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Saint Nicholas Fought Injustice

by 1389AD ( 46 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Christianity, History, Open thread, Orthodox Christianity, Russia at December 24th, 2010 - 9:00 am

Saint Nicholas of Myra Saves Three Innocents from Execution - Painting by Ilya Repin (click for larger image)

The above image is Saint Nicholas of Myra Saves Three Innocents from Execution by the famed Ukrainian artist Ilya Repin. Another work by Ilya Repin is featured here.

Saint Nicholas a hero? Who knew?

The “Santa Claus” celebrated in Western pop culture is a myth that has been built up around a real historical figure, namely Saint Nikola of Myra, known and loved by the Serbs as Sveti Nikola.

Why are we telling children to wait for “Santa Claus” to arrive on Christmas Eve in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer, when the truth is far more inspiring?

Instead, we should be teaching children and adults to follow the real “Saint Nick” as a role model. Not only did the good Saint spend the entire fortune that he had inherited on helping the poor, but he also was a brave man who fearlessly fought for truth and justice.

From the website of the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint George in Des Moines, Iowa:

One story about Nicholas tells us that, while visiting a remote area, the saint received news that the ruler of Myra, Eustathius, had condemned three innocent men to death. Nicholas rushed home and arrived in time to physically intervene in the execution by grasping the executioner’s sword and throwing it to the ground. He ordered the condemned men freed from their bonds. Approximately 1500 years later, in the 19th century, a controversy arose over capital punishment in Russia. Russian artist Ilya Repin studied ancient icons of Nicholas grasping the blade with his bare hand and used the images to make his own painting (in a realistic style instead of an iconographic style) depicting the incident and making his own comment about the controversy through art.

Such was the reputation of the good Bishop of Myra that the executioners immediately set free the three condemned men. Later, when Eustathius had repented of his wrongdoing and had performed a suitable penance, Saint Nicholas forgave him.

Below is one of the traditional Russian icons of the type that Ilya Repin studied for his own art:

Sveti Nikola Saves Three Innocents from Execution - Old Russian Icon

Patron Saint

Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of Russia, of Greece, and of many other cities, regions, occupations, and circumstances of life. Most famously, he is the patron saint of children, of boatmen, watermen, mariners, and sailors, of travellers and pilgrims, and of students and scholars. He is also the patron saint of judges, of repentant thieves, and of those victimized by injustice.


Originally published on 1389 Blog.


Austrian MP Ewald Stadler Tells the Truth About Turkey

by 1389AD ( 113 Comments › )
Filed under Europe, Islamic hypocrisy, Islamic Invasion, Sharia (Islamic Law), Turkey at December 14th, 2010 - 11:30 am

Austrian MP Ewald Stadler Addresses the Turkish Ambassador

(YouTube: German language with English subtitles)

It is certainly refreshing to hear an elected official telling the truth in a straightforward manner, especially with regard to the ongoing Islamic infiltration and invasion of non-Islamic countries and territories. As Mr. Taneris points out below, this is a rare phenomenon indeed! Now that LTC Allen West has been elected to the US House of Representatives, we can hope to see this in the US as well.


Turkey Slammed By MP Ewald Stadler

From Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA)
Reprinted by request

New York- The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) urges all activists to call, write and email Austrian MP Ewald Stadler to thank him for his courage and honesty in exposing Turkish Crimes against Christian minorities in Turkey. In a resounding speech last week directed towards the Turkish Ambassador, the Austrian MP Ewald Stadler condemned the knifing and public beheading of a Catholic Archbishop in Turkey and said openly to Turkey and its Turkish settlers in Europe: “We didn’t ask you to send us all the illiterates of Anatolia, Turkey sent them here, We haven’t asked you to send up your stone age Islamists from Anatolia either.”

