Kosackerna tar allt som inte är fastbultat

För Europa (och Finland) är saken klar. Vi känner Ryssland. Vladimir Putin ser varje vapenvila som ett andrum inför nästa krig, enligt Aftonbladet.

En dålig fred i Ukraina där Vladimir Putin står som vinnare är en inbjudan till Ryssland att inom några år ge sig på ett Nato-land. Det förstår de flesta europeiska regeringar. En rättvis vapenvila för Ukraina är därför ett nationellt säkerhetsintresse för oss.

Möjligheten att Ryssland skulle acceptera det är naturligtvis väldigt liten. Regimen fungerar som en kriminell bensinmack. Den exporterar olja och korruption till andra länder.

Here we go to Jazz.

Pianist Riitta Paakki is an acclaimed jazz musician, composer and bandleader, who has been awarded the Finnish Jazz Union’s Yrjö Prize in 2019, among other prizes. Her playing combines sensitivity and swinging rhythm, creating a deep, expressive and interactive pair for Halonen’s vocals.

Today we hear Heta Halonen & Riitta Paakki -duo combines two strong and sensitive voices of Finnish jazz into a unique entity. An intimate and atmospheric concert experience, where jazz standards, Finnish hits and the ensemble’s own compositions and lyrics find new dimensions.

Singer, actress and songwriter Heta Halonen, the 2022 Tango Queen, is renowned for her versatile interpretive skills and charismatic stage presence. Her voice effortlessly adapts to the world of jazz, tango and musicals.

By the way, I'm currently recording my own guitar jazz album.

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St. Petersburg singer Diana Loginova may be charged with defamation

St. Petersburg singer Diana Loginova may be charged with discrediting the army and other offenses. Street singer Naoko may face two administrative charges. 

Videos of her performances in the city center have gone viral on social media. Noize MC has been designated a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice. The footage shows Diana performing a song by the foreign agent Noize MC, which is banned from distribution. The crowd enthusiastically sings along.

Loginova and her fellow bandmates were filmed earlier this week performing Swan Lake Cooperative, a song by Russian rapper Noize MC. Video footage of their performance shows the crowd actively singing along with them.

Noize MC was labeled a foreign agent by the Russian government in November 2022, and lives in exile since the start of the full-scale war.

His song Swan Lake Cooperative was labeled extremist in the spring of 2025, with the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office claiming it poses a threat to children’s health.

Link.Stoptime  Telegram

The winner of the Wildlife Photographer

The winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition was announced in London on Tuesday evening.

The photo was taken by South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever in the abandoned diamond mining town of Kolmanskop in Namibia.

According to the competition press release, what makes the photo particularly impressive is that the brown hyena in the photo is the world's rarest species of hyena. It moves mostly at night and alone.

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End of the war will come one day

Source: Banksy.

Ukraine can use American-supplied Atacm long-range missiles to strike inside of Russia, but before that the US administration had blocked strikes inside of Russia, only allowing the Ukrainian military to use shorter-range missiles to strike in Ukrainian territory seized by Russia.

President Donald J Trump long opposed allowing Ukraine to strike Russia, but  now Trump has recently taken an interest in the possibility of Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia. 

The White House confirmed July reports that Trump discussed with Zelenskyy whether Ukraine would be able to strike St. Petersburg and Moscow with U.S.-supplied weapons. 

Recently, though, he did write at the end: "Interesting times ahead!".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that:

"Right now, the signals coming from Russia are, to be honest, simply indecent. They are trying to wriggle out of the need to hold a meeting. They do not want to end this war. They continue massive attacks against Ukraine and extremely intense assaults on the front line. And on top of that, they are launching missiles at an American enterprise -- just like they do at many of our other completely civilian targets."

Zelenskyy will continue diplomatic discussions with partners and encouraged greater pressure on Russia to end the war, which began when Putin's forces invaded Ukraine in Feb. 2022.

The Autumn Equinox

Return of the sun by Odd Nerdrum 

Astronomical Event: The Winter Solstice occurs around December 20th or 21st in the Northern Hemisphere, marking the point when the Sun's path is lowest in the sky and daylight is at its shortest. Symbolic Meaning: Following the Winter Solstice, the days gradually become longer, a change many cultures have interpreted as the sun's return to the earth.

Now the autumn equinox 2025 - we are a quarter of a year away, towards the solstice.

The new Russian Offensive Campaign

Artwork by Banksy. (Source: Reuters)

Look at this one.

The Kremlin appears to be conducting a coordinated information campaign threatening Finland. Wow!

"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed on September 18 that the Finnish government’s “neutral veneer peeled off” and that revanchism is “literally on the rise” in Finland.

According to Institute of the Study of War (ISW) Russian Environmental Protection, Ecology, and Transport Special Presidential Representative Sergei Ivanov claimed on September 18 that Russian-Finnish relations “practically do not exist” and will not improve in the near future as Finland is a NATO member and is “actively calling for strengthening  eastern border.”

