The Destruction of Leviathan by Gustav Doré (1865)
Leviathan is a creature with the form of a sea monster mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Job, Psalms, the Book of Isaiah, and the Book of Amos. Leviathan is also the title of a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651. For good or ill, it exerted wide influence both here and in the New World. The book concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is thought to be one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.
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Contra Tyrannos
The name of this website has been taken from the title of the book Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos, (A Defence of Liberty against Tyrants). Written in Latin and French, is was supposedly written by Junius Brutus, a French Huguenot.
It presents an argument against the politics of Machiavelli (1469-1527). It speaks of there being a “firm bond of human society” and of “an alliance or covenant between the King and the People” with mutual obligations. Should the king or rulers break their promises, the people are released from their promises of obligation to them.
“I am not a pacifist, because pacifism in this poor world in which we live, this lost world, means we desert the people who need our greatest help. As an illustration: I see a great big burly man that is beating a tiny tot to death….If he won’t stop, what does love mean? Love means to stop him in any way I can….” Francis A. Schaeffer, Conflicting World Views: Humanism versus Christianity.
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For in-depth comment on current affairs ... looking for a new way forward
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It is time to tell the truth about Ukraine
In his book The Culture of the Second Cold War, the renowned professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, Richard Sakwa, wrote this, “Truth is invariably the first casualty of war, but propaganda in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict is exceptionally intense.” This makes identifying who is lying and who is telling the truth particularly difficult. Once having established reliable sources the task then becomes fairly straight forward.
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BRITAIN AND THE MESS WE ARE IN
The very first cast iron bridge ever constructed anywhere in the world. (Ironbridge, Shropshire) Once we could justifiably be called GREAT BRITAIN.
Despite the fact that arguably our lives are far better today for us in Britain than they have been for a very long time, something has gone terribly wrong. Despair, disillusionment and fear of what the future holds for our children and grandchildren grip the hearts of many of our citizens, neighbours and friends.
The Telegraph a while ago told us that “Britain is broken – and nobody can be bothered to do anything about it” and “Broken Britain exudes dysfunctionality”. Recent polls show that seven out of ten people agree with this. How come we have gotten ourselves into this frightful mess? While politicians and the great and the good scratch their heads in bewilderment as to how we have come to this, at the same time they and rant incessantly and peddle hairbrained and nonsensical solutions. Continually, we are being told how bad things are and that problems are deepening and accelerating with breathtaking speed. This is not a matter of ‘doing the country down’, but facing the undeniable fact of national decline that has grown rapidly over the last decade.
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A new and important article
Forced Repatriation to the Soviet Union: The Secret Betrayal
Nikolai Tolstoy
A shameful secret hidden from the British public and denied by British ministers. Revealed by Nikolai Tolstoy at great personal cost.
Nikolai Tolstoy, heir to the senior line of the world-famous literary family, is the author of a number of books, including The Minister and the Massacres, Victims of Yalta, Stalin’s Secret War, The Tolstoys: Twenty Four Generations of Russian History, The Quest for Merlin, and, The Coming of the King: The First Book of Merlin. He is president of the Association for a Free Russia and the Soviet Prisoners in Afghanistan Rescue Committee.
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GEOENGINEERING
The Dimming, Full Length Climate Engineering Documentary
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Totalitarianism and the Rise of Tyranny
An excellent definition of tyrants is found in Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: a Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579).
“We have shewed that he is a king who lawfully governs a kingdom, either derived to him by succession, or committed to him by election. It follows, therefore, that he is a reputed tyrant, which either gains a kingdom by violence the second a tyrant of indirect means, or, being invested therewith by lawful election or succession, governs it not according to law and equity, or neglects those contracts and agreements, to the observation of which he was strictly obliged at his reception. All of which may well occur in one and the same person. The first is called a tyrant without title: the second a tyrant by practice.”
The writer makes this memorable remark, “a tyrant the more he is tolerated, the more he becomes intolerable.”
read the complete article HERE
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Covid: Why was this man NOT listened to?
