4x14| ✨PotUSA? Will it be a Respecter of Freedom?
4x14| ✨PotUSA? Will it be a Respecter of Freedom?
Justpeace Ukraine — UkraineCurt Readings & Musings [2024 x 14]
Hello possums!
As Melbourne Cup Day draws near, the mass media of social communication are full of reports about the USA’s choosing a president of the republic — and the world bates its breath to see whether it chooses an authoritarian or a respecter of freedom and constitutional order:—
¶ ¶ Timothy Snyder☼☼☼
—A fair fight in Georgia Or chaos everywhere
From the Storm to the Stormtroopers The Fascist Logic of Climate Lying
Two essays from the Lowy Institute’s “Interpreter” look to the future in what we hope will be a less trumpian world:—
☼¶ The Interpreter (Lowy Institute)¶ ☼☼
—Does Finland’s "total defence" doctrine hold lessons for Australia? Grant Wyeth 7/10/24 Liberal democracy doesn’t defend itself. The Finns know a thing or two about protecting it.
Kamala Harris and Ukraine: Is the US truly committed to Ukrainian victory? Mick Ryan 7/10/24 The only nation with a viable theory of victory is Russia. Harris must decide if the US will change that equation.
We write to you on Yom Kippur, the Day of At-one-ment, the culmination of the days of awe in the Hebrew calendar, when we hope that the coming year will be better; and we are each invited to start with our own heart: ‘Take away my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh!’.
Our commentator Martixa Kuparukoa provides this introduction to Amichai Magen’s ‘What changed after October 7’:—
In the space of twenty months, transformative tragedies1 shook the Levant. On 22 February 2022, the president of the RF foreshadowed an aggressive war to replace the government of a neighbouring country and to bring it under the permanent hegemony of Moscow. When the RF redoubled its invasion on 24 February, attempting to sieze Kyiv, a swathe of land around Kyiv and east of Kyiv, and the whole of the south of Ukraine, then the post-World-War consensus that such unapologetic self-aggrandisement was forbidden, ended.
On 7 October 2023 (co-incidentally, M. Putin’s 71st birthday), some 3000 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists invaded Israeli towns, murdering more than 1200 Israelis (with rape and rapine and the siezure of 251 hostages into Gaza’s tunnels) — triggering a brutal war that has cost the lives of over 40,000 people (mostly Palestinians) and devastated Gaza. Senior Hamas officials promise to replicate the massacre again and again until Israel is annihilated2.
the trauma of October 7 lingers. Finding themselves defenseless for a few hours in their homes inside Israel (not in the settlements) men, women, and children were attacked with a cruelty and glee reminiscent of the worst pogroms of the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Holocaust. For one day, every single Israeli—and every single friend of Israel around the world—saw exactly what would happen to 10 million Israelis—Christians, Druze, Jews, [Samaritans] and Muslims—if Israel was ever overrun by its enemies.
¶ ¶ Persuasion (Yascha Mounk & al.)☼☼☼
—What Changed After October 7 Amid these Days of Awe, we desperately need a new vision of regional peace and prosperity. Amichai Magen
Cheers dears!
+The Woes of the West+
☼☼America and Other Problems☼☼
¶ ¶ Sarcastosaurus (Tom Cooper)☼☼☼
—Don's Weekly of 7 October begins with a sarcastic review of actualités by Tom Cooper
¶ ¶ Nick Cohen (Writing from London)☼☼☼
—The radical right gets a free pass The Lowdon podcast on the Tory appeasement of Farage
¶ ¶ Daniel W. Drezner☼☼☼
—Guess Who Really Likes Vladimir Putin?! Some quick thoughts on Bob Woodward's latest revelations.
¶ ¶ Et Cetera, Et Cetera☼☼☼
—Sue Gray's departure will test whether Labour's problem is staff or Keir Starmer himself ANALYSIS Latika M Bourke
¶ ¶ Persuasion (Yascha Mounk & al.)☼☼☼
—Woke Is Here To Stay The fallout over Tony Dokoupil’s interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates shows that woke ideas have permeated the institutions. Sam Kahn
¶ ¶ UnPopulist (Aaron Ross Powell)☼☼☼
—Moses Can Lead Israelis and Palestinians Out of Their Bloody Conflict The prophet revered by Jews and Muslims can help them overcome their ‘darkest hour,’ Mustafa Akyol's historical account shows J. L. Wall
Promoting School Choice the Wrong Way A prominent advocate of this worthy cause has done it a disservice by exploiting right-wing rage to advance it Landry Ayres
There Is No Liberalism Without a Healthy Democracy Regardless of the outcome of this election, freedom can't survive in America without fixing the perverse structural incentives for extremism in its electoral system Andy Craig
+Not so woeful+
—How mayors can help improve public services | Sam Freedman
☼¶ The Bulwark¶ ☼☼
—We are Inviting a Nuclear Catastrophe The Nobel Committee Sent Us an Important Warning This Morning DAVID ROTHKOPF [cited by by Joe Cirincione in And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to..... A group of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors who remind us of the nuclear peril we face today.]