Ivanov claimed that the Finnish population is unsatisfied with the Finnish government and alleged that the lack of Russian tourists has led to “depopulation” and a weakening economy in southeastern Finland. Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee First Deputy Head Alexei Chepa similarly claimed on September 18 that Finland’s NATO membership caused Russians to stop buying property and visiting Finland, leading to “depopulation.”

Ivanov is a member of Putin’s inner circle, serving as the deputy director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) from 1998 to 1999 when Putin headed the organization.

Ivanov also served as the defense minister, deputy prime minister, and chief of staff of the Presidential Administration. Ivanov’s removal from his position as the chief of staff of the Presidential Administration in 2016 was likely a demotion at the time, but the Kremlin appears to be using him to reinforce ongoing Russian efforts to threaten Finland, reports ISW.

Kremlin newswire TASS and other Russian state media outlets notably amplified Lavrov’s, Ivanov’s, and Chepa’s statements.

ISW reports:

"The similar wording in both Ivanov’s and Chepa’s claims and TASS’ amplification of their comments suggests that this is a concerted top-down Kremlin informational effort targeting Finland. High-ranking Kremlin officials have increased threats against Finland in recent weeks, including by using language that mirrors the Kremlin’s false justifications for its invasions of Ukraine.

ISW continues to assess that the playbook Russia is currently using to threaten NATO mirrors the playbook Russia previously used to set informational conditions justifying its aggression against Ukraine."

 

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Of course, Ivan won't take an inch from my homeland.

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Censorship of Banksy’s mural

This Banksy’s mural does not seem to be tied to any particular event or cause, it emerged just two days after a London protest against the ban on Palestine Action led to nearly 900 arrests. 

Despite the acclaim, social media photos suggest the mural has already been covered with large plastic sheets and flanked by two metal barriers, It´s making it no longer visible to passersby or Banksy fans eager to see it up close.

The piece by the enigmatic artist has been widely praised on Instagram.

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Бешеных собак пристреливают

Andrey Volna:

Сегодня россияне ударили ФАБами по не оккупированной ими Константиновке Донецкой области. 

Многие здания повреждены. В том числе горит жилая многоэтажка. 

А вот новости параллельного мира: Трамп в своем ночном (по Киеву) интервью дал две недели на завершение войны. В который уже раз? Это помимо 24 часов, 100 дней, 50 дней, 8-10 дней…

Неужели он (его окружение) не видит, как путин над ним издевается буквально? Уничтожая при этом мирную Украину. Страну, что не хотела и не хочет воевать. Но понимает, что в случае капитуляции будет уничтожено всё и все. 

... "Мир перевернулся, показав, что в нем торжествует право сильного. Лидеры демократического мира, где вы? Против силы может быть только сила, а все эти разговоры-переговоры, игра по правилам бессильны против того, кто уже давно играет без всяких правил" (Tatyana Sycheva)

The spread of Max increases surveillance of Russian citizens

Source: Apa.az

According to CNN The Russian government will require the state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on all smartphones and tablets sold in the country, in a move that could increase surveillance of Russian citizens.

According to an official statement Max will be installed on devices from September 1. The RuStore app, a homegrown rival to Apple’s App Store, will also be pre-installed on iPhones. In addition, from January 1, the Lime HD TV program, which provides free access to Russian state TV channels, will be automatically installed on Smart TVs in the country.

Max was launched by the state-controlled social media group VK in March as a replacement for VK Messenger, which - this one - has been on the government’s list of mandatory apps since 2023.

"The new app allows users to send messages, make audio and video calls and send money, with additional features planned in the future. These will include the integration of a travel booking app", VK said in its latest earnings report. 

Around 18 million people have registered with Max.

"Russia’s crackdown on foreign social media Max is similar to China’s hugely successful WeChat app, which gives users an all-in-one outlet to message, post on social media and make payments and reservations."

User activity on WeChat is most likely under heavy state surveillance, experts previously told CNN.

Oslo has officially attributed the cyberattack to its neighbour

Norway spy chief blames Russian hackers for dam sabotage in April.

According to Reuters Russian hackers briefly took control of a dam in Norway earlier this year, the head of the Nordic country's counter-intelligence agency said on Wednesday, the first time Oslo has officially attributed the cyberattack to its neighbour.

While in command of the dam in Bremanger, western Norway, on April 7, the hackers opened a flood gate and released 500 litres (132 gallons) of water per second for four hours before the attack was detected and stopped, authorities previously said.

Russian Police can freeze bank accounts without court orders

President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law granting police broad powers to freeze individuals’ bank accounts without a court order. 

The expanded powers could increase the risk of arbitrary or unjustified asset seizures.

The law also imposes new obligations on financial institutions.

Banks and money transfer services must provide law enforcement with full information about a citizen’s accounts and transactions within three days of a request, or within 24 hours if the request is submitted electronically.

According to The Vedomosti business daily the legislation provides no specific list of crimes that qualify for account freezes and fails to outline key procedural safeguards.