Clear and understandable
Please watch another important interview with Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi on the Science page
His explanations are readily understood and accessible.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times. They offer analysis of whether radical protective measures—including lockdown, social distancing, and mandatory masking—have been justified, and what the ramifications have been for society, the economy, and public health. Dr. Bhakdi and Dr. Reiss provide dates, facts, and background information, including:
- How Covid-19 compares with previous coronaviruses and the flu virus
- What infection numbers and the death rate really tell us
- The challenges around lockdown: Were the protective measures justified?
- Mandatory mask-wearing: Does the science support it?
- Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it?
Corona, False Alarm? provides you with sound information and substantiated facts—and encourages you to form your own opinion on the corona crisis.
Copies are available from Amazon and other online Booksellers. A runaway bestseller in the original German
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Spain Admits Spraying Deadly Chemtrails as Part of Secret UN Program: One Month after March 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown
The Spanish government ordered [April 16, 2020, a month after March 2020 lockdown] the military to quietly spray lethal chemtrails on its citizens with UN authorization under the cover of the “state of emergency for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.“
The chemtrail program, which involves the spraying of biocides on the population, was authorized by Royal Decree, was quietly acknowledged by the government on April 16 2020, just one month after the World Health Organization announced that Covid-19 was a pandemic.
Order SND/351/2020 published by the Spanish government in the Official State Gazette read as follows:
Order SND/351/2020, of April 16th, which authorizes the Armed Forces and Units and Military Emergency Units to use biocide chemicals authorized by the Ministry of Health for disinfection in order to deal with the Covid 19 Health Crisis.
Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14th, hereby declares a state of emergency for the management of the health crisis situation caused by COVID-19, which includes a series of measures aimed at protecting the welfare, health and safety of citizens and the containment of the progression of the disease and strengthen the public health system.
Read the whole article HERE
Spain: Law Allows Geoengineering Experiments
Over 50 countries are currently carrying out "activities to artificially change the weather", explained the Spanish weather agency AEMET and speaks of "chemical contrails" or "chemtrails".
Why is the CIA interested in climate change experiments?
Drought can be engineered
Why does geoengineering exist?
Experiments that do not work
Harmful substances
Read more HERE
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Ukrainians? - Are You Aware Of Whom You Support? (Wołyń, Volhynia Genocide)
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or the UPA, with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population against the Polish minority in Volhynia from 1943 to 1945.
The neighbors attacked the neighbors despite the fact they were all living peacefully together through the whole decades.
The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. Most of the victims were women and children. Many of the Polish victims regardless of age or gender were tortured before being killed. They included rape, dismemberment or immolation, among others. The UPA's actions resulted in around 100,000 deaths.
The ethnic cleansing was a Ukrainian attempt to prevent the post-war Polish state from asserting its sovereignty over Ukrainian-majority areas that had been part of the prewar Polish state. The killings were directly linked to the policies of Stepan Bandera's fraction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) and its military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose goal as specified at the Second Conference of the OUN-B on February/March 1943 was to purge all non-Ukrainians from the future Ukrainian state. The massacres led to a wider conflict between Polish and Ukrainian forces in the German-occupied territories, with the Polish Home Army in Volhynia responding to the Ukrainian attacks in kind, on a much smaller scale.
Seek for Wołyń or Volhynia for more information.
It was Poles then, next time it may be you and your family. Think about it.
See also
NATO: A criminal and a liar
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Truth about Ukraine. When Nazism Becomes the Norm.
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SS troops recognized as criminal organizations
The Nuremberg Tribunal found the SS paramilitary troops criminal. The SS Galicia Division was founded on April 28, 1943 in Lvov. It was the largest of all foreign SS volunteer formations that performed punitive functions, slaughtering and burning entire villages. The division was defeated in the very first battle with the regular units of the Red Army in the summer of 1944, near the town of Brody.
Read the complete article here:
Читайте больше на https://english.pravda.ru/world/39049-germany_ukraine/
My immediate thoughts about this article
The German ambassador perpetuates the myth that the Galicia SS was simply an army of volunteers fighting communism and the USSR. The truth is very different. They were SS, some were volunteers, some conscripted or coerced. All swore an oath to Adolf Hitler. There is a mountain of documentary evidence to show that Ukrainian fascists from all the nationalist groups cruelly slaughtered Jews, Poles, even fellow-Ukrainian dissidents by the thousand. Many testified that they were often more brutal than the German Nazis who sometimes stood back and let them do the dirty work. These evil deeds must no be covered over for political ends but remembered alongside all that the German Nazis did. It stands to reason that to eliminate Ukrainian complicity eases the burden for Germans still trying to come to terms with their past.