+... and in the Left corner ...+
☼☼For everyone, but of special interest to Social Democrats, Bolshevik imperialists, and other lefties☼☼
¶ ¶ Timothy Garton Ash☼☼☼This is addressed to the TOP Right, but applies equally to the imperialist left
—Vance’s peace plan is a recipe for Ukraine to become a failed state And European security will suffer as a result
+Wayfarers’ Watch+
☼☼For everyone, but especially for people interested in religion and theology☼☼
—Plato’s Theory of Forms (Royal Institute of Philosophy) — David Sedley
—Mark Vernon Newsletter - "Mysticism is experience in its most intense form." Evelyn Underhill
What did Socrates teach? Or why you only understand Plato if he is decolonised (20m)
Good Money Week: the cost of a place in heaven [27 September 2024] Mark Vernon looks at the use, and misuse, of money in the New Testament (text)
All Things Are Full Of Gods by David Bentley Hart. A summary and discussion
To see a world in a grain of sand. Poetry & philosophy for a civilisation in distress
Dante's Inferno. Jason Baxter & Mark Vernon on Jason's new translation of Divine Comedy's film noir
How does memory work? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake on chance and accidents, indeterminism and prayer.
—The Marriage Supper of the Lamb Kjetil Kringlebotten
Finding it hard to get beyond Hume ‘On Miracles’? This essay may help!:—
☼¶ Church Life Journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame¶ ☼☼
—The Trouble with Levitation and Bilocation Carlos Eire on miracles.
-Who Speaks for Appalachia? Brian Volck on regionalism.
How and How Not to Apologize for Native Residential Schools Brian Volck on honoring the historical truth. [2021]
-Glorifying Brother Ass: The Stigmata of Saint Francis Anthony Pagliarini on the body's glorification.
-Dante's Saint Francis: Poverty, Humility, and Simplicity Steve Soldi on Paradise.
¶ ¶ Fr Thomas Plant☼☼☼
—The Music of Purity Dionysian hymning and the Nembutsu
¶ ¶ Hart (The brothers Addison Hodges, David Bentley & Fr Robert Hart)☼☼☼
—Time, eternity, the creation, and prayer An exercise in theology Addison Hodges Hart “… an idea succinctly expressed in an old Latin maxim which, in its extended form, is this: Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi – “the law of prayer is the law of belief is the law of living” (a keen eye will note that it echoes Jesus’ titles, “the Way, the Truth, and the Life”).”
☼¶Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University — Public Orthodoxy¶ ☼☼
—Violence Against Women in the Orthodox Church: Why We Need Deaconesses by Varvara Gulina
Building an Alliance of Grace: The Work of Ecumenism in an Age of Anxiety Fr. Joseph M. McShane, S.J. delivers 2024 Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture
Orthodoxy and Paganism: An Unconventional Response by Fr. Alex Chetsas
—Commonweal Embrace the Discomfort How Catholics can help depolarize American politics Eduardo M. Peñalver[εξηλσιορ*ψ] Thanks DFPO’N.
+Church Times+
☼¶ CathNews New Zealand, CathNews Australia¶ ☼☼
—Bishops congratulate Cardinal-designate Mykola Bychok Eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia, Bishop Mykola Bychok CSsR, said he received the news that he would be created a cardinal in December with “great surprise”. Source: Melbourne Catholic.
