While
tens of millions of Americans were stuffing their bellies with ridiculous
amounts of food and burning their eyes staring at their sports and movie
marathons on TV this week, in total ignorance of, or just plain disregard for,
the Nativity Fast, which is beside the point because they live in ‘Murca, the
best nation ever, and the ‘Murcan people do everything better than everyone
else, whether its Christianity or electric turkey fryers - while all that is
going on in the pampered [u]nited States, the people of Yemen are suffering
terribly at the hands of Saudi troops armed with American weaponry. The people of the States should beat their
chests in shame and repentance, but they do not, because Donald Trump and his
allies tell them this is a ‘good war’ against Iran’s proxies:
But
it is certainly not a good war:
. . .
The truth is, Trump,
his predecessors, the UK leadership, the NATO allies, the Saudis, Gulf States
and the EU puppets are shameless, ‘legalized’ murderers. – Legalized, because
they dance to the tune of Trump’s canons, or to the dark deep state’s strings
that pull the triggers of mayhem and death. For these people – are they still
to be called people? – Trump has accomplished what he set out to do: Selling
hundreds of billions worth of arms. In less than a year of his Presidency, he
did more good to the military-security industrial complex than Obama did in his
last four years in office.
Arms are made to kill
and destroy. Killing and destroying is contributing big-time to the US GDP; in
fact, this industrial octopus with all its associated tentacles – finance, IT,
research, sub-contracting, mercenary funding abroad and within the US, spying
and surveillance the world over – amount to more than half of the US total economic
output. The United States of America lives off an economy of war, an economy of
destruction and death.
Take Yemen. Since
March 2015, the US and UK backed and armed Saudis have bombed Yemen to ruins,
destroying schools, hospitals, roads, ports – vital infrastructure for any
civilization. In addition to hospitals and schools, they targeted specifically
water and sanitation systems to cause utmost harm to civilian populations. As a
result, cholera cases are estimated at 500,000-plus, mostly children and women
and elderly (UNICEF), the worst in recorded history. Many die, because the
Saudis, again backed by the US and the UK, have banned import and distribution
of essential drugs.
With major ports
closed – also by the Saudis, the US and the UK, Yemen is facing one of the
worst famine the world has ever seen in recent history. Daily Saudi shelling
with US planes and UK bombs, has killed tens of thousands of people, mostly
civilians, women and children – some estimates range from 60,000 to 80,000.
Nobody really keeps count. Yemen has been (kept) poor before. And now, who
cares. Yemen already today is the worst humanitarian crisis in decades. And
there is no end in sight.
. . .
Source: Peter Koenig, https://www.globalresearch.ca/trumps-pivot-to-asia-an-arms-sales-bonanza-an-anti-peace-trip/5617667,
22 Nov. 2017
By
the prayers of the Orthodox martyrs of Yemen and with the help of a new St King
Elesbaan, Lord, have mercy on Yemen.
October 24
Holy Martyr Arethas and
those with him (524)
'These Martyrs contested
for piety's sake in the year 524 in Najran, a city of Arabia Felix (present-day
Yemen). When Dhu Nuwas, ruler of the Himyarite tribe in south Arabia, and a
Judaizer, took power, he sought to blot out Christianity, especially at Najran,
a Christian city. Against the counsels of Arethas, chief man of Najran, the
city surrendered to Dhu Nuwas, who immediately broke the word he had given and
sought to compel the city to renounce Christ. Led by Saint Arethas, hundreds of
martyrs, including women, children, and babes, valiantly withstood his threats,
and were beheaded and burned. After the men had been slain, all the free-born
Christian women of Najran were brought before the tyrant and commanded to
abjure Christ or die; yet they rebuked the persecutor with such boldness that
he said even the men had not insulted him so contemptuously. So great was their
faith that not one woman was found to deny Christ in all Najran, although some
of them suffered torments more bitter than most of the men. In alliance with
Byzantium, the Ethiopian King Elesbaan liberated Najran from Dhu Nuwas soon
after and raised up churches in honour of the Martyrs. Najran became a place of
pilgrimage until the rise of Islam a century later. At the end of his life King
Elesbaan, who was also called Caleb, retired into solitude as a hermit; he sent
his crown to Jerusalem as an offering to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He
also is commemorated on this day as a saint. Saint Arethas' name in Arabic, Harith, means "plowman, tiller," much the same as
"George" in Greek.' (Great Horologion)
. . .
Source: John Brady, http://www.abbamoses.com/months/october.html
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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