There is no indication, for example, of whether the amount frozen must correspond to the alleged damages, he said. There´s even under the current legal system, property belonging to third parties is sometimes confiscated in economic crime cases without sufficient evidence of illegal origin.

While the law is officially aimed at enhancing tools to combat cyber-enabled financial crimes, critics fear it could be used more broadly to target political opponents, journalists or activists, particularly in an environment where financial pressure is increasingly being used as a tool of state control.

Church of Scientology used do that: fake interviews as revenge?

Clint Eastwood wanted Deadline to get out the word that a recent interview purportedly done with him is absolutely bogus. 

Eastwood calls bullshit on Austrian Interview where he assailed lack of originality in Film: 

“That Interview Is Entirely Phony”. 

Published in the German-language Austrian newspaper Kurier, Eastwood is quoted assailing film remakes, franchises and a general lack of original ideas. While the newspaper only has a circulation around 100,000, the post spread virally. Unfortunately, Deadline was among those publications that aggregated the report, so that reach was much greater.

 It’s only fair that Eastwood gets the final word.  

Eastwood said in a statement to Deadline:

“A couple of items about me have recently shown up in the news" ....

“I thought I would set the record straight. I can confirm I’ve turned 95. I can also confirm that I never gave an interview to an Austrian publication called Kurier, or any other writer in recent weeks, and that the interview is entirely phony.” 

In Finland too, a few decades ago, there were several fake, seemingly credible interviews, including Andy McCoy. One magazine went down a treat when it interviewed “Riitta Uosukainen’s daughter”. The magazine (IL) suspected, in line with the international trend, that it was a case of the Church of Scientology’s retaliation against publications that had critically criticized the cult on their pages. 

And here’s the coincidence: Kurier seems to have adopted a critical tone when writing about celebrity Scientologists.

Hostile Influencing, by Russia, and Finland’s vulnerabilities

 

Russia's hybrid influence is targeting Finland. It is perceived as a threat.

Russia often involve spreading false and misleading information to destabilize states …whether by deepening societal tensions or influencing political processes in favor of a particular party.

Finland has experienced a sharp increase in GPS disturbances. Affected flights forced airports to switch to other navigation systems, preventing some flights from landing. Over 2,800 incidents reportedly affected flights in 2024 compared to just 200 the year prior. The sudden increase raised suspicions of deliberate interference by Russia.

Though Finland was able to maintain a strong defense capability and carefully managed relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine changed Finland’s national security context radically.

We feel fear and hate. Finland’s 5.6 million citizens share a land border of more than 1280 kilometers with Russia. 

Hybrid challenges

Hybrid threats have been a longstanding national concern Iin Finland, and these concerns have escalated since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. The related concepts of hybrid threats and hybrid warfare, often used interchangeably, encompass a wide spectrum of activities, from influence campaigns, economic pressure and covert political maneuvering, to sabotage, cyberattacks and instrumentalization of migrant flows.

To be clear, people don't trust car brand Tesla

 

Tesla speeds up odometers on its electric vehicles so they fall out of warranty faster, saving Elon Musk's company from having to pay for repairs.

So says The plaintiff Nyree Hinton: the odometer on the 2020 Model Y he bought in December 2022 with 36,772 miles on the clock ran at least 15% fast, based on his other vehicles and driving history, and for a while said he drove 72 miles a day when at most he drove 20.

Hinton, a Los Angeles resident, said this caused his 50,000-mile basic warranty to expire well ahead of schedule, leaving him with a $10,000 suspension repair bill that he thought Tesla should cover.

"By tying warranty limits and lease mileage caps to inflated 'odometer' readings, Tesla increases repair revenue, reduces warranty obligations, and compels consumers to purchase extended warranties prematurely." 

Don't trust Tesla.

אבל הדרך החדשה שלנו מבוססת על מודעות מלאה בנשמתנו.

בונאונצ'ר (Bonaventura): מסע הנפש אל אלוהים

"הדרך לאלוהים" עוסק במתח הקיים בין הזמני לנצחי ובין האנושי לאלוהי. הוא 

עוסק ביחס שבין האדם לאלוהיו, המכיל בתוכו סתירה: מצד אחד האדם מנסה להתקרב לאלוהים, ובו זמנית הוא מרגיש שהוא מתרחק ממנו. כמו כן, הדרך לאלוהים היא למעשה דרכים רבות השוכנות בנפש האדם עצמו. האדם כילד, כנער, כבחור, כאיש בגיל העמידה, וכזקן - התופסים את הדרך הזאת כדרכים שונות .

אבל הדרך החדשה שלנו מבוססת על מודעות מלאה בנשמתנו.

Man has the karmic right to realize all the secrets of the Universe

Without mental, cognitive clairvoyance, humanity will hardly survive.

We live in a time where this is being squeezed to here.

Who is Sorath?

Rudolf Steiner tells us that every planet has its good spirit and its demon. Sorath is theSun demon and is the direct Antagonist of Christ the Sun Being.