☼¶ Vatican News, Sala Stampa &c.¶ ☼☼
—Archbishop Shevchuk: ‘Pope continues to be close to suffering Ukrainians’ The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, speaks to Vatican media about his conversation on Thursday with Pope Francis
+Femme Vitale+
☼¶Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University — Public Orthodoxy¶ ☼☼
—Violence Against Women in the Orthodox Church: Why We Need Deaconesses by Varvara Gulina
¶ ¶ Reactionary Feminist (Mary Harrington) and more☼☼☼
—Guest Article: Posting Your Kids Is Good, Actually Keturah Hickman disagrees with me about keeping pictures of your family off the internet Keturah Hickman
Unpaywalled: Great Replacement Part One I'm unpaywalling my Renaud Camus essays, with discussion
+Greensleeves+
☼☼Green News, and other material which doesn’t fit elsewhere☼☼
☼¶ Carnegie (politika, Russia Eurasia)¶ ☼☼
—Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Future Depends on More Than a Referendum Officials in Astana need to focus on meaningful localization if they want Kazakhstan to build a successful civil nuclear industry. Jennet Charyyeva
¶ ¶ Noah Smith (Noahpinion)☼☼☼
—In which I rebut Nate Silver on the economy and Matt Yglesias on nuclear Bloggers love to argue.
We are Inviting a Nuclear Catastrophe The Nobel Committee Sent Us an Important Warning This Morning DAVID ROTHKOPF [cited by by Joe Cirincione in And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to..... A group of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors who remind us of the nuclear peril we face today.]
+Klaus Wits+
☼☼About war☼☼
—Ukraine War, 2024: Into The Winter Campaign The fighting in Ukraine is unlikely to die down despite the approach of bad weather. With the Middle East War going at full tilt, the world system is careening towards the Ragnarok of our time. —Andrew Tanner
Unfortunately for the great many English-speaking experts who clearly want to move on to other more interesting wars, Ukraine isn’t letting its allies walk away. There is perhaps no better validation of Ukraine’s strategy in striking Kursk than the ongoing effort by self-proclaimed supporters, particularly American, to cast the operation as a strategic error. That they fail to appreciate how radically Ukraine has upended the game is a sign of why they’re not equipped to lead in the emerging era.
☼¶ The Atlantic Council¶ ☼☼
—Ukraine is slowly but steadily weakening Russia’s grip on Crimea By Serhii Kuzan
The West must learn defense tech lessons on the Ukrainian battlefield By Edward Verona
¶ ¶ Polemology Positions and Osborne Ink (Matt Osborne)☼☼☼
—Dragon Drones And Other Developments A video analysis of the UAV war for Ukraine
☼¶ War Translated and other like journals¶ ☼☼
—TNSR Bringing Politics Back In: The Neglected Explanation of the Oct. 7 Surprise Attack Janice Gross Stein
Public Service and Counter-Terrorism: A Conversation with Christine Abizaid
+Right on+
☼☼Sometimes about Conservatives and Liberals of the ‘right’☼☼
¶ ¶ Adam Tooze☼☼☼
—Chartbook 325 Wrestling with transition thinking. Or on being "interregnumed" and how to resist it. (Hegemony notes 8)
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+Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union+
☼☼(Mostly from the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group)☼☼
Renowned Russian civic activist Ildar Dadin killed defending Ukraine 07.10.2024
Melitopol businesswoman dead after being abducted by the Russian invaders
Dramatic increase in sentence against two Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea 09.10.2024
Russia sentences Crimean to 14 years on indictment copy-pasted from countless FSB political trials 10.10.2024
Another Russian ‘trial’ by Crimean Tatar family echoing Stalin era persecution 11.10.2024
+Toots etcetera+
ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social
1/ The recent arrest of Russian milblogger Yegor 'Thirteenth' Guzenko has been greeted with glee by other Russian milbloggers, who regard him as a loutish poser. He is accused of being a drugged-up crook who fakes reports and swindles his subscribers….
1/ Habitual alcoholics are reported to be bearing the brunt of increasingly drastic punishments in the Russian army, ranging from beatings to being sent to their deaths. The Ukraine war is said to have become an efficient way to dispose of alcoholics.
+In the Offing+
Milestone in the history of Ukrainian Studies in Australia — Tuesday
"The Tale of the Sunflower and Its Travels in Ukraine" — Inaugural lecture by the Mykola Zerov Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Melbourne — Dr Iryna Skubii
Time: Tuesday 15 October 2024. Light refreshments: 5:15 p.m.; lecture: 6.15 p.m. AEDT. Place: Forum Theatre (Room 153), Arts West Building, The University of Melbourne. To register: please follow this link. You can register to attend via Zoom. Please note this event will not be recorded so if you attend via Zoom you will need to watch it live from 6.15pm AEST.
