Reaping The Harvest Of Sorrow

There is a revolution taking place in the Ukraine. This revolution is not the one that the numerous armchair revolutionaries that populate America understand, or want. The Occupy Movement in the United States was really a battle between the haves and the have-a-lots. It was a battle between those who fought to avoid working by demanding that the state take more from those who were working.

The Occupy camps dispersed when the pot and pizza disappeared and nobody in the camps had anything worth stealing. When you think about it this is the fundamental problem with socialism. Eventually you run out of food and other peoples money.

The revolution in the Ukraine transcends more than economics. You cannot reduce a human being to nothing more than an economic unit without destroying individual dignity and in the literal sense, their lives.

Ukrainian protesters showed great courage rescuing their fallen while under fire from police snipers as well as those officers firing at random in the general direction of anyone not wearing a police uniform. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic and the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches turned their churches into aid stations and hospitals to protect wounded protesters from the state when reports of wounded protesters taken to state hospitals were found dead in wooded areas outside of cities. Their priests offered Mass, last rites, heard confessions, offered communion, aid stations for the wounded, prayers for the dead, and at times stood between police lines and protesters.

The American media although providing stunning and sobering video and still photography of the protests succumbed to a subtle disinformation campaign from the Russian Federation by stating that there might be right wing influences that might make a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian revolution impossible. The Russian line is that the protesters are neo-Nazis. Mention the words right wing to some American journalists and they salivate like Pavlov's dog.

Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post has written a good column on Russian disinformation concerning the Ukraine.  

There was no reporting on the history of the Ukraine that was the driving force behind the revolt against the Russian attempt to control the Ukraine. The Ukrainians have a living memory of the socialist workers paradise and what happened to them when Russia controlled the Ukraine. There are survivors from the Starvation-Genocide of 1933. There are children and grandchildren of the survivors of the Starvation-Genocide of 1933.

•  The 7 August 1932 law drafted by Joseph Stalin on the protection of the socialist property stipulated the death penalty for "theft of socialist property". Ukrainian villagers were executed by firing squads for theft of a sack of wheat and in some cases even for two sheaves of corn or a husk of grain.
• The 6 December 1932 decree stipulated a complete blockade of villages for allegedly sabotaging the grain procurement campaign - de facto sentencing their Ukrainian inhabitants to execution by starvation.
• An unpublished decree signed by Molotov encouraged Russian peasants to settle into the empty or half-empty villages of "the free lands of Ukraine" [and North Caucasus also inhabited by Ukrainians and likewise devastated by the famine].
• At the height of the Famine Ukrainian villagers were dying at the rate of 25,000 per day or 1,000 per hour or 17 per minute.
• By comparison the Allied soldiers died at the rate of 6,000 per day during the Battle of Verdun.
• Among the children one in three perished as a consequence of collectivization and the famine.
• According to dissident Soviet demographer M. Maksudov "no fewer than three million children born between 1932-1933 died of hunger."
• 80% of Ukrainian intellectuals were liquidated because they refused to collaborate in the extermination of their countrymen.
• Out of about 240 Ukrainian authors 200 were liquidated or disappeared. Out of about 84 linguists 62 perished.
• The Ukrainian population may have been reduced by as much as 25%.

The "natural disaster" excuse to cover up the 1933 Famine-Genocide does not hold water. It was not caused by some natural calamity or crop failure: 

• The 1931 harvest was 18.3 million tons of grain.
• The 1932 harvest was 14.6 million tons of grain.
• The 1933 harvest was 22.3 million tons of grain.
• The 1934 harvest was 12.3 million tons of grain.

This is what the Ukrainians remember. They remember the millions that were deliberately starved to death by the Soviet Union. They remember their priests and intellectuals that were shot to death or "disappeared".

 http://faminegenocide.com/resources/facts.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-ukrainian-smears-and-stereotypes/2014/02/20/450b8d62-9a72-11e3-b88d-f36c07223d88_story.html

Disappointment In Poland - Starring Meryl Streep

“I thought that after years of communism you’d caught up with the west in a social-cultural sense.” - Meryl Streep addressing Polish politicians 

There are two types of Hollywood selfies. The first type comes from the lens of a camera, the second type comes from an intellect a mile wide and an inch deep.

Ms. Streep not withstanding her starring role in Sophie's Choice is not an expert on Polish history concerning the Nazi occupation of Poland, or the Soviet occupation and later Soviet domination of Poland during the Cold War. The pillar of resistance to the Nazi's and their socialist fellow travelers, the Communists was the Catholic Church that gave aid and comfort to the resistance. She should not be surprised that the Polish people including doctors and scientists respect the Church and their faith.

As far as catching up to the social-cultural sense of the west perhaps Hollywood should remake the Little Shop of Horrors featuring Dr. Kermit Gosnell's clinic.

"Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner told Steven Massof, 51, on Wednesday that he was wise to plead guilty to two counts of third-degree murder and testify against his former employer, abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was running an illegal late-term abortion clinic and writing illegal prescriptions for narcotics.

Massof testified last April that when multiple women were at the clinic for late-term abortions and were given drugs to induce contractions "it would rain fetuses."

"Fetuses and blood all over the place," he said, according to Cheryl Sullenger, a senior policy adviser for Operation Rescue, who attended the Gosnell trial.

He also admitted to snipping the necks of at least 100 babies born during abortion procedures."

Should be good for a special effects Oscar.

The Noble Lie - Part 1

The photo is from the Guardian

“But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.” - JRR Tolkien

The United Nations has decided that they must bring the Catholic Church to justice concerning the sexual abuse of minors by priests and laity working for Catholic institutions. The problem is not just confined to the Church, in fact whether it is abuse or not depends upon who the abuser is.

 “The committee is gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by and the impunity of the perpetrators,” the UN report concluded.

The UN however practices a different standard for their peacekeepers when it involves the sexual abuse of children. 

"In 2004 that the United Nations was investigating another institution whose representatives were accused of widespread rape, forced prostitution and pedophilia, and which concluded, “Sexual exploitation and abuse, particularly prostitution of minors, is widespread and longstanding.”

"The institution under investigation then was the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Congo.
And the U.N. peacekeepers’ response to the report? Intimidating the investigators for doing their job.
There could hardly be a less appropriate organization to muster outrage, especially since as recently as 2013, a human rights organization in London concluded that “sexual exploitation and abuse continue to pervade peacekeeping missions, and peace-keepers benefit from near-total impunity.”

"Substitute “priest” for “peacekeeper” and you have the U.N.’s report in a nutshell."

"Still, the United Nations lecturing the Catholic Church on permitting sexual abuse within its ranks is the equivalent of Kim Jong-Un giving a speech about the importance of family or offering tips on the best treats to feed to your dog."

"By the time U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon finally made time to visit the Congo and meet with victims of his peacekeepers’ lust, he was so moved that he said: “We view this as something very serious that can impede our ability to accomplish our mandate.” Oh, the humanity of the man!
Then, to show he meant business, Ban referred the matter to a committee."

"As for opening its own files to see if any guilty parties from its peacekeeping operations have escaped the long arm of justice, the United Nations relies on its status as an extra-territorial organization, beholden to no national government. So much for transparency." - an editorial written by John Moody for Fox News.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/02/05/un-slams-vatican-over-protecting-children-say-what/