Rudolf Steiner does not mention Sorath’s Hierarchical affinity, nor his origins, except to say that he does not belong to our Solar System, or the evolution of the Earth in any way.

He tells us, Sorath originates in other world periods and has acquired the tendencies of other world period. 

We do not realize this, which is happening all the time - the development steps already taken by humanity are being destroyed.

I will give the answer:

Cosmic connection is mind_dizzying; there is nothing higher for us to realize.

But at the same time it is a present reality, which we fundamentally do not understand. We see that everything is going to hell, but we do not understand.

However, man has the karmic right to realize what is not taught anywhere: the secrets of the Universe.

Sergei O. Prokofieff considers the possibility that Sorath's task of the Dynamis is to bring about balance in the solar system.

Exusiai during Earth evolution, was to breathe life into to "I" of human being, so it we must understand  understand how Sorath would work against both principles, but desiring on the one hand to bring about an imbalance that is capable of throwing Earth Evolution off its course and thwarting the work of the highest expression of the Cosmic ‘I’ or ego.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Sic fiat, inquit, omnia quae in caritate fecisti. Verba haec ductore sunt ut in mundo vivant et operentur, semper primum amant.

No for gender identification conversion therapy in Finland

Bild: Timppa Airaksinen.

Recent Finnish Parliament  on approved a citizens' initiative aimed at banning sexual orientation and gender identification conversion therapy in Finland.

The citizens' initiative calling for the ban was submitted to Parliament in August 2021, after being backed by more than 50,000 Finns who signed the document. 

PM supports conversion therapy ban initiative The votes on the citizens' initiative fell 125 to 49.

Votes fell 125 in favour of the ban and 49 opposed.

Despite the strong parliamentary majority, Justice Minister Leena Meri (true finnish) said her ministry will not advance the proposal during the current government term.

Conversion therapy refers to various methods aimed at trying to turn, by sects, members of sexual minorities into heterosexuals. 

The practice is usually carried out by priests, pastoral care workers, youth workers and others in some conservative religious communities.

Se in i en annan värld.

Odd Nerdrums målning med titeln "Isola".

Clairvoyance innebär att titta in i en annan dimension av verkligheten.

Det finns en annan Verklighet.

Vi behöver gå utanför de gängse "vetenskapliga" normerna och dogmerna för att komma närmare och förstå andliga upplevelser, sayer Markus Olofsson.

Enligt Olofsson börjar fler och fler förstå att sökande andligt  dimension, inte nödvändigtvis religiöst sökande, inte är en trend, utan något djupt nedärvt och nödvändigt för oss alla.

Dimensionerna i kvantfysik är inte dimensioner som i sci-fi. 

Det är den bra starten.

Dimensionerna av denna andra verklighets existens måste mötas på deras egna villkor. Vi måste ha den sensoriska förmågan att undersöka, sa Albert Einstein efter att ha lyssnat på Rudolf Steiners presentation.

Trump claims Politico is a “left wing rag"

In the USA, President Donald Trump spread once again unfounded claims, that the government had paid Politico and other news media outlets for positive coverage of Democrats. Records show agencies paid for subscriptions.

According to The New York Times President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had been paying news media outlets to generate positive coverage of Democrats.

The conspiracy theories appear to have been generated by records showing payments for something much more innocuous: subscriptions.

Mr. Trump said on his Truth Social site that “billions of dollars” from U.S.A.I.D. and other agencies had improperly gone to the “fake news media.” He spread a claim that Politico, a “left wing rag,” had received $8 million, and questioned if The New York Times and other outlets had also received payments.

Add:

Polittico, 2017

« Trump's first visit to Soviet Moscow in 1987 looks, with hindsight, to be part of a pattern. The dossier by the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele asserts that the Kremlin had been cultivating Trump for “at least five years” before his stunning victory in the 2016 US presidential election. This would take us back to around 2011 or 2012.

In fact, the Soviet Union was interested in him too, three decades earlier. The top level of the Soviet diplomatic service arranged his 1987 Moscow visit. With assistance from the KGB. It took place while Kryuchkov was seeking to improve the KGB's operational techniques in one particular and sensitive area. The spy chief wanted KGB staff abroad to recruit more Americans. »

Well!

The movement may be endowed with our life

Said a master over the 100 year ago, 

Humanism, it's knowledge, can become a living factor in the world’s work - but if ever you make these priceless Teachings subservient to mammon, the light will fade and the movement will fail.

Reintroduction of Wolf

Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Volume 6, Issue 1 
January–March 2025

They say: "Our aim is to provide new information to inform these ongoing and future discussions around human-wolf conflict and wolf reintroductions both in the UK and elsewhere."

"Our work provides further evidence of the role of large carnivores in assisting ecosystem recovery and delivering the nature-based solutions required to address the climate emergency."

This substantial carbon sequestration and the potential financial benefit related to wolf reintroduction may influence landowner and land manager perspectives around large carnivores. Carefully designed benefit sharing mechanisms would be needed to ensure any financial benefits are shared equitably across landowners, land managers and local communities. Comprehensive stakeholder engagement would be needed well in advance of any proposed reintroduction to identify potentially affected groups and address challenges of co-existing with large carnivores.

