heaven." (2) This Church "is the one chosen by God; there can be no reason for anyone to break away from her and, entering into schism, separate himself from her unity." (3) In 1520, in his Lutheran Epistle, he strongly praised Pope Leo X, saying that his courageous life placed him above any attack. (4)
However, in that same year Leo X would become the Antichrist and the Roman Church "a licentious den of thieves, the most depraved brothel, the kingdom of sin, death and hell." (5)
A 15th-century English manuscript with Bible verses on Purgatory, which Luther eliminated on a whim Saints, purgatory, prayer for the dead - In 1519, two years after he publicly started to preach his Reformation, while defending himself from adversaries, he taught the cult of the saints, the existence of purgatory, praying for the deceased, the practice of fasting etc. (6)
He saw the Devil everywhere: in the cloud that passed, in the lightning that struck, in the thunder that roared, in the forests, waters, deserts, infesting the air and the fields. He saw devils hidden in serpents and lizards, monkeys and parrots, in the fly that rested on his book, even in the walnuts sent by an admirer. The Evil Spirit was the one who routinely resolved every difficult problem for him. To the Devil's malefic action Luther attributed the moral disorders and social calamities unchained by his subversive doctrines (16). This diabolic obsession that tortured the soul of the unfortunate renegade can be seen in all of Luther's writings. Devils dominate in his style; one would say that some of his pages were written in Hell. In the essay against Duke Henry of Brunswick, the Devil is honored by being named 146 times; in the book on the councils he mentioned the Devil 15 times in four lines (17). He accused the adversaries of the Reformation of having "a satanist, super-satanist and hyper-satanist heart." To Luther must be attributed the initiative of making a new genre of writing fashionable, one dominated by the Devil, whose tune all the other reformers would follow and sing. Are these uncertainties, doctrinal contradictions, superficiality in inventing and destroying dogmas, and satanic arrogance and language befitting a messenger who proposes to restore Christianity?
Luther himself narrated the episode in detail and then concluded:
e adversaries of the Reformation of having "a satanist, super-satanist and hyper-satanist heart." To Luther must be attributed the initiative of making a new genre of writing fashionable, one dominated by the Devil, whose tune all the other reformers would follow and sing. Are these uncertainties, doctrinal contradictions, superficiality in inventing and destroying dogmas, and satanic arrogance and language befitting a messenger who proposes to restore Christianity?
Summarized and translated by the TIA desk from Cornelius a Lapide,
Commentaria in Scripturam Sacram, Paris: Ludovicum Vides, 1876, vol. 21, chap. 21
Posted October 8, 2011
RIA Novosti characterized the relatively mild reference in the Republican platform to the Russian government's actions as placing the nation of Russia among "other traditional rivals" of the United States. It then cited Communist North Korea, Communist China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran as examples of "traditional" U.S. rivals.
RIA Novosti's manipulation of language must be noted. The reference to North Korea, China and Iran as "traditional rivals" completely mischaracterizes the reality of the dangers posed by these nations and their overt hostility to any civilized norm of behavior. Moscow is an undeniable ally of all three tyrannical states; it also supports the Cuban dictatorship and the neo-Marxist regime in Venezuela.
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There is certainly a contrast between candidate Romney and the present U.S. administration. While Romney has described Russia as America's number one foe, President Barack Obama initiated a "re-start" in relations with Moscow early in his administration. He also privately (but picked up by a "hot" microphone) promised Dmitry Medvedev to be more "flexible" with Moscow in a second term.
The Republican platform, however, does state that Russia and the U.S. have common interests in the fight against terror and the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons. Thus it supports normalizing trade relations with Russia under certain conditions.
Despite the tough rhetoric, there is no indication that the Republicans recognize that Russia is dominated by a spy-elite dedicated to the triumph of a Marxist system - in one form or other - in Russia and around the world. There is no reasonable hope that Moscow will "reconsider" the suppression of domestic opposition or cease its aid to various tyrannies, because all of these actions are well considered, planned, and directed to a specific goal.
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This confidence in Russian technological development occurs as U.S. technology flows into Skolkovo, the Russian version of Silicon Valley.
Around the world the Kremlin spy-elite and their allies in Beijing are committed to a New World Order, which would relegate the U.S. to a minor international role, subjugated to the ideological whims of Moscow and Beijing.
Should Romney and the Republicans win in the November elections, the new administration will confront a determined spy elite in Moscow allied with what Condoleezza Rice called a "rising China."
Only in a limited way have Romney and the Republican Platform recognized the danger posed by Russia. In fact, a deeper understanding is necessary. The domination of Russia by a spy-elite and the dangers of the Moscow-Beijing alliance must be acknowledged. For our own national safety and our very existence, we must fully grasp the peril that confronts the United States and all freedom loving people.
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His doctrine, dictated by personal whims and prejudices The false divine messenger, who "modestly" preferred himself to all the Doctors of the Church and pretended to be inspired by the Holy Ghost since he received "his dogmas from heaven," in reality is insecure, regretful about his early teachings, contradictory and arbitrary. Whether he established dogmas or destroyed them, he was motivated by trivialities and personal prejudices. He changed his opinions like an actor changing his costumes. Here are some examples:
Conditional baptism - On May 12, 1531 Luther wrote to Wenzel Link about conditional baptism, affirming that "after careful consideration we have defined that it must simply be eliminated from the Church." The next day, he changed his mind. Again "inspired," he wrote to Ossiandro: "I cannot condemn conditional baptism being given to children whose first baptism is doubtful" (1)
Power of the Catholic Church - In 1519 he wrote: "I fully confess the supreme power of the Roman Church; after Jesus Christ Our Lord, she should be preferred to everything on earth and heaven." (2) This Church "is the one chosen by God; there can be no reason for anyone to break away from her and, entering into schism, separate himself from her unity." (3) In 1520, in his Lutheran Epistle, he strongly praised Pope Leo X, saying that his courageous life placed him above any attack. (4)
However, in that same year Leo X would become the Antichrist and the Roman Church "a licentious den of thieves, the most depraved brothel, the kingdom of sin, death and hell." (5)
A 15th-century English manuscript with Bible verses on Purgatory, which Luther eliminated on a whim Saints, purgatory, prayer for the dead - In 1519, two years after he publicly started to preach his Reformation, while defending himself from adversaries, he taught the cult of the saints, the existence of purgatory, praying for the deceased, the practice of fasting etc. (6)
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Luther himself narrated the episode in detail and then concluded:
e adversaries of the Reformation of having "a satanist, super-satanist and hyper-satanist heart." To Luther must be attributed the initiative of making a new genre of writing fashionable, one dominated by the Devil, whose tune all the other reformers would follow and sing. Are these uncertainties, doctrinal contradictions, superficiality in inventing and destroying dogmas, and satanic arrogance and language befitting a messenger who proposes to restore Christianity?
- Martin Luther
- Some else
- footnote 3
- in his commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Luther had already moved away from the Catholic tradition and was teaching bold errors about concupiscence, original sin, justification, free will and grace. From 1515 on, he was already ripe for apostasy. The preaching of Tetzel only served to trigger that irremediable break.
Summarized and translated by the TIA desk from Cornelius a Lapide,
Commentaria in Scripturam Sacram, Paris: Ludovicum Vides, 1876, vol. 21, chap. 21
Posted October 8, 2011
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