+The Living Spirit+
What does an owl mean?
Tiffany Eberle Kriner
We all know what owls mean – by sounds, by images. Great horned owls are everyone’s mental archetype of owl. They are a classic harbinger of Halloween danger, as those gargantuan neon eyes on the porch at a house downtown remind us. Or they are brainy knowledge, wisdom. Surely we’ve seen owls as the theme for a baby’s nursery, expressing in hats and adorable onesies the hopes for future intellectual achievement. I hadn’t seen actual owls before, great horned or otherwise. Owls had been merely a heap of accepted images to us; recognizable, if tired, symbols. \ But then I met one.
~ Plough
+Start every day with a smile, and get it over with+
☼☼W.C. Fields (William C. Dukenfield, 1946 z 25, aged 66)☼☼
Phyllis Ada Diller (20 August 2012, aged 95)
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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+Resources & Publication Details+
The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine is a reputable source for inquiries about Ukraine; it's also a 'first-stop' place for inquiries about surrounding countries. (A place to go to before Wiki.)
JustPeace Ukraine is published by the Rvrd Martin Arnold, UGC priest3. ☼☼Abbe.Martincurt@gmail.com☼☼ who welcomes comments & suggestions and notification of typos & errors. | For more information about Martin, go to ☼☼https://gravatar.com/martinoarnold☼☼
+Church, Art, Culture, Ethics, Politics & News+
+From religiously-identified institutions+
☼¶ Archdiocese of Brisbane and other Latin bishops of Queensland: enews, Catholic Leader &c.¶ ☼☼
—Archbishop Mark [Mgr Coleridge] writes — With the media focusing on conflict in the Middle East, we can forget there’s a war in Eastern Europe as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. But not this week when the Pope named as Cardinal the Ukrainian bishop in Australia, Bishop Mykola Bychok. The Pope specialises in surprises, but this was one of his best. No one saw it coming, certainly not Bishop Mykola. At 44 he’s the youngest bishop in Australia and will by a mile be the youngest in the College of Cardinals. In a short time here he’s established himself as a popular figure in the Bishops Conference, and he’s kept us informed of the drama in Ukraine. His appointment will be an encouragement for Ukrainians here and around the world at a time when they need all the encouragement they can get. Say a prayer for Ukraine and the Middle East.
Pope Francis recently named 21 new cardinals, including one for Australia - Bishop Mykola Bychok. This came as a great surprise to many. Read more.
☼¶ CathNews New Zealand, CathNews Australia¶ ☼☼
—Bishops congratulate Cardinal-designate Mykola Bychok Eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia, Bishop Mykola Bychok CSsR, said he received the news that he would be created a cardinal in December with “great surprise”. Source: Melbourne Catholic.
Can a 19th century theory explain ‘The Francis Effect’? One of the most studied essays on Christian doctrine could provide an answer to the controversies surrounding Pope Francis’ leadership, according to one of the world’s leading experts on St John Henry Newman. Source: ACU.
☼¶ Church Life Journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame¶ ☼☼
—The Trouble with Levitation and Bilocation
Carlos Eire on miracles.
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Brian Volck on regionalism.
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Glorifying Brother Ass: The Stigmata of Saint Francis
Anthony Pagliarini on the body's glorification.
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Dante's Saint Francis: Poverty, Humility, and Simplicity
Steve Soldi on Paradise.
☼¶ Crux (Glendale)¶ ☼☼
—Is Pope Francis a ‘liberal’? Depends on whether we’re speaking Catholic By John L. Allen Jr.
☼¶ Jewish Council of Australia¶ ☼https://www.jewishcouncil.com.au/news-media | To receive bulletins from JCA, write to jewishcouncil@jewishcouncil.com.au☼
—One year on, Israel’s aggression continues unabated and we urge our politicians to act October 5th, 2024 October 7 marks one year since the Hamas attacks which led to the killing of over 1,000 people in Israel. This week also marks the start of Israel’s genocidal war, which has led to the mass destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza.