Here we go

"This fish strikes the hook."  (Art by Ville Ranta)

Letter to John Bolton

Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin.

John Bolton:

"It is unconscionable to allow Russia to assault Ukraine’s sovereignty, recruit enemies like North Korea to aid in their fight, and then sell out the Ukrainians by conceding the loss of their territory and NATO security guarantees or membership.  By making these and others concessions before negotiations even started, Trump has effectively surrendered to Putin on Ukraine. "

Dear John, I will say ...

The EU had seven years to resolve the conflict, but our weak leaders couldn't do it, they just froze it.

Here's unfortunately the result  of the weakness of our leaders.

Ukraine is losing more than just the Crimean peninsula. Much more.

Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin see that there will be raised concerns as a very worrying rise in conservative, masculine forces across the global stage.

Reflecting on the war in Ukraine, Marin adding that “Europe couldn’t cope on our own”. 

She emphasis the need for Europe to have “strategic autonomy”, saying that there will be “one reality that we have to wake up to and we need to do better in the future."

“The thing that we should learn isn’t that we should depend on the US, the thing that we should learn is actually that we should be more independent. We need that strategic autonomy on defence, on energy, that we learned when Russia used energy as a weapon towards the European Union.”

I agree.

The Archetypes and happiness

The Archetypes and Collective Unconscious, by C.G. Jung.

Here comes Carl Jung's paradox: 

“All factors which are generally assumed to make for happiness can, under certain circumstances, produce the contrary. No matter how ideal your situation may be, it does not necessarily guarantee happiness.”

So it was in 1960, one journalist Gordon Young asked Jung:

"What do you consider to be more or less basic factors making for happiness in the human mind?" 

Jung answered with five elements:

1. Good physical and mental health.

2. Good personal and intimate relationships, such as those of marriage, the family, and friendships.

3. The ability for perceiving beauty in art and nature.

4. Reasonable standards of living and satisfactory work.

5. A philosophic or religious point of view capable of coping successfully with the vicissitudes of life 

 .. and can structure the world, I think so.

“From the unconscious there

emanate determining influences…

which, independently of tradition,

 guarantee in every single individual

a similarity and even a sameness

of experience, and also of the way

it is represented imaginatively.” 

(The Archetypes and 

the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung)

”How can we stop what’s happening”

Obama joked to Bush: 'How can we Stop what's happening?'

Joke it that: No-one can du it.

Barack Obama asked George W. Bush how they could “stop what’s happening” during President Trump’s inauguration on Monday, according to a lip reader Jackie Gonzalez. 

This deaf woman who shares her interpretations of celebrities’ and politicians’ private conversations on social media, made a now-viral video revealing what she believed the two former presidents were discussing during a candid moment at Trump’s inauguration.

Now you see a footage of Obama and Bush sharing a laugh during Trump’s swearing-in ceremony. It took off online Monday, with many internet sleuths wondering what the 43rd and 44th presidents were joking about.

Social media giants serving totalitarianism?

On the social media platform Instagram, owned by Meta, you can currently not search for content with various words referring to US Democrats or the left.

Many tried to search for content with the hashtags #democrat #obama or #leftist, for example. 

No results were shown. 

Instead, Instagram said it had hidden the results because they may contain sensitive content.

The new US administration has immediately switched to undemocratic methods.

Commandos struck on our sea borders for

[Source: Finnish Border Guard.]

Authorities detained the boat Eagle S. and it is now being held in Finnish waters while an investigation is carried out. The vessel, suspected to be part of Russia's sanctions-evading shadow fleet, is now missing an anchor.  It's full of spy technology. Nato said on Friday it will increase its presence in the Baltic Sea in response to the incident. But this is a responsibility no [Nato] ally can take away from a coastal state.   A state must exercise its sovereignty within its territory, which requires presence on land, at sea, and in the air. On December 25, a fault was observed on the 150-kilometer EstLink 2 electricity cable that connects Finland and Estonia. Four other data cables were reported broken the following day.

Over the past 18 months, several cables and a gas pipeline have been damaged by ships connected to China and Russia.

Here we go - black woman targeted by racist abuse in Finland over festival role.

Daniela Owusu.

Here, a young black woman who was subjected to racist abuse after being selected to lead celebrations of a Swedish festival of light in Helsinki.

Finnish PM apologises to Daniela Owusu after she received hate messages after becoming first Black woman to represent Saint Lucia, reports The Guardian.

Daniela Owusu, 20, who is Finnish Ghanaian, received thousands of hate messages after on Friday becoming Finland’s first Black Lucia. The organisers have reported the abuse to police and the discrimination ombudsman and are considering taking legal action.

According to the Swedish and now also Finnish tradition, each year a young woman or girl is chosen to represent Saint Lucia by dressing in a costume of a white gown, red waistband and crown of candles as part of the official annual festivities in Finland at the Lutheran Cathedral on 13 December to mark the shortest day according to the Julian calendar.