Although the Cypriot government has spent millions of the Greek Cypriot refugees tax money on the so-called “lobby” in America for decades, we have never seen or heard such honesty from an American Congressmen in regards to Turkish barbarism in Cyprus. Basically, all that is ever heard out of the mouth of American Congressmen, for all that money spent, is support for bizonal bicommunal federation which is basically a Turkish plan. That is why we ask that we all write to Austrian MP Ewald Stadler to thank him and enlighten him on Turkish atrocities against Cyprus an EU member in the hopes that he speaks for us, because basically a few in Europe do, but none in America will stand up to Turkey for Cyprus in their own home governments.

It’s our hope that more and more Europeans will stand up and say no to the illegal Turkish settlers sitting on our stolen land in occupied-Cyprus, that Turkey will be called on its lies and invasion denial. The issue of Turkey entering the EU, is basically a battle being fought in Europe, and Greek-Cypriots must change with the times. They should give attention and allocate money towards enlightment within the country members of the EU. Lots of money has been ill spent in America without concrete results therefore Cyprus should look towards and within the EU countries.

Below is the enlightening speech delivered in Parliament by the Austrian MP Ewald Stadler. His remarks are directed at the Turkish Ambassador, who recently insulted Austria for its purported mistreatment of Turks. The video clip is on You Tube with English subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRmgI_WXff0

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Please call, phone and write to MP Ewald Stadler. A sample letter follows below:

Here is his, MP Ewald Stadler’s, email, telephone and parliament mailing address from the official Austria parliament website:

Mag. Ewald Stadler, Biografie

E-Mail: ewald.stadler@parlament.gv.at
Address:
Parlamentsklub des BZÖ
Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring 3
1017 Wien
Österreich
Telephone: +431401105489

SAMPLE LETTER TO MP EWALD STADLER

Dear MP. Ewald Stadler,

I am writing to thank you for your honest speech to the Turkish Ambassador last week. Greek-Cypriots are more than well aware of Turkey’s hypocrisy and ongoing barbarism in Cyprus. During the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, 800 Greek Cypriot women of all ages were raped by the Turks, thousands of Greek Cypriots including the elderly and the disabled were massacred by Turks, and to this day hundreds of thousands of Greek Cypriots are denied their inalienable right to their own property due to the brute force of the illegal Turkish invasion army.

In Cyprus today, well over 160,000 stone-age Turkish barbarians from Anatolia are illegally squatting in our homes, and the current Communist President Christofias has proposals drawn out with Turkish agents to allow 50,000 of them to legally stay there forever. The current government of Cyprus even has plans to force Cyprus to have a Turkish president (and this racial mandate will be by law) under the bizonal bicommunal federation plans. Such a racial mandate is contrary to all European principles.

I include in this letter a link to the book BLOODY TRUTH which is a well sourced reference for you to use on Cyprus history and the atrocities inflicted on Greek-Cypriots by Turks.

Thank you, please help us, please speak for us.

Sincerely, Nikolaos Taneris, Press Officer, Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA)


Wikileaks on Turkey

Another article related to the WikiLeaks revelations about Turkey and the American Ambassadors’ reports, is one by veteran Leader writer Savvas Iacovides in Sunday the 5th of December 2010, Simerini, in Cyprus.

Savvas Iacovides refers to the American reports on Turkey which reveal what Simerini was saying all along ever since T. Ertogan’s appearance and warning that the Simitis/Clerides appeasement was wrong. The American diplomats actually tell the State Department, notes that Ertogan is thirsty for Islamic power, his ministers incapable, illiterate and some are corrupt; his government disunited; his opposition laughable.

Read the full article [in Greek]:

Τα WikiLeaks και οι Ε/κ υμνητές Ερντογάν-Νταβούτοβλου


Nazi Salutes at the Turkish Embassy

by 1389AD ( 54 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Bosnia, Hamas, Israel, Kosovo, Serbia, Turkey, World War II at July 26th, 2010 - 4:30 pm

Here we go again…

Once again, we are seeing a link between a Muslim-majority nation and Nazi aggression. The Albanian Muslims profited from their Nazi ties to begin expropriating the Serbs in Kosovo. And the Nazi Alija Izetbegovic later became the first Muslim president, or perhaps warlord, of Bosnia & Hercegovina.