☼¶Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University — Public Orthodoxy¶ ☼☼
—Violence Against Women in the Orthodox Church: Why We Need Deaconesses by Varvara Gulina
Building an Alliance of Grace: The Work of Ecumenism in an Age of Anxiety Fr. Joseph M. McShane, S.J. delivers 2024 Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture
Orthodoxy and Paganism: An Unconventional Response by Fr. Alex Chetsas
☼¶ Outreach (a lesbigatesque Catholic resource from New York)¶ ☼☼
—Approaching the reign of God like a child Twenty-Seventh Sunday per annum (Gen 2:18-24: Heb 2:9-11; Mk 10:2-16) James Martin, S.J. (Synod retreat leader: What the church can learn from LGBTQ Catholics Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. / September 30, 2024)
☼¶ Profiles in Catholicism¶ ☼☼
—The September issue of Profiles in Catholicism has a special focus on Women's Leadership and Challenges. Some of the people interviewed include Rose Folsom, Lucia Mauro & Shomaila Shafaz
☼¶ Vatican News, Sala Stampa &c.¶ ☼☼
—Archbishop Shevchuk: ‘Pope continues to be close to suffering Ukrainians’ The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, speaks to Vatican media about his conversation on Thursday with Pope Francis
+From Ukrainian publishers+
☼ψEuromaidan Press¶ ☼☼
—Ukraine’s ex-military chief Zaluzhnyi opposes drafting young adults despite shortage of soldiers. Former Commander-in-Chief emphasized the need to preserve the 18-25 age group for Ukraine’s future, while acknowledging their potential necessity if the state’s existence is threatened.
☼ψThe Kyiv Independent group, including Ukraine Daily, Belarus Weekly and the culture newsletter, "Explaining Ukraine with Kate Tsurkan."¶ ☼☼
—Hello dear readers, it’s Kate Tsurkan here, with this week’s edition of our new culture-related newsletter, Explaining Ukraine.
—Asami Terajima Dear War Notes readers, This is Asami Terajima writing this week’s War Notes from Kyiv. I initially had a different intro to this newsletter, but as I was finishing writing I learned about the death of a soldier I know.
☼☼Some interesting or worthy items are marked with some combination of the banner with the strange device [εξηλσιορ*ψ]☼☼
+Tl;dr — From many sources+
☼¶ The Atlantic Council¶ ☼☼[εξηλσιορ*ψ]
—Ukraine is slowly but steadily weakening Russia’s grip on Crimea By Serhii Kuzan
The West must learn defense tech lessons on the Ukrainian battlefield By Edward Verona
Putin doesn’t have enough troops to defeat Ukraine and defend Russia By Peter Dickinson
☼¶ The Bulwark¶ ☼☼
—Blue MAGA: How RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard Became Rockstars in Trump World No other surrogates bring the crowd adoration like the two ex-Democrats. But their eccentricities come with complications. Marc A. Caputo
Propaganda, AI Fakes, and MAGA’s Totalitarian Kitsch Why are so many top Republicans sharing fake images following Hurricane Helene? Hannah Yoest
We are Inviting a Nuclear Catastrophe The Nobel Committee Sent Us an Important Warning This Morning DAVID ROTHKOPF [cited by by Joe Cirincione in And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to..... A group of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors who remind us of the nuclear peril we face today.]
☼¶ Carnegie (politika, Russia Eurasia)¶ ☼☼[εξηλσιορ*ψ]
—Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Future Depends on More Than a Referendum Officials in Astana need to focus on meaningful localization if they want Kazakhstan to build a successful civil nuclear industry. Jennet Charyyeva
Ukraine War Fuels Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Russia Normalizing discrimination against vulnerable groups like immigrants will make it easier for the Russian state to embark on future rounds of repression. Temur Umarov
Who Is the Kremlin Backing in Moldova’s Presidential Election? The issue of relations with Russia and the European Union is firmly back at the heart of electoral politics in Moldova. Galiya Ibragimova
☼¶ CEPA, CSIS, CftNI &c.¶ ☼☼
—CSIS The Russia-Ukraine War: A Study in Analytic Failure Report by Eliot A. Cohen and Phillips O'Brien [εξηλσιορ*ψ]
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☼¶ Engelsberg Ideas¶ ☼☼
—2024 x 05: In an era of rising global tensions, writes Mick Ryan, democracies must tackle the intricate task of revitalising military mobilisation by uniting people, industry, and ideas to create a powerful deterrent against potential aggressors. \
Ali Ansari considers how Iran's missile strikes against Israel on 1 October compound a recent history of strategic missteps motivated by deep insecurity. \
Kate Bush’s music has a haunting mysticism and eccentric charm. Muriel Zagha reflects on how it offers an unexpected gateway to English identity and culture. \
As Jimmy Carter reaches 100, his presidency still stands as a paradox. Angus Reilly investigates how Carter's leadership quietly shaped America's economic and military dominance in a manner that still underpins the world today. \
Armand D'Angour explores how ancient Athens grappled with the urge to censor ideas in an early example of the tension between free speech and societal stability. \
An exceptional artist is able to handle contrasts of light and shade, writes Alexandra Wilson. Few did this better than Giacomo Puccini. \
The concept of a just price has long bridged the worlds of ethics and economics. Nicholas Morton reviews Just Prices in the Markets by Charles R. Geisst. \
Charlie Laderman examines how the UN has failed Lebanon and unwittingly shielded Hizbollah's massive military build-up for nearly two decades, setting the stage for a potentially catastrophic conflict in the region. \
The Moon and its surrounding space have become an arena for Earth's geopolitical rivalries. Nayef Al-Rodhan investigates how nations are competing for strategic advantages, scientific breakthroughs, and potential resources.