About 5% of people in Finland, which until 1809 was part of Sweden, speak Swedish as their native language, which is one of two national languages in the Nordic country. My native language.

This completely insane war continues.

An ammunition depot in Russia's Bryansk region, believed to house weapons from North Korea, along with glide bombs and artillery shells, was reportedly hit by a drone strike early morning on Wednesday, Oct. 9. 

According to Ukrainian officials, the attack targeted the 67th GRAU arsenal, located near the town of Karachev, about 114 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at Ukraine’s National Security Council, confirmed the incident on Telegram.

The blows of fate

Jan van Rijckenborgh said that it is wrong to use astrology to try to avoid the blows of fate.

Everyone faces these, some kind of.

He was right.

There is a micro-macrocosmic connection.

Our destiny is written in the stars, but it must be found by developing self-knowledge.

One of the biggest problems in our world today is that we do not know the basis, our bearing and man's spiritual status at all.

Know your karma

Can We Remember Our Past Lives? | Antti Savinainen, Ph.D.

More important than remembering past lives (they can be false memories, or "symbolic flashbacks") is to understand one's karma. What has he done, for a long time, in his previous lives. 

That way you can understand your karma - although the road is long. As an example, I have told an individual who made a vow of poverty in his previous life, who does not remember this, and does not want to remember. I've seen him beat his head against the wall all his life trying to get rich quick.

Wednesday 28 August 2024 - war report

” The Red Line ”, 2024, oil on board,
by Kaj Stenvall Paintings.

Kazan International Airport has suspended flights due to the threat of Ukrainian drone strikes, according to reports. It comes after an oil depot in Russia's Rostov region was set on fire by overnight aerial attacks.

Ukraine war latest: Flights suspended at Russian airport for 'safety reasons'

Now Ukraine trying to break into new Russian region.

The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to shape the global landscape.

Drone strikes another Russian oil products reservoir Reuters is reporting that a drone attacked an oil products reservoir in Kotelnich in Russia’s Kirov oblast, more than 1,500 km (932 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

Regional governor Alexander Sokolov said there were no casualties or fires from the attack.

The attack on Kotelnich comes after Ukraine-launched drones set several oil tanks on fire at the Glubokinskaya oil depot in Russia’s Rostov oblast, just across the border from Ukraine’s Luhansk oblast. The Baza channel, which is close to Russia’s security services, said three tanks were burning after strikes by two drones.

The Glubokinskaya attack took place while tanks were still on fire at another Rostov oil depot, in the Proletarsk district, 10 days after the depot was attacked.

Russia’s Use of Inexperienced Conscripts for Kursk Defense Raises Questions, according to Moscow Times.

A 20-year-old conscript from Bryansk said that although his platoon was given the order to fight to the last man, the entire platoon surrendered, with 11 young men being taken prisoner “without any problems.” 

Early in the invasion of Ukraine, reports surfaced of conscripts being killed or sent to the front lines despite President Vladimir Putin’s promises that they would not be deployed to combat zones — sparking backlash from military mothers and wives. 

“I would like to say that I'm very glad that we were able to get through the war alive … and I will try to make sure that a war like this never happens again.” 

says this conscript from Moscow.

Fact check: Trump made at least 20 false claims in his conversation

Many say this is meant to be funny
but sure it’s frightening.

According to CNN former President Donald Trump delivered his usual bombardment of false claims – at least 20 in all – during a Monday conversation with billionaire supporter Elon Musk, which aired on Musk’s social media platform, X.

Musk is pathetic running a club of liars.

Most of the falsehoods uttered by the Republican presidential nominee were claims that have been repeatedly debunked before, some of them for years. 

And yet he does it again.

They spanned a broad range of subjects, from immigration to the economy to foreign policy to Trump’s record in office to Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent.

Donald Duck blesses

This Kaj Stenvall painting was made in February, 2020. ” The Supercharger ”, oil on board, 50 x 65 cm

A mad dictator drowns in blood

,” Frowning and Drowning ”, 2024, oil on board, 40 x 50 cm
by Kaj Stenvall Paintings.

According to Al Jazeera earth-shattering blasts (8.7) shook Kyiv's buildings on Monday morning, sending dagger-like shards of glass flying around.

Hurtling toward them at 700-800 kilometers per hour was a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile, according to Ukraine’s security service, the United Nations and open-source investigators.

The attack, which killed at least 29, is considered the heaviest Russian bombardment of Kyiv in almost four months.

More than 60 people have been injured in the latest attacks that targeted at least two medical facilities, electrical substations and residential buildings.

Using painstaking trial and error, Russia has modified the weapon over the last year to defeat Ukraine’s air defense systems by flying at low altititude and hugging terrain, according to military analysts.

Not good.

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“undesirable organisation”

The decision, announced by Russia’s prosecutor-general’s office on Wednesday, bans the news site Moscow Times  from the country, threatens staff with up to six years in prison for working there, and criminalises posting its articles online.

