Fun fact: Ivan the Terrible had a swollen testicle which he ascribed to witchcraft.
IVAN THE TERRIBLE’S MALADY AND ITS MAGICAL CURE
William F. Ryan
Ivan’s Terrible Testicle (or ‘Ivan the Testicle’)
William Blake meets Mother Russia
A combination of William Blake’s The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun and St. Basil’s Cathedral of the Kremlin . This collage reflects on my impressions of Russia’s historical occultist perversion of religious traditions (not just Christianity) in order to subvert them and achieve their political ends. Since at least the reign of Ivan IV (beginning in 1547), through the time of Nicholas II, and quite likely to Putin today (beginning in 1999) – the sectarian and schismatic Orthodox Church with the “Tsar” as its dubiously-declared protector has seemingly employed such strategies.
Are Kremlin collusion allegations the new black in Presidential politics?
Did you know that there was a ‘prototype’ kind of ‘Kremlin collusion’ story involving Mitt Romney? Yeah – this Mitt Romney:
Gather ’round children, and let me tell you another scary tale of Russian cults. Continue reading “Are Kremlin collusion allegations the new black in Presidential politics?”
Timeline of Seymour Hersh Posts Corroborating Russian Narrative
As I clear out some old material I researched but never got around to posting today, I’d like to share my in-progress bibliography on Seymour Hersh. His background seems to match with Russian and Syrian information warfare narratives over time. Let’s be clear that the Syrian ‘false flag’ chemical weapons material in particular is connected to 9/11 era conspiracy networks which stretch back to the Cold War era. Hersh fits this same MO of ‘antifascist Russian dupe‘ reporter – think of him perhaps like a modern IF Stone. Continue reading “Timeline of Seymour Hersh Posts Corroborating Russian Narrative”
The Syrian Chemical Weapons False Flag Network is the 9/11 Conspiracy Network Too
On June 10, 2012, RT ran the story ‘Syrian rebels aim to use chemical weapons, blame Damascus’, which claimed rebels had acquired Libyan chemical weapons. It claims to have sourced the story from Dampress.net, which is a Syrian-government friendly news site based in Damascus. This story was also reported on June 10-11, 2012 on InfoWars.com and GlobalResearch.ca, citing RT. The RT report seems to have been the first English-language press report linking chemical weapons in Syria with Western-backed rebels. Continue reading “The Syrian Chemical Weapons False Flag Network is the 9/11 Conspiracy Network Too”
The Usual Suspects: Sergei Nilus and Konstantin Pobedonostsev
Did you know that the same people who advanced the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion were also responsible for the near-simultaneous canonization of Seraphim of Sarov? According to Sergei Nilus and Konstantin Pobedonostsev – two conservative Orthodox figures closely connected to Nicholas II -supposedly the venerable Seraphim had predicted the death of Nicholas II by Jewish (e.g. ‘Bolshevik’) elements; painting him as a Christ-like martyr.
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Faked False Prophecy: Clear Eastern European Influence on the 9/11 Hoax Prophecies
Immediately following the 9/11 attacks, several fake Nostradamus prophecies circulated on the internet claiming the 16th century seer had predicted the crisis. In addition to reflecting clear fabrications of Nostradamus prophecy, the 9/11 fakes also included apparent elements of Baba Vanga prophecy. Baba Vanga (d. 1996) was a Nostradamus-like Eastern European mystic who is “extremely popular in Russia”, and who according to Sputnik News, predicted the 2000 Kursk disaster, the 9/11 attacks, and even Vladimir Putin’s succession of Boris Yeltsin (Sputnik 2010). Continue reading “Faked False Prophecy: Clear Eastern European Influence on the 9/11 Hoax Prophecies”
Was Russia a Factor Behind the Boxer Rebellion?
I continue my research into “MMA culture and propaganda”, now being built out in a working paper entitled “In Submission to Male Nationalist Identities: MMA’s War of the Worlds“. It is turning into a bigger project than I anticipated. In the process of my research, I have come across very interesting observations which fit the contours of my emergent theory on Russian propaganda — not the least of which is that the original name for UFC was actually going to be “War of the Worlds“! But today I want to talk about the Boxer Rebellion.
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Conanism and Onan the Employer
I’m working on a new post on “MMA culture and propaganda”. Of course, in the context of this investigation, we will come back to John Milius, screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, NRA board member, and popularizer in film of the Nietzsche-inspired character Conan the Cimmerian. The octagonal ring of mixed martial arts (MMA) is said to have derived from the film Conan the Barbarian (written by Milius but with a first draft by Oliver Stone), and Milius was in fact an architect of the UFC and an early Hollywood practitioner of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Words on Words: Vaclav Havel
Editorial: One of the names I considered for this blog was ‘wordswords(com)’ – which could be read as both ‘word swords’ and ‘words words’ (it wasn’t available and I am ultimately glad). As the below 1989 speech by Vaclav Havel shows, words can be dangerous, and they can also be redeeming. We need to be careful about the words we believe, and the words we use. We need to be careful how they can be used or changed in ways they are not intended to. I have always felt I have been very careful about how I choose words – despite my sometimes dyslexic tendencies towards syntax and grammar. That said, I am somewhat like a bull in a Chinese propaganda shop so we’ll see how that turns out.
The following speech is one of the best ‘sermons’ I have ever read and is filled with many relevant quotes for our age (some of the best I’ll highlight to ease visual scanning). I generally like to use my exclusively own opinion to avoid bias, but to be honest I have come to so many of the same conclusions independently of Havel from a moralistic standpoint (if not a historical one — since I am not fully educated on all of the matters of history which he references) that I have few if any reservations about putting his opinion forth as representative of my own. (This appeared originally in the NY Review of Books.)