☼¶ The European Council / Council of the European Union¶ ☼☼
—Russia: New sanctions framework against those responsible for destabilising activities against the EU and its member states
☼¶ Foreign Affairs (The [US] Council on Foreign Relations)¶ ☼☼
—A Plan for Peace in Gaza The Reforms That Could Allow the PLO to Lead and the Palestinian Authority to Govern By Salam Fayyad
The Age of Depopulation Surviving a World Gone Gray By Nicholas Eberstadt
Israel’s Paradox of Defeat How the Country’s Military Success Is Producing Political Failure By Aluf Benn
☼¶ Hong Kong Foundation, Committee for Freedom in¶ ☼☼
—British Judge, Lord Phillips, Becomes Latest Foreign Judge in Hong Kong to Step Down
CFHK Foundation Heads to Ottawa to Meet Canadian Parliamentarians and Government Officials
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—Loans for scares In Georgia, a news network’s propagandistic turn and an alleged loansharking scheme lead back to the same London-based firm By Will Neal
☼¶ Moscow Times¶ ☼☼
—Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov declared a “blood feud” against three Federal lawmakers from neighboring republics in the North Caucasus. Kadyrov claimed the politicians had seized Wildberries from founder Tatiana Kim and ordered his assassination. Wildberries – Russia’s largest online retailer – merged with the smaller outdoor advertising agency Russ Group at the start of the month.
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☼¶ Reuters¶ ☼☼
—'God save the Tsar!': Putin hailed in Russia on 72nd birthday By Guy Faulconbridge
☼¶ RUSI¶ ☼☼
—How to Support What Remains of Russian Civil Society Amid ever-tightening authoritarianism in Russia, it is vital that external actors support regional journalism and independent initiatives as vehicles for future democratic change.
☼¶ The Strategist — The Australian Strategic Policy Institute¶ ☼☼[εξηλσιορ*ψ]
—Changing our perspective on ADF recruitment and retention
Shaun Cameron and David Lipschitz | 10 October 2024 A cultural shift is required around how we think about careers in the Australian Defence Force and metrics of capability and retention. Counterintuitively, we should consider not only how to recruit and retain ADF members, ...
What would victory in Ukraine look like? Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | 9 October 2024 Victory in war is sometimes easy to define. World War II ended with Allied troops in control of Berlin and Tokyo, and with the German and Japanese leadership removed. The Vietnam War, on the other ...
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☼¶ War Translated and other like journals¶ ☼☼
—TNSR Bringing Politics Back In: The Neglected Explanation of the Oct. 7 Surprise Attack Janice Gross Stein
Public Service and Counter-Terrorism: A Conversation with Christine Abizaid
☼¶ Die Zeit¶ ☼and other sites☼
—Commonweal Embrace the Discomfort How Catholics can help depolarize American politics Eduardo M. Peñalver[εξηλσιορ*ψ] Thanks DFPO’N.