- so Russia has declared the Moscow Times, one of the country’s oldest independent news sources, an “undesirable organisation”, a designation that makes having any links to it a criminal offence.

They have no concept of freedom of the press.

Prosecutors said the Moscow Times “aimed to discredit the senior leadership of the Russian Federation in foreign and domestic policy” and according to Financial Times  “systematically published inaccurate socially resonant information to discredit our country’s organs of state power” during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

The reliable iformation is somehow "inaccurate".

See Cold Bloodedly Killer

” In Blood ”, 2024, oil on board, 40 x 50 cm
by Kaj Stenvall Paintings.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was murdered on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the late opposition leader’s former chief of staff, Leonid Volkov.

“Putin killed Navalny. So on February 16, Vladimir Putin cold-bloodedly it’s a fact proven beyond reasonable doubt.”, Volkov said to Politico.

Volkov was himself the victim of a brutal hammer attack a month after Navalny’s death that left him with a broken arm and head injuries outside his home in Lithuania, where he now lives in exile.

Volkov said the organization Navalny founded will continue to gather information on the attack, having investigated the methods and means deployed by Putin’s regime to target other opponents in recent years. 

If the path to enlightenment is diagnosed with mental illness

On the way to an enlight a spiritual seaker can experience something like a mental illness, they will not be ruled by this illness in any way, as they are not ruled by their mind.

Question:

Is it possible for one with a mental illness to attain spiritual enlightenment?

Response:

"Most forms of mental illness are not so severe as to prevent spiritual growth. As long as the human nervous system is still functionally intact and there is enough presence and stability of self-awareness for the mind to understand and follow simple instructions for meditation, then one has the essential ingredients for self-realization, and can move forward in their spiritual journey,"

says pseudonym Deepak.

I personally believe that most of the steps and thresholds of the path are diagnosed as mental illnesses in this materialistic world.

The medication nullifies this urge to expand consciousness and the aspirant remains in place - the aspirant degenerates.

Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925) predicted (in his Karma presentations) that the stages of spiritual development will be diagnosed and so medically will prevented enlightening by human individuals.

I have observed that this is the case.

If we consider material reality as the only reality, we live in illusion. The philosopher Plato clarifies this idea beautifully with his allegory about the cave. He compares us, earthly people, with a group of persons who are bound hand and foot, sitting next to each other in a dark underground cave with the possibility to look only straight ahead. All they can see is the rock wall in the cave, while behind them, on a ledge, burns a large fire that illuminates the wall.

Swallowed up by our hectic life, how often do we not sigh: ‘I do not live, but I am lived.’ 

What is it?

The gnostic writer Jan van Rijckenborgh (1896-1968), showed that we are lived by the aeons, twelve power concentrations that, although they stem from the past, absolutely neither disappeared nor intend to disappear. They continuously keep us occupied. In this context, the author emphasised that the only possible escape from them is: going up into a ‘thirteenth aeon’, a special and pure, magnetic field, like the Pistis Sophia from the gospel of the same name.

‘Voices of the Silence’ by H.P. Blavatsky, which is sometimes called a gem, talks about same basic ideas.

Утечка данных

Финляндия пересматривает предложение, сделанное Финляндии союзниками в августе 1941 года, которое, среди прочего, обещает возвращение к государственным границам, существовавшим до 1939 года, в качестве награды за борьбу против нацистов. Финляндия разгромила нацистов в Лапландской войне.

Ретроспективная приемка и ратификация тендеров является возможным актом в соответствии с международным правом.

Россия угрожает морским границам Балтийского моря?

Это уже не первый раз (1939 год), но вчерашняя ночная тревога оказалась обманом.

Россия не собирается пересматривать на Балтике ширину территориальных вод, экономической зоны, шельфа и линию госграницы, заявил военно-дипломатический источник.

По крайней мере, об этом сообщают ТАСС и Интерфакс:

"Никаких намерений по пересмотру на Балтике ширины территориальных вод, экономической зоны, континентального шельфа у материкового побережья и линии государственной границы Российской Федерации не было и нет", - сказал военно-дипломатический источник в среду журналистам.

Предложение Минобороны РОССИИ - являющееся обманом - об изменении территориальной водной границы и морской границы Российского государства можно найти на сайте официальных правовых документов РФ в сети Интернет.

Вот дерьмо!

A unholy warmonger

” Holy Water ”, 2024, by by Kaj Stenvall.

Secretary Oleksiy Danilov of Ukraine’s National Security Council said the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, is a devil.

What does it means? 

In the mind of the Kremlin and in the explicit words of Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill, the current invasion of Ukraine is some kind of “a metaphysical battle,” for which the Russian Orthodox Church has been happy to provide ideological justification. 

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, we have been reminded that a centuries-long struggle continues against imperial forces seeking to eliminate Ukrainian identity, church life, and the very right of Ukrainians to exist. 

As was the case during the Czarist and Soviet eras, the Russian Orthodox Church is playing a leading role in these efforts.