"Waffen SS units took part in serious war crimes and the Holocaust during World War II. No volunteer organizations that are fighting and working in Ukraine today should be associated with them,” the ambassador wrote on Twitter. This is completely untrue, a barefaced lie in fact. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
The Ukrainian nationalists at the time of the German advance in 1941 expected the invaders would endorse their aspirations for a nation State. They immediately issued the 'Act of Renewal Ukrainian Statehood'. This was followed by violent progroms, the government being more than willing to annihilate the Jews of Ukraine in 'national self-defence'. Sad to say, the fascist propensity to cure political problems by violence and warfare survives to this day and is used by the West to unsettle Russia. Hitler saw the declaration of Statehood as a threat to his colonial plans of exploitation. Immediately leaders were rounded up. Stepan Bandera, feted today in Ukraine as a national hero, was arrested on July 5th and incarcerated in Berlin where he remained for most of the war. This did not end the nationalist atrocities. Beware Ukraine! The USA, Canada, Britain and their puppets will cast you off and spit you out when you have served their purpose. They want a supine nation that does their bidding.
The Ukrainian diaspora, rescued from the Russians and given refuge in Britian and Canada after the war, has done much to attempt to rehabilitate these butchers, shut down contrary evidence and ascribe it to Russian propaganda. Scholarly research shows otherwise and I am in the process of gathering material to counter the 'false memories' and historical myths that countries like Germany, Britain and Canada find convenient to endorse.
Some of my researches on Ukraine, especially the present situation and its real links to the past, will follow shortly on this website
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The great nonsense of the "Great Reset"
by Thomas DiLorenzo
“The Great Reset” is the latest deceptive euphemism for totalitarian socialism that is being promoted by yet another group of wealthy corporate elitists who think they can centrally plan the entire world economy. They are essentially the ideological heirs of Frederick Engels and his intellectual puppet Karl Marx. “The Great Reset” follows in the rhetorical footsteps of such euphemisms for socialism as “economic democracy,” “social justice,” “liberation theology,” “progressivism,” “market socialism” (an oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp” or “military intelligence”), “environmentalism,” “fighting climate change,” “sustainable development,” and “green new deal,” to mention just a few.
The main figure of this movement is wealthy German engineer Klaus Schwab, founder of the “World Economic Forum,” who champions what he calls “transhumanism,” the integration of nanotechnology into the human body so that humans can be controlled remotely by the state. As Ron Paul has noted, “Included in Schwab’s proposal for surveillance [of every citizen] is his idea to use brain scans and nanotechnology to predict, and if necessary, prevent, individuals’ future behavior . This means that anyone whose brain is ‘scanned’ could have his . . . [constitutional] rights violated because a government bureaucrat determines the individual is going to commit a crime.”
Placed in the hands of politicians, this would create a level of totalitarianism the Soviets could only have dreamed of. In other words, Schwab is reminiscent of that famous twentieth-century German who also fantasized about creating a master race and ruling the world.
Read the rest of the article here at Lew Rockwell
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WAKE UP BRITAIN!
Like some great edifice with rotten foundations, the structure gnawed at from the inside for years by bloated rats, nothing is maintained, nothing repaired. This makes the collapse of the building inevitable and it looks as though someone desperately wants this to happen. Yet the residents of the place are partying, stoned out of their minds or distracted by trivialities; they are totally unaware of any imminent danger. A valiant few shout from the rooftop, but the laughter and frivolity, the deafening music coming from beneath them, drowns out their voices. Those with most to benefit from the building’s ruin dismiss any thought of looming disaster with scorn and derision as they chisel away yet more bricks from the rickety basement. Yet these despicable villains are lauded from within the house, the deliberate falsehoods, the malicious fabrications and crazy schemes are believed, given support time and again. Continue the good work you are doing, is the cry, and we shall all be safe. The house was once an elegant building, the seat of global influence, a powerhouse of industry and invention, but now it is reduced to beggary by malice and foolishness, collapsing from within, living with hidden bankruptcy, waiting for the bailiffs at anytime now.