—C4ADS The Human Rights Implications of Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Linkages to XUAR Mishel Kondi
—Financial Times Former Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg: ‘So far, we have called Putin’s bluff’ The Norwegian politician on his decade as a KGB contact, crossing Russia’s red lines — and what comes next for Ukraine Henry Foy
—FIRE ‘Why (most) lies are protected speech, and why they should stay that way: Even with our current climate of fake news, misinformation, disinformation, and election lies, we shouldn’t use government power to try enforcing the truth.’ by Angel Eduardo June 29, 2023
—Law and Liberty Israel’s Transformative Tragedies Amichai Magen & Anna Levenberg [εξηλσιορ*ψ]
—RFE/RL 'Defeating Russia Is The Best Thing We Could Do For Russia': Historian Timothy Snyder On The Ukraine War By Sashko Shevchenko [εξηλσιορ*ψ]
¶ ¶ The Sheffield Shield☼☼☼
—Named for Henry North Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield, Viscount Pevensey (21 April 1909, aged 77)
—Sheffield Shield offers clues for Test opening role and more The 123rd Sheffield Shield season kicks off on Tuesday peter lalor
Teen Konstas’s in Ponting territory with back to back 100s. The NSW teenager is youngest since Ricky Ponting to score back to back Shield centuries.
At the Allan Border Field - with SA ‘Redbacks’
20 to 23 October
Queensland squad at WACG vs WA: Marnus Labuschagne (c), Jack Clayton, Lachlan Hearne, Usman Khawaja, Ben McDermott, Michael Neser, Jimmy Peirson, Matthew Renshaw, Mark Steketee, Tom Straker, Mitchell Swepson, Jack Wildermuth
Result: Match Drawn
Good-bye & bless you!
*_* Хай живе вільна Україна *_* "L’Ukraine a toujours aspiré à être libre"—Voltaire *_* Няхай жыве вольная Украіна *_* Larga vida a Ucrania libre *_* Да здравствует свободная Украина *_* Long live free Ukraine *_* 自由乌克兰万岁 *_* تحي أوكرانيا حرة *_*
Law and Liberty “Israel’s Transformative Tragedies” by Amichai Magen & Anna Levenberg
Hamas calls for 'annihilation' of Israel and promised to repeat the horrific attacks of October 7 'again and again' — Hamad said 'occupation must come to an end' and called for 'removal' of Israel By Nick Craven In Israel
For more information about Martin, go to ☼☼https://gravatar.com/martinoarnold☼☼
For more information about Christianity in Ukraine, go to ☼☼ Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ☼☼
Christians were active in what is today Ukraine long before there was extensive Slavic settlement in the land —> Christianization of Ukraine.
In Kyiv in 988, a Viking lord called Valdemar led a military and commercial enterprise called Rus’. Valdemar (Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ, Volodiměr) found it expedient to establish Christianity as the religion of his realm as part of an alliance with the major power in the Black Sea region, the Emperor of New Rome (Constantinople, Byzantium) —> History of the Ukrainian church. Many subjects of Rus’ were Slavs, and from this time on Christianity among the East Slavic peoples has been predominantly ‘Greek’ or ‘Hellenic’ or ‘Byzantine’. (But, much as some Australian Catholics object to the epithets ‘Roman’ or ‘Latin’ [“I don’t come from Rome and I don’t speak Latin”], most Orthodox Ukrainians would find it odd to describe themselves as ‘Greek Orthodox’.)
Relations between the bishops and the churches of Rome and New Rome had been sometimes turbulent before 988, and, despite attempts to heal the breach (—> e.g. Florence, Church Union of), by the time of the death of Dr Martin Luther (18 February 1546, aged 62) not only were relations between the Roman and New Roman churches broken, but a third group, Protestant Christianity, had arisen, and relations between these groups were, at best, cautiously civil. It was not possible to be in full union with any two at once. One had to choose.
(Although many attempted to improve relations between these bodies [see, for example, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and ‘The System of Leibniz’], the current thaw from icy relations is marked by the meeting of the Roman pontiff Paul VI and the Patriarch of Constantinople Athenagoras on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on 6 January 1964, where they prayed together and exchanged the kiss of peace. Since that day, some describe the relation of the two bishops and their churches as being ‘an impaired communion’.)
In 1589, when Patriarch Jeremias II Tranos elevated the bishop of Moscow to be a Patriarch, most Ruthenians (the people whose descendants would describe themselves as Ukrainians and Belarusians) found themselves in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth —> Union of Berestia :—
The Orthodox bishops worked out a plan for establishing ties with Rome at their sobors [synods] in 1590–4. The initiators of the plan hoped to gain not only ecclesiastical benefits from the union, but also an end to the Polonization of the upper classes and equality for the Orthodox church and its clergy in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The union was supported by leading Polish circles because it was politically and religiously advantageous to them. Roman Catholic clerics, particularly the Jesuits Piotr Skarga, Benedykt Herbest, A. Possevino, P. Arcudius, and B. Maciejowski, and the Orthodox bishops, especially Ipatii Potii [Potij], the bishop of Volodymyr-Volynskyi … all worked to bring about a union... On 22 June 1595 all nine Orthodox hierarchs signed a letter to Pope Clement VIII declaring that they were ready to enter into negotiations on church unification and authorizing bishops Kyrylo Terletsky and Potii to act for them in Rome. In September Potii and Terletsky left for Rome and, after long talks, set forth their confession of faith before the papal curia on 23 December 1595.