“Any war must have guns and ideas. In this war, the Kremlin has provided the guns, and I believe the Russian Orthodox Church is providing the ideas,” 

says states Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, an Orthodox priest and theologian who in the 2000s worked in the central offices of the Moscow Patriarchate and is now a professor at Loyola Marymount University in California.

In addition, Kirill is a very corrupt Sin-Eater who deals with indulgence trade.

A fearsome ruler

by Kaj Stenvall.

According to Tortois at his home he’s a tyrant. Abroad he’s a warmonger. Everywhere and always he’s a former spy in thrall to the dark arts of intelligence and adept at creating crises wherever they might advance his project for a revived Russian empire. Above all he is a breaker of norms.

"Russian assets: how and why to seize them The EU’s foreign policy chief has produced a plan to confiscate 90 per cent of revenues from $300 billion of seized Russian assets and use them to buy weapons for Ukraine. It’s legal but it doesn’t go far enough. "

i'm going to see it.

According to four main factors - Russia is losing the war

Russia is surely lose in Ukraine, according to Feng Yujun, Chinese Russia -relations chief expert.

"The war between Russia and Ukraine has been catastrophic for both countries. One thing is clear, though: the conflict is a post-cold-war watershed that will have a profound, lasting global impact.

With neither side enjoying an overwhelming advantage and their political positions completely at odds, the fighting is unlikely to end soon. "

But now four main factors will influence the course of the war. 

The first is the level of resistance and national unity shown by Ukrainians, which has until now been extraordinary. The second is international support for Ukraine, which, though recently falling short of the country’s expectations, remains broad.

The third factor is the nature of modern warfare, a contest that turns on a combination of industrial might and command, control, communications and intelligence systems. 

One reason Russia has struggled in this war is that it is yet to recover from the dramatic deindustrialisation it suffered after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

And here comes the last final factor: this is information. When it comes to decision-making, Vladimir Putin is trapped in an information cocoon, thanks to his having been in power so long. The Russian president and his national-security team lack access to accurate intelligence. The system they operate lacks an efficient mechanism for correcting errors. Their Ukrainian counterparts are more flexible and effective, wrote Feng Yujun in The Economist.

For the indoctrinated children

A Child´s Skull, 2024, by  Kaj Stenvall.

We know that president Vladimir Putin has often used the Russian Orthodox faith to justify the war in Ukraine. But now the president used a Bible story in a speech about the need to teach the Russian youth about values - appearing via video link to celebrate the opening of children’s centres near Moscow - he began quoting from the Bible.

Putin has ordered the establishment of youth centres across the country in a move redolent of the Soviet-era camps where children were indoctrinated in Communist party values from a young age. 

This substitute Jesus has often used the Russian Orthodox faith to justify the war in Ukraine. Now he compares himself to Jesus in his battle to uphold tradition

President Putin has compared himself to Jesus Christ as he quoted the Bible to explain his divine mission schooling Russia’s youth in special traditional values.

The Russian president has frequently portrayed himself as a stalwart defender of the Christian faith against the Satanic West.

In a revealing insight into how Putin sees his role, the Russian leader spoke in overtly religious terms about the need to shape the worldview of young Russians.

The Times points out that the youth centers intended to indoctrinate children are lagging behind the Soviet era.

Putin's supposed important sacred role as the upholder of the country's values reflects the deification of the tsars before the 1917 revolution.

Well done. Soon we'll see that again.

The Best

Sure, for seven consecutive years, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world, followed closely by its Nordic neighbours Denmark, Sveden and Iceland. 

What makes the Finns such happy people? And what can we learn from it?

People in Finland are happy because our society has developed what they call an infrastructure of happiness. It includes healthcare, education, the economy, human rights, democratic governance and a culture of volunteerism. Happiness surges in a person's inner self.

We have a high levels of trust and freedom also help explain Finnish happiness.

Here you don't have to be afraid of the police and other authorities like in totalitarian states.

”One Way Out”,

Painting by Kaj Stenvall: ”One Way Out”, 2024,

Russian missile strikes on Kiev early Thursday injured at least 13 people. In addition, fires broke out in residential buildings, a church and a kindergarten were destroyed, and cars were burned, says the military administration of Kyiv.

"As a result of the attack on Kiev, 13 people were injured. There is no information about the casualties," 

said Serhi Popko, head of the military administration.

According to Ukraine, the fires were started by shrapnel from downed missiles in the residential area of Podilskyi.

The organized violent crime organization has organized a public display

Kaj Stenvall painting, 2024.

Now that Putin's power confirmation theater is in the headlines, we don't understand why (also in other) western media call them "elections", when it's not about any elections but the dictatorship's brutal subjugation theater

It would be better to use, for example, the expression; the world's largest organized violent crime organization has organized a public display to promote its reign of terror.

Mika Hortelli:

That would correspond to reality, but it is of course a bit long expression for everyday use.

Ro Holopainen:

But maybe it can replace a couple of silly phrases.

And there's no need to talk about the "honesty of elections" any longer.