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THE STATE OF TYRANNY
The modern State is a vicious tyrant, a bully, a Leviathan, a Behemoth beyond the wit or strength of any man to tame. It has grown fat on the flesh of its citizens, is drunk with their blood. Since it cannot be tamed, who then will find a George to slay it? Since it cannot be reformed, it must be slain and replaced.
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The Anatomy of Tyranny
How to recognise tyranny and what to do about it
A corrupt an oppressive State extorts unjustly what it can from all it can. Gives only aid where it can buy influence and favours. The tyrannical ruler takes what he can from all, in order pay for his own superfluities, line his own pockets, indulge favoured projects and riotous expenses. It is an empire built on the ruins of the public good. It draws blood from the veins of citizens’ means and feeds it to government leeches upon which to gorge themselves. The tyrannical government is lifted to the level of a religion before which all must bow the knee, but it is an artificial, counterfeit, apostate religion and devotion. Its countenance is composed to show appropriate piety in order to terrify the people and deter them from conspiratorial actions. No, it is the golden-headed statue of Babylon with a head of gold and feet of clay, precarious in its stance and ready to fall at a blow.
When governments persist in violent solutions, they identify themselves with tyranny and whatever the law or lawful authority permits against a tyrant must be invoked. A tyrannical government subverts the state, pillages the people, lays stratagems to entrap the lives of citizens and scoffs at the sacred obligations of an oath. If thieves and murderers commit crimes they are declared infamous outlaws and they justly suffer punishment. Can we find any less an end for infamous tyrants?
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THE TRAGEDY OF TWO WORLD WARS: how we beat our enemy, but got stabbed in the back by our 'friends'
The United States emerged from World War I as the wealthiest nation on earth, more by taking advantage of her allies than by her own exertions. The mighty dollar before 1914 had been but one currency among others. The war debts owed to the United States seemed beyond the wit of man to repay. The response of President Coolidge to his erstwhile allies financial troubles was as hardnosed as it was dismissive, “Well they hired the money, didn’t they?” Britain struggled to her debts to the United States. However, those who owed Britain money were either teetering on bankruptcy or in the case of the Soviet Union had no intention of repaying anything to capitalists. International finance after the war struggled. The exchange system, built on gold and confidence in the markets, was destroyed. There was little gold about and most of it was in America.
Twenty years later America repeated what it had done in World War I, but on a much grander scale and with a like devastating effect on Britain. Once more hanging back from entering the war for two years whilst Britain bled, the USA emerged as the undisputed leader, proprietor, protector, and policeman of the non-Communist world. The huge expansion of military bases and power was accompanied by an equally sensational expansion in trade and capital overseas. By stopping the Germans in two wars, by cutting its allies meanly down to size, American economic and political expansion was unparalleled. France and Britain especially had been reduced to second-rate powers by the treachery and self-interest of their American ‛ally’. America had developed, in the words of Senator J. William Fulbright, “an arrogance of power” and attitude of “do it our way or else”.
PLEASE NOTE: This article does not diminish our respect for the many US soldiers who fought so courageously in two World Wars. Nor is this intended as a slight against the hardworking, honest and God-fearing American people.The American nation as much as America's friends have been betrayed by their arrogant governments. (the author)
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UK: MULTICULTURAL MADNESS
Where has England gone? Way back in 1984 in a television interview, a Bradford Conservative councillor, Peter Gilmore, made this remark: “There is no such thing as an Englishman”. The Equality and Human Rights Commission, formerly the Commission for Racial Equality, now works under a broader mandate than previously. With respect to immigration and multiculturalism it is committed to unravelling our distinctive and traditional English culture and to putting in its place a vapid, bland cultural pluralism. Bradford, of course, has long suffered under a powerful multiculturalist bureaucracy. Schools in the city are not interested in integrating newcomers within the British way of life, instead they promote a vague ‛multicultural identity’. In this context there can be no commitment to a common history, tradition, development or religion. They seek to impose a new culture by dictat from above, wiping clean the past. Most of us will find this as offensive as it is totalitarian. This will never work and remains a recipe for growing resentment and disharmony on all sides. Conflict has now become inevitable and unpreventable. There is a clear denial that anyone in Britain can be autochthonous, indigenous, rather than descended from migrants or colonists. We were all immigrants once and on the same footing as everyone else. A myth is perpetuated of vast movements of people in the past, exaggerated to support a multicultural agenda.