The union was announced by the papal bull Magnus Dominus on 23 December 1595. In January and February of 1596 the rights and privileges of the Uniate church were worked out and were guaranteed by the bull Decet Romanum Pontificem of 23 February 1596. The pope took the necessary steps to get the consent of the Polish government to the civil guarantees of the agreement, such as senatorial seats for the bishops, aid for the clergy and churches, and security of church property. After Ipatii Potii and Kyrylo Terletsky returned from Rome, a sobor was called in Berestia for 16–20 October 1596. The sobor split into two groups—for and against the union with Rome—and thus two councils went on concurrently… The union was accepted by Metropolitan Mykhailo Rahoza and five bishops, the hegumens, archimandrites, and part of the clergy and gentry. Each group condemned and anathematized the other. The sobor favoring the union, which was joined by most of the hierarchy, confirmed the union and proclaimed it before the people in a pastoral letter. The Polish king Sigismund III Vasa issued a proclamation in support of the union. The Apostolic See was represented at the sobor by the Roman Catholic bishops of Lviv, Lutsk, and Kholm, and the Polish government and crown were represented by several senators. The Jesuit Piotr Skarga made the closing speech on 20 October.
The Church Union of Berestia split the Ruthenian church and the faithful in two and led to a long and bitter domestic struggle… In the 18th century Uniate Catholicism became dominant in Right-Bank Ukraine, Galicia, and Transcarpathia. When these territories were annexed by Russia, Ukrainian Catholicism was forcibly liquidated: under Catherine II on the Right Bank and in Volhynia, under Nicholas I in the rest of these territories (1839), and under Alexander II in the Kholm region (1875). The Uniate church in Galicia and Transcarpathia survived under Austro-Hungarian rule (1772–1918), but was abolished in 1946–50 by the Soviet government, which orchestrated the sobors of Lviv (see Lviv Sobor of 1946), Mukachevo, and Prešov. As a result, the Ukrainian Catholic church survived officially only in the West, the Prešov region of Slovakia, Poland, and Yugoslavia until its restoration in Ukraine during the early 1990s.
I hope that I am not tendentious when I say that the Union of Berestia was a movement to secure the position of Ruthenian-rite Christians living in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth while preserving their Greek and Ruthenian heritage; that the unionists had no desire to end communion with the Patriarch in Constantinople; and that, given a situation in which the Ruthenians could not be simultaneously in communion with both Rome and Constantinople, the unionists can plausibly argue that they were prudent in seeking union with Rome.
Be that as it may,
on 1 August 1589 Patriarch Jeremias II Tranos (†4 September 1595, aged ca 59 — see Wiki OrthodoxWiki Britannica) consecrated Mychajlo Rohoza (†August 1599, aged 59), Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč .
Mgr Mychajlo Rohoza was the principal consecrator
— in 1593, of Hipacy (Ipatij) Pociej (Potij) (†13 Jul 1613 aged 71), who succeeded Mychajlo at Kyiv-Halyč;
— in 1595, of Herman Zahorskyi (Zahorski) (†1600) who became Archbishop of Połock (Polotsk) in Belarus later in the same year; and
— also in 1595, of Yona Hohol (†July 1602) who was Bishop of Pińsk-Turaŭ in Belarus.
Mychajlo, Hipacy, Herman and Yona entered into full communion with the Roman church on 19 October 1596, while Paul V (Camillo Borghese, †28 January 1621, aged 70) was sovereign pontiff.
The Ukrainian and Ruthenian Catholic Clergy — including the publisher of Just Peace Ukraine — discover their episcopal lineage in Patriarch Jeremias and Mgr Mychajlo Rohoza, Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč.
(E & o e; any brief statement about the Union of Berestia is likely to be controversial; friendly queries and comments by persons who’ve read the articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine mentioned in this footnote may be sent to ☼☼Abbe.Martincurt@gmail.com☼☼ Martin Arnold, publisher.)