This time it’s Turkey. The vast majority of the population of Turkey is Muslim, even though Turkey is, by law, a secular state, at least for the time being.

Jihad Watch reports: “Clear off, Zionist dogs” painted on 1,700-year-old church in Turkey:

The offenders allegedly defaced the stone walls of the church on Monday with various slogans, such as “Clear off, bastards,” “Clear off, Zionist dogs,” “Heretics, lay off,” and “Zionist powers, clear off,” in Turkish and, “Allah u Muhammed,” and “Prophet Muhammad, fight the infidels and hypocrites,” in Arabic.

In addition, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood have been very busy in Turkey radicalizing Muslims and stirring up anti-Semitism as well as enmity against Israel. The most recent upshot of that was Turkey’s involvement in staging the Gaza flotilla.

From 1389AD’s mailbox:

Subject: TURKISH EMBASSY HITLER SALUTE ON JULY 20, 2010
From: Cyprus Action Network of America
To: 1389

Dear 1389,

Please publish and write about the following two links about the TURKISH EMBASSY HITLER SALUTE ON JULY 20, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaM2Ns4THxc
(Look for Gunay Evinch in the background)

Thank you.

–Nikolaos Taneris, Press Officer, Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA)

TURKISH EMBASSY HITLER SALUTE ON JULY 20, 2010

For Immediate Release: July 21, 2010
Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel (917) 699-9935

NEW YORK—The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) demonstrated against the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC on July 20th, 2010 for the entire business day, to mark the 36-year anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion of Cyprus that began on July 20, 1974. Greek-Cypriot demonstrators from the DC area and from as far away as Florida and New York participated. The Greek-Cypriot demonstration was helped by Armenian community supporters, (whose people are an integral part of Cyprus ) and suffer from the ongoing illegal Turkish-military-occupation, and by pro-Israel activists. The Greek-Cypriot demonstration applauded American celebrity Jennifer Lopez’s “NO” to Turkish terrorism. Protest slogans emphasized the Turkish Crimes against the Greek-Cypriot people and the brutality of the illegal Turkish invasion, and ongoing illegal Turkish military-occupation.

Many diplomats and journalists took pictures and videos of the demonstration, and diplomatic staff from the nearby Embassies of India, Japan and South Korea voiced their admiration of our commitment to justice and human rights by asking for our flyers and information about the Turkish Crimes committed in Cyprus.

GUNAY EVINCH AND THE TURKISH EMBASSY HITLER YOUTH

A counter demonstration was staged and closely supervised by Gunay Evinch, of the law firm Evinch and Saltzman. Gunay Evinch is widely acknowledged as “the lawyer of the Turkish Embassy.” Gunay Evinch has defended Turkey from American lawsuits by Greek-Cypriot Americans, he is the President of the Turkish Lobby. Gunay Evinch is a promoter of Armenian genocide denial within the United States and the source of Turkish invasion of Cyprus denial propaganda for Turkey in America.

The main speaker for the Turkish Embassy counter demonstrators (who was witnessed as receiving help and consulted with Gunay Evinch) repeatedly made the Hitler salute and shouted “Heil Hitler” towards pro-Israel activists and the Greek-Cypriot community. The Turkish Embassy staff also participated and helped GUNAY EVINCH AND THE TURKISH EMBASSY HITLER YOUTH who also barked out to the Greek-Cypriot community “Turkish soldiers raped your mothers” and further committed hate crimes against women by making obscene gestures with his genitalia and his megaphone. The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) will be releasing the pictures and videos of GUNAY EVINCH and his Turkish Hitler Youth making the Hitler salute to Jewish Anti-Semitism watch groups and to the Israeli and German government which monitors such hate speech and hate gestures and enforces heavy criminal penalities for glorifying Hitler:

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THE FOLLOWING YOUTUBES AND PICTURE WIDELY:

YouTube: Turkish Embassy Hitler Salute on July 20, 2010
(Look for Gunay Evinch in the background)

YouTube: Turkish Embassy Celebrates Rapes of Greek-Cypriot Women
(Look for Gunay Evinch in the background)

YouTube: Turkish Embassy Genitalia Gestures
(Look for Gunay Evinch in the background)

Click for high-resolution picture of Gunay Evinch directing his Turkish Embassy Hitler Youth
Gunay Evinch directing his Turkish Embassy Hitler Youth

Jewish-American writer and political commentator Daniel Pipes (who has been in communication with CANA) published a FASCINATING and commendable Op-Ed on July 20, 2010 in the Washington Times about the Turkish invasion of “Greek land” in Cyprus, and the Jennifer Lopez cancellation of her performance in Turkish-Occupied Cyprus. We republish it below.

The videos of the Turkish Embassy Hitler Salute should not at all be surprising, the Hitler book “Mein Kampf” is a runaway bestseller in Turkey, and Turkey has strong ties with anti-Semitic terrorist organizations such as Hamas (classified by the US government as a terrorist organization) The wildly popular anti-Semitic “Valley of the Wolves” movie and television series in Turkey falsely claims that Jews and Americans “harvest organs” from Muslims in Iraq.

In remembrance of July 20th the Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) salutes all defenders of human rights, and the struggle and resilence of the survivor people of the nation of Israel and the survivor Greek-Cypriot people.

Click HERE to read the rest.

Now here’s a thought:

Greek-Cypriots: We Need a Defense Cooperation Agreement with Israel

So hopefully Israel, Greece and Cyprus are learning a lesson that never should have needed learning, because of its painful obviousness. Now that all three find themselves “betrayed” by the Muslim world, they can try working together rather than against one another while trying to win over the Muslim and Arab world.


Obama pushed 1 Trillion European Bailout

by Phantom Ace ( 196 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Europe, France, Germany, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Tranzis at May 11th, 2010 - 10:17 am

Barack Hussein Obama is living the dream of 3rd World Liberation Ideologues. He has thrown all traditional US allies under the bus and has cozied up to Islamic nations. He is fulfilling Che Guevara’s dream of a triumphant 3rd World and a New Global Order where the 1st world is subservient.  Over the weekend, President Hussein again showed his Tranzi Progressive colors. He pressured Germany to come up with a 1 Trillion Dollar bailout of Greece. The question I have is where is this money coming from? More debt to get out of debt is madness. It doesn’t matter, Obama is pursuing his Cloward-Piven strategy to collapse the 1st World.

PARIS — President Obama had just flown into Hampton, Va., Sunday morning to deliver a commencement address. But before he donned his silky academic robes, he was on the phone with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, offering urgent advice — and some not so subtle prodding — that Europe needed to try something big.

Weeks of hesitant half-steps to address Greece’s debt problems had only worsened market worries about the euro, and were threatening the still-fragile economic recoveries in the United States and Asia. Now, Mr. Obama told Mrs. Merkel that the Europeans needed an overwhelming financial rescue to end speculation that the euro — and European unity — could crumble.

“He was trying to convey that he knew these were politically difficult steps that the leaders there had to take, that he had gone through them as well,” said one senior administration official familiar with the conversation. “And that, from his experience, trying to get out ahead as much as possible was the right way to go.”

Read the rest: Debt Aid Package for Europe Took Nudge From Washington

The 1 Trillion aid package is now considered not enough as other European nations are on the edge as well. The question I have is who is Barack Hussein Obama to tell the Europeans what to do? He views all American allies as vassal states of some Transnationalist system that must heed his demands. He clearly views himself beyond President of the United States and instead the leader of some Global Community. He bullies our allies while he appeases our enemies. This is Tranzi Progressivism in action.