Britain’s place in world history is taught in State schools as being something approaching ‛shameful’. Multiculturalism has been empowered by dishonesty on a grand scale. It is a pot-pourri of distorted facts enhanced by noxious and wayward lies. Excellence is hated, totalitarian movements and vile régimes are praised. Any notion of Britishness or Englishness is deliberately debunked as racist. Students are left in ignorance of their own cultural background. Traditional Christianity is scorned, Islamic culture celebrated, carefully ignoring its savage origins. The British people are generally tolerant and open-minded, too much so in many respects. Yet, why on earth should they have to tolerate having their own financial recourses used to insult them?
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LEGITIMATE TAXATION OR CRIMINAL RIP-OFF?
Governments assume powers of taxation and reserve them for themselves.
Through various forms of taxation, but also in other ways, modern governments believe they can seize the property of their citizens with impunity. Like robber barons they function as institutionalised monopolies. No one else is allowed to demand taxes. Were any other organisation to operate in the same way as governments do, it would be considered extortion, robbery, fraud, or some kind of protection racket such as that run by Mafia families. When a dubious character breathing out threats approaches a business demanding a percentage of the profits to stay in business, we think of Sicily or the Ukraine and call it a protection racket. Yet, when the Inland Revenue does the same to our pay packets and businesses at rates determined by government, we call it taxation. But then, at least the Mafiosi do not pretend to be depriving us of our money for our own good. In essence there is only one definitive dividing line between these two, namely the laws drawn up by the governments themselves permitting them to demand payments from the rest of us at will. Criminals who seize our goods can be pursued or resisted; against governments there is no redress. We are taxed throughout our lives and even when we are dead they try.
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"I dread government in the name of science. This is how tyrannies come in." C.S. Lewis
Welcome to Contra Tyrannos
D. William Norris. Writer & translator, former lecturer. Special interests: Central and Eastern Europe. Wife Valerie German born in Volhynia now part of Ukraine.
Some of you will know that my dear wife, VALERIE, suffered for many years with Parkinson's disease. It was my priviledge to be her sole carer for over ten years. It was devastating for me to see her pass away in her armchair here at home on the 9th June, 2023. I loved her deeply and miss her terribly every day.
In her final months on this earth, caring for her was indeed a very precious time for us both. In the final two years, her care took most of my time, but I regret nothing. Had the roles been reversed, she would have tended to my needs even better than I did to hers.
She had a very eventful life and perhaps I shall at some future date be able to share some of this with you on this website.
Over the last couple of years my time was taking up caring for my dear wife so that this website has lain dormant. I expect in the coming months to update everything and include new material. Valerie always gave me her full support and I know she would want me to continue.
Seeing that my late wife Valerie was born in Volhynia, Ukraine we have always had a very personal reason for interest in Russia & Ukraine. For more
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Whither Ukraine?
Donetsk and Luhansk are under seige, but what of the rest of Ukraine?
A personal testimony
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"No man deserves his freedom or his life who does not daily win them anew"
Goethe
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“Silence, according to law, is consent”
Sir Thomas More in his defence against Henry VIII
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SUNDRY JOTTINGS FROM MY NOTEBOOK
Miscellaneous notes taken from my recent reading
TOTALITARIANISM
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.
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“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
~ Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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"It is dangerous to be right on matters which the established authorities are wrong"
Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
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“Deliberate lying…is mental aggression in its most abominable form: it is as much an outrage against the mind of others as deliberate starvation is an outrage against their bodies. For could anything be worse than an act of power that with wilful intent shuts out the innocent from all contact with reality.”
Victor Gollancz
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Human nature always produces a class who think that what they do not know is not worth knowing, or who suppose that, from the knowledge professed, they are eminently qualified to judge of those things they have never examined or studied.
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